Seriously Tim, what the fuck happened to you? I remember the good old days when you wrote hilariously awesome letters from deployment to 5 Ounces of Pain, now you just seem like a twat.

he’s coming off like he joined the military just so they can be this high and mighty all the time.

Tim…. Stay away from twitter please

how much AM i supposed to appreciate our soldiers? once a week? once a day? how am i supposed to do it? which political party speaks for them?

the whole thing is so vague. i wish people would stop telling me to appreciate soldiers, or think about them, or remember them, and be more specific. what exactly do you want me to do? bring them back? send more care packages? get a tattoo? i’ll fucking do it. just tell me.

it’s like they just want you to perpetually go around feeling bad or they just want you to do a lot of “slacktivism”, like putting a bumper sticker on your car. how does that help poor young men who have been crippled by roadside bombs?

and what bugs me about kennedy in particular is that he is clearly seeing how well the “soldier” angle is working for stann and so he’s trying to play it up himself. that kind of bugs me.

…but how does belittling Kurt serve anyone’s interests? Is there beef we don’t know about?

If anyone read why Kurt is retiring, it’s because he missed a lot of “firsts” from his daughter and with a child on the way, doesn’t want the same to happen. A lot of professional athletes go through this, especially ones who are constantly on the road. It’s a similar plight of what soldiers go through every fucking day of their deployment.

Sounds petty as hell when read in a vacuum. His second tweet does help clarify the original intent of his message.

Lesson: Kennedy should be more careful about how he says what he says.

I can’t stand comments like this though. We get it, you served and service doesn’t bring half the glory it should. It also brings tons of hardship. You signed the paperwork though and joined a volunteer army, get over it and realize that not every comment you ever make needs to be about how your life as a soldier was harder.

My brother in law is currently in Iraq yet again after having served a couple in Afghanistan. I worry about him, my sister, their kids, and everybody else who serves with him. I give a thought to them all daily. He though can have a conversation that doesn’t turn into these comments everytime he opens his mouth. He also realizes that it is his choice to do these things whether or not they are appreciated.

In short, there is no reason for him to have pulled Batman into his tweeting like this. It comes off as condescending to a man who has put on some great fights over the years and who doesn’t want to miss out on seeing his child born and raised.

My friend is a senior developer for a major software company in Washington. His job is, to put it bluntly, incredibly stressful albeit highly lucrative (incentive pay, ridiculous raises, performance bonuses for meeting ship dates etc.).

He complained to his girlfriend after a 16 hour day at the office that his boss is an asshole and he hates his job. Her response was along the lines of “well you should be grateful to have such a good job, a lot of people work for $9/hr”. Apples to fucking oranges. People having it worse than you doesn’t really mean that it automatically negates whatever issues you have.

I get the feeling that if I ever bitch about my job in the presence of Tim Kennedy he’ll have to remind me how much worse troops deployed in warzones have it.

What a douche.