The text says it’s inspired by the Starship Troopers movie, which right-wing morons consistently fail to realize is a satire of fascist aesthetics.
They never recognize satire. They believe it.
You are right.
I’m guilty of one-dimensional thinking.
“You’re back again! It’s only been two days!”
So he’s saying that Trump is making more money than Calvin Coolidge put together?
They feel like a guide to me. “Slit throat here” kind of thing.
Looks like Natalie has been busy again today.
And yeah that space force uniform looks like a cross between an SS outfit and the Imperials from Star Wars. Fitting.
Ah yes, the renowned three-engine U.S. fighter/attack plane. ![]()
As usual, hard to know where to post this… (Bold in original)
David French
Pete Hegseth Is a Wrecking Ball
Opinion | Pete Hegseth Is a Wrecking Ball - The New York Times
It is difficult to fathom the damage President Trump is doing to America’s national security. He is making our nation more vulnerable than it has been at any time since the cloudiest days of the Cold War.
Trump administration scandals come with such speed and frequency that it’s easy to get lost in the weeds. One minute you’re reading about potential war crimes in the Caribbean. The next moment there’s a news alert about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s ongoing purge of generals. Then you click over and read a story about depleted stocks of some of America’s most important munitions.
That’s a fraction of the havoc the administration has wrought. In a strange way, the very frequency of the scandals works to the administration’s advantage. Each new story distracts us from the last one, and we don’t have a minute to pause, take a deep breath and look at the whole picture.
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It’s comforting — I guess — to know that Hegseth can’t undo the effects of a generations-long commitment to excellence in just 20 months.
That’s the end of the good news. From the top down, Trump is replacing the highly imperfect meritocracy of American public service with an idiocracy, and his corrupt idiocrats are creating profound short-, medium- and long-term harms to American national security.
The short-term damage is serious enough. Even just to achieve what is at best a stalemate in the Persian Gulf, the administration has created a critical shortage in interceptors that can shoot down missiles and drones and in other precision munitions, including some of our most advanced offensive weapons.
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[Continues in that vein for a while with multiple examples…]
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Our allies learned an important lesson from Trump’s second election. It’s not just that Trump is mercurial and unreliable, it’s that the American electorate is mercurial and unreliable. More than 77 million Americans compared Trump’s first term with Joe Biden’s only term and said, “More Trump, please.”
Even if the next Democratic president tries to reconcile with our allies, every allied government will be asking itself, “How long will this last?” Every prudent allied government will hedge its geopolitical bets, and that can harm the United States in incalculable ways.
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The long-term threat is to the character and competence of the armed forces. They are becoming politicized, and the politicization of a military can both destroy its combat effectiveness and turn it into an instrument of domestic oppression.
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If you pay close attention to the news, you know that my list of negative developments is woefully incomplete (for example, granting the Pentagon an ownership stake in a Venezuelan oil venture is more reminiscent of the way that the Chinese or Iranian militaries work than the way the United States military is supposed to), but it should suffice to paint a clear picture.
The combination of corruption, stupidity and sycophancy — the Pentagon was recently caught surreptitiously employing conservative media influencers who reliably defend Hegseth online — that pervades the Trump administration is now infecting the Pentagon at the moment that our most powerful enemies are becoming more aggressive.
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Great so the full faith, credit of the United States treasury has been reduced to Tops baseball cards.
Is there someplace where I can register my preference for the first one. Heck I’ll even be willing to buy a couple of rolls of his coins.
Lord, he’s doubling down on the crazy.
Alongside his remarks, Trump also shared a video that appears to be generated with artificial intelligence depicting him slapping a sticker with the word “AMERICA” on it over a highway sign reading: “Welcome to New Mexico.” The depiction of Trump is then shown dancing to the Village People’s “YMCA.”
Good lord - the shit he is posting is so fucking deranged. But, this one intrigues me! Is that Hulk Trump?
Someone needs to change his Truth password and create a fake site he can post to so he can get his demented jollies without publicly embarrassing himself.
This is why he’s so in favor of data centers. All the cool AI images Natalie can come up with.
Trump hasn’t been posting on his own for at least two years now. He can’t make out the screen without the glasses that he needs and his ego refuses to let him wear. Natalie is printing off memes she finds and showing them to him to stroke his ego and he tells her which ones to post. She also takes dictation for him.
The privy mark isn’t unique to the Trump dollar
And the US has been doing “baseball cards” for a long time now, doing approximately 30,000 varieties of coins since the 1990s.
I think that’s the charitable view, @Smapti . The truth (sorry) is more like he’s John Gill and she’s Melakon.
I don’t know who those people are.