Posted on 09/23/2024 7:55:48 AM PDT by DFG
A West Point graduate who first made headlines for his “Communism will win” message written in his uniform cap is now a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) studying “Modern Arab intellectual history.”
In 2017, Spenser Rapone displayed various Marxist messages, such as wearing a Che Guevara shirt beneath his official West Point uniform and posting “#VeteransForKaepernick” on social media.
According to UT’s website, Rapone entered the Ph.D. program in 2020. His university biography cites his interests as “decolonization, revolution, metaphysics, [and] consciousness,” with his research topics focusing on “question of the self, soul, and spirit in modern Arab thought.”
“Specifically, he engages with the intellectual contributions of the Ba’th Party, the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, and other anticolonial nationalist formations that sought to construct a new order and bring about a liberated life and authentic existence in the Arab World,” his biography reads.
Two investigations were launched after Rapone’s communist sentiments were exposed: one by his unit of assignment, the 10th Mountain Division, and another to examine United States Military Academy policies regarding “his suitability for graduation and commissioning.”
Rapone also made headlines in 2018, when he left the U.S. Army under other-than-honorable discharge after a full investigation. As reported by The Associated Press, Rapone resigned due to “conduct unbecoming of an officer” and admittedly advocated online for a socialist revolution.
“I consider myself a revolutionary socialist,” Rapone told The Associated Press at the time. “I would encourage all soldiers who have a conscience to lay down their arms and join me and so many others who are willing to stop serving the agents of imperialism and join us in a revolutionary movement.”
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>He is on track for much, much higher rank in THIS new woke military
10 to 1 this retard ends up in the State Dept. pushing anti-semitic policy
Of course this narcissist is a PhD candidate. Where else was he going to go except Academia?
He'll find a job as a professor, spewing hateful rhetoric at others he blames for his own deficiencies, while behind closed doors, he'll ask young men on campus to abuse him sexually because he hates himself.
Yes, exactly: Where is the mass exodus to all the People’s Democratic Republics?
He does come across to me as the next John Kerry. I agree, probably aiming for an academic career and maybe a turn in the State Department. The way things are these days, a ruined career in the Army needn’t hobble one for another somewhere else in Woke-ademia or the FedGov fun-house.
Rapone had a less than honorable record in the Army.
But his West Point bachelor’s degree gives him the right to become a graduate student!
Phooey, anyway!
He sounds like a very useful fellow, and truly productive member of society. Why, if there were 99 more of him, all 100 together might be half as useful to the health and wellbeing of America as a single, average farmer or trucker...
He won’t take the job. Will be in Kamala’s Cabinet
And we dropped about $200k to educate this fool.
Free education. Sort of.
Somehow, I don’t think ‘education’ took, with him.
Back in the old days, it was about $40K...crammed up your ass a nickel at a time.
He certainly qualifies for a DNC leadership role.
Obi Wan made a great Bolshevik.
De-colonization and muzzies and communism. One of these things is not like the other. Muzzies and commies have always practiced colonization.
he’s still breathing???
Yes, he will. With ‘West Point graduate’ on his resume’, he will someday be a top level government political appointee!
Secretary of Defense.
Thos is the new brass. Obama and chomo Joe are commissioning America haters as fast as they can.
Nah. That would be “The Complete Book of Irish Foreplay.”
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