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    Sounds like someone is very desperate to keep people from saying WHERE’S THE EPSTEIN FILES???

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      I mean seriously, things are so bad that’s the least worrying part. It’s not like his base won’t be easily convinced not to care, between his prostitutes, the Russian peepee scandal, “touch them by the pussy”, what he did with his beauty pageants, what he has done with Ghislaine Maxwell, what he has said about his own daughter. His base just does not care, all the grandstanding was all fake.

      He is still going strong with his plans regarding Greenland and Canada, and what he has done with Venezuela is foreboding because it normalizes doing it more and with further steps. The steps he is taking to make the US fascist are far worrying, there’s no shortage of dictators who are completely and utterly detestable yet nothing can be done because they rule in a fascist country. You need to be able to prosecute him to make him having trafficked children for sex matter.

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    I mean, it’s a more accurate name I guess. It’s concerning that they’re dropping the euphemism, but it shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention.

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      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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        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.

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            As in precocious puberty. Kids who are sexually activated (by premature hormone reactions which can be triggered – not always – by sexual abuse) so they get sexually interested before their peers, and ruin recess for everyone else.

            When I was growing up (mind you, I was a late, late bloomer) precocious puberty in girls was punished brutally (say being grounded for life). Precocious puberty in boys was rewarded with early sports careers, unless you sucked, in which case you were punished for being a sex pest. This was a source of bullies that preyed on the rest of us.

            This is to say, the US really doesn’t know how to parent or teach or otherwise administrate children. This is also to say I am way, way bitter about it.

            ETA This is one of the purposes of puberty blockers, when it’s not used to let questioning trans kids decide to deliberate on what they want to be for a while, so I hope things are generally better. But then, considering how puberty blockers are now politicized, precocious puberty is also politicized, which ruins everyone’s Sunday brunch.

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            Yeah I think trump is the polar opposite of precocious. He still acts like a spoilt child at 79

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    If we’re honest, this new name more accurately describes the American military than the word defense does

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      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).

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        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.

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        It’s always interesting to see how and why we’re living in bizarro world.

        Thumbs up to orange man for correcting this mistake.

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

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    I’d suggest moving the coast guard and national guard, DHS, FBI to department of defense. Department of War/Offense that includes CIA/State department/NSA/Mind control propaganda is good. The $1T+ budget of department of offense represents $10k/year per tax filing household, and it becomes an obvious, even in “I like money” idiocracy state, that people could vote for a $10k annual dividend instead of paying for the department of offense.

    It was already extreme BS to call US empire funding “defense”.

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    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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      I think one of the main issues is that most of his voters probably just don’t care about it at all

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        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.

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          dude, his base is so fucking stupid and brainwashed that it is completely impervious. These people rationalize and excuse every dirty thing he does and they will never stop. They are a lost cause, and people like you need to hurry up and have your come to jesus moment on that fact.

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          I hope you are right, but my fear is if it doesn’t align with their interests they might just invent an excuse in their head

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        a large portion of his voters are subhuman morons. the remaining portion is exploiting the previous because they’re subhuman morons.

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    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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      Hopefully his next announcement will be from the Dark House in the Doughnut Office from behind the Whimsical Desk.

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      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.

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        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

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          This isn’t necessarily bloat, it’s things the military needs to be able to do. Like 90% of the military is just good logistics and the ability to move resources anywhere in the world quickly. That’s good for both an army on the move and helping hurricane victims.

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            Like 90% of the military is just good logistics and the ability to move resources anywhere in the world quickly.

            There’s an old WW2 story, where a captured Nazi officer realized they were going to lose the war… Because he overheard American officers complaining that they were running low on ice cream. Nazis at the time were eating their own boot leather while they froze to death in Russia. Meanwhile, the Americans were complaining about a lack of ice cream.

            The logistics behind the American military is honestly a modern wonder. If they were willing to divert the time, manpower, and resources to do so, they could erect a fully staffed and stocked McDonalds anywhere on the globe in less than 48 hours. Imagine an entire restaurant being built in a single weekend. Now imagine it in the middle of the ocean on an oil rig, or at the North Pole. The sheer amount of resources and manpower required would be monumental by most standards, but it wouldn’t even be worth a footnote on the military’s expense report.

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            Logistics is effectively the hardest problem and the most expensive one.

            A lot of people don’t realize that a lot of wasteful spending is effectively required in order to maintain any semblance or level of readiness.

            If you are not manufacturing equipment, ammunition, and similar items then you have no one and nowhere to actually manufacture them. A large part of spending is keeping the people, skill sets, facilities, and supply chains running and operating at a minimum required level to support an increase in need. If you don’t do this then when you need it, you can’t manufacture it anymore, your entire supply chain has to start from scratch.

            It’s incredibly wasteful but also somewhat necessary.

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              There also has to be redundancy in the supply chain for critical items. That can look like wasteful duplication to someone who doesn’t understand how the process works.

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              Yep. Same reasons we can’t built a Saturn V any longer. All the supply chains, expertise, etc., are long gone. Imagine keeping all that up to run a B-52 Stratofortress. And yet we do it!

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                All the supply chains, expertise, etc., are long gone.

                Don’t deport it to El Salvador then.

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          Such a scheme sounds better, but the discipline and infrastructure to make it happen?

          We’re not talking social workers replacing cops, we’re talking hard motherfuckers doing what it takes, under orders, no failure.

          Anyway, if you ever live the other side of a true disaster, you might see what I mean.

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.