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Biden urges West Point cadets to ‘hold fast’ to the oath amid global turmoil
The Hill ^ | 05/25/2024 | LAUREN IRWIN

Posted on 05/25/2024 1:08:35 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

President Biden told graduates of the U.S. Military Academy Saturday to stay true to their values as they face threats and turmoil across the globe.

“Hold fast to your values that you learned here at West Point,” Biden told the graduates.

He said they will have to uphold the oath they took on their first day at West Point. An oath taken to “not a political party, not to a president, but to the Constitution of the United States of America, against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”


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KEYWORDS: biden; cadets; laurenirwin; spenserrapone; turmoil; westpoint
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Don't tell me West Point is going lefty
1 posted on 05/25/2024 1:08:35 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hold fast on something sailors say.....just goes to show how out of touch whoever is writing his garbage is.


2 posted on 05/25/2024 1:12:34 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
It already has.


3 posted on 05/25/2024 1:13:39 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: ChicagoConservative27

against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC?

Did he really say that?

I hope the graduates take that to heart.


4 posted on 05/25/2024 1:13:57 PM PDT by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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So he urged them to defend the Constitution against himself.

And there were no takers, it seems.


5 posted on 05/25/2024 1:14:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh, it’s way past “going”.


6 posted on 05/25/2024 1:17:34 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Texas resident
From The Federalist, March 22, 2024:

Why Did West Point Remove ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ From Its Mission Statement?

7 posted on 05/25/2024 1:21:19 PM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Then there’s Annapolis

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/more-lies-joe-biden-tells-west-point-grads/


8 posted on 05/25/2024 1:24:22 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Surely there must have been some consequences for this idiot. No way would I let him become a commissioned officer in the US Army.


9 posted on 05/25/2024 1:27:15 PM PDT by Signalman (I am not a snob. Ask anyone who matters.)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

My niece’s husband graduated West Point years back (Colorado). I refused to point out the elimination of ‘Duty, Honor, Country’. I’m sure he knows of it but I saw no reason to piss him off.
I went to Stanford and am sad at what a mess it’s become.


10 posted on 05/25/2024 1:32:29 PM PDT by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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To: Signalman
Indeed. Court martial him on the spot!

In re your tagline.

I myself am president and founder of The International Society For The Preservation Of Cads.

I feel there has to be some standards of selfishness kept.

11 posted on 05/25/2024 1:35:35 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How many trannies and furries are in the West Point class of 24? West Point is lost.


12 posted on 05/25/2024 1:47:16 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Signalman
Ah yes, Spenser Rapone. He got an "other than honorable" discharge, IIRC.

Here he is now, teaching in Austin (where I'm sure he feels right at home).

13 posted on 05/25/2024 1:53:09 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Hold fast to shiting your pants — like me when I was a student at West Point,” Biden told the graduates.


14 posted on 05/25/2024 1:59:06 PM PDT by BEJ
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To: V_TWIN

Lloyd James Austin Sec Defense spoke at my granddaughter’s graduation at Naval Academy. He was totally nonpolitical


15 posted on 05/25/2024 2:00:38 PM PDT by UB355 (inlwess)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

what oath has Biden held fast to, pray tell?

certainly not his oath of office

Article II, Section 1, Clause 8:

Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:–”I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”


16 posted on 05/25/2024 2:01:33 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He said he was appointed to Annapolis and played football, so he should be leery of West Point.


17 posted on 05/25/2024 2:04:43 PM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Going Lefty? If it went more leftie it be righty.


18 posted on 05/25/2024 2:06:14 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What’s Dementia Joe really saying here when he says that their oath is not to presidents but to their constitutional duty to oppose domestic enemies? In not so subtle way, he’s telegraphing the game plan... I think everyone knows the “domestic enemy” he has in mind.

If Trump wins, the Dems and their media mouthpieces are going to declare that the Constitution just died, democracy just died, freedom just died etc etc., and that Trump is a fascist dictator whom all good Americans must resist, and, specifically, the military must disobey. Sadly that’s going to be the scary narrative if Trump somehow wins in November.


19 posted on 05/25/2024 2:07:05 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Looks like Biden is going to use the military to go after anyone that voted for Trump and Trump himself. Also read how Biden after the verdict is read will issue a statement from the white house which tells me he already knows the verdict will be guilty, heck he ordered the verdict so why not..and he will say that Trump is a criminal and you cant vote for a criminal, this is what America has become


20 posted on 05/25/2024 2:08:10 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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