the baddies

Pathetic little man...

I've never wanted to first fight anymore more. Normally I'd say they have a punchable face, but in his case I'm willing to go in personally. Bring it on boot licker.

Calling the military "defense" has always been doublespeak. Its literally the opposite of what they do. Department of war is the correct term.

Obviously this administration are all monsters, and they're changing the name because they think they think it sounds intimidating. But the name change is the one good thing this administration has done, clearly in error.

DoD uses to be called DoW, but was changed to give a better image of the country. Reverting back to DoW under this administration, is not the good sign people think it is.
Also, that joke Pete Hegseth can't even do a proper pull up, let alone a chin up. Pathetic.
I was thinking maybe the American public will start to question why we are spending so much on war. It is an insane budget and the doublespeak of it being for defense helped selling the idea to the public. Maybe he accidentally did something will will help reign in our over spending on war....
- I hate that my Q family will believe exactly this: that he did it with the goal of waking people up.

Me sound tough with the word WAR in me title. Just look at how tough me is with scary word WAR!

This dudes profile looks like the distillation of all "iamverybadass" memes

That man yells out his own name during sex

In his defense, it's also the name of his only sexual partner.
- In his ~~defense~~ war...
  FTFY
Dude needs a mirror to masturbate

Trump is an old dying man, and he wants to be able to say on his death bed that he made permanent changes to the world , by his will alone.

Changing names of organizations (DOD/DOW)

Changing names of places (Gulf of America)

Creation of organizations (Space Force)

Dissolution of organizations (USAID)

Permanent land acquisitions (Greenland, Panama Canal, Sometimes entire Nation of Canada)

This is the exact same mentality of Putin, Putin wont be around forever, Putin wants to be immortalized in Russian folklore.

This is just Trump's dumb ideas of immortality. fingers of it at least

Don't forget the 15 or (however many) wars he's single-handedly ended and is therefore definitely deserving of a Nobel Peace Prize
Issue is, when he dies, the people of Seven Mountain Dominion just can continue their work, full force. Whether that will cause the collapse of the dominionist US is a question, and there's also tge question of all the tech corpos.
- I hope the old gods and new gods eat each other alive, but they've been collaborating so well up to now, unfortunately for us.
  It's not all been fun in the sun: the fallout between Trump and Elon, the H1B infighting, and now the Epstein stuff (arguably also popularized by Elon). So yeah, there have been some notable instances of divergence. One can only hope there will be more.
Like Brother Dusk in the most recent episode of Foundation.
Trump the Consequential.

You know when guys buy big trucks to overcompensate their other shortcomings? Well...

I dunno, it's a pretty huge deal of a change. It's literally historic and a major sign of the times. As others have pointed out, I actually enjoy this less duplicitous name. But the context of the change does not bode well.

So, yes and no - It was the "Department of War" for most of the country's existence. Truman changed it in 1947 when doing a massive overhaul of the military and intel parts of the government. Also, just calling "Department of Defense" hasn't prevented us from getting into a whole mess of wars since then.
I do agree that it's a sign of the times in terms of "everything old is new again" and undoing the 20th century, which is the T47/project 2025 stated goal. Sure as shit, we're making incredible progress towards returning to 1860.
- FDR changes name from War to Defense, and Congress hasn't declared War since. They're just special military operations
- 1860 had vaccine mandates.
- Looking into it, the department of war had removed the navy 150 years before. Arguably the DoD was a new department to encompass the department of the navy and the department of the army(the previous department of war) without the implication that the army was in charge being associated with the war department without the navy for so long. The naming, I could argue, is disrespectful to the US Navy of the late 1790s to the late 1940s.
Yeah, Department of Defense always reminded me of 1984:
The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.
Might as well call it what it is. "The Department of Imperialism".
- I thought that was the CIA

So the orange Cheeto, who is trying to get the Noble Peace Prize… just wrote an EO rename things to the Department of War

God I wish you could turn cognitive dissonance into harnessable energy.

He was also an undercover FBI informant in the Democraric hoax that are the Epstein files.
- Deep undercover raping and trafficking kids
- Plus the FBI just released an official document setting the record straight; Definitely not a small penis.
- Straight up Q-Anon bullshit.
Some alien-believers think humans are a source of energy for an alien race that feeds off negative energy. It's concerning how plausible it's beginning to feel.

Other than the war on US cities and people that are different than him, what war?

Is it because all the wars they lost? Weird flex.

When Trump gave his little ramble at the signing, he literally blamed the losses on the country going "wokie" and renaming the war department.

You can point this out to the average person, they'll still say you're overreacting.

Like between this rename, and the "trump was fbi informant" bs, I'm wondering if I'm in a simulation, cuz this is absolutely insane, literally is amateur tv script, unbelievable, if this aired on TV, it would have worse rating than GoT season 8.

But its the real world unfortunately, it looks so stupid from the outside but I have lost all my friends to MAGA. Tell me how an evil orange clown controls the narrative for more than half the new coverage. He only supports his cronies and gives the middle finger to anyone who makes less than million dollars annually. This our collective timeline, fucking hell.

Used to have a roommate like this in first year of college. They just stick to this one stupid thing that they think are hyper-masculine (in his case, it was going shooting and owning big guns) and they won't shut up about it. These fuckers are so annoying. Like we get it bro, you're a big manly man, now stfu about it. These are usually the most childish people irl.

