Re: The winning has kicked into gear big time!

Josh Rosenbluth wrote:
> WTF is wrong with you?

Demotards could have picked worse with Gavin Newscum, but not a lot 
worse than this:

https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/08/12/tim-walz-called-national-guard-troops-as-19-year-old-cooks-when-refusing-to-deploy-them-in-minneapolis-n2178008

As Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and his police chief were frantically 
calling Governor Tim Walz in the summer of 2020 to save a besieged 
police precinct, Governor Tim Walz refused to send National Guard 
soldiers to help the beleaguered police officers. Later, in 
rationalizing and justifying his conscious decision to let riots 
metastasize, Walz said the Guard wasn't up to the task.

He went on to say, "Putting a young troop with limited experience in the 
military with a loaded automatic weapon in the middle of a system with 
no one giving him direction -- they don’t have zip ties. They don’t have 
legal authority,"

That was on Wednesday, by the time Walz finally authorized the 
deployment of "19-year-old" cooks, the Minneapolis Third Precinct had 
been sacked, and the riots were widespread.

As a former National Guardsman, Walz's answers and responses sound 
blatantly dishonest. He should have trained in crowd control at some 
point in his career and would have known that you don't put troops on 
the streets with automatic weapons until things have gone pear-shaped in 
a major way. From personal experience, I was deployed as part of an 
Operation GARDEN PLOT exercise to secure a real nuclear weapons storage 
facility against a sizeable force of role-players. Even under those 
circumstances, I had a strict progression in the use of force to follow. 
You didn't load weapons until you were in extremis. I find it hard to 
believe that an organization that has managing civil disturbances as a 
primary mission would not have rules on the use of force.

When Walz bailed out of his National Guard unit rather than deploy to 
Iraq, his unit, a field artillery battalion, was tasked with providing 
convoy security. Among them were 19-year-olds who had been trained for 
something entirely different. And some of the men Walz abandoned didn't 
come home. Including at least one 19-year-old.

Walz’s old unit, whose main job was running security for US convoys in 
Iraq, suffered three casualties during the deployment he missed — 
including Kyle Miller, 19, who joined the National Guard while still in 
high school, and David Berry, 37.

Soldiers are as good as their leaders. When you find a leader who is not 
willing to trust his troops with a mission, that judgment is rendered on 
the leader, not on the troops. The Guardsmen who successfully performed 
their mission in Minneapolis were the same troops that Walz refused to 
send on Wednesday. They were no better trained and no better led. Walz 
denigrated their ability to do their job as an excuse not to do his. As 
it turns out, that is on-brand for Walz.

https://thelibertydaily.com/more-scandal-tim-walz-lied-20th-anniversary-9/

(America First Report)—Minnesota Governor and Democrat VP nominee Tim 
Walz is a liar. His service as a member of the National Guard was 
fruitful… just not nearly as exciting as he makes it out to be.

The latest odd and confusing tale comes from a resurfaced speech he 
delivered on September 11, 2021; a PDF is available on the Minnesota 
government website. It was the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist 
attacks. An interesting segment of his speech stood out for two reasons. 
Here is the portion in question [emphasis added]:

In the years after that classroom, I had the privilege of serving in 
this state’s national guard. I stood one night in the dark of night on 
the tarmac at Bagram Air Base in Iraq and watched a military ramp 
ceremony–a soldier’s body being loaded onto a plane to be returned home. 
And if you’ve seen it, you don’t leave the same. It makes you wonder, 
what are we doing? What are we trying to get to? And then watching as 
all of you have been, the confusing last few weeks with the Taliban 
takeover of Afghanistan.

There are two problems with his statement. By saying that he had the 
privilege of serving in the National Guard and then telling the story of 
watching a military ramp ceremony implies that the two are related. That 
was his intention, otherwise he would have noted his time in Congress 
during which he attended a military ramp ceremony as a member of a 
delegation. Instead, he wanted listeners to believe he was with the 
National Guard while in the Middle East watching the ceremony.

Here’s the video of Walz giving the speech itself. He doesn’t just 
mention being in the National Guard before telling of the military ramp 
ceremony. He took it a step further by talking of the “guilt” he felt in 
being able to come home knowing so many others didn’t, insinuating that 
he had “come home” from deployment in the Middle East, which never 
actually happened.


The second error in his speech, which was written but not spoken, was 
saying the air base is in Iraq. Bagram Air Base is in Afghanistan. 
Details matter, especially when speaking from a position of authority on 
a matter.

After many examples of Walz claiming either directly or indirectly that 
he is a war veteran who saw combat, the Democrat party and the 
mainstream media continue covering for him.

However, the incident underscores the delicate nature of discussing 
military service, especially in the context of solemn remembrances like 
those for 9/11.

While the controversy may fade, it highlights the intense scrutiny faced 
by public figures, especially when it comes to their service records. 
For Walz, a simple slip of the tongue or a minor factual error turned 
into a significant political issue​.

Don’t believe it? Download the full pdf here.

If this was an isolated incident, we could give him the benefit of the 
doubt that he simply failed to transition between mentioning being in 
the military and telling the story about Bagram. But Walz has 
demonstrated multiple times that he intentionally keeps his service 
record hazy at best, distorted at worst. He has implied seeing combat, 
which he never did. He has claimed to be retired with a rank that he 
lost. He pretends he didn’t know about deploying to Iraq before 
retirement despite many of those around him at the time debunking him.

Tim Walz is a liar and a bad one at that. We should appreciate his 
willingness to serve his country. But if he cannot properly communicate 
what his service record really is, how can he be trusted to be a 
heartbeat away from the presidency?