The Tim Walz campaign, and the ******** attacks upon him.

[catsmate]

On social media I watched one MAGA cultist try to claim that Vance was some super brave warrior because he actually deployed to the Middle East.

A veteran came in and countered with more details about Vance's career in detail...and I learned a new slang word today: Fobbit!

I know a TWAT

(Tanker without a tank)


Well it seems like Sandford was sorta right about a Minnesota Demoocrat VP, even if a few years late.

One hopes that Walz, unlike Governor Henderson lacks an

.... interest in three- and four-way sex with young Seven Sisters coeds and fellow Ivy Leaguers, as well as in the life-enhancing effects of cocaine,

 

[Shalamar]

This individual is death to rational ideas at many levels.
It seems he is assured of the ticket.

What a weird comment.

 

[kookbreaker]

I know a TWAT

(Tanker without a tank)

an

Former board member Unsecured Coins ended up in that position a few times IIRC.

 

[jimbob]

On social media I watched one MAGA cultist try to claim that Vance was some super brave warrior because he actually deployed to the Middle East.

A veteran came in and countered with more details about Vance's career in detail...and I learned a new slang word today: Fobbit!

So like REMF?

 

[Hlafordlaes]

An artilleryman with hearing loss? Whoever heard of such a thing? He must be weak, loser, soyboy, sucker, radical commie leftist!

 

[catsmate]

Former board member Unsecured Coins ended up in that position a few times IIRC.

He told me of an incident when he, as TC, was trying to figure out what was going on with the infantry scattering around him. The M1 was a little lacking in situational awareness..

 

[kookbreaker]

So like REMF?

But funnier!

 

[catsmate]

But funnier!

When I worked in <REDACTED FOR REASONS OF STATE SECURITY> we had HOBITS, the Head Office Building IT Staff.

 

[JayUtah]

When I was doing a lot more military contracting than I am now, we had Boy in the Customer Headquarters. All I can say within the bounds of modern decorum and the MA is, the acronym fits.

 

[Stacyhs]

Pete Buttigieg

Quote:
Come to think of it, denigrating the worth of a soldier’s service based on whether he deployed to a war zone is… kind of like denigrating the worth of a woman’s citizenship based on whether she happens to have children.

https://x.com/PeteButtigieg/status/1821372919290757399?t=MB7ccHJWhdLJw9BMWFHrTg&s=19

I love me some Pete!

 

[Stacyhs]

It's really stupid of Vance to claim Walz 'abandoned his fellow soldiers' in order to get out of deploying when tough guy Marine Vance spent 4 years in the public affairs section in the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing6 months and only 6 months in Iraq. This is what he wrote in his book regarding what he did while in Iraq:

As a public affairs marine, I would attach to different units to get a sense of their daily routine. Sometimes I’d escort civilian press, but generally I’d take photos or write short stories about individual marines or their work. Early in my deployment, I attached to a civil affairs unit to do community outreach. Civil affairs missions were typically considered more dangerous, as a small number of marines would venture into unprotected Iraqi territory to meet with locals. On our particular mission, senior marines met with local school officials while the rest of us provided security or hung out with the schoolkids, playing soccer and passing out candy and school supplies. One very shy boy approached me and held out his hand. When I gave him a small eraser, his face briefly lit up with joy before he ran away to his family, holding his two-cent prize aloft in triumph. I have never seen such excitement on a child’s face.

Vance told a reporter in WI that "By the way, I served in a combat zone."

Vance also said "What bothers me about Tim Walz is the stolen valor garbage. Do not pretend to be something that you're not.”
Oh, the irony...

 

[plague311]

What color would represent the mosquitos?

Or the word "ope" because that makes up like 30% of our spoken language.

 

[Donal]

I love me some Pete!

I'm not his biggest fan but he really is a brilliant communicator.

 

[JayUtah]

...what he did while in Iraq:

You know the old saying, "Give a poor boy an eraser and he erases for a day. Give a poor boy a free school lunch and he turns into a socialist drag queen." Or was that something about cat ladies? I can never remember.

Vance told a reporter in WI that "By the way, I served in a combat zone."

From that anecdote, I saw more combat as a civilian contractor than he did as a Marine.

"Do not pretend to be something that you're not."

Like a bootstrap-pulling, rags-to-riches hillbilly who persevered until he got the American dream?

 

[acbytesla]

This guy spent TWO DECADES serving!! Only 6% of Americans have served in the military. And only 1% served 20 years.

Vance is seriously attacking Walz after serving 4 years?

 

[Stacyhs]

This guy spent TWO DECADES serving!! Only 6% of Americans have served in the military. And only 1% served 20 years.

Vance is seriously attacking Walz after serving 4 years?

Walz was in the NG for 24 years and had to have surgery for his hearing loss due to artillery noise in order to stay in. That's more of a service-related injury than Vance ever saw.

 

[pgwenthold]

Vance's problem is that he has to go all in, and, as such, has gone in way over his head.

Now he's going after the General (Barry MacCaffery) who was in charge of the 24th division during the Gulf War, with multiple Purple Hearts and commendations. Calling him a loser who never did anything.

Because he stood up for Walz.

He can't just go with, "I disagree with your assessment, but thank you for your service." Nope, he says, " Your entire time in military leadership we won zero wars. You drank wine at ******** security conferences while thousands of working-class kids died on the battlefield. Oh, by the way, how much do you stand to gain financially from war with Russia, Barry?"

https://x.com/meiselasb/status/1821561170115076173

These guys only care about the military to the extent they can use them.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

One of the Schoolhouse Rock shorts from back in the 1970s, probably either "Shot heard Round the World" or "No More Kings", literally showed colonists taking a British flag, peeling apart the colors, and rearranging them to make an American flag.

EDIT: It was "No More Kings" at 2:24. The lines "We're gonna elect a President. He's gonna do what the people want." are painful now.

The original US flag (the one with the Union Jack in the canton, rather than the star field) was essentially the same as the East India Company's, which is ironic given what sparked the Revolution.

 

[Gulliver Foyle]

Vance, combat journalist, is trying to swiftboat Walz. Vey funny. Ali Velshi has seen more combat than Vance.

Vance was a non-combat journalist, he never left base. His militiary service reminds me of all those Russian politicians' sons who enlisted after the invasion of Ukraine and remarkably were lucky to be never deployed to a combat zone.

 

[The Don]

Vance's problem is that he has to go all in, and, as such, has gone in way over his head.

Now he's going after the General (Barry MacCaffery) who was in charge of the 24th division during the Gulf War, with multiple Purple Hearts and commendations. Calling him a loser who never did anything.

Because he stood up for Walz.

He can't just go with, "I disagree with your assessment, but thank you for your service." Nope, he says, " Your entire time in military leadership we won zero wars. You drank wine at ******** security conferences while thousands of working-class kids died on the battlefield. Oh, by the way, how much do you stand to gain financially from war with Russia, Barry?"

https://x.com/meiselasb/status/1821561170115076173

These guys only care about the military to the extent they can use them.

True, but a sizeable proportion of the US electorate now has the idea that Walz is guilty of stolen valour whilst Vance is a seasoned, hardened warrior with decades of in-theatre experience behind enemy lines.