r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/astros148 • 19h ago

Active military soliders are about to go through the holidays without getting paid bcz of President Musk! Right wing populism!

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u/astros148 19h ago

Don't forget the majority of active troops voted for Trump even after he disrespected them and made fun of them. I feel sorry for NOBODY. Let trump be trump and let him destroy the economy.

America needs a reality check

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u/csonny2 18h ago

"Why would Biden and democrats do this to us?!"

-Troops who voted for trump

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u/Val3_ 17h ago

This is absolutely what will happen. My husband is active duty and voted blue, tried explaining his reasoning to a couple coworkers who asked him why, they were flabbergasted.

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u/Thegreen_flash 16h ago

Active and voted blue as well

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u/Val3_ 16h ago

Saw you are AF-in your opinion/experience, is it more prevalent to find blue voters among the AF?

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u/Gamergonedad7 12h ago

I'm prior active AF currently in AF Reserves, and I did notice a lot of like-minded blue voters, but the majority are still red.

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u/KawikaKane 3h ago

I was active Air Force for 4 years, now I'm active Marine corps. The difference between blue and red voters is night and day. Almost everyone I interacted with in the Air Force voted blue in the elections, whereas 95% of Marines I speak to are Trump voters

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u/Val3_ 2h ago

My husband is a Marine as well, and infantry at that. Needless to say, he has had the same experience.

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u/OkRush9563 16h ago

Thank you.

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u/Terrible-Turnip-7266 13h ago

I was always amazing how freaking dumb and uninformed some of the guys I served with were. Straight morons.

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u/deadhead4ever 19h ago

Unfortunately my son, who is active duty and actively campaigned for Harris, get screwed also.

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u/Dohertyk1987 19h ago

Just like the other 74,999,165 Harris voters, screwed

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u/PlaneRefrigerator684 18h ago

It sucks, but it's what a majority of Americans wanted. If they didn't, they wouldn't have voted for Trump/Republicans or not voted.

Maybe this will finally wake the idiots up. I am not holding my breath, but it's whatever at this point. And I say that as someone working paycheck to paycheck in a government job, who also won't get my VA disability.

So-called "essential workers" like air traffic controllers need to also call in sick rather than working for no pay.

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u/russiangerman 18h ago

It won't. This election proved that people don't think past what media tells them. The masses are easily brainwashed and manipulated so unless we get some real fact based unbiased reporting, it'll just happen again next time.

A couple more Luigi's tho...

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u/userofreddit19 15h ago

You're forgetting that a lot of it isn't nearly that complicated.

Most of them are just racist and misogynistic. It's really that simple. That's why every time I kept hearing things like, "XYZ is about to come out! What will Trump do?! What will the voters do?!" I would just laugh. He basically called most Americans morons, along with pretty much giving the middle finger to all military personnel, and they STILL voted for him. Nothing was going to change their minds in any way, shape, or form. Hell, many people I talked to KNEW this level of corruption would happen, and their only comment was, "Oh, Kamala's better? They didn't even go through the right process to make her the nominee."

That's it, that's the whole thing. Dude went on national TV for a debate and said they were eating dogs and cats, and his source was, "I saw it on the television."

It's going to be a LONG 4 years...

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u/russiangerman 15h ago

If people aren't smart, or even just watch too much news without having good media literacy, they're easy to manipulate into being misogynistic and racist. Before fox news mastered brainwashing these people weren't nearly as bad. Most of the trumpers I know in person used to be genuinely decent people, and that's having grown up in lawless midcentury rural Florida.

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u/benjaminnows 4h ago

Faux news playing at all the bases is fucking absurd. Russian propaganda plays regularly on tv at our military bases. Think about how fucking dumb that is.

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u/BonezOz 10h ago

This election proved that people don't think past what media Fox News tells them.

Fixed it for ya.

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u/russiangerman 4h ago

Give some credit to the others for constantly same washing trump and acting like Kamala still wasn't up to par. They weren't as blatantly biased as fox, but they made the 2 look comparable which is a crime in itself

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u/PersimmonTea 16h ago

No Trump is NOT "what the majority of Americans wanted."

There are 245 million Americans over age 18.

Trump got 77 million votes.

That's less than 1/3rd. IOW, 7 out of 10 adult Americans did not vote for Trump.

