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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.”

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[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

Can we please impeach this fuckass alreafy

[–] Furbag@pawb.social 8 points 5 hours ago

You hear that, navy boys? Time for mutiny. He's not going to send you home.

[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

During COVID, i did 195 days on an out of service cruise ship. The isolation was unreal.

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 18 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I say this is a former army officer. The military will vote for another Republican as long as that Republican is standing up there mouthing thank the troops bullshit. Fuck Trump fuck everybody that voted for this mother fucker.

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I think you spelled "child fucker" incorrectly.

[–] sen@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 hours ago
[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 10 points 9 hours ago

The Roy Cohn Shuffle: never admit you're wrong, just keep doubling down.

[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 12 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Let's not make the mistake of thinking that once Trump is dead and gone our problems will be over. Trump is an incompetent fool but there are quite a few very smart people behind him now, and there will continue to be these people when he is either dead or out of office that will be doing everything in their power to sustain aspects of this administration they find useful.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

If those people were capable then they’d be in power without a useful idiot like DJT. Once DJT is dead the low IQ morons that plague this country will go back to not participating in elections like they did prior to 2016.

[–] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

will go back to not participating in elections like they did prior to 2016.

As much as I wish this to be the case - there are too many con-men/women that have seen what trump has done and how much money he as stolen from taxpayers that there will now always be some crazy ass candidate that will try to anger up the stupids to vote for them.

[–] ironpangolin29@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 hours ago

Shoot the swamp america, do yourselves a favour.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

True. Very true.

But we'll never have to hear this low IQ rapist pedo's dipshit opinions ever again. And that'll be real nice. Imagine not hearing that flatulent voice anymore. Imagine not seeing his redneck name printed everywhere. Gonna be supreme.

As far as functionally, we may get lucky and see a lot of his cultists refrain from voting in the future cuz the good ol' days are gone and no one else is living up to their cult leader desires.

Our problems won't nearly be over, but a dangerous cult leader will be worm food, and that's a real good thing.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

Doesn't matter if it's made an official holiday by the government. The people of this nation (world) are gonna make it a national (international) holiday by sheer force of will.

I'll celebrate it like Christmas every year. I'll call in sick every year on the day if I have to.

[–] btsax@reddthat.com 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

"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

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The military is more democratic than you think.... it leans Republican significantly, but only about 2:1.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder if most of the enlisted are the boot lickers and when you get to being a CO you have to develop your understanding of the world and geopolitics so you have more exposure to truth of lies.

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Funny enough, typically the opposite.

The enlisted corps is a much more racially, ethnically, and financially diverse corps than the officer corps. Enlisted across the active duty is 66% white, 34% minority group, with 22% Hispanic or Latino, according to the most recent annual demographic release (2024). For officers it is 74% white and 26% minority, with only 10% Hispanic or Latino. This tends to bring in more diverse opinions as well. Officers tend to come from heavily white and upper-middle class households, which skew Republican. Enlisted come from all over, and more closely mirror the general population.

The enlisted corps also skews much younger than the officer corps, due to the revolving nature of enlistment. Most guys do a single 4-6 year enlistment and get out, while most officers are career. Only 25-40% of enlisted re-up, and only 10-12% make it to 20 years, while 60-70% of officers go beyond their initial contract, and 45-50% make it to 20 years. The average age of an enlisted troop is 27.4 years old, with 49.2% being 25 or younger and only 5.1% being over 41. For officers the average age is 34.3, with 22.4% being above the age of 41.

You're also MUCH more intermingled in the enlisted corps. You're in forced proximity to people that are diverse and get exposed to diverse opinions, whereas the officer corps generally stick to their own kind away from the enlisted and stay insulated.

That ends up resulting in officers being much more reliably Republican, and Republican specifically, than enlisted. Enlisted still skew conservative, but there are far more registered Democrats in the enlisted corps, and the enlisted are FAR more likely to identify as independent rather than with either party. Officers skew more conservative AND identify as Republican more than independent.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Got any links to peruse? THis is interesting.

[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

https://demographics.militaryonesource.mil/chapter-2-active-duty-personnel/

Military demographics.

https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/91dd0811-cf0a-40e5-9f63-7e536b3a6ff8/content

Report showing that enlisted tend to swing independent more than officers.

Also, my own lived experience. I was enlisted, my father in law was a career officer. I married his daughter when I was just a young junior enlisted guy so I have spent a lot of time around both enlisted and officers, all the way up to General level.

Thank you for the resources. I greatly appreciate it.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

I was enlisted and served with plenty of guys who think like me. Probably more who don't, but I wasn't alone in my left leaning. And this was the infantry, where you'd probably expect guys to lean more right.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Some of you may die but, that's a sacrifice I am willing to make.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 points 11 hours ago

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Donald Trump is a cartoon character who escaped from the silver screen...

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

At this point riding the titanic all way to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean would be a better experience.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Yes Donald, we know.

(ironically he is just like Christ in this regard, who also never apologized about anything, two narcissist peas in a pod. Those fundies know what they like)

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

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!

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

In a sane world the vets who actually give a shit would have jumped ship when the pedo pissed all over the sanctity of Arlington, and had his people assault an Army employee, for a photo op

[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

It's a very, very mad world we live in

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

I really hope the current military is seeing this

There's a pretty long list of occasions where Trump has insulted the military as a whole as well as individual members of the military and it appears the average military service member either isn't aware or is neck deep in the cult so Dear Leader is always right.

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