President Donald Trump isn’t attending the dignified transfer of four American soldiers who died in Lithuania, because he has instead chosen to attend a Saudi-backed golf tournament at his country club in Doral, Florida.
I remember the “Troops for Trump” that would set up from time to time. Never understood it. He’s disrespected them multiple times.
Is it wrong that I am less infuriated by this than I am by the fact people still worship this idiot?
At this point, I am exhausted with being outraged by him. I cannot hate him more than I already do. Doing more evil shit may actually make me hate him less, because I simply cannot keep up to date with all the new reasons to hate him. But I cannot comprehend how millions of people can function in the world while still behaving like everything he does is objectively right. Not even the truly repulsive, monstrous shit, but the petty, insufferable bullshit like this. How do you excuse it? It do not comprehend how anyone can look at this and say, “Yeah, this guy should have nigh-unlimited power over the country and the ability to throw the world into chaos with a Tweet.”
he doesn’t wear a tan suit though so it’s ok
Nero fiddling as Rome burns.
Golfing with the fucking Russian oligarchs is more important than honoring dead US soldiers. Fuck Krasnov.
They were just suckers and losers anyway.
Hard to embezzle money from the taxpayers for events that aren’t at your place.
Trump hates the military.
What does it matter? He has their unwavering support. He could have killed them himself and not lost the military’s support.
I’m not sure. Certainly, the weirdos who make the military their whole personality back him, but I haven’t seen any evidence that he’s outstandingly popular with the rank and file and his plans to completely gut the officer corps can’t have made him popular there.
That’s not really true. He has the unwavering support of really old veterans who got the same fox news pill as the other boomers. The serving military voted blue in 2020. The Military Times elected not to do a poll in 2024…
There are very vocal service members who support him but the military as a whole does not and is not a fan of Hegseth fucking around in the DoD either. For example one published plan has us divesting our only mobile firepower platforms (strykers), just as the war in Ukraine is making everyone else want them. And F-47 did not go unnoticed either. The Air Force went from a study wondering if we needed NGAD to selecting a vendor without a flyoff and naming it. That thing is going to get ditched January 21st 2029. Then Hegseth is fucking around with physical fitness tests which is actually promotions, schools, and unit qualifications. This is making the most deadly parts of military dislike him. For example we’ve had women working with Delta for 20 years. First of all Delta isn’t giving them up, 20 years ago women were officially banned from combat and that didn’t stop them. Second it just conditions them to be anti-administration. So when they get ordered to go get an American “insurgent” who held a sign outside a Tesla dealership one too many times, they may just refuse.
Nearly 60% of active duty voted for him for his second term. This is not much change from the percentages for 2016 and 2020.
They may be regretting their choice but I see no indication they wouldn’t make the same choice.
Trump hates everything that is not Donald J. Trump.
Hey, that’s not fair. He’s also weirdly into Ivanka Trump.
stop trying to make trump sound good
Trump likes the part where the military conquers other countries. He hates service members, veterans, and all humans.
What did he call soldiers that die? Losers?
Especially soldiers who “got captured”.
Trump only cares about his daughter and other chicks he wants to fuck. He has no use for anyone else.
So trump wants to fuck Putin? …oh. Yeah, that tracks.
I think “cares” is too strong a word. It would imply that it matters to him if they live or die.
Hopefully they remember that when the time comes to make choices.
We knew this from the last time around
Evidence suggests they do not make the correct choice
Idk. The military did not go along with the coup attempt. That is a win in my book.
Also my understanding was that Gen. Milley didn’t go along with troops on the streets during the pandemic/protests when Trump wanted it. Hence the stripping of the general’s security detail and clearance by our whiny bitch president on his return.
That’s good for us. Now he plays for our team.
Do people who make good choices decide to join the violence industry in the first place?
This is an oversimplification of the situation. The US built everything so degrees are practically mandatory then makes the poors choose between life crushing debt or getting an education through the military. They prey on children of poor families. Obviously ‘not all marines’ and whatnot but come on a lot of times it isn’t actually a comparable choice and even when it is they’re still kids who often don’t know better
I served as a Medic. We carried weapons. And I used my GI Bill twice. I’m still working as a civilian Paramedic. That was a good choice for me.
I hate Cheeto Chimp and all of the MAGAts. So, some can make smart decisions.
