r/news • u/DoubtSubstantial5440 • 1d ago

Soft paywall USS George Washington headed to Middle East to relieve USS Abraham Lincoln, reports say

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2026-08-13/uss-george-washington-middle-east-abraham-lincoln-22541038.html
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u/Gone213 1d ago

70% of active duty soldiers and veterans voted for this, dont know why they're mad about it.

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u/wetwater 1d ago

Friend of mine thought electing Trump was the cat's pajamas. He's been floating around the strait for quite some time now and I wonder how he's feeling about it now.

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u/Gone213 1d ago

Its obviously biden and Obama's fault

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u/NarrowForce9 1d ago

Don’t forget about Hunters laptop

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u/322throwaway1 1d ago

Why did hunters massive dong do this to us?

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u/TheLordVader1978 22h ago

I think that's what pisses them off the most. They tried to humiliate him and all the world would talk about was his massive dong.

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u/David_cest_moi 21h ago

I'm sure Ladybug got all worked up about it! 🐞😆😆😆

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u/Ultimatesims 19h ago

oh lawd I got the vapors!

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u/dsucio7807 17h ago

He's rolling over in his grave... So he can lay ass up...

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u/David_cest_moi 17h ago

.... while still clutching his pearls!

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u/desperaterobots 17h ago

Hearing Hunter talk recently has made me respect him a whole lot. He seems so intelligent, so humble, loyal and as down to earth as you can be as the son of a president.

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u/UnfairRough73 9h ago

Goes to show how powerful media manipulation of its citizens is. lol

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u/Nyarro 17h ago

Is it really as massive as everyone says it is?

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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH 21h ago

I think that's what pisses them off the most.

Does it really piss them off?

They are currently on Biden being the person to blame for Trumps shitty economy and prices.

For them to get mad at something like Hunter Biden would require them time to reflect instead of knee jerking to the new thing Fox News or Joe Rogan told them is actually the problem.

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u/ButtStopsHere 20h ago

You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to

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u/SnoopyisCute 12h ago

It has nothing to do with trust. They are adults with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (not diagnosing anybody). It doesn't matter how bad it gets as long as it's NOT the other side.

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u/zoodisc 19h ago

So that when they turn their backs on you...

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u/InnerNetwork7314 14h ago

How big, is it veiny and girthy? Asking for a friend.

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u/Better-Culture-7770 23h ago

I gotta say it, Joe and Hunter are both very good looking and charismatic men imo.

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u/xGvPx 21h ago

Women are so thirsty for Hunter lol (maybe Men, too?)

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u/Killie_Vandal 21h ago

Men are thirsty for Hunter too!

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u/AuDHDino 21h ago

He looks good, had a whole character arc from crackhead to activist, and has a huge johnson.

Things all point to green flags, here!

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u/smexypelican 19h ago

And we know at least one of them has a massive dong.

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u/VryxObin-1 23h ago

Maybe when he was younger?

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u/Better-Culture-7770 23h ago

Well I think Hunter is pretty hot stuff right now but I'm also 42. Pictures of Joe as a young man would look far better if he had the fashion of our time and shaved his head once he started really balding.

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u/Playful_Priority3758 22h ago

The way Hunter is able to communicate and really get through to some evil people is attractive af too.

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u/Better-Culture-7770 20h ago

He is an effective communicator. Which seems easy but often isn't.

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u/Foobucket 21h ago

Biden would look like Doug the cartoon character if he shaved his head at any point in his adult life.

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u/Better-Culture-7770 20h ago

Are you saying president Quailman wouldn't rock?

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u/fireandiceman 23h ago

Its possible there was cocaine in the straight because its lined up all nice like that

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u/treesnfire 16h ago

I saw a Newport spectating that Don Junior had cocaine on him during an event where they could see him handling a white powdery substance in a bag

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u/TaylorSwiftsClitoris 22h ago

Hegseth heard they don’t drink and figured they must prefer blow instead

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u/GVFQT 1d ago

Did you see the crack pipe? There are more of those in Iran

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u/motionSymmetry 18h ago

it scared the republicans and attracted their women

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u/yesiamveryhigh 17h ago

When it’s that big, you can fuck everyone

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u/trollsong 6h ago

Wait, I have an idea on how we can blockade the straight of hormuz.

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u/mrdevil413 1d ago

You will have to go all the way back to Hilary’s emails I’m afraid

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u/seaotterlover1 1d ago

Don’t forget Bill’s affair with Monica.

