How to create government jobs, while also remaining a christofascist overlord. Just like old times, eh?
Maybe we’ll finally see strict gun laws, albeit aimed at disarming the opposing populous.
Ooor, we create a well regulated militia with 15,000 new soldiers!
I’d support the establishment of a Trans Army
I propose the name TransReformers: soldiers in disguise.
My immediate thought is that Klinger will be happy.
Trump’s legacy will be long term damage to national security, rampant racism and discrimination, and widespread corruption.
I was once near to (but did not interact with) Jamie Farr maybe 10 years ago. It’s really hard to see him and not picture him in a dress.
His legacy was that after the first go round.
This time it may be destroying democracy entirely.
Oh no please don’t send highly trained members of our military home where they can protect and train their fellow Americans!
Looks like well-regulated militias are back on the menu
I’m under the impression it would devastate the livelihood of those people.
Unfortunately this is probably true, I’m sure they will find a way to take away their veteran’s benefits as well. :(
How many times in our history are Americans going to get duped into hating people they never even interact with and know nothing about?
None of these people know trans people. These morons have just been conditioned to hate them regardless of not even knowing them. It’s pathetic. They’ve never been hurt, or even inconvenienced by a trans person. Bigot fucks.
Yikes. Not a good decision.
Ahh, yes. Purging the armed forces. Nothing sinister about that. Just restoring the professional military service.
I mean outside of America we are still going to all let this happen. We are all marching straight into WW3 like the “this is fine” meme.
Should we survive as a species I look forward to 50 years from now where America adopts strong anti-facism laws like Germany has.
Question is, who is the good guy in this new world we are entering?
FWIW as a Canadian we are so fucked. America is going to come knocking for our resources soon and we won’t be able to say no.
So. I don’t want to be a dick about this and ask a question you can’t hive a good answer to publically. I don’t necessarily want a public answer here, but.
What are you doing about it? You’re pretty much an Austrian in 1937. Maaaaybe a pole. What do you do?
Head between my legs and pray tbh lol
I kinda look at it less like WW2 repeat but the fall of Rome.
Either way we are screwed though. The emperor has no clothes.
Other ideas? Please? Its not just your life on the line here. We’re kind of all in this. Whatcha got?
Deep breaths and take things a day at a time. People have been through far worse even today. I was joking with my GF last night who is South African. This ain’t nothing compared to what she has been through as a Zulu woman.
I know it’s not the best answer for you, but it is what it is. You either endure or you don’t. Me? I choose to endure.
‘Endure’
Okay but when the death squads come that advice isn’t going to help much. Reads as kind of a dodge.
Ain’t no death squads showing up in Canada anytime soon and if they do in my neighborhood I would personally fuck them up.
You may want to consider getting involved with a local mutual aid group. The connections you make now will likely pay off in the future.
Oh I’m not worried about me or mine. I’m confident I can keep 1 step ahead of this madness.
Then place them in internment camps. We know where this is going you damn Nazi.
He’s already completed the first step, by making them seem inhuman and criminal
Which is ironic, because he’s the one who boasted about perving on kids
I assume that’s the plan with RFK’s “wellness camps”. Define gender dysphoria as a qualifying mental illness, and send transgender folks there to replace migrant workers who have been deported.
Here we go folks, welcome to the hellscape that is the new America
Honestly, it was a hellscape before, we just shifted down a level deeper.
100 % doubt this happens… Oh the fear porn.
He did it during his first administration. I was planning on joining the Navy and becoming a doctor at the time.
Why do you think it won’t happen?
He’s enjoyed thirty years of relative peace and serenity in a country that doesn’t usually bomb itself that often.
Yeah, gun culture is more the thing here.
It’ll happen. Three minutes later, they’ll discover what a bad idea it is to kick people out of the army in the middle of a recruiting shortage. Nothing will be learned and they’ll skip along to the next bad idea.
Just going to completely wreck US cybersecurity defense.
Coding socks are the new contraband.