I hate suckers and losers, too, that’s why I avoid interacting with MAGA Nazis.
“Suckers and losers…”
Now watch this drive
I mean, veterans did mostly vote for Trump, so…
Yeah but like 40% didn’t
Count this one that never voted for Trump.
D from top to bottom of the ticket
Same. I wish I had better choices available but we’ve got to work with what we’ve got.
Again
It would be great if more nationalists and the patriots actually put in effort to change the USA in their neighborhoods, they don’t have to be leftists.
Until then such people are obstacles, even if they get outraged over stuff like in OP news article
they don’t have to be leftists.
To me the most frustrating part is how much fascists like to steal leftist goals and rhetoric. Arguably they would have to be at least some degree of leftist to support the working class as much as they claim to.
Not surprised. Golf is what he’s in to. The presidency and the related task are just somewhere down the list between get the milk and walk the dog. Or how else do you get all these results he did?
Trump blows off honoring dead terrorists to play golf? Unintentionally based.
Who are these articles for? This is Lemmy. Do we really have boomers here upset about him disrespecting “the troops”? Fuck the troops.
Edit: I guess the US “respect our terrorist troops” propaganda goes deep.
Have you ever considered that running on a platform of “America sucks” is unlikely to get you elected in America?
What I can’t believe is how easily the US military is giving up on this conflict. Letting the swamp win is disrespectful to the fallen. We need to send another truckload of troops into the swamp, and if they sink into it too, send another, and another, until eventually they can drive a truck in without it sinking. We can’t let the cost of these sunken troops go to waste.
Anyone who says we shouldn’t do this is secretly a pro-swamp infiltrator or an accelerationist who hates America because they just want to watch the world burn.
Exactly! I was wrong. I see the light! All of these comments replying to me and yours turned me into a patriot! We must keep throwing bodies at the problem! It would dishonorable to the fallen not to do so!
Don’t cut yourself on all that edge.
You and I don’t need to. The person ordering those troops to their death 100% does need to show respect.
Yeah let’s criticize the aesthetics of Imperialism instead. Like, what?
So it would be ok to kill poor brown people as long as the dude doing it is respectful to the poverty draft terrorist that cary out the terrorism?
Sure dude. That problem is him going golfing and being disrespectful.
No one is talking about imperialism we’re talking about basic human decency I have to assume you lack given this conversation.
Yeah you can’t mention US troops dying in a country we have no business being in and ignore Imperialism. That’s my entire point dude.
No one is ignoring it. We’re saying it’s not more important at the moment the recognizing the death of the people you order. That’s basic decency and their goddamn obligation as commander and chief. You seem to be the only one who is saying a belated conversation about imperialism is more important.
That’s shitty behavior so I’m simply going to assume you’re a shitty self absorbed person.
You’re being pretty harsh on that guy. Had you considered that America bad? Every soldier was literally Hitler because they were a member of America’s military and America bad. Checkmate.
These fuckin morons man, protest the war not the warrior. They’re usually kids who joined for money not to be idealogs for bafoons to push their narrative.
Not every Nazi was Hitler. But being upset that Hitler didn’t respect his troops is fucking stupid. If thats even on your list of criticisms for Hitler than I think something is wrong with your perspective. And if you did you would be saying that Nazis deserve respect. They don’t. And neither do American troops.
The only ones that deserve respect are the ones that desert and fight against the harms that they did.
No. I just give zero shits about the aesthetics of “military honor” in the US.
And any topic related to respecting the US military cannot be disconnected from the fact that it’s the largest terrorist organization in the world.
It’s like saying “oh damn, Putin wasn’t respectful to his dead troops”. Like, ok, I don’t give a shit about Putin or the troops that kill innocent people.
It’s not aesthetics, people died slow some respect when you’re the one who ordered it. No one is asking you to have common decency, clearly you don’t so I won’t ask.
That’s literally every military, but again you’re ignoring the humans that died who didn’t harm anyone and were involved in humanitarian efforts, let me say that again training efforts with an allied country not war. Stop being so much of a bigot you can’t see the tree amongst the forest.
No one is asking for you to care about Putin, you’re being obtuse. It’s especially dumb with Russia because they’re conscripts in a oligopoly who imprisons deserters and allegedly kills some.
I’m just replying in case you need another comment to rant at.
Appreciate it
