“This isn’t what I fought for”: U.S. veteran and Trump supporter says ICE detaining his wife has destroyed his belief in America’s values - WTF Detective
wtfdetective.blog
Signs of strain are emerging for President Donald Trump, even among supporters who once backed him without hesitation. On Runaway Country, host Alex Wagner highlighted a moment from a congressional hearing that underscored the growing sense of regret, featuring a veteran who said he deeply regretted voting for Trump after his wife — who had lived in the United States…

All the warnings fell on deaf ears, huh? Must be service-related hearing-loss.

  • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    2 months ago

    “It is one thing to just not deliver,” she said. “But to act in the way that he has, which is so dehumanizing, so cruel… this is why we are seeing the beginnings of real cracks with this president and his base.”

    The beginnings of real cracks? WTF? He doesn’t need you any more! You elected him already. Why would he possibly care? If he’s president beyond the end of this term, it won’t be because a free, fair and legal election took place! Why would he fucking care one ounce of a fart what you, a powerless nonentity, think of him? There’s nothing you can offer him in the future. He only ever cares what you can do for him. He has never cared what he can do for you. Ever.

    were lied to

    No shit, Sherlock! The world’s most famous, prolific and egregious liar whose desperately stupid lies were pointed out to you many, many times, and just today you realised he was lying to you too? How utterly stupid are you?

    • Ronno@feddit.nlEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      Your last paragraph is what surprises me the most, because that’s just not the case. Project 2025 was very clear, they weren’t lied to, they just heard what they wanted to hear.

    • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Conservatives broadly fine care about suffering and hardship unless it directly and specifically affects them. Even then it doesn’t always sink in, either.