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Trump reacts to dead service members by boasting he got a 'great deal' for their lives
(www.rawstory.com)
reporters need to follow up on specifics of this "deal"
this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2026
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It involved big macs and fries
Reminds me of Futurama:
Some soldier: Why is this godforsaken planet worth dying for?
Zapp Brannigan: Don't ask me, you're the one who's going to be dying.
I've heard that Zapp was meant to be a spoof of William Shatner/Kirk but he really shares so many unfortunate characteristics with Trump.
I remember watching TV shows and the president is often portrayed as a good person that would rather risk classified tech falling into the hands of enemies just to save the one remaining service member on the sinking ship/submarine...
Then you look at IRL and rewatch that scene and its just so silly lmao, completely unrealistic.
(I think it was Designated Survivor that I remember that scene from)
IF ONLY we get those benevolent fictional presidents IRL
"Empathy is a sin." crowd continues to show who they are.
I was always taught that lives such as mine being spent was an inevitable part of my profession. However, lives are not meant to be wasted like this.
Lives are the God Emperor's currency, and that currency should be spent wisely.
Donald Trump, however, is not the God Emperor. He is, in fact, a wastrel, a coward, a liar, and a cheat. He is a literal heretic, a figurative abomination, and a blight on the human race.
I mean we already knew he's a soulless monster, so...
the art of the deal... you get money and meaningless death ! I get to keep my Israel sponsors happy
How a PTSD-tormented vet hasn't plugged this cunt yet is beyond me. He's said at least a dozen things in the last 10 years that would justify it. I mean he let the fact that there were Russian bounties on US service members go completely unanswered. Nevermind the repugnant things he says about them, he lets them be the target of headhunting sociopaths because he's too much of a fucking pussy to say a single word against Putin.
Signing up for military service under Trump is insane in the membrane.
lost track on how many MAGAs attempted to murder him already. I think 3 attempts so far.
but they are MAGA, so not the most competent or smart people
Remember when undercover agents suddenly started dying left and right after he "stored" the country's top secret files in his Mar-a-Lago bathroom? Absolutely insane that there are still so many active military and vets supporting this waddling liability.
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How Americans aren't storming the white house or Mar A Lago at this point with a bunch of guns is beyond me.
I was told this was what they needed guns for
They still think the same strategy that supposedly helped Obama to beat Mitt Romney ("they go low, we go high") will also beat Trump.
I'm not trying to be demeaning, this isn't a rhetorical question. Seriously, what sort of logistical miracle would it take for this? America is fucking huge and that would take organization and I have no ideas.
I'm beyond hope for peaceful OR violent change. The only future I'm seeing is collapse and the subsequent corporate cyberpunk nightmare that will devour what remains.
First, small groups of armed militias need to form at a local level. Then they would need to communicate and organize to travel on a certain date and just show up.
I think we will see many middling nations appear after America breaks up, eventually resulting in all the smaller ones getting gobbled up. Mexico, Canada, New York, and California would probably be rival nations after awhile.
They had no problem on jan 6.
Well the president organized an insurrection.
They had someone plan the date for them. The DNC won't even plan something more than brunch.
What America needs is a leader to fight the government. Someone like Mark Kelly
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"If they needed to die to distract people from the Epstein files, so be it."
Normally this would end a Presidency within days of making remarks like that.
Nothing about this is normal.
Don't let them normalize this shit.
Join the next general strike or you'll be the next victim he can brag about or blame you for being a terrorist.
He still had vets and current military vote for him. After. He called them suckers and losers.
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One atrocity can dissolve a government. But one atrocity every day can keep even the most hated and incompetent leader in power for a long time. While we‘re busy processing what has happened yesterday he already committed another unforgivable crime. And it goes on and on and on. He simply overwhelms the people with atrocities to the point everyone fights their own battle and debates which of the many crimes is worse and needs to be addressed.
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Yeah Trump has amiably shown what political commentators have said for decades, the US-system is too easily exploited by the executive concentrating power and removing the safeguards other countries have in their setups.
Even black mirror author ran out of ideas, and the onion articles seems like ordinary life now.
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ICE Apes should be dispatched to assist our Freedom Fighters in Iran. Put them right up front, where the action is. They love that shit.
"You ever fired a blaster at a living target?"
"Hahaha! All the time! I was the top womp rat hunter in my unit."
"No, I mean a sentient being. Something that could shoot back."
"No, I guess I never have."
"You must be joking. How long has it been since you graduated?"
"Over a year."
"What have you been doing all this time, looking the other way?"
-Jedi Outcast Stormtrooper/Officer conversation
JK2 Jedi Outcast was criminally underrated.
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To a narc everyone else is just thing to be used and discarded.
He's a narcissistic psychopath. That means his brain is literally incapable of processing empathy, let alone understanding it.
...and lately, he's a narcissistic psychopath with dementia.
Fuck that draft dodger. He should send his kid to die over there.
No he should go there in person.
bag of onions for the widows+ a package of trump steaks+ free degree of your choice from trump university.
What a fucking piece of shit
"We expect casualties with something like this," [Donald Trump] said. "We have three, but we expect casualties - but in the end it's going to be a great deal for the world."
So, follow me on this. Iraq’s population was actually initially happy saddam had been deposed. And that turned into a $16T, 15 year, million life quagmire. And Iraq is still a weak, uncooperative country. I can’t imagine taking over Iran, a country that hates us and accepts its leadership, with weapons systems orders of magnitude greater in number, and far more modern equipment.
There can be no good deal for the world. I feel like I’m listening to a car salesman, but he’s the president. He’s literally bribing the military industrial complex to keep himself in power post-term and selling it as a good thing. Uuuuugh.
I feel like I’m listening to a car salesman
That's all this asshole ever was and ever will be, really. Guy made shitty real estate deals as a nepobaby failson and had a very big mouth. That's pretty much all he is.
Most of the people in NYC, and probably most of the people on the Eastern seaboard, tended to know who he was even by the early 90s. If they paid even the least bit of attention. But that stupid gameshow and that dumb book gave a whole lot of idiots the idea that he was really something more and somehow worthy of giving any power.
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Hey, all you American servicemen. All you ICE thugs, and everyone else with a gun who's doing stuff because this guy is telling you to do stuff. Note how he thinks of you. Why are you risking your life for him, again?
I mean, I probably know why you ICE thugs are doing it - you get to go beat up and kill brown people, something you've always wanted to do. But you're also cowards, so maybe consider that angle. He'll sacrifice you in a heartbeat.
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