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[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

Pathetic little man...

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 6 points 19 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.

[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] DNS@discuss.online 14 points 21 hours ago

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.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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....

[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago

I can see him stumble into some progressive policies.....He will kill the economy and have enough of an outrage about cutting Medicaid that enough of his supporters will demand trumpcare. He can also start trump bucks, a monthly payout, so that the economy will still be stimulated. Just pitch it to him as something he can take away from US citizens, if they protest against him. He loves his name on shit, so just name the policies after him and he'll probably think it's a good deal.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

Me sound tough with the word WAR in me title. Just look at how tough me is with scary word WAR!

The other day he was going on about how he ended 7 wars (wtf is he talking about?) and how he ran on anti war, but he loves war clearly

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[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

This dudes profile looks like the distillation of all "iamverybadass" memes

[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That man yells out his own name during sex

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In his defense, it's also the name of his only sexual partner.

[–] iCy619@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

In his ~~defense~~ war...

FTFY

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 13 points 1 day ago

Dude needs a mirror to masturbate

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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

[–] la508@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

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

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gabbath@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Like Brother Dusk in the most recent episode of Foundation.

Trump the Consequential.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

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

[–] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 139 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I dunno, it's a pretty huge deal of a change. It's literally historic and a major sign of the times. As others have pointed out, I actually enjoy this less duplicitous name. But the context of the change does not bode well.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 67 points 1 day ago (5 children)

So, yes and no - It was the "Department of War" for most of the country's existence. Truman changed it in 1947 when doing a massive overhaul of the military and intel parts of the government. Also, just calling "Department of Defense" hasn't prevented us from getting into a whole mess of wars since then.

I do agree that it's a sign of the times in terms of "everything old is new again" and undoing the 20th century, which is the T47/project 2025 stated goal. Sure as shit, we're making incredible progress towards returning to 1860.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

FDR changes name from War to Defense, and Congress hasn't declared War since. They're just special military operations

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 32 points 1 day ago

Pretty much. We bombed Vietnam and killed a bunch of middle eastern people. Just a bunch of special military operations.

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 90 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

He was also an undercover FBI informant in the Democraric hoax that are the Epstein files.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

Other than the war on US cities and people that are different than him, what war?

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 69 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Used to have a roommate like this in first year of college. They just stick to this one stupid thing that they think are hyper-masculine (in his case, it was going shooting and owning big guns) and they won't shut up about it. These fuckers are so annoying. Like we get it bro, you're a big manly man, now stfu about it. These are usually the most childish people irl.

[–] Gowron_Howard@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is what happens when you have no personality.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

did they officially change it from defense? that might be the first honest thing they've done in their miserable lives in pursuit of fascistic grandstanding.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My first split-second initial reaction was "oh hey they're being honest for once", but that was very swiftly followed by "oh fuck what are they teeing up here, they're not doing this for no reason"

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago

Trump has been calling himself a war-time president (the war is unspecified) and saying how nice it would be if he could suspend elections and stay in power due to a war. This has been in the making for a while. If he's still alive in 3 years, he'll start a war to stay in power.

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[–] zzz711@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right now it's an alternate name via executive order. Officially changing the name from Department of Defense to Department of War requires an act of Congress.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Congress is already warming up their hands to make sure the ball fondling pleases Trump.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Isn't it interesting? For people who hate "woke" and rally against gender identity transitioning, they sure love transitioning the identity of an entire government department and complaining when people dead name it. Snowflakes, the lot of them.

Edit: For bonus points, remember that these are the kind of conservative that bitch about LGBTQ people "making it everyone else's business," while they themselves are extremely in-your-face about these changes.

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

My dad's Facebook bio is "Trans-Millionaire" even though he makes less than 6 figures. I don't think my dad has ever seen a million dollars in his bank account but to him he is just as important as those rich assholes who sit on top and make it harder for the rest to breathe clean air. My dad, as you guessed it, is extremely transphobic and a cunt (they are pretty synonymous)

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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 43 points 1 day ago

Secretary of w-here are the fucking epstein files?

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 day ago

Secretary of DUI, Kegseth

[–] trager_bombs@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Liver damage needs to hurry TF up breh, he's so embarrassing.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] Piratemob@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's a secretary. Some office somewhere probably.

[–] Piratemob@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago

Oh okay lol

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