15 shots fired after a Telegraph columnist said the young are ‘too fat and woke’ for the army
Journalist Jim Antle is the Washington Examiner’s politics editor and also shares his expertise with other publications.
He recently wrote a column for the Telegraph which addressed the recruitment crisis in the U.S. Army – a topic surely at the forefront of every Telegraph reader’s mind.
He looks very pleased with himself for a man who just showed his metaphorical arse to the general public. Here’s what that public thought of his assessment.
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sorry this is so funny pic.twitter.com/7qLTtuJdDU
— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) August 19, 2023
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Thousands of young people were thrown into the grinders of Afghanistan and Iraq. This prick is writing about US military recruitment which, like UK recruitment, has always relied on poverty and desperation at one end and ‘elite’ status and tradition at the other. pic.twitter.com/7ISZob8BKn
— Mic Wright (@brokenbottleboy) August 19, 2023
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What if…and hear me out here…calling young people fat and woke *isn’t* a great recruiting strategy. pic.twitter.com/aQqtoJpDrM
— Smita Jamdar 💙 🇺🇦 @[email protected] (@smitajamdar) August 19, 2023
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Jim does little wees in his red chinos when he sees lads eating chips https://t.co/9eVhw7Nb0N
— Sarah Phelps (@PhelpsieSarah) August 19, 2023
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I'm fat and woke ( if not young). Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough pic.twitter.com/jEmIWl0Ru1
— Andrew Connelly Christison (@realachristison) August 20, 2023
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What I'm hearing is being fat and woke will eventually lead to world peace. pic.twitter.com/g947X9pItX
— Sam Whyte (@SamWhyte) August 19, 2023
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“Young people realising war is a pointless waste of life and money, and want a better, more peaceful world” pic.twitter.com/DQBx55Orq3
— Adam Fare 🖤🤍💜 (@adamfare1996) August 20, 2023
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I imagine ten randomly chosen teenagers could bounce ten Telegraph columnists like they were basketballs pic.twitter.com/fJ7ZYtJ7Oc
— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) August 19, 2023
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Someone should tell people like Jim Antle that perhaps young people are simply not interested in fighting in conflicts old people provoke. pic.twitter.com/40PMXpoFxz
— bæ grylls AKA Vax Kellerman (@TheAuracl3) August 19, 2023
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Eating bojangles to own the military industrial complex https://t.co/YLGF8OgF4Z
— post-human 🪩 post-ma'am 🟧 (@chicagobowles) August 20, 2023
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Delighted that I can now decline service on these very real grounds https://t.co/lFWGzht3gh
— Madelaine Hanson (@MadelaineLucieH) August 19, 2023
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Too fat for LA, too woke for New York pic.twitter.com/NovBcC0Gl5
— leigh (@leighGFX) August 19, 2023
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Jim has obviously never been outside a provincial Wetherspoons at 11:30 pm on a Saturday night. pic.twitter.com/1NBV0E89Di
— Dr Philip Lee (@drphiliplee1) August 19, 2023
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Says guy with a triple chin who looks like he’d get beaten up by a little breeze. pic.twitter.com/lxLjxBt9cz
— BeckSaxon (@becksaxon) August 20, 2023
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Send the politicians and all the warmongers.
Leave the young, fat and woke alone. pic.twitter.com/vMW8e83mUp
— James Foster (@JamesEFoster) August 19, 2023
BONUS
when will our thin bigoted husbands return from war
— Suchandrika (@SuchandrikaC) August 19, 2023
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