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.
Yes, they really are that gullible.
No one is immune from propaganda.
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!”
Leopard ate my face at its finest.
Leopard diabetus epidemic in 3, 2, 1…
Not going to happen.
It’s happening in the article this post is about.
I think they’re bringing up whining about leopards+faces because this is a case of it happening already.
Sure it’s “happening”, got it.
Why are you being sarcastic about the thing described in the article? Which part you’re confused about is not obvious.
Some expressed feelings of betrayal, accusing Trump of abandoning their values and making decisions that harm the nation.
Like every single one of his moves this time?
Even the efficency and cost cutting are being done too harshly to maintain service levels. But denyong services is priority 1b.
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.
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.
John Phelan? Was he named by J K Rowling?
John Phelan young girls body parts.
(Legal: wordplay joke. No basis for pedo allegations.)
I’m reading this as a hedge fund is going to buy out the navy and shut it down.
They’ll award contracts that will weaken the military without cutting spending. Like what already happened to Russia.
Lease it to China so the invasion of Taiwan makes a profit instead costs American lives and treasure.
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…
If only the person they voted for had said he intended to do this exact thing LOUDLY, REPEATEDLY AND PUBLICLY for the last 4 years…
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.The difference is that with a VC takeover, it is not something the employees voted for.
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.
who would’ve thought that trump would make decisions that harm the nation? i can’t imagine that
insert Eric Andre meme
We need that meme but with a scooby doo mask reveal of putin underneath an eric mask.
Hahahaha
Ha ha haaaaaa
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?)
I wonder if they thought picking Big E to represent trump was ironic or not. Because the emperor made a bunch of mistakes that made everything a whole lot worse for a whole bunch of people. Like this is dystopian fiction we’re talking about.
The orks are good, but only from their moral lens. Fighting=good, green=good, gits=bad, krumping gits=good. The only reason we think of them is good is because there’s a lot of information on orc psychology, whereas we see the other races as more or less human instead of the aliens that they are.
Fuck i should help make the Warhammer communities here more active
As someone who doesn’t play the game or paint the minifigs or really interact with the franchise in any way at all, I really enjoy the lore and world building involved.
It’s post ironic edgy. Too many levels of irony and seriousness. It’s ridiculous. They know it’s ridiculous and are having a lot of fun pretending it’s serious and laugh at those upset by it.
The Tau…?
Dumb people angry that they were conned. How very Patriotic of you.
I’m convinced he’ll be the first president in history to privatise the whole government.
Already there with Musk and other big donors getting administration positions.
Musk as Secretary of Transportation would be a fun ride.
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.
