red viking

Who was required by law to get vaccinated? Who was convicted for not getting vaccinated?

Or just the ones that want to allow a woman to remove a fetus from her body and not forced to be a life support machine.

Seriously. I don't know why anybody watches any of this garbage, RNC OR DNC. People have WAY too much spare time on their hands.

The only thing more ridiculous would be having Hulk Hogan as one of your main speakers and having the UFC President introduce the nominee.

So if Biden decides to remove himself from the race because people are telling him that he cannot win, and he believes what he's told, that violates democracy? You do recall that Biden withdrew voluntarily, right? Is how a party selects its nominee required to be "democratic?"

How was it a coup at all?

His lies are accelerating. It's getting to the point where just about every single statement is a lie. It's unreal that he has any credibility left at all, even to the wingers.

A lie from 6 years ago is basically nothing in comparison to the dozens of lies spewed from Trump every single time he talks. The right is the group that is deflecting here.

Was it a coup as Trump indicates?

Badgers have very little talent and Bono isn't seen as a great coach by HS wrestlers or their parents, in general. All the top talent leaves the state now for college. This program is going nowhere in the near future.

Problem is that 99% of us don't have time to truly and objectdively vet out what is accurate vs inaccurate. So, it's a nice concept, but in reality it doesn't get done and most of these people just believe what they choose to believe and reinforce their confirmation bias. Definitely best to just rely on reliable sources of news. How can you tell what is reliable? They tend to be the more boring sources.

Right wing echo chamber. Got it. I won't intrude on your echo chamber anymore then.

Problem is that 99% of us don't have time to truly and objectdively vet out what is accurate vs inaccurate. So, it's a nice concept, but in reality it doesn't get done and most of these people just believe what they choose to believe and reinforce their confirmation bias.

No. Are you an administrator? Not sure why you're so worked up about my statement. It actually applies to a lot of the wingers.

Relevant to what jross said above

The Republicans will vote for Satan himself as long as he's a Republican (he actually is).

Yah; I get it. Anybody that says anything bad about Trump has an anti-GOP agenda.

He didn't see any combat whatsoever. He was merely deployed to Iraq where other people saw the actual combat. I'll reserve my special recognition to people that actually see combat. I don't see my time in S. Korea (north of Seoul where we had alarms randomly go off in the middle of the night) as anything that special either. Vance isn't a piece of garbage because he served his country. He's a piece of garbage simply because of the other things he's done and said. I have almost zero respect for him. That's more than the amount of respect I have for Trump though.

I will say this point that supports yours. Most of the bad guys get weeded out shortly after they enter permanent party. They get their hands held through basic training and then once they get their freedom they get into trouble and don't last the full term. Most of the guys that eventually get to the rank of Sergeant or higher (like myself) have plenty of integrity and are trustworthy.

It depends upon your contract. I was late 90s and at that time most contracts were 3. If you agree to 4, you'll probably get a bigger bonus or some other perk. Maybe 4 is the norm now; not sure. Most people don't sign up for "love of country." They do it for the money and other benefits. Some of those may involve the travel, experience or maybe the glamour the extra respect that they get from people like you. There are also plenty that do it because they can't hold down a civilian job. I did it because it sounded like a great experience and if I didn't decide to stay for life, the money that I would get for grad school was ridiculous. For my Advanced Individual Training (AIT) class, literally about 1/3 of them ended up in prison for various reasons. That was my experience with the my military colleagues in enlisted combat arms. I also had to always make sure my stuff was locked up because if I even blinked for too long it was gone. I had a friend that even got his underwear stolen. Also, everybody seemed to have a crazy story from before they joined. I knew most of them were B.S., and this was evidence that many of these guys were insecure. I swear half of them played D1 football or had some other claim to fame. One guy claimed he fought to the death in several underground sword fighting tournaments in Japan. Meanwhile, he had trouble passing his PT test. Most of these guys weren't the cream of the crop by any means, but some were. I'm sure it's different in special forces and officer ranks but it runs the gambit and that's why I don't consider it to be significantly different from other jobs in terms of the quality of character of these people, overall.

Plenty of people called Trump a hero. Did you listen to the RNC? It was nauseating. Somebody even called him "Braveheart." My thoughts on the military: Unless you were actually in a combat situation, it was just a job. Our military actually gets paid pretty well if they aren't in combat. I got the GI Bill and Army College Fund and had more money than I could shake a stick at in grad school. Had plenty of money in the military itself too. Soldiers got huge pay raises after I was done, under Bush. I think it's a pretty cake job if you aren't actually in a combat situation. Yes, my active duty was right away. National Guard and Reserves were after my 3 years was up.

social media is a horrible way to get accurate news. Yes, you may get "balanced" information, but it will be all over the place and everywhere in between and really you'll end up having to arbitrarily decide what to accept as the truth unless you have hours to decide which information is false. You're better off getting your information from something that is truly more objective and filters out the crap ahead of time.

Source? Looks suspects to me. Probably taken out of context. The REAL platform was much longer so I think you cherry picked this stuff and left other important elements out. More right-wing dishonesty. It happens literally every time you folks say something.

Oh yah, Master Sergeant is E-8; not E-9. My bad. And yes, it just means he's not in charge of his own Company. Probably an assistant at the battalion level.

Yes; we already covered that. He DID lie. I don't see an issue w/ him retiring before deployment though. He served 23 years. That is enough and he has that right. And yes; I did serve active duty 3 years followed by additional time in the Army Reserve and Army National Guard.