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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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[–] [email protected] 255 points 1 week ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Hopefully they remember that when the time comes to make choices.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

We knew this from the last time around

Evidence suggests they do not make the correct choice

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Idk. The military did not go along with the coup attempt. That is a win in my book.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

That's good for us. Now he plays for our team.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Trump only cares about his daughter and other chicks he wants to fuck. He has no use for anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I think "cares" is too strong a word. It would imply that it matters to him if they live or die.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So trump wants to fuck Putin? …oh. Yeah, that tracks.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What does it matter? He has their unwavering support. He could have killed them himself and not lost the military's support.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump hates everything that is not Donald J. Trump.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hey, that's not fair. He's also weirdly into Ivanka Trump.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hate suckers and losers, too, that's why I avoid interacting with MAGA Nazis.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

stop trying to make trump sound good

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump likes the part where the military conquers other countries. He hates service members, veterans, and all humans.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What did he call soldiers that die? Losers?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Especially soldiers who "got captured".

[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Suckers and losers…”

Now watch this drive

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, veterans did mostly vote for Trump, so...

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago

Golfing with the fucking Russian oligarchs is more important than honoring dead US soldiers. Fuck Krasnov.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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."

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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????!!" 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

They were just suckers and losers anyway.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

he doesn't wear a tan suit though so it's ok

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

Nero fiddling as Rome burns.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

The amount of news articles that make me laugh have been steadily increasing.

What a clownly country.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

he said they are suckers and losers, and whats in for them, more than one occasion.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember the "Troops for Trump" that would set up from time to time. Never understood it. He's disrespected them multiple times.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

"Suckers and loosers"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Hard to embezzle money from the taxpayers for events that aren't at your place.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

While a man he admits is innocent is in an El Salvador prison

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

lithuanian vs us presidents

Not only that Lithuanians donated 237k usd for the families of the deceased soldiers Link.

Interview by US general about the deaths and recovery operation

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Supposedly, I shouldn’t be the one who cares more about US soldiers than a republican president, and yet…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

"im not staying for these SUCKERS AND LOSERS, all of them, i dont like them dead"-trump probably

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