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Donald Trump ranted to a captive audience of graduating West Point cadets about military drag shows, urging the students to focus on killing America’s enemies.

“The job of the U.S. armed forces is not to host drag shows, to transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun,” the president said. “The military’s job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America anywhere, anytime, and anyplace.”

While college commencement addresses are usually a chance to celebrate the graduates’ achievements, the more than a thousand West Point cadets and their families were treated to a recounting of Trump’s war on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the military.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Trump loves men hence the insecurity around drag

[–] [email protected] 21 points 15 hours ago

“The job of the U.S. armed forces is... to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun,”

You can start at home.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 16 hours ago

I loved how he kept calling people up to congratulate for records, and he'd let them speak and they all said "I love my friends" and stepped down. You could see him taken aback, like he thought they were going to glaze him

It was also wild to see him start out giving a normal commencement speech... Then suddenly it was like the meds wore off, he froze for a second, and he just started doing his normal rants. And that was like a quarter of the way in

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

NCD in shambles :'/

[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Weird. I thought the military's job was to deter war through a readiness to fight.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

I mean, on paper and during recruiting maybe, but not really.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 20 hours ago

I bet that ceremony show became a drag. Or Trump wouldn’t have worn makeup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

And a plurality of the nation still think he's a brilliant, capable business wizard?

Not just sad but #FuckingSad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

yep he's still a moron

[–] [email protected] -1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

unhinged dictator gives bigoted speech to bigoted graduates hoping to become war criminals some day.

news at 11.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Tell me more about your knowledge of service academy cadets and midshipmen and their personally-held beliefs. Do you work at or near a service academy? How many interactions with cadets have you had in your lifetime? Curious to know why you believe them to be so bigoted.

The cadets that graduated this May enrolled four years ago under a different administration, for what it's worth.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

this is an all volunteer military. known for actively supporting genocide and has a history of invasion and war crimes. this history goes back to the beginning. far more than 4 years ago.

ANYONE WHO WILLINGLY SIGNS UP FOR THAT HORSESHIT IS COMPLICIT. Full. Fucking. Stop. No matter how much they enjoy college.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

While I admire your passion, I'd love to see you broaden your perspective and capacity for nuance. You might be surprised at the diversity of thought found among the cadet and officer corps of the US military. If a strong resistance to fascism were to materialize, some of these officers may prove to be the best associates and allies. Lumping them all into the genocidal bigot bin would probably be a misstep for the long term subversive civilian element.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

fair fair points as I can imagine, in a perfect world, some cohort will cleave off and be on the “right side” of the impending civil war.

but from who I have met — they’ll just not deploy and then become local cops pretending they’re “in country” or whatever while they bully local homeless folk.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 22 hours ago

Drag shows are actually part of US military history

[–] [email protected] 25 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun

Wow, well that's a take. It's literally some shit you'd hear from Team America: World Police.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

While abandoning democracy at home.

What a disgusting people.

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