There is just so much to dislike about this guy, even if his military record were spotless, he's still a deviant who let his state burn. It seems like an unforced error for the deep state to have let him get picked.
“Lacking utterly in originality and moral courage, the majority has always placed its destiny in the hands of others. Incapable of standing responsibilities, it has followed its leaders even unto destruction.” ~ Emma Goldman
The people who are 💯 serious about survival KNOW that the food supply is poisoned and is becoming even more toxic. There are non-poisoned foods available for long-term storage. People can grow their own food and raise their own livestock. People can plan for their own long-term food production. The key is (1) get out of urban & suburban areas and (2) join with likeminded small groups. Survival (generally) isn’t going to be an individual thing. It’s going to depend on cooperation and altruism.
I suppose time will tell if they went too far left with their pick, but the way that cabal thinks, he simply checks a few more boxes for them..... "White".... "guy" (identifies as).... And, to their target voter..... "Old". They probably had focus groups that liked the way 'Harris/Walz" sounds vs. (oh dear!) "Harris/Shapiro." Hollywood and recent history show that these voters are easily persuaded.
I've loathed him from the moment he invoked the "Vance/couch" defamation in his speechlet. I had remembered what a dork he was when brigands burned the Minneapolis police substation to the ground in the summer of 2020. When I heard he was her pick, I was elated. But after he demonstrated what a guttersnipe he is, it became personal.
I'm past (solely) blaming Governors or any leader. The bottom line is people vote (d) for people like him. If they're too stupid or lazy to go a little beyond the lines to learn more about candidates they cast a ballot for then they deserve what they get good and hard.
The funny part about that is they never seem to get hurt by bad policies or care about how people like Walz behave (especially during Covid). The rest of us do.
My dad served in Korea in the Army. He died in 2021 at age 94. He was super proud of his service and was an active participant and advocate for veterans issues right up until his final days.
But there was one thing he never could totally let go. About 18 months into his deployment his companies clerk went home. So a new clerk was needed. And (long story not worth telling) his lieutenant knew my dad could type really well. And when the inquiries came to the units for anyone who could type, my dads name got on the list. It was a sparse list and the end result put my dad permanently, inside the wire, in a Quonset, with a warm bed, eating in the officers mess, spending his days typing out orders, driving officers to and fro, and posting notices on the boards. In relaying his story he always said he had really mixed emotions. It was great to no longer be walking point, taking incoming, getting shot at, being cold and wet, eating horrible food…but he hated not being with his ‘guys’ and he knew that is where he should have been.
The one thing he did admit was the absolute joy he got when he typed out his own discharge papers. Otherwise he said, he should have been out there. I think it bugged him for 70+ years.
In rural areas, joining the National Guard was sort of like joining a social club. There were various benefits to doing so, and until the GWOT, almost no personal danger because the National Guard almost never deployed except for non-combat disaster relief.
That’s the context of Tim Walz’s service.
I did the calculations yesterday and a 25 year career in the NG is about 145 weeks of active duty when you combine basic training, AIT, drill weekends, and annual drill.
An 18 year old who enlists for active duty surpasses that 2.5 years into their term and is usually an E4.
So what you have is a lot of National Guard senior enlisted who have the active duty experience of a Specialist or Corporal.
I had the very strange experience of enlisting in the regular army, then ending up several years later in a Wisconsin National Guard battalion after being called back from the IRR. My personal experience was that there were a bunch of extremely capable NCOs in the ARNG, many from a regular army background. Wisconsin farm boys -- not shy with guns. Senior NCOs were a mixed bag: the best I've ever seen, and one of the least capable I've ever seen.
Higher level ARNG, above BN, That’s NOT a good way to meet the National Guard!
You’re deep into State Politics and Civil Service. Or business, or all 3. Bad looks for introduction.
That would be like doing your first duty station in the Pentagon, but without the glamour 🤣
You really have to go to a line unit in the guard to meet the real thing. Which- 7 years active with 3 deployments- is really about the same. You may meet an even higher caliber, but with less time to train and maintain.
A lot of NG people used to sign up to do 20 years of mostly easy service, which also have them extra points when applying to other government jobs, and then draw the small retirement pension from the NG.
