A wife of a service member aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln tore into President Donald Trump’s administration on CNN Friday for its “infuriating” denial of what she described as extremely poor conditions aboard the ship.

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[–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The man is sadistic. He likes it when they suffer and will cut no corners in assuring that they do. It's the only thing he's consistently done his entire life. According to his best friend Epstein, nothing gave him more joy than finding ways to sleep with his friend's wives. Screwing people over and making them suffer is the only thing that brings him joy. Anyone he deems under his control will suffer this fate.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I hope this news can break at least a little of the soldier worship propaganda and turn some young people off from enlisting.

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    While we openly complain of struggling enlistment due to physical, and psychological, hindrance, we have a rapidly growing report of recruiters facing ideological, and practical mistrust in leadership, as a rapidly growing reason for enlist denial. So, something is working.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You know how that gets ultimately resolved though, right? If recruitment crashes hard enough, they’ll just restart the draft.

    I’m not saying that as an argument for people to enlist. I’m simply pointing out that that’s the logical end state of recruitment crashing out catastrophically. But it would also be effective political suicide.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Gonna be like North Korea where the military are full of parasites and half-starved.

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    [–] 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Full quote from the wife of the sailor who became so desperate he recently tried to commit suicide while on the ship:

    I don’t think the man thinks before he talks, and I was really hoping that at some point, there would be a redemption. Try to redeem yourself, at least a little bit, with everything that you do and everything that you say. Try to redeem yourself. Have some sympathy, some empathy, take some accountability for what’s going on with your military, your ships, and your war. And your war.

    Um, it’s infuriating. I mean, we heard what Hegseth said yesterday, what the president is saying today. It’s infuriating, saying, essentially, that families are lying and service members are lying, even though the proof is right here on my phone. It is not fabricated. Nobody is lying. Everybody is — it’s infuriating that they’re not taking accountability, and not having any sort of sympathy for our service members that they claim to scream and shout that they support, when it’s politically, you know, sound for them to use “support our troops, support our troops,” until our troops need support, and now suddenly everyone’s lying, and it’s a fabrication and a misrepresentation? It’s infuriating.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Wtf did you think was going to happen, voting for the man who calls you "suckers and losers"? Oh right, you thought he was only going to stomp poc and queer folks. Enjoy, loser.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    The job market is so bad I considered joining the military, but I fear starvation more than homelessness, so I decided against it.

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