This kid is using reels of video of himself in uniform in this political ad but more appalling is the use of video of funerals of service members, families visiting their graves and on and on. These are families of fallen being used for his right wing bullshit. But there's more.
He graduated West Point and did the minimum time required before going back to a town he hasn't lived in for 10 years and decides a month after arriving he should be their Congressman. What does he know about their issues? Know any business owners? Average people? Nope. Hubris.
Harold here is a kid who has been told how amazing he is for years. He was the best of the best and now he should be a Congressman using his miniscule time in service as his only qualification. He literally counts his time at West Point as part of his "9.5 years of service."
Now he is just another GOP grifter like Doug Collins who used his time as a Chaplain to say he would "fight the mobs." Out of the gate this guy breaks DOD regulations and all manner of professional judgement while still wearing a high and tight. Pathetic. Georgia deserves better.
By the way....where is he running? Couldn't tell you. Nowhere on his site, in his glossy video (he and is wife are vloggers), or on anything does he even mention the people or area he wants to represent! They are literally props. This is a YouTube personality running for himself.

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Look at the love @marcorubio has for the troops! His staff dug up this awful stock photo of a "soldier" in a fake uniform with a beard! Nothing says "support the troops" like a bad stock photo. I wonder why they couldn't find pics of him with military families? #LincolnProject
OH MY GOD! This guy has two wives! What will Marco say about this?? #BadStockPhoto
NOOOOOOOOO!!! It gets worse! This "soldier" has a whole other family too! What kind of family values is @marcorubio supporting? #badstockphoto
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So why do the Republicans introduce packages of voting restrictions instead of single bills? So, one law seems innocuous. They will even get a Dem or two vote for some. But it’s a game. They build on each other. They get you to focus on one hole but it’s a giant net.
You will get the bill with more weekend voting then another that makes it harder to actually register to vote at all. They keep absentee balloting but outlaw giving people water in line. They restrict hours but “relent” as “compromise.”
Then they sneak in the administrative changes you don’t hear about. Less polling places in black neighborhoods. Reduced staff at the board of elections to register. Close down DMV offices in downtowns. Change the types of required ID. It’s an insidious and duplicitous effort.
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One of the right wing outlets is working their way down an oppo file on me now. Today they'll release a 'scandalous" story that I have two bankruptcies in my financial history. Yep...I do. Like many Americans I've had some tough times both personally and professionally. (1)
In 2001 I was running for mayor of our town while working as a Project Management Consultant and my then wife was a flight attendant. I was mobilized the night of 9/11 in the Army Reserve and she was furloughed. My unit screwed up my paperwork so my pay was a fraction. (2)
Like many folks we had been living paycheck to paycheck with 4 kids and the whole thing collapsed with a loss of most of our income. Eventually we filed Chapter 7 which my poor wife had to do while I was deployed in Iraq in 2003. We lived frugally for years and recovered. (3)
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When I was a Company Commander in the 101st after my wife and baby were killed in a car accident my Chaplain probably saved my sanity. We were mobilized for a month just 10 days after they died. Every day he checked on me and let me talk or cry. Let me work through it all.
I don’t remember praying with him or him trying to convert me to his faith. As a matter of fact, I don’t remember what his faith was. He was just my counselor and supporter. He didn’t judge me or things I did to deal with her loss even as I did really stupid stuff. He was a rock.
I would never trust this man as a confidant or with my soldiers. Chaplain Calvert is obviously a bigot and a judgemental jerk. He’s not there to help soldiers. He’s there to convert them. To point out their sins. To undermine their self worth with his homophobia and transphobia.
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My son-in-law has been mobilized with the VA Guard. He could end up attached to MAJ Pete Hegseth of the DC Guard. I want to know if Pete is with the insurrectionists or not. This isn't a joke. I'm being completely serious. Is MAJOR Hegseth siding with the violent mob or my kid?
Does he agree with the Joint Chiefs when they said "We witnessed actions inside the Capitol building that were inconsistent with the rule of law. The rights of freedom of speech and assembly do not give anyone the right to resort to violence, sedition and insurrection."
They were clear: "As Service Members, we must embody the values and ideals of the Nation. We support and defend the Constitution. Any act to disrupt the Constitutional process is not only against our traditions, values, and oath; it is against the law." news.usni.org/2021/01/12/mes…
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I've been a fan of @Militarydotcom and am friends with the editors and reporters. Publishing the OpEd asking for a pardon for Robert Bales is an outrageous and awful decision. The piece is full of lies and disgusting twists of the truth and should never have been published.
But, worse is the timing and misrepresentation of the piece itself. Donald Trump will think this is the opinion of many who serve. He will believe this is another situation like the others he pardoned wrongly as well. This has the very real chance of making this happen.
Bales is a cold hearted evil man. He left his post under cover of night and murdered 16 civilians including multiple children. The idea it was some kind of lone warrior counterinsurgency mission is so patently ridiculous it should have been laughed out the door not published!
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