That was an unusual period, you’re talking exclusively Vietnam era and roughly until Desert Storm (where the Guard did deploy). In every other war including Korea the Guard went, indeed usually the first ones mobilized. America didn’t have WW2 conscription until 1941, the Guard was mobilized in 1940.
In 1965 LBJ made a decision not to mobilize the Reserves or National Guard (with rare exceptions). This was long identified as a mistake.
In 1981 under Reagan the Military was reorganized to make sure that never happened again. This absolutely succeeded. Most of the logistics for the Army are Reservists, as are ~ 40% of the Combat units in National Guard.
90% of the Petroleum Companies are Reservists. The Reserves are over represented in Army Logistics starting with Desert Storm.
Starting with the Reserves in Panama 1989 the Reserves began to deploy again. See Desert Storm logistics.
The Air National Guard is kept constantly busy with deployments.
Starting in the 1990s ARNG Combat Units began to deploy, say to the Balkans.
On 9/11 it’s on, same with the entire last 23 years. I have friends on their 2d or 3d NG deployment alone in MENA now (yes they are in danger).
The other wrinkle in deployments of Guard in particular and a reason the ARNG and ANG (Air National Guard) aren’t going away is 💲 COST. They’re cheaper. When not deployed or activated they don’t cost money for payroll, housing, medical, etc, that is personnel costs. Personnel costs are 60% of the military budget. The reserves are Federally funded, but with the Guard the respective states bear much of the costs. It’s simply cheaper to mobilize a Guard unit every 3 years to deploy for a year or more than an active duty unit maintained for 4 years.
There’s nothing new about this, throughout history most militaries had a small active force and large reserves. The Long Emergency Western Governments of WW2 until now are exceptional.
At present the Guard and Reserves are about 900K and the Active Force 1.2 million. This is unusual and exceptional.
As is the risible notion of 45 days a year in the Guard- not since the 1980s.
Rear Detachment looks like the absolute hardest duty a soldier could have. Hear about your guys get chewed up, can't do a thing about it, gotta tell their families about it.
Yep. Your link proves how corrupt the political system is. It doesn’t stop with Minnesota. (I live about two hours from Duluth and about four hours from Minneapolis-Saint Paul.) The entire nation-state is full of iniquity. I think that we as a country are being judged and punished. We have no one to blame but ourselves. I’m just a lone voice speaking against the menticided masses.
We have been at war w the left, domestic enemies of the principles of Life, liberty & freedom from tyranny our founders envisioned since our founding. An excellent book on the subject, "Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left," by Daniel Greenfield is excellent info, well researched, I just finished reading & it's a fascinating comparisons to what we're going thru today is linked here ;
Never underestimate the number who agree w US though. Election corruption is our biggest problem. Commies are cheats, liars, fraudsters. Honest ppl just need to get involved w election monitoring. Cheers!
Election fraud is huge. I’m still not sure how millions of harvested absentee ballots from deceased persons and illegal immigrants can be “monitored” once these ballots have already been counted. (Don’t mind me. I’m too cynical and pessimistic. At least I’m not nihilistic and full of despair.) 😊
leftists want you depressed, demoralized, it makes you more susceptible to compliance and an early grave which their goal, so i always do my best to be the opposite. Live well!
Don’t be scared. 😊 Find the humor in every situation (if possible). “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that” (George Carlin). Proverbs 17:22 “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
Yep. In the movie, President Dwayne Mountain Dew Camacho actually wants to ease famine, whereas our globalist overlords are doing everything in their power (closing or blowing up pipelines, weaponizing bird flu, culling herds, banning nitrogen, arson, etc.) to create famine.
Man-made famine is one of the hallmarks of totalitarian socialism and communism. It’s pretty clear to me that there is a deliberate attempt at depopulating the world in order to easier enslave the survivors.
I never served in the military so I don’t feel that have a good basis for reaching a conclusion on this based on my own life experience. So I look to people such as yourself and others who have served and have relevant knowledge and experience on matters such as this to help me form a determination. I don’t need this situation to tell me I don’t like this dirtbag. He’s got plenty of other attributes to help me reach that conclusion.