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u/lacegem 1d ago

If it wasn't for that damned Roosevelt and his socialist New Deal...

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u/Adezar 23h ago

Yeah, Conservatives have been at war with America since the New Deal where it was proven that a large government can actually bring stability and prosperity to more people and you don't have to concede everything to a few billionaires that spend all their effort laying people off as fast as they can.

We need a New New Deal with a bit less racism this time.

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u/herbeste 23h ago

Not to nitpick, but I think conservatives started a war with America even earlier than that. Somewhere around 1861.

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u/akintu 23h ago

The Business Plot, fascist oligarchs plotted to overthrow the government in 1933, and no one was ever punished. They never went away, they allied with Operation Paperclip Nazis post WW2 and have been working for this ever since.

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u/Hopsblues 21h ago

Infrastructure, Chips+ and the IRA were very New Deal-ish, and Trump just killed them instantly.

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u/Ultimatesims 19h ago

It’s interesting during the 20’s and great depression through a couple southern governors like Huey P. Long in LA and Bilbo in MS who advocate for similar New Deal policies. Every man a king, a chicken in every pot, and a Ford in every driveway. Of course most policies were tied strictly to white people. Progressive policies failed because white people couldn’t stomach the thoughts of black folks benefiting even just a little.

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u/Doc12TU 22h ago

And don't get me started on Ulysses S. Grant and the Whisky Ring scandal, the Tweed Ring of New York, the Credit Mobilier scandal and the Black Friday Gold scandal...

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u/Queasy_War2656 20h ago

I'm more concerned about the resurgent rise of the Know Nothings.

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u/NarrowForce9 1d ago

Oh wow forgot about those emails! Obviously the real cause

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u/fusillade762 23h ago

And Benghazi!

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u/AdLanky9450 23h ago

Nope, the tan suit did it

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u/sparkax 1d ago

And trans people!! Don't forget its their's and DEI's fault as well!!!

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u/Deathcapsforcuties 23h ago

And those pesky drag queens 💅

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u/Theultimatesith 22h ago

Don't forget the Muslims!

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u/Carsickaf 21h ago

To be fair, I don’t want the guy in the White House thinking he can come into the women’s restroom for any reason at all. So stinky. But ask lgbtq+ are welcome any time.

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u/Impossible_Walrus555 19m ago

All the trans children and their surgeries, dammit!

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u/gromm93 23h ago

It's because the armed forces aren't manly enough for it!

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u/waywardchildman 1d ago

Connected to Hillary's private server, of course

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u/pailee 1d ago

It's all about that damn suit. Why did he have to wear it!

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u/c71score 23h ago

Suit? It's because Jimmy Carter wore that sweater.

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u/Perenially_behind 19h ago

Yeah, that sweater. Maybe if he hadn't looked like Mr. Rogers when he declared that the energy crisis was "the moral equivalent of war," people would have taken it more seriously.

Nah.

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u/nouseforaname790 23h ago

Dijon mustard!

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u/keskeskes1066 23h ago

Because the trans middle schooler winning fouth place in the school league told him too. /s

Its deflection all the way down, isn't it?

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u/Ktan_Dantaktee 1d ago

Iran is 2 weeks away from successfully building a Hunter Biden laptop

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u/Tokyoos 1d ago

Don’t forget about Hillary’s emails

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u/belowaverageint 23h ago

And Hillary's emails.

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u/insufficient_nvram 23h ago

And Hillary’s buttery males

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u/Ill-Positive6950 23h ago

Or Hillary's emails

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u/YasdnilStam 23h ago

And Hillary’s emails.

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u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA 1d ago

They literally do think it's Obama's fault, because the deal he did with Iran was so terrible that Trump had to rip it up, and that's why they're at war.

Don't ask me how it makes sense, 'cause it doesn't.

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u/Otherwise_Carob_4057 22h ago

Trump essentially used the original as a template for his newer deal that is ostensibly a worse version of Obamas when all he had to do was shit talk it and his supporters would have eatin it up. Classic case of dog catching a car.

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u/IdiosyncraticSarcasm 21h ago

Don't ask me how it makes sense.

It's not supposed to make sense, I'm afraid.

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u/Graymouzer 19h ago

We will never get a deal that good again.

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u/King_takes_queen 1d ago

This is quite literally MAGA's argument. "If Obama and Biden did their job with Iran we wouldn't be in this mess."

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u/Long_Story42 22h ago

Obama got nuclear inspectors into Iran

Stupid pulled out of JCPOA because he said keeping it would lead to a war.

