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Miles Archer

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5. VERY little was said when the Veteran gave him the Purple Heart and he said "I ALWAYS WANTED ONE"

Reply to malaise (Reply #3)

Sat Jan 10, 2026, 06:37 PM

Jan 10

For me, that was much more offensive than this...not that this ISN'T offensive. Of course it is...but Trump is an unrepentant draft dodger, even joking about how "avoiding STDs was his own personal Vietnam"...

...he's a pig. That's the 25 words or less summation that covers all the bases, I'd say. He wants what he hasn't earned because somehow, in his pathologically damaged brain, he's convinced himself that he "deserves" it.

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