BTW, one of my four sons did decide to join the military. He is a Marine infantry officer and currently he and his battalion are are 29 Psalms for training. This is real shit as one guy got shot in the neck during an exercise, he is going to survive. The next day a vehicle overturned and killed another Marine.
So yeah, I am certainly paying a lot more attention to military matters these days.
It's called 29 Stumps because the 29 palm trees thar you passed by leading into the base were all cut down leaving stumps of trees. Hence the nickname.
His military service is a distraction whether he is a hero as the left proclaims or not. Just as his teaching career and his coaching career is. His actual record in office should be the sole talking points for the Republican party. His record as an elected official is one of that has placed our culture in a downward spiral. He should be no where near a position that is a heart beat away from leading our country and the swamp.
Walz, the flannel clad fraud, is the used car salesman that greets you like you’re a long lost friend then proceeds to sell you the biggest lemon on the lot. Except the lemon is not a car it’s a freedom crushing totalitarian police state. He’s a very, very dangerous man.
I have been in combat 82 Falklands anyone who served and claims they went to war and did not is a disgrace to all whom have fired their weapon in anger. And those who gave their lives. A liar.
I've never been in the military, don't come from a military family either, so I am totally unqualified to opine on the intricacies of that part of the issue.
However, having said that, if Walz is claiming he was something honorable that he provably was not, is claiming he did something honorable that he provably did not do, well, that does not speak well for his character. Character matters a great deal in a leader.
I think I heard last night on the teevee (I'm usually only half-paying attention when the husband watches the news so I don't always catch everything) a clip of Walz addressing some sort of gun control gathering in which he clearly said that he wanted to ban the kind of weapons that "he carried in war." If he did not participate in a war, as a lot of knowledgeable people are claiming, that statement of his is a lie, regardless of how well he may have executed his other National Guard duties. We can separate the two.
As OPS petty officer on a 110-foot patrol boat in the USCG, I had a skipper (LT) whom I’d consider a “blue falcon.” At one point I had to organize—but not execute, thank God—a mutiny, when our XO was away at school and the skipper was standing Deck Watch Officer watches. You definitely DON’T get a free pass for having served. I’m sure it’s even more the case for combat vets. You can’t hide cowardice or stolen valor.
I think there are so many things wrong with this Walz fellow that you don’t need this question clarified to disqualify him. But he did deploy overseas - to Beijing. Tim Walz is a Commie. His honeymoon was in Communist China. He has been there 30 times.He let Minneapolis burn down. If you’re the chief executive of your state with extensive resources and you do nothing while billions of dollars in damage are gone and people are injured, killed and economically wiped out by rioters, you have effectively abandoned your post haven’t you?
If you side with criminals, anarchists, and psychiatric patients over the law abiding citizens and taxpayers, it’s the same thing. Isn’t the whole Democrat party, with the extreme Left wing, guilty of abandoning their posts, of violating their oaths of office? They’re destroying the country every day. They hide in plain sight. And MSM hypnotized imbeciles vote for these creeps. Stop voting for Democrats. 🤷🏼
The guy is a bum. Criticizing his lies about military service is fine if true, but the main thing is that he’s a revolutionary Commie who hates America. He’s garbage.
The West Point grads in “Brotherhood” had a similar mindset about going to war after 9/11. They were men of discipline and action who did not want to be left behind. The Tim Walz brand of failure, weakness, and cowardice should be nowhere near the potential role of Commander in Chief.
The people who would care about Walz's service record are (mostly blue collar) patriots who love the country. Kamala Harris hates the country and most of its people (especially the blue collar ones). Walz's record won't affect the vote count one way or another.
I think naked lying about combat service will mark him as a piece of shit to a lot of people. Not in Brooklyn and Santa Monica, but in most of the country.
He lied about “carrying weapons of war in combat” many times. He tried to gaslight the lie after being called on it. This is documented.
His motive for bailing on a deployment, and a provisional promotion to the top enlisted rank in the Army are impossible to document. The truth resides in his empty head.
But here’s what we know for sure:
- He re-upped for a 5 year hitch to get the promotion.