This is what happens when you have no personality.
- And lots of insecurities.
And I’ll be a ten that he’s complained about “vegans always telling everyone about it”.
- OMG lol
  We even had some arguments about it. (All things considered, it was s miracle that he'd take our arguments in good faith, and not be bitter about it.) I'm not vegan, but I totally get their point.
I hope he found Crossfit, at least then it's expected.

did they officially change it from defense? that might be the first honest thing they've done in their miserable lives in pursuit of fascistic grandstanding.

My first split-second initial reaction was "oh hey they're being honest for once", but that was very swiftly followed by "oh fuck what are they teeing up here, they're not doing this for no reason"
- Trump has been calling himself a war-time president (the war is unspecified) and saying how nice it would be if he could suspend elections and stay in power due to a war. This has been in the making for a while. If he's still alive in 3 years, he'll start a war to stay in power.
- I think they are just trying to start some wars so Trump can stay in power. Probably in central america? They did just sink a boat / murdered some people there.
Right now it's an alternate name via executive order. Officially changing the name from Department of Defense to Department of War requires an act of Congress.
- Congress is already warming up their hands to make sure the ball fondling pleases Trump.

Isn't it interesting? For people who hate "woke" and rally against gender identity transitioning, they sure love transitioning the identity of an entire government department and complaining when people dead name it. Snowflakes, the lot of them.

Edit: For bonus points, remember that these are the kind of conservative that bitch about LGBTQ people "making it everyone else's business," while they themselves are extremely in-your-face about these changes.

My dad's Facebook bio is "Trans-Millionaire" even though he makes less than 6 figures. I don't think my dad has ever seen a million dollars in his bank account but to him he is just as important as those rich assholes who sit on top and make it harder for the rest to breathe clean air. My dad, as you guessed it, is extremely transphobic and a cunt (they are pretty synonymous)
It's the Gulf of MEXICO goddamnit
In your face about god too,
- And their weird sexual hang ups. What they think should be allowed, what shouldn't, etc.

Secretary of w-here are the fucking epstein files?

Liver damage needs to hurry TF up breh, he's so embarrassing.

You mean cirrhosis?
- Look, man, I'm doing my best on a motor with no compression here 😔
- Liver sclerosis would be pretty bad too, if it were a thing

Secretary of DUI, Kegseth

Where does he work ?

Every single black, brown, and Asian country, and probably Canada too:

We been looking at you like that since G.W.

Just Sec of Pestilence, Famine, and Death now.

RFK Jr. has the pestilence thing covered.

So Donald or anyone in his family are going to do their service now then?

Right?

Secretary of binge drinking

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

W.orthless A.lcoholic R.apists/Racists

Makes sense to me

Imagine making "I'm the secretary of war of the most well funded military the world has ever known" as your whole personality. Sad, pathetic, get a hobby, get a real job

If Trump does get a peace prize then nothing will mean anything anymore.

Just a reminder that fucking Henry Kissinger got a nobel peace prize.

They got the name plastered all over the place .... now all they need is an actual war

And no one said that it has to be a war on foreign soil either

Iraq still going on, Syria still going on, Ukraine was proxy for an american war thats now shifting more to eu's responsibility. Yemen still goin on, US is still helping ethnically cleanse gaza, murdering random boat operators in the caribbean, plus now the occupied cities of LA and DC (where they now have live rounds but no live fire yet). I know you weren't implying that the US is currently peaceful, but just wanted to take this opportunity for myself to list places currently under attack by the states.
- I didn't mean to imply that the US was peaceful ... far from it ... I was just commenting that the US is acting aggressive (as if they haven't always acted like that for the past many decades) and wanting to attend a war, some kind of war, any kind of war. They haven't taken part in one officially yet ... which is why I made this comment -> the US has changed the name of 'Defence' to 'War', the only thing they need now, is an actual war they can officially take part in.

the thing to do here is to continue referring to it as the DoD. I know that nobody of any consequence will do anything that could be construed as interesting but a person can dream

I think most people who say DoD in real life are doing it for work.

Just out of curiosity, how many wars have you people won on your own?

A couple engagements against Mexico and clobbered the absolute hell out of the geriatric of the Spanish Empire at the turn of the century. I would also go so far as to say European powers did essentially nothing against the Empire of Japan during WW2, but the Chinese fought a nasty decade long war against the Japanese with serious technical and military support from the US. The Pacific theater was essentially the US Naval Department (Navy and Marines) vs the Japanese Naval Department while the bulk of both Armies were preoccupied in different theaters.
- Mmm, have to disagree on the European powers not doing anything against Japan. While true that the island hopping campaign of MacArthur was the majority of what was going on, the British forces were heavily engaged in the China Burma India theatre which was a nasty, nasty ground war that helped keep the Nationalist Chinese in the fight by delivering supplies via the Burma road and over the "hump" by air.

He must be a true warrior.

He must be a true wario

At least they're being honest for once.

I hate how so many countries call it minister and ministry of defence when they only use it for offensive wars, not defending their country.

Secretary of Whiskey + Automobile = Restraints

chihuahuas

Will be changed when the next dem gets in I'm sure.

I adore your optimism, but sadly I don't share it. There won't be a presidential election in 2028.
- [They went on to vote Democrat in 2028]
Nah it won't because it wasn't actually changed now. DoD was named by an act of congress and an EO didn't do anything other than let Baby Pete call himself something so woke.

Department of Where Are Repstein files?

The guy is part of the administration that went after people over the "Gulf of America" name change. He knows there will be consequences if something is missed.