The Senate Armed Services Committee voted this week to formally change the Pentagon’s name to the Department of War, moving a significant step closer to solidifying President Donald Trump’s rebrand of the Defense Department as permanent.
The move came during the committee’s closed-door deliberations over its defense policy bill, according to Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), who announced the name change in explaining his vote against the legislation.
“It’s a juvenile move that sadly describes the reality of a president who has abandoned meaningful diplomacy in favor of starting doubtful wars in multiple locations and threatening even more,” he said in a statement.
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Blibly@lemmy.world · 68 pts · 81d
Conservatives are so fucking cringe dude, jesus.
lennybird@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 81d
Speaking of Jesus, I bet he's scratching his head why his (admittedly fake) followers are naming it War and not Peace in terms of the objective at least.
ZeroCool@piefed.ca · 61 pts · 81d
Undoing all this stupid nonsense is going to be annoying and expensive. But hey, at least groceries are... More expensive than ever? Fuck!
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 81d
What a stupid world.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 81d
Its just more removing the mask
Kirp123@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 80d
One of the first things the "no-war president" does is renaming the Department of Defense to Department of War. If this was a book they would call it foreshadowing, they would also call your book unrealistic for depicting everyone as being so stupid to go along with this.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 81d
Asskissers, all.
Hazor@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 80d
How embarrassingly juvenile.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 80d
As if America had no real and urgent problems that would need fixing.
LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 80d
Boiling the frog of democracy
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 80d
This isn't a slow increase. They just turned it up to 11.
santa@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 80d
They put the pot in the oven.