Donald Trump on Friday downplayed the toll on American sailors enduring nearly nine months at sea on the USS Abraham Lincoln as concerns escalated about mental health and supply issues aboard the aircraft carrier supporting U.S. operations against Iran.
In a brief exchange with reporters before flying to New York for an event to highlight falling violent crime rates across the U.S., Trump refuted that family members have raised concerns about the deployment’s length and even said that the deployment — which includes a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 240 days — is “not nearly long enough.”
“Well yeah this sucks but the Fox News playing 24/7 in the commissary tells me that Democrats want to turn my kids trans so I guess I still have to vote for Republicans”
-95% of the military
I really hope the current military is seeing this, as well as all those vets who have to wear grunt style tshirts everywhere they go and plaster veteran/military decals all over their cars.
he. Does. NOT. Care. About. YOU!
That ship should have sailed when he mocked John McCain, a guy that spent 6 years in a POW camp after being shot down over Vietnam. In a sane world, he’d lose the military vote right then and there, forever.
It’s a very, very mad world we live in
Fucking up everybody else is a sacrifice he’s willing to do…
Fucking up everybody else is a sacrifice he’s willing to do…
It’s what he has always done.
As long as he thinks he can make a nickel of profit, he will bulldoze right through you.
neither will we when we kick his ass out
Unfortunate typo :(
fixed.ugh
Do modern sailors still do the “long walk on a short plank” thing?
Fun fact: “walking the plank” was a myth made up by Hollywood. And think about it, would you bother having the ship’s carpenter build a temporary diving board out of precious timber when you could just throw the person overboard instead? There was a punishment called “walking the yard” where they made a man walk off the end of one of the cross-members that held the sails; whether you survived or not depended on the weather and how high up the yard was. Not as cinematic as walking the plank, though.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a movie where they showed keelhauling or flogging around the fleet.
Black Sails showed keelhauling in a late episode.
I’ll have to check that out, thanks for the rec.
It’s actually a prequel to Treasure Island. It’s a pretty fun show, but historical accuracy isn’t a high priority. It’s also from Stars, so the first season has a lot of gratuitous nudity, but it gets scaled way back starting from the second season.
historical accuracy isn’t a high priority
I want to see Blackbeard getting a cheesesteak in Philly.
They showed keelhauling in a pirate show I watched. I don’t remember the name of it though.
Keelhauling would be far more interesting and entertaining if done on an aircraft carrier.
and done to trump.
Dammit…im am so fucking tired if this piece of shit
Historically it always turns out well when you alienate the military.
How does this guy manage to get stupider with each passing day. He’s not even trying anymore, he’s totally checked out.
Dementia.
He’s also surrounded by sycophants
That show him AI slop videos and tell him it’s what is really happening in the world.
It’s almost impressive how emotionally volatile he is. Defensive as fuck and flailing, not even trying to tune the bullshit. Maybe he’s just getting too comfortable, maybe it doesn’t matter because if how cemented his power is, but can you imagine if, like, Hillary Clinton said some shit like this when she got oresson on Benghazi. Like “nobody thinks it was bad, if you ask me it’s not bad enough and should get worse”
If it was Obama instead of Trump doing and saying these things, Republicans would have dragged him out of the White House and hung him by the nearest tree long ago.
My theory is that no only does he have a circus entourage of clapping seals almost wherever he goes, LLMs seem like a perfect match for an egotistical idiot with dementia like Trump. It can synthesize an image or tell him a reality of whatever he desires. In some ways he’s more comfortable and feels like he no longer has to answer to anyone.
How much you wanna bet the majority of personnel on that aircraft carrier would still happily vote for trump’s successor (Vance? Trump again, illegally? A festering maggotty sack of feces? Anyone with an [R] next to their name?) in 2028?
MAGA people never learn.
As soon as he’s out, his wannabe successors will put all the things they can’t defend on his mental decline. Once elected, they’ll do exactly the same things.
Once elected, they’ll do exactly the same things.
Only slightly quieter and in a less chaotic manner.
A lot of the military loves deployments. You get extra pay that’s untaxed, which help you buy that new jeep renegade. Deployments also allow you to get over the dreaded e6 hump and become a platoon leader.
This is what you get for electing a weakling with bone spurs.
He’s so stupid. He just walks into these PR disasters unforced because he can’t come up with something better.
Just wax lyrical about the dedication of your soldiers and how thankful the USA is for them to carry out this important mission. It would be so easy.
Walking headlong into PR disasters and getting away with it is part of the flex of fascism. It’s the same for most of their hypocrisy and ‘rules for thee’ mentality.
Also, he is going senile, my grandma also got weirdly angry at everybody and everything right before she started to forget who we were, and eventually who she was.
my grandma also got weirdly angry at everybody and everything right before she started to forget who we were, and eventually who she was
This is depressing. My elderly mother gets enraged whenever someone uses one of her precious Revereware copper-bottomed pots. I’m assuming it’s a precursor to Alzheimer’s, which her younger sister already died from.
