US US Politics General - Discussion of President Biden and other politicians

 

[Jade Philosophies]

I'm more of a Def Leopard fan myself but the Crue is tolerable

Check out Check out this cover of Animal. It's awesome!

It’s more something you pick up reading, but a number of the soldiers who stayed with George Washington at Valley Forge were Catholic. There is a legend that Guy Fawkes Day was banned in the US because after Valley Forge Washington didn’t want to piss off guys who had stayed with him.

I was wondering why you guys didn't celebrate Bonfire Night, considering the tradition was started 15 years before the Mayflower set sail and 171 years before the Declaration Of Independence.

Douay-Rheims Bible best English bible

I don't know who that is, but I think Metatron or someone like him should write a version of The Bible. He's great at going back to the original text and translating it exactly then objectively explaining what some parts mean. Any time he speculates/gives his opinion on something he clearly states it and doesn't pretend his opinion is Biblical fact. E.g.:

 

[draggs]

JD Vance (or Jimmy David Hamel as he was called back then for whatever reason) claiming he's a Marine combat correspondant is like Nick Rekieta claiming he's a lawyer. It's technically true, but it gives a deliberately false impression on what the actual job is. People think the Marines are ultra-hardcore like on their commercials and are jumping out of helicopters into the thick of combat and a combat correspondant must be some badass who sees combat. Reality is JD Vance was the dude sitting in an air conditioned office typing up press releases (mostly not in Iraq, either). He probably was only there since he's a Manchurian candidate created by his Peter Thiel (likely his gay lover)--gotta give him that "veteran Marine" backstory those Appalachian rubes love!

You mean the same polls which predicted 20+ seat Republican majority in the House, 2-3 seat Republican majority in the Senate, and had Oregon, Arizona, Michigan, and Wisconsin all electing Republican governors in 2022?

It's almost like their polling has gotten better and by convincing you the races are close, you won't vote because you think it's in the bag.

Why are tryhards always so cringe

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Combat Correspondent was literally his job description,.

It's jargon meant to trick people into thinking it's a hardcore job, like when they call a janny a sanitation engineer. The most hardship Jimmy Bowman-Hamel-Vance ever faced as a combat correspondent was the one time the fat black diversity hire in his unit ate all the office donuts.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

They must be getting very desperate. This is on the front page of the BBC website in the UK! It's higher up the page than the protests

Why the 'weird' label is working for Kamala Harris

 

[Malodorous Merkin]

It's jargon meant to trick people into thinking it's a hardcore job, like when they call a janny a sanitation engineer. The most hardship Jimmy Bowman-Hamel-Vance ever faced as a combat correspondent was the one time the fat black diversity hire in his unit ate all the office donuts.

You give off strong incel vibes.

 

[The Last Stand]

You give off strong incel vibes.

A guy with a name like Save the Loli? Even Stevie Wonder saw that coming.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

JD Vance (or Jimmy David Hamel as he was called back then for whatever reason) claiming he's a Marine combat correspondant is like Nick Rekieta claiming he's a lawyer. It's technically true, but it gives a deliberately false impression on what the actual job is. People think the Marines are ultra-hardcore like on their commercials and are jumping out of helicopters into the thick of combat and a combat correspondant must be some badass who sees combat. Reality is JD Vance was the dude sitting in an air conditioned office typing up press releases (mostly not in Iraq, either). He probably was only there since he's a Manchurian candidate created by his Peter Thiel (likely his gay lover)--gotta give him that "veteran Marine" backstory those Appalachian rubes love!

Very very nice job C&Ping the bog standard claim.

I was looking for this.

Anyway: The funny thing about this, is you can tell that it is a simple way to try to deflect that Walz is a shit sucking coward. The core of this is trying to claim that going to Iraq has no actual meaning. That he was never in danger. It's the "dude sitting in an air conditioned office..." part too. It acts as if the pictures that the Marines post are just taken from thin air. The problem is, the combat correspondents get killed, and one of the most well known in fiction is Pvt Joker.

It's interesting, because it really tries to negate Vance's service in a really disgusting way by saying "If you didn't see combat 24/7 you aren't an actual vet" that has been kind of resonating with parts of online military (Terminal Lance is part of this group of shit suckers).

The reality is: He went to Iraq. Walz ran away.

Edit:

Thanks for posting the second prong of the attack set from Twitter:

It's jargon meant to trick people into thinking it's a hardcore job, like when they call a janny a sanitation engineer. The most hardship Jimmy Bowman-Hamel-Vance ever faced as a combat correspondent was the one time the fat black diversity hire in his unit ate all the office donuts.

