He didn't know he was a vet and you damn well know it. Why do you persist with this lie?
Maybe he should have found out before he acted like a smirking punk?
And maybe Phillips should not have approached the group in the first place.
Maybe he should have joined in with the Covington group in drowning out the racist diatribe coming from the Black Israelites, since the BAs had also hectored
his group already.
Maybe he should have found out there was more to the situation than kids wearing MAGA hats.
Maybe he should have found out they were, in fact,
not chanting "Build that wall" before falsely claiming they did.
Maybe he should have stuck to his original story that he was trying to de-escalate the situation instead of later changing it to his trying to get up the memorial steps.
Maybe he should have never approached the group and deliberately placed himself there in the first ******* place instead of later claiming disingenuously that he "found" himself surrounded and in a hairy situation.
Maybe...
Maybe..
Maybe.
There were a million things Phillips could have done to avoid the situation whereas Sandmann only had to continue standing where he had been the whole time. Except maybe (according to you and other leftists in the agonizing throes of liberal meltdown) the one thing he could have done was...wait for it...not smile.
The most ludicrous and asinine thing about all this is that, even if Sandmann had not smiled, the video would
still have gone viral and leftists
still would have vilified, insulted and threatened him. Why? Because Phillips was a Native American and Sandmann wore a MAGA hat.
Now, if Phillips being a vet was a factor or pertinent to the situation in any way (it wasn't), being the instigator of the incident, the burden of disclosure would have fallen on him. Sandmann was under no obligation whatsoever to try to find out a damn thing.
Heck, I was told to respect my elders at that age.. If I pulled shit like that, my dad would have slapped my ass into a new Zip Code.
I was told to respect
everybody. If I had pulled shit like what Phillips did - getting in someone's face unprovoked and for no words or actions on the other person's part - my Dad would have slapped my ass into a new Zip Code. He then would have drop kicked me to another continent if I had lied and said Sandmann and the Covington group were chanting "Build that wall!" as Phillips did.
Sandmann did and said absolutely nothing to cause any of this.
I would be offended if I didn't know you were an idiot and only trying to get a rise out of me.
Grow up for Christ's sake.
I am. I'm grown up enough to know that if a woman doesn't want to be pregnant, she will find a way to not be pregnant.
Apparently you're not grown up enough to realize you just inadvertently gave one of the best arguments
against abortion. This means that women who have abortions either
did want to get pregnant but aborted the child anyway, or they were just too lazy or careless to give a ****. Either way, it doesn't reflect well on pro-choicers or bolster their argument.
It's all you anti-choice nutters who get a chubby when you watch "A Handmaid's Tale".
What?
For the record, I'm not against a woman having the choice to abort, I just think there's a better way to correct (or avoid) a mistake that doesn't involve snuffing out a life.