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.
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.
The things they feel are important… Seem so
WEIRD
i can see how it can be frustrating to see every q&a session has a military-related question couched in.
but seriously, does he not melt down to anything? even the softest of balls he gets asked pisses him off for some reason.
Reporter: “what makes you laugh?”
Vance: “well i laugh at bogus questions like this from lamestream media!”
Reporter: “why would people want to have a beer with you”
Vance: “because i like beer… maybe a little too much. I’M SURE THE MEDIA’S GONNA JUMP ON MY THROAT FOR THIS TOO”
like Jesus Christ dude calm the fuck down they’re trying to help you and you can’t stop being a weirdo for a goddamn second.
For me, the most surprising thing about him has been how bad he is with the media.
I knew he was going to be a fascist piece of shit. I’m shocked at how incompetent a public speaker he is.
He’s a fucking Senator and can’t answer the most softball possible question.
If this is how he responds to softballs, can you imagine how he responds to hardballs? I can’t wait to see the debates!
It’s impressive how JD Vance seems to be the best player on Kamela’s team.
Honestly he reminds me of Paul Ryan, who did not do Romney any favors.
I still remember the time Ryan bizarrely barged into a homeless shelter, took pictures of himself cleaning bowls that were already clean, and left, to the utter bewilderment of the people running the shelter.
as Emma Vigeland said, it’s karmic justice that he basically got desantis reincarnated as his VP candidate. they have the same charisma suck, the same uncomfortable laugh at things that clearly bother them.
I’m not saying Vance is throwing the election on purpose to fuck with Trump…
But if he was, what would he be doing differently?
he would probably fuck that up somehow and help him win
That is a fair answer to that question.
Now I’m picturing Vance trying intentionally the say the most racist thing he can think of and instead of doing something like dropping the Hard R while giving a speech in the middle of Harlem about how “We’re gonna reinstate slavery baby!”
He somehow manages to not only endear black people to Trump and vice verse, but is actually successful in one speech at ending racism forever.
“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.
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.
Snowflake.
Weird snowflake.
Weirdflake.
Weird
Here we have distillation
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.
