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.
  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    56·
    3 months ago

    "Come to think of it, denigrating the worth of a soldier’s service based on whether he deployed to a war zone is… kind of like denigrating the worth of a woman’s citizenship based on whether she happens to have children.”

    — Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, on X, defending Gov. Tim Walz against accusations by Sen. J.D. Vance.

    Damn Pete, you did it again…

    • ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 months ago

      I was thinking it is almost its own form of stolen valor, but I’m not a vet, so my opinions remain just that.

      Edit: “it” being to denigrate Waltz’s honorable and valued service, in case that want clear

      • I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
        10·
        3 months ago

        Not only that, but for JD Vance to act like his service was real service while Walz wasn’t is just insulting to over 90% of the military that didn’t deploy to a combat zone. Neither of them chose where to deploy. The military chooses for you. Also, Vance was in motherfucking public affairs. Dude had a cushy ass job, probably spending his time checking grammar errors in press releases. He’s acting like he was Ricky Recon fighting in Fallujah. Additionally, Vance did 4 years, while Walz did 24 years. Walz also deployed to disaster response and got a fancy award called Nebraska Citizen-Soldier of the Year. Vance is being pathetic with his miltary superiority bs.

    • ChocoboRocket@lemmy.world
      11·
      3 months ago

      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.

  • worldwidewave@lemmy.world
    26·
    3 months ago

    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

    • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
      14·
      3 months ago

      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
    61·
    3 months ago

    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
    4·
    3 months ago

    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).