- He resigned before his unit deployed, but certainly after senior staff like him knew deployment was imminent.
- He gave up a 24 year career and a guaranteed promotion, with all the benefits and prestige that came with it, to pursue a possible, but far from sure run for Congress.
- 2 of his would be peers (Command Master Sergeants), were so enraged by his conduct they took out a full page ad to document the chain of events.
From a retired Minnesota National Guard CSM, via the long warred:
https://www.facebook.com/thomas.behrends.927/posts/2192944367614526?_rdr
There is just so much to dislike about this guy, even if his military record were spotless, he's still a deviant who let his state burn. It seems like an unforced error for the deep state to have let him get picked.
I think that one piece of evidence for a country being judged for its iniquities is that the country’s leaders get more and more depraved.
The evidence for this premise is becoming painfully clear.
Voters are 51% depraved yes
Don’t get me started on the depravities of the masses. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-anarchism-and-other-essays#toc4
“Lacking utterly in originality and moral courage, the majority has always placed its destiny in the hands of others. Incapable of standing responsibilities, it has followed its leaders even unto destruction.” ~ Emma Goldman
You’re spot on with this, marcy!! 🎯🎯
The people who are 💯 serious about survival KNOW that the food supply is poisoned and is becoming even more toxic. There are non-poisoned foods available for long-term storage. People can grow their own food and raise their own livestock. People can plan for their own long-term food production. The key is (1) get out of urban & suburban areas and (2) join with likeminded small groups. Survival (generally) isn’t going to be an individual thing. It’s going to depend on cooperation and altruism.
Agree except that it's an error. He'd be a deep state dream.
I was going to say much the same thing. He's a deepstate dream. He doesn't threaten anything truly meaningful to it.
I suppose time will tell if they went too far left with their pick, but the way that cabal thinks, he simply checks a few more boxes for them..... "White".... "guy" (identifies as).... And, to their target voter..... "Old". They probably had focus groups that liked the way 'Harris/Walz" sounds vs. (oh dear!) "Harris/Shapiro." Hollywood and recent history show that these voters are easily persuaded.
Walz is Harris’ insurance policy. They can’t take her out (impeachment, Killary, etc) because he’s even farther left than she is!
Very interesting..... a good instinct, knowing that things are never as they seem. But it assumes that Harris had a choice.
Not an error. Just deviant, destructive priorities.
I've loathed him from the moment he invoked the "Vance/couch" defamation in his speechlet. I had remembered what a dork he was when brigands burned the Minneapolis police substation to the ground in the summer of 2020. When I heard he was her pick, I was elated. But after he demonstrated what a guttersnipe he is, it became personal.
Any bets he withdraws from the race at convention time on the orders of Obama?
I'm past (solely) blaming Governors or any leader. The bottom line is people vote (d) for people like him. If they're too stupid or lazy to go a little beyond the lines to learn more about candidates they cast a ballot for then they deserve what they get good and hard.
The funny part about that is they never seem to get hurt by bad policies or care about how people like Walz behave (especially during Covid). The rest of us do.
My thought exactly regarding Tampon Tim.
My dad served in Korea in the Army. He died in 2021 at age 94. He was super proud of his service and was an active participant and advocate for veterans issues right up until his final days.
But there was one thing he never could totally let go. About 18 months into his deployment his companies clerk went home. So a new clerk was needed. And (long story not worth telling) his lieutenant knew my dad could type really well. And when the inquiries came to the units for anyone who could type, my dads name got on the list. It was a sparse list and the end result put my dad permanently, inside the wire, in a Quonset, with a warm bed, eating in the officers mess, spending his days typing out orders, driving officers to and fro, and posting notices on the boards. In relaying his story he always said he had really mixed emotions. It was great to no longer be walking point, taking incoming, getting shot at, being cold and wet, eating horrible food…but he hated not being with his ‘guys’ and he knew that is where he should have been.
The one thing he did admit was the absolute joy he got when he typed out his own discharge papers. Otherwise he said, he should have been out there. I think it bugged him for 70+ years.
It shouldn’t have as he did his service and faced danger.
