J.D. Vance's 'Stolen Valor' Claim Against Tim Walz Is Total B.S.
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J.D. Vance falsely accused Tim Walz of stolen valor, faking combat experience, and dodging a deployment to Iraq by retiring from the National Guard.
  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
    105·
    1 个月前

    The article comes to a proper conclusion with this paragraph.

    Twenty-four years of service is nothing to sneeze at, and Vance is running alongside a known draft dodger who has repeatedly disparaged veterans and Gold Star families. If Vance wants to critique a man’s honor, he should start with his running mate.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      17·
      1 个月前

      I just can’t help but wonder what Vance’s tactic was here. Pointing out a Democrat’s military service is only going to further shine a light onto Trump’s lack of it.

      Did Vance even serve?

      • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
        20·
        1 个月前

        Yes. He did 4 years and was stationed in Iraq where he did not see combat because as he was assigned to public affairs and spent his time in an air conditioned office writing press releases.

        Vance, who served in the Marines from 2003 to 2007 and deployed to Iraq, has said in his memoir that he never saw real combat and that he worked in the public affairs department while on deployment.

        /Edit to add link

        //2nd Edit to add that I don’t mean to disparage Vance’s service, only to point out the hypocrisy of him attacking another veteran for not seeing combat while he himself admits that he never saw combat.

  • worldwidewave@lemmy.world
    67·
    1 个月前

    Vance’s claim that Walz abandoned his unit to avoid deployment to Iraq – which has been echoed throughout the right – was directly countered by Army Lt. Col. Ryan Rossman, director of operations for the Minnesota National Guard, who spoke to HuffPost.

    The unit “received an alert order for mobilization to Iraq on July 14, 2005,” Rossman said, two months after Walz retired. According to CNN, Walz first filed his paperwork to run for Congress in January of that same year, and – as several veterans have noted – the administrative process of a military retirement typically takes several months before approval. His unit would not deploy to Iraq until March of 2006.

    JustseemingDesperate Vance is lying about as much as his idol

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 个月前

      Dumbass doesn’t even know what stolen valor is. Walz never claimed to be an Iraq combat vet.

      • snooggumsEnglish
        15·
        1 个月前

        Yeah, misdemeanor has more letters than felony so it just be worse!

    • ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world
      32·
      1 个月前

      Even if he had suspicions, he’d been in service for 24 years, which is huge.

      If I worked for someone for 24 years and they looked like they wanted to go fight overseas, I’d absolutely consider retirement as well.

      Service to your country isn’t accomplished exclusively by going overseas to shoot people.

      Republicans are literally speed running a 100% completed anti-christ identity. Not even in the specific ‘end of days antichrist’, but like literally, specifically, the complete opposite of absolutely everything their Christian deity Jesus stood for.

    • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
      29·
      1 个月前

      J.D. Vance did not fuck a couch. Please stop saying that J.D. fucked a couch. J.D. never once fucked a couch and he never will fuck a couch. I will deny that J.D. Vance fucked a couch forever and ever, because J.D. Vance, candidate for Vice President of the United States of America DID NOT fuck a couch. But I would believe it if it were true.

  • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
    151·
    1 个月前

    I see where JD is coming from. He’s coming from his dick which is currently placed in an Uptown Black Leather 84’’ Sofa at Bob’s Discount Furniture on Monroe St in Toledo, OH.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 个月前

    And where was Trump at during the Vietnam war when he was supposed to be called up for duty…?

    Honestly, I think Trump should own that one and just come out and say, “I thought it was an unjust war and I didn’t want to participate in it,” but that undercuts the attack they’re trying to make against Walz, which is already a pretty weak argument as it is. Plus, it makes Trump look like a coward (amongst Republicans).

    • zephorah@lemm.ee
      5·
      1 个月前

      No one knows. He’s been oddly absent and silent except for a couple plaintive wails on truth social. For which I am grateful. The joyful warrior schtick is much more palatable fare for the 24hr news cycle.

  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee
    4·
    1 个月前

    It is all over x now. Every bot is now spewing this lie after every Harris/Waltz post.