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Wasn’t that what it was called originally?
We’re regressing, it should be named the Department of Conflict-as-a-service.
The Peace President ✝️
Mr. Nobel Peace prize
He just wants something, anything, as big as Obama’s. Crowd sizes popularity deportations Nobel Peace Prize or of course, well you know…
The dick.
It damn’ small, no?
Onion?
checks community name…
Sigh…
Really doubling down on that, “he actually is the antichrist” thing.
They have think-tanks dedicated to coming up with the worst decisions possible, for real.
I don’t doubt it, Trump is a Russian Psyop placed in power with the singular goal of incapacitating the United States by sowing chaos.
they already have mtg, hesgeth, tulsi gabbard in on it, trump is thier oldest and most useful asset.
That’s what people get for sucking America’s dick for so long. America was never “real”.
Business is god…Americans are cattle. And apparently pround to be so.
You don’t need to bring out a history book. We have raw reality as proof, not some piece of shits thought out opinion of theoretical history from their writers desk.
Americans killed their own nation.
Modern times call for dying for the future.
Sacrifice and be all you can be without a branded arm badge.
It feels like everyone is waiting for the event.
Luigi should have been that event.
The worst part of this… Is that they want and need the rebellion. And anything done to fight them will make them strong. Because Americans lived a naive life and gave them this power… Thus Americans as a whole are to blame. This was seen at the very least a decade ago if not more. And Americans just kept consuming their bullshit pop culture. Pleasuring themselves with their arrogant ego.
This is only going to spread to other countries if not snubbed out. It’s already in process.
In rap terms America is Kanye.
Demons pale in comparison to what kind of evil humans can do.
We should make them our pets
Hopefully his next announcement will be from the Dark House in the Doughnut Office from behind the Whimsical Desk.
Hopefully the next announcement is that he choked to death slowly trying to suck his own dick.
Edit: obviously from trying to reach over his belly. Not from his penis.
Might as well. It was originally called that, and the DoD name was always kind of a lame coat of off-white landlord paint.
Yeah but it’s the death of a euphemism. It was good that they had to use a euphemism.
No, it isn’t: just a dishonest way to lessen discomfort.
I’ll bite. How is that?
Im grateful to be able to share this with someone for the first time if you haven’t seen this series yet
Interesting vid, thank you for sharing. I had not seen that before.
Euphemisms at least indicate shame.
I suppose they do, but that doesn’t imply “Department of War” is any less shameful, except for the fact that we know Trump doesn’t have shame and only wants to change the name because it makes him sound more authoritarian.
I mean, being ashamed of your evil deeds while still doing them doesn’t make it better.
Kind of? It makes you more likely to moderate, stop earlier, do less atrocities if you think the public won’t like it or is ashamed of it.
Or the opposite: you don’t want to fund defense?
Well, Dept. of War and Dept. of The Navy became DoD. I used to work for them, some people think I’m a Veteran because I use the block print and the 24h time and today is 25Aug25. I’m not, never been shot at but that shit just gets ingrained in you.
Wait, only 2 digits for the year? What in the Y2K is that?
Block print?
all caps writing, very easy to replicate from person to person.
Good.
It should be. At any point in time the US is involved in 5-10 wars since Obama.
Calling it the Dept. of War is honest.
Pretty sure theCarter administration was the last one to have no new wars in over 100 years.
Many issues at play:
- In the same way that a lot of people with powerful friends in the city depend on new highway projects, new community centers, new programs being set up, so that their friends can get paid, people in the US government with powerful friends depend on new wars so that everyone can sell weapons and continue to have good quarters.
- The US military benefits enormously from getting a ton of practice. We’re trying to run an empire, and very often big militaries get lazy because their countries do so well that they don’t really have to be scrappy, and people get complacent. War is so shocking and challenging that the only way to really stay good at it is to be doing it. And so, that’s exactly what the US does.
- The US has its fingers in so many pies so to speak that all kinds of shit that happens globally we determine to be our business. Civil war in Syria? Holy shit, better make sure the right people win. Let’s go fuck up some irregular forces that don’t have helicopters or satellite support.
Oh yeah, the military-industrial complex has been an issue since Eisenhower’s warning was ignored on his way out. Then again, he could have done something more about it while in office. JFK had a speech about it and wanted to curtail it before getting assassinated.
I 100% believe that JFK was killed because he was serious about trying to bring some humanity to the US government.
Also why Bobby never achieved the presidency, and he had the balls to tell the rich he was going to tax them to pay for a better social safety net.
