Department of Defense to be renamed 'Department of War' within week, Trump says
Department of Defense to be renamed 'Department of War' within week, Trump says
It's like a 10 year old boy is leading America
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.
He's more like a ten year old boy who fucks three-year-old girls who don't yet have the language to say what happened to them...and when they get snitchy, he threatens them with violence to shut them up, often demonstrating on a small animal.
I think I'm trying to say he's not just a precocious kid with anger issues, but a precocious kid with a cruelty streak and symptoms of physical neurological effects and poses a danger to himself and others.
If we're honest, this new name more accurately describes the American military than the word defense does
It actually used to be called "Department of War". It changed in 1947, which was actually right around the time when the United States went full worldwide imperialism (though there were signs well before then).
Might as well have been named the "Department of Fighting Communist Insurgencies". Truman and Eisenhower unleashed wave after wave of US troops on any pre-ww colonial territory that was trying to throw off the yoke of European occupation.
With Global Communism finally crushed, and ethno-nationalist tin pot plutocrats once again in control of Europe and the Middle East, the US can return to its more McKinley-esque tradition of occupation, enslavement, and extraction. No need to pretend we're shielding anyone from the villainous Soviet Marxists or the vile and malignant IWW.
It's always interesting to see how and why we're living in bizarro world.
Thumbs up to orange man for correcting this mistake.
Good. It is.
Thank you President Trump.
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.
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!)
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge, let's go!
wait back up i wanted pizza
Classic April.
I... Approve or this?
It use to be called the Department of War, but was changed for optics and Trump is terrible at optics.
Yeah. Department of "Defense" was always a lie.
Missed the chance to have a Ministry of Peace.
This lowers our cost of living, right?
And here I thought that MAGA voted for peace... /s
Keeps Epstein out of the news.
We are stuck in a time portal to 1929.
Look out neighboring countries, the USA is switching to offense.
I switch my card to attack mode!
Who would have thought Americans would be so weak in the face of a fascist takeover. It's truly pathetic.
Has there ever been a more timid, passive, weak, complacent, idiotic population than the current USA?
From afar I watched them passively accept people dying or losing their homes because they couldn't afford health care. I saw them go off to fight stupid unjustifiable wars overseas with little protest. But it is when I saw them accept their kids dying in mass slaughters in schools with barely any outrage for decades that I realized they had lost their humanity. If you can accept such outrageous things without acting you can and will accept anything.
A large number of them actively cheer their own downfall as a nation, their own impoverishment, their slavery and their stupidity. I wouldn't underestimate the tasking of rebuilding a civilized society there. They might kick the Trumpists out with some effort but the rot goes very, very deep.
Plenty of pushback against Trump. But the news coverage is always some mix of "These leftists are too weak to stop us" and "These leftists are ruining America! Send in tanks to crush them!"
Trump's already had somewhere north of three different assassination attempts on him. We've got protests and riots running from LA to DC. How many times does a President have to call out the National Guard to suppress the public before it counts?
there should be riots in the streets at this point. He's calling out the national guard for bullshit reasons and you're allowing him. The Europeans would have driven him off by now, America is a sham lol.
It's kinda ridiculous how out of touch the "why aren't Americans regularly shooting politicians" crowd is. Like, just completely ignoring how militarized American law enforcement is and treating the gun ownership rates as evenly distributed instead of recognizing that the same people who support Trump are the sorts to own 20-100 guns.
Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if encouraging leftists to go out and buy guns to kill politicians is straight out of the COINTELPRO playbook, given what the FBI has been doing to the Muslim communities in the US. But no, by all means, they should keep ignoring the organizing and pushback that has actually been happening and keep baying for blood, regardless of whose
It's likely coming your way. I'll be sure to link you this post if we still have access to the outside internet.
I'm between Lebanon which is already fucked and Nigeria which is, well Nigeria. More developed countries will be graced well before it hits these parts. Hopefully it will be too late then and lets just fuck the world.
It's not even that nice when you abbreviate it:
Before: DOD = Dee Oh Dee. Has a nice flow
Now: DOW = Dee Oh Dup?
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!
I think one of the main issues is that most of his voters probably just don't care about it at all
The Epstein story still is ongoing in the MAGA base. The whole thing is eating away at Trumps base and despite them getting some of their major talking heads in line, it is still brooding.
a large portion of his voters are subhuman morons. the remaining portion is exploiting the previous because they're subhuman morons.
true, and most of the blue MAGA don't care about all of them on the list
Department of Distraction from Child Rape Allegations.
lovd it, so catchy
I voted for Trump because I was TIRED of getting into Wars!
