Your 2024 Presidential Election Thread

[AWP]

Random thought: how long do you have to hold the rank to retain it upon retirement? 3 years?

 

[The Quartermaster]

Random thought: how long do you have to hold the rank to retain it upon retirement? 3 years?

I have no clue how the NG or Reserves does it, but in the regulars, that's a Department of the Army promotion meaning it's permanent unless one does something stupid that only a Colonel or above can demote them.

 

[The Quartermaster]

Jamie Raskins is saying that congress will have to disqualify Trump if he wins and to be ready for a civil war.

What a far left clown.

 

[The Quartermaster]

Aside from abortion, the Torah and the Bible, in practice, aligns more with liberal policies and voluntary socialism. It isn’t, or shouldn’t be surprising, that more religious types vote on the left side of the aisle.

Some sects of Judaism like Hasidim's mostly and some Orthodox, will vote whom they are told to vote for by their leaders (rabbis) of their shuls and synagogues, whilst non practicing and reformed would follow their hearts and do what they think is a mitzvah with their votes.

I personally don't believe that using your vote or a communities vote is a mitzvah. I believe that it's an act of selfless kindness not because you have to but want to on a personal level. A vote is impersonal and no direct result can be seen. But that's what they want to believe they are doing with their votes.

A Hasidic isn't doing it for others with their votes. They're doing it for what's best for themselves and self interests. Some of which is spiteful.

Orthodox tend to have a mind of their own when they want to, but when they follow the ten commandments with a fervor, getting them to decide on their own to vote on whom and against their rabbi's wishes is a tough nut to crack.

Reformed are the cheeseburger, bacon, and pepperoni eaters that are basically somewhat the anarchists of the religion, if that makes any sense. They practice only when it's convenient for them.

And non practicing, Jews in name only for all intents here but will play the Jew card if they feel attacked to curry favor and or manipulate, and to make others look bad like that fat French lesbian from the Olympics. She tossed that out there to gain sympathy and to make anyone condemning her filth as bad.

I'm a Reformed Jew like my mother, father's brother, and grandparents from both sides. My father was orthodox though and my cousins are both Hasidic. My sister isn't practicing. So I am speaking with experienced insight here when it comes to Jews and how or why they vote a certain way. I also don't eat pork or shellfish but my line in the sand is cheese on the meats that I do eat, and I don't try to make others miserable with my diet so I pick the stuff off and don't say a word of complaint if I get a bacon cheeseburger, not their fault really. I had some leaders that when they found out why I didn't eat certain meals from or from pizza and burgers with bacon if we missed meals and paid for by our supervisors, MRE's because of what was in some of them, they died inside for thinking that they failed me and I had to mention that to feed me special things strains logistics and I know a thing or two about that myself (quartermaster branch along with being a former 11B where things were even more strained).

 

[BloodStripe]

Great question. Walz had orders to deploy and lead his troops into Iraq as the Senior Enlisted Leader (he was an E8/MSG at the time, serving in the CSM position, but had not completed the school and therefore not an E9) and retired so he didn't have to go. That didn't stop him from claiming he retired as a CSM... bad news, your retirement order lists your retirement as an E8. Now, I am not an Army guy, but I am pretty sure that's not a CSM. This lie is still up on his official bio. On a .gov site.

Then he lied about going "to war" for years as a way to say "I carried weapons of war and they don't belong on the streets!" (he never went to war; he actively avoided it to the detriment of his men). (attached)



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@BloodStripe your comment was a miss for me, dog. Can you do me a super solid? Reset, head back to station 1. Thanks homie.

For the record, he’s a POS in my book. I read your link about saying he’s a retired CSM. What it actually says is “CSM Waltz retired..” That is a factual statement. He was a CSM at the time of his retirement. However, he did not serve two years in the rank of complete the schooling as you said, as required so his retirement rank is that of an E8.

Trump too had an opportunity to serve his country and cried bone spurs. He’s the definition of a fortunate son.

 

[Cookie_]

Random thought: how long do you have to hold the rank to retain it upon retirement? 3 years?

3 years, SecDef or Service Sec (can't remember) can wave it to two.
I know that applies to officer, so probably is the same/similar for NCOs.
I know that if you retired after a STEP promotion without completing the required PME that you retired at your previous rank.

Semi-related fact; learned yesterday that if an E becomes a O and serves less than 10 years as an O before retiring, they'll retire at their highest E rank for both identification and pay purposes.

 

[Devildoc]

Aside from abortion, the Torah and the Bible, in practice, aligns more with liberal policies and voluntary socialism. It isn’t, or shouldn’t be surprising, that more religious types vote on the left side of the aisle.

Can't speak to the Torah, but the Bible (New Testament) does not compel, it has to be from the heart, and is on an individual relationship level, not government extortion.

 

[BloodStripe]

Agreed Doc. Why I said voluntary.

 

[Devildoc]

Agreed Doc. Why I said voluntary.

When I see "Jesus was a communist" (or "socialist") bumper sticker it makes me want to do...very non-Christian things.

 

[757]

When I see "Jesus was a communist" (or "socialist") bumper sticker it makes me want to do...very non-Christian things.

I was raised to ask myself "what would Jesus do?" That said, flipping tables and whipping people is technically an option, depending on the circumstances O:)

 

[Steve1839]

Just musing...where's Hunter S. Thompson when you need him...?

 

[AWP]

We talking Trump or Walz? Seems to me we should be calling them both out for cowardice.

Trump and Clinton dodged, fair argument.

Walz though is on another plane and can't be compared to those two at all.

 

[757]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1820840198378332627

 

[Devildoc]

Social media is already trying to normalize Walz's military record, engaging in crazy-making ("Crazy"-Making). I bet good $ that by November they will have him as the second coming of Patton.

 

[Blizzard]

If you've seen Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco lately -- I mean really seen them -- and think everything is OK then Harris/Walz are for you.

 

[Devildoc]

Walz: "No right to free speech if the government decides it is misinformation or hateful."

 

[AWP]

Walz: "No right to free speech if the government decides it is misinformation or hateful."

I'm not even surprised.

 

[The Quartermaster]

Walz: "No right to free speech if the government decides it is misinformation or hateful."

Nuts!

 

[Blizzard]

Walz: "No right to free speech if the government decides it is misinformation or hateful."

I told you, the the list of things on this guy is huge. If Trump and Vance are smart, they stick to the facts and just hammer him and Harria with them. The more people find out, the less they're going to like him. The problem is the press is providing cover fire for him.

 

[Blizzard]

The wife of Tim Walz...when she's not opening her windows to smell the city burning, she's posting this nonsense:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1820827261848756401

Sadly, there's a whole bunch of people that believe non of this matters. They will blindly vote for their person no matter what, simply because of the letter that follows their name on the ballot.