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facialimpediment posted:Donnie's barely been campaigning. Against Hillary, he did like 29 events in 30 days, while now he's treating his fox news phoners as an "event". I'm guessing he picked Montana because he wants to knock off Sen. Tester for some reason - it's a wasted day for him. The couchfucker is doing the typical VP trailing thing, but because he's creepy and Kamala has competent stagers: In that earlier clip, they even had Vance deliver the "campaigning from
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Mappo posted:It looks like Trump is slowing down the number of rallies he is doing. Trump is going to Montana to lock up a senate gain: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/2024/montana/
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https://x.com/WUTangKids/status/1821273401765544082?t=BQpLOc5VabCKGclCXBlrMw&s=19 Serta-n Fury (1985) The Hills Have Eyeliner The Sopranopes
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facialimpediment posted:https://x.com/WUTangKids/status/1821273401765544082?t=BQpLOc5VabCKGclCXBlrMw&s=19 Doesn't seem like Vance realizes to many, Entourage is an insufferable show
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https://x.com/JoeKassabian/status/1821227617707532707
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there are so many couch jokes to be made that you definitely won't have to go looking between the cushions for more
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facialimpediment posted:The Hills Have Eyeliner
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Zamujasa posted:there are so many couch jokes to be made that you definitely won't have to go looking between the cushions for more God dammit lol
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Zamujasa posted:there are so many couch jokes to be made that you definitely won't have to go looking between the cushions for more 
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Aug 7, 2024 21:33
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oops! https://x.com/Jemsinger/status/1821306399554433292 quote:Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly denied knowing about the Project 2025 policy blueprint or the people behind it. “Have no idea who is in charge of it,” he wrote in a social media post in July.
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Aug 7, 2024 22:13
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Re: Bozeman, believe the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is happening right now so maybe he wants to hang out with his beautiful tough guy bikers. That or commemorate the 4th anniversary of the Sturgis Superspreader Event.
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Aug 7, 2024 22:15
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honestly "BE NORMAL. BE NORMAL. BE NORMAL." would be an excellent thread title
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To be fair, given the state of his brain it's possible for him to do all that and still have no idea about Project 2025.
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Aug 7, 2024 22:26
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Bon Iver playing Battle Cry of Freedom at the Wisconsin rally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF3yUlCajVs I hope they keep using the song the rest of the campaign.
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Aug 7, 2024 23:03
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Soylent Pudding posted:Bon Iver playing Battle Cry of Freedom at the Wisconsin rally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF3yUlCajVs I did not like his vocals at all. Owe.
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Aug 7, 2024 23:10
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Re: Bozeman, believe the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is happening right now so maybe he wants to hang out with his beautiful tough guy bikers. Surgis is nearly 500 miles from Bozeman 
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Yeah, that is what I was thinking, but it is on the way if you are going to Mar-A-Lago.
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Aug 7, 2024 23:42
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Crab Dad posted:I did not like his vocals at all. Owe. This version is fantastic: https://youtu.be/MGKnc_YiR-E?si=21eiv3Lr6T7lDUSz
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Not military nor did I serve, but I do have a question if you folks don't mind me wandering in here. In the NG, how long is the process for someone of Walz's rank to retire? I imagine he doesn't just walk into his CO's office and says "hey, I'm outta here.". From what I've read he retired a few months before his unit was alerted for Iraq, would it even have been possible for him to rejoin had he wanted too?
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Cimber posted:Not military nor did I serve, but I do have a question if you folks don't mind me wandering in here. I never retired, but when I saw other guys do it, it was a process often initiated a year in advance. As for going back in, he had a Sergeant Major's slot. Those are few and far between, and people only get those when one comes available, besides, retirement has a whole legal status associated with it. Anything is possible with waivers, but generally if the military wants you to unretire, they'll come find you, often with orders meaning you don't have a choice.
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Cimber posted:Not military nor did I serve, but I do have a question if you folks don't mind me wandering in here. It's like a year+ process, it's absolutely not something you do in the spur of the moment. Plus when a command sergeant major retires or leaves the unit, they get another CSM. That's how billets work. The idea that he somehow abandoned his unit by cravenly retiring after 24 years of service is insultingly asinine. There isn't a  big enough for JD Vance.
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Boy I sure would be owned if MAGA brought attention to Vance’s military record.
