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If the dems were smart they would use this to campaign to military people, along with the dozens of things Trump has done to piss them off.
But the dems are physically incapable of advertising themselves to the Republic core audience, while simultaneously harping on about compromise and reaching across the ilse.
I doubt most military people care. Those positions are being filled by acting commanders until people are promoted to fill them permanently, in most cases by the people nominated to fill them. They aren't just vacant.
Retired military here, and I just can't get too worked up over someone filling that position is getting 2-star pay instead of 3-star pay, or Colonel pay instead of 1-star pay.
It sucks if you are the one in line for a promotion though. To have all your hard work go to waste for some stupid political issue unrelated to you
Yeah that's the thing here. Congress promotes officers. The enlisted corp ain't gonna give a flying fuck. Promotion rates for enlisted have been shit for a couple years now
And forecast to remain shit for at least the next 4 years.
Every time I say something "extreme" I am bombarded by people who think taking the high road is the answer while the GOP would literally sell them into slavery or beat them to death with baseball bats for fun.
Perhaps we can create a new extreme sport of beating yourself with a baseball bat, and advertise it exclusively in areas where mind rot has bloomed in the population. Oh, wait...
That's what politicians and bootlickers deserve. Like you.
The Dems honestly feel like controlled opposition
Pretty poorly controlled seeing as they have control over 2/3rds of the government
Not really. They don't control the senate, nit least because of thr 2 DINOs
"Republicans did something fucking stupid that's bad for their constituents."
"Oh but but the dems..."
This is why there's those posts asking how many Russian bots have made it to Lemmy.
What?
Ironically, this is one thing Biden excels at.
I mean, why not just make YouTube ads for them? Should be easy enough to grab snippets, add audio voice over and put them on the Internet and target red leaning people