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riversedge

(78,956 posts)
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 09:00 AM Thursday

13 min ago One victim was young woman who volunteered to work Thanksgiving, Bondi says


One victim was young woman who volunteered to work Thanksgiving, Bondi says


One of the West Virginia National Guard members shot in Washington, DC, was female, Attorney General Pam Bondi said.


https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/washington-dc-shooting-national-guard-members-11-27-25



Bondi told Fox News on Thursday that one of the victims was a “young woman” who had volunteered to work in the nation’s capital over the Thanksgiving holiday.

“She volunteered, as did many of those guardsmen and women, so other people could be home with their families, yet now their families are in hospital rooms with them while they are fighting for their lives,” she said.

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13 min ago One victim was young woman who volunteered to work Thanksgiving, Bondi says (Original Post) riversedge Thursday OP
Just think if those National Guardsmen from West Virginia BOSSHOG Thursday #1
This is on you asshole Henry203 Thursday #2
And Traitor Asshole gave the Shooter Asylum Cha Thursday #20
Maybe if the asshole-in-chief hadn't started due process-less deportations and left the NGuard in their home states ... marble falls Thursday #3
Absolutely. dalton99a Thursday #4
Easy Solution MissouriDem47 Thursday #5
"Yet now?" hadEnuf Thursday #6
Gender is irrelevant! BidenRocks Thursday #7
I'm sorry you went through that. Gimpyknee Thursday #8
I have always felt sorry popsdenver Thursday #11
John Kerry didn't have a cushy duty. Gimpyknee Thursday #14
Agreed popsdenver Thursday #15
Well, c'mon all you big strong men BidenRocks Thursday #18
First Class leanforward Thursday #19
But Hegseth says women don't measure up as soldiers? pfitz59 Thursday #9
Trying to have it both ways... paleotn Thursday #10
Some one, maybe Lincoln once said: popsdenver Thursday #16
Since when do Guardsmen get a choice in which days they work? GoCubsGo Thursday #12
I prefer to call her popsdenver Thursday #17
+1 dalton99a Thursday #23
Didn't Trump recently proclaim the City was safe? Who's he going to send in now, the Russian Army? RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Thursday #13
During the socialist era, the Poles used to tell the following story: DFW Thursday #21
That's a good one! RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Thursday #25
That would be the most useful thing hes EVER done for Ukraine. Volaris Friday #31
Dress up Bondi and Trump in camouflage, Emile Thursday #22
Sounds great, but with one change... Wednesdays Thursday #29
I never felt antagonistic towards the Vietnam Vets, just against LBJ, MacNamara... electric_blue68 Thursday #24
I lost too many friends there Jilly_in_VA Thursday #27
So sorry about your friends... electric_blue68 Thursday #28
Yep, those guys were NASTY Jilly_in_VA Friday #30
None of those people are needed in DC. It was all Klarkashton Thursday #26

BOSSHOG

(44,275 posts)
1. Just think if those National Guardsmen from West Virginia
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 09:05 AM
Thursday

we’re not fraudulently deployed by the convicted felon they’d be home with their families this Thanksgiving WHERE THEY BELONG. But some conservative “leaders” just had to pretend their dicks were operable and here we are.

Henry203

(816 posts)
2. This is on you asshole
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 09:07 AM
Thursday

There was no reason to deploy the national guard in DC. By your sheer incompetence you put people at risk.

marble falls

(69,954 posts)
3. Maybe if the asshole-in-chief hadn't started due process-less deportations and left the NGuard in their home states ...
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 09:08 AM
Thursday

... this would never have happened.

hadEnuf

(3,485 posts)
6. "Yet now?"
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 10:55 AM
Thursday

What do you mean by "Yet now" you miserable Nazi bitch? YOU were completely instrumental in sending those young adults there. YOU and your Orange Pedo messiah are responsible for turning our Capitol into a fascist camp.

Kindly get fucking lost.

BidenRocks

(2,592 posts)
7. Gender is irrelevant!
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 11:26 AM
Thursday

As I was told in the early 70s,
"It's not you personally, it's what that uniform represents.
A different car pulled over and spit at me.

We got no love due to Nam.

Now it's more personal!

Gimpyknee

(1,008 posts)
8. I'm sorry you went through that.
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 11:37 AM
Thursday

I was a Vietnam era Navy Corpsman. I took a total of eight commercial flights wearing my dress blues uniform during four years of service. Fortunately, I never experienced any encounters with any protester, in fact on one flight a first class traveler exchanged his seat with my back of the plane coach seat.

popsdenver

(1,241 posts)
11. I have always felt sorry
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 12:00 PM
Thursday

for the 58,000 who were lied to and gave their lives, and the countless soldiers and sailors that were maimed or disabled strictly for the Military Industrial Complex extreme profiteering and for benefit of politicians .......

