In a stunning admission, Leavitt told Bartiromo that mandatory conscription – not seen since the Vietnam War – had not been ruled out by her boss.

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    lol try it motherfucker.

    I’m old AF and already lived my life. Those fuckers will literally have to kill me to take you kids.

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    “Mothers out there are worried that we’re going to have a draft, that they’re going to see their sons and daughters get involved in this,” said Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, speaking with Leavitt Sunday. “What do you want to say about the president’s plans for troops on the ground? As we know, it’s been largely an air campaign up until now.”

    “It has been, and it will continue to be, and President Trump wisely does not remove options off of the table,” Leavitt said.

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      “It has been, and it will continue to be, and President Trump wisely does not remove options off of the table,” Leavitt said.

      Newspeak for “We don’t have a clue what the moron will do next, so ‘The lord moves in mysterious ways…’”

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    I’m old enough to where if I get called things had to have somehow gotten even more terrible. If it comes to that they can lick my fucking taint. I’m not going to war even if the put a rifle in my mouth.

    The admin is fully hallucinating if the think there ain’t a bunch of folks like me that would much rather forget their life than fight for this admin.

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      Oh, they’ll draft him. In fact, they’ll draft him, and he’ll rise up the ranks with record speed! All his assignments will be positions like “Army Special Liaison to Customs and Border Patrol.” Any role they can find that can puff up his resume while putting him in absolutely zero direct physical danger and requiring next to no actual skills or duties. He’ll do photoshoots in uniform. And Trump will solemnly say, “I’m sorry we have to bring back the draft. But I believe this is so necessary that I have drafted my own son into this conflict.” Or they’ll find a way to fabricate a story of military heroism around him.

      Be careful what you wish for. That’s what Baron being drafted would actually look like. The only way Barron would actually be drafted and treated as a common conscript would be if he miraculously developed a conscience and publicly denounced his father. That might get him drafted for real.

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        Well the last time a Trump announced his official height, they added two inches and Barron’s official height is conveniently one inch too tall for some (but not all) military roles.

        Not that it’ll matter, since the ones lying for him are also the ones with final say over who gets deferments 🤷🏻

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          If Barron went in the service they would make him an officer. Can you imagine being stuck with him as your LT? No thanks, please keep him out of it.

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    They’d have to drag me out of bed, through training, and then keep me from killing this in charge the second I was armed. Good luck fascist cunts.

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      they will just put you into a work concentration camp where people will beat you to do those things for free

      slave labor is on the table as it has always been here in the usa

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        Britain did this during WWII. Over 10% of their draftees were sent down into the fucking coal mines instead of going off to shoot nazis.

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        If my life is already forfeit at that point, then everything I do will be in retaliation. A person with nothing left to lose is the most dangerous person. If everyone came with that attitude, it would make anything like conscription a nightmare.

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        I would argue slave labor never went away in your wonderful country. It’s just dressed up a little differently. See: for profit prison system.

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          Prisoners are excplicitly allowed to be used as slaves as per 13th amendment. It doesn’t sugarcoat or rationalize it, just states that you can keep slaves if you’re punishing them for a crime.

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      I think they should be the first to volunteer. They were the ones stupid enough to think it was the Democratic Party that was warlike (LOL) and voted for the pedophile used car salesman.

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        And interestingly enough, a recent Yougov poll shows support for the war has actually increased among Republicans in the last week (while declining among other groups). They are actually doubling down on it.

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      Yeah, I thought if anything, Vietnam tought the lesson that the draft is a terrible idea for overseas deployment.

      Of course, learning from history is not exactly the style of this administration.

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    How much you wanna bet he’ll force this mostly on his enemies, Democrat registered voters and beyond. He’d probably pull a Russia and put middle aged people on the front lines.