I am sorry to hear that. It is never easy to watch somebody slip away. I feel for you.
It’s a weird benefit of populist, anti-establishment candidates.
They’re just not held to the same standards and their supporters are very dismissive of any wrong doing.
It’s the same with Farage in the UK. We have a populist Pauline Hanson here in Australia who’s the same.
I don’t really have any plausible explanation.
I don’t really have any plausible explanation
Far too many people want simple (and therefore simplistic) answers to complex problems.
And that’s exactly what populists offer them.
Of course, in the real world, complex problems never have simple solutions that actually work.
And, usually, those simple solutions cause more problems than they solve.
Authoritarian followers do not introspect, and they compartmentalise their beliefs to sustain contradiction. They are quick to forget the insults and failures of the dear leader, who tends to be deep into dark triad territory and is knowingly exploiting their collective frailty.
Every single one of them that voted for Trump or didn’t vote, got what they deserve. They voted for the leopard eating faces, and now the leopard is on them.
The ones that voted against Trump are the only ones I can really feel sorry for.
Fuck Americans that failed to vote against Trump.Trump is a malignant narcissist, and that was very clear before the election, it was also clear before he was elected the first time.
If you want a malignant narcissist as leader of your country, you are not right in the head.There’s no way they could have known. It’s not like he had a history going back into the 70s and 60s of being a… oh, yeah. He did.
You know the joke in Back to the Future where Marty tells Doc the President is Reagan, and he says incredulously, “What? The actor?” Well, imagine going back to any point in the latter 20th century and telling someone that Trump will be President. Anyone would laugh, no matter what party affiliation. Seems we all had standards back then, even if they were still low.
The reason is simply because he’s the perfect tool that the Southern Strategy dreamed of. They never had an idea it would work so well.
Spy magazine back in the '80s used to have an annual “10 worst people, places and things” issue. Trump always made the list, although it was more of an NYC-centric thing. Each listee always had a “mitigating factors” item and Trump’s was always “at least he’s not in politics”. :(
My favorite bit from back then was that Trump once offered to pay for the funeral of a child who had been killed by a bear, and then reneged on the offer.
They knew Trump was a scumbag back when they made Back to the Future 2! You think this…
…was a coincidence?!
The DNC pretty much handed him 2016, and Biden handed him 2024.
The two parties are both trash, and the citizens just rolling over and taking it up the ass, doesn’t help.
Trump still lost the majority the first time and got under 50% the second time. USA’s insane election system caused much of it, as well as a failure of the campaigns to account for how it would play out in the uncertain states.
2024 was much more a media propaganda problem, although I agree they didn’t do enough to push back. They could’ve used the presidency to force the message to be delivered along with evidence of Trump’s corruption and they decided to “play nice” against the cheater
Hell, the Simpsons made fun of the idea.
There’s no way they could have known.
They couldn’t have known an obvious malignant narcissist would behave like a malignant narcissist? Is that really your claim?
For that to be true, you’d have to be so stupid you wouldn’t be able to find the polling station either.Edit:
It doesn’t change anything that he quotes a movie, he picked that quote to make that point. And it is simply wrong.Well, yes, people can be that stupid. Also, how did you read all of what I posted and not realize it was sarcasm? Or did you see the first few words and rage post?
You’re going to need this.
Yeah, maybe you were right. Good lord.
Yeah, when I saw “I don’t even know what Southern Strategy means” I knew you were in for a ride.
Not for the first replies. But if they double down, then sure, let them have their “victory”. The chain of messages tells the real story.
No you have to agree with the psychopath to not be able to see it, and if you agree, you are no better yourself.
Only a psychopath don’t recognize a psychopath. And Malignant Narcissist is the worst kind of Psychopath there is.Also it doesn’t look like sarcasm to me, quoting a movie is not sarcasm.
And Reagan is irrelevant to American voters voting for an obvious psychopath. For instance the situation with Russia was completely different. And Reagan actually had coherent policies.
Also Emmett Browns surprise is acting. It is not real.You should look it up. It will make you realize how deep this goes. Can’t help you with the rest, it was pretty clear, unless you also don’t understand the movie reference. Which is entirely possible, it’s amazing how many memes are shared by people these days who are clueless on the origins. A true loss.
Edit:
Yes I know the movie, I just don’t see how it’s relevant. You quoted that because you mean it.There’s no way they could have known
I doesn’t change anything that you are quoting a movie where the statement may have been correct.
In the context you use it here it is simply wrong.
In general it takes a psychopath to not detect an obvious psychopath consistently behaving like a psychopath, that’s a fact.I’m sorry that you missed many levels of understanding my original post. I wish you could have just asked for clarification instead of the diatribe of anger. Might have made you appreciate the meaning. You seem to have some issues understanding others in this message thread too. Maybe step back a second and take a breath.
