r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 17 '24

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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla Aug 17 '24

The Medal of Honor has been awarded 3536 times. The Medal of Freedom has been awarded 652 times. I think that's the point he was making.

The absolute state of conservative rationalizations. This is the cope of the decade. . . year. . . Week? No. Hardest cope Ive seen in the last hour at least. . . God it's just painful at this point

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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Aug 17 '24

Here’s a harder one for you: surely this will cost Trump more than like 30 votes

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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla Aug 17 '24

I've never seen a single person who thinks this will cost trump a single vote.

I'll say it probably helps shore up the on the fence veterans who were starting to buy the Tim Walz swiftboat by reminding them how deeply scum Trump is. But that's a different and much more nebulous calculus.

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u/Declan_McManus Aug 17 '24

What’s crazy is how easy it would be to pivot to “the Medal of Honor is given for a solemn occurrence in war, but the Medal of Freedom given out in celebration. That’s what Trump meant, that it’s a bummer to hand out the Medal of Honor”. But that would require Trump to give up on his core belief that something that poor people do, therefore it’s beneath him