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BumRushDaShow

(160,136 posts)
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 01:46 PM Aug 15

Maryland governor on Trump remarks: 'I don't listen to criticism from chicken hawks'

Source: The Hill

08/15/25 12:42 PM ET


Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) hit back at President Trump on Thursday in another tit for tat over Trump’s recent efforts to crack down on crime in Washington, D.C., deploying the National Guard and asserting command over local police.

“I don’t listen to criticism from chicken hawks, people who talk tough and try to utilize people in uniform but have never had the courage to wear the uniform themselves,” Moore told radio station WTOP.

Moore, an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan, has leaned on his military background in criticizing the president’s deployment of troops to the nation’s capital.

“This decision is being made by people who, frankly, have never worn the uniform themselves,” he said on CNN earlier this week. “There’s a lack of seriousness that is going to the decisionmaking process about what you are doing and how you are impacting the lives of these men and women and their families.”

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5454445-maryland-governor-on-trump-remarks-i-dont-listen-to-criticism-from-chicken-hawks/

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Maryland governor on Trump remarks: 'I don't listen to criticism from chicken hawks' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Aug 15 OP
Seems most DEM pols/office holders have recieved our message that we want fighters, not polite critics of bad policy Attilatheblond Aug 15 #1
I agree and I salute their efforts. hamsterjill Aug 15 #5
When it comes to putting down Pedo the Great BaronChocula Aug 15 #2
Thank you, Gov. Moore MLWR Aug 15 #3
Proud of our Governor Klaus Hergersheimer Aug 15 #4
Look, they're just playing with their little toy soldiers. malthaussen Aug 15 #6
Wes Moore is someone to watch. yardwork Aug 15 #7
Wish I could vote for him for President---today. (nt) Paladin Aug 15 #8
I'm sure he has ambitions beyond governor of MD. yardwork Aug 15 #9
Glad to hear it. (nt) Paladin Aug 15 #10
krasnov barbtries Aug 15 #11
Isn't "chickenhawk" also mid-century slang ... Ursus Rex Aug 16 #12
Boom! electric_blue68 Aug 16 #13

Attilatheblond

(7,256 posts)
1. Seems most DEM pols/office holders have recieved our message that we want fighters, not polite critics of bad policy
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 01:53 PM
Aug 15

Fighters. Open honesty about GOP hypocrisy. That is what we support and will work for. DEM pols need to keep up and they seem to have received the message. Well, most of them got it and are accommodating us with real spunk, frank language, and acts to show they mean to protect our nation*

* big thanks to Newsome, his social media team and DEMS who are fighting Project 2025.

hamsterjill

(16,538 posts)
5. I agree and I salute their efforts.
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 03:43 PM
Aug 15

Now, if someone just doesn't get "offended" by what they are doing...

We need to let them do whatever they need to do to fight back against this administration. It is absolutely going to take spunk, frank language, and action.

So, if someone hears a politician use a profanity and gets offended, that person would do well to just let it go. We do not need to muddy the waters of this new found rebuttal by having someone start questioning if we are "getting like them" or "stooping to their level". This is not a morality contest. This is do or die.

 
4. Proud of our Governor
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 03:35 PM
Aug 15

Like Gov Newsom our Maryland Gov Wes Moore is not going to be intimidated by a cowardly president whose only military experience was draft dodging by having his quack doctor provide him a medical excuse in the form of a diagnosis of bone spurs. The correct diagnosis should have been brain spurs. As someone who believes himself superior to everyone else in the world Donald was not about to risk his privileged life fighting in the jungles of Vietnam. Hell no.

Our so called Commander in Chief is nothing but a wimp who talks the talk but never walked the walk. And shame on all those in the military who obey his unlawful commands and who think they are duty bound to protect and defend the president instead of their constitutional duty to protect and defend the US Constitution. Those MAGAs in the military who blindly serve their disgraceful Fuehrer are the ones committing treason. Not the demonstrators exercising their civil liberties. And have those currently in the armed forces forgotten how Donald slandered Americans who died in combat and called them losers? Are they unaware that he has massively gutted the Veterans Administration by big funding cuts in his Big Booty-Full Bill that hands the already filthy rich the funds that the VA needs. Yeah, he's real pro troops all right!

The corrupt and criminal Donald administration is implementing the Russification of our country since he craves the absolute power enjoyed by his soul mate Putin. I fear that the shooting of our fellow citizens is about to begin by that psychotic lunatic in his quest to destroy all opposition. MAGA cult members will eagerly do his bidding.

malthaussen

(18,290 posts)
6. Look, they're just playing with their little toy soldiers.
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 03:46 PM
Aug 15

Like every other tinpot dictator since time began.

-- Mal

barbtries

(30,766 posts)
11. krasnov
Fri Aug 15, 2025, 04:40 PM
Aug 15

is like a little boy with plastic soldiers. he doesn't care at all about what may happen to them in the course of doing what he wants them to and he can gleefully use them to punish anyone he doesn't like.

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