I love/hate that I get all these references lol
Next they’ll go after the furries and take all the navy’s data centers offline
It’s part of the plan. fucking traitor.
Pfft, that shits been contracted out for years (honestly understandable, hard to have consistent network defense with a constantly rotating (deploying) workforce of active duty military)
They don’t exactly deploy cyber security soldiers to do combat patrols. They’re doing the same job whether they’re in D.C. or Berlin.
Lots of IT still in the military also some of the “contract out” is done by reservist and is tied to their military contract. Those still in military are your tier 3 IT and admin.
It’s like half and half. Some is contracted out, but there are definitely active duty service members doing cyber security work as well.
It has long been said that if all the furries and catgirls disappeared it would cause the internet to collapse overnight.
What’s a catgirl? Is there a signup for that?
No only a test and you just passed. Congrats
Cat ears and tail will be emailed to you. Congratulations recruit. Don’t ask how we know where you live :-P.
An easy to get general discharge from the military? I think lots of people with years left to serve are going to enjoy leaving early with all of their benefits.
Elon and Ramaswamy have already identified the VA as a target for cost cutting.
The VA, often criticized for consistently being over funded and helping disabled veterans live like kings. :/
Oh dude do not get me started. But it is better than what I would have without the VA.
Oh yeah, I’m glad it’s there and able to do what it can with the resources it’s given.
I’m not a veteran but like many I have friends and family who served. It never ceases to amaze me how much support republicans in general and “suckers and losers, what was in it for them” Trump republicans in particular get from the armed forces.
It would upset me, but then I remember that’s how they treat all their followers and the armed forces are just another job for the working class to fill. They practice equal opportunity contempt.
I have a feeling most of the benefits will be going out the door behind them shortly thereafter.
I have to hope their contractually obligated to provide them. If not I’d look forward to the class action suite but then again the judges are openly corrupt. America is a clusterf*ck right now.
Laws don’t matter to Orange Julius, I doubt contracts do either.
I hope I’m wrong for a lot of people’s sake tho.
Fun fact, when you join you waive your right to sue the military. Might be able to sue the VA or parts of the government though.
That’s not actually true. It’s just very restricted, the contracts and laws around your service make it very hard. You can’t sue for things that are legal orders and you generally can’t sue specific people. You can absolutely sue the DoD for things like breach of contract. For example if you were processed out of active duty normally, on time and everything, and then were arrested for desertion a month later you would likely have a case against the DoD. It just has to be off the wall stuff like that.
Yeah. He also wants to prevent using military healthcare for transgender care. So even if they could get VA benefits it wouldn’t help where trans people need it most.
I mean I support reducing the army. Can we kick out all cis men next?
Only if the base assumption is that they’re all gay, and they only get kicked out if they tell us they’re straight, otherwise we aren’t asking.
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I can only assume the “they” you are referring to is Orange Hitler and all his cronies.
This is the same shit we did with black people and then the gays until acceptance of those groups was so widespread that US fascists could no longer successfully target them.
If you learned history you would know this is just the next group right wing movements are scapegoating instead of offering any policy whatsoever that improves people’s lives.
Thanks for being the example of how ignorance fosters fascist beleifs, fear, and hatered, of people who are different than you.
That’s a lot of hard to replace talent. I don’t think anyone I’m the military will let him go through with this. How anyone can support this mong is beyond me.
He’s already working on purging military leadership so only Trump loyalists are left. If he orders a purge of trans people it will happen. Everyone saying “he can’t really do this” is still in living in hopeful dreams. Reality is that Trump will be in charge and surrounded by fanatical loyalists running all branches of government and the military. The dangers for his chosen scapegoats are real.
Not something anyone can stop if he chooses to go through with it. He is the commander of the armed forces. He can make sweeping policies like this that fuck up everything.
Okay so I don’t really expect resistance, but here’s the thing:
They don’t have to obey. Laws and traditions are not magic. We all know rationally what’s coming, even if we haven’t really grasped the magnitude of it emotionally.
