Despite lobbing the same questions at Tim Walz, J.D. Vance lost it when pressed about his own military service.
Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance seems perfectly happy to dish out criticism of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz over his military record, but he just can’t take it.
Vance blew up at CNN anchor Brianna Keilar on Thursday, after she called Vance an “imperfect messenger” to criticize Walz over his military service.
“At what point did military service become a liability?” Keilar asked rhetorically on CNN’s Inside Politics. “I also think that J.D. Vance as a messenger on this may be an imperfect messenger.”
Vance served a single four-year enlistment in the public affairs section in the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, and according to his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, the Republican nominee was “lucky to escape any real fighting.” Still, that hasn’t stopped Vance from accusing Walz, who served with the Army National Guard for 24 years, of exiting the service before his unit was deployed to Iraq.
Snowflake.
Weird snowflake.
Weirdflake.
Weird
Here we have distillation
I mean…if you don’t want people asking questions about your military service, maybe, just maybe, don’t question the military service of your opponent.
This is just me, never served but have relatives who did…
If you don’t have a purple heart and the dude you’re talking about isn’t claiming to have one, maybe stfu about Stolen Valor.
Walz served for 24 years, was deployed during operation enduring freedom, was a the ranking member of Veteran Affairs, has been key to bipartisan legislation for veteran suicide prevention, and he retired a year before he would’ve been deployed to Iraq.
Vance slimy weirdo who knows his base would rather eat up lies than confront the fact that they’ve been conned by a billionaire huckster for a decade.
“When were you ever in war?” Vance demanded at a Michigan rally on Wednesday. “What bothers me about Tim Walz is this stolen valor garbage. Do not pretend to be something that you’re not.”
How do you consistently fuck up this bad every time?
It does look like Walz misspoke years ago when he was making a point about how some weapons only belong in war and not anywhere else. I don’t think it’s that big of a deal to make, especially coming from someone else who also didn’t see combat but more importantly doesn’t seem to understand that service is far more than combat.
I don’t think that’s a misstatement at all. Nobody needs an M2 Browning in their backyard, as cool as they are.
If Walz did say “the weapons I used in war…” then he did misspeak a little - even though I get why as it’s a more powerful word choice when arguing about gun control.
How is that misspeak? Even if you’re not in active combat you still train to be able to use weapons of war. Its not like COs never touch a weapon again in their service.
Easy, it’s called being a republikkklown
Couchfucker Vance is a fuckin hypocrite?
No fuckin way.
As a veteran, fuck Sgt Scribbles.
Weird
What a weird coward
Huh. When I get asked about mine, I’m very up-front about all of it.
Weird.
Corporal Crayon?
Private Parts In A Sofa.
Finally someone in the military community with a microphone is clapping back. J.D. Vance wants to talk about commitment? He left after 4 years. While the war was still going on. He wants to talk about combat? 90 percent of his job was in an air conditioned office behind multiple layers of security. He wants to talk about one time Walz misspoke? How about the multiple times J.D. Vance has claimed he saw combat?
As an old Infantryman with a Combat Infantry Badge and a Purple Heart I feel secure in saying the only one here doing a Stolen Valor is the 4 year carpetbagger trying to tear down the record of a man who served honorably for 24 years and reached the highest possible enlisted pay grade. A man who was retired and decided to activate prestige mode after 9/11.
If we let that happen successfully then we will have cheapened us all.
Look, he DID see combat.
In pictures.
In the articles he wrote in his office securely in the middle of the base.
99 % of deployed soldiers never saw combat and 99% of those who claim to have did not.it can really piss off all those who had to deploy and worked hard jobs to basically be told they weren’t enough by someone like Vance.
Vance was such a perfect pick for VP, they couldn’t have anyone better. He’s perfectly a little bitch in comparison in every single way with absolutely nothing redeeming about him, to the point it’s hilarious. Couch fucker.
Lol, this was my FIRST reaction/comment the other day when I read about his comments here on Lemmy. The GOP is full of fake soldiers and draft dodgers. They don’t care about the military. Just listen to Trump’s own comments about our dead heroes.
