Sounds like a draft is being planned for the occupation of Iran, aka Vietnam v.4
I heard it was cause he is retarded and can’t meet the push-up requirement, not his height.
Retarded, yeah. That’s what I heard too. Constantly, actually.
Only thing Barron would be good for is a comfort boy.
bro, bone spurs is hereditary 😒
diagnosed President Trump with bone spurs as a favor to his father, Fred Trump, in order to help him avoid the military draft.
So Barron might be “too tall” to serve his country…? and even if he’s not I’m sure we’ll find out real quick that bone spurs run in the family.
It’s so insane that it has always been standard practice for wealthy and powerful men to start wars then refuse to send their own children to fight, but it’s especially egregious watching the Trump administration carry this shit out. The level of planning leading up to this to create another endless war seems so obvious in hindsight.
•Hegseth’s “anti-woke” military speech
•Elimination of government loans for education (even for nursing and medical school, so only the wealthy can afford an education, let alone a deferment. If you’re not born rich you have 2 options: take out private loans at a huge interest rate or join the army. Sign yourself over to the oligarchs one way or the other.)
•Up the country’s birth rates (gotta gradually replace them as they die by the thousands at war)
•Openly admitting your goal is to eliminate the entire department of education. Because you don’t need an education when your entire path birth to death has already been laid out for you:
You’re born to serve while Trump and his oligarchs sit in their country club and move you around like a piece of plastic on a game board.
Life is hard and it seems like people are constantly fighting and dying around you from the moment you’re born. It’s all you know. Everyone around you is sick, destitute, and miserable. There are no jobs. You have no education. You know nothing but struggle and see no future for yourself.
The army is the only hand reaching out and offering to help pull you up, so you grab it.
Then you either die thousands of miles away from your home or you come back and spend the rest of your life wounded, without a doubt mentally and pretty often physically.
If you try to speak out against it or warn others, you’re accused of being “woke.” There is no hesitation to show you how little your rights, that you were told you were fighting for, mean to the people who sent you to fight.
Life is hard and it seems like people are constantly fighting and dying around you from the moment you’re born. It’s all you know. Everyone around you is sick, destitute, and miserable. There are no jobs. You have no education. You know nothing but struggle and see no future for yourself.
The army is the only hand reaching out and offering to help pull you up, so you grab it.
I grew up in a very rural area. This describes the situation there decades ago.
I don’t have exact numbers, but I would say something like 10-15% of my class actually went on to higher education. Probably less, and definitely less than that finished.
Very, very many went into some branch of the military. When the first war on Iraq started I figured that might be our generation’s Vietnam and that many of my graduating class would be fodder for it. Luckily for them, that ended up not being the case.
In any case, songs like Born in the USA and Fortune Son really land pretty hard…
Honestly the only perk of feudalism is that the princes would have to go to war. Unfortunately it was prone to make them worse leaders by way of trauma, but hey, sometimes they died.
How much they actually fought depended a lot on the prince/duke.
Some led their troops into battle, some directed from the rear and had knights to defend them if the battle went poorly enough that the enemy engaged with them directly (with some fighting to the death from there, others surrendering to be ransomed, and some being killed whether or not the fought or surrendered), others fled as soon as they thought the battle wasn’t going their way (which often caused their side to lose even if it had a chance).
And some had a friend or subordinate lead their army while they maybe led a different army or maybe just chilled in the comfort of whatever castle they were in.
Or they named someone else the governor of a certain area and then left subduing whatever was going on there to them, often just naming the other party the governer if their first candidate sucked (which wasn’t rare, since it was mostly nepotism).
I always figured knights just kind of walked around hacking up the poor people with sharpened sticks to pieces
Not really. Firstly, knights were heavy cavalry. By the time they’re walking in battle shit’s gone sideways and there’s a decent chance they’re injured either by whatever knocked them off their horse, falling off their horse, or the whole process of their horse getting injured or killed and going down. And in that vein, the pointy sticks are about stopping the horse, not the knight. A pike wall (as well as fortifications like ditches) creates areas of denial for knights and danger to their horses. A bunch of poor people with long sticks are how you stop knights.