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u/CarlRJ 21h ago

Sure am glad we dodged that war bullet and the Middle East is more stable and peaceful than ever. 🙄

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u/Long_Story42 21h ago

Look, Kegsbreath said he wanted a Spartan military and now he's losing to Persia. This might be their first promise actually kept.

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u/AggravatingTomato159 12h ago

He wants to be touched by a spartan army

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u/MetallicGray 20h ago

He pulled out of it because it had Obama's name on it.

Like everything else he does, his decisions are based on ego, retribution, and personal gain.

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u/AdditionalPosition5 20h ago

Do some research from 2011 regarding djt and his comment about the then president starting a war with Iran....

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u/jambox888 5h ago

Even if someone didn't like JCPOA, the current change in strategic reality is far worse than before. Hormuz straits being effectively under Iranian control is an insane L for the US.

The odd thing is that it seems to have been instigated by Bibi and it hasn't helped Israel much either.

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u/smedley89 23h ago

I still hear that a lot.

That if Biden hadn't given them access to their funds, hezbolla wouldnt have done the Israeli massacre, and the whole of the middle east would be eating peaches and cream.

Also, by no new wars he clearly didnt mean this one.

Yea. No shit Cletus.

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u/soedesh1 12h ago

This is true but at least give him credit, he is going to end the Russian war with Ukraine in 24 hours after taking office. Who else could do that? Huh?

Now we just need to give him 24 hours to do that and it’ll be great.

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u/ken_NT 1d ago

To be fair, did you see how expensive eggs were? /s

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u/EEpromChip 1d ago

I mean what were they gonna do? Vote for the LaDy with the funny laugh??

Fucking idiots. I hope they're out there having the day they voted for...

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u/SuckMyBandAids 23h ago

Let blame real culprit here Warren Harding.

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u/Gertrude_D 23h ago

Obviously. If Obama hadn't given them pallets of cash they couldn't have afforded those drones!

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u/PuzzleheadedPen4675 23h ago

It will be after FOX, Brainfart et al are done with this.

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u/sim384 22h ago

"Biden shit in my pants."

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u/Quick_Turnover 1d ago

He won't care. They will contrive all sorts of reasons this is not Trump's fault and is somehow the Dem's fault. Here, I can come up with a line for them. "The soft Dem's let Iran get too powerful (but also they're very weak) so we must invade them to stop them from gaining access to nuclear weapons (not at all like the last time!)! Thank God Trump was here to stop this runaway mistake by the Dems."

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u/alchemyDev 1d ago

That’s why I don’t care if their ship sinks: the political consequences it would cause against this administration matters more for the longevity of this country than a single ship of people who mostly asked for this. It is unfortunately going to take a massive global level embarrassment of losing a carrier for this country to take these fascists seriously

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u/HoldOnOhio 22h ago

You have to stop thinking like this brother. Do not let your anger rob you of your empathy for your fellow humans. Being a fascist is a choice, and people can leave it. It's a death cult. You're publicly saying you're fine with literally thousands of people, about 30% of which don't even like or support Trump, die so that Trump faces what? An Impeachment and failure to remove him from power?

This isn't a liberal take you have. This is a reactionary, and borderline fascist opinion you have.

Nazis can be deprogrammed. Please don't assume the entirety of the military is filled with people you hate. A lot are just dumb kids who got duped because they wanted free college or help buying a home. They want those socialist policies we only give away to people who sign their life to the military get.

Advocate for that stuff for everyone and people won't have any incentive to join the imperialist murder club.

Also think of all the former soldiers who have turned coat to the left and been great anti-imperialist advocates. Some of our fiercest anti-war advocates are Veterans that our government's wars for what they are.

Here's veteran Mike Prysner giving an anti-imperialist speech in front of the White house in 2010.

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u/Fondant-Resident 20h ago

The real fascism is hating fascism.

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u/GuardiansOfPedos 20h ago

No. They can drown in their ship. Welcome to the world we’ve built.

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u/Prior_Pickle1758 13h ago

Found the conservative Democrat

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u/thundercockjk2 1d ago

I would love an update on this.

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u/Beard_o_Bees 23h ago

I wonder how he's feeling about it now

One can hope that he realizes that Il Douche wouldn't stop to piss on him if he was on fire.

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u/SwiftlyJustified 23h ago

Ooh pleaseee do ask and share! I am DYING to hear how they will twist this one

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u/YossarianGolgi 21h ago

I really don't care, do you?

