Isn't it amazing how Tammy Duckworth, despite the loss of her legs in combat,

[Atticus]

stands so much taller than the likes of her critics, Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump?

She calls bullshit by its name and I am proud and grateful that she is my senator.

[grumpyduck]

1. You go, Tammy.

Don't let these assholes get to you.

Not that you will!

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Remind me again of when Tucker Carlson served. We already know about Capt. Bone Spur.

[Evolve Dammit]

10. That smarmy asshole hasn't done a lick of work in his life, much less serve.

[Iliyah]

3. I know shithole never served in the military . . .

Don't know about Carlson although I would assume he did not neither.

I find it rather upsetting that non-serving folks tend to criticize and even trash persons who have served, such service in order for us to live free.

Therefore, eff them and Senator Duckworth is tough, she can handle it while turning it around at them.

[erronis]

24. That's par for the course - chicken hawks, arm-chair warriors. There are fewer true patriots left

and Tammy Duckworth is one.

[Thekaspervote]

4. Smart savvy brave woman... calls it as it is!!

[safeinOhio]

5. My new #1 for VP.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. That would be great-- imagine her campaigning...

(Oops! I originally said "on the stump" which would have been right for just about anyone else.)

[safeinOhio]

7. You are forgiven for what you originally said...

now go and sin no more.

[kag]

39. Tammy probably would have thought that was funny...

as long as it was clearly a mistake, and not done out of malice, which was obviously the case. Because unlike the orange menace she has a sense of humor.

I think she would make a great VP for Biden, except we need her in the Senate.

[spanone]

8. ⭐️⭐️⭐️K&R ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[budkin]

9. Tucker was giving her the Max Cleland treatment

Lost limbs in service of the country, yet they both "hate America." Fuck Tucker Carlson.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. Exactly what I thought.

[TNNurse]

15. My liberal Democrat mother who lived in GA all her life,

loved and supported Max Cleland.

[sarge43]

16. Remind me again how much Repugs 'support' the troops

Trash.

[budkin]

23. Nothing was worse than the "swift-boating" of John Kerry

With Bush supporters at the RNC mocking a purple heart recipient with purple band-aids.

[sarge43]

29. Not just Kerry, mocking every woman and man who had one. Some won it the hard way - posthumously

I remember that very well and have no intention to forget it.

[lagomorph777]

53. Also the Swift Boat treatment.

Disgusting hypocrisy is a way of life for the Russiapublicans.

[Budi]

12. Remember Max Cleland?

Link to tweet

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

13. Lt. Col. Vindman has resigned...

[TomSlick]

43. Not to be hyper-technical but LTC Vindman will retire and not resign.

For retired military (like I am), it's an important distinction. I did not resign my commission, I retired. I do not draw a pension, I receive reduced pay for reduced service.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

47. My bad, thanks for the correction.

[TomSlick]

48. No worries.

No one but an old retired soldier would care.

[murielm99]

14. Adam Kinzinger,

my so-called congressman, has joined in to call Duckworth a coward.

[AleksS]

45. A coward?!!?!?!?

Dude, she flew helicopters into a war zone where people shot RPGs at her.

Your congressperson is a gorram idiot.

[geardaddy]

17. I love Tammy

Here's Fucker Carlson indicating the size of his member:

[softydog88]

18. ...after Viagra

[geardaddy]

19. Bingo.

[Harker]

21. ...

and in his wildest bow tie dreams. n/t

[flamin lib]

20. She did not lose her legs.

She remembers exactly where she left them.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. My #1 choice for VP. (After Beto unless he gets sex change)

[whopis01]

25. Losing her legs hasn't stopped her from kicking some ass. n/t

[TomSlick]

44. You beat me to the punch.

[Senor Insomne]

26. I'm not in Illinois, but I'll "Rec" Duckworth any day

Incidentally, what are people from Illinois called?

[BamaRefugee]

27. Senator Duckworth is GREAT!

[calimary]

28. I'd like to see how those two pansy-asses would do if they left BOTH OF THEIR legs in Afghanistan.

Or Iraq. Or any other war front where neither of them had the backbone to go and serve.

She stands tall as the Washington Monument. Those two useless blights-on-humanity will never dig themselves out of the sewer lines leading away from its underpinnings.

[usaf-vet]

30. If you fly fish and are a fly tyer You should know that The Fly Tyer Magazine did a Tucker Carlson..

....feature story.

I have been a subscriber for years and have recommended the magazine to others. I have given away free subscriptions to young fly tyers. But recently they did a feature story about Tucker Carlson Fox News.

