• unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Cynical take: Dead Americans fuel war fervor in the name of revenge potentially boosting his ratings in a back-ass stupid way

    Realist take: They aren’t him

    • notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip
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      Convenient casualties, that’s all they are. The ‘right’ Americans were handily evacuated days ago.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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    “Well, because it happened all very quickly. We thought, and I thought, maybe more so than most, I could ask Marco [Rubio], but I thought we were going to have a situation where we were going to be attacked,” Trump said, going off on a tangent about Iran attacking countries around the region.

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    I want to be angry right now but I’m just numb. Especially since older white Americans still support him and are supporting the war with Iran.

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      His support is crashing. The only ones really supporting him are the maga co-conspirators in congress that are protecting him from impeachment.

      It’s why you can’t even contact, if you have one, your republican congressman or senator, because their getting inundated so badly.

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      There’s a reason why older people tend to skew conservative. The closer they get to death, the most right wing they become. They don’t have to live with the consequences.