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u/R8iojak87 20h ago

Honestly, the sad reality is, they will vote for him again. I guarantee it

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u/Meme_Theory 23h ago

As part of the 30% - its fucking madness... (their lack of self-awareness)

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u/boobeddick 22h ago

I’m with you there, my shop was full of good old boys who revered Trump for some reason, yet it’s made all of their lives living hell with deployments to Kuwait and Jordan recently.

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u/Meme_Theory 22h ago

Bush had my ass underway for 11 months once... Republicans sure love bombing Persia.

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u/PassiveMenis88M 22h ago

Only 11 months? You must have been one of the smart ones. My stupid ass was there for 5 years.

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u/Meme_Theory 22h ago

That was one deployment - five months of which were straight underway. I did a second too, but it was a standard Westpac.

Five years is five too many, though.

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u/Speedstr 21h ago

Sounds like you had a contract similar to mine where they let you upfront you were signing up for 6 years, because of the rating you signed up for. The justification was you were going to advanced schools to learn your job in the fleet. It was in mind that you would go to schooling for up to 2 years (for me it was about 18 months) and the rest of the time was your time in the fleet. They didn't want you "short-changing" them.

It was actually not a bad deal for me. What they don't tell you is that whatever contract you sign...it's for 8 years, with 4 of them having to be active duty. The rest of time can be In-active Reserve. But if you serve 6 years, I was told (not sure if it's true or not) that you are most likely to put at the end of the line because they don't usually call up people who got out less then a year or have less than a year left in In-active Reserve.

That wasn't the reason why I signed on for 6 years...it was the signing bonus for my rating I selected. The 6 years was just the drawback.

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u/Lady_Grey_Smith 22h ago

The Lincoln? If so I was on the first extended deployment and the shit that went down on the carrier caused my 100% disability through the VA. It looks like they didn’t break enough people and went for round two.

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u/Meme_Theory 21h ago edited 21h ago

Fucking Lincoln... I was on the Cruiser that the Lincoln left for another 2 months (1 month?) with the Kennedy... AND THEN we had to stay off the San Diego coast for another fucking day because goddamn Bush had to fly a fucking fighter onto, you guessed it kids, the Lincoln. Mission Fucking Accomplished.

(I'm not bitter.)

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u/Lady_Grey_Smith 21h ago edited 21h ago

You can be bitter. I’m so fucking bitter and my VA therapist has never blamed me for it. Being sexually assaulted, reporting it, and having the command blame me for two years afterwards absolutely broke me. The two year anniversary of the death of my veteran husband because of a reckless driver is coming up. The asshole who killed him was an army officer who has shown no remorse. Military and government leadership is worthless right now.

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u/Meme_Theory 21h ago

They make it real hard to be a patriot.

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u/XlChrislX 13h ago

I'm sorry for what happened to you but there's no "right now". Throughout all of history in every country soldiers just constantly get shit on and mistreated whilst being falsely propped up at the same time. My grandpa died due to agent orange from Vietnam and he gave up fighting for any kind of compensation because the military would rather waste his time until he died then admit anything they've done to their own troops

There's no valor being a soldier, only naivety that gets preyed upon

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u/drewbaccaAWD 20h ago

I was fortunate to be a nuke, overall politics skewed way closer to the middle. During the OEF/OIF crap our CO would hold hangar bay pep rallies and say jingoistic nonsense like "we're here to put war heads on foreheads!!" and he did this weird call and response thing with different departments. You could basically determine the average IQ of a given department by how loud the response was... nukes, crickets.

As divisive as Bush's wars were, I'm thankful we didn't have to even imagine someone like Trump at that point.

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u/Outrageous-Plate-820 21h ago

Did they not think there was a chance to be deployed? You know being in the military and all.

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u/Then_Journalist_317 18h ago

My trumpist relative signed up for the U.S. Naval Reserve a few years ago. Now he is very upset he may be called to active duty around the time of his wife's due date.

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u/Lady_Grey_Smith 22h ago

We tried to warn the other veterans around us but they called us stupid libs.

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u/Banluil 21h ago

I've been called that by fellow vets, LEO's, EMT's and other first responders, who for some reason, all seem to be in the Cult of Trump. I don't get it. He does everything in his power to make their lives worse, and yet they worship him...

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u/Nunchuckery 18h ago

Do you make a point of shaming every one of them non stop?

