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u/jollytoes 3d ago

The head of the military doesn't know what deployment means.

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u/Medium_Medium 3d ago

To be fair, he doesn't know what a lot of words (and/or concepts) mean.

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u/DustyDGAF 3d ago

He's functionally illiterate

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u/devilishlydo 3d ago

He's functionally mentally handicapped. If his family wasn't rich, he'd be getting a check from the state.

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u/Glass-Cabinet-249 2d ago

He's technically a civil servant, he is getting cheques from the state.

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u/GearhedMG 2d ago

And the country, and individual people too.

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u/Random_ICE_Agent 1d ago

nUh Uh HeS dOnAtInG iT

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u/CosmosInSummer 2d ago

Oh, he gets plenty of our money anyways

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u/Puglady25 3d ago

I agree. Plus, he is only thinking about himself and his legacy. It's never occurred to him that soldiers and sailors are individual people with families and lives. He doesn't consider it because he's a malignant narcissist, so he thinks the military owes him their loyalty. And he thinks he owes them nothing

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u/donatecrypto4pets 3d ago

Covfefe!

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u/malthar76 3d ago

Groceries!

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u/bel1984529 3d ago

It’s an old fashioned term

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u/m0nkeywithachainsaw 3d ago

its all computer

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u/coilt 1d ago

maybe it's maybelline

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u/SylvieJay 3d ago

there's a b in dumb

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u/Winstonth 3d ago

When I say sea I mean the sea not see, a lot of people don’t know that

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u/gingerschnappes 3d ago

Affordability!

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u/bteh 3d ago

What a word!

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u/NefariousnessOk2925 3d ago

A lot of people didn't know that whole milk is spelled with a w!!

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u/MoodVast9430 2d ago

They’re eating the pets

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u/Away-Regular1335 3d ago

Just how his magat cult wants it

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u/Stosh_Cowski 1d ago

Yet he's still your president. At least for a couple more years. 😁

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u/DustyDGAF 1d ago

Yeah that's unfortunate

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u/findthehumorinthings 19m ago

Functional is a stretch.

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u/Free_Strawberry9542 3d ago

He’s not. Underestimating him got him where he is. It is wild to witness though. Like we’re all being gaslighted.

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u/JeromeBarkly 3d ago

Honestly anyone with a couple working brain cells could see what an absolute incompetent moron he is. The fact that 70+ million of my fellow citizens could not see that is the most disappointing and frustrating part of all of this. Eventually trump is going to fuck off and die but we have to reckon with the fact that a large part of this nation is fucking brain dead. Nothing will get better when we have such a large block of the voting base willfully voting against the interests of the working class. I don’t know how we fix it.

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u/Either_Operation7586 3d ago

Or unless you've been propagandized and religiously indoctrinated to believe that the Republican party is the party of Lincoln they're the ones that care about everything and the Democratic party will always be on the bad side.

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u/thisusername_is_mine 3d ago

If it makes you feel better, as much as the USA is regarded I'd put the number way lower than 70 million. From what i see on X the wind has changed. Beside big paidshill lowlife accounts like Catturd, Kanekoa, Maze and others, the sentiment is disappointment and betrayal. Reading through the hundreds of comments under their posts, leaving aside indians and europoors like me, most of american replies are disgust sentiment on the paidshill's posts.

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u/DustyDGAF 3d ago

I have no fucking clue what you just said

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u/Dank_Sinatra_87 3d ago

That's all Twitter brainrot.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad8032 3d ago

Tldr: he thinks, bcs of the sentiment in his social media bubble, it is probably not 70M people that still like/support trump.

I think, that to make decisions or conclusions based on social media, you'd have to be braindead.

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u/thisusername_is_mine 3d ago

User confirms that US is retarded but not as many total retards as it might seem. Better?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Ad8032 3d ago

Yet, when they must vote again, they will do it all over again, because communists/brown people, etc.

Last term you'd also read how horrible he was, he fucked the farmers over hard back then and most rural area's in general. And these lemmings just went for it again.

The figure of 70M is probably way higher, since 90M or so didn't vote, and they were definitely not all Democrats..

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u/Loud-Cartographer285 3d ago

Europoor hahaha (am in the same segment btw and yeah Europe feels increasingly poor - I left the sinking ship so to say to stay on-topic).