Medieval warfare in open fields was largely about archer volleys attempting to wear each other down and to damage pike walls enough that they break formation allowing knights to ride in and rout (basically come in and kill everyone). Pike formations outlasted armored knights with the rise in quality and availability of firearms simply being integrated into their formations. This is how you get the Renaissance era walls of people lining up to shoot each other.
At least that’s what I remember from various learning of it, definitely not an expert.
O captain! My captain!
Fuck Lurch.
If they reinstated the draft it the height restriction wouldn’t matter. They’d take anyone who was liberal, or not wealthy enough to prevent it.
Yes, let’s arm only the liberals with the best weaponry American tax dollars can buy. I’m unironically down for that!
Lol you think they’d give them the best? They’d send them out like Russia; unpaid, lie about them being KIA to avoid paying the family death benefit, and two soldiers at a time - one with the a single rifle and the other with only 5 bullets.
And no or inadequate body armor like the last incompetent president.
Somehow, the idea that Trump would sacrifice his chances of winning a manly bigly war to own the libs, is just the right combination of idiotic and hate filled that it feels plausible.
Idiots. You are all fucking idiots. Yes, you; from OP to every single person in the comments. All of you are too fucking stupid to spend even 30 seconds reading past the most bullshit, click-bait, headline of all time.
No one is talking about reinstating the draft. No one is talking about specifically excluding Barron Trump. Do you dumb fucks want to know what this article is actually about?
IF the draft DID get reinstated (despite literally no one considering it), Barron Trump MIGHT get exempt because he TECHNICALLY falls outside the maximum height requirements (no special treatment, just the actual limits already defined and laid out).
That’s it. That’s fucking it. No nepotism. No potential draft. Just complete made up horseshit. It’s like saying “If we made drinking milk mandatory for people who are younger than 18, Baron Trump might be excluded because he’s older than 18.” Like, no fucking shit. That’s not a news story, its like a hypothetical a child would come up with.
All of you need to go look in a fucking mirror and rethink your media literacy, because it’s fucking garbage. You fucking idiots.
You are all fucking idiots. from OP to every single person in the comments.
One of us!
Sir would you like some chamomile tea??
You mad bro? How that pedopresident you voted for working out? That, “I’m the peace President, no new wars,” guy working out. You’ve been had, yah mook. Take the L. We need this dude out of office. It’s hurting everyone, not just the phantom liberals you all make up to froth at. One finger points out, three point back, my dear chudmiester. Damn these dudes are sad. I’d feel bad for them, but ah, I don’t. Have the day you voted for! K byeeeeee!
Love the energy you brought to this.
Yeah, just like Trump had bone spurs…
I question him being 6’9. Very conveniently just barely above the maximum of 6’8. I bet some independent doctor would measure him as 6’8 or less. So fuck you for defending some rich nepo fuck.
They seem to be cleverly letting everyone know that he’s just barely too tall to get drafted, so that when they do the drafting eventually, no one will question why he wasn’t drafted. Clever. Better than paying a doctor to diagnose you with bone spurs.
Bullshit. you are obviously either a bot or some partisan hack. Fuck Barron Trump. He is a rich boy. Rich boys don’t get drafted. He is also some kind of freak. He would never be admitted to a military academy… unless of course they are directed by a Hegseth (MORON).
Calm down, chief
He needs a snickers. A lot of time wasted writing this.
Well now I know one site to never use to check AI, because I wrote and stand by every fucking word.
TL;DR - BARRON TRUMP BARRED FROM MILK DRIVE AS IRAN WAR SPARKS OUTRAGE!
Nearly 7 feet tall? JFC. Send that kid on a USO tour so the troops can check out the freak and at least get a good laugh.
I’d be surprised if the military wouldn’t give him a waiver for being in inch too tall. Im thinking you don’t have much military experience yourself.
Gee, he probably inherited those bone spurs.
Is it bone spurs or is he too tall? You’re a bit all over the place and frankly sound moronic.
