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I asked AI what countries have a 'Department of War'...
No country currently has a government department explicitly named the "Department of War"; instead, nations use terms like "Department of Defense," "Ministry of Defense," or "Ministry of Armed Forces" to oversee their military. The United States, for example, formerly had a "Department of War" but changed it to the "Department of Defense" in 1947.
Guess AI hasn't caught up with current events.
I suppose you could say Department of Defense is euphemistic. Even Russia has a 'Ministry of Defense'.
But still, seems like a stupid renaming.
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But still, seems like a stupid renaming.
All part of the "turn back the clock" project: renaming Mt Denali back to Mt McKinley, restoring confederate names and monuments, restoring a racist immigration policy, unwinding the income tax in favor of high tariffs, removing the independence of the Fed, restoring the "Roosevelt corollary". So, of course, unwind DoD, and resurrect the "Dept of War".
Steve
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It is a stupid renaming. It goes way back about 80 years. During WWII, it actually was the "Department of War". I'd have to look up when it got changed. I'm assuming late 40s.
I'm wondering if he has the authority. Wouldn't it take an act of Congress?
A lot of things to unwind once the Felon leaves office (assuming a Dem takes over).
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GOOD PART is that Sec Def Hegseth is wanting more Christian influence in the military.
Oh well good for gay soldiers, they'll get more sex.
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Trump loves rebranding. I am surprised that he isn't rebranding the Dept. of Education to include all parks and museums and rename the department as the Trump Department of the Inculcation of American Values.
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Wouldn't it take an act of Congress?
Do we have a Congress? At the end of the month it looks like we'll find out if Trump thinks we need one. The SCOTUS is case by case taking the courts out of the government.
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A lot of things to unwind once the Felon leaves office
I like your optimism.
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I like your optimism.
The guy is 79 years old and not in the best health. He WILL be leaving office sooner or later. Whether that’s on or after Jan 20, 2029 remains to be seen.
I wouldn’t count on it being before.
—Peter
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The guy is 79 years old and not in the best health. He WILL be leaving office sooner or later. Whether that’s on or after Jan 20, 2029 remains to be seen.
But it remains to be seen what is to follow.
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But still, seems like a stupid renaming.Why? Because it upsets some sissy sensitive people?
“Department of War” sends a message of strength same as it did during WW II.
Under President Trump America is done being a second class Country
backing down from our adversaries sending them sissy messages, “Don’t”.
Kudos to President Trump getting tough on crime in America’s cities,
ramping up the war on Drugs, riding our military of WOKE nonsense, our
Military men and women becoming Warriors again....not the sissies Biden and the
democrats had turned them into.
America’s young men and women are lining up again to become Warriors protecting America,
beating quota goals not seen under the Biden administration.
Drumroll please....Closing our Border, sending illegal aliens back home or prison where the worst of them belong....
AND, Finding the lost children Biden and the democrats couldn’t have care less about,
“ New HHS Data Confirms Biden-Harris Admin Placed Tens-of-Thousands of Migrant Children with Unvetted Sponsors, Declined Recommended Home Studies.
BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is making public Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) data showing the Biden-Harris administration placed over 11,000 migrant children with unvetted sponsors who were not the child’s parent or legal guardian, and did not conduct home studies for over 79,000 migrant children under the age of 12.
“My oversight continues to expose disturbing evidence that the Biden-Harris administration turned a blind eye to tens of thousands of kids who needed proper supervision and care. It’s appalling to prioritize speed and optics over the safety and wellbeing of children,” Grassley said. “I appreciate the Trump administration’s efforts to undo the damage caused by the last administration’s failed border policies, and I’ll continue my oversight of the issue to ensure abuse like this never happens again.”