Sounds like the propaganda worked wonders on you.
I think you missed the sarcasm
If you really did so, I have a question for you: Why did you think you could trust him?
The US government has shifted its rhetoric. But you're fooling yourself if you believe we've meaningfully changed our foreign policy.
Half the joke of the Biden Admin was in how it picked up Trump's '20-era policies and continued them seamlessly into '25, with little more than a rainbow colored bumper sticker as a fig leaf.
Yeah, Epstein would have loved that...
I mean, that's what it used to be called...
more fitting tbh.
Kind of. The Department of War was the Army only. The Department of Navy was its own department and operated based on a different set of military demands, which was a major reason why the Marines exist.
It wasn't until after World War II when the USA recognized the difficulty in having two separate departments for the military made combined operations hard to implement. You also had the Army maintaining a larger peacetime size and a third branch, the Air Force, being created to optimize for a new theater of war.
And the coast guard was there too.
It was called that back when we were kicking the shit out of fascists, just like tod ... oh.
It was known as the department of war until shortly after WW2. This is one change where I appreciate the honesty. Doesn't make him any better.
Ministry of peace
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.
Hopefully his next announcement will be from the Dark House in the Doughnut Office from behind the Whimsical Desk.
To make a slight counter, the Defense Department does more than fight. We have humanitarian mission capabilities, and we use it. When shit goes down, you want the military to roll in.
I've told the story many times, but after Hurricane Ivan I assumed I was on my own. When the Florida Guard rolled in the next morning I was weeping in the streets, on my knees, thank god, thank god. I had no idea there would be any aid. Most humbling. Tearing up now in fact.
I also wept, most literally, when the Mississippi Guard rolled in after Katrina. My FIL was there. Two bronze stars from Iraq, the Mississippi coast broke him, PTSD. He was never the same man after cutting houses in half with chainsaws, pushing corpses aside, leading the tip of the spear.
“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
Whoever said it, or didn't, we need such men.
alternatively, instead of having the military have these capabilities perhaps fund non-military departments to do it
it’s a function of the US military being bloated that they can use some of that bloat to do other things, but it’s far from efficient
If you'd stopped at the end of the second paragraph I might even have upvoted, but then on the third paragraph it started sounding a bit too much like one of Trump's "crying tough guy" stories, and by the end of the post it was full on pro-war.
Truly a broken clock.
Came here to say this. It's exactly when it became the department of defense that we had never ending war.
Though I'd still like it to be named the department of defense and then actually do defense. Unless there is a threat of an American being attacked on domestic ground by a foreign power, this isn't really the intended purpose of the military under our constitution.
We should not "defend" our "interests abroad." We shouldn't have interests abroad. That's also one of the founding ideas of this country. "Defend our interest abroad" is an intentionally vague euphemism for "if we didn't use a euphemism and just told you in plain words what we're doing you wouldn't like it because what we are doing is killing people to protect the profits of a very tiny number of people whose company would lose profit if we didn't." If that's not what that euphemism means they wouldn't need a euphemism.
Unless there is a threat of an American being attacked on domestic ground by a foreign power, this isn’t really the intended purpose of the military under our constitution.
Back in the 1700s, a standing military wasn't as necessary, since response times were generally measurable in months, and you could stand up an army in that time. Even then, you needed a navy, since shipbuilding took lots of money and time. But now, to prevent an attack on the civilian population or the government, readiness needs to be much, much higher.
I'm more in agreement with you about "interests abroad." There's far too much interference in the affairs of foreign countries in order to benefit US-based corporations and the ambitions of certain factions of the US elite. But that's a two-way street. For example, Trump is sabotaging renewable energy projects so that the US will continue to be dependent on fossil fuels, since that makes us more vulnerable to manipuation of that market by Russia and other suppliers. Eliminating that massive supply-chain risk should be one of the main pillars of our medium-term national security strategy, and would keep us from being drawn into wars.
Good, that's what it always was.
Less hypocrisy
It actually used to be the department of war. But they changed it because it gave away that they were invading countries instead of doing self defense.
Trump is simply taking the mask off. Which is good, honestly.
Unironically the only based thing a president has ever contemplated doing, except, like, the emancipation proclamation.
Really doubling down on that, "he actually is the antichrist" thing.
Hopefully his next announcement will be from the Dark House in the Doughnut Office from behind the Whimsical Desk.
