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US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump drew supporters and attracted displays of protest as he addressed the Veterans Day Parade in New York this evening.
In what was the first time a US President has accepted an invitation to appear at the Veterans Day Parade, Trump drew cheers as he pointed this out, and recounted the activities of soldiers across the decades.
“Today we come together as one nation to salute the veterans of the US Armed Forces, the greatest warriors to walk the face of the earth,” he told the crowd at Madison Square Park.
He said that after the September 2001 attacks, the US responded to its “wicked enemies with unwaving courage (sic), unbreakable spirit, and resolve that is deeper than oceans, fiercer than fires and stronger than steel”.
Large signs spelling out the words “Convict” and “Impeach” were hung in the windows of a building across from where Trump was giving his speech.
As Trump addressed the crowd in an unusually prepared speech, protesters gathered nearby with signs bearing slogans like “Veterans Against Trump”, “Trump Betrayed Our Troops”, and “Cadet Bone Spurs”.
‘Cadet Bone Spurs’ or ‘Commander Bone Spurs’ refers to Trump’s reported avoidance of the Vietnam War draft in 1968, through receiving a diagnosis for bone spurs in his heels. Bone spurs are projections that form where bones meet, particularly in the joints.
Other protesters chanted “Lock him up!” in reference to a mantra used by Trump against his former presidential opponent Hillary Clinton.
Trump has been criticised from US military quarters before for comments he made about two-time presidential candidate John McCain who was taken prisoner and tortured during the Vietnam War.
“He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured,” Trump said in 2015.
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If a company like Pfizer can vaccinate their entire workforce and now starting to vaccinate their families as well, shouldn’t questions be asked why they can’t provide the same service to the Irish taxpayer considering they are looked after handsomely with our low corporate tax rate
@Murph11: Provide the vaccines free ? Favour us over other countries ? Worth remembering as well, those low corporate tax rates provide thousands of workers with well paid jobs, from which the exchequer is looked after handsomely by way of income tax receipts.
@Tommy Roche: I fully understand Tommy. I’m a frontline worker and was classed as such prior to the pandemic. I still have to go out and deal with what I always dealt with and haven’t even been prioritised yet. Just annoys me
@Murph11: honest to god. You might as well ask if Dublin GAA can outfit their whole squads and coaches with gear, why can’t they do it for every Dub?
@Murph11: they have been working extremely hard the last 14 months. A lot of places give their staff perks. This must be one of the best. We’ll done all in Pfizer and thanks. Thanks for the other special pill also !
I do not trust the vaccination go to the fda and its not approved their head has said they will not be approved until fully agreed its safe for everyone, why are our elderly parents in homes who have had their 2 doses of the vaccination not been given their freedom too see and hug their loved ones, why are people who are fully vacanated told to act if they are not we can’t were a mask forever, 99.9 percent of our population have survived we want our life back, to hug to see smiles and breath fresh air love to all
@John Leonard: because people who are vaccinated can still pass the virus on to people who aren’t vaccinated so until enough people are vaccinated things can’t go back to how they were.
Provides less than 5% of irelands vaccines so far. So these people will be waiting
@john s: got my Moderna on Sunday. Haven’t met to many people who have had it. Just a sore arm so far, no mad zombies symptoms as of yet.
@Ann Mc Shane: my sister in the US got it, second dose last week caused some discomfort, shakes, nausea, headache.
Recommendations over there are to take in plenty of water in the two days prior to the second dose.
@Ann Mc Shane: My neighbour in her late 60s got the Moderna. She’s the only one I know who did, but she said she had no side effects at all.
@Derdaly: yeah just a sore arm but to be expected. Supposedly one of the best ones to take
If it was good enough for Dolly Parton, it would be good enough for me.
Not great but better than nothing.
I got it
That’s good re Moderna. Where are the rest of them in this? 1.3 billion people in India and they’re making most vax.
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