And I was always deeply angered that none of the upper crust's kids ever had to serve in Vietnam. Countless numbers like Trump with his bone spurs, etc etc etc.....
The extremely few that did serve, were always assigned to cushy duty, Stateside, like WBush, who didn't even have to show up for his duty.....

popsdenver

(1,241 posts)
15. Agreed
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 12:40 PM
Thursday

But he was one of the select few..............AND LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO HIM......WITH THEIR SWIFTBOATING him in 2004.........
For every ONE brave upper class person like him, there were a hundred thousand from the middle and lower classes of citizens.
McNamara alone, in late 1967 and early 1968 drafted an ADDITIONAL 250,000.....they called them "McNamara's Morons"....google it....

leanforward

(1,127 posts)
19. First Class
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 04:04 PM
Thursday

Enroute to RVN July 66, I had an aisle seat and looking at the preflight activity. The flight attendant saw me and motioned to “come here”. I did, and ended up in 1st class from Denver to SFI.

pfitz59

(12,192 posts)
9. But Hegseth says women don't measure up as soldiers?
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 11:43 AM
Thursday

Why mention gender at all? The Trump Admin can't keep their stories straight.

paleotn

(21,297 posts)
10. Trying to have it both ways...
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 11:50 AM
Thursday

This was never about law enforcement or "out of control" crime. It's about propaganda and photo ops. And they're still doing it by bringing up one service member's gender like she's some kind of goddamn political prop.

I hate Bondi and all those fuckers. Hate them with the heat of a million suns. There is not one single horror that could befall any of them that wouldn't bring a smile to my face.

popsdenver

(1,241 posts)
16. Some one, maybe Lincoln once said:
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 12:43 PM
Thursday

"No one has a good enough memory to be a good liar....."

GoCubsGo

(34,593 posts)
12. Since when do Guardsmen get a choice in which days they work?
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 12:07 PM
Thursday

Pam Blondie is full of shit. The woman was there because her Governor assigned her to be there.

popsdenver

(1,241 posts)
17. I prefer to call her
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 12:48 PM
Thursday

Bimbo Bondi.....................

I watch all these females that are approaching middle age burnout, that surround Trump. They get plastic surgery, Lipo suction, a Republican women's silicone "rack".........and snuggle up to Trump, lying their asses off non-stop..........

The difference between them, and a street walker crack whore, is that there are things a crack whore WON"T DO....for ANY amount of money...

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(1,600 posts)
13. Didn't Trump recently proclaim the City was safe? Who's he going to send in now, the Russian Army?
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 12:11 PM
Thursday

DFW

(59,528 posts)
21. During the socialist era, the Poles used to tell the following story:
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 04:46 PM
Thursday

A Polish man is taking a stroll along the Baltic beach, when he sees something resembling an old oil lamp sticking up in the sand. He picks it up, rubs it a little, and a genie appears, telling him he can have three wishes granted. The Pole asks, "anything?, and the genie confirms "anything."

OK, the Polish guy says, for my first wish, I want the Chinese army to invade Poland. The genie, who, after all, has heard almost everything, is nonetheless a little shocked. But he says, "OK, and your next wish?" The Pole says, "I want the Chinese army to invade Poland again." The genie gulps, but says nothing. "And your third wish?" The Pole wants the Chinese army to invade Poland a third time.

The genie can contain himself no longer. He says, "OK, I am obligated to grant you your wishes, but would you mind explaining to me WHY you want this for your three wishes?"

The Polish guy explains: "for the Chinese army to invade Poland three times, on the way here, it would have to lay waste to Russia three times."

electric_blue68

(25,213 posts)
24. I never felt antagonistic towards the Vietnam Vets, just against LBJ, MacNamara...
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 05:12 PM
Thursday

Visited The Wall, which I think is a sober, and beautiful monument.
I know some didn't like but, wow, you saw the amount of soilders who died, saw their names.
Extremely moving, imho.

Jilly_in_VA

(13,628 posts)
27. I lost too many friends there
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 06:07 PM
Thursday

and had too many friends come home with PTSD, Agent Orange illnesses, etc., to feel any animosity towards them. LBJ was lied to a lot. Now Waste-More-Land, McNamara, and those guys who lied to him...yeah, I feel a LOT of animosity towards them. But you know who I geel the MOST animostiy towards? The f*cking Dulles brothers. They got us into that mess to start with, them and their "monolithic Communism" shit. And Henry Kissinger, who carried it forward.

electric_blue68

(25,213 posts)
28. So sorry about your friends...
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 06:19 PM
Thursday

Ah, Westmoreland, Kissenger, and The Dulles bros who are a bit more vague to me. I shall look them up.

Kissenger's mother lived in one of my former neighborhoods.
When he visited her, we'd see sharpshooters on the roofs. yeah.

ETA.
Looked them up. Their full names ring a bit more bells. Read the wiki on "The Brothers". Wow, I remember a few of the names of the Heads of State they did, or tried to assassinate.

Jilly_in_VA

(13,628 posts)
30. Yep, those guys were NASTY
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 11:40 AM
Friday

and I wish they'd change the name of the airport to ANYTHING else. Dulles, my sainted Aunt Matilda!

Klarkashton

(4,592 posts)
26. None of those people are needed in DC. It was all
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 06:05 PM
Thursday

A fun and games performance. Now those trump bastards have to face up to the fact that shit got real.

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