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Leopards Ate My Face

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GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — Joseph Bolick feels betrayed by President Donald Trump. And it’s because of the war in Iran.

The 30-year-old Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran voted for Trump in 2024. But at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference gathering this week he sported a hat emblazoned with “America First” — a slogan Trump championed during his campaign, along with the promise not to start new wars in foreign countries.

“He’s lied about everything,” said Bolick. “If you go into a war where there’s no end game, how is it going to end? There’s no clear objective.”

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[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 106 points 1 month ago (10 children)

So the war is the straw that broke the camel’s back? Not that he’s a rapist or a convicted felon? Not that he let Musk destroy the government? Or that ICE is running rampant kidnapping and killing Americans and people of other nationalities? Or that he illegally sunk foreign boats in international waters? Or that he is trying undermine the constitution they hold so dear? Or that he raised the cost of living? Or he killed a million Americans by pretending Covid wasn’t real and told people to try stupid things?

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

him being a pedophile racist dictator with a long documented history of lying and grifting was a good thing for his supporters. they saw him as relatable.

the problem for them is that gas prices went up. so now it affects them a little bit.

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[–] Ooops@feddit.org 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No, it's not.

This is just the 100th iteration of "this time they will really start to criticise Trump". And then the cult gets new orders and instantly they will fall silent and shift their opinion as instructed to match their new reality.

These people really took 1984 as an instruction manual.

[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 12 points 1 month ago

Yup. 79% of Republicans approve of how Trump is handling the Iran War. No reasonable and informed person can hold that opinion - we are not dealing with serious people here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w384px52no

[–] orlyowl@piefed.ca 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is just the 100th iteration of “this time they will really start to criticise Trump”.

Yep. I've stopped thinking any straw will break the camel's back of maga. They seem willing to accept literally any behavior from him. Every one of these articles about disillusioned trumpers never seems to have a basis in more than one or two anecdotal examples. These headlines exist only to provide copium (or maybe hopium) to the rest of us.

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Every one of these articles about disillusioned trumpers never seems to have a basis in more than one or two anecdotal examples.

That's entirely a matter of perspective, or more precise here: timing.

That wide outrage really exists. But it is very short-lived and just a case of "waiting on new instruction how to think".

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[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

He will still vote Republican in the midterms and in 2028.

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I keep seeing this pattern. I think a lot of former supporters are really sick of his shit and are just looking for the most politically convenient excuse to finally break with him. E.g. Joe Kent.

[–] Soleos@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So... revelations around him being a child predator is not a politically convenient excuse to break with him?

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

Keep in mind that many of these MAGA folks are in a tribe that will make excuses for anything their idol does, and the tribe will follow because that is what a tribe does. They are in a tribe because they are weak people, mentally and morally.

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

Sadly, high gas prices and a correction in the stock market are somehow a bigger deal than being exposed as a child rapist.

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I hope this is why

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

How about the thing these dumbasses really pretend to care about - spending? This moron has spent almost 6 TRILLION fuckin' dollars since he returned to office and inflation is through the roof (just like last time you fucking geniuses!) but I'm gonna need a crystal ball to know who they're going to blame it on because he hasn't been elected yet. Whoever they blame, you can bet his last name won't be TRUMP.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

For many, they believed him when he said those were lies and political attacks.

Basically everything related to the Iran War however is easily demonstrably false. And the ramifications quick and obvious to the average person. It's one of the reasons the admin is working so quickly to prevent news reporting they haven't approved about it.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

They only recognize schadenfreude when it bites them in the ass.

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[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 month ago (4 children)

A 66 percent majority of older MAGA men are willing to sacrifice American lives in order for the U.S. to achieve its goals in Iran, compared with less than half of younger MAGA men who say the same.

Yeah no shit. The younger guys are the ones who are gonna get shot and blown up.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What goals would those be? Would it be opening the Strait of Hormuz? Or how about an Iran without nuclear weapons?

Funny how we had both of those "goals" before the shitgibbon started the war.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 16 points 1 month ago

The goal is avoiding punishment for raping all those children over the past 40ish years

[–] Catma@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Excuse me, its now the Strait of Trump. Did you not watch the God Emperor say so yesterday?

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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Translation: A 66 percent majority of older MAGA men are willing to sacrifice ~~American~~ other people's lives.

[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago

And the younger MAGA men would also support it, as long as it was guaranteed to be other young men and not them specifically.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 points 1 month ago

You know these kids can fix this in one easy step, right?

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

Because…

as usual

It’s finally affecting them personally. Gas and diesel prices are rising. Wait until food starts to go higher again.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

30-year-old veteran, eh? The real "leopards ate my face" is gonna be when he gets called back up and shipped out.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I mean, why else do we think this was the final straw?

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago

If only he had a lifetime history of pathological lying to serve as a warning flag.

[–] Retail4068@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago
[–] Murse@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 month ago

puts hand in fire

Ow! The fire that we were warned incessantly to be excruciatingly hot, burned our other hand once already, then incessantly warned would burn us again if we did the same thing, just burned is again when we did the same thing! 😢

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sitouts: yea but we need to save gaza! Fuck all of the countries! And especially fuck ourselves!

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A 30-year-old Iraq war veteran? That math ain't mathing

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

(Checking)

Iraq war ended in 2011. If you were born in 1996 (to be 30 today) you would be 18 in 2014, well after that war ended...

So either the article is 3+ years old, or calling the person 30 was rounding down.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

American troops pulled out of Iraq this year, so I imagine anyone stationed there who was involved with the post war (i.e. ISIS) are considered 'Iraq' vets.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago
[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think "shaky ground" is doing a lot of work here.

The head of the "you're hurting the wrong people" party will have those chronically online young MAGA men back in his good graces with ease. All it takes is one situation where these men are faced with a situation where they are asked to acknowledge transgender people as human beings, or lord forbid, a black pilot is flying their plane.

Besides, if those things never happen, it still won't matter. The thing about chronically online young men is that next year there will be a new crop ready to replace the ones that got shipped off to die or be crapped on after they come back disabled.

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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They aren't turning on him. He's not on shaky ground. You people are damn fools I'd you believe that.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's not them turning on Trump. That's them being so conditioned to cheer for anything they hear on stage that they're just mindlessly cheering. You can't honestly think they're wanting to impeach Trump, come on man, there's no way you're that fucking stupid to believe that.

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[–] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Most Republicans are not turning on Trump, true. But it doesn't take more than ~5% switching from Republican to Democrat, to make Republicans never win a national election again.

Looking in from Europe, the immovability of US voters is quite bizarre to me. Most people I know don't have being a "Republican" or similar as part of their personal identity.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If yo voted for Trump again in 2024, thats on you. Anybody with half a brain knew he lies as naturally as he breaths.

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[–] Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago
[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

"Read my lips, no new wars"?

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

President of Peace

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Politicians lie. Who knew?

Dumb people believe those lies.

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[–] MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Huh. I guess they don't appreciate Trump's mastery of 3D chess after all.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 7 points 1 month ago

It's interesting watching it. A lot of conservative voters are old enough to remember the shitshow of the Iraq war and I wonder if that's part of what's making them sweat

[–] atkdef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"America First"? Trump is not wrong, he simply didn't tell you the verb. "Sell America First".

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nah, Their hate for womens choice and that choice isn't them will keep them voting for hate.

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