He had a chance to go to Iraq with his field artillery regiment in 2005, but he decided to retire instead after 24 years of service.
He exaggerates his military experience, and reminds me of no one so much lately as Peter Meijer, who did the same.
It is disrespectful to veterans who actually were in combat.
As he campaigns, Amash said, he encounters few Michigan Republicans who support Rogers outside of his party affiliation or his relationship with Trump.
“I’m just going to, you know, wipe the floor with him.”
Quoted here, June 10th.
Peter Meijer wisely dropped out at the end of April.
Trump endorsed Rogers on Monday, March 11th.
The July 2022 roll call vote is here.
TSMC’s Arizona subsidiary is set to receive up to $6.6 billion in U.S. government funding under a preliminary agreement announced by the Biden administration on Monday.
The funding, under the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, will support Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s more than $65 billion investment in three cutting-edge fabrication plants in Phoenix, according to the nonbinding agreement.
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Dunderheads Peter Meijer and Fred Upton from Michigan voted for the bill, in addition to other has-beens like Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney.
Story here.
Last September I predicted he'd run, except as a spoiler for the Libertarian Party.
This is just more evidence that he has never been the consistent libertarian he has claimed to be. He's nothing but a climber, like all the rest.
Your Democrat choice in the race is a very white female, a progressive extremist who served in the Obama Injustice Department and who was defeated last time around by Peter Meijer.
My extremely stupid progressive neighbor had a sign out for the Democrat early in September until he figured out a couple of weeks later that our street had been re-districted out of MI-3.
The Democrat's campaign clothes her extremism in the glow of her Christian faith to make her more acceptable to the white, right of center, evangelical population around Grand Rapids.
On YouTube Gibbs seems to run one ad for every twenty the Democrats run.
Way to go, Brownie.
Time to run for president!
The Roll Call vote is here.
The story is here.
AmodeiRepublicanNevadaYEA
BairdRepublicanIndianaYEA
BaldersonRepublicanOhioYEA
BarrRepublicanKentuckyYEA
BergmanRepublicanMichiganYEA
BradyRepublicanTexasYEA
BucshonRepublicanIndianaYEA
CammackRepublicanFloridaYEA
Carter (TX)RepublicanTexasYEA
CawthornRepublicanNorth CarolinaYEA
CheneyRepublicanWyomingYEA
ColeRepublicanOklahomaYEA
Davis, RodneyRepublicanIllinoisYEA
Diaz-BalartRepublicanFloridaYEA
DunnRepublicanFloridaYEA
EmmerRepublicanMinnesotaYEA
FallonRepublicanTexasYEA
FitzpatrickRepublicanPennsylvaniaYEA
FloresRepublicanTexasYEA
FoxxRepublicanNorth CarolinaYEA
Garcia (CA)RepublicanCaliforniaYEA
GibbsRepublicanOhioYEA
GimenezRepublicanFloridaYEA
Gonzales, TonyRepublicanTexasYEA
Gonzalez (OH)RepublicanOhioYEA
Gooden (TX)RepublicanTexasYEA
GrangerRepublicanTexasYEA
Graves (LA)RepublicanLouisianaYEA
GuthrieRepublicanKentuckyYEA
Herrera BeutlerRepublicanWashingtonYEA
IssaRepublicanCaliforniaYEA
Jacobs (NY)RepublicanNew YorkYEA
Johnson (OH)RepublicanOhioYEA
Joyce (OH)RepublicanOhioYEA
KatkoRepublicanNew YorkYEA
KellerRepublicanPennsylvaniaYEA
Kim (CA)RepublicanCaliforniaYEA
KinzingerRepublicanIllinoisYEA
LongRepublicanMissouriYEA
MaceRepublicanSouth CarolinaYEA
MalliotakisRepublicanNew YorkYEA
McCaulRepublicanTexasYEA
McHenryRepublicanNorth CarolinaYEA
MeijerRepublicanMichiganYEA
Miller-MeeksRepublicanIowaYEA
Moore (AL)RepublicanAlabamaYEA
NewhouseRepublicanWashingtonYEA
ReschenthalerRepublicanPennsylvaniaYEA
Rice (SC)RepublicanSouth CarolinaYEA
Rogers (AL)RepublicanAlabamaYEA
RouzerRepublicanNorth CarolinaYEA
SalazarRepublicanFloridaYEA
SimpsonRepublicanIdahoYEA
SteelRepublicanCaliforniaYEA
TaylorRepublicanTexasYEA
TenneyRepublicanNew YorkYEA
Thompson (PA)RepublicanPennsylvaniaYEA
TurnerRepublicanOhioYEA
UptonRepublicanMichiganYEA
ValadaoRepublicanCaliforniaYEA
WagnerRepublicanMissouriYEA
Wilson (SC)RepublicanSouth CarolinaYEA
In Michigan, your choices come down to progressive lunatics who think men can become pregnant, or libertarian lunatics who piss down your back and tell you it's rainin'.
