The All Things Political Topic - SNAFU edition

[LadyCrimson]

Portland, those Hegseth/Trump speeches, the US gov. shutdown, Trump being a mentally doddering bully wanna-be despot (seriously, his Twitter posts are childish bully rants).

Hey America, are we great again, yet?
 

 

[Gorgon]

 

[rjshae]

I have to wonder about the types of conversations American parents are having with their kids about being recruited into the military forces at the moment. This delusional president wants the armed forces to wage war on mostly unarmed American civilians. I mean that is the very definition of terrorism. What a (figuratively) crazy situation.

[Malcador]

 

[HoonDing]

Chief Wiggum runs faster than that

[Hurlshort]

6 hours ago, rjshae said:

I have to wonder about the types of conversations American parents are having with their kids about being recruited into the military forces at the moment. This delusional president wants the armed forces to wage war on mostly unarmed American civilians. I mean that is the very definition of terrorism. What a (figuratively) crazy situation.

I did a teacher training with the Marines a couple years ago. It was surprisingly progressive, and the explanation was we need to constantly recruit teenagers, and we can't afford to turn off young people. That doesn't mean it is easy or the bar is low. Far from it, they were really pushing for the kids that want to further their education, because the military will pay for it. 

Anyways, I haven't seen recruitment numbers recently, but I would think they are going to take a hit. I'm sure they'll just bring back he draft to compensate. That will be popular.

[rjshae]

8 hours ago, Malcador said:

 

Napoleonic column tactics? Well I suppose they can lower the crime rate in a one block radius.

[rjshae]

I see the government has found a new use for a belt sander:

Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin

[uuuhhii]

new ss of usa are now playing with pepper spray for fun

give it 3 month until they do weekly mass shooting

Edited 17 hours ago by uuuhhii

[BruceVC]

14 hours ago, uuuhhii said:

new ss of usa are now playing with pepper spray for fun

give it 3 month until they do weekly mass shooting

You clearly dont live in a country where violent protests are common

Pepper spray, teargas, water cannons and rubber bullets are regularly used in many countries that grapple with these types of social unrest 

We use them in South Africa and we dont consider these methods examples of Nazi suppression 

But the US is a  long way off from live ammunition becoming the norm for crowd control in protests 

 

[uuuhhii]

france lost another pm

the incompetence are amazing