Go piss in the wind moron and I do not give a shit about the article. You’re current leadership is on the same fucked up level as the fucking Nazis who completely failed to understand military strategy and ignored the advice from their best military officers. If the orange clown becomes desperate, because he does not have a fucking plan. he will institute the fucking draft. The US military does have enough boots to occupy and police Iran. Thankfully, the EU leaders will not send their best young people into a shit show created by a bunch of chauvinistic, racist, religious fucknuts and pedophile losers. The USA and Israel are their own and your ass better sign the dotted line or if you are a former soldier, reenlist. I already have my honorable discharge and it blows my mind the USA is repeating history under shittier circumstances and planning.
Right, you think he would not institute a draft? Why wouldn’t he? I mean they purged the military of the women, the Trans, the Gays… so who else is left? The fucking far right angry men who can’t get women to like them enough to have sex with them. Watch out Fuentes… Watch out Enrique… they are coming for you!
No, the orange moron will attempt to reinstate a military draft.
Social media and revenue through clicks have ruined journalism.
So much faux rage. Could you imagine if this guy read Fox News!?
The outrage might be a little over the top, but the sentiment is valid. Click baity shit like this is why no one pays attention to the actual outages going on.
If people are constantly seeing articles like ‘Trump didn’t say he would rule out pushing toddlers into wood chippers to combat climate change’ and the article goes on to talk about how he was asked about what he had for breakfast, then outrage is a little hard to keep up. I actually think that’s the worst/best tactic trump has used… Keep the outage going so steadily that people are worn out when the real stuff is out in the headlines.
This sounds a little to close to “when they go low, we go high”. If the mainstream media had been willing to vilify Trump back in 2016 (even with lies of omission and sensational headlines), maybe he would have never gotten near the GOPedo nomination. Instead we have been fed a steady diet of civility and normalization.
Uhh it was completely over the top rant. Thank God we have people willing to defend this level of hostility. Have you ever thought of joining the State Department?
Oh yes, and thank God we are talking about a completely made up scenario of Barron Trump getting drafted instead of unimportant things like the war itself or the Epstein files. Wouldn’t want pesky things like that getting in the way of manufactured outrage for dumb shits like you to lap up.
Oh I know! Let’s follow it up with an article about how MAGA is totally about to turn on Trump! Or maybe an AI generated image of Trump yelling at Hegseth? Oh I bet he’s big mad about that one! Who cares about reality as long as it sounds good and reinforces the pathetic-ass beliefs of the idiotic masses?!
I am sure you give all this outrage to conservative leaning posts and this isn’t just a veiled attack on perceived ideological differences. Because frankly, I am not buying it and you are either an epic asshole or a conservative troll. Cheers!
Valid criticism of stupidity that goes against the hive mind message? Must be a conservative! Definitely not someone who’s fed up with people, supposedly against misinformation, continuously falling for the dumbest shit imaginable!
Yeah, you act like a raging fucking idiot conservative. Congrats!
Seems to exist all over Lemmy. I’m new around here, migrated from Reddit just a week ago, but this kind of post would get downvoted into nothingness over there. Not for the message, obviously, but for the self-righteous indignation, the name calling, for just being one big spoiled brat temper tantrum. So far, it’s the only thing I miss.
At least they don’t bleed in the form of transistor discharges. I’ll take my tempered fellow over the swarm, any day.
Generals gathered in their masses!
Just take a little off the top.
Continuing the ancient tradition of Trumps doing nothing of value for the United States of America.
I’m willing to bet he’s just as deplorable as his old man.
He is, he’s also in bed with nazis.
Perhps it is not fair to say, but he actually looks evil to me.
He may be smarter, which would be scary.
He has 2 other sons…
Both of whom are old enough that they wouldn’t be drafted. Barron happens to be the right age.
They should be volunteered as tributes
I submit that Jared Kushner should also volunteer. That nepo fucking imp.
You’ll get no argument from me!
Excuses Excuses Excuses, shit biscuit can still do something. To tall, whatever. Send the rich.
