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Everyone! Everyone! It’s the anti war president! Give him a peace prize!!!!
His might makes all others quail in fear, thus resulting in total peace!
Well, they are shaking. Though, by seeing subs like boycottus and fucktheus I feel like it’s probably rage and not fear.
At least some of it is laughter.
Shaking hands with each other
Everyone should just refer to the DoD as the Department of Epstein Files from now on. Because this is yet another flagrantly transparent attempt to distract everyone away from that issue.
Anytime you think the bar can’t go lower, it still does.
"The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here's Trump, limbo dancing with the devil."
I don't know where I read that one but I liked it.
I don't much like Trump, but for once he's right: the US Department of Defense is mostly doing war in the world, and very little defense. When was the last time the US armed forces defended the country?
I don't think that's why he renamed it
He's trying to rename it for spectacle and looking tough, but it might actually make it harder for them to keep continually increasing the "war" budget.
Looked into it and it seems like they will keep the name Department of Defense, but this allows for certain Trump officials to call themselves Secretary of War and other such nonsense.
They will continue to call it the defense budget and the DOD when it's about funding. They will call ut the Department of War in only their propaganda.
Well at least it makes it easier to argue that the only thing America does for the world is violence
Well yeah, but if your argument is that the DoD needed a name that better describes its role, Trump should have renamed it the Department of Pork.
Because that's mostly what it does: feed the military-industrial complex.
I mean we absolutely are waging at least 7 wars. I'm obviously against the US blowing our money on the MIC, but I'm personally a lot more perturbed by the actual violence inflicted on the world. Like they're not just blowing the money on like giant golden statues of Trump, they're blowing the money to then go kill more people.
Trump is such an unfunny bore… What a missed opportunity to rename it the Hexagon and troll the hell out of everybody.
JFC, maybe we can give this administration a secondary title…
Pedo party!
Ok so, for the record, the Department of Defense was kind of a silly name.
EPSTEIN FILES!
Branding.