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zero sympathy for these idiots. you elected a con man. youre getting exactly what you paid for.
Vote for a clown, don’t be surprised when you get a circus.
I might have had some sympathy the first time. They were just coned, not their fault. But as the saying goes. Fool me once, shame on You, fool me twice, shame on me.
I thought it was, “…fool me twice… can’t get fooled again.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl7FKfl3O2Y&pp=ygUYZ2VvcmdlIGJ1c2ggZm9vbCBtZSBvbmNl
These veterans not read project 2025 and realize they are about to lose their benefits?
Zero sympathy for them. I feel bad for the veterans who saw through the bullshit.
If only they had a "very particular set of skills" to make a billionaire dollars and not have to deal with these consequences...
He wants to replace military leaders with lapdogs. His goal is to make military serve him not the Constitution.
Election is over, he does not care what anyone thinks.
This is the most terrifying part. They say that he's "liberated" now, but to me that just means he has nothing to lose. Assuming he lives past January 2029, he has nothing to lose and everything to gain by throwing all resources into staying in power. He has no reason to give a fuck about whether anything he does or says is "popular" once he's sworn in. There will be zero consequences for anything until he leaves office, if he leaves office.
The dumb motherfucker proved that somebody with the mentality of a six year old can win the US presidency and then do whatever the fuck he wants, and he'll never face a single, real, goddamn consequence. I am ashamed of my country, and it's horribly depressing how many people died serving our military just to have this flag-hugging dipshit get to be the commander in chief, and he'll sell out to the highest bidders and get several more killed.
We're fucked, and only a small fraction of his worshipers are even beginning to see that. And when the shit hits their fan specifically, most of them will find a way to blame somebody else, probably somebody who is brown and/or has a vagina. Most of these incurious assholes will line up for whatever strong daddy negs them hard enough, and right now that's trump, and there will be a new strong daddy successor to tell them what to do and who to love and how to dress. Strong daddy hurts you and controls you, but at least you don't have to make decisions for yourself when you have strong daddy there to tell you what to think.
Fucking pathetic.
If you still voted for Trump after 2016-2020 and Jan 6th then you deserve what you get. Welcome to the find out stage, it just sucks that I have to be here with you.
Dude said that dead soldiers were losers abd disrespected the Arlington cemetery and they are surprised by this one?
Oh it's so much worse than just that. Donald Trump fucking hates the US military.
Some expressed feelings of betrayal, accusing Trump of abandoning their values and making decisions that harm the nation.
If only someone could have predicted this and warned them, over and over, for years...
Deceived? He told you morons exactly what he was going to do.
They were probably focused on things like how the wimmenz and the tranz were hurting the military. Or something. Or at least the thin-skinned cishet xtian rightwing white male incel's feelings, anyway...
One disturbing thing about this election was how many people in the groups Trump promised to victimize went and voted for Trump.
"But I'm one of the "good" ones". Surely that will protect me.
Veterans that vote for Republicans... What a bunch of idiots
Every criticism of trumps cabinet picks are 100% for a fact over stated. I know the average Republican and they do not give a fuck. They won't be satisfied until Trump crowns himself king.
King? Do I have you remind you there's Trump fanart as Warhammer's God-Emperor of humankind? Leader of the in canon Fascist army of warhammer 40K?
Not that there's a good army (orks maybe?)
What the hell were any Trump-voting servicemembers expecting? That Harris and Walz were making stuff up when they brought up time after time how much Trump hates servicemembers and his country if they get in the way of his needs?
I think it's pretty obvious they never heard a thing any democrat ever said, only what right wing media SAYS that 'the libs' are saying or doing
That Harris and Walz were making stuff up
Yes. They thought it was all a lie to make Trump look bad.
I call bullshit on this, if anyone loves to advertise his goods is this cat. You knew what you were buying, fuck you.
next 4 years are gonna be made much more tolerable from watching all the conservative bleating and handwringing about "HE WASNT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT. HE WAS SUPPOSED TO HURT THE NOT-MES!"
Some expressed feelings of betrayal, accusing Trump of abandoning their values and making decisions that harm the nation.
Those are "their" values, not his. And for a rubble he'll get new values.
Almost everyone he appointed is a shady political insider or a rich guy. He’s draining the swamp water so he can fill the hole with nuclear waste.
And to the donvict cultists, what they call a "swamp" is actually a set of people that are experts and/or long-term public servants - something they've been trained to bray is a "bad" thing - calling them "elitists" (a perversion of the term) and yelling about "term limits"... instead, they'd apparently rather have a bunch of "outsiders", which means - incompetent grifters and/or enemy agents looking to weaken this country for the benefit of the likes of Putin.
I'm convinced he'll be the first president in history to privatise the whole government.
The whole plan is to break all government agencies and then swoop in with a handful of billionaire buddies to buy up EVERYTHING. Houses, bitcoin, schools, outsourced (previous) government jobs to private industry. Crash the economy and tank the financial hit while everyone else is forced to sell, die, or give up their stuff to survive a recession.
Look on the bright side, he hasn't even been sworn in yet! We have four more years to be outraged on actual policy, and this will likely pale in comparison!
It feels a bit like when a company has been taken over by a VC firm.
And you start finding out how they're going to suck the juice out, while all the management involved in the decision pretend it's all rosy.
What fans said that? Seriously, all these articles and posts seem like the most pathetic form of copium.
"Oh boy, his supporters must really be feeling bad now right? Right?!" Wrong. His supporters are not having second thoughts. They're not regretting their choices. They aren't feeling betrayed. They are overjoyed, and the constant attempts to reframe that as some Leopards-eating-faces schadenfreude is the stupidest thing I've seen all year, and I watched the run up to the election.
All these fucking posts are either based around like 1-2 tweets from no-name people, obviously fake accounts, or the worst; obviously made-up anecdotal stories from leftists, desperate to feel good about themselves, about how some right-winger in their life suddenly regrets all their choices. "Oh my racist uncle is a farmer and he's really feeling betrayed by Trump now. He's sooooo mad and-" Fuck off. No he's not. You haven't talked to your estranged uncle in years and have no idea what he's feeling if he even exists.
Miserable leftists desperately pretending that right-wingers are regretting their vote and secretly feeling as miserable as them. Grow the fuck up. They aren't regretting things. They won, and they're happier than pigs in shit about it.
The thing these articles are doing (which sensationalist articles always do) is taking a few people's opinions and spreading it across the entire blanket "they" of whatever opposite side the article references. It appeals to people because its easier for people to generalize the whole group than to point to a niche section.
This one in particular takes a few people who are interested in the secretary of the Navy and says they're upset at the choice, which they might be, and spins it into "They're all upset at what their leader did."
You can find this rhetoric all over the political spectrum, whether it's copium or relishing. Take it with a grain of salt.
You are not immune to propaganda.
Let me get this straight. Team Trump's thing is to always pick the worst for the job. And not just the worst, we are talking polar opposite black mirror picks. It is designed to make a mockery of the establishments. Like going into court and finding out your judge is literally bozo the clown.
So his team farts out another pick. Someone who is an unqualified shitstain. Color me surprised!
I would not be surprised if this guy couldn't swim and is afraid of the water. He is probably an anti-oceaner who thinks we should drain the ocean to prevent drownings.
I'm reading this as a hedge fund is going to buy out the navy and shut it down.
Trump LOVES the poorly educated, too bad it's majority of Americans.
During the elections I got the idea most Americans hated Trump and wanted him to just disappear, because of posts like this. I really need to widen the sites I get my US news from lemmy and reddit lol
The time to pretend to have a brain was before the election, Trumpers.
