Big Blitz Posted August 9 Author Posted August 9 “Republicans attack.” Not Minnesotans. As per this interview. And certainly not us here at CNN
Big Blitz Posted August 9 Author Posted August 9 We aren’t questioning it - that weirdo Vance and the GOP are….
Unforgiven Posted August 10 Posted August 10 Our government and their corporate allies know we are stupid and weak...takeover is getting all too easy now. That's all this is - a hostile takeover.
B-Man Posted August 10 Posted August 10 Tim Walz’s Military Service Controversy Dr. Mackubin Owens Kamala Harris’s vice-president choice is embroiled in an unexpected controversy. It’s not about his dismal record as governor of Minnesota but his National Guard service, specifically the circumstances surrounding his decision to “retire” just as his unit was scheduled to deploy to Iraq. Many people might consider the whole affair much ado about nothing but there is an important issue at stake here. Walz served 24 years first, in the Nebraska Guard and then the Minnesota Guard. During his time with his Minnesota unit, the 1st Battalion, 125th Field Artillery Regiment, he was deployed overseas twice, first in support of NATO and then in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Neither deployment was to a combat zone. At the time of his separation, he had been conditionally promoted to Command Sergeant Major (CSM), the senior non-commissioned officer (NCO) of his battalion. The condition was that he complete the Sergeants Major Course (formerly known as the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy). The timing of Walz’s decision to “retire” from his post on the eve of the unit's pending deployment to Iraq created some understandable resentment on the part of other members of the unit. For instance, in a letter posted to Facebook in 2018 when Walz first ran for governor, retired Command Sergeants Major Thomas Behrends and Paul Herr claimed that Walz retired from the National Guard after learning that his battalion would be deployed to Iraq, despite allegedly assuring his fellow troops he would join them. As Behrends and Herr wrote: “On May 16th, 2005, [Walz] quit, betraying his country, leaving the 1-125th Field Artillery Battalion and its Soldiers hanging; without its senior Non-Commissioned Officer, as the battalion prepared for war.” Why does this matter? Because Walz’s decision to leave at such a critical time essentially undermined his battalion’s unit cohesion, the fundamental foundation of military effectiveness. This unit cohesion depends upon the mutual trust among soldiers and between soldiers and their leaders. Anyone who has served in the military, officer or enlisted, knows that the backbone of any unit is the NCO. For an NCO, especially the unit’s senior NCO to voluntarily leave his troops as they are preparing for a combat deployment seems to me to be a dereliction of duty. Critics have accused Walz of “cowardice” and “treason” which is nonsense. But the fact is that he did place his personal interest above loyalty to his soldiers. That decision reveals a serious character flaw. The controversy has seen the revival of certain old tropes, including “stolen valor” applied to Walz and “swift boating” to describe his critics. For a veteran, “stolen valor” is the greatest of all sins. The terms come from the title of a book by a friend of mine, B.G. “Jugg” Burkett, about the widespread misrepresentation of service in Vietnam. Using the Freedom of Information Act to examine service records, he discovered that during the 1980s and 1990s, some 1,700 individuals, including celebrities, had fabricated their war stories. Many had never even been in the service. Many had been but had never been in Vietnam. The profusion of claims by frauds to have been in this war or that, or to have been awarded this medal or that, led to the passage of the Stolen Valor Act of 2013 (Public Law 113-12), which makes it a crime to lie about service in order to receive benefits or money from others. For me, calling out and publicly humiliating a fraud is punishment enough. If stolen valor is a felony, embellishing one’s military record is a misdemeanor. After all, soldiers have embellished their war records since the beginning of time. Anyone who has spent more than an hour in the military has heard a “war story” (or the Navy-Marine Corps variant, the “sea story”). The attitude of most vets to these sorts of tales is an old joke: What’s the difference between a fairy tale and a war/sea story? The former begins, “once upon a time;” the latter begins “now this is no s**t!” A case no doubt familiar to New Englanders is that of Connecticut U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Marine Vietnam-era veteran who claimed to have been a Vietnam veteran when, in fact, he never left the United States during his term of service. Walz is credibly charged with the same misdemeanor. First, he implied that he had served in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), when in fact he had been deployed to Europe “in support of” OEF. He also claimed to have retired as a CSM when in fact he did not fulfill the conditions of appointment to that rank, as noted above. He retired as a Master Sergeant. https://www.golocalprov.com/politics/tim-walzs-military-service-controversy-dr.-mackubin-owens
Big Blitz Posted August 11 Author Posted August 11 Politico is really working hard for Harris today 1
Big Blitz Posted August 11 Author Posted August 11 AP saw the polls this week to. Btw the slur? She’s a ***ch. They know you won’t read it they want you to assume it’s racial. They then go on to mention names he’s called others going back to 2015 - truly groundbreaking work here AP. I’m not the only person that realizes this 1
Big Blitz Posted August 11 Author Posted August 11 3 hours ago, Big Blitz said: Politico is really working hard for Harris today Ok it’s a flat out coordinated b.s. campaign today holy ***t Lol the ratio on that tweet hahahaha 1
Big Blitz Posted August 11 Author Posted August 11 Dana Bash - “journalist” Find one clip of gotcha questions like this from CNN to any Democrat. Find one. You won’t.
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