What would your WWII veteran relatives think about supporting Trump?

[msc545]

What would your friend, family member who fought for the U. S. against Hitler, against Mussolini, against Japan in World War II, think about handing over the keys to the country to Donald Trump? Did they serve so Trump could line his own pocketbook and those of family members? So he could tear down the East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom with ever-changing justifications? So he could start a war with Iran in which American lives were lost, and for what?

Have a happy Memorial Day.

[ProbablyClueless]

He hated what America turned into during the Bush and Obama years. His literal last words to me were lamenting that he and his brothers “gave their lives for this shit hole.” I’m not sure that he would have been a huge Trump supporter though.

[loveslongnails]

My grandpa would have wanted to end him for the good of the country and the world.

[Anonymous]

Oh my relatives?
I never met them tbh, only heard stories.

I don’t put words into the dead’s mouths except for context. President FDR was the most Progressive Candidate at the time of WWII and was widely supported as the electoral college map and vote count shows.
So, them being Left leaning would make most sense due to the overwhelming support plus standing up against Fascists overseas.

Supporting Trump? Well the media divides us, makes the wealthy seem charismatic and agreeable also sensible, and Bernie Sanders is the most best choice possible however DNC sabotaged him in 2016. So it’s possible for those veterans to be strung along to vote against their best interests by going for Corporate Shills like the rest of us. They aren’t immune from making a bad choice.

[SolitarySolace]

Trying to hijack the memory of WWII veterans to mask your personal political grievances is a massive logical misstep. The demographic reality completely contradicts your narrative: veterans from that traditional generation consistently lean heavily conservative, prioritizing national sovereignty, secure borders, and absolute constitutional strength. Furthermore, your policy characterizations are completely inaccurate. The White House ballroom project is a privately funded infrastructure upgrade incorporating modern military drone-proof and Secret Service protections, not a taxpayer luxury. Framing a necessary military conflict against the world's leading state sponsor of terror as a vanity war completely insults the legacy of a generation that understood you must decisively neutralize hostile foreign threats before they strike the homeland. Stop projecting your political anxiety onto patriots who actually understood the price of sovereignty.

[Just_Ken]

You guys need to stop that. My great grandparents were involved in WW2 1939-45 on various fronts. Time to stop comparing everything to hitler and the nazis as you are disrespecting their memory.

[msc545]

I don't quite understand how the comparison suggests disrespect. Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I would like it if you could explain, please.

[Just_Ken]

Throwing out nazi to describe everyone you disagree with disrespect those who actually fought the nazis. If trump was a nazi you'd have been arrested, jailed or murdered within the first month of him being in office

[msc545]

Trump isn't finished yet.

[Just_Ken]

You haven't been assassinated like those prominent catholics who opposed him in a night of the Long Knives style event.

[msc545]

Well, I have not been assassinated at all. What does that have to do with what you said?

[Just_Ken]

Have any brownshirts approached you and beat you up? Even jussie smollet couldn't find two maga hat wearers to beat him up, but then it was in the lgbtq part of San Francisco. "This is MAGA COUNTRY!!" ( in Nigerian accent).

[msc545]

No, they have not, but they don't wear brown shirts. They usually wear the same clothes that ICE wears. Since I have white skin, they don't bother me, but if I had brown skin, they would bother me a lot. If I have black skin, they might very well kill me.

[Just_Ken]

Yeah nearly every country has immigration control. Try going to Saudi Arabia legally or china or Canada or Australia...

[msc545]

not the kind of immigration control the US has- here, thugs threaten you, beat you up, throw you into prison, and maybe let you out, and maybe they don't. If they do let you out, it's only to deport you to some country you've never even heard of and just toss you out of the plane when you get there.

[Just_Ken]

Funny because in the uk the police will arrest and handcuff the victim of a stabbing if he's white and if someone is vrown skinned they can assault police officers including two WPCs and get away with it.

[msc545]

That really seems like a bit of an exaggeration since I read about stabbings in the UK all the time where the stabber or perpetrator was arrested.

[Just_Ken]

Go look it up. Its a major story in the uk right now.

[msc545]

Why don't you just link to what you think is the major story?

[Just_Ken]

Won't let me but you just have to search BBC police arrest stab victim

[SeekerOfTruth007]

I come from a very large family with several great uncles (now deceased) but who fought in WW2 and Korean Conflict.

They would probably vote for Trump just to keep the modern democrats out of power, because the modern democrats are INSANE.

[msc545]

Insane in what way? You are aware, of course, that insanity is a legal concept and term, and not a medical or psychiatric one, correct?

[SeekerOfTruth007]

No, I'm talking about the historical term "insanity" not anyone's legal term.

Democrats want women to murder their own babies.
Democrats want LGBTQ nonsense to be normalized.

[msc545]

I can understand how you might see the murder of unborn children to be evidence of mental illness. On the other hand, I don't understand what LGBTQ nonsense means in this context. Can you explain that, please?

[Ironco]

Again with this... you need to really take a break.

[robocop666]

Military people like him as he increases the buidget

[msc545]

Sure. Military people like him a lot, especially when he calls them suckers and losers. They love being called those names.

[robocop666]

he is a fucking moron and an idiot in everything he does.