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Expecting all the pundits crying about how Trump sold out his base to the warmongers, that he's owned by Israel, to memory hole that hysterical episode entirely!

My feed this morning is even more full of TDS! It’s almost as if people are now pissed he didn’t go to war against Iran because it undermined their priors, and the cognitive dissonance is bothering them.

Rip Trump all you want for the shitcoins, the free speech violations, the lack of accountability re Epstein and covid — those criticisms are deserved,

But people wildly underestimate how propagandized they’ve been for the last 10 years and even longer — how someone like Trump (a man with gaudy taste, who openly boasts, who eats McDonalds and DGAF) is not of the class of people who should be president.

The entire educational system has instructed you not to be like Trump, and a lot people went into debt to get the status boost, to learn the right way to be, and they fucking hate it that this dude, this perma-tanned asshole with the McMansion of all McMansions, the white gangsta-rapper of sorts, is now running the show and doing a better job than the self-deprecating, well-mannered “adults” in the room who they aspired to be.

I suspect people will be even more pissed if there’s a lasting peace deal between Israel and Iran. People virtue signal their concern about the Iranian people or the Palestinians all the time, but that’s mostly just as fake as the missile exchanges we just saw the last couple days.

I am happy some kind of deal was made. Military action against a country that posed no threat to us is not acceptable regardless of the outcome. Not sure which side you are referring to, but the warmongers are definitely more pissed than the anti-war crowd tonight.

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It was not a military action IMO — it was the appearance of one, just theater. Iran was likely warned ahead of time. It was pro wrestling.

Warmongers are pissed because they’re not getting war, but the “anti-war” crowd is also pissed because their theories were falsified. People *hate* when that happens.

Ok maybe there are other people you are talking about but every anti-war "America First" type commenter I checked in with was very happy to be wrong. Perhaps they were nervous about the ceasefire holding. But they are pleasantly surprised.

Not too many running with the "mutual warning" theory, even though it is openly reported of Iran warning US of the base attack.

They still disagree with the (claimed) method on principle. However, I am satisfied the backlash was enough to show the people's true opinion on foreign conflict.

Maybe you are being a little black pilled here?

The opposite -- I'm white pilled! I think it’s great they settled this the way they did, they had no intention of going to war.

Just commenting on how full of shit everyone is and how quickly they will memory-hole the hysterical takes.

I don't think it was so obvious. There was real concern and people spoke up.

Speaking up about one’s concerns is fine. Declaring it’s Iraq 2.0, he’s betrayed his base, he’s owned by Israel, telling everyone they got rugged and then not coming back to say, “Oh, I was totally duped by the narrative pushers, totally caught in the mania” is weak af.

Think it was both sides — the “it’s the JOOOOSSSSS!” minority Maga sect and also the TD crowd saying “I told you so!”

*TDS* crowd

"it was pro-wrestling" :-D