Did you just stop reading that comment after the first sentence?
Don’t really feel sorry for anyone willing to fight in wars…
Ukraine is fighting for their right to live as Ukrainians. They have to defend themselves to avoid genocide.
I can not respect you if you don’t support the right for Ukraine to exist.I deliberately phrased it such that you could not do that and you still did it. Do you know what “willing” means? Defensive wars are not willing on the defenders part…
Willing to fight to defend yourself is still willing to fight.
I think you are confusing the words willing and voluntarily.The sheer amount of dick-twisting you’re performing to avoid just saying “okay sorry you’re right I misunderstood / didn’t read”
Are you really claiming I didn’t read 1 short line of text?
People unwilling to go to war normally means totally unwilling, as in pacifists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PacifismNow please stop being an idiot, and admit you made a poorly formulated comment, that doesn’t mean what you thought it means.
Of course they’re willing - that makes no sense.
Agreed because there are also people in Ukraine who are unwilling to fight despite it being a defensive war for them.
Dont forget that the poverty is by design.
Entire states are pushed into poverty and shit education to feed the US military machine.
That’s not an excuse to sign up to be in the military.
Stop the bullshit.
Yes the system is built to proliferate poverty and wage slavery.
That doesn’t mean becoming a soldier for the most corrupt nation and government is their only choice. Fuck that lie.
Not the only, but a very attractive one. You don’t need any tools or skills, they will pay for all your relocation, training, food, housing, and you get the TSP and GI Bill.
If it wasn’t for the whole war thing, it’d be damn near a fairly good implementation of socialism.
Except for the role of being an imperialist soldier, a cog in the murderous machine. Sure.
You have to know that’s not in the brochure or spiel they give to these impoverished kids who barely have enough of an education to read a whole sentence.
And even if it was, it’s not like they would have any of the tools to even start understanding the concept after 18 years of living under US conservative media as the sole source of information and perspective.
These kids sign up literally not knowing any better, for the promise of something better on the other end. It’s stupid to suggest they’re doing it to choose to advance American imperialism after surveying all other options and considering the moral and tangible outcomes of all the choices they think they have at 18 years old.
You’re right. It’s a tempting prospect when college isn’t an option. It really is socialism on the surface:
They’ll take you no matter your existing skills or education, teach you discipline and more skills, push you into peak physical condition, constant opportunities for learning, clear opportunities for advancement, and they’ll make you feel like you’re part of something. Plus you get out and the government promises to take care of you.
(Or betray you entirely. Veterans have such split experiences here, it seems like!)
The rest of the country says “Lol no bachelor’s and 6 years experience? Kick rocks and be poor, loser. Lol.”
Thanks to all the DoD (oh sorry “DoW” /s) funded entertainment propaganda, play any Call of Duty game (especially the fun ones) and you’ll start to get that feeling that to be a soldier is to have purpose, to fight evil, to become something more.
It’s freaking dangerous. But heck yeah it’s attractive as any deal with the devil is. I refuse to swear an oath to any authority but my Creator, but I’d be lying if I didn’t sometimes entertain the notion that I could like, monitor weather in Space Force or something for 4 years and reap tons of benefits.
…But yeah, look who’s in charge. Terrifying. I’m SO GLAD I’ve stayed far away.
Let’s put him on one for that many days without his creature comforts and see what he thinks after that.
One of the most basic lessons of Christianity is the need to ask for forgiveness. Trump once held up a bible for a photo op, we keep hearing rumblings of Christian Nationalism apparently from this current administration, and Trump now declares, “I’ll never apologize.” That’s about as anti-Christian as a message can be.
If people chose a liar to rule the country, then they have to live with the consequences.
I don’t think all those people affected by USAID funding being removed chose dumpy.
Just like for everything else, Bible’s commands are for commoners. He is chosen. He’s above. He can do whatever the fuck he wants. He raped children and these good Christians, “family values” defenders, always ready to restrict everyone else’s freedom for the sake of “protecting children”, they still glorify him.
It is also a key feature of narcissism. Donnie not apologizing is not the least bit surprising.
It won’t even be surprising to his rabid Christofascist base. They already believe their “holier than thou” schtick puts them above apologizing.
That kind of narrative is perfect for a narcissist, by the way: the “I’m not perfect, I’m forgiven” is a great way to get out of ever apologizing for your behavior, here, in reality - “I worked it out with Jesus” is handing narcissists a perfect cop-out, since narcissists will do nearly anything but ever give a genuine apology to another human being.
Anyone that has ever had to deal with a narcissist has probably noticed they will almost never apologize.
That’s why they refuse to actually read the Book. They really wouldn’t like the Word as-written. Because they are willfully terrible people.