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/release...“DHS Leads Efforts to Rescue Child Victims of Sex and Labor Trafficking
Release Date: July 25, 2025
The Trump Administration has located 13,000 children who came across the border unaccompanied
WASHINGTON –Secretary Noem is leading efforts to rescue and stop the exploitation of the 300,000 unaccompanied children the Biden Administration lost or placed with unvetted sponsors. Many of the children who came across the border unaccompanied were allowed to be placed with sponsors who were actually smugglers and sex traffickers. The Trump Administration has located 13,000 of these children.
In March 2025, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) identified a backlog of more than 65,000 reports regarding children who came across the border unaccompanied that were ignored during the Biden administration.”
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/25/dhs-leads-effo...Next up..posters trying to defend the Biden and democrat failures and yawn, more Trump name calling.
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Under President Trump America is done being a second class Country backing down from our adversaries sending them sissy messages, “Don’t”.
Last time, Spankee had his DADDY GET HIM AN "EXCUSE TO SKIP HIS RESPONSIBILITIES" NOTE.
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Next up..posters trying to defend the Biden and democrat failures and yawn, more Trump name calling.
No need to do that. Your post alone speaks eloquently of the delusions that have grabbed ahold of the MAGA faithful.
You were even good enough to link government propaganda as your source material.
One good thing- the internet never forgets. When and if this country ever regains its sanity and the freedoms being systematically destroyed by this administration, it will be easier to hold the current members of the administration to account for their criminal and treasonous behavior.
A question often asked- How could so many citizens of Nazi Germany have been fooled into believing that Adolf Hitler was a good leader who would make Germany great again?
Posts like yours, Dope’s and even Jedi’s shed much light on that question.
When the reckoning comes, you won’t be able to offer the excuse to yourself “We didn’t know what was happening.”
Because you DO know what is happening. And if you forget, I’ll be there to remind you.
Prime exhibit #1: Your posting of that photo of Kristi Noem in front of caged criminals in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison- your reaction to that photo, and Dope’s as well.
Sheer joy.
Yes, we will always remember and never forget.
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The punishment - indedd you will never forget.
Watching it - i will 'always remember' :)
The best part is you have zero interest in reversing punishment and as far as Nazis, your Progressive friends on campus have more in common with them than i do.
As far as "Jedi's" posts..... has a day gone by where i've not loudly lambasted what is going on?
Sorry Sheeple, i'll FORGET more about having my own thoughts, than you will ever KNOW.
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As far as "Jedi's" posts..... has a day gone by where i've not loudly lambasted what is going on?
Your preoccupation with “culture”, almost to the exclusion of other factors, was Hitler’s preoccupation as well.
Your preoccupation with “punishment” and your apparent glee over that punishment comes across as sadistic, whether that is your intention or not.
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To compare my worry about broken families, dysfiunction, violent and hateful messages in pop culture as it relates to what ia happening with Hitler is rich.
but then again - you are a Hitler sympathizzer on issues of anti semitism on campus, and on Israel .
Punishment - it's something i warned of and now cheer.
Your coming out of the closet as a Hitler fanboy, and your extremism has blidned you to where you can't even give c1% to say "yeah, maybe it's contributing"
No surprise.
Heil Sheeple. Now run along to your self segregated non diverse sourroundings.
But hte good news is you're winning in the inner cities - a certain constituency you L9ord over is feeling generations of the punishment people like you saborrtaged it into having.
Hey, i'm a godo sport - you won that one.
Buyt they rest of it....look around Sheeple - your coonstitution, SCOTUs, your shirtty institutions -= boom - i'm winning.
Don't worry, soon you'll have a 51% win and that will fix it :) hahaq
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but then again - you are a Hitler sympathizzer on issues of anti semitism on campus, and on Israel .
Peddle your lies to those who share your nonsense.
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When the reckoning comes, you won’t be able to offer the excuse to yourself “We didn’t know what was happening.”
And who will lead your day of reckoning?
AOC? Chuck Schumer? Hakeem Jeffries? Kamala Harris? Ilan Omar? Rashida Tlaib? Ayanna Pressley?
