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Stephen Webber
@s_webber
Currently Missouri @AFLCIO. Former Chair of @MoDemParty & @USMC Infantry. Candidate for Missouri Senate. https://t.co/Kp4MLdSjGx
Jan 25, 2022 • 6 tweets • 7 min read
As we slowly see Missouri through Josh Hawley’s ambitious, Virginia-living eyes let’s start by all agreeing on one thing:

It’s creepy as hell to have staff list the salary of the people you’re meeting with.
#Va2Mo #MissourianForADay
1/? #MoLeg Republicans should know Hawley’s Government staff is always watching them.
If they fail to tweet when asked it is remembered. @hrehder @NickBSchroer (Good on you both)
Not sure how @tonylovasco’s twitter account became “An issue at play this session”
Apr 6, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Being a Dem, a veteran & Josh Hawley, a 🪡🧵.

17 years ago today I was in my first serious combat.
I was 20.
All day I’ve been thinking about them walking into that ambush.
About laying in a ditch as tracers crisscrossed overhead until the tanks came.

7 years ago 👇 Then I saw this article about how Josh Hawley is a hypocritical fraud on Iraq, no surprise.

But that wasn’t the thing about it. cnn.com/2021/04/05/pol…
Apr 22, 2020 • 20 tweets • 10 min read
The Chinese Communist Party has a key ally in Missouri Republicans.

As people die & the economy crashes due to Republican failures, Repubs turn to one of the few plays they have left: xenophobia.

GOP outrage is convience, not conviction.

Let’s check the receipts⬇️
(It’s WILD) In 2010/11 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) adopted their 12th “Five Year Plan.”
(The most infamous of these 5 year plans was Mao Zedongs “Great Leap Forward” that resulted in the starvation of 30-55 million people.)
Feb 20, 2020 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Quick thread on what #IwoJima75 means to me as a Marine.

In the Marine Corps our dogma is battles. Guadalcanal, Okinawa, Chosin, Khe Sanh, Hue City. It’s not victory we venerate, it’s the fight.

Iwo stands alone. While we’re getting smoked at boot camp the Drill Instructors dismissively snarl “this isn’t Iwo Jima.”

When your struggling in training senior Marines mock you “this isn’t Iwo Jima.”

New color video of the battle is here ⬇️boingboing.net/2020/02/19/pow…
May 1, 2018 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
There's been discussion about a Trump surrogate & former political appointee who dismissed 3/4 of vets w/ PTSD as liars, says he "sucked it up" & referred to sharing feelings as "beta."

Let me tell you about a time in Fallujah, Iraq that I think about a lot.

Thread 👇 After an ambush two of our guys were medevaced. One had been shot in the stomach. The other had been shot in the head.
They were in serious condition, but alive.
Feb 7, 2017 • 52 tweets • 17 min read
I'm about to share what happened #10YearsAgoInIraq. My goal is to give a glimpse into what life was like. Feel free to mute- it's long @s_webber There was a bad day before, and a bad day after. This was just a day. Feb 7, 2007. To the best of my memory.