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Local man, West Point grad talks about ouster from Army(Spencer Rapone)
ncnewsonline.com ^

Posted on 04/14/2025 11:02:33 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET

Even while still a cadet, Rapone's online postings alarmed a West Point history professor, who wrote Rapone up, saying his online postings were "red flags that cannot be ignored." Rapone was disciplined but still allowed to graduate.

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KEYWORDS: commie; dirtyclown; learntopost; secretclown; spencerrapone; spenserrapone; universityoftexas; westpoint
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Remember this guy? He's now a PHD candidate at UTexas-around 33 years old now. Really smart-gamed the system. They can't take away his academy degree. Supposedly got radicalized while serving in Afghanistan as an enlisted man. Then got the West Point appointment. Hit and run artist biting the hand that fed him. Only John Kerry did better.
1 posted on 04/14/2025 11:02:33 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I remember the dirtbag.


2 posted on 04/14/2025 11:04:49 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

There’s more. This was going on about the time Kapernick was in the news. Got inspired. The thing is his flashing the tshirt and hat happened in 2016 when the Kenyan was in office. This fella fed on that kinda stuff these kinda people come out of the woodwork on a slippery slope. The good news now is Trump and the GOP is in charge and the MSM can’t ignore their action responses.


3 posted on 04/14/2025 11:06:13 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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You can never tell what’s going on inside the heads of these people. Are red flags acted upon? I don’t think so. Some are much better at hiding their true intentions. Think SCOTUS appointees or RINO senators that as squash that 51st vote.


4 posted on 04/14/2025 11:13:21 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Italian Trulli
5 posted on 04/14/2025 11:14:02 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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They may not be able to take away his Academy degree but they sure as heck should make him pay for it.


6 posted on 04/14/2025 11:15:33 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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He should have been bounced out before graduation and been forced to pay back the cost of being educated at West Point.

No way I would countenance him being sent out into the Enlisted ranks after being bounced out. Marxist poison.


7 posted on 04/14/2025 11:16:41 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Oh, that POS.


8 posted on 04/14/2025 11:17:16 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die!)
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**He should have been bounced out before graduation and been forced to pay back the cost of being educated at West Point.**

The arcticle(7 years ago) mentions that. It would be nice to see Hegseth go after him. He’ll earn the money. Remember all those black chick cadets raising their fists? They’d be too scared to discipline them.


9 posted on 04/14/2025 11:19:21 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Oh, that POS.

We would sign a hymn for him in the good old days...

"Him, Him F#@K him!!"

10 posted on 04/14/2025 11:29:11 AM PDT by pfflier
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Hahaha...I imagined the skank Crockett would be among that group of black female cadets raising their fist in the Marxist salute, but...even the Woke West Point might have blanched at actually admitting someone like her.

Okay, you got me. I guess they wouldn’t have hesitated!


11 posted on 04/14/2025 11:30:11 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Spenser Rapone is a graduate student focusing on modern Arab intellectual history. He is broadly interested in decolonization, revolution, metaphysics, consciousness, and violence in the twentieth century Arab Middle East. His research is primarily concerned with the question of the self, soul, and spirit in modern Arab thought. Specifically, he engages with the intellectual contributions of the Baʿth 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.

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/gradstudents/sr49877


12 posted on 04/14/2025 11:31:12 AM PDT by TexasGator (./.)
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History Department - University of Texas at Austin Congratulations to History PhD Candidate Spenser Rapone, whose article in Modern Intellectual History, "The Metaphysical Universe of Michel ʿAflaq and His Party: A Reappraisal of the Baʿth," won the Syrian Studies Association's Best Article of 2024. The prize committee had this to say about Spenser's work: We found Rapone's article an ambitious and successful effort to understand the thought and work of ʿAflaq in its own terms. Rapone's deep investigation of the metaphysical dimensions of ʿAflaq's thought attempts to put the Baʿth founder in a wider Arab and anti-colonial context. We thought the article would be widely read and long consulted by other scholars with comparable interests.


13 posted on 04/14/2025 11:36:44 AM PDT by TexasGator (./.)
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Supposedly got radicalized while serving in Afghanistan as an enlisted man. Then got the West Point appointment.

It's been a number of years since I was in the military; appointment to a military academy requires not only outstanding academic marks but also interviews to ensure that the prospective cadet or midshipmen is also of the highest moral character.

I'm a little concerned that the "system" didn't do a little better job at detecting what a scum he was.

14 posted on 04/14/2025 11:38:33 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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To: DIRTYSECRET; Allegra; Lazamataz; Fred Nerks

“Less than a year after Rapone’s images drew a firestorm of vitriol and even death threats, the second lieutenant who became known as the “commie cadet” is officially out of the U.S. Army with an other-than-honorable discharge.”

I think he should be made to repay the cost of his education at West Point.

Putin would hire him, so therefore his passport needs to be revoked making him a defacto, persona non grata.


15 posted on 04/14/2025 11:46:53 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>) )
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I have been following this commie bastard for years

He must be on Austin.

He is a true enemy of the people.


16 posted on 04/14/2025 11:48:50 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: TexasGator

Looks like his nose got moved a bit.


17 posted on 04/14/2025 11:50:47 AM PDT by TexasM1A (GLASS HAMAS )
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Open Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Heffington

This a very damning letter on what has taken place at West Point....

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-letter-from-lieutenant-colonel-heffington-eric-sibul

18 posted on 04/14/2025 12:09:36 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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He should have been bounced out before graduation and been forced to pay back the cost of being educated at West Point.

Nobody was being bounced out. Check out my prior post......

19 posted on 04/14/2025 12:11:23 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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He should have never been allowed to graduate from West Point.

Once he gets his PhD, the far left will portray him as a West Point grad and war hero.

20 posted on 04/14/2025 12:11:33 PM PDT by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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