I served in Afghanistan four separate times and I think he was there every time I went. As in... he was still there. As in... never left.
I haven't seen him since. As far as I know he's still there today.
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I haven't seen him since. As far as I know he's still there today.
Florida173
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Technically true, but not when it mattered.
^I was just about to post about this.
Apparently the image is of GOV Walz's congressional challenge coin, which shows CSM rank. Allegedly, this was two years after he was told he retired as a MSG.
Devildoc
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I can rise up and look at the whole 8/9-timeline-dates ambiguity and see a range of gray, but to me the larger issue is all of the "I misspoke". My guy, you "misspoke" half a dozen times and there wasn't ambiguity. That's a pattern of lying.
Devildoc
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Pivoting from the General Waltz controversy, Harris come out to say something about not taxing tips. My question for her would be if Trump is so bad, why are you adopting his policy positions as your own?
Especially after she voted in favor of the IRS going after tips.
A. Because she is lying about it, and
B. Trump's pledge to not tax tips put Nevada in play.
Other than for blatant political pandering, why wouldn't we tax tips? Why do people in X line of work not have to pay taxes on their income, but people in Y line of work do?
Florida173
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His former Battalion commander...
OMG is this real?
Florida173
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Supposedly, but I couldn't independently verify from any sources from my phone.
Devildoc
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I don't have a position. What I DO find interesting is that Harris et al. call Trump "literally Hitler" but adopts his position.
All of us are "literally Hitler" and/or "literally nazis" (or at least white supremacists) if we don't toe the left's line.
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Re: John Kolb/Walz post 1914
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I’m not trying to bust balls, but if you made an attempt to validate it, and then couldn’t validate it, why post it?
He may have gotten it from a source who reported reliably in the past. I probably would have done the same thing.
I did some Googling and it seems a whole lot of people are reporting on it right now. Of course it could be single-source and circular, but I'm not getting that sense yet.
I don't have an issue with tax- free tips.
My experience is people who rely on tips typically earn a lower wage. I tip based on performance, and usually tell the recipient that it is a gift, not a tip ( tax free then ).
We give all sorts of tax breaks to companies, individuals, why not service workers?
ThunderHorse
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Consider that you now have to pay minimum wage in a bunch of jurisdictions, the point of not taxing tips is no longer relevant and you should tax it extra.
If single source reporting is good enough to spark a 20 year war, with thousands of lives lost, and trillions in the shitter, it's good enough for 90 days of election season.
Florida173
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I couldn't find anything to immediately invalidate it. The benefit of community notes is that context might be added eventually
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FWIW, the screenshot matches the profile picture of John Kolb's actual FB account.
