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.
Oh my god they’re so fucking stupid. They actually thought he’d do things that benefitted them?
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.
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!
This response should be the preamble of the Lemmurist Manifesto.
He is probably an anti-oceaner who thinks we should drain the ocean to prevent drownings.
He just happens to know these nice out of town people with fusion reactors that can float in the air and suck it all up for us to keep us safe.
Yes, they really are that gullible.
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!
No one is immune from propaganda.
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 irony of making fun of “leftists” for believing this shit is not lost on “leftists”. Most of us don’t believe it. However, most Trump supporters absolutely HAVE to believe this kind of bullshit, because Trump wouldn’t appeal to you WITHOUT this exact kind of dishonest media.
I think what’s happening is people are angry that they have been consistently correct about their fear of Trump, yet Trumpers pretend we were wrong even when the reality is right in front of you now. Like, literally, all of the reasons we have warned about Trump are coming true.
Every single argument against Trump goes the same way. Trump supporters deny the claim. Then, when it looks like its coming true, they re-frame it with desperate speculation until it actually comes true. Then they pretend that’s what they all wanted in the first place.
“Haha…the libs are angry about it…we won!..lets keep marching towards the spinning blades patriots!”
I mean, seriously. The lies! So many lies. So many PROVEN lies? So many incoherent rants. Is it supposed to be some kind of tacitcal political genius for people who “don’t get it”? Don’t be ridiculous.
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.
Yep, my family regards him as a diety, chosen by God to lead America. He can do no wrong as he is God’s vessel on Earth and acts only with divine will. So even if he makes what appears to be a mistake, it’s actually all part of God’s plan. Like God he is infallible.
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.
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.
Good god, Trump voters never disappoint. Or always, I’m not sure
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.
John Phelan? Was he named by J K Rowling?
John Phelan young girls body parts.
(Legal: wordplay joke. No basis for pedo allegations.)
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…
If only… Oh well, I guess we’ll never know what that would have been like…
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.
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
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.
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.
The Tau…?
Hahahaha
Ha ha haaaaaa