We can submit many more. Hey, send the Menendez brothers who lived off our prison system for many years, time for them to give back. Also, those pardoned fraudsters, drug dealers etc. Send them in. We clearly have undertrained excess ICE officers that could use a basic training on a military base where they can’t wear masks and have to do actual work… They can go too.
I’ve been expecting this for a long time. Trump will definitely attempt a draft, with lots of loopholes for wealthy children.
I suspect that he’ll announce it in early 2027, after the Midterms, and after the Holidays. You don’t want this being the main subject of American families as they gather at Christmas. Wait until they’re isolated in their homes in the January winter, then spring it on them.
I expect it before the holidays, actually right before the midterms if not during the summer. He’ll say we can’t run elections now because of the threat this poses, then MAGA will start doing terrorist level shit at polling stations (which the FBI will initially lie and say is by Iranian extremists or smth) to reinforce that.
I actually expect all males under 40 have to sign up for the draft and show up at recruiting centers. If you are overweight the government will take over production of glp-1 and force those over weight on it. They will profile your social media using some kind of palentir program to assess your risk to the government cause and possibly send those most against the government to the front lines under equipped.
Transition will be considered draft dodging
Every American male has to register for the draft when they turn 18. You are already registered, and if you aren’t, you are in violation of Federal/ MAGA law.
Only if you request federal student aid. Otherwise you can avoid it… conscientiously object. I had friends who did that in the 1980s. However, as a female, I served. My son served. And we are done. Fuck the US military complex. We are not your slaves to order about. We fought a revolution in this country to reject being impressed into the military.
Do you know if they keep a log of everyone that is timed out?
Fuxing Heggy trying to deprive a veteran officer and US Senator of his rank and benefits for merely advising US military of the UCMJ is an example of this renegade government.
No idea, but I’ll bet they’ll find that a LOT of young men never signed up. They’ll be forced to register, and will probably go straight to the head of the line.
Unless they’re from a wealthy family, of course.
I mean, I had to, to register for college. If my memory serves me right.
You could have attended college on your dime anywhere… even outside the US without registering. The moment you apply for any federal loan or other financial assist, you are required to register. That is how the wealthy get out of it.
It’s make me question, what is the consequence of not registering? It looks like you wouldn’t have access to Pell Grants, and not eligible for government jobs, but that seems about it. Are employment background checks verifying previous applications to sss?
I think that was requirement for the various forms of financial aid you could get.
Adding MAGA law here is just really weird.
Registering for the draft was passed into law in 1917 by Woodrow Wilson. 29 years before Trump was born.
Calling that “MAGA” law makes no sense practically or historically
It’s MAGA Law because MAGA will use the law in a new way to weaponize it against military age Americans.
They may, but this isn’t backed by anything and is an entirely made up scenario.
Instead of inventing scenarios or trying to equate all federal law to “MAGA law” we could focus on the very real crimes the administration is committing and the ones they’ve publicly announced they are planning.
this isn’t backed by anything and is an entirely made up scenario.
It is backed by the fact that if MAGA sees an opportunity, it will exploit that opportunity to the fullest extent. They have no sense of moderation.
So if they see a chance to weaponize a draft, and use it to manage those they see as potential enemies, they will absolutely do it.
We know this about MAGA, and they have proved it countless times. The US government is now the same as MAGA. It is the MAGA Government, and they will behave like we’ve seen MAGA behave for the last decade.
Yeah it’s possible, but I don’t see the point in making up scenarios when they are doing more than enough now. There’s a couple thousand laws they could figure out a way to weaponize, doesn’t mean they will and doesn’t suddenly make those laws “MAGA law”.
Equating all federal law to “MAGA law” is incredibly reactionary.
Also you’ve slightly changed your position on what you mean by “MAGA Law” each time you’ve replied. To me it reeks of the over-reactionary rhetoric the conservatives use. I don’t need boogeymen and hyperbole when we have more than enough real problems to deal with. Real problems stemming from Trump and MAGA of course
Let’s see if elections are suspended due to…terror
