Sen. Joni Ernst said Biden has "not once" expressed gratitude or empathy to troops who've served...

[Nevilledog]

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Sen. Joni Ernst said Biden has “not once” expressed gratitude or empathy to troops who’ve served in the last 20 years.

That is not close to true. Here are a bunch of examples of Biden explicitly doing what Ernst said he has never done:

Fact check: Sen. Joni Ernst falsely claims Biden has 'not once' expressed gratitude to troops who...
Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, a veteran of the war in Iraq and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, falsely claimed on CNN on Wednesday that President Joe Biden has never expressed...
cnn.com
11:24 AM · Sep 3, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/03/politics/fact-check-ernst-biden-thanked-troops/index.html


Washington (CNN) — Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, a veteran of the war in Iraq and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, falsely claimed on CNN on Wednesday that President Joe Biden has never expressed gratitude or empathy toward the American troops who have served overseas during the last two decades.

"As I visit with other veterans, as I have talked to those Gold Star spouses, those Gold Star families, many feel that they have been left behind. They're not even part of a discussion anymore. And what I have not heard from this President is a thank you to those veterans who have served in the global war on terror," Ernst said. "Not once has he expressed empathy and gratitude to the men and women who have put the uniform on and have fought so bravely overseas the last 20 years to keep our homeland safe. And I feel that by not acknowledging his gratitude for them, he's diminishing their service."

CNN anchor Jake Tapper responded that he has heard Biden express gratitude and praise toward veterans.

Tapper said that maybe Biden hasn't done so "enough for people," and perhaps we need "more of a national moment of recognition" for these troops, but he then reiterated: "Just as a factual matter, I have heard him talk about this."

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We are truly living in a post-truth world.


Fuck her.

[DURHAM D]

1. Liar Liar Pants on Fire. nt

[louslobbs]

2. Joni Ernst is full of

PIG shit! All fascists lie like they breathe.

[madaboutharry]

3. She is always lying.

She makes up crap in the moment. She is a truly terrible person.

[Xoan]

4. The GOP needs to ...

trademark

Willful Ignorance™.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Um, Bringing Home 2,500 Troops....

...from a war zone 9,000 miles away isn't empathetic?
I don't think Ernst knows what word means! Four syllable words are tough for her.

[RussBLib]

6. I cannot believe she is that stupid

Obviously, she has to know better. But this is what the GOP does: keep setting up straw men that the Dems have to knock down. Often, Dems don't bother because some of these claims are just so stupid and wrong, so the meme gets launched and reinforced.

[NYC Liberal]

7. Meanwhile, she had no problem with TFG who called our troops "suckers and losers,"

attacked a former POW and Gold Star parents, and did nothing when Putin put a bounty on the heads of American soldiers.

[gratuitous]

9. Indeed

Considering what a shameful record the former guy built during his time in the spotlight, I have to conclude that Sen. Ernst suffers from some odd form of memory loss to make such specious allegations against President Biden.

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. Have you no shame, Joni?

Trying to destroy troop morale? Your nasty words have implications.

You should know better.

[C_U_L8R]

10. Not once has Ernst said an honest thing.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

11. Really Joni?

Is that all she has?

What were those addresses Joe made as people were being airlifted out of Kabul, praising the courage of our Service men and women? How many times did he thank them for honorably serving this country? How many times did he ask God to,protect them?

Me thinks Ole Joni has been inhaling too much pig shit fumes down there in Ioway.

[Doodley]

12. How do Democratic lawmakers respond to the constant barrage of misinformation? Is there a strategy?

[Botany]

13. The truth means nothing to those people.

[Kali]

14. she's still around?

put a used bread bag in it, pig farmer

[montanacowboy]

15. This coming from someone who wears

dead rat fur on her head and in the in the past wore bread wrappers on her feet in the snow

such a fucking dunce

[tavernier]

16. That's what he does constantly.

I thought at one point he would get into trouble because instead of saying God bless America he pretty much always ends up with God bless our troops or God help our troops or God protect our troops.
I can only think that this lady must be a little slow thinking, a bit IQ challenged to not have picked up on this. Or perhaps she is hearing impaired? But I have a feeling that she is more light challenged than anything else… Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.

[Johonny]

17. Notice she doesn't offer such gratitude herself. She just complains based on her own

fact-less assertion. she doesn't really care about the troops.

[East-A-Squared]

18. Right, Joni! He calls them suckers....oh wait!

[Nevilledog]

19. Video

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[peggysue2]

20. This is typical Republican behavior

Lie with impunity, then get self-righteous and loud if anyone challenges said pants-on-fire spokesman/woman on a misstatement of fact. You hose down the field with lies and disinformation. For the voters too lazy to check, they will hear the lie repeated on Fox News, read the lie again and again on social media. Like-minded friends and colleagues will spread the lie(s) like a virus.

And then, Presto!

The lie is accepted as truth and any and all refutations are deemed 'fake news'.

Though evil, disgusting, the tactic is brilliant in its simplicity.

It's all the GOP has now; they've become the Merchants of Gross Deception willing to sell out everyone and everything.

[GoCubsGo]

21. Joni doth project too much.

Fuck off, Joni. You goddamn liar.

[Grammy23]

22. Joni is as full of

Sh*t as a Christmas goose.