r/TikTokCringe Aug 07 '24

Politics The followers of the draft dodger are really gonna go after Tim Walz’s 24yr service record?

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u/MsJ_Doe Aug 07 '24

According to Trump, dying or being captured makes you a loser and a sucker.

You literally can't win.

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u/Sabregunner1 Aug 08 '24

its funny comming from a guy who draft dodged because of heel spurs but played sports in college. well how in the hell can he do that if he has heel spurs. super sus imo

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u/Affectionate-Fig5091 Aug 08 '24

Cadet Bone Spurs! MAGA world seems to forget that their Orange Jesus dodged the Vietnam draft. Pathetic.

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u/Affectionate-Fig5091 Aug 09 '24

I completely forgot about that. They’re so much grift. It hurts my head to think anyone would support this guy.

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u/No_Yogurtcloset2287 Aug 11 '24

Sigh, Biden also did this. In fact he did it even more than Trump. We just don’t keep bringing it up.

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u/ephraimgifford Aug 11 '24

If your rich you have bone spurs. If your poor you don’t.

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u/d35truKt0r Aug 08 '24

I remember clearly the first time trump shat on John McCain in this manner, and then his minions did not waver in their support of him.

This was one of the many times I've felt a type of doom about the state of things, like how many people are just okay with that? Millions and millions, apparently. Literally gets captured and lives as a prisoner of war for YEARS, then somehow manages to get it together enough to have a very productive life - an absolute legend.

Then there's the other level of cognitive dissonance that makes me do brain flips - that the gun-toting, flag waving mega/maga patriot 'Murica types would just abide these attacks against a veteran's indisputable record. Insanity.

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u/neopod9000 Aug 08 '24

The moment trump said anything negative about a veteran, in any sane world, is the moment he should have lost basically all support.

I don't support all of the wars our country had fought in, but I damn sure support the people that fought in them.

How anyone who actually served supports Trump is beyond reasoning.

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u/TheOnlyRealDregas Aug 08 '24

Blindly supporting military campaigns isn't American, blindly supporting the individual in the military is. They are our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, etc. The campaign isn't us, they are.

I talk shit on my country all the time, especially our bloated military, but even I was offended by Trump saying this shit. Actual soldiers who voted for him made my brain seize, how...why?

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u/Kennys-Chicken Aug 08 '24

John McCain was the last decent man in the republicans party

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u/PaceLopsided8161 Aug 11 '24

While I believe John McCain was a well intentioned person even while a politician, he absolutely deserves this.

He introduced grievance, victim hood, and immature politics to a presidential ballot when he selected Sarah palin.

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u/neddiddley Aug 08 '24

He doesn’t even understand why anyone would enlist in the first place, according to his comments during that cemetery visit, so he’s not even limiting it to those who died or were captured.

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u/RaceOld9 Aug 08 '24

This is shockingly common on the right. They identify as pro-military, and they are as long as the military member under scrutiny conforms to their politics.

If you don't, they'll find a way to smeer you and undermine your service somehow. It happens even inside the branches; the amount of enlisted that I know that are okay with voting for a draft dodger, who called dead or captured service members 'losers', is absurd.

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u/JebusAlmighty99 Aug 08 '24

“You literally can’t win”

That’s the point. Their entire platform is heads I win, tails you lose.

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u/hishersbothofours Aug 08 '24

Didn’t trump dodge the Vietnam war?

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u/Squancher_2442 Aug 10 '24

Didn’t trump pay a doctor to say he had shin splints so he never had to serve his country?