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Platystemon posted:Boy I sure would be owned if MAGA brought attention to Vance’s military record. It would be more attention than he's getting from normal people. https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1821337051087634437?t=Z3ythGHlARLTSJNKe9uevQ&s=19
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Terrifying Effigies posted:Re: Bozeman, believe the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is happening right now so maybe he wants to hang out with his beautiful tough guy bikers. Lol it wasn’t in their top 50 reasons for collapse but was fun how WCW kept having ill advised PPVs at Sturgis despite not being able to charge for attendance & how drunken bikers weren’t the best crowd.
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Aug 8, 2024 00:34
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Congratulations everyone, we've made it to the porn phase of the campaign! https://x.com/eilperin/status/1821343939342831788 quote:Trump has begun asking friends and allies how his campaign staff is doing — a question that some say could lead to staff changes, though the former president has not said he is planning that and has expressed support for campaign aides in recent days, a person close to him said. He has asked why Harris is raising so much more money than him, people familiar with the comments say. Trump has also repeatedly raised the large crowds that Harris is getting compared with Biden, people who have spoken to him said.
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Others have covered it- he would have put in at least a year prior. He also did deploy, just not to AFG or Iraq when his former unit went. It's a bullshit half truth purity test that is being applied. That's also ignoring the way the military works- he probably wouldn't have been able to just not go because at that time, there was the Stop Loss Policy; he wouldn't have been allowed to retire, and would have been forced to go. As for recall, yeah, they can recall your retired rear end. In 2006, my FOB commander served in Vietnam, and was forcibly recalled to deploy, or lose his Colonel pension. Unless your retirement code bars it due to inability to serve, like medical Retirement.
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Platystemon posted:Boy I sure would be owned if MAGA brought attention to Vance’s military record. you mean the thing with the couches? E: was curious because I had heard nothing about what vance did in the marines quote:Vance served a four-year enlistment in the Marines from 2003 to 2007 as a combat correspondent, deploying to Iraq for six months in late 2005. https://taskandpurpose.com/news/jd-vance-marine-veteran/ Herstory Begins Now fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Aug 8, 2024 |
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bulletsponge13 posted:As for recall, yeah, they can recall your retired rear end. In 2006, my FOB commander served in Vietnam, and was forcibly recalled to deploy, or lose his Colonel pension. Are you sure you aren't misremembering something or that he didn't volunteer for recall to active duty? Even if he deployed at age 22 to Vietnam in the last year of boots-on-ground, 1973, that would mean he was a minimum of 55 years old (so yes, short of the US Code limit of age 60, but quite an edge case). Maybe he went to Vietnam as a 2LT, then was a 30 years of service colonel who had only been retired for ~4-5 years when called back in, but quite an edge case if so. I saw some IRR activations (including people who just stayed in indefinitely after their IRR recall) and voluntary retiree active duty tours, but I don't think I've ever met someone who was involuntarily forced back into service after a full retirement. Typically the consequence of ignoring an IRR recall is absolutely nothing. The military has no good way or will to go after it. And when the Army involuntarily recalls someone, under US Code, it is limited to 12 months out of a 24 month period. So unless being deployed for a very special occasion, that isn't really enough time to mobilize, train, deploy someone for 6-12 months, and then demobilize them. My guess is he volunteered, and maybe his reference to facing consequences is that when he volunteered to re-enter active duty, he was surprised to learn that they planned to deploy him overseas as a FOB commander.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:To be fair, given the state of his brain it's possible for him to do all that and still have no idea about Project 2025. Frankly I find the narrative hilarious given that any candidate, presidential congressional or state-level not fully aware of what of Project 2025 is, who the Heritage Foundation are and what it would mean for America should have serious doubts cast over their fitness to hold office. If I were the Dem campaign I would be zeroing in on that, and running with "he's either a liar or an idiot - not ideal in a candidate for President, huh?" It would be much more sensible for self proclaimed Supergenius Trump to say "yeah I know all about it - but I'm more interested in talking about my own platform, or the platform of the opponents I am running against; not the Heritage Foundation, who I am not." Sure, it still doesn't hold water those who know what's going on, - but it's a drat sight more strategic than claiming to be totally unaware of the thing that literally everyone opposite is talking about.
