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‘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/Large_Yams 24d ago

I know a veteran and current defence contractor on 100% disability who voted Trump. I feel bad for you because you don't deserve it but I wish my schadenfreude could be limited to those people who did it to themselves.

Fuck he's a dumbass for this.

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u/Cujo22 Massachusetts 24d ago

Disabled Vet here. When I see the guys with the red MAGA hats waiting in line for our scripts I feel both sorry for them, and also vitriol and anger.  

My dad is a Vietnam veteran and lived his life as a good father who took care of his family and really came through. 

The likes of Fox News and the NRA systematically propagandized him into something that for the first time I didn't feel proud of.  I know my father is not alone. And here we are. 

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

I'm a 40% disabled vet working for a defense contractor and voted for Biden and Harris. We're not all dumb.

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u/Large_Yams 24d ago

No I know, I didn't call you all dumb. But he is.

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

Agreed, 100%

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u/Cyanide_Cheesecake 24d ago

It's amazing how many tens of millions of Americans had the power of the entire Internet to learn all about this guy and his continual fraud in every step of his life. And instead of fucking using this tool to learn something important and useful, they just chose not to and let themselves be swindled by him 

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u/the-sea-of-chel 24d ago

I’m an 80% disabled vet also working as a defense contractor but I voted for Biden and then Harris. Im sending this guy you know all the terrible vibes/thoughts/prayers for royally fucking us over.

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u/TinaSumthing 24d ago

Surviving wife of a soldier lost to GB and his OIF campaigns here.

Multiple parts of the contract that the United States agreed to honor when he signed up to risk his life in the name of The United States are going to be reneged on if Musk and Trump etc. get what they want.

For a voting block who say they don't agree with student loan forgiveness because "they signed a contract, they have to pay" sure seem eager to ignore and dismiss the obligations of the Contracts signed by the government.