Your 2024 Presidential Election Thread

[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.

 

[Marauder06]

I'm making this prediction now, and encourage others to remember it and bring it up in November, no matter what the results are.

Prediction: Trump/Vance will win convincingly. It will seem like a close race up to the election, but the results will be telling. I'm thinking Obama's second term; it felt like a close race until the results came back in. You heard it here first.

Caveats:
1) I think that I have gotten every presidential election prediction I ever made wrong. I thought Clinton was going to win against Trump, and that Trump would win against Biden. So I don't have a great track record on these things. However, I did notice (and state) early that I thought that the media and the Democratic party (which admittedly are pretty much the same thing at this point) had turned on Biden. So who knows...

2) I reserve the right to change the prediction prior to the election based on things that may happen between now and then. But I'm predicting Trump with a strong showing in the electoral college.

Edited to add: I originally said Trump/Pence instead of Trump/Vance. Because I'm an idiot.

 

[AWP]

I'm making this prediction now, and encourage others to remember it and bring it up in November, no matter what the results are.

Prediction: Trump/Pence will win convincingly.

I'll take that bet.

 

[Marauder06]

I'll take that bet.

Hold me to it. This is how I'm feeling right now.

 

[Devildoc]

On paper there is no way in hell that Harris/Walz wins. Their background, social media, record, all of it, should send everybody left, right, and center running. But that's on paper. We know that the left will vote for any Democrat, regardless of how horrible they are.