Signs of strain are emerging for President Donald Trump, even among supporters who once backed him without hesitation. On Runaway Country, host Alex Wagner highlighted a moment from a congressional hearing that underscored the growing sense of regret, featuring a veteran who said he deeply regretted voting for Trump after his wife — who had lived in the United States…
All the warnings fell on deaf ears, huh? Must be service-related hearing-loss.
I voted for Barack Obama with a ton of hope, thinking there’s be massive change and, seeing as how he had a supermajority for a time, we’d get everything he promised.
All we got was more war, more torture/fascism, and more expensive health care. Even when Ferguson gave him a perfect excuse for more federal oversight over police, he gave them more tanks. When Sandy Hook gave him a perfect excuse to push for gun control, all he offered were thoughts and prayers.
At least now I know that my vote doesn’t matter for shit outside of my local community. (And you should 100% vote in every single local election.) If your candidate of choice is a Democrat or a Republican, they are probably lying to you. (Though Kamala Harris saying publicly that she wouldn’t change anything Biden had done was a rare moment of truth, I think.)
And judging by the number of voters who just stayed home in 2024 and 2025, seems like I’m not the only one who’s figured out how pointless voting has become.
All we got was more war, more torture/fascism, and more expensive health care
He literally subsidized and reduced the cost of insurance (the importance of which is just now hitting Republicans now that it has gone away and premiums are being hiked, and he killed Osama. Who started the endless wars? Why was the endless wars so expansive when there was intelligence that Osama was elsewhere and was killed elsewhere?
He literally subsidized and reduced the cost of insurance
Only temporarily. In reality what he did was implement a Republican health care system that only promises access if you can absorb the price gouging, and he had the power to nationalize our health care system.
I don’t give a fuck about Osama. Two-plus decades of forever war and tens of trillions of dollars weren’t worth it, and that’s particularly true in light of the cuts to the social safety net in the US that have been occurring since Clinton. Further, it doesn’t matter who started the forever wars, because Obama made the affirmative choice to adopt them as his policy.
He passed the shittiest conservative version of health care reform under the guise of bi-partisanship.
It was not what our nation needed. He could have rammed through a much better compromise, but he didn’t. Then he somehow let the conservatives steal the narrative and turn their idea into “Obamacare”. It was just stupid.
He got the Noble Peace Prize and then proceeded to bomb the Middle East 26,000 times.
The only good about Obama was his speeches. It is night and day trying to compare him to the ramblings of President shits his pants.
I was one of the scant few in the US who opposed war in fall of 2001, and one of the first to refuse to stand up for the national anthem, which at the Mizzou/Texas game that fall got you about a dozen death threats from your fellow fans.
Turns out, history proved I was right not to believe the bullshit that the Dubya admin was telling us, and the people like yourself who bought it were not only wrong, but you put us into such a mountain of debt that the US will never recover.
Well, Mr. Veteran, welcome to my world.
I voted for Barack Obama with a ton of hope, thinking there’s be massive change and, seeing as how he had a supermajority for a time, we’d get everything he promised.
All we got was more war, more torture/fascism, and more expensive health care. Even when Ferguson gave him a perfect excuse for more federal oversight over police, he gave them more tanks. When Sandy Hook gave him a perfect excuse to push for gun control, all he offered were thoughts and prayers.
At least now I know that my vote doesn’t matter for shit outside of my local community. (And you should 100% vote in every single local election.) If your candidate of choice is a Democrat or a Republican, they are probably lying to you. (Though Kamala Harris saying publicly that she wouldn’t change anything Biden had done was a rare moment of truth, I think.)
And judging by the number of voters who just stayed home in 2024 and 2025, seems like I’m not the only one who’s figured out how pointless voting has become.
He literally subsidized and reduced the cost of insurance (the importance of which is just now hitting Republicans now that it has gone away and premiums are being hiked, and he killed Osama. Who started the endless wars? Why was the endless wars so expansive when there was intelligence that Osama was elsewhere and was killed elsewhere?
Only temporarily. In reality what he did was implement a Republican health care system that only promises access if you can absorb the price gouging, and he had the power to nationalize our health care system.
I don’t give a fuck about Osama. Two-plus decades of forever war and tens of trillions of dollars weren’t worth it, and that’s particularly true in light of the cuts to the social safety net in the US that have been occurring since Clinton. Further, it doesn’t matter who started the forever wars, because Obama made the affirmative choice to adopt them as his policy.
He passed the shittiest conservative version of health care reform under the guise of bi-partisanship.
It was not what our nation needed. He could have rammed through a much better compromise, but he didn’t. Then he somehow let the conservatives steal the narrative and turn their idea into “Obamacare”. It was just stupid.
He got the Noble Peace Prize and then proceeded to bomb the Middle East 26,000 times.
The only good about Obama was his speeches. It is night and day trying to compare him to the ramblings of President shits his pants.
You must be young.
No, just practical.
I was one of the scant few in the US who opposed war in fall of 2001, and one of the first to refuse to stand up for the national anthem, which at the Mizzou/Texas game that fall got you about a dozen death threats from your fellow fans.
Turns out, history proved I was right not to believe the bullshit that the Dubya admin was telling us, and the people like yourself who bought it were not only wrong, but you put us into such a mountain of debt that the US will never recover.