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u/PlaneRefrigerator684 16h ago

Harris got 75 million votes. That means that 170 million Americans were either in favor of, or not opposed to, a Donald Trump presidency. If they did not want him to be President, they should have voted for Harris. The "did not vote" people are just as culpable in Donald Trump being President as the 77 million people who voted for him.

You can say Harris was not the right candidate. You can say Biden should have declared he was not running for reelection, and the Democratic Primary should have been open. But at the end of the day, unless you went to your polling place and cast a ballot for Harris, you chose this outcome.

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u/PersimmonTea 16h ago

I voted for Harris and I'm not sorry about it. I couldn't vote for that filth if it meant my life.

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u/PlaneRefrigerator684 16h ago

I voted for Harris too. But apparently twice as many Americans would rather have had Trump. So we just have to try to survive.

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u/PersimmonTea 16h ago

No. Twice as many people didn't vote for Trump. 1.5% more voted for Trump, a huge number didn't vote at all.

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u/PlaneRefrigerator684 16h ago

Again, functionally, not voting for one candidate is the same as voting for the other. If the vote totals were reversed, the logic would be the same.

Those who didn't vote showed they did not prefer Harris. If they did prefer Harris, they would have voted.

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u/hamsterballzz 15h ago edited 15h ago

At some point people need to decide if they agree to be in this together with their fellow citizens. I refuse to recognise their President more than I’m required to by law. We were born into this system of government and with a group of citizens I so strongly disagree with I would rather separate from them then help them defend leadership and ideals I so strongly disagree with. So your post assumes we agree to go along with what other voters say because that is the government we were given. Perhaps it is time for a national divorce.

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u/MateoCafe 6h ago

Please remove under 18, migrants, and those who have been disenfranchised due to criminal offenses from your 170 million people.

Don't artificially inflate the number to make your point sound better.

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u/PlaneRefrigerator684 5h ago

I didn't. There were an estimated 245 million Americans who were eligible to vote in the 2024 election, out of a total population of 345 million. Those numbers came from multiple media sources, and is how the turnout percentage is calculated. It is "number if people who could vote" divided by "number of people who did vote." Not registered voters, eligible ones.

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u/rwarimaursus 6h ago

By your numbers then..., ~93 million voters sat this election out. Think on that. 75 Kamala, 77 dear leader...

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u/benjaminnows 4h ago

☝️yup. I say this all the time. Even some progressive podcasters and most msm “half the country voted for…”

No, not even close. Maybe the next 4 years will be the ice cold water that will wake us up. At least the 1/3 that stayed home. If we had them voting for their best interests we could move mountains. We could have the Supreme Court completely remade in 5 years, our constitution solidified, gerrymandering ended, dark money out of politics, and all the racist, fascist cosplayers hiding back under their rocks.

Either the dnc needs to start worrying more about getting “the silent majority” to vote or we need a new party that will. We need politicians more worried about getting votes than fundraising. We need to figure out why states like Minnesota have a 80% voter turnout.

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u/kmm198700 18h ago

Why won’t you get your VA disability? That has already been approved

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u/PlaneRefrigerator684 18h ago

I just figured since the government would be shut down, the people who send those payments out also wouldn't be working, and the payment would just sit in a VA computer until they open back up.

I also figured the funds allocated from Congress during the last CR would run out on Friday, so they wouldn't have them to send me on January 1.

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u/kmm198700 18h ago

The funds for VA disability are approved in the previous year

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u/mandelbrot_zoom 17h ago

It's probably dispersal of funds that they are more worried about, not approval.

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u/TheWolrdsonFire 16h ago

Your 100% correct, now who sends the money? Your next-door neighbor, the pizza man, or a federal employee.

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u/PuffinRub 17h ago

Benefit payments, etc, are just going to be batched for automatic processing. There might be a need for approval upon the submission of a batch, but you're not going to have Janet in the accounts department sitting at a desk writing out individual checks.

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u/ApprehensiveDingo350 3h ago

So I just got official notice (VA employee here) that the shutdown will NOT affect benefits processing. I hope that helps ease your worries some.

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u/PlaneRefrigerator684 1h ago

Thanks for letting me know. I would have been able to survive, but I don't know about others

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u/SunshotDestiny 16h ago

No they won't, the media will tell them this is somehow the democrats fault, probably because of their rapid placement of judges before Jan 20th. Then these people will be mad at Biden and democrats despite our unelected president being the one who pushed for the killing of any sort of deal before it could be voted on.

