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.
Dumbasses. Athena forbid they listen to all the liberals that have been trying to tell them about donvict for fucking YEARS.
Given the state of the world… fuck Athena. It’s clearly time to worship at the altar of Dionysus.
fuck Athena
Not a wise decision but I’m willing
Spending too much time at the altar of Dionysus leads to unwise decisions.
I think we’re in dire need of some Orcus right now.
its not really deception when hes made the things hes gonna do clear
“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!”
At least they’ll be suffering him right along-side the rest of us.
These people are fucking stupid
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.
That’s what I thought was going to happen, but there’s still time. After DOGE guts the government, DOGE dissolves and Musk is Sec of Transportation.
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.
Musk has already said Trump is going to tank the economy. Everything will be privatized. We’ll be in a dystopic present soon enough.
I’m reading this as a hedge fund is going to buy out the navy and shut it down.
Lease it to China so the invasion of Taiwan makes a profit instead costs American lives and treasure.
They’ll award contracts that will weaken the military without cutting spending. Like what already happened to Russia.
Election is over, he does not care what anyone thinks.
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.
Yay!
Commander in Queef*
He’ll be out after his four years. The important parts for him were grifting and escaping consequences. He’ll have accomplished that, even after he leaves office.
The damage he’ll do in the meantime…
I think k you missed the part where he unironically wants to “run for a third term.” And has literally every check and balance in his pocket.
He’s not going to win a third term. And he won’t be able to cheat into a third term. I’m not concerned about that.
I’m concerned about A. the damage this term, and B. the smarter version that follows a similar playbook.
However, you have to be pretty fucking dumb to be the President of the United States and still feel like you have any obligations to Russia. You tell the CIA what you fucking did, and they take care of it. What is he worried about, the pee tape getting out? Just call it fake news like he has literally everything else. It doesn’t matter how much evidence there is. It never matters how much evidence there is. People follow him anyway.
He’s not going to win a third term. And he won’t be able to cheat into a third term. I’m not concerned about that.
The number of times he’s flown right past that, things he’s said or done that were guaranteed to lose him the election, or get him impeached and removed from office, or at least lose support among his base or Congress, or get him prosecuted, or or or…
Yeah, at this point, I’m not betting anything or anyone will realistically stop him.
And if you’re betting on the Constitution blocking him from running again, remember that him being inaugurated is already a violation of the Constitution as an instigator of insurrection against the US government. Nobody is going to stop him. Do you really think it’ll be different in '28? After 4 years of no longer solidifying but outright cementing his judiciary at all levels he can seat? With an executive branch that’s been purged of non-loyal employees?
He’s been underestimated at every step, except for the 2020 election, the one time he’s truly lost anything. So you really think underestimating him now and expecting norms and laws to keep him in check when they’ve literally never done so is a good idea?!?
He’s not going to win a third term. And he won’t be able to cheat into a third term. I’m not concerned about that.
Oh buddy, haven’t you been paying attention? Disenfranchising voters and rejecting unfavorable election results has been one of their biggest priorities.
Even dictators need public support. This is a fundamental truth about leadership, that even Trump can’t escape. Those that don’t tend to have a short life expectancy.
Those that don’t tend to have a short life expectancy.
Here’s hoping!
You can convincingly fake having public support if you control the media.
The support of the military and corporations are far more important than the people. Authoritarians have been using the military and corpos to oppress the people for centuries.
And I think it’s clear to most of us that Trump doesn’t control the corpos but the opposite, they control him.
He’s not going to skip any opportunity to enrich himself. Deregulate and sell is going to be their mantra, shit is going to get so bad over the next few deacdes. I wonder if America will even be recognizable in a century.
Dumb people angry that they were conned. How very Patriotic of you.
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.
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.
And to the donvict cultists, what they call a “swamp” is actually a set of people that are experts and/or long-term public servants - something they’ve been trained to bray is a “bad” thing - calling them “elitists” (a perversion of the term) and yelling about “term limits”… instead, they’d apparently rather have a bunch of “outsiders”, which means - incompetent grifters and/or enemy agents looking to weaken this country for the benefit of the likes of Putin.
Though usually they appoint them to ambassador to a ally like France or England or somewhere else cushy with minimal political impact.
“Do you have any idea how little that narrows it down? You’ll have to get more specific as to which particular deception you mean.”
The nation made their choice, let it burn.
During the elections I got the idea most Americans hated Trump and wanted him to just disappear, because of posts like this. I really need to widen the sites I get my US news from lemmy and reddit lol
Most Americans are also too lazy to vote. It comes with growing up in an easy life.
Oh they do hate him.
But they hated the idea of being ruled by a black woman even more.
I feel like it’s a little of column A and a little of column B; but I agree we should all widen the sites we get our news from.
This made me lol