There’s a pretty good book called “Playing With Fire” about the politics of the late 60s and the events of the time. I had to stop reading it, it’s too sad. Bobby Kennedy talking to the crowd after MLK was shot, not knowing that he was going to be dead the same way a short time later, just fucked me up, I put it down.
Absolutely. The wealthy in the USA fail to be able to see a profit margin from empathy or humane policy.
I mean…we’ve been fucking the world up since Korea and Vietnam. Arguably also WW1 (2 we sort of had an excuse because of Japan). And South America before that.
In theory it is the idea that we minimize harm to the heartland by engaging threats/“threats” before they burn down the white house again (mad props to Canada).
But nah. This is just the republicans continuing to be fucking morons. Like when perry (?) campaigned on killing the DOEnergy, got appointed as head, and realized that there were nukes next to all that clean coal.
Yeah about Japan … the US kinda lit the fuse on that one when it got spooked by Japan’s growing (manufacturing) power and expansion in southeast Asia.
Granted, Japan was expanding its influence aggressively but the US actions caused things to get worse quickly.
But nah. This is just the republicans continuing to be fucking morons. Like when perry (?) campaigned on killing the DOEnergy, got appointed as head, and realized that there were nukes next to all that clean coal.
To be fair, most people probably don’t realize that nuclear weapons are under the purview of the Deptartment of Engery. Most people would guess the Deptarment of Defense cause nuclear weapons, war, the Pentagon, etc.
However, Rick Perry is still an idiot cause he was a governor of Texas for three terms and ran for President. Rick Perry should have basic understanding of how the Federal government works from being a governor; definitely should understand what Department of Energy does, if you are going to campagin on dismantling it.
Oh come on, Korea was clean. Vietnam fucking wasn’t but North Korea definitely poured over the 38th to kill every democracy loving Korean.
The Korean war spun out of the Chinese Civil War and how both (simplifying) NATO and the USSR were already using it as a proxy. We got involved to protect our interests, same as any other war.
If you want to argue that South Korea is better off because of it? I fully agree (I doubt North Korea would have become the hellscape it is now, but a Warsaw Pact Korea would never be as prosperous as South Korea is today). But it was the exact same “we fight a war over there so we don’t have to fight a war here” logic.
Speaking of…
minimize harm to the heartland
We have totally capitulated our soft power to anyone who wants to take the reigns. Fuck me, we’ve abdicated our leadership, if we ever had it, on renewable energy. This century belongs to China, politically and militarily, and I wish them well, for all of us.
- Rebrandings of Department of War: Navy, War → Navy, Army, Air Force → Defense → War
- Rebrandings of HBO Max: HBO Go, HBO Now → HBO Max → Max → HBO Max
Amazing :33
give me nobel peace prize or else
Anything to avoid Epstein
I think the only logical next step is for him to get an “I’m the bad guy” t-shirt. His supporters would still say it was just a joke.
Its sad and depressing that the sketch with the nazis asking if they were the baddies are more self aware than modern maga
This doesn’t even make much sense
Most of what the department of the defense does is defense and security.
My inner conspiracy theorist is telling me that someone at the DoD described climate change as a national security threat that the department needs to address as part of handling defence and that’s what triggered this
Seems plausible. Just judging on his public statements though, this is likely related to his comments during the Zelensky visit on canceling elections during wartime.
God dammit. Stop being right. Ugh. How is this asshole in this position??? He tells us the quiet part out loud. He tells us he’s going to do absolutely dumb shit. Then he does dumb shit. And people see him do that dumb shit. And everyone is surprised he did the thing he said he was going to do.
He says he’ll do awful shit. And everyone dismisses it, because nobody would be THAT bad, right?
I mean, he told he was going to do it if you gave him power. Then he was given power. Why are you surprised he’s doing the dumb shit?
I’m more surprised that he was given power.
Twice.
People aren’t used to the idea of a politician being honest, even if it’s about being a fascist piece of shit
That’s my guess too. Claim he can cancel elections during wartime, rename it to the DOW, and then point at the DOW and say we’re at war so he can cancel the election.
Except for WW2, name one conflict where we defended anything or secured anything (other than did company contracts).
You clearly haven’t heard of missile defense.
Please get this man some more hamberders, fries and cokes. Also, maybe some doritos, fried butter sticks and corn dogs, stat.
Also, he’s a pedo that was best friends with a pedo.
I think your spelling is missing an “L”?
Lorn Logs?
Release the Epstein files you pedo fucks
I thought the playbook said it should be called “Ministry of Love”
“Ministry of Defense” is already doublespeak though
I thought that was the ‘internal affairs’ ministry, perhaps the Ministry of Peace?
Uh, time to re-read! Thanks.
