Fucker has the nerve to call Walz a traitor for retiring after 24 years of service when his runningmate incited an actual goddamn insurrection and he, himself, is a fucking turncoat…
Yeah. That’s kind of weird, don’t you think?
Don’t get mad. That’s what they want.
Get weirded out.
Because that’s what it is.
Calling a serviceman a traitor? Fucking weird. It makes no sense, man. Where do they get that weird logic from? Buncha weirdos.
This is the weirdest shit I’ve heard all day!
Calling a serviceman a traitor? Fucking weird.
I mean, Michael Flynn exists.
Oh right. I forgot about that one.
Who is also really weird
Of course.
Since I had to look it up:
Since the 2004 election, the term [Swiftboating] has come to commonly refer to a political attack that is dishonest, personal, and unfair.
Especially if it’s attacking military service.
I just aged like Matt Damon at the end of Saving Private Ryan.
Have to make up innocuous sounding word rather than just say ASSHOLE SAYS SHITTY THINGS THAT AREN’T TRUE. “Journalists” literally can’t.
Look. I’m not ACCUSING Shady Vance of being a #CouchFucker. It’s just that SOMEBODY has to ask these tough questions.
JD Vance, accused his opponent of “stolen valor garbage” and accused him of having “abandoned” his unit in 2005 ahead of a planned deployment to Iraq.
Vance blasted Tim Walz on the campaign trail Wednesday as stories have reemerged from his 2018 run for governor of veterans criticizing him at the time for “embellishing” his military career. Retired veterans at the time said in a Facebook post that Walz retired from his 24-year tenure in the National Guard after learning that his battalion would be deployed to Iraq.
And yet completely avoiding service because of “bone spurs” is totally acceptable.
Also threatening his children of disinheritance if they serve in the military.
It’s really really difficult to take any attacks on Walz’s service seriously while captain bone spurs leads the party.
And disrespected fallen soldiers at a cemetery.
And not any cemetery, Arlington National Cemetery.
captain bone spurs
Private Bone Spurs.
He’s trying. For reference, Vance did 4 years active duty in the USMC in Public Affairs.
Yes, it’s bizarre that this doesn’t get specifically cited in an article where Vance is criticising his opponent’s involvement in a war. All we get is this very vague line:
Vance is a former Marine who was deployed to Iraq.
I saw that and immediately thought of Tom Cruise’s character in the beginning of Edge of Tomorrow.
But like the meme version. Erdge erv Termerrerr.
Walz, on the other hand, served for 24 years and reached the highest possible rank of NCO, which is basically the most badass thing you can be in the regular sectors of the military (and in the aggregate the most critical for its good operation.)
You missed the part where he reached SGM but retired as MSG because he didn’t complete a course. I don’t think many people would drop rank.
Also, I think CSM is technically higher rank?
You have it one too low - he reached CSM but retired as an SGM because of coursework.
There is actually one rank higher, E-9, which is the singular final boss of all the NCOs, which I guess is a significant asterisk I should put to that “highest rank.” He reached the highest rank there is more than one of allowed to exist at a time.
Ah good catch, I wondered why I googled CSM. Went back to the article and misread his highest rank. Regardless, I think it’s honorable he retired as lower rank.
FWIW, Vance was a CPL
final boss of all the NCOs
I’m asphyxiating.
TLDR: Tim Walz’s record trumps Vance’s any fucking day of the week.
NCO isn’t considered bad ass but is absolutely given all due respect. You’ll salute NCO’s just like any other officer, but you know he’s less likely to give you shit about uniform reqs. My favorite grey beards were always the Short TImer NCO’s that didn’t have 2 fucks to rub together about protocol.
What? You two both are talking like you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. Tim Walz was a Command Sergeant Major, which makes him an E9. This is no longer an NCO, this is a SNCO or Senior Non Commissioned Officer. You also don’t salute any enlisted members; E1 or E9, it doesn’t matter, you don’t salute them. Becoming E9 is quite prestigious though as it is the only enlisted rank to get DV status at bases (at least Air Force bases which I can attest to having spent 10 years in the Air Force myself).
Maybe not in the air force but it’s totally a thing for secret agent Delta Recon SEAL Raider Green Berets like aodhswhateverthefuck up there. They’re so elite, they’ll even salute civilians.
Lol, I don’t think they ever claimed to be the military. They’re both just confidently incorrect. Technically, there is one civilian who regularly gets saluted, the president.
That’s a fair point, I was just enjoying the image of the average “I was gonna join but…” doing sloppy dive rolls down supermarket aisles and saluting anything that moved.
Vance was a combat correspondent, yes. We’ll see how much he tries to press this issue, he has previously stated [1] he was lucky to escape any major fighting, but he was definitely in Iraq.
I don’t think Walz has ever claimed to have seen active combat, so the stolen valor accusation falls a little flat - not that that’s going to stop republicans.
Ask a Marine, still a pog.
I give it a week before Republicans start building conspiracy theories about Walz’s time in China and facilitating student trips to China.
Don’t forget he speaks a little Mandarin.
The Mandarin-ion Candidate!
He’s just butthurt that Walz said he wouldn’t get off the couch to debate him.
There you go. That’s what it is.
It’s a classic “no u” retort. It was ineffective.
Remember kids, Trump was a draft dodger
And not the respectable kind dodging out of objection to the wars. Nope. He was just a coward who dodged because Hilary could afford to pay a doctor to say he had bone spurs.
Remember when Rove Swiftboated Tammy Duckworth? Woman lost her legs while piloting a helicopter. She was cut in two. He still had the balls to question her valor. Worked too. But, she ran again and now is a Senator. This is a common Republican ploy.
