• boaratio@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    I’ve never wanted to first fight anymore more. Normally I’d say they have a punchable face, but in his case I’m willing to go in personally. Bring it on boot licker.

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    Calling the military “defense” has always been doublespeak. Its literally the opposite of what they do. Department of war is the correct term.

    Obviously this administration are all monsters, and they’re changing the name because they think they think it sounds intimidating. But the name change is the one good thing this administration has done, clearly in error.

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      I was thinking maybe the American public will start to question why we are spending so much on war. It is an insane budget and the doublespeak of it being for defense helped selling the idea to the public. Maybe he accidentally did something will will help reign in our over spending on war…

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        I hate that my Q family will believe exactly this: that he did it with the goal of waking people up.

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      DoD uses to be called DoW, but was changed to give a better image of the country. Reverting back to DoW under this administration, is not the good sign people think it is.

      Also, that joke Pete Hegseth can’t even do a proper pull up, let alone a chin up. Pathetic.

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    Trump is an old dying man, and he wants to be able to say on his death bed that he made permanent changes to the world , by his will alone.

    Changing names of organizations (DOD/DOW)

    Changing names of places (Gulf of America)

    Creation of organizations (Space Force)

    Dissolution of organizations (USAID)

    Permanent land acquisitions (Greenland, Panama Canal, Sometimes entire Nation of Canada)

    This is the exact same mentality of Putin, Putin wont be around forever, Putin wants to be immortalized in Russian folklore.

    This is just Trump’s dumb ideas of immortality. fingers of it at least

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      Don’t forget the 15 or (however many) wars he’s single-handedly ended and is therefore definitely deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize

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      Issue is, when he dies, the people of Seven Mountain Dominion just can continue their work, full force. Whether that will cause the collapse of the dominionist US is a question, and there’s also tge question of all the tech corpos.

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        I hope the old gods and new gods eat each other alive, but they’ve been collaborating so well* up to now, unfortunately for us.

        *It’s not all been fun in the sun: the fallout between Trump and Elon, the H1B infighting, and now the Epstein stuff (arguably also popularized by Elon). So yeah, there have been some notable instances of divergence. One can only hope there will be more.

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    You know when guys buy big trucks to overcompensate their other shortcomings? Well…

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      13 hours ago

      When Trump gave his little ramble at the signing, he literally blamed the losses on the country going “wokie” and renaming the war department.

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    You can point this out to the average person, they’ll still say you’re overreacting.

    Like between this rename, and the “trump was fbi informant” bs, I’m wondering if I’m in a simulation, cuz this is absolutely insane, literally is amateur tv script, unbelievable, if this aired on TV, it would have worse rating than GoT season 8.

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      But its the real world unfortunately, it looks so stupid from the outside but I have lost all my friends to MAGA. Tell me how an evil orange clown controls the narrative for more than half the new coverage. He only supports his cronies and gives the middle finger to anyone who makes less than million dollars annually. This our collective timeline, fucking hell.

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    So the orange Cheeto, who is trying to get the Noble Peace Prize… just wrote an EO rename things to the Department of War

    God I wish you could turn cognitive dissonance into harnessable energy.