‘A Few Simple Words’: Tim Walz Responds
To Accusations Of ‘Stolen Valor’
Daily Caller,
by
Hailey Gomez
Original Article
Posted By: Beardo,
8/14/2024 2:07:03 PM
Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz responded Tuesday afternoon at a union conference to accusations of “stolen valor” after facing a wave of controversy from Republicans around his military service. (snip) During his speech, Walz responded to criticism of the timing around his 2005 retirement from the Minnesota National Guard by stating he was “damn proud” of his service and emphasized that one “should never denigrate another person’s service record.” (snip) Vance responded to Walz’s public remarks on Tuesday, posting on X that Walz “shouldn’t have lied about it.”
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
rememberwhen 8/14/2024 2:15:16 PM (No. 1777943)
Typical Dim reframing. Nobody attacked him for his service. Vance's response was spot-on. Aparently Walz served honorably in the National Guard for 24 years. The dishonor is his desertion of his fellow soldiers/subordinates as they were about to deploy to Iraq and lying both about that and the rank at which he retired.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
marbles 8/14/2024 2:16:37 PM (No. 1777944)
Served for 24 years makes it seem like it was 24 years. National Guard is one weekend a month, and two weeks a year. He was a school teacher while in the Guard. They guy is a phony. On this and other things.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
sw penn 8/14/2024 2:25:09 PM (No. 1777948)
' one “should never denigrate another person’s service record.” '
Must be nice to be beyond reproach.
Only babies and big baby corrupt elites can dream of it...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 8/14/2024 2:48:55 PM (No. 1777951)
Boy, he's really getting a tepid response in there amongst his own kind. Not a good sign.
He really has a good schtick for a leftist... he just acts "angry" when he LIES. He has a habit of redirect and alter of charges against him, as if the "Right Wing Hit Machine" was levelling charges to Tim of being a draft dodger, vile pacifist, or some Antifa disrespecting military service. That was NOT the case, but there he goes, taking the charge of COWARD charges and rewriting them into anything but. It isn't going to work. Coward.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Lazyman 8/14/2024 2:59:57 PM (No. 1777954)
I don't question this guy and his combat experience or even Hillary who landed under fire in Bosnia. They are both in need of therapy.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/14/2024 3:29:00 PM (No. 1777963)
Listen TIm, you don't really matter. No one is listening, and you will never be VP.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Tusker 8/14/2024 3:33:28 PM (No. 1777968)
The "Joyful" campaign? Not quite.
"Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) describes a disorder that causes a person to experience uncontrollable episodes of laughing, or other emotional displays that are out of context in their social interactions. Typically, pseudobulbar affect occurs secondary to other neurological conditions.
The impact of pseudobulbar affect is substantial. It can result in embarrassment for people suffering from the disorder, their family, and their caregivers. Pseudobulbar affect may also restrict social interactions causing a lower quality of life."
Now, picture "her", with her coward lap dog, in delicate consultation with Xi Jinping and her PBA kicks in.
Remember Thomas Francis Eagleton?
"Thomas Francis Eagleton (September 4, 1929 – March 4, 2007) was an American lawyer who served as a United States senator from Missouri from 1968 to 1987. He was briefly the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972. He suffered from bouts of depression throughout his life, resulting in several hospitalizations, which were kept secret from the public. When they were revealed, it humiliated the McGovern campaign, and Eagleton was forced to quit the race".
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
padiva 8/14/2024 3:35:28 PM (No. 1777971)
And what did he do for all those 'one weekend a month' and '2 weeks in the summer'?
Did they play war games? Fill sand bags? Get high and/or drunk?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Encore 8/14/2024 4:03:49 PM (No. 1777984)
“one should never denigrate another person’s service record”.
He’s the one doing that. He’s mocking every soldier that actually ‘earned’ their rank. And now suddenly mr. macho is the victim. How useful.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/14/2024 4:06:28 PM (No. 1777987)
I despise duplicitous people.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Newtsche 8/14/2024 4:09:05 PM (No. 1777991)
Worm
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Phantomll 8/14/2024 4:11:11 PM (No. 1777992)
To paraphrase Shakespeare: The coward doth protest too much, methinks.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Chiritwo 8/14/2024 4:23:52 PM (No. 1777997)
Thank you, #7. That explains a lot about Harris.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 8/14/2024 4:24:45 PM (No. 1777998)
So, he repeatedly lied about his service for 20 years.
Used those lies to fool people into voting for him.
Heck, it continued until recently when it was included on the official Harris for President webpage.
As a former teacher, as he is, what example are you setting?
You are showing them it's acceptable to lie if it will help you advance in your career.
It's not a far stretch to then imply cheating (another form of lie) is okay too, right?
You start to blur the lines of what's right and wrong.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Ditto1958 8/14/2024 5:00:13 PM (No. 1778012)
No one is denigrating his actual service. They are denigrating his lies about his service. He did not “mis-speak” but he has outright lied and has kept doing it for decades. Shameful.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Geoman 8/14/2024 5:56:00 PM (No. 1778034)
What I've not seen addressed in any of the arguments is that the typical National Guard experience is one of years of training for combat deployment and war fighting on those relatively rare occasions in our history where the National Guard has been called up to deploy to a battle zone to fight along side of regular army troops. I find that the notion that a "Command Sergeant Major" billet even exists within a perpetual peacetime role is ludicrous. All services have multiple E-9 positions and Wall appears to have coveted the E-9 "Command" designation without having to actually earn it. Walz knew his unit was given a warning order prepare for combat deployment. Even an average patriot would jump at the chance to lead his/her subordinates into combat, especially after twenty years of training for that and/or a LEO support role in his/her respective state. Instead, Walz put his personal ambitions over the decades of training he had received, and for which he was compensated, over his dedication to serve his country leading his troops as a most senior enlisted warfighter. When his subordinates were looking for Walz to walk-the-walk, he bailed on them, which is as low as what John F'n Kerry did in Vietnam. The "24 years of experience" reminds me of my first police chief commenting on the vast difference in having twenty years of experience on the streets and having one year of experience (behind the scenes in an admin role) 20 times.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
volksford 8/14/2024 6:16:33 PM (No. 1778044)
When the going gets tough...Tim bails.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 8/14/2024 8:25:12 PM (No. 1778079)
Simple words, like "some people did something." Simple words must be popular in Minnesota but serving your country involves more than putting on the uniform, Timmy Boy. You collected a paycheck for 24 years and quit when it was time to do a real job.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 8/14/2024 8:33:27 PM (No. 1778082)
FTA: “And I firmly believe you should never denigrate another person’s service record.”
Walz cannot refute the stolen valor charges against him. So he presented a straw man argument. Walz is on the defensive.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
PostAway 8/14/2024 8:39:27 PM (No. 1778085)
If he’s so “damn proud” of his service then why did he lie about it?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Amoeba 8/14/2024 9:39:18 PM (No. 1778100)
stolen valor? respond to being a pedophile and sweet assteroid
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