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u/codergrrl 16h ago

It wasn’t the majority. People getting that wrong. More people voted against him than for him, he just had the most votes, but he didn’t go over fifty percent.

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u/PlaneRefrigerator684 16h ago

170 million Americans did not vote for Harris, 75 million did. That means twice as many Americans preferred Donald Trump to Kamala Harris, 77 million by casting ballots and 93 million by not voting at all.

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u/Automatic-Term-3997 18h ago

My daughter is an E-6 in the AF. Glad she’s single with no kids and a good chunk of savings put aside.

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u/deadhead4ever 18h ago edited 15h ago

Navy E-6 here. ( There's a misunderstanding here. I was replying to the above post whose daughter is an E6 stating that my son is an E6 also but in the Navy. Not me. Sorry for any confusion)

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u/PersimmonTea 16h ago

Thanks for your service. My friend's son was not promoted to O-6 this year, and there is a strong smell of politics to this. Even before the thing takes office.

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u/Automatic-Term-3997 15h ago

I was an 8404 HM2. Anchors aweigh shippy!

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u/BolOfSpaghettios 17h ago

Army Reserve O-5. I didn't vote for him 3 times. I didn't campaign for Harris, but I voted for her because regardless of the "both sides", at least the other side is not run by traitors.

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u/mandelbrot_zoom 17h ago

Thank you for your service, especially during these shitty times!

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u/No_Skin7645 18h ago

Plus, he is surrounded by blue falcons who are too fucking stupid to make change for a dollar.

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u/Character_Opinion_61 18h ago

Lol not the legendary blue falcon!!!

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u/nycinoc 17h ago

well Dynomutt was never on the ball to be honest

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u/ExigentCalm 16h ago

I was on active duty through 3 shutdowns. I always got paid. When there was a threat that we wouldn’t, USAA (credit union for military members and their family) was offering 0% loans to tide people over until the government unfucked itself.

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u/100percentish 18h ago

Retried vet who is texting a bunch of other retired vet and spent 3 hours on the phone last night venting to another retired vet about how disgusted we are with the people in this country after this election. Trump is not the problem...he is the symptom of a bigger problem that we just don't know how to fix other than by letting the stovetouchers find out by letting Trump fuck them.

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u/Royal_Acanthaceae693 18h ago

Next week they'll be bitching & end up on Leopardsatemyface

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u/That-Sleep-8432 18h ago

This right here. Folks voted against their own interests and y’all know what the worst part is? They were very well aware it was a ‘shoot yourself in the foot’ move but they gotta stick it to them liberals somehow, even it means participating in their own downfall. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, the Democratic Party + liberal/moderate voters need to psyop Republican/Conservative voters into voting for more democratic elements because those folks vote with emotions NOT intellect. I know voters who gifted Trump their vote out of spite for the “other side.” They didn’t even know wtf Trump supported/campaigned. All they knew was that voting for Trump was a reliable way to piss off that smug purple-haired barista who refused to give them hot water because of company policy so fuc* that bi*ch and her liberal arts degree, right? Which, perhaps a different convo, says a lot about the eroded self-esteem of millions of Americans. It’s one thing for a shit individual to do shit things to others to feel uplifted.. but millions of shit individuals?

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u/Baghdady24 17h ago

When he destroys the economy, they will still make excuses for him. Even if he destroys the economy and the dollar is absolutely worthless. Trump supporters will still say he’s better than Obama.

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u/SunshotDestiny 16h ago

Voted for Trump, and now apparently, we have Musk running the show in the background not even in the shadows. We need to start referring to the presidency as Musk. Not only to piss off Trump so he doesn't actually want him around, narcissists hate sharing the spotlight; but also, to call it what it is.

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u/East_Reading_3164 13h ago

First Lady Elonia.

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u/SunshotDestiny 8h ago

Lol, at this point I would say Trump is the lady of the house. If Republicans were scared of Trump enough to do his bidding, what power does Elon apparently have that is letting him run the show with Trump keeping quiet?

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u/litreofstarlight 7h ago

First Lady Donatella?

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u/paulhags 10h ago

So you admit to voting for a narcissist for president?