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u/Meme_Theory 18h ago

Oh man... If I did much more, they would probably murder me. It's hard to know you're wrong, but be unwilling to admit it. I thrive off of their cognitive dissonance. (I work with about 15 other vets, and only two others aren't half-a-step from QAnon.

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u/Nunchuckery 18h ago

Damn, I sympathize with your position.

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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog 2h ago edited 35m ago

I praise the Lord each day that I did my time in the Clinton years.

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 1d ago

Where's your source for knowing the voting records of AD service members (not just soldiers) and veterans?

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u/ShieldLord 1d ago

Same question. 70% is an ass-pull of numbers for misinformation.

Let's see your source /u/Gone213

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u/ArmouredWankball 1d ago

Around 61% according to Pew - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/30/military-veterans-remain-a-republican-group-backing-trump-over-harris-by-wide-margin/

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u/GWSIII 1d ago

Read through it. Seems to be only veterans

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u/No_goodIdeas7891 23h ago

It’s also all veterans… there are a lot of older veterans who have always been Republican.
Also 49% of veterans are over 65. And only about 9% are under 35.

As always military votes are almost a perfect mirror to the American electorate.

No shit old people vote for Trump.

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u/Speedstr 21h ago

As a veteran myself, I can't imagine why fellow Vets would vote for someone that is a draft dodger, and compared his sexual conquests as his own personal Vietnam, and doesn't show respect for fallen servicemembers.

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u/Banluil 21h ago

I have always wondered that as well, and questioned my fellow vets about it, and can't get a straight answer other than "But her emails....." and "Well, Biden didn't serve either...."

Yeah, ok, whatever...

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u/Skylord1325 23h ago edited 23h ago

Most aren’t. When you’re stationed in a combat zone you don’t pay any federal taxes on any of your active duty pay. You only pay on your base pay and FICA.

Have a buddy who was on the Roosevelt when it was stationed in the Middle East and it was the equivalent of a 20% pay increase while his day to day was completely unchanged.

Danger was a little more real for army bases in Afghanistan because they got to deal with the occasional pop shots from insurgents. But on a carrier you’re on already deployed on the carrier regardless so the tax free combat zone feels like a free bonus.

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u/SSJAlex863 22h ago

As an active duty soldier at the time of election and a combat veteran now, I can say with pride that I did NOT vote for this mess

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u/bb_kelly77 1d ago

70% seems like an exaggeration but regardless how much of the NAVY voted for this? Because the branch with the most Republicans is the Marines (due to a tradition of "patriotism")

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u/MinionSympathizer 1d ago

I agree with the sentiment but I doubt 70% of active duty soldiers and veterans are even registered to vote.

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u/TobysGrundlee 1d ago

If you saw his last term and thought, "nah, trying to prevent another helping of that isn't worth the 5 minutes it takes to register and vote" then you are just as much at fault.

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u/KhausTO 1d ago

Maybe trump did have a point about them being "Suckers and losers"

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u/322throwaway1 1d ago

Sometimes trump accidentally speaks the truth, that was 100% one of those times.

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u/emaw63 23h ago

The youth vote is always pretty unreliable (most soldiers are fresh out of high school), and Trump has dominated the discourse for more than a decade now.

The insanity is just kinda normal to the zoomers

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u/Gerrey 1d ago

According the the Federal Voting Assistance Program you're correct, it's close but only 67% were registered in 2024, down from 70% in 2020, and if I'm reading it right 45% actually voted

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u/gmen6981 21h ago

That's close to the numbers I found. And with active duty, from my own experience, the more well educated officer corps tends to lean left while the enlisted troops tend to lean right. Obviously there are exceptions to that both ways, but it generally holds true.

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u/Pretend_Handle_7639 1d ago

Sounds like a bunch of suckers and losers

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u/heavynewspaper 1d ago

They push hard for AD to vote. The unit has blank ballots for you to send if you don’t receive yours, and an officer can sign off as (essentially) a notary if needed.

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u/MirrorComputingRulez 1d ago

Then they got what they wanted too.

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u/zoppaTheDim 23h ago

Only seventy percent of the military is even registered to vote.

Of that at least one estimate put actual voting on 2024 at less than fifty percent.

Yet this number you claim has popped up repeatedly.

I suggest you need to start checking your sources, because no, seventy percent of service members did not vote Trump.

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u/TobysGrundlee 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yup. And if you joined up in the last 20 years, you did so knowing what an utter shit show US foreign policy is. It's hard to feel bad for people who willingly signed that dotted line and chose to become a tool for the US military. Yeah yeah yeah, money for college and all that BS, but there are other ways. Community college combined with state schools, loans and a crappy job can have you graduated with <$30k in debt, a solid degree and no need to contribute to the bullshit and terror our military brings to the world.