Walz wrote his own discharge papers when danger loomed
In rural areas, joining the National Guard was sort of like joining a social club. There were various benefits to doing so, and until the GWOT, almost no personal danger because the National Guard almost never deployed except for non-combat disaster relief.
That’s the context of Tim Walz’s service.
I did the calculations yesterday and a 25 year career in the NG is about 145 weeks of active duty when you combine basic training, AIT, drill weekends, and annual drill.
An 18 year old who enlists for active duty surpasses that 2.5 years into their term and is usually an E4.
So what you have is a lot of National Guard senior enlisted who have the active duty experience of a Specialist or Corporal.
That’s Tim Walz, ladies and gentlemen.
I had the very strange experience of enlisting in the regular army, then ending up several years later in a Wisconsin National Guard battalion after being called back from the IRR. My personal experience was that there were a bunch of extremely capable NCOs in the ARNG, many from a regular army background. Wisconsin farm boys -- not shy with guns. Senior NCOs were a mixed bag: the best I've ever seen, and one of the least capable I've ever seen.
My experience in the Texas National Guard after my four years active duty led me to get out of the national guard at the earliest opportunity.
May have been the unit though. Higher HQ units tend to be filled with more secretaries in uniform than other units.
Higher level ARNG, above BN, That’s NOT a good way to meet the National Guard!
You’re deep into State Politics and Civil Service. Or business, or all 3. Bad looks for introduction.
That would be like doing your first duty station in the Pentagon, but without the glamour 🤣
You really have to go to a line unit in the guard to meet the real thing. Which- 7 years active with 3 deployments- is really about the same. You may meet an even higher caliber, but with less time to train and maintain.
A quick perusal of his deployments showed pretty good duty stations until in 2004 the country asked something significant of him and he quit
Makes you wonder if he signed up for that, just to later use it for a pension and then political bona fides.
A lot of NG people used to sign up to do 20 years of mostly easy service, which also have them extra points when applying to other government jobs, and then draw the small retirement pension from the NG.
GWOT made that a riskier proposition
That was an unusual period, you’re talking exclusively Vietnam era and roughly until Desert Storm (where the Guard did deploy). In every other war including Korea the Guard went, indeed usually the first ones mobilized. America didn’t have WW2 conscription until 1941, the Guard was mobilized in 1940.
In 1965 LBJ made a decision not to mobilize the Reserves or National Guard (with rare exceptions). This was long identified as a mistake.
In 1981 under Reagan the Military was reorganized to make sure that never happened again. This absolutely succeeded. Most of the logistics for the Army are Reservists, as are ~ 40% of the Combat units in National Guard.
90% of the Petroleum Companies are Reservists. The Reserves are over represented in Army Logistics starting with Desert Storm.
Starting with the Reserves in Panama 1989 the Reserves began to deploy again. See Desert Storm logistics.
The Air National Guard is kept constantly busy with deployments.
Starting in the 1990s ARNG Combat Units began to deploy, say to the Balkans.
On 9/11 it’s on, same with the entire last 23 years. I have friends on their 2d or 3d NG deployment alone in MENA now (yes they are in danger).
The other wrinkle in deployments of Guard in particular and a reason the ARNG and ANG (Air National Guard) aren’t going away is 💲 COST. They’re cheaper. When not deployed or activated they don’t cost money for payroll, housing, medical, etc, that is personnel costs. Personnel costs are 60% of the military budget. The reserves are Federally funded, but with the Guard the respective states bear much of the costs. It’s simply cheaper to mobilize a Guard unit every 3 years to deploy for a year or more than an active duty unit maintained for 4 years.
There’s nothing new about this, throughout history most militaries had a small active force and large reserves. The Long Emergency Western Governments of WW2 until now are exceptional.
At present the Guard and Reserves are about 900K and the Active Force 1.2 million. This is unusual and exceptional.
As is the risible notion of 45 days a year in the Guard- not since the 1980s.
It’s absolutely true that Walz starting say in 1983 could have had a nice dodge, but so did and do a lot of Regular Army active duty. I was both.
Rear Detachment looks like the absolute hardest duty a soldier could have. Hear about your guys get chewed up, can't do a thing about it, gotta tell their families about it.
