It’s a terrible, debilitating condition. Apparently it causes you to lean forward at a weird angle when standing and makes it hard to go down ramps.
How did those in his command address him?
Master Sergeant? Sergeant Major? Acting Sergeant Major?
“Sarge”? “Coach”?
Oh, I see. They would have addressed him as Sergeant Major, as he would have been wearing the rank (as far as I know; I was Navy, not Army).
Assistant TO the Regional Manager
I’d define progressive as something to the left of center left. Something the middle would think of as radical. But I am honestly asking. He’s not advocating for massive wealth redistribution …
Is anyone?
Sure they were. Bernie was advocating for both of those in 2016, and they weren’t new ideas then. Biden’s political genius has always been to position himself right in the center of the Democratic Party., which means he’s been moving slowly but surely to the left since 1974.
Biden deserves credit for embracing popular progressive policies, but it’s the progressives who deserve credit for having made those policies popular in the first place, while Biden hung back to see which way the wind was blowing.
Thank you for engaging with it. I am not an economist, so I can’t speak with much intelligence on those matters. But Walz’s record on steering his state as Governor through the pandemic and beyond is definitely a relevant topic to discuss.
I found this Reuter’s article comparing MN vs. the rest of the US in 5 economic areas. Looks pretty darn great to me, a non-expert.
Here’s a CNN segment about the attacks on Tim Walz’ military record and handling of the George Floyd riots. Pretty good.
Not to mention avoiding STDs, which Trump modestly characterized as his “personal Vietnam.”
Maybe we’ve been beaten down so much that asking for reasonable things feels radical.
So it turns out Walz’s great-great grandfather was born in a town less than ten minutes from where I currently live.
And now I’m crossing my fingers extra-hard he gets elected, because there’s a non-zero chance he can be convinced to visit our little corner of the world on some future diplomatic jaunt.
Edit to add: more detailed article.
One of the newest attacks they’re trying on Walz is that he hates white people. That’s plausible, right? Apparently “everyone knows a guy like that.”
Christ they’re so weird.
In Luxembourg, isn’t everything 10 minutes or less from everything else? 
Har har. We’re the size of Rhode Island, so allow an hour tops.
WaPo has a good analysis of the “stolen valor” attacks on Walz:
https://wapo.st/46VYPcd
Some key points about the retirement issue:
So it looks like he almost certainly put in his retirement paper before the mobilization announcement. And he has at least two good reasons to have done so: his run for Congress, and his continuing hearing issues. And his retirement could’ve been blocked, but there was no discussion of blocking it.
@Loach, I promise I won’t badger you more about it, but I wanted to reiterate my question: what would it look like to give Walz the benefit of the doubt, and is it worth doing so?
I have a friend who lives in Luxembourg and occasionally does promotional stuff for them. She did not appreciate my suggested tourist slogan of " Luxembourg! Come for the castles, stay for the money laundering!"