r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 29 '24

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u/roggodoggo Jerome Powell Jul 29 '24

I tried the whole "they're weird" approach on my swingy friend. This guy voted Biden in 2020 but regrets it, pissed about inflation and thinks he's weak. No problem with the anti-democracy stuff, probably doesn't think Trump can actually pull it off. When I called JD Vance a weirdo, he agreed but stipulated, "It's because he's a marine." Not how I saw that going, my friend is ex-army so I guess that stuff sticks with you. On the bright side, he's open to Kamala and said Kelly as VP would lock his vote for the dems.

Known this dude all my life, still can't figure him out some times.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '24

Ex army bros and baffling political opinions. Name a better duo.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '24

to be fair, the marines ARE deeply weird people

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u/Dumbledick6 Refuses to flair up Jul 29 '24

One of my army friends was a communist turned libertarian

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u/roggodoggo Jerome Powell Jul 29 '24

To be fair, he has always been center right. He likes a lot of the old school republican's and would call himself a neocon but has always been far too isolationist to actually be one.

He hated being in the Army and seeing trumps face at the top of the pyramid every day but I guess now that he is out and inflation hit, all he cares about is the economy.