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8. Thank you for YOURS! - and, yes, I sort of went tangential on your main point that the spitting part

Wed Sep 17, 2025, 02:10 PM

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has been extended to smear *ALL* of the Left by some. Same as when I encountered a wingnut who claimed that all Lefties are extremists to the point of violence. I was stumped and let it gnaw at me until the next encounter when I demanded to know why he thought that. He replied that he got it from the environmentalists' violent protests and that in his mind Libs' including the environment as a main agenda point meant that.

Back your point, I'll say that, despite my Dem-ness, I do believe that hostility to military has been credibly attested to in the CLINTONs by military members assigned to them. And one of those revisionist re-hashings when we lose elections has been that McGOVERN, with his distinguished service in WW II, would have improved his chances if he had played up his service instead of his almost hidding it. As one of his voters, I never knew of it until a couple of decades ago.

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One of the ways we got here, the 60-year-old lie that anti-Vietnam war protesters spit on [View all] Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 OP

I got a call from a Vietnam vet shortly after George Floyd. He's a public safety union guy. LeftInTX Sep 17 #1

The biggest step to get us where we are was the supreme court in 2010 Autumn Sep 17 #2

... Prairie Gates Sep 17 #3

Same with angry witchy feminists destroying families cbabe Sep 17 #4

We can connect this to what happened to Hillary Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 #5

I was insulated b/c my Vietnam year was my first year of 4 yr enlistment, meaning UTUSN Sep 17 #6

Thank you for your service. Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 #7

Thank you for YOURS! - and, yes, I sort of went tangential on your main point that the spitting part UTUSN Sep 17 #8

Couple of things, when you thank you me for my service do you mean Eliot Rosewater Sep 17 #9

No, I had no inkling UTUSN Sep 17 #10