Summary
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.
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.
Around my mega family now, They have zero regrets and love every choice is making. But to them Trump is a smart business man and can do no wrong.