Believe it or not there’s news beside TRUMP GOT HIS MUGSHOT TAKEN! Predictably, Trump shat all over the GOP “Please Trump, pick me for your VP” debate. We knew he was going to “counter-program” during the actual debate by airing an interview with Tucker Carlson. And that he’d surrender in Fulton County to be arrested and booked on Thursday which would suck up all the media oxygen for post debate analysis. Sure, there was some for a while yesterday but as the day went on by afternoon it was all “OMFG – Trump’s gonna get his MUGSHOT taken!” Which in the evening morphed into “OMFG – Trump had his MUGSHOT taken!” My god, the talking heads lost their minds. The sets might as well have been that trailer in the South Park Overlogging episode where Randy “exploded” all over the room after finally getting to see some internet porn. I posted an article expressing my disdain for all that last night before heading to bed. Knowing it would still be a dominant topic today.
But guess what? There IS other news out there. Things both here in the U.S. and abroad matter and matter a great deal. Including the fact that although he’s a p.o.s. who the more he campaigns the more unlikeable he becomes Ron DeSantis is well ahead of any GOP challenger to Trump. That won’t last (probably) but one interesting aspect of Wednesday night’s debate was that others didn’t go on the attack and try to end DeSantis campaign right then and there. I at least have an answer to a question I posed in another article, questioning how Christie would handle the choice of whether to dispose of DeSantis or let him hang around.
Anyway, it seems Ron “God Sent A Warrior” DeSantis hasn’t been content with painting himself as a “Top Gun” Naval Aviator, a real life version of David James Elliott’s character on the TV series JAG who was a Naval Aviator before becoming a JAG lawyer. Oh hell no. DeSantis decided to go bigger, and make like the Commanding Officer of the Navy JAG Corps in that series, Admiral Chegwidden who before becoming a JAG lawyer was… A Navy SEAL. Yep, DeSantis who has touted his military service (he was a Navy JAG Officer for real) decided to “suggest” he was a SEAL. Now, as this article from Newsweek notes he didn’t say it explicitly but he sure as hell implied it. To wit:
During the debate, DeSantis was asked if he would support mandatory military service for Americans and said, “I think it should be voluntary, I’m someone that volunteered to serve, inspired by September 11 and I deployed to Iraq alongside U.S. Navy SEALs in places like Fallujah, Ramadi.” Newsweek has reached out to the DeSantis campaign via email for comment.
Although DeSantis never explicitly said that he was a member of the U.S. Navy SEALS during his time in Iraq, his remarks during the debate sparked a range of responses on social media, with many criticizing the GOP presidential hopeful.
Take a look at the title pic and you’ll see a badge above DeSantis pocket. It can be seen in other pics of him in uniform (besides his “Top Gun” one in which he’s cosplaying Naval Aviator and wearing “wings of gold”) and you can see it there too. The Navy, like other services have various metal badges/insignia they wear on their uniforms. Naval Aviation has a variety of them, for aviators (pilots to you folks who don’t know better), flight officers (RIOs – Radar Intercept Officers), Naval astronauts, Naval Aviation support and so on. There are badges/emblems for Surface Warfare Officers, Submariners too. Yes, JAG Officers get in on this action with badges/emblems.
SEALS? Those with an actual SEAL “rating” (meaning they are in that small percentage who try and manage to make it through as grueling a selection course/process as any that can be found in our armed forces or any other country’s) have one too. If I knew how I’d include a pic of the SEAL Trident Badge, known (at least long ago when I knew some of them) informally as a “Budweiser.” It’s distinctive and NOT what’s on DeSantis uniform. However unless you have a sharp eye, look closely and know what you’re looking at you might get fooled. Especially when Ron talks about “being deployed to Fallujah” with a SEAL team. His job was actually to give legal advice (Rules of Engagement were shall we say complicated in that environment) to that SEAL team’s commander!
It’s a case of him trying to do the “Stolen Valor” thing which would if he weren’t a freaking Republican and once thought to be the “move past Trump” guy would be a political career ender. Still, it looks like Trump and the talking heads with all their “OMG! Trump had his MUGSAHOT taken!” blather have kind of buried this. Let’s hope that since at least some journalists are trying to cover other news this blows up on social media at least.
Ron DeSantis is the cosplay candidate. Stripper (those white boots!), “warrior”, “regular guy” (well, he does a good imitation of a poorly programmed robot trying to be one) and so on. But it all adds up to him cosplaying Presidential candidate. And not very well I might add.
Also not really sure how to embed the image but here’s a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Warfare_insignia
Thanks. I should have thought to do what you did myself by posting a comment to my own article. It took a while for me to learn how to embed a video but sadly inserting a simple picture (other than a title pic) is beyond me. Stil a tech luddite I am!
Forgot to include the pic in my response to you.
If ANY RW were forced to go to WAR, they’d be crapping their pants! RW are COWARDS & total FRAUDS!
If DeSatan ever had to touch a gun or a combat knife, he would reveal himself to be the literal $hit-stain that he is!
To be fair once upon a time he did have to learn to handle a gun. An assault weapon in fact. Like anyone else in the service. Hell, there are pics of him cosplaying “solider” back in the day, all geared up in body armor, web gear with extra magazines and his GUN. Now, all these years later could he still handle one? I doubt it. It would be fun for Jason kander to head up into Iowa and meet up with Ronnie boy and challenge him to a “field strip and re-assemble of the same weapon that was in use back during their years. Kander btw is the guy who did a coomercial of him doing it bindfoldeded and with blazing speed just like any well trained trooper can do. DeSantis would I predict not even be able to separate the thing into the three main groups – upper receiver, lower receiver and bolt-carrier groups. WITHOUT a blindfold!
He’s a fake through and though. No surprise he faked his service record. All the true warriors that I knew in my family not only didn’t brag about anything they did in war…they never talked about it.