Veterans Are Dumb, Americans Are Stupid

The smell hits you first—that particular reek of performative patriotism mixed with the sour tang of bullshit so fresh it’s still steaming. It’s the odor of a man who spent Veterans Day not honoring the dead and wounded, but jerking himself off with policy talking points while simultaneously threatening a billion-dollar lawsuit because someone had the fucking audacity to edit his words accurately.

Here’s what happened: Donny ShitChompChute released a Veterans Day proclamation that reads like a greatest hits album of his own imagined accomplishments. No solemn reflection on sacrifice. No acknowledgment of the young bodies broken in sand and mountains. Just a narcissistic dickwad listing tax cuts and bragging about eliminating DEI programs—because nothing says “honoring veterans” like culture war horseshit and self-congratulation.

But what happens when certainty becomes the currency of autocrats who can’t tolerate even the slightest deviation from their manufactured reality?

Let me paint you a picture of this asswipe’s proclamation. While Biden’s 2024 Veterans Day message highlighted the bipartisan PACT Act addressing burn pit exposure, efforts to combat veteran homelessness, and actual fucking legislative achievements that help people, Donny ShitChompChute’s version reads like a donor pitch meeting. He’s touting a “National Center for Warrior Independence”—developed behind NDAs without veteran input—like he’s launching a new resort property. Tax cuts get star billing. Eliminating transgender policies gets a shoutout.

The proclamation tastes like ashes in your mouth because you know—you know—that over one million veteran households receive SNAP benefits that this shitgoblin is currently trying to gut. VA doctors are literally pleading against service cuts. New work requirements are restricting veterans’ access to the benefits they earned with their bodies and minds and years.

THE REALITY CHECK:

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, approximately 1.2 million veteran households rely on SNAP benefits to feed their families. These are people who served. Who sacrificed. Who came home to an economy that chews up working-class bodies and spits out the bones. And this cum-guzzling wannabe-strongman is celebrating Veterans Day by making it harder for them to eat.

And what does it say about our collective responsibility that we allow a douchenozzle to honor veterans by starving them?

Here’s where my cerebral cortex starts short-circuiting from the sheer concentrated stupidity: this numbnuts is simultaneously threatening to sue the BBC for one billion dollars—with a “B,” like some Austin Powers villain—because they accurately edited footage of his January 6 speech in a Panorama documentary.

The lawsuit threat is pure performance. It’s the legal equivalent of a toddler screaming in the grocery store because Mom won’t buy him the candy shaped like his own face. U.S. public figures must prove “actual malice” in defamation cases under New York Times Co. v. Sullivan—a far higher standard than UK law requires. Legal experts are calling the billion-dollar figure “meaningless.” Trump’s already missed the UK’s one-year filing window, so he’d have to pursue claims in Florida where the two-year statute hasn’t expired yet.

But here’s the rancid cherry on this shit sundae: the BBC would argue—correctly—that the documentary included pro-Trump perspectives and that a man whose approval rating is more polarizing than a livestreamed colonoscopy can’t really claim reputational harm. Public opinion about January 6 was entrenched before the documentary aired. Half the country thinks he’s a fascist cockwomble; the other half would defend him if he personally strangled a bald eagle on the White House lawn.

Trump’s litigation history is a graveyard of unsuccessful libel suits and threatening letters that evaporate like morning piss on hot asphalt. This is a pattern: threaten, bluster, extract maximum media coverage, never follow through. It’s the legal strategy of a carnival barker who knows the marks will forget by next week.

Except this fuckwit doesn’t want truth. He wants compliance. He wants a reality where editing his own words to show their consequence constitutes defamation.

Now we arrive at the piece of this trifecta that’s causing his base to spiral into a rage blackhole: Donny ShitChompChute told Laura Ingraham on Fox News that America lacks the talent for certain high-skill jobs and must import workers via H-1B visas. Specifically, he said “you can’t take people off an unemployment line” to make missiles.

The MAGA coalition is currently devouring itself like a ouroboros made of angry Facebook uncles and Twitter reply guys. Immigration hardliners who voted for “America First” are watching their political daddy tell them that American workers are too stupid and unskilled for good jobs. The cognitive dissonance is so thick you could spread it on toast.

This isn’t policy nuance—it’s betrayal with a garnish of contempt. The visa program divides Trump’s coalition right down its taint: tech billionaire allies who want cheap skilled labor versus the working-class base who voted for him because they believed he’d prioritize American workers. His position has flip-flopped more than a dying fish on a dock. During his campaign, he promised to end the H-1B program. Then he expanded it to court Silicon Valley dickweeds. Now his administration charges $100,000 fees for new H-1B applications, and companies like Walmart have halted such hiring entirely.

The feedback from his base is volcanic:

What does it mean when the rebellion eats its prophet?

The pattern crystallizes when you step back from the individual fuckeries and see the whole diseased organism: We have a man who cannot conceive of anything—not national holidays, not legal disputes, not immigration policy—as anything other than extensions of his own ego and financial interests.

Not “honoring veterans.” Not “defending reputation.” Not “economic policy.”

Reality: Narcissistic supply maintenance disguised as governance.

The Veterans Day proclamation exists to position himself as the defender of anti-woke culture warriors. The BBC lawsuit threat exists to intimidate media and extract loyalty tests from his followers. The H-1B comments exist because tech billionaires write checks, and working-class voters don’t.

These same shitstains who claim to fear authoritarianism from the left are enabling a man who:

• Uses sacred national holidays as branding opportunities while materially harming the people being “honored”

• Threatens billion-dollar lawsuits against foreign media organizations for accurate reporting

• Openly tells his own voter base that they’re too dumb and unskilled to deserve good jobs

What capabilities remain when the environment is designed by grifters who view their supporters as marks?

That smell from the opening—performative patriotism mixed with fresh bullshit—it doesn’t dissipate. It settles into the carpet, seeps into the walls, becomes the ambient background radiation of our politics.

Tomorrow, Donny ShitChompChute will post another unhinged screed on his budget social media platform. His lawyers will send another threatening letter that goes nowhere. And his supporters will perform another round of mental gymnastics to explain why the man who promised to put them first keeps kicking them in the teeth while demanding they thank him for the privilege.

But here’s what keeps me wired at 3 AM, tasting bile and fury:

The question isn’t whether this behavior is sustainable. It’s not. No system built on lies and grift and contempt for its own supporters can last forever.

The real question is how much damage gets done before the collapse, and whether we’ll have anything left worth salvaging when the whole rotting structure finally implodes.

Because right now, we’re watching a man turn Veterans Day into a personal branding exercise while suing anyone who quotes him accurately and telling his own voters they’re too fucking stupid to deserve the jobs he promised them. And roughly half the country is nodding along like this is normal, like this is fine, like the stench of decay is just the smell of greatness being restored.

We’re not living by anything except the principle that grift rewarded is grift repeated, and the veterans sleeping in cars and skipping meals because their SNAP benefits got cut are the fucking receipts.