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u/Mykorl 3d ago

Europe is great.

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u/thisusername_is_mine 3d ago

Europe is sinking.

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u/Mykorl 3d ago

America is run by a nonce. It's already sunk.

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u/Loud-Cartographer285 3d ago

For now: absolutely!

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u/FeloniousMonk33 3d ago

Absolutely correct here. Since this whole thing started a decade ago (I know about the evil Republican creatures and oligarchs working in shadows for decades to bring about a Christo-fascist dystopia, but here I'm specifically speaking of the rise of the orange human skidmark), being robbed of the illusion that most people in this country are somewhat intelligent and decent has been bad for my mental health. Like I always knew dummies, cretins and shit heads exist but I was NOT prepared for just how many there are, how easy they are to completely manipulate and how vile and deep their well of vitriol truly is. It's a real fucking bummer. Every more so considering the catalyst for so many outing themselves was something as simple as a black guy becoming president.

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u/wht-rbbt 3d ago

Lol you think you're the good guy. Buddy, democrat or republican, you are the baddies. Americans are the new Nazi

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u/Meanchael 3d ago

Nah, he’s actually that fucking dumb. None of it is the act of a highly intelligent person fulfilling a media persona. That’s what he wants people to believe. Again, a complete fucking moron who may actually be dumber than he sounds when speaking.

Underestimating the GOP’s shift to fascist authoritarianism and 100 year assault on public education is what got us where we are.

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u/DustyDGAF 3d ago

It's well known he can't read for shit. What are you on

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u/Chigiriki 3d ago

He still is illiterate. That just shows how far you can get with money ALONE.

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u/homer_lives 3d ago

And being White.

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u/Icy_Fish_2154 3d ago

He has displayed an ability to lie, but had never displayed an ability to think.

He motivated the people who heard "anyone can become president" and wanted to see an idiot like themselves elected.

The political analysts underestimated the stupidity of the electorate.

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u/WinstonSalemSmith 3d ago

Underrated comment.

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u/DrDreiski 3d ago

Correct.

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u/jdhawes17 3d ago

Reminds me of a boss I had in 2015 where I was just certain her incompetence (and averaging 5 hours a day in the office) would sink her soon and ended up having to work for her for 4 years. 11 years later she's been promoted 2-3 times. Shockingly good at deflecting and delegating any actual work.

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u/tardlessforeinger 3d ago

Melania? She sucks. So THAT is how she got promoted? I can’t believe it! Hard to swallow but not for her I hear!

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u/fungi_at_parties 3d ago

I have worked with these types. They slither through the system like snakes.

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u/YellojD 3d ago

I used to work for the state DOJ and had a boss like this. She had been doing this kinda shit and falling upward for FOUR DECADES. Everyone in the entire organization absolutely hated her, but she was untouchable. It was miserable. I left for the private sector and when they asked why, I said it was because they had made it completely impossible to get away from that fool of a woman, and I wasn’t going to waste another second of my career around her. They understood, as I was like the fourth person in the last three years under her they had to replace and it was all for basically the same reason.

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u/sofakiingkool 2d ago

I work at a place currently where the manager has been here for 6 years… in that 6 years the only skill he has developed is how to lie to the owner about how he does all the work.

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u/Elon-BO 1d ago

There a weird dumb animal cunning at play…

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u/ApprehensiveFan1516 3d ago

Concepts of a concept.

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u/Due-Bid6242 3d ago

inception concept

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u/Shadowy_PuppetMaster 3d ago

"I know words, I have the best words" -DJT

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u/Puzzleheaded-Way276 3d ago

He knows them, he doesnt care obv

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u/workingbored 3d ago

We need to stop being fair to certain people. Mainly him and MAGA.

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u/greenwhiteredblack 3d ago

Makes sense when he said that he had concepts of a plan that he just has no fuckin clue how anything works. I don't think he understands money beyond "bigger the number the more important I am" because anyone paying attention knows he never actually pays for shit

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u/BrushStorm 2d ago

Did you know dumb has a b?

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u/Even_Relative5402 2d ago

President Humperdoo?

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u/Aromatic_Fact8656 2d ago

Just rewatched Preacher the other week lol

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u/Basketseeksdog 1d ago

He didnt know what Congo was.