I felt they used poor judgment by not considering he works for a company the doesn't believe in the very things that fly fishermen and women need to protect the very resources that are important to our ability to enjoy our chosen outdoor sport.

Water quality, climate change, industrial pollution, farming run-off to adjoining trout water, protecting national parks from mining and drilling to mention a few of the issues they lobby against.

Now Tucker has repeatedly attacked Tammy Duckworth a disabled veteran who lost both legs while when her helicopter was hit by an enemy rocket.

Tucker Carlson never served in the military. And in fact, come from a rich family.

Please consider this when subscribing to your fly fishing journals. When my multi-year subscription runs out I will have to do some soul searching before resubscribing.

Here is the journal his story ran in. Seen on their Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/flytyermagazine/photos/a.430274594937/10157741120914938

[mnmoderatedem]

31. republicans are famous for their "support the troups" mantra except for when they are democrats

Duckworth is one of the most egregious examples

[Stuart G]

32. She is my senator too. I am proud of her.

[ancianita]

35. Mine, too! Any veteran in Congress would do the same (I hope).

[efhmc]

33. I am amazed at the work she did and still does to keep our democracy intact.

And she was a nursing mom at one point.

[Miigwech]

34. Amen, amen, amen!

[efhmc]

36. Lucky. My senators are named Cruel and Crooked.

[NNadir]

37. From my perspective, she would make a fine VP. I'm a Harris guy, but she's my second choice. n/t.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

38. Sitting in a chair she stands taller than Sucker & tRump do on a ladder. . . . nt

[demigoddess]

41. +1 million

[yuiyoshida]

40. TUCKER CARLSON is a

White Supremacist -- WHEN TRUMP goes, FOX NEWS should go with him. fuck them..

[rurallib]

42. A cockroach stands taller than Carlson or trump

[Cha]

46. Awww.. Excellent observation! Sen

Duckworth is brilliant!

[nkpolitics1212]

49. If Duckworth becomes VPOTUS on 1/2021, Who is going to be her US Senate Replacement?

Lisa Madigan?
Robin Kelly?
Cheri Bustos?

[murielm99]

50. I would like it to be Cheri,

but it might be hard for another Democrat to win in her district. She is so well-liked that she wins her district by 20%. She could end up as speaker of the house.

Madigan would be a good choice. She would not displace a sitting and much-needed Congress person. And she did a great job as attorney general. Many people thought she would run for governor. Her family is powerful and talented as well. In Illinois, family connections count for something, on both sides of the aisle. Families seem to run things. This is not a bad thing, IMO. Family members grow up expecting to serve, and they are groomed for it.

[UpInArms]

51. Did I not hear that Karl Rove had returned to "help"?

This maneuver reeks of his methods ...

Remember what they did to Max Cleland ...

https://www.salon.com/2016/09/12/trump-iraq-and-max-cleland-the-rights-endless-hypocrisy-over-the-iraq-war/

Like many Democrats in 2002, Cleland opposed the Bush administration's plans for an invasion of Iraq in response to the 9/11 attacks a year earlier. For his opposition to President Bush's military whimsy, Cleland was targeted for ouster by Rove and the Chambliss campaign, and the strategy was breathtakingly horrendous. The centerpiece of the campaign was an infamous television ad in support of Chambliss, which inconceivably linked Cleland with Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden, the dual supervillains of that era, while also outrageously questioning whether Cleland had "the courage to lead."

Prior to the ad's dropping, Cleland was comfortably ahead of his challenger in the polls. In the days and weeks following the ad, Cleland dipped behind Chambliss and was ultimately defeated by a 6-point margin. He later told CBS News that the election had triggered his PTSD from the war. Chambliss went on to serve two full terms, retiring after the 2014 midterms.

Cleland, who left three limbs in Vietnam, was politically euthanized by the Republicans using a familiar early-2000s cudgel: Cleland was an unpatriotic terrorist sympathizer for his opposition to what became the Iraq War and therefore this decorated American soldier was unfit to serve in the Senate. He was publicly disgraced by the GOP establishment, as well as by an opponent, Chambliss, who received a deferment from the Vietnam draft due to an alleged "bum knee" from an old football injury. In other words, the draft dodger Republican was a true patriot for supporting the war, but a triple amputee and Vietnam War hero wasn't patriotic or courageous enough for re-election. Worse, Cleland was named as part of a rogues gallery that included America's most visible enemies at the time.

[marble falls]

52. I've got Cornyn and Cruz.

[AllaN01Bear]

55. mine is mclintock. bleh.

[Raster]

54. Senator Duckworth proves every day you don't need legs to stand tall!