Demons pale in comparison to what kind of evil humans can do.
We should make them our pets
I mean, that's exactly what it was lol.
Onion?
checks community name...
Sigh...
They missed a great chance to pull directly out of 1984 and call it the Ministry of Peace.
War is Peace
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.
Now rename the IDF to the IOF.
Might as well. It was originally called that, and the DoD name was always kind of a lame coat of off-white landlord paint.
Yeah but it's the death of a euphemism. It was good that they had to use a euphemism.
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.
No, it isn't: just a dishonest way to lessen discomfort.
Well, Dept. of War and Dept. of The Navy became DoD. I used to work for them, some people think I'm a Veteran because I use the block print and the 24h time and today is 25Aug25. I'm not, never been shot at but that shit just gets ingrained in you.
Makes that 'are we the baddies?' a whole lot easier to answer.
I mean, that's definitely a more honest name, how much of what they do is actually "defense" vs just imperialism
And this fucker wants a Nobel Peace Prize? smh.
I mean historically the Nobel Peace Prize is given to war criminals, so he deserves it.
I think you're thinking of the Right Livelihood award. That's for people who do actual Peace things.
He wants a Nobel because Obama got one. Could it be any more obvious?!
Trump hates Obama's guts, and Obama drove him to run for the Presidency. Don't believe me? That single roast changed world history. I mean that. That video will be studied 300 years from now as a lever that changed the Western world.
Dude was in the crowd being roasted... damn.
To be fair, that is a more accurate name for it.
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.”
might as well be homest. that's what it was.
Well at least it isnt dogwhistled any longer :/
It's more like a dog trumpet these days
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
The United State military, though the strongest on Earth, cannot compete with the combined forces of Canada and Europe. OTOH, the rest of the "free" world doesn't seem to be taking us seriously enough.
OTOOH, us American's aren't willing to go full war against our friends, and it takes hella more to drive our war machine than Trump has charisma. Civilians drive that machine, can't do without them, think on that. We're not 1930s Germany, starving under hyperinflation.
The should make the treasury dept the dept of making rich cunts richer
Not even the nazis renamed the Wehrmacht to Angriffsmacht
It was the Department of War when we fought the Nazis and Imperial Germany, who had a lot more goals in common with Nazis than people realize.
This is a nothingburger and people are embarrassing themselves getting distracted from the Epstein files and all the actual fascism.
That's great. Thanks. I hate it. Now release the Epstein files.
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.
Pretty sure the Carter administration was the last one to have no new wars in over 100 years.
Edit: I was wrong. The US was still involved in wars during his administration.
It's been super easy finding out the USA has only had 8-34 years of peace in it's history, not so much what those years pg peace were combing lists on wikipedia with my phone.
Many issues at play:
The Department of War had that victory over the Confederacy, too, right?
Wasn't that what it was called originally?
We're regressing, it should be named the Department of Conflict-as-a-service.
So back to the original name. No more double speak.
This is a good change.
The president of peace and all that.
We all agree this is just distraction and the arbitrary nonsense is really the point: "we make up what is true" is what they are trying to show.
Dep of health > Dep of pestilence
Dep of Agriculture > Dep of Hunger
Dep of ? > Dep of Death
Department of Health -> Department of Death
Department of Agriculture -> Department of Famine
Center for Disease Control -> Department of Pestilence
Center for Pestilence, or CP. Oh, wait...
All four horsemen!
Anything to avoid Epstein
Release the Epstein files you pedo fucks
At least he's showing what America has always been. A power hungry warmongering country.
Funny. I thought the Navy beat the Army more in the Army-Navy game.
I mean, it’s a more honest name at least.
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.
Yeah about Japan ... the US kinda lit the fuse on that one when it got spooked by Japan's growing (manufacturing) power and expansion in southeast Asia.
Granted, Japan was expanding its influence aggressively but the US actions caused things to get worse quickly.
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.
To be fair, most people probably don't realize that nuclear weapons are under the purview of the Deptartment of Engery. Most people would guess the Deptarment of Defense cause nuclear weapons, war, the Pentagon, etc.
However, Rick Perry is still an idiot cause he was a governor of Texas for three terms and ran for President. Rick Perry should have basic understanding of how the Federal government works from being a governor; definitely should understand what Department of Energy does, if you are going to campagin on dismantling it.
Oh come on, Korea was clean. Vietnam fucking wasn't but North Korea definitely poured over the 38th to kill every democracy loving Korean.
