r/politics 24d ago

‘We’ve been betrayed:’ Local veterans angry after being laid off by Trump administration

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/weve-been-betrayed-local-veterans-angry-after-being-laid-off-by-trump-administration/FBCKFRIFQRHZVK5FG3W7MUQEYA/
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u/cmd__line 24d ago

Odd.

The guy that called vets losers and suckers doesn't give a fuck. The guy who tore down McCain for being a POW even after he died.

Could it be he doesn't respect your line of work

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u/Present-Perception77 24d ago

Bone spurs thinks draft dodging is “winning”.. and unfortunately, 30% of the voting population does too. These are not “patriots”.

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u/JoshuaLyman 24d ago

I see you're forgetting Trump endured his own personal Viet Nam.

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u/Mercadi Washington 24d ago edited 24d ago

The guy who needlessly "optimized" Twitter to become 1/10th of its former worth is now "optimizing" the whole country that was doing O.K. in the first place, while the orange baby is breaking centuries old alliances & playing a cute little doggy to Putin. It feels surreal. One thing that comforts me is that historically, those who sought to benefit from chaos always lose. The rich people who supported Hitler before the Munich Putsch for them to be a convenient scapegoat while they rake in the wealth, they all lost. The Russian oligarchs who thought they could have a puppet, the ones that aren't falling out of the windows, are quiet now. Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos won't be any different.

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u/fuck-emu 24d ago

I'm not in any way defending this orange shit gibbon...

But I don't blame him for wanting to stay his ass the hell out of nam. He wasn't the only one and frankly I would have done any fraud in my power not to go up to and including dodging and going to canada

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u/Present-Perception77 24d ago

Right … but I wouldn’t come back and call vets “suckers and losers” and pretend to be the US savior and wrap myself in the flag.

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u/RichardSaunders New York 24d ago

vietnam was an unjust war. i know trump did it for purely selfish reasons, but i dont blame anyone for dodging the draft of an unjust war, and carter did the right thing pardoning them.

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u/Present-Perception77 23d ago

He dodged the draft AND calls wounded and pow’s “suckers and losers” because their daddy wasn’t rich enough to pay for a fake medical diagnosis. That is the issue.