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riversedge

(78,368 posts)
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 08:47 PM Oct 5

Trump speaking to Sailors: .. 'We would've won Afghanistan easy. But we got politically correct.'

And there stands the turd in his Red HAT making up foolish crap!!

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Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct.”

(Trump dodged the Vietnam draft five times)


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riversedge

(78,368 posts)
5. Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 09:15 PM
Oct 5

I am disappointed to hear these sailors clapping. Trump thinks he is at a campaign rally.


Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."



Maru Kitteh

(30,820 posts)
13. He's getting his way, infecting the military with his cancerous cult.
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 11:49 PM
Oct 5

It’s happening, here.

sop

(16,447 posts)
8. I'm so tired of being angry about Trump, but every day he does something stupid to piss me off again.
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 09:26 PM
Oct 5

Fuck this guy!

lastlib

(26,863 posts)
10. He clearly has never heard....
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 10:32 PM
Oct 5

...that Afghanistan is where empires go to die. Even Alexander the Great found that out. The British never conquered it. The Soviets failed. And so did we.

IcyPeas

(24,408 posts)
12. Politically correct like in Iraq. This is what trump wants:
Sun Oct 5, 2025, 11:24 PM
Oct 5

Many people seem to have forgotten about Abu Ghraib.

Andrew Whiteley (@andrewwhiteley.bsky.social) 2025-09-29T11:35:30.812Z


The human pyramid — one of many torture techniques used by the US Army & the CIA at Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib, 2003 www.reddit.com/r/HistoryPor...

Carceral Abolition (@carceralabolition.bsky.social) 2025-08-09T01:11:54.901Z


Our leadership has not improved since Abu Ghraib. At least those National Guard/prison guards were not wearing tight shirts, heavy makeup, and ,000 watches.

Martha 🥄 near Seattle (@marthawt.bsky.social) 2025-03-28T04:40:58.465Z


One of the many photographs of the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal: American soldier Lynndie England forcing an inmate, known to the guards as "Gus", to crawl and bark like a dog on a leash. Iraq, 2003 www.reddit.com/r/SnapshotHi...

Carceral Abolition (@carceralabolition.bsky.social) 2025-07-25T07:06:34.664Z


LudwigPastorius

(13,597 posts)
15. 'We would've won Afghanistan easy. But we got politically correct.'
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 01:07 AM
Oct 6

What the fuck does that even mean, you orange, pus-filled Hot Pocket?

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