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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.
Department of war is the correct term.
I'm reminded of when Google took the "Don't Be Evil" motto off their homepage.
Yeah, it was corporate bullshit. Yeah, they've been up to no good for a while. But when you start changing out the "We're just here to do a good job" curtains for the "They're red so the bloodstains are less visible" ones, it can't help but make you a little nervous.
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.
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....
I was thinking maybe the American public will start to question why we are spending so much on war.
To Keep Us Safe! To Defeat The Foreign Evil! To Bring Godlessness Back To Our Broken World!
It is an insane budget
I would be more comfortable with the US government taking its $1.4T national security budget and throwing it in a big burn pit than I am with our current policy. I'm less concerned with the volume of money than in what it is being spent on.
I hate that my Q family will believe exactly this: that he did it with the goal of waking people up.
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.
Pathetic little man...
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.
Me sound tough with the word WAR in me title. Just look at how tough me is with scary word WAR!
That man yells out his own name during sex
In his defense, it's also the name of his only sexual partner.
In his ~~defense~~ war...
FTFY
Dude needs a mirror to masturbate
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
Those were the Losing Wars that were started by the bad stupid democrats.
He's going to do the Winning Wars that Make America Great Again.
Yuge difference.
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.
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.
FDR changes name from War to Defense, and Congress hasn't declared War since. They're just special military operations
Pretty much. We bombed Vietnam and killed a bunch of middle eastern people. Just a bunch of special military operations.
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Yeah, Department of Defense always reminded me of 1984:
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.
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.
He was also an undercover FBI informant in the Democraric hoax that are the Epstein files.
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This dudes profile looks like the distillation of all "iamverybadass" memes
You know when guys buy big trucks to overcompensate their other shortcomings? Well...
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
Don't forget the 15 or (however many) wars he's single-handedly ended and is therefore definitely deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize
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.
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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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.
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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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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.
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"
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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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.
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Secretary of DUI, Kegseth
Secretary of w-here are the fucking epstein files?
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.
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)
It's the Gulf of MEXICO goddamnit
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Liver damage needs to hurry TF up breh, he's so embarrassing.
You mean cirrhosis?
Look, man, I'm doing my best on a motor with no compression here 😔
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Other than the war on US cities and people that are different than him, what war?
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