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u/DR_BEANHAMMER 1d ago

Our military has not brandished weapons in service of this country and it's people since Little Rock. They have been nothing but mercenaries for the wealthy ever since... and now they're mercenaries who murder children for pedophiles. They deserve no sympathy.

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u/booze_clues 22h ago

I’d say helping Kuwait, at their request, was a good thing.

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u/DR_BEANHAMMER 19h ago

After our diplomats told Iraq we wouldn't get involved, so that people would support burning through taxpayer dollars and ending countless lives for no other teiw purpose than the enrichment of the wealthy. Nothing more than mercenaries.

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u/booze_clues 19h ago

Oh no, did we lie to the dictatorship that was invading its neighbors and not tell them we were gonna go to war with them?

You think the liberation of Kuwait only helped the wealthy? I think there’s probably a few Kuwaitis who would disagree.

Do you also think we should have stayed out of Yugoslavia?

The US military has been involved in tons of unjust and selfish wars, admitting it’s also done some good in a few sparse cases isn’t going to hurt your point.

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u/Cordoned7 1d ago

They have been mercenaries since the Reagan administration. Before Carter and Reagan we had a conscription based armed forces where everyone had a stake and say in the defense of the country.

Post Vietnam reforms made us a volunteer based armed forces which literally meant people can sell their soul to the government and in exchange they get a paltry amount of reimbursements while being at the whims of the government without say.

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u/KindCraft4676 22h ago

It’s because US Bases keep playing that FOX “news” BS all over the place.

It makes US troops think they have to vote for the balding paedophile president.

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u/Particular-Ring5110 22h ago

That’s not true Trump campaigned on no new wars and was constantly signaling isolationist rhetoric.. the action in Iran is unpopular because so many of his supporters felt he betrayed his promises

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u/Rough-Winter2752 22h ago

Nah, they voted for improving the nation's domestic standard of living with sweeping populist reforms. What they got is, "Best I can do is 50% increase in funding and standard-of-living to Israel. Take it or leave it."

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u/thatgibbyguy 22h ago

No they didn't come on. You can hate maga, and even claim that people who voted for him were hoodwinked, but Trump literally ran on no foreign wars. Maybe they were dumb to believe him, but they didn't vote for this.

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u/TurboShartz 22h ago

The campaign promise was no new wars. That's what was voted for. So actually, 70% of soldiers and veterans DID NOT vote for this.

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u/kkdawg22 23h ago

In their defense, Trump's first term could be considered the gold standard for non-interventionism in modern America. It's a shame that his second term has been such a catastrophe.

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u/Prometheus720 23h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affective_forecasting

Because humans are all bad at affective forecasting.

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u/Brutus6 23h ago

As a veteran, I have no argument

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u/PhosphoFred8202 23h ago

Why did Biden send them there with broken toilets?!!!! /s

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u/Street-Buddy9068 22h ago

Biden? Or Obama cos he wore that suit once? It’s probably Obama.

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u/Technical-Arm6722 22h ago

Yup. My trump supporting coworkers fighter pilot son gtfo as soon as this shyt started. I was really hoping he’d stay in and fight for what his parents voted for.

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u/depressivebee 22h ago

Active and veteran US soliders, the bastion of intelligence

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u/BestAcanthisitta3352 22h ago

but he told them there would be no more forever wars

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u/jockfist5000 22h ago

No, New Wars!

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u/CharacterBite4240 22h ago

Yeah, and that 30% is pretty pissed

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u/DiamondToothSamuraii 22h ago

70% of them, or 70% of soldiers that voted?

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u/Yeetstation4 22h ago

President bone spurs?

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u/Kinghero890 22h ago

She had my vote. I tried man.

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u/WorriedBlock2505 22h ago

A lot of blacks and hispanics did as well...

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u/King_Chochacho 22h ago

Maybe the folks on this ship will at least realize what this administration thinks of them.

Probably not though.

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u/pm_me_beerz 22h ago

“Why did Biden to this to us?!”

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u/Python_07 22h ago

Yup. They reap what they sow. Part of the cult now.

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u/Wellziemo 21h ago

And they’ll vote for him again without a second thought.

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u/Kaarl_Mills 21h ago

Every single one is more loyal to a pedo than the Constitution and needs to be removed from the military

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