They have think-tanks dedicated to coming up with the worst decisions possible, for real.

Demons pale in comparison to what kind of evil humans can do.

We should make them our pets

Hopefully his next announcement will be from the Dark House in the Doughnut Office from behind the Whimsical Desk.

Mr. Nobel Peace prize

To make a slight counter, the Defense Department does more than fight. We have humanitarian mission capabilities, and we use it. When shit goes down, you want the military to roll in.

I’ve told the story many times, but after Hurricane Ivan I assumed I was on my own. When the Florida Guard rolled in the next morning I was weeping in the streets, on my knees, thank god, thank god. I had no idea there would be any aid. Most humbling. Tearing up now in fact.

I also wept, most literally, when the Mississippi Guard rolled in after Katrina. My FIL was there. Two bronze stars from Iraq, the Mississippi coast broke him, PTSD. He was never the same man after cutting houses in half with chainsaws, pushing corpses aside, leading the tip of the spear.

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

Whoever said it, or didn’t, we need such men.

Hopefully his next announcement will be from the Dark House in the Doughnut Office from behind the Whimsical Desk.

Came here to say this. It’s exactly when it became the department of defense that we had never ending war.

Though I’d still like it to be named the department of defense and then actually do defense. Unless there is a threat of an American being attacked on domestic ground by a foreign power, this isn’t really the intended purpose of the military under our constitution.

We should not “defend” our “interests abroad.” We shouldn’t have interests abroad. That’s also one of the founding ideas of this country. “Defend our interest abroad” is an intentionally vague euphemism for “if we didn’t use a euphemism and just told you in plain words what we’re doing you wouldn’t like it because what we are doing is killing people to protect the profits of a very tiny number of people whose company would lose profit if we didn’t.” If that’s not what that euphemism means they wouldn’t need a euphemism.

Truly a broken clock.

It actually used to be called “Department of War”. It changed in 1947, which was actually right around the time when the United States went full worldwide imperialism (though there were signs well before then).

Pretty sure the Carter administration was the last one to have no new wars in over 100 years.

Edit: I was wrong. The US was still involved in wars during his administration.

It’s been super easy finding out the USA has only had 8-34 years of peace in it’s history, not so much what those years pg peace were combing lists on wikipedia with my phone.

Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, and pizza is knowledge, let’s go!

It was called that back when we were kicking the shit out of fascists, just like tod … oh.

It use to be called the Department of War, but was changed for optics and Trump is terrible at optics.