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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman retires, citing campaign of ‘bullying’ and ‘retaliation’ by Trump after i

Re: Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman retires, citing campaign of ‘bullying’ and ‘retaliation’ by T

Questerr said:
Because that's what he was. He had reason to believe he witnessed illegal actions. Under federal law, he is allowed to whistleblow that information and is not required to use the chain to command to do so.
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The WB's identity was never made public and Vindman said he wasn't the WB, nor did he know the WB, under oath. Are you saying he lied?
 
Ikari said:
Yeah, they claim to respect and stand for our military men and women....until they don't.
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That's what partisans do. Doesn't matter if they are from the right or the left.

Wasn't that long ago it was General Betray us. If you remember.
 
Paradoxical said:
We'll see what percentage of vote he gets from the military and police. Rogue left wing generals and ambassadors are just a handful of votes
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In the Pentagon approved Military Times Syracuse U Veterans Center survey of active duty members across the armed forces Trump has lost 13 favorable points off his standing in November 2016. This is from the annual survey published in December.

Half (50%) said they have an unfavorable view of Trump's performance as their Potus/C'nC. Only 41% said favorable. Trump's negative trend line of the past three years would take him into Obama's unfavorable territory by election day if Trump's not there already.

Trump had a miserable 31% favorable rating with the officer corps across the services.

Trump's lowest favorable ratings were by Air Force personnel and Army members (mid-30s) while his highest favorable rating (64%) was with the Marines. Navy personnel were middling overall toward Trump with officers viewing him most unfavorably also.


In 2016 Trump won the active duty personnel vote 2-1 against HRC. In November 2016 Trump had 47% favorable in the MT-Syracuse survey and only a 37% unfavorable.

In 2018 however the Republican candidates won only 58% of the active duty vote. It's more than reasonable to say Trump is unlikely to get 58% this time around and that will hurt him in Florida and Ohio especially and in NC too. The way things are going for Trump he can't afford to lose many votes in GA and TX either.

The bottom line is that with active duty personnel surveyed Trump has gone underwater from November 2016 to December last year. You can have no doubt the trend continues to this moment.
 
Barnacle said:
She'd block them until she got her way. What a disgusting person to use 1,100 soldiers promotions for her political tit-for-tat with the Commander in Chief.

Duckworth is one repulsive human being.
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No, she is standing up for a brave american soldier who did his duty and using the only tool she has to pressure the Commander in Chief to answer for this travesty of political meddling in the military.

But I do admit your opinion of this extraordinary woman is repulsive.
 
PoS said:
Good. The military doesnt need a 100% whiner.
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Your gleeful support of the mafia, criminality and corruption duly noted for the record.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled veneration of the blind idiot god twump.
 
ludin said:
actually his testimony proved that trump didn't do what he was accused of.
he was a very good witness for the defense.
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Sure this is true if you arent telling the truth.
 
Khayembii Communique said:
He was subpoenaed. He complied with the law by appearing.
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He was a crooked partisan - that's the whole reason he was subpoena'd, by Democrats - they were subpoenaing one of their own, to act as their aligned witness.
 
PoS said:
Good. The military doesnt need a 100% whiner.
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You mean that Trump doesn't want people around who will show him for the creep that he is.
 
sjmay said:
Sorry, I must have missed it....did Trump even talk about Vindman once his testimony was over, the way this reads, he was being harassed every day and had to give his lunch money.....
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C'mon, you can do better than that. You know he was harassed out of his job.
 
Tangmo said:
What I do remember is that the Republican majority in the House never did vote on a choke hold.
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Trying to get used to South Korean time. KBO. We can’t afford a 3rd strike with covid. We’ve got an 0-2 count and need to foul off a few balls. Get a base on balls by behaving with safety.

Doing some ideas for school. Pretty 😎. No shoes, no shirt, no safety, NO SCHOOL. I’m considering working with former students and their families who home school through large congregations.
 
jet57 said:
C'mon, you can do better than that. You know he was harassed out of his job.
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How would I KNOW that? Vindman hasn't been mentioned in the news in 6 months........how do you KNOW that? Oh, because he said so?
 
Good news, the rest of the soldiers will get some food.
 
beerftw said:
Likely he realized he will never get a promotion, and likely trump is not even behind it. The guy injected opinion and politics into his task which is a no go, likely his oer is now bad enough he would never be considered for promotion even if eligable.

In the military as an officer, doing something bad but not getting kicked out usually makes you end up at a desk job frozen in your rank, aka a career ender. Most likely he realized his superior did not write a good oer and most likely wrote a bad one, and his carreer was now stuck on stay at that rank until retirement or retire now. You must remember not everything is top level pentagon when it comes to promotions, nco's have an ncoer and officers have oer's, things going badly on them can either halt rank progression or severely limit it.
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I understand what you are saying about officers hitting a wall on promotion, but it really doesn't apply here. Vindman was getting his promotion. He was set to go to training to set him up for future promotion. Whether he received the NEXT promotion, years from now, would be up to him. He won't be up for another until WELL after Trump leaves office, and I'm sure that any negative information in that one evaluation would be disregarded.

Again, something else is missing here. Most likely, he got a good job offer.
 
JMR said:
Whooda think sorry ass Trumpsters would defend him regardless. Probably rooting for a Stone pardon, are ya?
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Defend him for what?
 
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apdst said:
He bypassed his chain of command and ilkegally released classified material.

Funny you called him a whistleblower. Why tid you do that?
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The truth slipped out unintentionally.
 
Tangmo said:
In the Pentagon approved Military Times Syracuse U Veterans Center survey of active duty members across the armed forces Trump has lost 13 favorable points off his standing in November 2016. This is from the annual survey published in December.

Half (50%) said they have an unfavorable view of Trump's performance as their Potus/C'nC. Only 41% said favorable. Trump's negative trend line of the past three years would take him into Obama's unfavorable territory by election day if Trump's not there already.

Trump had a miserable 31% favorable rating with the officer corps across the services.

Trump's lowest favorable ratings were by Air Force personnel and Army members (mid-30s) while his highest favorable rating (64%) was with the Marines. Navy personnel were middling overall toward Trump with officers viewing him most unfavorably also.


In 2016 Trump won the active duty personnel vote 2-1 against HRC. In November 2016 Trump had 47% favorable in the MT-Syracuse survey and only a 37% unfavorable.

In 2018 however the Republican candidates won only 58% of the active duty vote. It's more than reasonable to say Trump is unlikely to get 58% this time around and that will hurt him in Florida and Ohio especially and in NC too. The way things are going for Trump he can't afford to lose many votes in GA and TX either.

The bottom line is that with active duty personnel surveyed Trump has gone underwater from November 2016 to December last year. You can have no doubt the trend continues to this moment.
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We'll see. November 4th is the only poll that counts. Thing with polls is the questions they ask and who they ask them of. like COVID, I don't know anyone who has ever been polled. For all I know they are polling Berkeley professors.
 
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