Note how it tries to completely devalue that he was deployed to Iraq as well as act like there are cohesive lines still and not an insurgency.

"You aren't a vet unless you were in combat constantly" resonates with some of the combat arms guys who hate that anyone else but them is considered a vet.

It's a line of attack meant to completely minimize the experience and make people think it's all fun and games and that he was perfectly safe.

BUT it still doesn't change that Walz ran away like a shit weasel.

 

[Jade Philosophies]

I've had two people IRL say they're going to kill themselves when the results get announced so Trump can't genocide them. Apparently suicide for Trump is the it thing this week.

I approve.

"all men are created equal" is a truly hard concept to live up to and I don't think the US gets enough credit for how far we've come to realize it.

This is total bullshit. It's the complete opposite. No men are created equal. (Except perhaps twins, triplets etc.)

I can fully believe that top right and bottom left are the same man with different lighting, expression, and vitality. Top left and bottom right are just different dudes, though. Top left even has a disconnected earlobe.

Bottom right looks like A.I.

 

[Coptakhenaten]

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I can fully believe that top right and bottom left are the same man with different lighting, expression, and vitality. Top left and bottom right are just different dudes, though. Top left even has a disconnected earlobe.

No they won't. They're threatening it to get people to vote against Trump. They'll cry on twitter if he wins. If they were going to kill themselves over that they'd probably already be on suicide watch from prior attempts.

I thought Jan 6 would happening, but it didn't. Everyone got slammed for it like it had, so I don't think it will ever again. They had the momentum, they had the organization, they had t he ability to get there under peaceful pretense. I don't see it happening again.

Top left looks like they found a Bush and gave him makeup to look like Biden

Bottom right looks like some shitty photoshopped image from an early 2010s creepypata

 

[Allanon]

Combat Correspondent was literally his job description,.

Yes but don't you see? Save the Loli imagines really hardcore AMERICA YEAAHHHH marines jumping outta airplanes with surfboards and killing whole towns in their sleep. If there's a dude that didn't see combat, he's not a real marine, and using that term is faking that he's cool, even if it's his actual title.

I approve.



This is total bullshit. It's the complete opposite. No men are created equal. (Except perhaps twins, triplets etc.)



Bottom right looks like A.I.

It does, but I believe it's a screengrab, and AI video isn't advanced enough to pass for reality at this point.

 

[Jade Philosophies]

He Fedposted before there was Fed.

See, before people kept calling each other "fedposters" for calls to action their "fedposting" worked as the people rose up and fought the British government and gained independence for America after Charles Carroll's "fedposting". The term "fedposting" is a psyop to keep people docile.

 

[KSachiko77]

Note how it tries to completely devalue that he was deployed to Iraq as well as act like there are cohesive lines still and not an insurgency.

It's not like he chose to be a combat correspondent either. The marines fill their slots based on what the commandant directs. You don't choose MOS there, at least from what I know.

 

[Puff]

I remember watching an interview with Obama's campaign manager, and he talked about how strategic the placing of people is behind him; they would clear out the old white people and move them in the back and replace them with young black women so the TV cameras would catch it. Im not sure if this is what Trump does, but I would not be surprised.

I know several people who have sat behind him, and the ones I know all younger people who have played big roles in state level campaigning, particularly ones who are being pushed towards political careers (either in party or as candidates in the next few cycles) or played a big role in the door knocking and other ground game stuff. Basically he or his campaign use being sat behind him as a minor favor or thank you.
I got to go as a guest of an invitee to a Friends and Family (meaning tiny crowd, low security. At the time, the administration [it was 2020] only allotted 50 friends of the President per state) meetup on the tarmac) It was mostly under 30's with a few newer state house members that the state party wanted to keep enthusiastic sprinkled in.

Tl;Dr: In my experience being sat behind him is a thank you and an attempt to get favor with up and comers. A small favor goes a long way with people who are new to politics or only have local aspirations.

 

[macrodegenerate]

Come on, you know if Batman attempted something on the macro level without the kickbacks, money laundering, corruption, human trafficking, that currently exists, the Jews would hire like 50 superheroes to go after him.

See if you are allowed to write that comicbook!

I mean on a macro level there have been times where Batman has stopped Darkseid and god tier threats to earth and the universe. I think that people see Nolan batman or year one and "think wow that batman guy is gritty and realistic". They completely ignore he lives in a loony toons crazy world where he fights people who control plants or giant alien starfish.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

JD Vance (or Jimmy David Hamel as he was called back then for whatever reason)

He probably was only there since he's a Manchurian candidate created by his Peter Thiel (likely his gay lover)--gotta give him that "veteran Marine" backstory those Appalachian rubes love!

