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"[But] when you’re dealing with veterans, you have to be more intentional with your actions."
Translation from Republican bullshit: "I voted for Trump to hurt other people. He wasn't supposed to hurt me."
Asshole.
Yeah. I hope they cut even more as a giant "get fucked". They'll all vote red again next time anyways, so might as well go hard I guess.
This is directed toward the vets that voted red. If you didn't, please disregard lol
Who can have foreseen this? Not I certainly
Just gonna keep putting this out there. All of us, by just being here aren't average or normal people. They are. And while it can be fun and cathartic to ridicule them. Local news papers everywhere have gone bust. Local television stations across the country were struggling and swept up like a lot of AM radio stations. Into a national propaganda sphere. Cocooning these people in a sealed misinformation bubble.
It doesn't matter that the facts are available on the internet. Lots of people still live their lives without it. Even then, there's just as much misinformation and confirmation bias on the internet. We desperately need to find some way of reaching these people and exposing them to the lying media they rely on. Plenty of them would be up in arms and outraged if they fully understood. We need to focus on outreach to groups like this more than ridicule. Their regret may be too little too late. But ultimately something is more than nothing. Fascist groups like Sinclair will get us all killed if we don't.
Yes you bring up many valid points. But the very same networks that they consume were showing trump, and trump saying that he would do these very things, or at the least how he hates veterans.
No, you know what? Fuck that. This man watched as Trump's goons stormed the capitol and tried to overthrow the government. Those are the enemies this jackass swore to defend the constitution from. What, I'm supposed to cut him some slack because he was talked out of moral outrage by people like Jesse Watters? Fuck that guy. He deserves zero sympathy.
“Everybody can admit that we need to look at efficiency. It’s been a problem for decades,” Muro said. “[But] when you’re dealing with veterans, you have to be more intentional with your actions. You have to be more surgical. … It’s almost like he’s trying to tear the VA down.”
When you're dealing with... anything... mate.
Yea, it's almost like he's trying to tear your whole government apart
It's like even now he's just bummed that it happened to him or people he knows but still doesn't see the big fucking picture.
Yeah... No sympathy here at all. 61% of veterans voted for trump after they were already screwed over in Trump's first term and told to their faces that project 2025 involved screwing over veterans this time around and the majority of them voted to be bent over and screwed.
Well good sirs and madams, welcome to your dildo of consequences, they rarely come lubed, enjoy your stay in destination fucked.
Y'all wouldn't listen when we told you how bad Trump was. You deserve whatever you get now.
Republicans are the easiest people to scam, they will fall for anything.
@MicroWave He served his country then betrayed his country. Now I have regrets and don't care about his.
"no no no, hurt THOSE people" ~ that guy probably
Same old same old
It takes a special kind of stupid to vote for a convicted felon and serial rapist.
Yes, I certainly feel bad that the guy who took an oath to defend the constitution and then betrayed that oath by voting in a traitor is having a hard time now because of that vote. I am so, so sympathetic.
Well, him and his MAGA buddies can go suck Dick in alley to make ends meet.
The media is addicted to centering the Trump voter. They ran plenty of stories about voters with buyers remorse in his first term, at this point its simply 'I told you so' porn. We're not learning anything new, especially not the Trump voters.
Gotta pull yourself up by your bootstraps. That's the MAGA way, right?
It's almost as if letting billionaires buy the media landscape has political consequences....
Most soldiers aren't politically astute. On the other hand SCOTUS folk, who are supposed to be wise and informed, gave Krasnov the green light to completely ignore the judiciary - that's a whole 'nother another level of stupidity.
Jeenyusus... All of them.