Republicans really enjoy military, LEO, or paramilitary cosplay, remember Jared Kushner in his ill fitting flak jacket on his trip to Afghanistan?

Ron DeSantis played Top Gun dress-up in a campaign commercial this year, but at least he could say he was a real Navy Seal… JAG Officer – in the rear with the gear.

Two Republicans running for the House this year have gotten busted for embellishing their military records, as did Republican Senator Tom Cotton a few years ago for claiming to have “served in Iraq and Afghanistan” as an Army Ranger, when in reality he had never served in that capacity, having only completed Ranger Training:

“At issue is not whether Cotton is misleading people by saying he is an Army Ranger. He and anyone else who completed the program have earned the right to call themselves Rangers. The issue, instead, is the context in which he uses that term to describe himself, according to retired Maj. John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at West Point’s Modern War Institute, whose 25-year military career included teaching at the U.S. Army Ranger School.

“Each graduate of the U.S. Army Ranger School can call themselves a Ranger or Ranger qualified,” Spencer told us by email, “but the context of how that reference is made would distinguish whether they are being referred to as a Ranger for their completion of the school or for being a member of the Special Operating Force, 75th Ranger Regiment.” Crucially, serving as a Ranger qualified officer in a non-Ranger regiment is not, Spencer told us, the same as “serving as a Ranger” in a conflict. Cotton’s statement that his service abroad was “as an Army Ranger” falsely implies service in the Special Operating Force, 75th Ranger Regiment. This was our argument in the original piece, and it is why our rating remains unchanged.“

Today, Florida Democratic Senatorial Candidate Val Demings had heard quite enough about Herschel Walker’s honorary Deputy dawg badge and decided to give him a glimpse of the real deal.

The reaction to her tweet was uproariously funny.


27 years as a real cop including Chief of Police in Orlando. I think that trumps (urp) a cereal box badge.


Yup


Frog March him off the stage, Val.


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🤣🤣😂😂


Yup

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Yup.


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That makes three of us!


She sure does.


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Yup


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Good luck tonight Val, though I don’t think you will need it.

Lil Marco had better stock up on water bottles!

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  2. Val. Arrest that man for impersonating an officer! Or for impersonating a functional human being. Either way bring the cuffs.

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  4. Dear Lord Jesus help us to understand how nearly half of Georgia is planning to vote for this person in spite of all the shyte clinging to him. Lord what does it take to clue your lost children in on this farce of a candidate!

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