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How does a small town mayor become a contender for democrat presidential nominee? Curious history.
1 posted on 02/19/2020 7:34:00 AM PST by all the best
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Deep State mystery candidates—every time.


2 posted on 02/19/2020 7:36:26 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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The same way Kamala Harris rose to stardom, on his knees.


3 posted on 02/19/2020 7:36:40 AM PST by eyeamok
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Someone should ask what training he received from the military prior to being commissioned as a 1st lieutenant.


4 posted on 02/19/2020 7:37:00 AM PST by circlecity
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Wait. He didn’t go to the Naval Academy?


5 posted on 02/19/2020 7:38:00 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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The same people who created Obama and elevated him to national status are doing the same for Buttygoop.


6 posted on 02/19/2020 7:38:08 AM PST by PGR88
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Direct Commission. Waiving OCS for a specific need.
Requires sign-off from up high.
7 posted on 02/19/2020 7:39:12 AM PST by AU72
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How does a small town mayor become a contender for democrat presidential nominee?


how does a person with no military training become inducted into the US Navy as a Lieutenant?

how does an obscure street organizer with sealed past become President?

Curious historic manipulation


8 posted on 02/19/2020 7:39:52 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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He’s the white Obama. A Manchurian Candidate fabricated in a Deep State lab. He’s done a terrible job as mayor as well.

If he weren’t gay, he wouldn’t be in the race. He’s their ‘hope and change’ candidate without the fake Baptist preacher tone and zero plan empty chair ghost written rhetoric.


10 posted on 02/19/2020 7:40:51 AM PST by TigerClaws
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I thought he went in as an Ensign?


12 posted on 02/19/2020 7:41:56 AM PST by Bruce Kurtz
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Not to mention he always talks about being “combat veteran” in Afghanistan when in reality he was a paper pushing desk jockey who never even left the base in Kabul according to those that served with him.


13 posted on 02/19/2020 7:42:36 AM PST by apillar
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Other sources say he was commissioned as an Ensign and left as a Lieutenant after 8 years service, active duty and reserve.

Stars & Stripes

Wikipedia

15 posted on 02/19/2020 7:45:46 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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The direct commission path does NOT require attendance at an academy, ROTC, or Officer candidate school. Most often, it is a means to bringing in talent directly into the military that otherwise would not be available.

It is my understanding that specialized law degrees, medical doctors and cyber security professionals can be directly commissioned as a program. Others on an individual basis.

In my almost 7 years of service, I only encountered 1 direct commission (Presidential appointment). So it is VERY rare.


16 posted on 02/19/2020 7:47:49 AM PST by taxcontrol
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He’s rather like Obama isn’t he. It’s like a guy going from teller to Bank President in a month.


21 posted on 02/19/2020 7:55:22 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Epstein pulled a Carradine, the bozo.)
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It say right there in his record that he went through the direct commission training course. That is a thing, and not all that unusual.

He’s a Harvard grad with foreign language proficiency. If he wants to commission in the naval reserve as an Intel officer he’s not going to have a problem doing so. I seriously doubt his language skills are as good as his supporters claim, and I doubt he was using them in the military, Intel officers at his level mostly answer phones and push paper.

He probably didn’t do much more during his deployment than push paper from the left side of his desk to the right side of his desk, but he didn’t know that ahead of time and there’s nothing wrong with that. There’s plenty to disagree with Buttigieg about, but his brief and uneventful military service isn’t one of them for me.


22 posted on 02/19/2020 7:55:38 AM PST by jz638
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Special privileges for members of the LGBTXYZ mafia.


24 posted on 02/19/2020 8:01:44 AM PST by I want the USA back (Journalists Take Bits of Reality and Slot them into the Existing Script. -Friedman.)
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Appears Charlie and Mike Flynn are a couple of covert pillow biters on the “down-low”.


27 posted on 02/19/2020 8:04:00 AM PST by Liberal Anti Venom (In a free society, the last refuge of a moron is tyranny. ~Jeremy Egerer~)
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Looking at his wiki timeline, he graduated Oxford in 2007, and then spent 3 years at McKinsey & Company, doing something "confidential".

Pete Buttigieg’s Work At McKinsey Is A Secret. Was his three years at McKinsey a CIA cover?

He then, in 2009, he got sworn in as an ensign in the Naval Reserves, in Intelligence.

He's got "CIA/Deep State" written all over him.

28 posted on 02/19/2020 8:04:08 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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Because he was/is a CIA pass-around. Just like Anderson Cooper.


30 posted on 02/19/2020 8:07:05 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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I thought college grads could enter service as officers?


35 posted on 02/19/2020 8:19:57 AM PST by olesigh
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I’d be willing to bet that Petey was CIA or some other civilian intel agency. They threw him an officer’s commission as cover or to facilitate his work.

I’ve often thought that Barack Obama’s family... particularly his late mother... would have been an interesting asset while living in Indonesia. His maternal grandfather’s radical connections also stink to high heaven.

The CIA seems to be doing more than dabbling in domestic politics, so this all ‘fits’.


36 posted on 02/19/2020 8:21:24 AM PST by Tallguy (Facts be d@mned! The narrative must be protected at all costs!))
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