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Donald Trump’s appointment of John Phelan, a private investment firm chairman with no military experience, as Secretary of the Navy has sparked backlash from some of his supporters on Truth Social.

Many pro-Trump users, including veterans, criticized the pick as rewarding a donor or friend instead of selecting someone with Navy experience.

Some expressed feelings of betrayal, accusing Trump of abandoning their values and making decisions that harm the nation.

The move has raised questions about qualifications and loyalty among his base.

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[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Oh no, looks like the face-eating leopard got their face. <Audible_lip_smack_What_a_shame.wav>

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 65 points 2 days ago

Yes, they really are that gullible.

[-] eluminx@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

I hate myself for laughing so hard at these type of news, but it is what it is. The next 4 years will have so many articles with similar titles. I will keep crying and laughing all the same!

[-] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 11 points 2 days ago

No one is immune from propaganda.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 254 points 3 days ago

zero sympathy for these idiots. you elected a con man. youre getting exactly what you paid for.

[-] KingGordon@lemmy.world 81 points 3 days ago

Vote for a clown, don’t be surprised when you get a circus.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago

#YouVotedForHim

and similar hashtags need to go viral...

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[-] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 77 points 3 days ago

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...

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[-] fuzzyspudkiss@midwest.social 125 points 3 days ago

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.

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[-] Nougat@fedia.io 148 points 3 days ago

Election is over, he does not care what anyone thinks.

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 98 points 3 days ago

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.

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[-] Stern@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

its not really deception when hes made the things hes gonna do clear

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

"We're appalled, shocked even, that the face eating leopards, which have advertised themselves clearly as face-eating leopards for the last several years, have begun eating our faces!"

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago

This? This is what they have a problem with?

Gestures at 2017 to 2021, and everything that's happened, been uncovered, and said by the orange one since.... And none of that was over the line for you?

What?

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Just wait until Project 2025 shit starts biting them in the ass.

Unfortunately, it's going to be such a shitshow that I won't be able to enjoy the leopard eating their faces.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 160 points 3 days ago

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.

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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!"

[-] ours@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Leopard ate my face at its finest.

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[-] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 94 points 3 days ago

Dude said that dead soldiers were losers abd disrespected the Arlington cemetery and they are surprised by this one?

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 17 points 2 days ago

Get used to that, kids.

[-] indomara@lemmy.world 74 points 3 days ago
[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

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.

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[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

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.

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[-] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 18 points 3 days ago

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?)

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[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 72 points 3 days ago

Veterans that vote for Republicans... What a bunch of idiots

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[-] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 76 points 3 days ago

Deceived? He told you morons exactly what he was going to do.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

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...

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 days ago

One disturbing thing about this election was how many people in the groups Trump promised to victimize went and voted for Trump.

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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

if only he had openly expressed disdain for veterans, maybe they would've known he doesn't give a shit about them.

oh wait. he did.

for all the lies he told, he didn't deceive you. you're likely not wealthy so you didn't vote for him for that reason. so that leaves only the possibility that you're just a piece of shit racist and/or sexist asshole. so fuck you, i hope every single day for his entire administration will be worse for you than the day before.

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 35 points 3 days ago

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.

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[-] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

Oh my god they're so fucking stupid. They actually thought he'd do things that benefitted them?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

I'm reading this as a hedge fund is going to buy out the navy and shut it down.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

They'll award contracts that will weaken the military without cutting spending. Like what already happened to Russia.

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[-] donescobar@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago

I call bullshit on this, if anyone loves to advertise his goods is this cat. You knew what you were buying, fuck you.

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[-] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 26 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago

The difference is that with a VC takeover, it is not something the employees voted for.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago
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[-] dovahking@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

I'm convinced he'll be the first president in history to privatise the whole government.

[-] Yodan@lemm.ee 28 points 3 days ago

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.

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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 47 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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?

[-] Screamium@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] capital@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

These are the times when reality hits you over the head, regardless of if you live in reality or not.

The next one may very well be when veterans loose their benefits and the checks stop coming. Can't really hide from that in your alternate reality.

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago

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.

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[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago
[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago
[-] Freefall@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Aaahahahaha, we are so fucked, this is almost back around to being fun to watch.

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