Every AMERICAN should be boiling with anger over this, not just the veterans. Of course Trump has been on record stating that soldiers captured or killed are losers so it's no surprise his administration would do this kind of garbage.
Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread
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It could also be malicious compliance. Most of the people working there aren't new hires, after all. I know if I were working there and Trump just became my boss, I'd immediately make it my mission to interpret any vague orders in the way that makes the boss looks as bad as possible, without actually doing anything I suspect he'd disapprove of enough to fire me.
They've done it to everyone not a white man. They took down pictures of the enola gay because it had "gay" in it.
Trump says he was being a 'bit sarcastic' when he promised to end Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours
President Donald Trump says he was “being a little bit sarcastic” when he repeatedly claimed as a candidate that he would have the Russia-Ukraine war solved within 24 hours — and before he even took office.
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Maybe I am being semantic pedantic, but this isn't really sarcasm in a way that I understand it. It is just an empty promise repeated over and over. I wish a follow-up had been, "So did you not mean for people to believe it?"
If this is in any way true, I wholeheartedly support this kind of shenanigans.
Trump doesn't know what sarcasm actually is? Oh, I am so shocked!
Seems ICE and Border Patrol are starting to ignore the courts in more cases than just the Venezuela stuff:
What a shock.
History really is repeating.
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France offers to take in US scientists
: Aix-Marseille University rolls out welcome mat for American researchers facing funding cuts
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Canada to review the purchase of US-made F-35 fighter jets in light of Trump's trade war
A spokesman for Canada's Defense Minister Bill Blair says new Prime Minister Mark Carney has asked for a review of the purchase of America’s F-35 fighter jet.
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That's gonna be an expensive tariff.
The US retains the ability to remotely kill the software on the f-35s. The US also cannot be trusted, and has threated to invade multiple allied, sovereign nations. Did trump honestly think the world would keep buying military hardware from them?
I don’t really follow this sort of thing, but isn’t the F-35 a massively overpriced white elephant anyway?
(Thinking back, Thrust in TF Armada was an F-35. That was over twenty years ago. Shows how long these pieces of military hardware take to get in service, given they’re only being rolled out now.)
(Thinking back, Thrust in TF Armada was an F-35. That was over twenty years ago. Shows how long these pieces of military hardware take to get in service, given they’re only being rolled out now.)
Black Saturday: The Day the United States Ceased to Be a Constitutional Democracy
Black Saturday, March 15, 2025, will be remembered as the day the U.S. ceased to function as a constitutional democracy. A sitting president defied a federal court order, proving that judicial authority no longer constrains executive power. This is not a warning—it is confirmation that democracy...
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Living through history is ****ing exhausting.
Reminds me of this post I was reading yesterday, which introduced a (supposedly) relatively new term called Competitive Authoritarianism, though tbf he makes it clear also that he did not create the term - it goes back to some stuff written before Trump's inauguration and used Hungary's situation as its initial model.
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What Authoritarianism Means
Even critical observers underestimated the speed and scope of the Trumpist assault, they overestimated democratic resilience. What is America now, and what comes next?
thomaszimmer.substack.com
There is no future for Republicans. Trump is the only thing holding them together as anything resembling a coalition. Eight years of looking for someone able to match his energy has failed. Trump's inevitable death will be a murder-suicide pact for the GOP.
There is no future for Democrats. They lack the ability to inspire the people. Their options are to cling to a framework that has already failed, or try to be more Trump-like and authoritarian against their "enemies", which they lack the competence, drive, and/or chutzpah to make work.
The bright future for America is a cross-party coalition that rejects R and D tribalism and forges something new that a majority can agree on. But both sides are so divided, so petulant, and so untrusting of one another, that its unrealistic to expect such a positive change in the near future without an even stronger catalyst.
The dark future for America is complete anarchy once people openly accept that no system exists that really controls them in any way.
The median is maybe we dissolve into 50 independent countries if people pretend they're still willing to accept State law after the federal government falls apart, but the cognitive dissonance to believe that is already structurally unsound.
What is government when people refuse to be governed?
There is no future for Democrats. They lack the ability to inspire the people. Their options are to cling to a framework that has already failed, or try to be more Trump-like and authoritarian against their "enemies", which they lack the competence, drive, and/or chutzpah to make work.
The bright future for America is a cross-party coalition that rejects R and D tribalism and forges something new that a majority can agree on. But both sides are so divided, so petulant, and so untrusting of one another, that its unrealistic to expect such a positive change in the near future without an even stronger catalyst.
The dark future for America is complete anarchy once people openly accept that no system exists that really controls them in any way.
The median is maybe we dissolve into 50 independent countries if people pretend they're still willing to accept State law after the federal government falls apart, but the cognitive dissonance to believe that is already structurally unsound.
What is government when people refuse to be governed?
Yeah, you got me. I owe you a coke.