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Originally Posted by Captain Tele
wut your thoughts on this guy?
Teachers may be the new coal miners in West Virginia - CNN Video
CNN sure pumping him up as being the next best thing to sliced bread
I just see the kid of an illegal immigrant who became a whore for Teachers Unions......
but some of his rhetoric about keeping what is ours and screw everybody else (outside of our area) does appear to have wide appeal to Trump's base
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He's an odd ball. Doesnt fit any real stereotype which I sort of respect. Calling him a teacher is bull**** though, JROTC positions are way different then actual history/math dudes. Funding comes from different sources, differenr training, and hes not exacrly spending his free time grading much homework or buying notebooks for his poor ass students like my Aunt does who makes as much as a 3rd year teacher here in Vermont despite 30+ years teaching. Knowing west virginia a lot of parents probably allow him to **** their kids up for misbehaving unlike putting up with the dindu parents of the city which again is different, just the nature of the roll.
He's also guaranteed a fat u.s. army pension and I'm sure collecting VA disability meaning his passive income is in the 90k range in a poor state, excluding any capital gains he's making off tax free overseas dollars. His quote about Trump having not done **** is flat wrong though- uncle was reemployed in the mines the day after Trump got elected (well actual started working a month later but got a call I should say with the mine reopening sending coal to Ukraine of all places).
I'm also semi confused at him being a retired 25 year Major in the Army. If I had to guess his year of ascension cohort should predominately be lieutenant colonels. Maybe injuries kept him back and what not, but a quote about him being 'close to dying 5 times' sounds very suspiciously "specifically vague" sort of like "dodging sniper fire in sarajevo" clinton but could also be a simplification. I would expect a good noncommittal answer to be just 'i came close to dying.' Know of people who have utilized near death in their army time and nightmares and **** to grab a 70% disability when they were really 1000 yards away on the FOB in a green bean coffee shack grabbing a latte. Throw a 30% knee issue and you're getting a nice 90% rating. You could live nicely off that alone in West Virginia.
edit - youre only the second person to bring him across my radar so I had to check some news articles/wiki for this break down, but he stood out to me the first time I heard him so figured with you asking I def needed to look more in depth. woke up to a nightmare (i dont have the army pay for mine lol) so what else to do. personally I also think its bull**** to hit the guy on **** like social security tax increase. everyone our (I think you're in your late 20s early 30s) joke and hear jokes from our parents friends about there not being social security left in the future and as long as we have this benefit, which I believe we need as a social safety net and especially so in a state like West Virginia as too many men drop at 65 leaving their wives for another 20 years on their own - sounds like fiscal responsibility to me. I think he's a mostly a throw back to left wing populism sort of like Huey Long and the type of guy Robert Byrd had a lot in of. At what point does populism meet socialism, identity politics, etc? idk but while I disagree with some things pending a more thorough look at his military record and candidate he is running against I could conceivably support him. Id rather have a guy who fights for me even if it's not even a majority what I want as strong leadership brings better results to everyone and better than a corrupt candidate who I agree with 100%. These ads im watching on Breitbart will definitely tank him, he shouldn't have spoke out against Trump so specifically as coal country supports Trump 100%. If he has gone the full way of union shill then I can get why he said it otherwise he should have kept his criticism to a 'read between the lines' style and reiterate his 'i voted for trump in 16, enough said.' Of course that could play against him on a national level in 10 years so...the decisions people make when they enter politics