HellToupee

yikes they done broke it

No option for Lovey?

Dodging and deferring: Trump wasn’t the only POTUS to avoid the draft Jan 21, 2021 It is quite appropriate and important that on the day of the inauguration, the new president, Joseph Biden, and three of his four immediate predecessors visited Arlington Cemetery where many of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for this country are laid to rest. In addition to honoring these brave men and women, I hope that President Biden and former presidents Bush and Clinton reflected on the fact that some who are buried at Arlington are there because they — like Trump — avoided being drafted in 1968. Therefore, someone who probably could not afford college, or have the background or connections, had to go into the Army. Bill Clinton received educational deferments from 1963 to 1968 so that he could attend Georgetown, and after graduating, accept a Rhodes scholarship to attend Oxford. However, in 1968, when the law that allowed men to receive deferments even for graduate or law school was changed, Clinton received his draft notice. But, to avoid being drafted in 1968, Bill Clinton used his connections to get permission to join the ROTC at the University of Arkansas law school. This permitted him to avoid the draft and allowed him to return to Oxford to complete his master’s. Moreover, in 1969 when he was returning from England, President Nixon instituted a draft lottery. When Clinton received a number that would have ensured that he would not be selected, he reneged on the commitment to join the ROTC with no penalty. After graduating from Yale in 1968, President George W. Bush used his family connections to allow him to enlist in the Texas Air National Guard for a six-year stint as a pilot. He did this because it became clear that President Johnson would not activate the Guard to go to Vietnam but would rely instead on the active forces to fight that bloody conflict. Therefore, it became almost impossible to get into the Guard in 1968, especially for someone like Bush who had a low score (in the 25th percentile) on the pilot test, and also had an arrest record. Moreover, in Bush’s last two years, his attendance at Guard meetings dropped off, he lost his pilot certification but, unlike most of these, he was not recalled to active duty. Biden not only received deferments for his undergraduate days at the University of Delaware, but for three years of law school at Syracuse University. When his education deferments expired in 1968, Biden requested a deferment based on the fact he had asthma as a teenager. He did this in spite of the fact that, according to his own book, he was a star athlete in high school and in college played intramural sports and was a lifeguard in the summer. By having someone else go to Vietnam instead of them, these three presidents were also able to use the two years that they would have had to spend in the military to begin the careers that launched them to the White House. Clinton parlayed his Rhodes scholarship into admission into Yale Law School, which is among the most competitive law schools in the country, running for Congress and becoming attorney general of Arkansas about seven years after he avoided service, something he could not have done had he had to divert his career by spending time in the military before attending law school. During his time in the Guard, Bush not only did not deploy but missed several weekend drills while going to Harvard Business School and working on the campaigns of at least one senator. As soon as he received his asthma deferment, Biden ran for local office and within two years after he would have been discharged from the Army, assuming he was not wounded or killed, he was elected to the Senate. I wish that these three men had had parents like my dad. When I took my draft physical, I was told that I needed to get a waiver to go into the service because I had polio when I was 9 years old. My dad told me that we did not have deferments in our house and did I think because I was the first in my family to go to college that I was better than the paper boy (who tragically was killed in Vietnam)? Moreover, my younger brother was also drafted and sent to Vietnam a couple of years after me. In one of the Democratic political debates, Congressman Seth Moulton, D-Mass., said something that I wish these three presidents would think about as they went to Arlington: “I’d like to meet that American hero who went to Vietnam in Donald Trump’s place. I hope he is still alive.” Lawrence Korb a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress served as an assistant secretary of defense in the Regan administration. He served four years on active duty as a naval flight officer and retired from the Navy Reserve with the rank of captain. Editor’s note: This is an Op-Ed and as such, the opinions expressed are those of the author. If you would like to respond, or have an editorial of your own you would like to submit, please contact Military Times managing editor Howard Altman, haltman@militarytimes.com.

Same as slick Willie , W and Joementia

That must mean he’s hitting the target

This is one one I took. Joe assured me BIDEN: “You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” — town hall. Because I was told this “Look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated,” Biden said Friday, echoing comments made earlier in the day by Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A couple of years ago the place was full of vaccine experts

Democrat hero John Lewis

This guy The Republican nominee for president didn’t have the “temperament” to be commander in chief, charged Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, adding that he “can’t stand” the guy. Moveon.org called him “reckless” and “dangerous.” Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., warned that the GOP candidate was a modern day George Wallace and his rhetoric “is playing with fire.”

