Some in the former president’s camp say it’s time more young adults put “some skin in the game.”
JD Vance appears to be in on requiring the kids of non-billionaires to serve in the military too:
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), a potential Trump running mate, said in an interview that he sees a clear need for measures to boost participation. “I like the idea of national service. And I’m not talking about in wartime,” he said, calling for more Americans to put “some skin in the game.”
Mandatory Patriotism™
Wonder where they got that idea?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-with-mandatory-military-service
Finland, Norway, and Sweden all have mandatory military service, and are notably democratic and socialist compared to the US. Switzerland and Austria as well.
They also have about 5-10 million people each. And Russia right next to them.
Austria, not so much; Austria is in central Europe, and doesn’t have a shared border.
I don’t think mandatory conscription is a good idea in the US per se, but I don’t necessarily think that it’s necessarily a bad idea either.
For national defence, right? Surely they’re not wanting to throw more bodies at “lesser” nations to “secure democracy”, right? /s
defending the us from middle eastern babies
They’re planning to use the US military to subdue American cities with minority populations
Hmmmm….Fortunate Son plays softly in the background.
“It Aint Me”
– DJT
Ozzy summed it up well:
Politicians hide themselves away They only started the war Why should they go out to fight? They leave that role to the poor
Ah yes, the famous draft dodger that will disinherit his children if they join the armed forces.
Will Baron go or will he dodge it like daddy?
Mah spurs! They hurt!
Yes?
Barron likely will not go.
Sorry, I can’t. I have bone spurs.
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Different Vance. Cy Vance was the prosecutor who treated Epstein with kid gloves. J.D. Vance is the author of Hillbilly Elegy, who was briefly the darling of liberal media types for showing how the folks of Appalachia and the Rust Belt have been abandoned by those in power, before realizing he could do better for himself by gargling spraytan-orange mushroom dick and riding Trump’s coattails into right-wing demagoguery. He’s a Senator from Ohio now.
“peace candidate”
“WHY DO THEY ALWAYS SEND THE POOOOOR”
Where the fuck are you?
Why don’t presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why do they always send the poor?
That’s a really roundabout way of socialising healthcare.
Service Guarantees Healthcare. Do you want to know more?
First lest see trump’s service record…
Just so he can call us losers if we end up dead? No thanks.
for what? the wars they plan to start?
A lot of misogynists like to throw out how ‘women don’t have to suffer the draft’ (like we’ve even had one of those in forever). So if it’s just for men, probably giving that old tired jaw teeth again?
We still have mandatory registration for selective service, it’s only for men, and feminist groups like the national organization of women believe it should be expended to I clude women or eliminated because it’s sexist
Yes, probably. But a larger military means more money piped into the military budget, even in peacetime, if there ever is such a thing again. And a larger budget means more money funneled into the military industrial teat for the GOP and their donors to suckle off of.
For that, and because when you’re in the military, you don’t have the same right to free expression.
The U.S. military has been yet another way religion and in particular Christianity has been forced upon folks.