Slow boil PTSD material right there.
Tampon Tim is a commie thug who agitates to legitimize pedophilia as a lifestyle choice. He was responsible for burning of MN. Tks to Timmy & his ilk, "Veteran gets $23 Food Stamp, Illegal Immigrant gets $13k" ~ https://rumble.com/v59uldx-veteran-gets-23-food-stamp-illegal-immigrant-gets-13k.html
He’s an American and a product of the political system. As bad as the politicians are, think of the voters who elected Tim Walz.
he's an unhinged, corrupt person ( like his demented wife) who'll politically prost for cash & prizes, funded by scumbag communists who control corrupt MN elections. ~ https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/11/20/the-fall-of-minneapolis/?lctg=45254690
Yep. Your link proves how corrupt the political system is. It doesn’t stop with Minnesota. (I live about two hours from Duluth and about four hours from Minneapolis-Saint Paul.) The entire nation-state is full of iniquity. I think that we as a country are being judged and punished. We have no one to blame but ourselves. I’m just a lone voice speaking against the menticided masses.
We have been at war w the left, domestic enemies of the principles of Life, liberty & freedom from tyranny our founders envisioned since our founding. An excellent book on the subject, "Domestic Enemies: The Founding Fathers' Fight Against the Left," by Daniel Greenfield is excellent info, well researched, I just finished reading & it's a fascinating comparisons to what we're going thru today is linked here ;
https://www.amazon.com/Domestic-Enemies-Founding-Fathers-Against/dp/1637584474?sr=8-1&linkId=eb262acd9794b756ef64d8ce3c810692&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
Never underestimate the number who agree w US though. Election corruption is our biggest problem. Commies are cheats, liars, fraudsters. Honest ppl just need to get involved w election monitoring. Cheers!
Election fraud is huge. I’m still not sure how millions of harvested absentee ballots from deceased persons and illegal immigrants can be “monitored” once these ballots have already been counted. (Don’t mind me. I’m too cynical and pessimistic. At least I’m not nihilistic and full of despair.) 😊
leftists want you depressed, demoralized, it makes you more susceptible to compliance and an early grave which their goal, so i always do my best to be the opposite. Live well!
Exactly. My husband and I often shake our heads and say, "who voted these people into office?" The answer is somewhat scary.
Don’t be scared. 😊 Find the humor in every situation (if possible). “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that” (George Carlin). Proverbs 17:22 “A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
Thars the real criticism. America, we used to be the land of the free, we weez just adopted Idiocracy.
Idiocracy and worse.
Yep. In the movie, President Dwayne Mountain Dew Camacho actually wants to ease famine, whereas our globalist overlords are doing everything in their power (closing or blowing up pipelines, weaponizing bird flu, culling herds, banning nitrogen, arson, etc.) to create famine.
Man-made famine is one of the hallmarks of totalitarian socialism and communism. It’s pretty clear to me that there is a deliberate attempt at depopulating the world in order to easier enslave the survivors.
⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️Cheers to Heidi !!!
I never served in the military so I don’t feel that have a good basis for reaching a conclusion on this based on my own life experience. So I look to people such as yourself and others who have served and have relevant knowledge and experience on matters such as this to help me form a determination. I don’t need this situation to tell me I don’t like this dirtbag. He’s got plenty of other attributes to help me reach that conclusion.
BTW, one of my four sons did decide to join the military. He is a Marine infantry officer and currently he and his battalion are are 29 Psalms for training. This is real shit as one guy got shot in the neck during an exercise, he is going to survive. The next day a vehicle overturned and killed another Marine.
So yeah, I am certainly paying a lot more attention to military matters these days.
Psalms? Funny. We called it “29 stumps”
Never having the pleasure of visiting there I wouldn’t know. He just says it’s hot and dusty.
It's called 29 Stumps because the 29 palm trees thar you passed by leading into the base were all cut down leaving stumps of trees. Hence the nickname.
Whatever you call it, if your son is there right now, he’s sweating his butt off!
