If they start drafting kids, that will be the end of whatever support he has left among boomers. Boomers fought in Vietnam, many of them were drafted, and voted for "no new wars". Trump is notoriously a draft dodger, which they chose to ignore but, I think they won't be ignoring that anymore.
You’d be surprised. Boomers on average are more liberal than Gen Xers. Most forget a lot of them were hippies too and I guarantee the hippies lived longer than the more conservative ones.
Those age bands don’t line up well enough to generational cohorts to draw any specific conclusions IMO, other than perhaps it is unfair to paint any generation with a single brush (which, admittedly I did earlier.)
I get that this is a farce, but I have no doubts that if it would make the Epstein stories go away for a while, Trump would absolutely send at least one of his sons to die in a completely unnecessary conflict.
“When war begins, politicians give weapons, the rich give bread, and the poor give their sons. When war ends, politicians shake hands, the rich raise the price of bread, and the poor search for the graves of their sons.”
I think we should go a step further. All politicians of significant office, should automatically have their children conscripted and participate on the front lines of the war. That would make them a bit more circumspect of what they are asking from the rank and file.
I sincerely doubt the ghouls love their children as much as they love power. This policy would deter support of Ukraine but not deter support of Israel.
And the kids shouldn't go in as officers in a cushy office job far from the front. Send their asses close to where the fighting is, even if it's not a combat role.
I figure the pampered ones could do as clerks, janitorial staff, cargo movers, and so forth. Just being close to the reaper's scythe should be good enough to make the elite feel uneasy about their spawn's future.
The corpsman on my sub, who had been in for 15 years and done two tours in the sandbox during our first go-round in the 90s, was 6'7".
If he can get a waiver to patch bullet wounds in the desert and then cram his Jolly Green Giant ass into a submarine, then Orange Lite can certainly join up.
What about just another showmanship shitshow where he does draft his kid only for him to be some person in charge because that's how nepotism works. Then he bankrupts the army or something more in line with father.
Does anyone think trump loves his kids? They are objects like the rest of us. They are only slightly more regarded because they are worth more to him as props. But it isn't love or anything like it.
The world is exploding. All the nuclear reactors are melting down and the volcanoes are blanketing the world in liquid hot magma. The satellites are falling from the skies left and right. A 3 mile wide tornado has already destroyed and picked up the contents of a barbed wire factory, razor blade factory, and a cinnamon toothpick factory. Tsunamis are making landfall and striking the Midwest. An earthquake creates a fiery chasm so huge that it swallows Joliet and Romeoville. Every nuclear bomb detonated without even launching. A Fiat 500 sized piece of hail just smashed into the oval office.
Trump and Barron are making a run for the escape rocket to the bunker on the moon as the ceiling is falling apart above them and the walls around them. Barron smacks right into a closing shuttle door and falls on his ass. Getting back up he looks through the window and sees the two chairs in the rocket. His father is buckling himself in. Already buckled in next to him is an Al Franken size bag of Big Macs. Through the intercom Barron is reminded that he should be lucky to have spent his final hour with his father. His heart is as cold as that bag of Big Macs.
I may have exaggerated a thing or two but I'm just trying to use words to paint a picture.
Yes I'm sure this will go well, call for a draft. Barron will absolutely be placed on the front lines, totally won't be placed somewhere very safe at all times. You definitely will not be achieving public support for a draft.
It's like you people don't even see what you're doing.
67 Comments
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 172d
If they start drafting kids, that will be the end of whatever support he has left among boomers. Boomers fought in Vietnam, many of them were drafted, and voted for "no new wars". Trump is notoriously a draft dodger, which they chose to ignore but, I think they won't be ignoring that anymore.
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 86 pts · 172d
That would take a level of moral consistency the boomers frankly don’t possess.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 172d
You’d be surprised. Boomers on average are more liberal than Gen Xers. Most forget a lot of them were hippies too and I guarantee the hippies lived longer than the more conservative ones.
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 172d
were more liberal, maybe. are more liberal, nope.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 172d
https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2024/09/PP_2024.9.9_harris-trump_1-01.png?w=420
blitzen@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 172d
Those age bands don’t line up well enough to generational cohorts to draw any specific conclusions IMO, other than perhaps it is unfair to paint any generation with a single brush (which, admittedly I did earlier.)
notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 172d
All this data does is prove what we already know: white, boomer aged, uneducated men support peDono in higher numbers.
sundaymidnight@fedia.io · 2 pts · 171d
yeah, a surprise that third-aged men supported Trump... but someone voted him
and look at black people: they hate Donald 😆 (I share the feeling)
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 171d
sundaymidnight@fedia.io · 2 pts · 171d
give a beer to this guy! 😆 🍺
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 172d
He’s nineteen.
Boomers are okay with that,
Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 172d
Agreed much to old to fuck at that age In boomer eyes
sundaymidnight@fedia.io · 1 pts · 171d
Now I understand the thing of 'send all to militar service' in my country. Of course, they won't go there!
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 172d
Did you sleep through the '00s?
FanciestPants@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 172d
I get that this is a farce, but I have no doubts that if it would make the Epstein stories go away for a while, Trump would absolutely send at least one of his sons to die in a completely unnecessary conflict.
outofthisworld@lemmy.org · 9 pts · 172d
He probably has very little love for this one.
