DNC Convention: It's On!

[Missouri_Mike]

One of the DNC speakers said Harris has been black longer than Trump has been a Republican.

BOOM!

Trump was Republican well before she became black this year.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

It's a new day.

move over

It’s not. Fuck off

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

None of that happened under bidumb/harris. If those are his principles he should vote for Trump.

They Called Us "Lucky" (D) Rep Ruben Gallego Harvard grad

The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit

By Ruben Gallego, Jim DeFelice

They Called Us Lucky

From the Arizona Congressman, a "powerful" and "searing" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War At first, they were “Lucky Lima.” Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battal

www.harpercollins.com

Ruben Gallego - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

From the Arizona Congressman, a "powerful" and "searing" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War

At first, they were “Lucky Lima.” Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, young men drawn from blue-collar towns, immigrant households, Navajo reservations—returned unscathed on patrol after patrol through the increasingly violent al Anbar region of Iraq, looking for weapons caches and insurgents trying to destabilize the nascent Iraqi government. After two months in Iraq, Lima didn't have a casualty, not a single Purple Heart, no injury worse than a blister. Lucky Lima.

Then, in May 2005, Lima’s fortunes flipped. Unknown to Ruben and his fellow grunts, al Anbar had recently become a haven for al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. The bin Laden-sponsored group had recruited radicals from all over the world for jihad against the Americans. On one fateful day, they were lured into a death house; the ambush cost the lives of two men, including a platoon sergeant. Two days later, Ruben’s best friend, Jonathon Grant, died in an IED attack, along with several others. Events worsened from there. A disastrous operation in Haditha in August claimed the lives of thirteen Marines when an IED destroyed their amphibious vehicle. It was the worst single-day loss for the Marines since the 1983 Beirut bombings. By the time 3/25 went home in November, it had lost more men than any other single unit in the war. Forty-six Marines and two Navy Corpsmen serving with the battalion in Iraq were killed in action during their roughly nine-month activation.

They Called Us “Lucky” details Ruben Gallego’s journey and includes harrowing accounts of some of the war’s most costly battles. It details the struggles and the successes of Ruben—now a member of Congress—and the rest of Lima Company following Iraq, examining the complicated matter of PTSD. And it serves as a tribute to Ruben’s fallen comrades, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

With its gripping accounts of some of the war's most costly battles, They Called Us 'Lucky' is a must-read for anyone interested in military history and the politics of war. It offers a firsthand perspective on the Iraq War and the struggles faced by soldiers like Ruben Gallego, who served in the hardest hit company of the hardest hit battalion of the war and occupation.

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2:45 they all walk in -- all the Veterans

WE WERE PROUD TO WEAR THE UNIFORM. AND WE ARE PROUD SERVING OUR COUNTRY IN CITY HALL, STATE CAPITALS, THE U.S. HOUSE, AND THE SENATE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THESE VETERANS REPRESENT THE BEST OF OUR COUNTRY. WE STAND UNITED AS VETERANS, DEMOCRATS, AND PATRIOTS TO FIGHT FOR EVERYONE WHO SERVED. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] POLITICIANS LIKE DONALD TRUMP DO NOT STAND WITH US. THEY CALL PATRIOTS LIKE SENATOR MCCAIN LOSERS. JOHN MCCAIN WAS AN AMERICAN HERO. SHOW SOME RESPECT. PROJECT 2025 WILL SLASH VETERANS BENEFITS AND FORCE VA HOSPITAL SOUP CLOSE ACROSS THE NATION.

SHOW SOME RESPECT. SO FOR THE 18-YEAR-OLD WHO DECIDES TO ENLIST, OR THE FAMILIES LIKE MINE WHO PRAY EVERY NIGHT THAT THEIR LOVED ONES WOULD COME HOME, FOR OUR TROOPS STATIONED THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY, FOR MY MARINES OF LIMA COMPANY, LET US ELECT KAMALA HARRIS AND TIM WALZ, WHO DO NOT JUST RESPECT OUR SERVICE, BUT REVERE IT. BECAUSE THE VETERANS WHO DEFENDED THIS COUNTRY ARE NOT JUST THE REASON WE CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT. THEY ARE THE REASON WE CAN DREAM. AND TOGETHER, TOGETHER WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR VETERANS AND EVERYONE WHO SERVED OUR COUNTRY. THANK YOU. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CHANTING "USA"

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Vice President of the United States of America, and 2024 Democratic Party Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris enters the hall -- takes the stage. That smile! That genuine laugh that so many of us love.

History in the making.