His military service is a distraction whether he is a hero as the left proclaims or not. Just as his teaching career and his coaching career is. His actual record in office should be the sole talking points for the Republican party. His record as an elected official is one of that has placed our culture in a downward spiral. He should be no where near a position that is a heart beat away from leading our country and the swamp.
His record as a senior NCO and his record as an elected official seem to share some common behaviors, is the thing. We'll see.
Walz, the flannel clad fraud, is the used car salesman that greets you like you’re a long lost friend then proceeds to sell you the biggest lemon on the lot. Except the lemon is not a car it’s a freedom crushing totalitarian police state. He’s a very, very dangerous man.
I have been in combat 82 Falklands anyone who served and claims they went to war and did not is a disgrace to all whom have fired their weapon in anger. And those who gave their lives. A liar.
I've never been in the military, don't come from a military family either, so I am totally unqualified to opine on the intricacies of that part of the issue.
However, having said that, if Walz is claiming he was something honorable that he provably was not, is claiming he did something honorable that he provably did not do, well, that does not speak well for his character. Character matters a great deal in a leader.
I think I heard last night on the teevee (I'm usually only half-paying attention when the husband watches the news so I don't always catch everything) a clip of Walz addressing some sort of gun control gathering in which he clearly said that he wanted to ban the kind of weapons that "he carried in war." If he did not participate in a war, as a lot of knowledgeable people are claiming, that statement of his is a lie, regardless of how well he may have executed his other National Guard duties. We can separate the two.
As OPS petty officer on a 110-foot patrol boat in the USCG, I had a skipper (LT) whom I’d consider a “blue falcon.” At one point I had to organize—but not execute, thank God—a mutiny, when our XO was away at school and the skipper was standing Deck Watch Officer watches. You definitely DON’T get a free pass for having served. I’m sure it’s even more the case for combat vets. You can’t hide cowardice or stolen valor.
I think there are so many things wrong with this Walz fellow that you don’t need this question clarified to disqualify him. But he did deploy overseas - to Beijing. Tim Walz is a Commie. His honeymoon was in Communist China. He has been there 30 times.He let Minneapolis burn down. If you’re the chief executive of your state with extensive resources and you do nothing while billions of dollars in damage are gone and people are injured, killed and economically wiped out by rioters, you have effectively abandoned your post haven’t you?
If you side with criminals, anarchists, and psychiatric patients over the law abiding citizens and taxpayers, it’s the same thing. Isn’t the whole Democrat party, with the extreme Left wing, guilty of abandoning their posts, of violating their oaths of office? They’re destroying the country every day. They hide in plain sight. And MSM hypnotized imbeciles vote for these creeps. Stop voting for Democrats. 🤷🏼
The guy is a bum. Criticizing his lies about military service is fine if true, but the main thing is that he’s a revolutionary Commie who hates America. He’s garbage.
The West Point grads in “Brotherhood” had a similar mindset about going to war after 9/11. They were men of discipline and action who did not want to be left behind. The Tim Walz brand of failure, weakness, and cowardice should be nowhere near the potential role of Commander in Chief.
The people who would care about Walz's service record are (mostly blue collar) patriots who love the country. Kamala Harris hates the country and most of its people (especially the blue collar ones). Walz's record won't affect the vote count one way or another.
I think naked lying about combat service will mark him as a piece of shit to a lot of people. Not in Brooklyn and Santa Monica, but in most of the country.
As a Santa Monica native, I have nothing but contempt for Walz.
He lied about “carrying weapons of war in combat” many times. He tried to gaslight the lie after being called on it. This is documented.
His motive for bailing on a deployment, and a provisional promotion to the top enlisted rank in the Army are impossible to document. The truth resides in his empty head.
But here’s what we know for sure:
- He re-upped for a 5 year hitch to get the promotion.
- He resigned before his unit deployed, but certainly after senior staff like him knew deployment was imminent.
- He gave up a 24 year career and a guaranteed promotion, with all the benefits and prestige that came with it, to pursue a possible, but far from sure run for Congress.
- 2 of his would be peers (Command Master Sergeants), were so enraged by his conduct they took out a full page ad to document the chain of events.
https://www.wctrib.com/community/letters/the-truth-about-tim-walz