Fire 1/2 of all flag officers. Work on breaking down the empires getting back to having combat forces.
1. whoever used the idiotic term “former veteran” ain’t never been one and never will!!
In the eyes of those of us Americans who did serve, you have two classes:
those that serrved,
and everybody else.
The only way you can grammatically be called a “former veteran”, is when you are dead.
Another thing to mention, that somebody brought up a while ago, is that there is a military regulation that affects retired and medically retired servicemen, and their speaking out against the government.
Should somebody get the idea to appply that reg to this brave soul, domebody might just inform this political candidate before that card is played.
It would appear to me, that whoever called high ranking military officers, perfumed princes, was dead right on.
The deliberately misleading headline makes it sound like this is some recent development, which is clearly is not.
Barrett was already out of the military and ran 2 years ago in the Lansing district against ultra-liberal Democrat Elissa Slotkin, who is vacating the seat this time around in order to become Michigan’s newest ultra-liberal Senator, and probably end up with as long and undistinguished a Senate career as the dingbat she’s replacing (Stabenow).
Barrett was outspent by 300% in 2022 here, and he lost by 5.4%. In 2024 he has less than half as much campaign cash to work with right now than his loony leftist opponent — a perfect 100% liberal in the MI state Senate in 2022 and 2023.
This is one of the tossup battleground districts which is going to decide who controls the House after 2024. The odds of success currently aren’t great in this one, and Barrett’s going to need to come up with a very strong campaign (what with his opponent having the important advantages) in order to defy the odds in November.