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This is the mission creep of this war. No clear objectives no exit strategy. Send more ships more troops.
Gotta have a war going so no one talks about Epstein.
No better way to distract from raping hundreds of children than by murdering a few thousand brown ones
Not all of the American children will be brown, but they're probably poor and they will be praised for their bravery so people don't feel as bad,
Without blowing another big hole in our budget, people might get the idea that we should start taxing the Epstein class to fund things like childcare, healthcare, education, scientific research, feeding, clothing and housing all our people, and updating/fixing our infrastructure here at home.
There is always going to be money to pay for bullshit like this in "defense" of 'merica, but anything done for actual people IN America will have to be means tested and always up for getting cut by the likes of idiots that thought "doge" was a good idea.
One of the gems of the latter simpsons episodes is grandpa mocking the complaints of an iraq war vet "It was too hot, the USO show was rob schneider, US objectives were and remain incomprehensible."
The same will apply here, except the uso show will be kid rock.
Don’t forget what you’re fighting for.
Not to mention giving the crazy xtian fucks their pipe dreams of having Jayzus come back on a cloud and rapture all these morons up while they get to watch other tortured horribly.
I mean, what a perfectly normal ethical system. It doesn't sound at all like a dream of a total psychopath, getting front row seats to others being tortured and reveling in the notion that they'd be tortured forever. By a loving god, because they didn't accept the highly-dubious truth claims and demented ethical system offered up in "the" bible....
Nothing like a super uncoordinated halfassed deployment against the biggest adversary we have faced in 75 years all in the furtherance of a war with no objectives and no reason to even be happening apart from leadership that couldn't think of anything better to do.
"WOOO! 'merica!"
-red hatted idiots, probably
In other news, polymarket has a new bet on the ratio that make it back alive.
Jfc this is actually insane
Marines, remember who you are fighting for...
Huh, I thought the war was over?
I mean, the war that wasn't really a war and many of his sycophantic apparatchiks were claiming would not have boots on the ground?
Bad archive site, that's the one that edits stored content and uses its visitors to DDoS a blog.
What will be this quagmire’s “Fortune Son” I wonder
Pretty sure it's Fortunate Son.
"I ain't no rich pedophile's son." *Guitar riff
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:eyes narrow:
Suspiciously close, but obviously not the one. lol
??? I'm confused?
Rickroll link I'm pretty sure.
Another Vietnam, for nothing. JFC.
No, not for nothing. For imperialism, for the Trump-Epstein files, for pork barrel politics, for the MIC, for oil.
Also israel's foreign policy objectives.
This shit makes Vietnam look like a well planned and thought out war.
This war is less popular than Vietnam
When Vietnam got rolling, it was supported. And depending on when you consider it "starting", since the slide from France's imperialist aims over to being ours is more nuanced. We were "involved" by 1950. But starting in 1965, it looks like 59% thought the war was not a mistake.
Without an internal opposition to back in Iran, I don’t see how the U.S. could win a war against the mullahs.
great idea orange man, this is gonna be real popular come midterms!
National emergencies don’t require popularity when elections are canceled.
good thing elections are run by the states then
They're trying to fix that too; don't worry
in only a couple of months? when the entire republican establishment hates the guy? when his entire cabinet is incompetent cronies selected for loyalty and not expertise? when they can't even get the save act passed? and get rid of mail in voting? all of which primarily hurt rural voters? when we're looking at a dummymander in texas because all of trump's gains with latino voters are long gone now? when republicans in congress are screaming about a "bloodbath" at midterms? when legislators' terms end jan 20 2027, so even if red states cancel elections, their term as legislators ends and you end up with a bunch of vacancies in congress? when blue states still held elections and suddenly congress is all blue?
what you're describing would call for a constitutional amendment or a 50 state conspiracy so grand and organized that it would never happen in a million years. republicans can't even agree on the save act, the house rewrites it and thune says it's dead in the water. and even if they try to push it through, they'd need to end the filibuster, which thune says he won't do, which by the way, would only help democrats when they get back in power, just like with the nationwide injunction ruling.
this whole line about elections being rigged is very silly. the way you people talk about it sounds like you want elections to be rigged. trump is a demented orangutan, but somehow capable of a grand conspiracy with only slim margins in congress, when the republican establishment doesn't even like him, and has consistent dissenters on the republican side. and the courts are functioning pretty much the same as they were under biden. and he wasn't able to stop the 2025 elections, nor any of the special elections, all of which democrats are gaining by double digit points in every election.
demoralization is a form of anti-democratic propaganda you know.
I wonder if "JD" "Vance" supposedly being a doubter is part of the playbook.
If PEDOnald has to step down to health reasons, "JD" "Vance" looks like the "sensible" one by firing Hegseth and ending this unnecessary war. His poll numbers skyrocket, since he'll be the Republican that won't do all the excesses that PEDOnald had (except he will, he'll just be less stupid and brash about it. It will be much quieter but twice as devious).
In parallel, they stop talking about Epstein at all and won't even take questions about it...maybe one or two fall guys take the hit - perhaps Blondi. No one really big like PEDOnald sees any punishment whatsoever.
So they're really going for it, ey?
why it matters
AI slop has its fingerprints all over this
At least they aren't coming to US cities.
Say "No!" to military service.
Dodge the draft.
I bet they'll try to renact dday for some sick media footage.
They're definitely going to film them putting up a flag somewhere but it won't open the strait of Hormuz.
When you only have a hammer, everything is a nail.
It's not the only tool he has, it's just the only one he wants to use.
I’d say, “why not ICE”, but the likelihood that they’d gleefully commit crimes against humanity as soon as their boots hit the soil makes me not wish ICE upon even America’s enemies.
But here's the upside. They're so incompetent that if they encounter armed opposition first it'd be like the SS going up against the Dutch or Norwegian military remnant resistance cells, that is to say abject slaughter.