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Air Force warns [threatens] troops to avoid pro-Trump ‘patriot’ rally: Report
americanmilitarynews.com ^

Posted on 11/21/2023 1:19:15 PM PST by BenLurkin

Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota recently sent service members a text message warning them that their “continued service” could be in jeopardy if they attended a local rally featuring a speaker from an organization that has historically been supportive of former President Donald Trump.

In the text message sent to the Air Force base’s service members, leadership warned “participation with groups such as Turning Point Action could jeopardize their continued service in the U.S. military.”

Leadership warned Air Force members that some of the people attending the rally “could be confrontational to military members.”

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Turning Point Action spokesperson explained that the recent “Dakota Patriot Rally” event was not officially recognized by the organization; however, the spokesperson described the threatening message sent by Air Force leaders as “absolutely appalling.”

“Tyler Bowyer was simply a keynote speaker. Secondly, Turning Point Action is not alt-right, it’s a mainstream conservative organization, and Tyler Bowyer is not some fringe personality—he’s the COO of TPAction, an RNC committeeman from the state of Arizona, and one of the most accomplished political organizers in the country,”

spokesperson also emphasized the “shocking and totally unacceptable” concept that military members could jeopardize their careers by participating with Turning Point Action.

“This should set off alarm bells throughout North Dakota and DC, that something is terribly wrong at the Minot Air Force base.”

“It’s exactly this type of poison that has caused the Air Force to miss its recruiting goal for the first time in decades,”

(Excerpt) Read more at americanmilitarynews.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: airforce; dakotapatriotrally; minot; minotafb; turningpointaction; tylerbower
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To: PeterPrinciple

That was quick. I wonder what happens next and what happens to the creti n that sent the “unofficial” message? Bet we never know.


61 posted on 11/21/2023 3:40:34 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: vpintheak

Ok ok ok ok


62 posted on 11/21/2023 3:43:16 PM PST by stanne
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To: stanne
Nothing new. Regs always prohibited troops from attending political events. Of course.

No.

The rule was you could not attend in uniform.

Just attending was fine.

63 posted on 11/21/2023 3:45:20 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: Sequoyah101

“I think the only regulation is you can’t attend a political event in uniform or in an official capacity.”

That was then; this is now. After Jan. 6, I wouldn’t be surprised about anything.


64 posted on 11/21/2023 3:45:52 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (As God's children, we live on promises, not explanations - Wiersbe)
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To: PeterPrinciple
So they back peddled.

That is good.

65 posted on 11/21/2023 3:47:02 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: All

Might as well go, and even in uniform if you feel like it, despite regulations.

The 0’biden Pentagon wants to eliminate you anyway, if they even suspect you might be a Conservative or a libertarian.


66 posted on 11/21/2023 3:50:31 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

I haven’t heard the Pentagon was bothered by the pro-gay/pro-abortion/pro-immigration libertarians but only conservatives, do you have a link?


67 posted on 11/21/2023 4:08:06 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ConservativeMind

“That is an outrageous expectation.”

Whichever commander wrote this threat - I don’t care if it was Biden himself - must be thrown out of power; busted down to a nothing.

This is worse than communism; this is liberalism. Dirty, dirty, dirty, dirty.


68 posted on 11/21/2023 4:30:42 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Yes. We’ve established that


69 posted on 11/21/2023 4:59:58 PM PST by stanne
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To: stanne

My bad. Didn’t read far enough down. It does sound like someone was trying to bluff the base personnel from attending by claiming legal activity was illegal.


70 posted on 11/21/2023 5:11:35 PM PST by wgmalabama (Censored )
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To: BenLurkin

Freedom of Association.


71 posted on 11/21/2023 5:11:46 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (islam is a totalitarian death cult founded by a child rapist.)
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To: stanne
Quod erat demonstrandum.

(Thus it has been demonstrated)

:)

Are you charbroiled or just a bit singed?

