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.
While a man he admits is innocent is in an El Salvador prison
Supposedly, I shouldn’t be the one who cares more about US soldiers than a republican president, and yet…
“Suckers and loosers”
The amount of news articles that make me laugh have been steadily increasing.
What a clownly country.
US politics is a fucking comedy. My colleague pulled up the picture of Trump standing with that goofy tariff board where trump is reading all the countries and how many percentages they would be tariffed. My colleague was absolutely cackling at the picture and kept saying “the supposedly richest country in the world and they announce this shit that will affect all of us on a piece of fucking cardboard!!!” 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
I hate the guy but damn is he funny. Everything he says is a meme. He’s absolutely a prime example of what america is all about. Him sitting in a tesla and saying: it’s a computers. And : I love Tessler is just too funny. And they voted for him twice. I just can’t
For real. To me, Trump is the embodiment of the American stereotype. I know Americans think that the rest of the world stereotype them as being fat, but no no no no, sweethearts. The behavior Trump exhibits is the American stereotype on crack. I am pretty xenophobic toward America (sorry, not sorry) and have been since Bush, but even I could not have come up with a more cartoony and offensive American stereotype than the Trump persona.
Same, but Bush was a fucking rocket scientist in comparison. If someone told me that in the Bush area that thy’ll find someone way WAY dumber to elect. TWICE.
I would’ve never believed that. No way.
Oh same. I stayed up all night during the 2016 election and when Trump won I was laughing hysterically because I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and hearing.
My sweet, lovely and amazing boyfriend told me during this election that Harris would win because the Americans wouldn’t put up with the abortion stuff and I just told him that I thought he was overestimating the American population. He’s always thought my American hatred was too unnuanced and unfair, but I mean… I have been right so far. Which isn’t really the win I was hoping for. I was actually hoping to be proven wrong at least once in my fucking lifetime, but eh.
Do you have links for that please? I want to laugh
On Reddit someone posted a parody of the whole affair. I believe it was originally posted on r/wallstreetbets, but it has since been deleted.
I said the first time he was elected that, love him or hate him, you have to admit that he is an accurate caricature of America.
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.”
Agreed.
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
he said they are suckers and losers, and whats in for them, more than one occasion.
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.
he doesn’t wear a tan suit though so it’s ok
Golfing with the fucking Russian oligarchs is more important than honoring dead US soldiers. Fuck Krasnov.
Nero fiddling as Rome burns.
Trump hates the military.
What does it matter? He has their unwavering support. He could have killed them himself and not lost the military’s support.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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
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.
Trump only cares about his daughter and other chicks he wants to fuck. He has no use for anyone else.
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.
Trump hates everything that is not Donald J. Trump.
Hey, that’s not fair. He’s also weirdly into Ivanka Trump.
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,.
That’s the big difference. I like MAGA Nazis best when they’re dead.
They were just suckers and losers anyway.
“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.
Hard to embezzle money from the taxpayers for events that aren’t at your place.