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 172d
He loves nothing but himself
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 8 pts · 172d
Any child except Ivanka, and she's getting a little old for him.
sundaymidnight@fedia.io · 3 pts · 172d
piece of jazz
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 172d
- All Quiet on the Western Front
minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 172d
“When war begins, politicians give weapons, the rich give bread, and the poor give their sons. When war ends, politicians shake hands, the rich raise the price of bread, and the poor search for the graves of their sons.”
sundaymidnight@fedia.io · 2 pts · 172d
this. 💯
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 172d
Let's send Trump as the pilot of this:
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 172d
Mobile Suit Don KeyHote
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 172d
I think we should go a step further. All politicians of significant office, should automatically have their children conscripted and participate on the front lines of the war. That would make them a bit more circumspect of what they are asking from the rank and file.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 172d
I sincerely doubt the ghouls love their children as much as they love power. This policy would deter support of Ukraine but not deter support of Israel.
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 172d
At least it could start solving our political dynasty problem.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 172d
And the kids shouldn't go in as officers in a cushy office job far from the front. Send their asses close to where the fighting is, even if it's not a combat role.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 172d
I figure the pampered ones could do as clerks, janitorial staff, cargo movers, and so forth. Just being close to the reaper's scythe should be good enough to make the elite feel uneasy about their spawn's future.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 172d
That should just be a basic rule for any politician in any country.
You send people to war? Your kids first. Guy or girl, I don't care, I support feminism everywhere so here too.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 172d
He’s ineligible on the grounds of height.
Pricklesthemagicfish@reddthat.com · 12 pts · 172d
Ill make an exception for him
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 172d
The corpsman on my sub, who had been in for 15 years and done two tours in the sandbox during our first go-round in the 90s, was 6'7".
If he can get a waiver to patch bullet wounds in the desert and then cram his Jolly Green Giant ass into a submarine, then Orange Lite can certainly join up.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 172d
Limit is 6'8"
Baron is supposedly 6'9", which is really convenient.
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 172d
About that; dad musta been a tall pool boy.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 171d
Probably a basketball player
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 172d
You only get to say that until you've seen how many times he's clipped his head on a doorframe.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 5 pts · 172d
lukaro@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 172d
I was thinking lowes has plenty of tools that would shorten him up real quick.
MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 172d
I'm sure that family could find a way to get him onto the front lines. They've broken so many rules before, what's one more?
outofthisworld@lemmy.org · 4 pts · 172d
Rules don’t exist for the rich in America.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 0 pts · 172d
Trump's grandfather left Germany to escape the draft. Fred Trump got WW2 deferments and Donnie's 'bone spurs' are, of course, the stuff of legends.
Barron has a legitimate deferment, so unless Tiffany joins, the family will be five generations without service.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 172d
And good for them.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 1 pts · 172d
Why 'good for them?'
They were all happy to let other folks go and get killed.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 172d
Everyone should avoid war.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 1 pts · 172d
So, people in Gaza shouldn't fight back?
Because they should avoid war?
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 172d
Nuance goes over the head of some people. Not Barron of course. He’s a beanpole.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 172d
And not some logistics job. Something difficult, sucky, and dangerous. If the powerful will send our sons to die, they should send theirs as well
Prior_Industry@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 172d
Mine sweeper?
Seaguy05@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 172d
What about just another showmanship shitshow where he does draft his kid only for him to be some person in charge because that's how nepotism works. Then he bankrupts the army or something more in line with father.
root@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 172d
Exactly. He'd end up with a cushy position and Trump would never stop yapping about his sons great service to the country
sundaymidnight@fedia.io · 11 pts · 172d
what? 🤣 🤷
sundaymidnight@fedia.io · 5 pts · 172d
required and voluntary in same sentence
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 171d
I think it just means there's no draft right now. You have to sign up in case there's a draft, but service is (currently) voluntary.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 172d
Whether you volunteer or not will be listed on your id documents of course.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 171d
Only citizens may vote.
Would you like to know more?
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 171d
I get asked about registration all the time and Im way older. I think that is the span you have to register in.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 172d
Does anyone think trump loves his kids? They are objects like the rest of us. They are only slightly more regarded because they are worth more to him as props. But it isn't love or anything like it.
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 172d
The world is exploding. All the nuclear reactors are melting down and the volcanoes are blanketing the world in liquid hot magma. The satellites are falling from the skies left and right. A 3 mile wide tornado has already destroyed and picked up the contents of a barbed wire factory, razor blade factory, and a cinnamon toothpick factory. Tsunamis are making landfall and striking the Midwest. An earthquake creates a fiery chasm so huge that it swallows Joliet and Romeoville. Every nuclear bomb detonated without even launching. A Fiat 500 sized piece of hail just smashed into the oval office.
Trump and Barron are making a run for the escape rocket to the bunker on the moon as the ceiling is falling apart above them and the walls around them. Barron smacks right into a closing shuttle door and falls on his ass. Getting back up he looks through the window and sees the two chairs in the rocket. His father is buckling himself in. Already buckled in next to him is an Al Franken size bag of Big Macs. Through the intercom Barron is reminded that he should be lucky to have spent his final hour with his father. His heart is as cold as that bag of Big Macs.
I may have exaggerated a thing or two but I'm just trying to use words to paint a picture.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 172d
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 172d
Here is one in the trump loves his kids group. Oh my bad, its just a Al Franken sized bag. Not Al Franken. Some fates are worse than death.
Jax@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 172d
Yes I'm sure this will go well, call for a draft. Barron will absolutely be placed on the front lines, totally won't be placed somewhere very safe at all times. You definitely will not be achieving public support for a draft.
It's like you people don't even see what you're doing.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 172d
Bone spurs about to become generational.
benyar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 171d
slickgoat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 172d
Even if he were to be drafted do you think that he'd see an hour on the front line?
Meet Captain Bone Spurs, officer in charge of NFT development in New York. He knows how to computer.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 172d
The Augustus to our modern day Caeser.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 172d
Don't you mean Caesarion? He's not been installed on the throne yet
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 172d
Yeah but Melania is no Cleopatra
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 172d
are you kidding "don't bully online" and "i don't care do u" united the entire world in making fun of melania