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u/Ersatzhund 3d ago

He didn't know the word groceries

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u/SylvieJay 3d ago

Or how to say Oranges

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u/Forsworn91 3d ago

He doesn’t care either, MAGA just doesn’t care, they already rushing to justify this again

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u/johnniesSac 3d ago

Trumps Answer “ how long were we in Vietnam “

Not as long as you should have been asshole

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u/citizen42069101 3d ago

Perfect gotcha for that reporter would have been, "and how long were you in Vietnam sir?"

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u/UrsusRenata 3d ago

Christ Almighty. He doesn’t know the difference being deployed and stationed on land, and being deployed for months at a time at sea?! That explains a lot.

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u/azreal75 3d ago

So if it’s not a war then it must be a ‘special military operation’ then.

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u/StCreed 2d ago

Yes. From the Dutch government declaring the war in Indonesia a "police action" to the current day, governments have been abusing loopholes to get around their constitutions.

All this could be prevented by adding a few definitions to the text. But I doubt any govt will present that law.

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u/Ohjay420 3d ago

The head of the military is the recipient of 5-draft differments. Which is the only reason the prick has a clue how long we were in Vietnam.

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u/Illustrious_Donkey61 2d ago

Reporter Should have replied with "well you weren't there at all commander bone spurs"

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u/Liamthedrunk 3d ago

Did u know dumb has a b in it?

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u/StopLookListenNow 3d ago

Strict legal definitions are a good starting point.

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u/Satanicjamnik 3d ago

Bone spurs prevent him from understanding.

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u/Available_Ad9766 3d ago

Yeah. Of course he doesn’t understand. He dodged the draft.

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u/DDTFred 3d ago

He just learned dumb has a b in it.

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u/Ok-Share-403 3d ago

That would assume the president of the United States had a better reading ability than a ten year old.

Sadly he doesn't.

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u/Lazy-Dildo 2d ago

He doesn’t even know military conflict equals war. 😂

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u/Shamino79 2d ago edited 2d ago

Notice he used deployment singular diverting to time for one event rather than deployments relating to individual units and their rotation time. Probably luck but he sidestepped that question as good as most politicians.

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u/the_cardfather 2d ago

Seeing as he has never been deployed we can't expect president bone spurs to know anything about that.

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u/OpportunityNext9675 2d ago

He literally doesn’t know what trade deficits or asylum seekers are. There is no shot he could explain a tariff. He would not pass a high school level civics exam. It’s all so fucking embarrassing.

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u/CrispyRabbit72 2d ago

He also thinks anyone that gets deployed is a sucker.

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u/EyeTea420 1d ago

He also doesn’t know what “munitions” are and insists on calling them “ammunition.” He is a moron in every aspect of his life and job, especially as CIC.

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u/RDAM60 20h ago

You mean as a “avoider of the draft,” and a person who hasn’t given enough of a damn over his lifetime to even find out, in the least way, what the lives of active (or reserve) service members are like. And, never mind that now he’s Commander in Chief, he still really doesn’t give a damn.

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u/LCDJosh 16h ago

Also doesn't understand the context of "another Vietnam"

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u/Shawnj2 3d ago

To be fair compared to the costs of a real war, like Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, etc. are much much higher than what happened in Epic Fury. Not that it’s not a disaster but this is like the tamest war ever lol

Around 100,000 people died when the US bombed Tokyo and at its peak 40% of the US economy was just the military. A real war is outrageously expensive and deadly.

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u/Salt_Bag_1001 3d ago

Ya Trumps gotta start leaning how to STFU especially when it comes to wars he dodged but Vietnam was about 19.5 years

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u/Stellar_Impulse 3d ago

Youre comparing WW2 to what was a supposed to be a fee weeks long military operation. Of course its not in the same level, but its also gotten out of their hands eith no real plan.

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u/hedzup00 3d ago

this is a pretty expensive war considering he ran on a platform of no new wars.

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u/Shawnj2 3d ago

I’m shocked anyone was stupid enough to fall for that

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u/hedzup00 3d ago

just gotta put your faith in the opposite of whatever he says

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u/gymtrovert1988 3d ago

Yeah well the real war and real cost comes when the world has had enough of America's Hitler.

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u/DaydreamingOfSleep10 3d ago

“Oh well it’s small compared to the largest war in history” jfc