Thug: noun. If applied to a political conservative and intensely derogatory term. For example ” the former editor of Breitbart is a thug; his ex-wife said nasty things about him in divorce filings 12 years ago.
If applied to a liberal, it is a term of endearment, with an understated implication that the writer wants to paint of the subjects toenails in some public place.
I like the quote from the Union guy, saying they generally prefer to have somebody from the industry instead of an academic. Polite way of saying “He’s a pointy-headed dreamer who never worked a day in his life” which, of course, cannot be said about a Hispanic gay man, whether or not it’s true.
The comments are great:
-Morillo has never made a payroll and he has never created a job. He just takes.
-Note to prospective Minneapolis entrepreneurs. Don’t bother with Minneapolis, try another city!
-“when he was a toddler and the Army tried to send his Puerto Rican father to fight in Vietnam for a third time.” Never happened. People who went back volunteered to go back. (other commentators – Vietnam vets- confirm this)
-Some commentators noted how gov’t run health care caused his mothers health issues
You are correct, Chuck. Anything after a second tour, was usually voluntary. Morilllo is another misguided Yale libidiot, fed so many lies during his left wing propaganda sessions, aka publik screwel education, that he doesn’t get that Democrats called the shots during most of the Vietnam war. Anyone that served there and can still be a DemocRAT, is a moron.
Couple choice quotes..
i… Morillo wants to change the way business is conducted.
Without actually ever having conducted any himself of course.
Morillo graduated from a “hyper-American” high school at a base just outside San Juan… That must have been horrible for him…
and got into Yale.
Just like that…he got into Yale….imagine that.
You don’t find a lot of Yale grads working for trade labor unions…mostly because they have huge loans to pay back. Morillo must have been independently wealthy. Sure, that’s it.
Goodness gentlemen, the fallacies flying here thick and fast.
I rather doubt that it is factual, Joe Doakes, to say this guy never worked a day in his life. First of all he quite likely had a job starting back in high school all the way through college. Yale doesn’t come cheap, and nowhere did I see it stated he got a free ride to go there; rather to get in he had to be competitive, which means he worked hard.
Secondly, teaching is a job, and NO, it is not the same thing as saying someone is a pointy headed dreamer. Sadly that is more of the right wing hatred of people who understand the value of knowing something in their area of expertise.
As to the statement Morillo has never created jobs, etc. — I doubt that is true. Rather he presumably has run his own office and created jobs in the process, including meeting payroll.
Aren’t you applying quite the double standard here however? Mitch has never created jobs or met payroll that I know of, and I doubt he could correctly define the differences between macro-economics and micro-economics, or the difference between GDP and GNP, what they measure or how they differ in applications. Yet you listen to him regularly opine on jobs, running businesses and some of the most ludicrous statements on the economy generally I’ve heard from anyone.
It is correct that sometimes people in Unions use the term thug, not as a term of endearment, but as a satiric and sarcastic reference to the anti-union use of the phrase union thug — one I’ve seen used here often enough. It means in that usage the antithesis of what you mean using it. It also represents solidarity with other vilified groups, particularly those in urban areas aka urban thugs.
And not knowing exactly what period of the Viet Nam war is in question, I would disagree with you on being forced to serve a 3frd term involuntarily. It happened. It appears the military can call you up within certain time frames without you voluntarily signing up for another tour.
You seem to forget a lot about the Viet Nam War – like Nixon’s part in it; he was responsible for that war dragging on far longer than was necessary, after he tried to negotiate a separate peace deal that undermined the one that Johnson had nearly concluded. That covered a five year span, also the period, judging by Morillo’s apparent age that his father most likely served. The reason for additional terms, Nixon ended the draft, thus reducing the available soldiers to serve. (tsk tsk — how you righties love your factually deficient revisionist history)
From Digital History:
“Indeed, Richard Nixon presided over as many years of war in Indochina as did Johnson. About a third of the Americans who died in combat were killed during the Nixon presidency. ”
Looking at the veterans groups supporting Hillary, and those who are also supporting the pro-athlete staging his own sit down protest, seems to me that quite a lot of vets are dems / liberals, and properly so. Especially given how the right refuses to fund aid to military families, like nutritional benefits, and refuse to adequately finance the VA, etc. The right gives a lot of worthless lip service to the military and to vets, but they do shit about any action that supports them.
One thing that I noticed in Morrillo’s biography is that as a result of government healthcare wrecking his mother’s eyesight, he now apparently is in favor of more, unaccountable government healthcare.
I’m guessing that he skipped logic class a few times in New Haven, to put it mildly.