72 posted on 11/21/2023 5:16:38 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: ansel12

I was typing about real libertarians, not the current crop of leftists who pretend that they are too anti-establishment to call themselves Democrats.


73 posted on 11/21/2023 5:16:47 PM PST by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

It is conservatives the Pentagon is after, the republican voters, not the libertarian voters.


74 posted on 11/21/2023 5:21:55 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ought-six

“Well, the USAF then needs to issue the same warning to “

No. The USAF just needs to stop trying to violate the rights of its members, and officers that do need prosecuted.


75 posted on 11/21/2023 5:55:02 PM PST by CodeToad (Rule#1: The elites want you dead.)
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To: ConservativeMind; All

Too bad Donnie ain’t in the corner office.


76 posted on 11/21/2023 10:49:15 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: mabarker1

Wow. Amazing that that you weren’t canned.


77 posted on 11/21/2023 10:55:21 PM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: mabarker1
Things were a bit tense the next morning... But I kept My Job.🤪

20 years ago? You got by. Today? One of your co-workers would have posted your email on Twitter or TikTok.

78 posted on 11/21/2023 11:03:11 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: TalBlack; MinorityRepublican
TB- Yeah, I was kinda worried at first but they were still trying to hire 2 more WTP Operators at that point.

mr- Coworkers were all good with it. The really tweaked ones were in Highly Ridicules, City Council and Mayor.

And I wasn't done with Highly Ridicules just yet.

Highly Ridicules needs to be abolished and changed back to PAYROLL Department. Highly Ridicules has amassed way too much power over the Entire system and Personnel. It's like when they renamed Garbage/Trash Man to Sanitation Engineer.

I was required to attend a 3 day "class" on Productivity and changing the Paradigm or some stupid name close to that. The 3rd day the hr person started talking about how it takes 21 days to form a habit and how it creates a better working environment because it increases productivity. She kept repeating the 21 day BS.

My job was Water Treatment Plant Operator and in the Water Department we worked 12 hour shifts 07:00 - 19:00 Day and 19:00 - 07:00 Night. We were on for 3 shifts then 2 shifts off, then 2 shifts on and 3 shifts off. Every month We swapped from day to night with the same hours. Now I didn't have any say in how or why this was the way it was and had been that way for decades. Since the Plant had existed 60+ years ago. I thought it was the stupidest, goofiest schedule I'd ever heard of.

So I raised My hand to ask a question and when recognized I asked "Do Y'All even look at the hours that the Water Department works ?" The hr lady had a confused expression and didn't answer My question but instead asked Me "What I was getting at ?" I replied with the schedule that we were on and that it's going to be impossible to "Form a Habit" with the schedule we worked. hr lady said she would get back to Me with an answer later.

The next day I was called into My stupidvisor's office and asked what I had done in class the day before. I looked at him and said "What are you talking about ?" He replied that hr lady said that I had embarrassed her and was rude to her. I told him exactly what I had said and asked. He said "are You sure ?" I said YES I AM SURE.

I never heard anything about it after that.

Now a short story about being Monitored.

The 4th day of employment at the Water Department I E-Mailed from My Work E-Mail to My Personal E-mail a copy of the Monthly Schedule so I had it for reference. The next day it still had not arrived in My Personal E-mail so I went to resend it and I was locked out of My Work E-mail and started asking why. That's when My stupidvisor asked who was coondogphilosophy@xxxxx.com ? I said that is My Personal E-mail.

Turns out that they were screening My work E-mail and they thought I was giving out sensitive Water Plant internal operations information to someone outside of the Plant.

79 posted on 11/22/2023 7:11:44 AM PST by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: CodeToad

“No. The USAF just needs to stop trying to violate the rights of its members, and officers that do need prosecuted.”

That goes without saying. But my point is that by being discriminatory against one group — based on politics — while excluding from discrimination other groups, the USAF brass have openly that they are in violation of oaths, and should be cashiered from service.


80 posted on 11/22/2023 7:54:57 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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