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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    I worried about conscription after 9-11 when I was in my twenties. I’m too old for this to affect me (I know, “total war”). Let the MAGA youth go get slaughtered. I truly no longer care. Fuck 'em. Anyone who objects, I hope you’re safe.

    I used to be such a nice guy. Fuck you, MAGA. I’ve stopped hating you and I hope you die.

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    If there is conscription, they’re going to use their social media data from meta and twitter, and any way they can, to select those who are most vocal about being against Trump, so that they die first, maga are happy because they dont go to war, and see trump sticking it to the libs. Meanwhile there are fewer libs to vote against him and fight back.

    In fact, they’ll probably start by sending off those in swing districts, and may even let them vote abroad woth mail-in votes they intentionally dont deliver and cant be sued for doing so.

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      Wait they’re going to give us all weapons? And training! And they’re starting some sort of big ass war?

      Y’all have fun, I’m old and my back is broken with lots of bone spurs. I’ll like a pea shooter though. I’m going to setup some chickens in the backyard and I gotta fend off some foxen.

      If my back was good, I’d be out there, but this is my daily pain I gotta deal with.

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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.

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    If he tries to do this and gets the information needed from databrokers and social media companies along with leaked data from DOGE’s info theft…

    And there is no drive for privacy laws that crush those same companies then I will simply lose all hope.

    Edit: also in the same way that the UK is demanding that every country follow their dumbass law, they need to try to force that privacy law back. India, China, the UAE, they be forced to comply or eat shit.

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    All of the people I work with regardless of age, gender, race, or bank account are fully wanting a draft to send “libs, LGBTQ, black, brown, etc” people to the front lines to die or war will somehow turn them straight.

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      Because sending people who hate war to go to war is going to work out absolutely swimmingly, I’m sure. You definitely won’t have people constantly going AWOL or refusing orders or, god forbid, organizing as a unit after they’ve been given weapons and training to kill their superior officers and take the base on home soil for their own.

      These people are fucking morons asking for the worst possible outcomes.

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      Many black veterans of WW2 went on to support the civil rights movement or to oppose the Klanners in their homeland. I wouldn’t be surprised if gay furry drone operators would be the next wave of militant activists if conscription is a thing.

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      We should send Debbie’s fat ass from accounting. Fuck her, and the rest of her magat friends.

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    to those thinking “if they did this no one would vote for them again, it would be political suicide”

    My sweet summer child, they would do this is if they knew that there weren’t going to be anymore elections. if they’re 100% sure they can pull that off then they will start mandatory conscription.

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      they would do this is if they knew that there weren’t going to be anymore elections

      Ballot box or bullet box.

      You’d get street protests from sea to shining sea that would make BLM and Occupy look like the Macy’s Day Parade.

      The US is enormous, authority is devolved, and a lot of what keeps the wheels moving is voluntary compliance. Elections help people to believe that government is popular and their own stupid opinions are just in the tiny minority.

      When you try to force these systems of power through brute force, you break them. It’s a recipe for balkinization and civil war. Same as what happened in the run up to the Civil War, when slavers and abolishionists came to a head.

      You had low key insurrection all through the North long before Buchanan left office. Southern states effectively denying Lincoln a ballot line only fueled his popularity in response.

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        They’ve literally executed US citizens in street inbroad daylight on camera and people are still just going to work like this is normal.

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      I bet if they can they will only be conscripting Democrat voters, black people, Hispanics, etc.

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        If conscripted the only person I’d shoot is my commanding officer

        Thankfully they probably don’t want me anyway

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          If all your squad mates are queers and leftists it’s not like you’re in it alone, either. They just gave a whole squad of you weapons and training…

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            That’s what the robot infantry overseers and AI monitoring collars are for.

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              Yeah these chucklefucks aren’t talented enough to build that shit. Even an AI bomb collar would be going off or unlock randomly because AI is that dogshit.

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      I’m only thinking “Oh great, a convenient way for them to round up all the “undesirables” (liberals, not-whites,critics,etc), execute them if they resist, and send them off to a war unprepared and unequiped so they can be purged in a far less messy way than concentration camps”

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      Setting up a meat grinder can also be a great way to target your political opposition. A corrupt draft board can draft members of their political opposition. And once in uniform, they can be given the suicide assignments.

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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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        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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        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’ve been worrying about this. They’ll use conscription to draft liberals to fight and use other nations like Iran to do the fighting. If they resist they’ll be imprisoned.

    Russia does the same.

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    Born too late to get drafted into Iraq.

    Born too early to get drafted into Iran.

    Thank you mama and papa for getting freaky in the 90s.

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      Don’t get too excited about the pot-out-of-draft card. If this regime doesn’t hand you a shitty rifle with a coffee can for a helmet like the libs they want to throw at the meatgrinder they’ll just send you to a work camp and starve you to death.

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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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    “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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    Karoline Leavitt refusing to rule out a Draft,” Nilsson wrote Sunday in a social media post on X. “Once the Congressman’s and Ivy League parent’s children get drafted it’ll be a whole other ballgame.”

    Whoever this “Nilsson” is, we know they’re a moron. Because those kids are getting the best deferments money can buy.