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President Donald Trump isn’t attending the dignified transfer of four American soldiers who died in Lithuania, because he has instead chosen to attend a Saudi-backed golf tournament at his country club in Doral, Florida.
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It would be great if more nationalists and the patriots actually put in effort to change the USA in their neighborhoods, they don’t have to be leftists.
Until then such people are obstacles, even if they get outraged over stuff like in OP news article
they don’t have to be leftists.
To me the most frustrating part is how much fascists like to steal leftist goals and rhetoric. Arguably they would have to be at least some degree of leftist to support the working class as much as they claim to.
Hard to embezzle money from the taxpayers for events that aren’t at your place.
I remember the “Troops for Trump” that would set up from time to time. Never understood it. He’s disrespected them multiple times.
he did offer them to putins mercanaries before, when they put out hits on them.
“Suckers and loosers”
he said they are suckers and losers, and whats in for them, more than one occasion.
Is it wrong that I am less infuriated by this than I am by the fact people still worship this idiot?
At this point, I am exhausted with being outraged by him. I cannot hate him more than I already do. Doing more evil shit may actually make me hate him less, because I simply cannot keep up to date with all the new reasons to hate him. But I cannot comprehend how millions of people can function in the world while still behaving like everything he does is objectively right. Not even the truly repulsive, monstrous shit, but the petty, insufferable bullshit like this. How do you excuse it? It do not comprehend how anyone can look at this and say, “Yeah, this guy should have nigh-unlimited power over the country and the ability to throw the world into chaos with a Tweet.”
Months back somebody on here described it in a simple two-word way that has stuck with me. Dumb and mean.
Many conservatives are just dumb and mean, and that is a nasty combination.
That’s not a perfect generalization, of course. Some are nice people who are profoundly ignorant and misled. Some are smart sociopaths. But it just fits too well for me to ignore.
I think it is important to laugh at the funny demonstrative shit because if you keep getting outraged for every unimportant thing that is done like the Gulf of America thing you’re not heard when outraging for actual things that matter like deporting people or silencing opposition
The amount of news articles that make me laugh have been steadily increasing.
What a clownly country.
I hate it here
memorable qoutes towards soldiers: " suckers and losers all of the, whats in it for them.
I dont like soldiers that are dead or captured, they disappoint me.
i Like the poorly educated.
Sad, but true
Golfing with the fucking Russian oligarchs is more important than honoring dead US soldiers. Fuck Krasnov.
Not surprised. Golf is what he’s in to. The presidency and the related task are just somewhere down the list between get the milk and walk the dog. Or how else do you get all these results he did?
Trump hates the military.
stop trying to make trump sound good
Trump likes the part where the military conquers other countries. He hates service members, veterans, and all humans.
What did he call soldiers that die? Losers?
Especially soldiers who “got captured”.
I hate suckers and losers, too, that’s why I avoid interacting with MAGA Nazis.
trump also doesnt like when they are captured or dead,.
What does it matter? He has their unwavering support. He could have killed them himself and not lost the military’s support.
That’s not really true. He has the unwavering support of really old veterans who got the same fox news pill as the other boomers. The serving military voted blue in 2020. The Military Times elected not to do a poll in 2024…
There are very vocal service members who support him but the military as a whole does not and is not a fan of Hegseth fucking around in the DoD either. For example one published plan has us divesting our only mobile firepower platforms (strykers), just as the war in Ukraine is making everyone else want them. And F-47 did not go unnoticed either. The Air Force went from a study wondering if we needed NGAD to selecting a vendor without a flyoff and naming it. That thing is going to get ditched January 21st 2029. Then Hegseth is fucking around with physical fitness tests which is actually promotions, schools, and unit qualifications. This is making the most deadly parts of military dislike him. For example we’ve had women working with Delta for 20 years. First of all Delta isn’t giving them up, 20 years ago women were officially banned from combat and that didn’t stop them. Second it just conditions them to be anti-administration. So when they get ordered to go get an American “insurgent” who held a sign outside a Tesla dealership one too many times, they may just refuse.
Nearly 60% of active duty voted for him for his second term. This is not much change from the percentages for 2016 and 2020.
They may be regretting their choice but I see no indication they wouldn’t make the same choice.
military members are notoriously conservative, additionally they source thier fodder from rural and red areas, and usually are mostly white. 2ndary targets are disadvantaged POCs areas, especially the ones that cant pay for colleges.
They also require a high school degree and an entrance exam. And officers are sourced solely from University graduates.
This is not your grandpa’s military.
Yea officer different path, either academy, ROTCS, or officer candidate school. ROTC is where they are mostly sourced, academy needs like "Grad degree-like qualifications, LORS, congressional reccomendation,etc.
I’d love to see a source for that. Afaik nobody did an active duty poll this time. And in 2020 the military voted blue.
Soldiers refusing to follow orders because they do not like the government? Sorry but that sounds delusional. Sure they might be slightly less harsh, but that is it.
It’s already happened, last time Trump was president. The Joint Chiefs told him no to his face.
What does that have to do with actual soldiers doing the dirty work? And isn’t he also replacing people left and right for the same reason?
I’m not sure. Certainly, the weirdos who make the military their whole personality back him, but I haven’t seen any evidence that he’s outstandingly popular with the rank and file and his plans to completely gut the officer corps can’t have made him popular there.
Hopefully they remember that when the time comes to make choices.
We knew this from the last time around
Evidence suggests they do not make the correct choice
Idk. The military did not go along with the coup attempt. That is a win in my book.
Also my understanding was that Gen. Milley didn’t go along with troops on the streets during the pandemic/protests when Trump wanted it. Hence the stripping of the general’s security detail and clearance by our whiny bitch president on his return.
That’s good for us. Now he plays for our team.
Do people who make good choices decide to join the violence industry in the first place?
I served as a Medic. We carried weapons. And I used my GI Bill twice. I’m still working as a civilian Paramedic. That was a good choice for me.
I hate Cheeto Chimp and all of the MAGAts. So, some can make smart decisions.
This is an oversimplification of the situation. The US built everything so degrees are practically mandatory then makes the poors choose between life crushing debt or getting an education through the military. They prey on children of poor families. Obviously ‘not all marines’ and whatnot but come on a lot of times it isn’t actually a comparable choice and even when it is they’re still kids who often don’t know better
Trump hates everything that is not Donald J. Trump.
Hey, that’s not fair. He’s also weirdly into Ivanka Trump.
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So trump wants to fuck Putin? …oh. Yeah, that tracks.
Probably literally.
I think “cares” is too strong a word. It would imply that it matters to him if they live or die.
Again
“Suckers and losers…”
Now watch this drive
I mean, veterans did mostly vote for Trump, so…
Yeah but like 40% didn’t
Count this one that never voted for Trump.
D from top to bottom of the ticket
Same. I wish I had better choices available but we’ve got to work with what we’ve got.
Something something Benghazi.
Wanna run a fascist dictatorship? Piss off your military. Yeah, that goes well. Keep it up dumbass! When you get your moment of martial law it won’t go how you think it will.
When (not IF, but WHEN) Trump declares martial law after the 2026 elections go badly for MAGA and they refuse to transfer power, these soldiers will need to be ready to fight armed US citizens in the street. Will they follow that order? Most rebellions are successful because the defending military simply stops defending.
They were just suckers and losers anyway.
