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Trump reacts to dead service members by boasting he got a 'great deal' for their lives
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"Empathy is a sin." crowd continues to show who they are.
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How a PTSD-tormented vet hasn't plugged this cunt yet is beyond me. He's said at least a dozen things in the last 10 years that would justify it. I mean he let the fact that there were Russian bounties on US service members go completely unanswered. Nevermind the repugnant things he says about them, he lets them be the target of headhunting sociopaths because he's too much of a fucking pussy to say a single word against Putin.
Signing up for military service under Trump is insane in the membrane.
The bounty thing was never confirmed. That's why Biden didn't do anything about it either.
bag of onions for the widows+ a package of trump steaks+ free degree of your choice from trump university.
"If they needed to die to distract people from the Epstein files, so be it."
How Americans aren't storming the white house or Mar A Lago at this point with a bunch of guns is beyond me.
They still think the same strategy that supposedly helped Obama to beat Mitt Romney ("they go low, we go high") will also beat Trump.
I'm not trying to be demeaning, this isn't a rhetorical question. Seriously, what sort of logistical miracle would it take for this? America is fucking huge and that would take organization and I have no ideas.
I'm beyond hope for peaceful OR violent change. The only future I'm seeing is collapse and the subsequent corporate cyberpunk nightmare that will devour what remains.
They had no problem on jan 6.
Are you recommending that all of the disgruntled Magas commit suicide by secret service?
Armed man shot and killed after entering Mar-a-Lago secure perimeter, Secret Service says
precisely that. krasnov won't learn his lesson unless you die at him. so go do that maybe.
He's a narcissistic psychopath. That means his brain is literally incapable of processing empathy, let alone understanding it.
ICE Apes should be dispatched to assist our Freedom Fighters in Iran. Put them right up front, where the action is. They love that shit.
"You ever fired a blaster at a living target?"
"Hahaha! All the time! I was the top womp rat hunter in my unit."
"No, I mean a sentient being. Something that could shoot back."
"No, I guess I never have."
"You must be joking. How long has it been since you graduated?"
"Over a year."
"What have you been doing all this time, looking the other way?"
-Jedi Outcast Stormtrooper/Officer conversation
Send in...the Gravy Seals.
With meal team 6 at the head!
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Normally this would end a Presidency within days of making remarks like that.
Nothing about this is normal.
Don't let them normalize this shit.
Join the next general strike or you'll be the next victim he can brag about or blame you for being a terrorist.
Even black mirror author ran out of ideas, and the onion articles seems like ordinary life now.
Yeah Trump has amiably shown what political commentators have said for decades, the US-system is too easily exploited by the executive concentrating power and removing the safeguards other countries have in their setups.
He still had vets and current military vote for him. After. He called them suckers and losers.
That info didn't make it into their NewsMax/Facebook filter bubble. Even if it did manage to slip through via a relative or a coworker, it would have been too late, "fake news" or about those other people.
Exactly. People really underestimate the conservative ~~news~~ bubble.
If you still support someone after they call you a sucker and loser, they might be right about you being a sucker....
One atrocity can dissolve a government. But one atrocity every day can keep even the most hated and incompetent leader in power for a long time. While we‘re busy processing what has happened yesterday he already committed another unforgivable crime. And it goes on and on and on. He simply overwhelms the people with atrocities to the point everyone fights their own battle and debates which of the many crimes is worse and needs to be addressed.
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I'll join the general strike that lasts for more than a day
I mean, join the one that lasts a day, too.
They shouldn’t call them that. It’s just a walk out. Maybe it’s OK to call it a dress rehearsal or practice run but the point would be to test community support mechanisms and get the word out, not to “put the corpos on notice” or lend virtue to someone’s extra personal day. The truth is it’s not much of a stress test if it’s just 1 day. Also it’s crying wolf. General strikes should damage the economy and an extra snow day just doesn’t. It fails that goal even if it feels nice to say they participated in a “general strike.”
But the more insidious problem is one of logistics, tactics, and reserves.
With protests, there’s often rotating participation so overall support/resource/attention burnout isn’t a brick wall issue. People generally know how many protest days they have to give up front and using them up just means they’ll need to be replaced by another protestor. The point is showing up if you can.
But “1-day general strikes” steal actual person-days from the real general strike (a protracted war of attrition between workers and the economy where the workers hurt themselves to hurt their enemy). Meaning, it actually helps corporations not just by dis-carding useable cards in our deck prematurely_and_ revealing to the opponent our possible hands, it also subtracts drawable cards from our reserves since each of those person-days eventually must be borne by mutual support networks later on.
“1-day General Strikes” are not general strikes!
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Can you point to more than a single instance where when a controversy ended a presidency?
It was already normalized.
Surely another protest and a strongly worded letter will set him right.
People over there should skip the "maybe he'll blame me as a terrorist" fear, he's doing that anyway, and just jump right to the action of clean-up. French-style.
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Service members that voted Trump, do you get it yet?
Not a service member, but Trump told you he only likes winners.
The people that died, well, they are losers like PoW John McCain.
So service members that voted for Trump will think he still likes them, until they are KIA (at which point, they no longer care).
Why is this waste of life still existing?
Because someone didn't get a decent scope and a proper target rifle.
Americans hate brown people so much more than him
Fuck that draft dodger. He should send his kid to die over there.
No he should go there in person.
He is the center of everyone's universe in his mind
What a fucking piece of shit
"We expect casualties with something like this," [Donald Trump] said. "We have three, but we expect casualties - but in the end it's going to be a great deal for the world."
So, follow me on this. Iraq’s population was actually initially happy saddam had been deposed. And that turned into a $16T, 15 year, million life quagmire. And Iraq is still a weak, uncooperative country. I can’t imagine taking over Iran, a country that hates us and accepts its leadership, with weapons systems orders of magnitude greater in number, and far more modern equipment.
There can be no good deal for the world. I feel like I’m listening to a car salesman, but he’s the president. He’s literally bribing the military industrial complex to keep himself in power post-term and selling it as a good thing. Uuuuugh.
I feel like I’m listening to a car salesman
That's all this asshole ever was and ever will be, really. Guy made shitty real estate deals as a nepobaby failson and had a very big mouth. That's pretty much all he is.
Most of the people in NYC, and probably most of the people on the Eastern seaboard, tended to know who he was even by the early 90s. If they paid even the least bit of attention. But that stupid gameshow and that dumb book gave a whole lot of idiots the idea that he was really something more and somehow worthy of giving any power.
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Does anyone know where they were? Sadly, I've got family over there
Hey, all you American servicemen. All you ICE thugs, and everyone else with a gun who's doing stuff because this guy is telling you to do stuff. Note how he thinks of you. Why are you risking your life for him, again?
I mean, I probably know why you ICE thugs are doing it - you get to go beat up and kill brown people, something you've always wanted to do. But you're also cowards, so maybe consider that angle. He'll sacrifice you in a heartbeat.
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