Happy Wedding Anniversary Kamala and Doug

 

[Missouri_Mike]

They Called Us "Lucky" (D) Rep Ruben Gallego Harvard grad

The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War's Hardest Hit Unit

By Ruben Gallego, Jim DeFelice

They Called Us Lucky

From the Arizona Congressman, a "powerful" and "searing" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War At first, they were “Lucky Lima.” Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battal

www.harpercollins.com

Ruben Gallego - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

From the Arizona Congressman, a "powerful" and "searing" (PW) chronicle of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War

At first, they were “Lucky Lima.” Infantryman Ruben Gallego and his brothers in Lima Company—3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, young men drawn from blue-collar towns, immigrant households, Navajo reservations—returned unscathed on patrol after patrol through the increasingly violent al Anbar region of Iraq, looking for weapons caches and insurgents trying to destabilize the nascent Iraqi government. After two months in Iraq, Lima didn't have a casualty, not a single Purple Heart, no injury worse than a blister. Lucky Lima.

Then, in May 2005, Lima’s fortunes flipped. Unknown to Ruben and his fellow grunts, al Anbar had recently become a haven for al Qaeda in Mesopotamia. The bin Laden-sponsored group had recruited radicals from all over the world for jihad against the Americans. On one fateful day, they were lured into a death house; the ambush cost the lives of two men, including a platoon sergeant. Two days later, Ruben’s best friend, Jonathon Grant, died in an IED attack, along with several others. Events worsened from there. A disastrous operation in Haditha in August claimed the lives of thirteen Marines when an IED destroyed their amphibious vehicle. It was the worst single-day loss for the Marines since the 1983 Beirut bombings. By the time 3/25 went home in November, it had lost more men than any other single unit in the war. Forty-six Marines and two Navy Corpsmen serving with the battalion in Iraq were killed in action during their roughly nine-month activation.

They Called Us “Lucky” details Ruben Gallego’s journey and includes harrowing accounts of some of the war’s most costly battles. It details the struggles and the successes of Ruben—now a member of Congress—and the rest of Lima Company following Iraq, examining the complicated matter of PTSD. And it serves as a tribute to Ruben’s fallen comrades, who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.

With its gripping accounts of some of the war's most costly battles, They Called Us 'Lucky' is a must-read for anyone interested in military history and the politics of war. It offers a firsthand perspective on the Iraq War and the struggles faced by soldiers like Ruben Gallego, who served in the hardest hit company of the hardest hit battalion of the war and occupation.

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2:45 they all walk in -- all the Veterans

WE WERE PROUD TO WEAR THE UNIFORM. AND WE ARE PROUD SERVING OUR COUNTRY IN CITY HALL, STATE CAPITALS, THE U.S. HOUSE, AND THE SENATE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THESE VETERANS REPRESENT THE BEST OF OUR COUNTRY. WE STAND UNITED AS VETERANS, DEMOCRATS, AND PATRIOTS TO FIGHT FOR EVERYONE WHO SERVED. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] POLITICIANS LIKE DONALD TRUMP DO NOT STAND WITH US. THEY CALL PATRIOTS LIKE SENATOR MCCAIN LOSERS. JOHN MCCAIN WAS AN AMERICAN HERO. SHOW SOME RESPECT. PROJECT 2025 WILL SLASH VETERANS BENEFITS AND FORCE VA HOSPITAL SOUP CLOSE ACROSS THE NATION.

SHOW SOME RESPECT. SO FOR THE 18-YEAR-OLD WHO DECIDES TO ENLIST, OR THE FAMILIES LIKE MINE WHO PRAY EVERY NIGHT THAT THEIR LOVED ONES WOULD COME HOME, FOR OUR TROOPS STATIONED THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY, FOR MY MARINES OF LIMA COMPANY, LET US ELECT KAMALA HARRIS AND TIM WALZ, WHO DO NOT JUST RESPECT OUR SERVICE, BUT REVERE IT. BECAUSE THE VETERANS WHO DEFENDED THIS COUNTRY ARE NOT JUST THE REASON WE CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT. THEY ARE THE REASON WE CAN DREAM. AND TOGETHER, TOGETHER WE WILL FIGHT FOR OUR VETERANS AND EVERYONE WHO SERVED OUR COUNTRY. THANK YOU. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CHANTING "USA"

As a real Marine who saw combat the speech had to make his skin crawl. Can you imagine how much of your soul you would have to give up as a combat marine to go on national tv and give that speech for a man who not only ran from his service, but then lies about his rank? Rubin has to be soaking in a hot tub of bleach right now. How sad. This may actually be worse than Walz and his stolen valor. A combat vet sinking to this level.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Vice President of the United States of America, and 2024 Democratic Party Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris enters the hall -- takes the stage. That smile! That genuine laugh that so many of us love.

