This is an insult to the over 400 Medal of Honor awardees buried there.

Well, luckily for the former president*‘s campaign, it wasn’t raining on Monday, when he grotesquely used Arlington National Cemetery as a campaign prop because, as we know, he gets a little nervous around soldiers’ graves in the rain, and he says things that require him to lie his ass off later. Most recently, of course, he devalued the Congressional Medal of Honor in favor of a bauble he draped on Rush Limbaugh and the wife of one of the sleaziest of his sleazy donors.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    61·
    4 months ago

    Oh no, if there was a military checkpoint there’d be a sergeant there too, and they do not give a fuck. Someone above them might fold and tell the sergeant to let them through but they will not back down. There’s a lot of stories of people getting shot trying to force a checkpoint, and only a couple of someone actually intimidating a guard to let them through. USSS avoids such situations by not trying to force military checkpoints.

    Arlington National Cemetery does not have such a checkpoint.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      42·
      3 months ago

      Sure, but we’re not talking about some random dude, are we? The man was literally the commander-in-chief of the US military for 4 years making him literally their boss.

      On top of that, it’s fucking Donald Trump and his (armed) cronies pushing the person aside.

      Somehow I doubt some young Private working guard duty at a cemetery is going to opt to brandish his firearm against the US Secret Service in the presence of the former (and possibly future, ugh) President of the United States. They’re not going to get into a fucking fire fight with the goddamn Secret Service at Arlington Cemetery. Get real.

      If this were a military installation of some sort, or Gitmo or something, then yeah. But that shit ain’t happening at a cemetery.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
        51·
        3 months ago

        Of course not. Because Arlington National Cemetery does not have a military checkpoint.

        I’m pretty sure I said that above. Also if it was an actual military checkpoint it’s not going to be one private. Also also the USSS avoids this by not forcing checkpoints and not allowing the people they protect to do so. Also also also, he’s not their boss now. Also also also also, being your boss isn’t a reason to be allowed through a checkpoint in the military.

        I’m pretty sure I said 99% of this above and you just wanted to go after some cemetery shootout strawman.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          13·
          3 months ago

          Well it’s a cemetery, so no shit it’s not a military checkpoint. You’re the only one talking about military checkpoints. You seem to have some picture in your mind of Donald Trump trying to get through actual military checkpoint (again, why the fuck?), and there being an armed standoff between the Secret Service and the US Military. This isn’t a movie, dude.

          Like no shit the situation wouldn’t be possible at a military checkpoint, the Secret Service would never approach a checkpoint like that.

          • Maggoty@lemmy.world
            31·
            3 months ago

            And when on guard duty, the greenest buck Private has full authority to stop the Secretary of the Army themselves if they refuse to provide identification and authorization for their presence at the posting said Private is guarding. So the correct and appropriate answer would have been to immediately restrain and arrest whoever was doing the pushing and intimidating, as well as any other shitass in the group who was trying to play fucky-fuck games like this.

            -Gravitas

            Sure, but imagine being in that kid’s position. Not only would you be attempting to detain a man (the former Commander in Chief, believe it or not) with his own Secret Service detail, but you would likely end up with a bunch of unwanted attention and subsequent death and rape threats from Trump supporters.

            -Prole

            You’ve been talking about them this entire time. Which is why my post ended with,

            Arlington National Cemetery does not have such a checkpoint.