The Korean war spun out of the Chinese Civil War and how both (simplifying) NATO and the USSR were already using it as a proxy. We got involved to protect our interests, same as any other war.
If you want to argue that South Korea is better off because of it? I fully agree (I doubt North Korea would have become the hellscape it is now, but a Warsaw Pact Korea would never be as prosperous as South Korea is today). But it was the exact same "we fight a war over there so we don't have to fight a war here" logic.
Speaking of...
minimize harm to the heartland
We have totally capitulated our soft power to anyone who wants to take the reigns. Fuck me, we've abdicated our leadership, if we ever had it, on renewable energy. This century belongs to China, politically and militarily, and I wish them well, for all of us.
What's actually his idea behind that?
Amazing :33
It'd be the department if peace if he was leaning into the 1984 thing
That would require reading. Trump doesn't do that.
Sure, fine, its true. Disgusting, but true.
Can someone just get this child a bunch of pillows and blankets that he may make his dream fort so the adults can get to work fixing shit?
Hey at least they are honest. 🤷♂️ When was the last time US military done anything defensive.
WW2 maybe?
On related news, the IDF will be named the ITF, for Tourism, based on their recent touring of neighbours' lands to pick their favourite.
This is actually great. It is a big problem that department of offense has always masqueraded as national security instead of insecurity.
I thought the playbook said it should be called "Ministry of Love"
"Ministry of Defense" is already doublespeak though
I thought that was the 'internal affairs' ministry, perhaps the Ministry of Peace?
Uh, time to re-read! Thanks.
Relevant George Carlin bit: We like war!
Is this him finally fulfilling his promise to restore honesty in the government?
This just screams to me "I'm an old man and I'm butthurt about it."
He probably just forgot it was renamed to DoD, then decided to change the name cuz his 80 going on 90 year old brain has zero plasticity.
I'm actually sad to say he's going on 80. I wish it were your way.
He gets dumber by the minute
I think the only logical next step is for him to get an "I'm the bad guy" t-shirt. His supporters would still say it was just a joke.
Its sad and depressing that the sketch with the nazis asking if they were the baddies are more self aware than modern maga
give me nobel peace prize or else
I guess war is easier for him to spell...?
How wasteful, since the US hasn't been at war since 1947...
Should be the department of military policing actions.
Department of Bombing Non-white Children would be more correct.
I just want the civil war at this point. So much if my mental anguish would dissipate if I could just kill some Magats
When you imagine this, don't leave out the part where you slowly starve to death over months, sustaining yourself on rotten, maggot filled food, while watching a new one of your family's bodies get blown into a red paste with each passing day because I think a lot of people forget about that part of war when they day dream about this stuff.
The problem with that is it will just be a bunch of traumatized kids who have been indoctrinated and used as cannon fodder while the real problems are hidden behind keyboards and walled gardens. Children who have been taught that everything bad that happens to them is the fault of this "other" group they fear and don't understand because of the sheltered and twisted world they're born into.
Authoritarians would LOVE for this country to be split, much easier for branches of control to take over.
Department of Halo
Please get this man some more hamberders, fries and cokes. Also, maybe some doritos, fried butter sticks and corn dogs, stat.
Also, he's a pedo that was best friends with a pedo.
I think your spelling is missing an “L”?
Lorn Logs?
Department of War Dependents Schools, or DoWDS.
I know this is out of place in this time in history, but I believe that to have been the case in the (maybe far) past.
Who started calling them ministries of defense and amidst what pressures from society?
It's more honest, at least.
Cool cool, let’s revert to the previous century as much as possible. Looks like he’ll be dead in a matter of weeks anyway
Someone should open a betting pool of how long before he dies from natural causes.
that should send a message of how "popular" he is.
I guess we couldn't have a female president because we'd have war only every 28 days
No, cunts are to be fucked lovingly, not repeatedly with a barbwire rod.
This doesn't even make much sense
Most of what the department of the defense does is defense and security.
My inner conspiracy theorist is telling me that someone at the DoD described climate change as a national security threat that the department needs to address as part of handling defence and that's what triggered this
Except for WW2, name one conflict where we defended anything or secured anything (other than did company contracts).
I wrote a bit about it here:
https://old.lemmy.world/comment/19038685
And that's only my personal anecdotes. There is much more to unpack on the subject.
You clearly haven't heard of missile defense.
Broken clocks and all that, fantastic change. No longer can people hide behind the euphemism.