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I wonder if the American population will buy the same lies sold to them 20 years ago.
I just repeated this to a table of 6 and got nothing but blank stares.
5 of them genuinely thought we found WMDs Iraq/Afghanistan
One had no idea what I was talking about and thought the war was entirely about the world trade centers.
I am surrounded by morons.
I was talking to a guy and he said "who was that politician that used to wear a bunch of makeup?".
"I'm not sure" I said
"The one with the eyeliner"
"Oh you mean J.d Vance? The vice president?"
"He's the vice president?"
Physically had to stop myself from facepalming.
Right after he started talking about Greta Thunberg. He said "people that don't know anything about politics shouldn't get involved".
I wish I could make this stuff up.
We elected Biden on mostly anti-Trump sentiment then forgot and elected Trump again 4 years later. I think 20 years is more than enough time.
Whatever shadow of a hope I had that the people of this country would not gobble up low-effort lies about Iran just had this comment appear from the shadows and shiv it in the fucking liver.
I'll bet fewer people will fall for Trump's lies than fell for GWB's, but not because we learned from Iraq. This war is really unpopular with MAGA. It's for the wrong reasons, but I don't think most will flip to Trump on this one.
Democrats might be interesting to watch. They are mostly cucked to Israel, but they won't want to pass on the opportunity to snipe at Trump.
I don't think the majority of Americans bought the DMW bullshit back then either, but the war happened anyways because those in power wanted/let it happen. The people didn't have a say in it.
I don't know about a majority, but I lived through that as a young adult and I'd believe it if at least 51% of the US population bought the Iraq WMD crap. Colin Powell was a well respected military leader and political moderate and he cashed in all of his influence to sell the lies to Congress and the population.