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[–] Godric@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Broken clocks and all that, fantastic change. No longer can people hide behind the euphemism.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 41 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's like a 10 year old boy is leading America

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 21 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

A 10 year old boy who is also a felon, a rapist, and fucks 10 year old girls, while letting other 10 year old boys dictate policy while he golfs and rapes people.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 hours ago

He's more like a ten year old boy who fucks three-year-old girls who don't yet have the language to say what happened to them...and when they get snitchy, he threatens them with violence to shut them up, often demonstrating on a small animal.

I think I'm trying to say he's not just a precocious kid with anger issues, but a precocious kid with a cruelty streak and symptoms of physical neurological effects and poses a danger to himself and others.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago

Sounds expensive. How much does it normally cost to rebrand an organisation of this size?

(and that's without needing to rewrite references to it in any legislation!)

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

This lowers our cost of living, right?

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 19 points 14 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

It use to be called the Department of War, but was changed for optics and Trump is terrible at optics.

[–] blackfox@lemmings.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Yeah. Department of "Defense" was always a lie.

[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 37 points 16 hours ago

I'm so glad President Trump is focused on the important issues, like renaming bodies of water, mountains, schools, and federal institutions. I didn't need lower grocery prices anyway.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 13 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

And here I thought that MAGA voted for peace... /s

[–] seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

[–] xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge, let's go!

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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago
[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 19 points 15 hours ago

Missed the chance to have a Ministry of Peace.

[–] Part4 8 points 13 hours ago

Keeps Epstein out of the news.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 hours ago

We are stuck in a time portal to 1929.

[–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

It's not even that nice when you abbreviate it:

Before: DOD = Dee Oh Dee. Has a nice flow

Now: DOW = Dee Oh Dup?

[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 32 points 18 hours ago
[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Look out neighboring countries, the USA is switching to offense.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

I switch my card to attack mode!

[–] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 15 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Who would have thought Americans would be so weak in the face of a fascist takeover. It's truly pathetic.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Plenty of pushback against Trump. But the news coverage is always some mix of "These leftists are too weak to stop us" and "These leftists are ruining America! Send in tanks to crush them!"

Trump's already had somewhere north of three different assassination attempts on him. We've got protests and riots running from LA to DC. How many times does a President have to call out the National Guard to suppress the public before it counts?

[–] chaonaut@lemmy.4d2.org 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

It's kinda ridiculous how out of touch the "why aren't Americans regularly shooting politicians" crowd is. Like, just completely ignoring how militarized American law enforcement is and treating the gun ownership rates as evenly distributed instead of recognizing that the same people who support Trump are the sorts to own 20-100 guns.

Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if encouraging leftists to go out and buy guns to kill politicians is straight out of the COINTELPRO playbook, given what the FBI has been doing to the Muslim communities in the US. But no, by all means, they should keep ignoring the organizing and pushback that has actually been happening and keep baying for blood, regardless of whose

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Hell, it wouldn’t surprise me if encouraging leftists to go out and buy guns to kill politicians is straight out of the COINTELPRO playbook

Americans love the idea of having someone else do their dirty work for free. So the endless "Why won't anyone shoot more Republicans? I guess they're all pussies" carping is less about the actual state of American politics and much more about people on the Internet wanting a new thing to jerk off to.

I don't know how you distinguish this from regular old Alex Jones tier bullshit.

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Has there ever been a more timid, passive, weak, complacent, idiotic population than the current USA?

From afar I watched them passively accept people dying or losing their homes because they couldn't afford health care. I saw them go off to fight stupid unjustifiable wars overseas with little protest. But it is when I saw them accept their kids dying in mass slaughters in schools with barely any outrage for decades that I realized they had lost their humanity. If you can accept such outrageous things without acting you can and will accept anything.

A large number of them actively cheer their own downfall as a nation, their own impoverishment, their slavery and their stupidity. I wouldn't underestimate the tasking of rebuilding a civilized society there. They might kick the Trumpists out with some effort but the rot goes very, very deep.

[–] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

They might kick the Trumpists out with some effort but the rot goes very, very deep."

I honestly feel that the best thing for America is to break into two parts, let the Maga / Racists have their own country, and the normal ones their own. America isn't compatible with itself as it stands.

[–] shirro@aussie.zone 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

They fought a very bloody civil war to avoid that outcome and the US is a much, much stronger country if they bury their differences and work for a common good. In many ways a split would be a much worse outcome than even what we are seeing at the moment.

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[–] DannyMac@sh.itjust.works 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

We're not even a quarter of the way through this...

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Are we still assuming he'll leave after his 4 years are up?

[–] DannyMac@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

One can dream 😭

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[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

Unironically the only based thing a president has ever contemplated doing, except, like, the emancipation proclamation.

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 7 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

I voted for Trump because I was TIRED of getting into Wars!

[–] zaft@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like the propaganda worked wonders on you.

[–] freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago

I think you missed the sarcasm

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

If you really did so, I have a question for you: Why did you think you could trust him?

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 7 points 15 hours ago

It was known as the department of war until shortly after WW2. This is one change where I appreciate the honesty. Doesn't make him any better.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 83 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

TRUMP RAPES CHILDREN.

Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80

Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac

Here's the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/

—————————other Epstein Information

https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.

Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

Jeffrey Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Jeffrey Epstein and Israel both have the same lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Dershowitz says he's building 'legal dream team' to defend Israel in court and on international stage | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid

—————————other Trump information:

Here's trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY

Trump's promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

Trump's modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/

Do your part and spread them around like a meme sharing them and saving them helps too! Please copy and paste this elsewhere!

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 63 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Department of Distraction from Child Rape Allegations.

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[–] l_isqof@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, Epstein would have loved that...

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 18 hours ago

Ministry of peace

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 28 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, that's what it used to be called...

more fitting tbh.

1000001918

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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Good, that's what it always was.
Less hypocrisy

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 4 points 15 hours ago

Now rename the IDF to the IOF.

[–] arararagi@ani.social 8 points 18 hours ago

I mean, that's exactly what it was lol.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 81 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Lmfao finally something I'm glad he's doing!

The name change was fucking psychological manipulation for the population. You can't argue against defense department spending as easily as you can argue against war department spending.

Bring it on! Make our jobs easier you bumbling brainrotted doughnut dictator.

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