Oh look, more made up "Here's what's REALLY going on" made up bullshit with no proof.

"Lemmie tell you the truth. Fact is George Soros was working in a lab with Zionist Israeli scientists back in the 80s. They grew Test Subject 33 in a vat, and he was infiltrated to the US, called "JD Vance" and "his" entire life has been scripted and manipulated to get him to this moment. Everyone knows the book "Hillbilly Elegy" was written by Aaron Sorkin and all the copies sold were bought by an IDF front organization. He's a sleeper agent for the World Bank and once Trump is elected Vance will be activated, kill him, and take over as a pawn for the Bilderburgs. Trust me, bro."

 

[Jade Philosophies]

It's jargon meant to trick people into thinking it's a hardcore job, like when they call a janny a sanitation engineer. The most hardship Jimmy Bowman-Hamel-Vance ever faced as a combat correspondent was the one time the fat black diversity hire in his unit ate all the office donuts.

He's literally just giving his job title. It's like complaining if somebody who worked on a movie was asked what they did and they said they were the Best Boy that they weren't actually a boy nor were they the best.

 

[Puff]

Jimmy David Hamel

You're a retarded nigger. His name was changed by his mom, in childhood from Bowman (his biological father's name) to Hamel (one of several stepfathers who was in his life less than two years) by his mother. He changed his last name to his grandmother's, who actually raised him long before his political career. It's not some bullshit "this name will sound better" change or something like Beto.

 

[Smoke Manmuscle]

It's not like he chose to be a combat correspondent either. The marines fill their slots based on what the commandant directs. You don't choose MOS there, at least from what I know.

Can confirm. When I joined I got to pick 3 preferred categories such as Combat Support, Air Maintenance, Infantry… etc. to give you an idea combat support was everything in direct support of infantry. This included MOSes ranging from artillery to armor (back before they fucking got rid of the tank battalions) to Motor T. The Marines will put you where they think is best. What you want is a secondary concern.

 

[TJT]

JD Vance (or Jimmy David Hamel as he was called back then for whatever reason) claiming he's a Marine combat correspondant is like Nick Rekieta claiming he's a lawyer. It's technically true, but it gives a deliberately false impression on what the actual job is. People think the Marines are ultra-hardcore like on their commercials and are jumping out of helicopters into the thick of combat and a combat correspondant must be some badass who sees combat. Reality is JD Vance was the dude sitting in an air conditioned office typing up press releases (mostly not in Iraq, either). He probably was only there since he's a Manchurian candidate created by his Peter Thiel (likely his gay lover)--gotta give him that "veteran Marine" backstory those Appalachian rubes love!

I will be the first to tell you that my 2 years in Iraq were mostly whatever and I don't think much of it. But it does contrast heavily to people like Walz or Vance. Some powerleveling I guess but I was in the 82nd Airborne from 2005-2010. During that time I deployed twice, in 2006 I went to southern Iraq. Upon returning in 2007 I again went to Iraq less than 3 months after returning from Iraq... for an additional 15 months.

I won't get into it too much but in country there is a culture of "Fobbits" as they are called. These are often senior enlisted or officers who never, ever, leave the safety of not only the wire. But the biggest bases in the country. Such as the Greenzone, Camp Taji, Camp Liberty, and so on. The majority of my time was spent outside the wire. Overwhelmingly so. But the second you went to any of the bases you ran into Fobbits.

As a 20 year old SPC its wild to sit at the chow hall and hear O4 Majors bickering with other O4 Majors and staff officers about how they were worried about having to leave the wire once in a few weeks on a day trip for whatever ticket punching bullshit they are prone to do. When you just returned from 90 days traipsing around the south end of Baghdad living in random houses and not showering for weeks on end.

I bet you more than anything Walz is such a Fobbit in spirit. He is the textbook paper pusher type who openly admits he just wanted the benefits and avoided all else. Mind you, I also joined just for the benefits but I have never used my time in service as a springboard for my reputation. Such as politicos do. General Miley is also one of these types as he went through a 40 year career in the active duty military and managed to deploy only a single time. Which is a whole other level of impressive.

 

[demicolon]

People that think that Batman does more harm than good don't realize that while dressing up like a bat and fighting crime wouldn't be an effective way to spend a fortune in reality, Batman lives in a fictional comic book world with wacky costumed supervillains.

Realistic Batman would make sure Joker leaves Barbara Gordon alone by threatening him with an IRS audit as Don Wayne.