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This should not surprise anyone. We've known Trump has nothing but contempt for our service members for years. It wasn't even limited to his comments about John McCain's five years as a POW either...
Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’ published by The Atlantic on Sept 3rd 2020.
No, right, it's just a Special Military Operation.
Pentagon & GOP: Fuck you for your service.
Military proceeds to vote GOP
At some point you have to lose compassion for idiots voting for the leopards party
Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make
I know people frown on “that other site,” but there’s an excellent, and sadly incomplete (I suspect), listing of all the ways The Idiot and his administration have gleefully fucked over veterans.
And many of them vote for him anyway.
Imagine joining the US military.
You all elected a conman and then act surprised after being conned?
MAGA winning all over the place!
The department of war, at war? How ridiculous.
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
And losing at that.
their refusal makes them the true losers of the military
JD Vance gets asked about the widows case and he responds to the journalist "send me her contact info so I can discuss it with her" as if he isn't the second most powerful person in his country and already has full access to all of the info but doesn't care. If they have to start paying out benefits to dead soldiers it might become more clear how many service members have actually died.
There are likely more fatalities of American soldiers but they are hiding them behind mission secrecy.
He is always looking for another widow to befriend. Right, Erika?
Think about the bright side: If all countries stop using the term "war", then we've achieved world peace!! /s
You jest, but this is exactly what trump would do.
Would? Doesn't the "Board of Peace" exist?
You also can't lose a war if it isn't a war! 😅
I've said it forever: Screwing over veterans is more American than apple pie. We've been doing it since the American Revolution.
I can't imagine President Pedophile being the one to change that. He doesn't even care enough to pretend.
He actively distains troops and veterans.
He’s a draft dodger himself. They’re only pawns in his scheme to enrich himself and the capital class. It’s been the same with every president since WWII.
This is what happens when you prop your economy up on war and petroleum. You have to fight constant wars to maintain it. You have to keep heating up the planet until it’s unliveable.
The Great Depression proved that capitalism is a bubble that can’t sustain itself without constant exploitation of fossil fuels and the military-industrial complex. The second hit took place with the oil shortages and stagflation of the 1970s.
Illegal, shameful, and un-American.
Seems pretty American to me
America Eats Its Young.
Other people's too.