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[–] riskable@programming.dev 233 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Really doubling down on that, "he actually is the antichrist" thing.

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 99 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They have think-tanks dedicated to coming up with the worst decisions possible, for real.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't doubt it, Trump is a Russian Psyop placed in power with the singular goal of incapacitating the United States by sowing chaos.

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[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 155 points 3 days ago

Onion?

checks community name...

Sigh...

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 112 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Might as well. It was originally called that, and the DoD name was always kind of a lame coat of off-white landlord paint.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 75 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah but it's the death of a euphemism. It was good that they had to use a euphemism.

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I'll bite. How is that?

Edit: I watched the death of a euphemism video and understand your point now. My original comment was less of a serious assertion and more voicing my general disdain for the idea of crossing out "War," writing "Defense," and continuing to invade countries for decades anyway.

[–] EvilBit@lemmy.world 52 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Euphemisms at least indicate shame.

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[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Im grateful to be able to share this with someone for the first time if you haven't seen this series yet

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[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 100 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Peace President ✝️

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 88 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

TRUMP RAPES CHILDREN.

Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)

https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80

Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac

Here's the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/

—————————other Epstein Information

https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.

Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

Jeffrey Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Jeffrey Epstein and Israel both have the same lawyer Alan Dershowitz, Dershowitz says he's building 'legal dream team' to defend Israel in court and on international stage | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid

—————————other Trump information:

Here's trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY

Trump's promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

Trump's modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/

Do your part and spread them around like a meme sharing them and saving them helps too! Please copy and paste this elsewhere!

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 88 points 2 days ago (16 children)

Lmfao finally something I'm glad he's doing!

The name change was fucking psychological manipulation for the population. You can't argue against defense department spending as easily as you can argue against war department spending.

Bring it on! Make our jobs easier you bumbling brainrotted doughnut dictator.

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[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 70 points 3 days ago

Makes that 'are we the baddies?' a whole lot easier to answer.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 65 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Department of Distraction from Child Rape Allegations.

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 63 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's like a 10 year old boy is leading America

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (4 children)

A 10 year old boy who is also a felon, a rapist, and fucks 10 year old girls, while letting other 10 year old boys dictate policy while he golfs and rapes people.

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 52 points 3 days ago (3 children)

And this fucker wants a Nobel Peace Prize? smh.

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago

I'm so glad President Trump is focused on the important issues, like renaming bodies of water, mountains, schools, and federal institutions. I didn't need lower grocery prices anyway.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I seriously think that Trump is the singularity of what should be known as a Stupidity Hole. Seriously. Think about it. Information goes in and never sees light again. No data, written or spoken is ever allowed to leave once absorbed. And once the info reaches the Epstein Radius, It is unable to escape its doom, and is pulled slowly towards the center where it will be broken down into unintelligible sounds that resemble that of grunts and gremlinesque slobbering.

And the more information he consumes the larger his radius. As a child, his stupidity only influenced small things. Like, toys and his hands. As his gelatinous body grew, so too did the mass of his dumb.

Think Florida man just happened? Fuck no! That shit was Mar a Lago. The circumference of dumb envelopes Florida in its entirety and is now what’s known as a “lost cause.”

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

Good.

It should be. At any point in time the US is involved in 5-10 wars since Obama.

Calling it the Dept. of War is honest.

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[–] seraphine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

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[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago
[–] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

To be fair, that is a more accurate name for it.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I mean, that's what it used to be called...

more fitting tbh.

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[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Jesus I need to get the fuck out of this country

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This is so sad

Also, I think the entire world may need to prepare themselves for invasion.

I seriously hope that Europe and Canada are preparing because this shit stain will start playing the land grab game soon

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[–] blaze@programming.dev 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They missed a great chance to pull directly out of 1984 and call it the Ministry of Peace.

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[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Anything to avoid Epstein

[–] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 21 points 2 days ago (21 children)

Who would have thought Americans would be so weak in the face of a fascist takeover. It's truly pathetic.

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[–] Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 days ago

Missed the chance to have a Ministry of Peace.

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Good, that's what it always was.
Less hypocrisy

[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

Release the Epstein files you pedo fucks

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Broken clocks and all that, fantastic change. No longer can people hide behind the euphemism.

[–] ToiletFlushShowerScream@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hey hey look over here! Stop focusing on how Trump paid for trafficking children for sex. Hey hey look over here!

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[–] MetalMachine@feddit.nl 19 points 2 days ago

I mean, that's definitely a more honest name, how much of what they do is actually "defense" vs just imperialism

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I mean...we've been fucking the world up since Korea and Vietnam. Arguably also WW1 (2 we sort of had an excuse because of Japan). And South America before that.

In theory it is the idea that we minimize harm to the heartland by engaging threats/"threats" before they burn down the white house again (mad props to Canada).

But nah. This is just the republicans continuing to be fucking morons. Like when perry (?) campaigned on killing the DOEnergy, got appointed as head, and realized that there were nukes next to all that clean coal.

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[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Sounds expensive. How much does it normally cost to rebrand an organisation of this size?

(and that's without needing to rewrite references to it in any legislation!)

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
  • Rebrands of Department of War: Navy, War → Navy, Army, Air Force → Defense → War
  • Rebrands of HBO Max: HBO on Broadband → HBO Go, HBO Now → HBO Max → Max → HBO Max
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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

president epstein, trying to do anything to not talk about himself. constant threat of tariffs since hes been doing for a while isnt working, he moved onto the troops in LA strategy, followed by faking "health issues", and insulting people. hes going to keep recycling this until people get tired of it go back to talking about the files.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 days ago

The should make the treasury dept the dept of making rich cunts richer

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And here I thought that MAGA voted for peace...

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

This lowers our cost of living, right?

[–] SidTheShuckle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well at least it isnt dogwhistled any longer :/

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[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Look out neighboring countries, the USA is switching to offense.

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