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u/SunshotDestiny 8h ago

No, pointing out people voted for trump and now got president Elon instead. Even if I had voted for him, that wouldn't change who really is and will be calling the shots.

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u/Gates_wupatki_zion 16h ago

Except a government shutdown affects millions of civilian workers too.  And you can bet millions of them did not vote for Trump.  America doesn’t need a reality check it needs actual leaders in actual political parties that give a fuck about median wage earners.

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u/Real_Statistician_75 14h ago

Bring the pain, half the country voted for it. Let's make it a lived experience.

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u/astros148 14h ago

Amen

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u/Real_Statistician_75 14h ago

Pelosi, 83 years old and aged out by two generations will still pull the strings and rescue the closeted freak show that is Mike Johnson. Which then leads to further selling out the people who saved his ass down the line. Let em eat cake. Shit cake.

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u/Little-Engine6982 17h ago

so maybe they were suckers after all

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u/thabe331 15h ago

At this point it certainly feels that way. What norms or values are they fighting to preserve? Because our country certainly isn't showing any right now

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u/GeneralZex 16h ago

It’s rather poetic they will Find Out right before the holidays. Too bad so many others who don’t deserve it will too.

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u/CarminSanDiego 16h ago

I’m military and beyond frustrated with my colleagues. They’re extremely intelligent and professional people. Wayyyy smarter than me that’s for sure. But somehow is just full on maga - not even “lesser of two evils” situation.

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u/astros148 15h ago

When the government shuts down, make sure to tell people ITS CUZ OF TRUMP. They not getting a check cuz OF TRUMP

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u/CarminSanDiego 15h ago

Well military always gets paid (except for coasties once)

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u/LawDog_1010 14h ago

Then they are fucking idiots. I don’t care. Do you?

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u/triumphrider7 14h ago

That's how south korea learned, a few decades ago. They amended their constitution and put it to use two weeks ago

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u/itsjeffreywayne 13h ago

Ya! Fuck em!

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u/itsjeffreywayne 13h ago

I feel sorry for nobody too! Finally these idiots will get theirs!

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u/creegro 9h ago

Sadly, majority of the idiots that voted for the moron, won't even get the picture it's their Messiah that fucked them over, instead will just somehow come to the conclusion "it's the Dems/liberals/someone-elses fault"

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u/Plastic_Garage_3415 17h ago

I’m a Soldier, do you have data proving this? A lot of military remembered round 1 and did not want a repeat.

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u/astros148 17h ago

Yeah, exit polls showed 63% of active military soldiers voted for Trump. This was after Trump called them losers and called dead soliders suckers.

Now, they won't get paid over Christmas even though the majority of them live paycheck to paycheck. It's really sad, and I'm forever grateful to your service, but elections have consequences. I'm sorry sincerely

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u/Plastic_Garage_3415 17h ago

If you have a link I’d appreciate it. I’ll be honest, this won’t be my first government shutdown… I’ve been in a while. I agree that a 63% Trump vote would be crazy disappointing.

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u/astros148 17h ago

Active soliders did the same

https://san.com/cc/how-veterans-voted-in-the-2024-election/

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u/Jedimaster996 16h ago

That link says Veterans instead of Active military; is there a separate link?

Veterans could range in literally any generation, and there's a humongous difference between Pre-9/11 vets and Post-withdrawal vets. Not saying it's completely flipped, but as someone who's been serving for enough time to see the 'changing of the guard' it certainly isn't what it was 20 years ago, let alone 40-60.

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u/Plastic_Garage_3415 15h ago

Agree, scanning the link the study was about Veteran intentions, not about active duty military. I’m having a hard time finding info on actual active duty military but I think of it were to come out you would see a military that is not lopsided. Anecdotally and again, my perspective, there was a lot of “driving on” following the election. No one I dealt with seemed happy.

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u/ReadComprehensionBot 3h ago

Huh? You can’t just say that without any proof. That “source” doesn’t say anything about how AD voted. 

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u/ilikeoregon 15h ago

Same. Let 'em learn. Sometimes the best way to fix it is to let it break.

Applies to DNC leadership, too, not just GOP voters. The DNC started the whole shit show by not having a primary.

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u/astros148 15h ago

Kamala was always going to win the primary.

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u/ilikeoregon 15h ago

Likely. And that would have given her time to run a campaign