Bernie Sanders? Elizabeth Warren? Oh wait, I know, it’s Zohran Mamdani, the up and coming leader of the democratic party.
The democratic party has lost its way, its once noble ideas for the working man is no more.
The democratic party is leaderless, has no purpose and are wandering around in waste land wondering
what happened to them.
Spending your days and nights with one post after another hating President Trump, dreaming up
scenarios of what will happen to MAGA and President Trump is not good for your sanity.
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Next up..posters trying to defend the Biden and democrat failures and yawn, more Trump name calling.
Dope seems to have an incurable case of TWS: Trump Worship Syndrome.
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Under President Trump America is done being a second class Country
backing down from our adversaries sending them sissy messages, “Don’t”.
America has not been a second class country in my lifetime or yours LM. Does the Taco in Chief blow them up good for you?
The origin of the distorted numbers.
Claims that the Biden administration "lost" hundreds of thousands of migrant children likely originate from a misleading interpretation of a report by the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (IG). In August 2024, the IG reported that:
~ 32,000 unaccompanied minors failed to appear for court dates between fiscal year 2019 and May 2024, a period that includes portions of both the Trump and Biden administrations.
~ 291,000 unaccompanied children were not issued "Notices to Appear" in court, but this often happens for administrative reasons and does not mean they are missing.
~While missing a court date can indicate a higher risk of trafficking, immigration experts say many of the missed court dates are due to "missing paperwork" and communication failures, not because the children are lost.
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Under President Trump America is done being a second class Country
backing down from our adversaries sending them sissy messages, “Don’t”.
LM, you are funny in a sad, pathetic and ludicrous way.
Those words are disgustingly false.
Trump is turning our great country into a stinking pile of excrement.
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And who will lead your day of reckoning?
AOC? Chuck Schumer? Hakeem Jeffries? Kamala Harris? Ilan Omar? Rashida Tlaib? Ayanna Pressley?
Bernie Sanders? Elizabeth Warren? Oh wait, I know, it’s Zohran Mamdani, the up and coming leader of the democratic party.
Nope.
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Dope seems to have an incurable case of TWS: Trump Worship Syndrome.
I’d argue that he and others are the true embodiments of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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I don't think this will have the effect the president intended.
The world is clear that Trump is an attention seeking bully.
This behavior of his will only pull others together, and against giving him any of the recognition he craves.
There are so many examples now of others coming together to help each other, rather than paying attention to the bully.
Alan
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There are so many examples now of others coming together to help each other, rather than paying attention to the bully.
And Trump will not be able to stand that.
Expect things to get much worse before they get better.
It’s going to be a rough ride.
But things WILL get better.
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TWS: Trump Worship Syndrome.
More commonly known as TDS: Trump Derangement Syndrome.
You gotta be deranged to believe any of the crap he spews--at both ends.
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Under President Trump America is done being a second class Country
Spankee--plus all his TDS supporters--turned the US into a THIRD CLASS COUNTRY. They are aiming for "LAST CLASS". However, they all have ZERO CLASS, so they fall off the bottom of the CLASS category. That is what Spankee and his TDS supporters desire.
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Kegseth at the press conference announcing the DOD change to DOW:
Maximum lethality, not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're going to raise up warriors, not just defenders.
The FOX 'news' cabinet is the stupidest ever, serving the worst POTUS ever.
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Maximum lethality, not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're going to raise up warriors, not just defenders.
My Uncles who served in WW II (my mom’s brothers, both were just young farm boys), one did not make it back home and the other awarded the Silver Star for his bravery in action among other medals including the Purple Heart would have been proud to have the Honor to serve under CIC President Trump being the Warriors they were.
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He is admitting he will give the troops an unlawful order. I wonder what their response to that will be? I also wonder what the international community will do as the US breaks international laws. There is already rumblings about the attack in Venezuela being unlawful.
Alan
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I wonder what their response to that will be?
I think you can count on Kegseth going along with whatever Trump wants.
