No clue, but I imagine a lot of people retire from the military every year, and that includes years before we fire up yet another dipshit war.
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It’s only a concern for people who weren’t voting for Harris/Walz:
Another National Guard member who served under Walz said that the future US lawmaker was eyeing a run for Congress earlier than 2005.
“Would the soldier look down on him because he didn’t go with us? Would the common soldier say, ‘Hey, he didn’t go with us, he’s trying to skip out on a deployment?’ And he wasn’t,” Al Bonnifield recalled to Minnesota Public Radio of Walz’s concerns about dipping out before the deployment to Iraq.
“He talked with us for quite a while on that subject. He weighed that decision to run for Congress very heavy [sic],” Bonnifeld added. “He loved the military, he loved the guard, he loved the soldiers he worked with.”
“We all do what we can. I’m proud I did 24 years,” Walz has said about his service.
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Part of the narrative is that he lied about or exaggerated his rank. Again, none of this stuff bothers me, but it is ammo for the other side to use when it originally looked like they had nothing.
Think that was covered here
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Wait what? Is it really real???
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I like people who refuse to serve in imperialist wars
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He actually achieved the rank he said he did. When he retired he was at that rank. However, he wasn’t at that rank long enough. So, you “retire” at the previous rank.
I hope and am pretty sure that this campaign learned from the Kerry campaign that you need to confront these attacks when they happen and don’t let the false narrative take hold.
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Kinda like that session where I was up 10 buy-ins at one point, but only cashed out up 7 buy-ins
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They will throw shit at the wall over and over for any candidate, there is no one that could run for Dem office that they would just go silent on. Also don’t get info from lol twitter.
If he came out and straight admitted he left the NG because he didn’t agree with the Iraq war would this even hurt him? I kinda don’t think it would. Very weak oppo imo.
I would immediately send the campaign 5500 cash monies
Is that the limit?
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Hes up against president bone spurs and hopeful VP did journalism in an air conditioned room. Not too worried about it
Kerry served and W dodged
Just to play devils advocate
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It’s less about what he actually did and what is true and more about the narrative that can be woven based on a distorted set of facts, and whether that has the potential to cause real harm to the campaign or not.
Anyway, here’s an article that summarizes the issue. Does sounds like facts getting twisted and distorted. So hopefully it’ll blow over without causing any lasting damage.
I think it’s fake. I went to his truth social and couldn’t find the post. It’s funny though and says something that it’s easy to believe.
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And some of my work appears in the forum…