For the younger folks: Kerry got some seriously badass medals for his military service in Vietnam. People who had been on the same boat as he did, but at a different time, worked with the Republican party to claim that he hadn’t really done what he did. The press ate this up, and distributed it widely, costing him public support and likely the election.
There’s a documentary about it because the Swift Boating was such bullshit.
Several of the swift boaters themselves recanted after the Questionable Victory of GeeDubz part II.
Can’t find the documentary, here’s a relevant article:
Ah yes. Texas scumbag T. Boone Pickens, the Musk of his day, funded the whole smear campaign.
And it’s a reminder that republiQans do not give one good goddamn how true something is or not. If it has “political impact” they’ll use it.
The Republicans have never given a single shit about veterans, they just like the flag waving and faux patriotism. They nominated the guy who consistently insults veterans, calling those who fell in war “losers”, and the rest of their elected officials consistently starve the VA so that veterans can’t receive the care they were promised.
Like everything else the Republicans claim to “support”, it’s in name only, and no substance. They only support their billionaire overlords, and the orange fuhrer himself.
I got a real Boone T’ Pickens with that guy
Have you been drinking tonight, sir?
Step out of the thread, please sir.
And please not, this is literally the same person trying to swift boat here - Chris LaCivita, now the co-manager of the Trump campaign.
Grifters all the way down the trump camp