So wrong in so many ways

[nonilex@masto.ai]

The #Defense Department in recent days has solicited #troops across the services to attend the June 14 event. Officials are seeking junior enlisted personnel & junior officers specifically, according to internal messages that make clear travel will be “member-procured.”

#JuniorTroops make up the military’s #LowestPay grades.

#Trump #UFC #Hegseth #Pentagon #US #military #Nazi #eugenists #idiocracy #MaleToxicity #BodyShaming

[nonilex@masto.ai]

One memo, circulated within the Air Force, stipulates that to be eligible, personnel “MUST MEET CURRENT WAIST-HEIGHT RATIO & current physical fitness standard.” #Troops will be required to wear their short-sleeve dress uniforms, the memo adds.

Another message posted on a social media page popular with troops touched on similar themes, calling the effort to identify troops to attend the White House event a “quick-turn tasking.”

#Trump #UFC #Hegseth #US #military #Nazi #eugenists #MaleToxicity

[callan@thepit.social]

@Nonilex No fatties!

[donray@mastodon.online]

@Nonilex

It’s also a way for tRump and Hegseth to identify the soldiers who are most devoted to tRump. That information will be useful for future illegal military missions.

[nonilex@masto.ai]

The mixed-martial-arts fights, billed as #UFC Freedom 250, are part of a series of expensive events #Trump has [purportedly] planned for the #US’ 250th-birthday celebration. The event [just happens to] coincide with Trump’s 80th birthday….

Last year, he presided over a multimillion-dollar military parade in DC that [also just happened to] coincide with his birthday & that of the US Army.

#Hegseth #Pentagon #US #military #troops #Nazi #eugenists #idiocracy #MaleToxicity #BodyShaming

[c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza]

@Nonilex And must be male. A few females may be allowed in, but only if they are white, blond, and have the "Mar-a-Lago Face."

[danafus@sfba.social]

@Nonilex here we are fighting an actual war, running low on missiles and under-feeding our troops, and these guys are spending their time and energy on their media image. It's disgusting.

[chrisholladay@mastodon.social]

@Nonilex
So now he's grifting off the military????
Get this mf'er a fitted prison uniform

[oldclumsy_nowmad@mastodon.social]

@Nonilex

Do they have to provide their own placards?

You know, "Hispanics For Trump", "Construction Workers for Trump", "Mothers For Trump", "Cross Burners for Trump", "Oil Tycoons For Trump", etc.

[stumpythemutt@social.linux.pizza]

@duckmsw.bsky.social This is more like an old-timey SS revue.

[ralfmaximus@mastodon.social]

@Nonilex

"Recruiting" is such a weird use of the word in this context. Troops would pay their own way (tickets + travel) to be literal props. Beefy, manly props.

Unpaywalled here, because why send the WaPo traffic?

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[osteopenia_powers@newsie.social]

@Nonilex
I'm glad they're having trouble drumming up human props for this insult to our history. and the White House.