“Where do you think I lost my legs? In a bar fight?” Tammy Duckworth on CNN is not having this “no women in combat” thing from Sec of Defense pick and war crimes enthusiast Pete Hegseth
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Good! It's a stupid thing to say. Even if the majority of women don't compete with the majority of men physically, there should still be a space for any who qualify, and a lot of other options for non combat positions! It's an Americans right to serve how they see fit no matter who they are.
“Blunt and unemotional”. Huh. Unless they’re actually saying that to refute the argument that women are too soft and emotional for combat (as if), it’s really a damned if you do/damned if you don’t kinda scenario.
I'd really like it if they could talk about the fact that over 10% of homeless American adults are US veterans & work on a solution to this shameful issue. And, obviously if someone joins the military, regardless of their identity, they should be treated the same as anyone else in the military.
Woman have been in combat roles since Clara Barton. Woman were also directly assigned to combat units in Desert Storm. Their male counterparts received combat medals but it took at act of congress to have Tammy, Sue and others receive theirs.
Tammy has more courage in her little finger than all the bodies in the entire Republican Party! She is a brave and heroic woman and is a National Treasure!👏👏👏👍👍🙏🙏🙏💕💕💕💕
If they can pass the SAME fitness tests as the men, then welcome them aboard. But the dirty little secret is that they aren't held to the same standards.
I have 0 interest in the military. The few women who do are not passing the same standards men are. If that stat somehow blows your mind, then brush up on some biology. Either cry because facts don't fit your biased world-view or realize that military support roles would welcome more women.
Coworker: men would be distracted by women in combat, either sexually or worrying about their safety.
Me: I don’t trust someone so easily distracted to save my life or have a weapon anywhere near me.
I knew this would hit her hard. So many women have been wounded in combat. My older son, a wounded warrior from Iraq said yesterday that there was a woman soldier with a nearby unit and she showed uncommon bravery. He said she had his highest respect. This from a former Ranger with 18 yrs
One of my theories that will soon be proven or disproven is “nations actually -resist- authoritarianism more strongly at points in history like our current one, even if it doesn’t look that way right now” and one reason is the sort of bad-assery Duckworth is displaying.
Already? Is this now, Make our Military Weaker, crap? Obviously you can't have just straight white guys in the service because too many are spinless wusses. We see them in DC every day! They're FG voters. Incels. You think they're going to sign up? Ha!
While they’ve had male only drafts, it was usually every male of age and physical type. Even if you got no rights, if you have an outtie, they’ll try to force you to fight.
Feel like some of them should be told about the officer mortality rates experienced by the Austrian-Hungarian Army in World War One, in which the officers were typically more privileged ethnicities and races. Did a number of them get shot by their own men? Maaaaaaayyyyyybe.
I don't know, they have always loved to send lower income non-white people to war, as fodder. They don't care if they die. That was their whole thing for Vietnam.
Hey, you wouldn't want troops that might run into N Korea to escape a dishonorable discharge and all kinds of criminal charges from S Korea, would you? Oh, right, we had a MALE soldier do that.
Trump voters will just say that a man wouldn't have lost his legs. And he could point out all the men who lost limbs or died in combat they'll say it's because they were "woke".
We are not going back!!!! I served from 1986 to 1995 in the Army. I went Airborne school as an ROTC cadet and was a Signal officer. One of my fellow cadet’s daughter was an Armor officer!!! To me that was one of my proudest days! WE ARE NOT GOING BACK!!!!
Can’t say I blame her. Women are equally capable and equally ruthless when we have to be. And Tammy Duckworth is one hell of a badass woman for having been in combat and coming home alive, if not intact. Anyone who says otherwise is a pansy ass
Hi Amanda, I admire you and thank you for your continued service.
Pete’s problem with women in combat speaks volumes to me. He can’t pull the trigger and thinks he can fix himself but removing all women. His brain is scrambled eggs.
This prick Pete is representative of men who are too high on themselves to look at Tammy Duckworth and fully appreciate her sacrifice. This 💩administration hasn't even started and I'm already filled with hate toward it.
If a woman is a shit fighter pilot, than blame the instructor that trained her, still most likely a man.
I served in the Navy before women entered combat roles and I had some shocking pilots that flew alongside me, their lack of skill wasn’t gender related.
To be accurate, the original change was that the services acknowledged women were in combat and made pay reflect that, as support personnel women often found themselves “in combat”. Since then they have proven themselves as effective warriors too.
If I had to choose to go up against me or my wife in a gun to gun, hand to hand combat, that's a no brainer. She's birthed 2 children and survived 49 years in a male dominant industry. I would choose me without even thinking about it for longer than 2.6 seconds.
Hegseth, Gaetz, and Gabbard (the shit selections of 11/13/2024) don’t have a snowball’s chance in Hades of winning confirmation even in a GQP controlled senate. Of course, I didn’t see the orange asshat stealing this election. Hey, if he can claim it in 2020, I can claim it in 2024.
And you know why they have to have women in the military…..not enough eligible men or men who want to enlist like old bone spurs……too many drugs…..and messed up mental states. Would have to bring back the draft.
Ugh, the pendant in me can't resist...they actually divorced in 2017. He's been married to his third wife (the mistress referenced above) since 2019. At his current rate, he should be due for another divorce (and maybe another child) around the midterms
I knew some vicious women fighters in Vietnam. The hospitals were full of them and let someone try to hurt their patients. Today, they show that protection with their brothers in combat. Do you want to take on a woman Army Ranger? I don't!!!
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https://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317
I'm no quitter, but I'm just not sure I'm a Duckworthy no quitter. 💜
https://gppreview.com/2020/02/25/women-combat-bad-military-effectiveness/
'Will the fash ever try again to control a powerful nation-state in decline'?
I have 2 words for this mfer. Japanese. Army.
US will soon be FUBAR
Me: I don’t trust someone so easily distracted to save my life or have a weapon anywhere near me.
Hail, Queen.
There's no reasoning with souls this poisoned.
Pete’s problem with women in combat speaks volumes to me. He can’t pull the trigger and thinks he can fix himself but removing all women. His brain is scrambled eggs.
I served in the Navy before women entered combat roles and I had some shocking pilots that flew alongside me, their lack of skill wasn’t gender related.
But this is what she did:
https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/senator-duckworths-efforts-in-response-to-the-crisis-in-israel-and-gaza#:~:text=Senator%20Duckworth%20supported%20legislation%20that,to%20foreign%20militaries%2C%20including%20Israel.
our oath is to the constitution and only the constitution, not some mango fuckbastard cunt
FTFY
Ugh, the pendant in me can't resist...they actually divorced in 2017. He's been married to his third wife (the mistress referenced above) since 2019. At his current rate, he should be due for another divorce (and maybe another child) around the midterms
sweet irony
"Fuck these guys and the clown car they rode in on"
Let them faint on their couches (well expect JD 🤮)