Peter Meijer, billionaire scion, West Point drop out, & leader of an aimless, mediocre life, is a drama queen who desperately wants to cover himself with the patina of the brave soldier in extreme circumstances one last time before it's all over. Just like Jan 6.
What courage! What principle! What restraint!
Upton joined nine other Republicans in the US House, including my own freshman congressman Peter Meijer, Republican chucklehead, MI-3, and all the Democrats, 222 of them, to impeach Trump a second time 232-197. Four Republicans did not vote.
The roll call is here. Upton is quoted here.
Upton, 67, has spent his life as a useless heir to a Whirlpool fortune estimated under $10 million. Once an aspiring journalist with a B.A. in journalism, instead he became a staffer to the libertarian Republican Representative David Stockman in the late 1970s and followed him to OMB under Reagan in the early 1980s. He first ran for Congress in 1986, eleven years after graduating from the U of M. He has been a congressional pest ever since, aren't they all?, who has inflicted on the American people such things as lightbulb bans, eventually styling himself as a moderate.
Meijer, now 33, is embarking on a similar trajectory, but with a gappy resume. Reportedly worth $50 million from the Meijer grocery store chain, Meijer has landed in Congress also after a decade of searching for himself.
Meijer got in to West Point but ignominiously dropped out after one year, became an Army Reservist, and went to Columbia in 2008 where he salvaged himself with a B.A. in anthropology by 2012. He interrupted this period at Columbia with service in Iraq in 2010-2011 as a sergeant. Post graduation in 2012 he served with an NGO 2013-2015. He took a wife in 2016, and an MBA from NYU, apparently 2016-2017. Then there was a brief stint in 2018 with Ilitch Holdings of billionaire family fame as an "analyst" which ended in January 2019. When Justin Amash left the Republican Party in July 2019, Meijer announced his candidacy.
Just as Upton took up the occasion of the Capitol attack as a moment of historic gravitas which inspired him to rise to impeach Trump, Meijer similarly has over-dramatized it by relating it to the drama of his "combat" experience as an intelligence advisor in Iraq (insert smirk here). He also laughably pondered out loud the danger those in the order of presidential succession were in from the trespassers on January 6. He reminds one of no one so much as the ex-bartender become US Representative, AOC, who has similarly made it a point to appear distraught and blow everything completely out of proportion to the reality in keeping with her modus operandi everywhere. Think of red-lipsticked Alexandria at the border fence a while ago, clad in white, head in her hands, weeping, sporting her $600 wristwatch.
The lefty Michael Tracey has framed such over-the-top demonstrativeness as "unhinged threat inflation" in recent days, which is exactly what we're being subjected to for demagogic purposes. The manipulation of the American people is nothing new, it's just that these young people are probably less aware of it as a technique than they are themselves victims and mimickers of the technique.
No so with Upton. He is the old hand who is too grown up and knowing for this, who knows just when to say just enough in order to receive huzzahs as a statesman instead of the harangues for the seat-warmer he is in reality.
Somehow the American people are content to let such people put us $28 trillion in debt. We chuckleheads have the chuckleheads we deserve.
Here, apparently because some people doubt it. He did, after all, bail out of West Point and will forever live with the stigma.
Read the whole thing and you'll see the freshman congressman is already psychoanalyzing his colleagues while admitting to the need for some himself.
Unbelievable. This is what we elect to Congress. A rich kid trying to be somebody.
There's a lot of things I respect about Rep. Amash. At the end of the day, you're going to be your own person. I think much of my approach is guided by my experiences overseas. I was fully uniformed, a through-and-through combatant in Iraq; I'd do intelligence operations. That gave me one vantage point. When I was working in disaster response efforts around the world, you—not literally, but kind of—parachute into an area, whether it was the Philippines or South Sudan, domestic response for tornadoes and hurricanes. You have to make a little bit of order out of the chaos. And then when I was in Afghanistan later for a couple of years, as a conflict analyst for the humanitarian aid community, that was a very different perspective, too. But I saw a sense of, how do things fall apart and how can they be rebuilt? ...
We've inserted ourselves into the middle of civil wars; we've taken sides. Sometimes those sides switch. In Iraq, we're backing the Sunnis one time, we're backing the Shia the other. In Afghanistan, it becomes a shifting set of alliances.
Ultimately I think that erodes something at the core of our national soul that we kind of paper over. That's something that I'll have to sit on a therapist's couch to better understand.