History in the making.

Happy Wedding Anniversary Kamala and Doug

The cackle?

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

As a real Marine who saw combat the speech had to make his skin crawl. Can you imagine how much of your soul you would have to give up as a combat marine to go on national tv and give that speech for a man who not only ran from his service, but then lies about his rank? Rubin has to be soaking in a hot tub of bleach right now. How sad. This may actually be worse than Walz and his stolen valor. A combat vet sinking to this level.

Shame on you

Like DJT, you are incapable of showing respect.

 

[g5000]

Trump was Republican well before she became black this year.

She didn't become black this year, you dumbass gaslighted fuckwit.

In fact, in 2020, to prove he wasn't racist, Trump pointed out he had donated to Harris's campaign for California Attorney General. And in making that point, he called her a black woman!

"I'll note that Kamala Harris is a Black woman and he donated to her campaign," Trump campaign senior adviser Katrina Pierson said Tuesday in a call with reporters. "So I hope we can squash this racism argument."

Donald Trump made campaign donations to Kamala Harris years ago. His campaign says it's proof he's not racist.

Ivanka Trump and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin also gave money to Harris in the past.

www.cbsnews.com

Here's an article written during her Senate campaign:

Kamala Harris, a ‘Top Cop’ in the Era of Black Lives Matter​

As she campaigns to become only the second black woman elected to the U.S. Senate, the California attorney general is trying to chart a middle course on the Democratic Party’s most contentious issue: criminal justice.



And now Kamala Harris's own words:


She brought up her daughters, in the late ’60s and early ’70s, in a black neighborhood in Berkeley, sharing a house with a friend who ran a small preschool. “She had two black babies, and she raised them to be two black women,” Harris says of her mother’s choice of community.

 

[g5000]

The cackle?

There's that hate which is going to make you losers lose.

 

[g5000]

Trump was Republican well before she became black this year.

Your post reminds me of that time I was in a helicopter crash with Willie Brown.

It is positively mindblowing the way you tards STILL parrot Trump's lies without engaging a single brain cell in critical thought.

No wonder he lies to you every day.

You BEG for it!

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Shame on you

Like DJT, you are incapable of showing respect.

I have no respect for stolen valor Tim, he’s the one who lied about his career. He deserves none.

What respect I may have had for Gallego for his service he went up on that stage and shit on it himself defending valor thief Timmy.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Your post reminds me of that time I was in a helicopter crash with Willie Brown.

It is positively mindblowing the way you tards STILL parrot Trump's lies without engaging a single brain cell in critical thought.

No wonder he lies to you every day.

You BEG for it!

Can you produce a single news article from her days as a DA where she claimed black not Indian?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

She's killing it. No doubt about it.

Can you produce a single news article from her days as a DA where she claimed black not Indian?

I guess she was "brown enough", that nobody asked. Does this bother you?

When little girls see her running for President, and think, "she's brown"... does that bother you? What about grown women? She is reeling them in, you know. In droves.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

She's killing it. No doubt about it.

I guess she was "brown enough", that nobody asked. Does this bother you?

When little girls see her running for President, and think, "she's brown"... does that bother you? What about grown women? She is reeling them in, you know. In droves.

By that measure I’m brown enough to run as black. Are we really running a presidential election on what little girls see race wise? Have we arrived to the point in this country a white woman can be in government for years claiming to be Indian, and an Indian can decide to be black because it’s the race of race.

We could actually discuss policies but you democrats know that’s a losing hand.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

She's killing it. No doubt about it.

I guess she was "brown enough", that nobody asked. Does this bother you?

When little girls see her running for President, and think, "she's brown"... does that bother you? What about grown women? She is reeling them in, you know. In droves.

Oh, BTW. You can’t. That’s why you went on this rant.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

By that measure I’m brown enough to run as black.

Then try it. Do you think it would work? Why, or why not? Do I really have to parse these not-so-fine points? Come one, you're not stupid.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Then try it. Do you think it would work? Why, or why not? Do I really have to parse these not-so-fine points? Come one, you're not stupid.

It would work as long as I ran as a democrat. I could be a woman and a lesbian too.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

It would work as long as I ran as a democrat. I could be a woman and a lesbian too.

But not as a Republican?

gee... why not?

(prepare for every answer except for the correct answer)