Maine Mom: My Daughter “Went to War” in Tim Walz’s Place After Order to Join Minnesota National Guard Steve RobinsonAugust 12, 2024 A Maine mother says her daughter, Nicole M. Dunham of Orrington, was called up to join the Minnesota National Guard as a convoy support medic in 2005—the same year Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz retired from the Minnesota National Guard in order to skip a deployment to Iraq. “Nicole Marie Dunham went to war in place of the Governor of Minnesota,” said Mary Dunham in a Monday morning interview with WVOM’s George Hale and Ric Tyler Show. “Maybe not his rank, but my daughter from Maine went to war, and he didn’t, he didn’t fulfill his commitment. Nicole’s commitment was over. She went. No, she didn’t replace him specifically, but everybody had to move forward to fill a slot that he left.” “Her commitment was to the state of Maine, then to the United States. She’s the only person that was in that unit, the one, [in the] 125th Field Artillery Battalion that wasn’t from there, and [Walz] didn’t go,” she said. Gov. Walz, selected last week to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s running-mate for what is likely to be the Democratic 2024 presidential ticket, continues to face withering criticism for false claims he has made for nearly two decades about his military service. Although Walz did serve in the U.S. military for 25 years, he has subsequently embellished his rank and falsely claimed to have taken part in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2005, Walz retired from the Minnesota National Guard weeks months before his unit was slated for deployment to Iraq — a deployment that saw the unit take multiple casualties. Dunham enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1998, completed training as an emergency, and subsequently served in the U.S. Army Reserve from until 2005 in 309th Combat Support Hospital Division. Dunham received the Army Achievement Medal, National Service Defense Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, the Overseas Service Ribbon and the Armed Forces Reserves Medal, according to her family. Her obituary describes her call-up to join the Minnesota National Guard as follows: In 2005, She proudly served her country as a Specialist in the Operation Iraqi Freedom Campaign with 34th Inventory Division known as the Red Bulls. Her Mission was providing Medic support on convoys traveling from Tallil Airbase to Bagdad Airport as well has humanitarian missions for the people of Iraq. She was Honorably discharged in 2007. Dunham passed away on Sept. 13, 2018. Although Dunham said her daughter was not killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom, she said Nicole was frequently in harm’s way and returned from her deployment a changed person. “Nobody wants to go to war,” Mary Dunham said, of her daughter. “No one wants to go. She went.” Even prior to the spotlight landing on Walz’s military record, Dunham’s presence in the unit was unusual because she was the only member of the unit who wasn’t from Minnesota. But Mary Dunham didn’t immediately connect her daughter’s service in the Minnesota unit to Walz’s early retirement until soldiers she had served with — other members of the so-called “Red Bulls” — began reaching out to her on Facebook. Nicole M. Dunham with other members of the Red Bulls Gov. Tim Walz’s Stolen Valor Several U.S. military veterans who knew Walz and served with Walz have confirmed that he has misrepresented, embellished, and distorted his military career during his subsequent career as a member of congress, governor, and now as a vice presidential candidate. Since retiring and entering politics, Walz has consistently represented his rank as Command Sergeant Major; however, Walz never official received that rank due to his abrupt retirement. Walz has often portrayed himself as a combat veteran by talking about carrying a firearm in theaters of war and by allowing people, such as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), to refer to him as a combat veteran; however, his foreign service was limited to Italy. Ret. Command Sgt. Maj. Thomas Behrends, the man who filled Walz’s suddenly vacated leadership position, has been outspoken about Walz embellishing his rank, telling Fox News’ Laura Ingraham that the truth behind the claim is “far darker than a lot of people think.” “He’s used the rank that he never achieved in order to advance his political career,” Behrends said. “I mean, he still says he’s a retired command sergeant major to this day, and he’s not. He uses the rank of others to make it look like he’s a better person than he is.” John Kolb, the now-retired Battalion Commander who ran Walz and Dunham’s former unit, also confirmed in a sharply worded Facebook post that Walz misrepresented his military service, specifically the timing and nature of his retirement. “[W]hen the demands of service and leadership at the highest level got real, he chose another path,” Kolb said. According to Kolb, Walz retired early from the MNG, did not complete Sergeants Major Academy, broke his enlistment contract, and did not successfully complete any assignment as a Sergeant Major. Kolb, who also confirmed that Behrends was selected to go in Walz’s place, said Behrends “ran toward and not away from the guns.” While Kolb said he had no opinion or criticism of Walz’s prior 25 years of military service, he did make clear that Walz has subsequently exaggerated his rank. “He did not earn the rank or successfully complete any assignment as an E9,” Kolb said. “It is an affront to the Noncommissioned Officer Corps that he continues to glom onto the title. I can sit in the cockpit of an airplane, it does not make me a pilot. Similarly, when the demands of service and leadership at the highest level got real, he chose another path,” he said.

I’m surprised with the way team ownership is that it wasn’t more. God I’d love for them to sell

I’m guessing 1-no 2-yes

I don’t care if he had his stomach pumped full of jizz

Those drag queens give you a full head of steam in your pants, don’t they boyo

He hires them and is part of the problem of them coming here.

Zero credibility on the border

The @squistion love snopes

Don’t let the bastards get you down. These jabronis try to paint you as a bad guy. They’re the ones helping this regime let these savages in the country. They think the bad hombres will never bother them so who cares

When is Kamala going to answer questions, unscripted question?

Bull sheet. This heinous crime and all of the illegals committing crimes are on you and the other do-gooders supporting the recklessness

It was an INSURRECTION!!!!!!!!

Twitter is a hell of a lot better today

A man of principle. I on the other hand would field Pol Pot/Stalin/Idi Amin if it would get me a few extra VVins Al Davis was right , just win baby

Now do Biden/Bush/Clinton