A photo on the Pentagon’s official image hub featured a U.S. Navy sailor wearing a patch that read, “Join the U.S. Navy – ‘Save the Big Booty Venezuelans!’” Some veterans called it harmless morale. The Pentagon acted quickly to remove the image.
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Lead: Selective Outrage
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Remember when people put Eiffel Tower overlays on their social media profiles after the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks that killed 12 people? Why don’t Israeli attacks on Lebanon garner that level of response? Maybe—just maybe—social media solidarity movements are not organic. Huh.
Israel has pledged to continue the attacks, tepid condemnation or not. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said this to Israelis on Thursday, “We are continuing to strike Hezbollah with full force, and we will not stop until we restore your security.”
The U.S. has also pledged to stay battle-ready. On Thursday, President Trump said that the U.S. military will stay ready for any “appropriate and necessary… lethal prosecution and destruction of an already substantially degraded Enemy.” He said that if a “REAL AGREEMENT” is not reached, the battle will resume.
Why the emphasis on REAL AGREEMENT? Because he is refuting the details that were publicized after Israel violated the agreement, namely, that Israel would withdraw from Lebanon and that Iran would proceed with nuclear enrichment.
Vice President JD Vance was scheduled to go to Pakistan this weekend to work on that REAL AGREEMENT, alongside Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, but on Wednesday the President said that he may not send the Vice President over “safety” concerns. Iran has said many times that they do not want to re-open discussions with Witkoff and Kushner. Who could blame them? Every time they go to the negotiation table with those two feckless lackeys, they get bombed by the U.S. and Israel again.
Sending those two knuckleheads, with or without the Vice President, shows a REAL lack of good faith but I guess that’s what we’re doing.
Signed Up by the System
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Are we heading for a military draft? The Trump administration proposed adding an automatic draft registration into the upcoming Defense bill.
This would mean that all American men between the ages of 18 and 26 would be automatically registered for the draft. It does not mean that they would be drafted. Yet.
The Biden administration tried to do this in its 2024 Defense bill but that provision was removed before the bill was passed. The Trump administration is just picking up where Democrats left off because war is bipartisan. The uniparty is aligned on sending your (not their) sons to war.
President Trump hinted at this in his recent post, “our great Military is Loading Up and Resting, looking forward, actually, to its next Conquest.”
Key phrase: Loading up.
This isn’t just talk. The pieces are already falling into place. Automatic registration is already active in several states.
Lawmakers are dressing this up as a cost saver by cutting outreach. Really? We’ve spent $42 billion on Israel’s war with Iran. Are we supposed to believe they’re concerned about spending money on marketing materials?
I guess they’re desperate because on top of this, the U.S. Army just bumped the enlistment age from 34 to 42.
You don’t expand eligibility, automate registration, and flood the headlines unless you’re getting ready for something. At least that’s how we see it.
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Did you miss our last live show? No problem, you can catch the replay here! We discuss how thousands of American soldiers are heading to the Middle East, and why this suggests that this “ceasefire” is actually fake.
What’s Trending
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Barbara Eden of ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ is trending after posting this new photo of herself.
The United States Postal Service is trending because it suspended pension contributions to delay running out of money.
Melania Trump is trending after publicly pushing back on what she described as false claims linking her to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. She also called on Congress to let all victims speak to the American public.
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