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mlmp08 posted:Are you sure you aren't misremembering something or that he didn't volunteer for recall to active duty? Even if he deployed at age 22 to Vietnam in the last year of boots-on-ground, 1973, that would mean he was a minimum of 55 years old (so yes, short of the US Code limit of age 60, but quite an edge case). I'm repeating what I overheard him saying to other Officers when I was on his PSD. This was during The Surge. He had served AD in Vietnam (I don't know if it was as an Enlisted or Officer in Vietnam, but he was SF at some point), and did Army Reserve time. It might be bullshit, but this deployment was 1/3 IRR guys, and judging by his poor attitude, lovely conduct, and bitterness when he would tell people, I'm inclined to agree. I wouldn't swear on my kids lives or anything, and I totally admit I could be wrong. I just had a special disdain for him after he used provisions slated to improve our guard points and decaying fighting positions, and used it to build a driving range. They quit leaving their golf poo poo out when it was mysteriously getting stolen/broken/thrown as far as the human could. Rumor was the Navy Soldiers poured a bucket of golf balls into the moat.
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quote:DODI 1352.1: Regular retired members and members of the retired Reserve must be managed to ensure they are accessible for national security and readiness requirements. Retirees may be used as a manpower source of last resort after other sources are determined not to be available or a source for unique skills not otherwise obtainable. I imagine the number of Category 1 & 2 retirees is pretty small.
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https://x.com/aliciasadowski6/status/1821327378041217260?t=t6VnD6mJutECZ6Xzn1FIsw&s=19 Oh yes, the vaunted Minnesota city of Milwaukee.
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bulletsponge13 posted:Rumor was the Navy Soldiers poured a bucket of golf balls into the moat.   They're called Marines rah Buy no one knows more about balls than the Navy. 
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So apparently Walz is the most radical liberal to ever liberal a liberal, a case of stolen valor, an antifa operative looking to burn down Minnesota for reasons, a child groomer in the school system, and a Chinese Communist Party deep cover spy-op that only right wing media was able to uncover in two days. They got nothing and they're still deeply loving weird.
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bulletsponge13 posted:I'm repeating what I overheard him saying to other Officers when I was on his PSD. This was during The Surge. He had served AD in Vietnam (I don't know if it was as an Enlisted or Officer in Vietnam, but he was SF at some point), and did Army Reserve time. It might be bullshit, but this deployment was 1/3 IRR guys, and judging by his poor attitude, lovely conduct, and bitterness when he would tell people, I'm inclined to agree. I wouldn't swear on my kids lives or anything, and I totally admit I could be wrong. I just had a special disdain for him after he used provisions slated to improve our guard points and decaying fighting positions, and used it to build a driving range. I can’t know for sure but if I was forced to bet on it, he volunteered and expected a garrison or staff job at home and then once he volunteered, they “forced” him to deploy. That was a common story of guard/reserve guys going for more retirement points or former active person expecting a 24 month active pay boost at some mob base and then being sent overseas as soon as practical.
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I know he's not the right kind of ARE TROOPS since he's a democrat, so I'm assuming this is bullshit, but: On a level from "smoking crack laced with PCP" to "a dead to rights case in any court in the land" how big of a deal is it that Walz retired as a master sergeant because he didn't complete the coursework to be a command sergeant major despite serving as one. This sounds like bullshit gotcha word parsing, but not sure how much it actually matters within the military/vets. Either way, pretty happy that all they have on this guy so far is "He claims that he retired as an E-9, but only SERVED as an E-9 and then was reduced to an E-8 when he retired" and "he retired a month before his unit was notified they would be deploying."
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stealie72 posted:I know he's not the right kind of ARE TROOPS since he's a democrat, so I'm assuming this is bullshit, but: It doesn't matter at all to anyone who isn't firmly in the bubble already.
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Stultus Maximus posted:It doesn't matter at all to anyone who isn't firmly in the bubble already. Yeah this is basically in They're Gonna Say Some poo poo territory. The one really stupid thing is that WaPo and NYT chomped hard and published direct stenography of Donnie's swiftboater campaign manager and JD Vance's quotes. Which of course, doesn't help Donnie since JD's word is lousy and he was a combat correspondent. I'm not aware of much push back from the Kamala campaign, so they're likely not worried about it. Walz will probably go all folksy in a presser later, or mention how lovely they're being by attacking a military record when he refuses to.
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stealie72 posted:I know he's not the right kind of ARE TROOPS since he's a democrat, so I'm assuming this is bullshit, but: It would be weird on the active side where they do everything possible to avoid slotting a CSM until they’ve finished the course at the SMA and served a tour as an SGM. But in the guard, it is common enough. I’ve also known plenty of people who served as O-6s but retired as O-5s based on time in grade, and they tend to highlight their O-6 grade, not their O-5 retirement. (Some officers pursue medical retirement to avoid the TIG requirement as O-6+ grades). If someone really wanted to jump on his statements about military service, this line makes more sense. WaPo posted:
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