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22. Tom DeLay and Dan Quayle military service

Wed Oct 5, 2022, 10:20 PM

Oct 2022

Tom DeLay and Dan Quayle military service

He and Quayle, DeLay explained to the assembled media in New Orleans, were victims of an unusual phenomenon back in the days of the undeclared Southeast Asian war. So many minority youths had volunteered for the well-paying military positions to escape poverty and the ghetto that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself. Satisfied with the pronouncement, which dumbfounded more than a few of his listeners who had lived the sixties, DeLay marched off to the convention.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/chatterbox/1999/05/what_did_you_do_in_the_war_hammer.html

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So Called Macho Men Who Do Not Want to Join the Military [View all] erpowers Oct 2022 OP

I imagine this is yet one more example of GOP projection. thucythucy Oct 2022 #1

"I'm not a sissy, you're a sissy." rubbersole Oct 2022 #3

Precisely. thucythucy Oct 2022 #4

They're chicken shit cowards. onecaliberal Oct 2022 #2

They're just Po before they realize the strength of the Dragon Warrior. TheBlackAdder Oct 2022 #21

Couldn't pass the psychological exam... rubbersole Oct 2022 #7

The recruiting psych exam is pretty much a checkbox kind of thing. SalamanderSleeps Oct 2022 #18

This message was self-deleted by its author brewens Oct 2022 #6

Oh, this thread needs a little something... CTyankee Oct 2022 #8

& do the Thank-you-for-your-service thing UTUSN Oct 2022 #9

Plus the rich boys paid for substitutes (thank you for MY service) UTUSN Oct 2022 #14

Suckers and losers? czarjak Oct 2022 #10

I'm an ACTUAL veteran. Aristus Oct 2022 #11

Hooah - says this Army retiree. TomSlick Oct 2022 #20

Ooh Rah. MarineCombatEngineer Oct 2022 #25

yup Skittles Oct 2022 #12

+1000 Rebl2 Oct 2022 #13

But isn't Traildogbob Oct 2022 #15

Really? A gender slur as a synonym for cowardice? niyad Oct 2022 #19

Pussies are both male and female kimbutgar Oct 2022 #29

No, that is a gender slur for cowardice. niyad Oct 2022 #32

Tom DeLay and Dan Quayle military service keithbvadu2 Oct 2022 #22

DeLay didn't even serve the 3-5 he was sentenced to. nt okaawhatever Oct 2022 #34

Matt Walsh is scared of transwomen vercetti2021 Oct 2022 #24

These idiots would have washed out of USAF basic ca 1980s Genki Hikari Oct 2022 #30

Frat boy hazing was macho enough for them, and the only reason Warpy Oct 2022 #26

And, worse to have a woman or brown TI in their faces Genki Hikari Oct 2022 #31

I can well imagine those macho twits stomping off in angry tears Warpy Oct 2022 #33

This message was self-deleted by its author Hassler Oct 2022 #27