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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 29 points 4 weeks ago

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 15 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] Ooops@feddit.org 13 points 4 weeks ago

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 2 points 4 weeks 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 1 points 4 weeks ago

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.

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[-] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 weeks ago

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 5 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

no, he can rape their daughters and they'll forgive him.

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[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

I hope this is why

[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks 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.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

War affects their pocketbook in a more concrete way.

These people have always been selfish.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 20 points 4 weeks ago

Because…

as usual

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

[-] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 weeks ago

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 12 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] Catma@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

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

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[-] Steve@startrek.website 3 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] apftwb@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

b-but Iran was 2 weeks away from having nuclear weapons...

[-] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

[-] vividspecter@aussie.zone 6 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago

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

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[-] Retail4068@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago
[-] Murse@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 weeks 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 9 points 4 weeks ago
[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

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

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 4 weeks ago

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 4 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago

"Read my lips, no new wars"?

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Politicians lie. Who knew?

Dumb people believe those lies.

[-] Murse@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 weeks ago

Well yeah, but that was before he knew he had to distract the world from the fact that he raped children on Epstein's island.

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

President of Peace

[-] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago

(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 2 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

I guess there would be a distinction between serving in Iraq and be an "Iraq war vet" which has more specific requirements.

[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[-] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.

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[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago

On the plus side for humanity, it's a volatile group known to express displeasure through ballistics, and at the same time ideally placed/uncolored/gendered to get within range.

Don't fuck it up, boys.

[-] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 1 points 4 weeks 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

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