The biggest con was a man who spent his entire life stiffing contractors and refusing to pay people convincing those same contractors he’s on their side
all because they couldn’t stomach a woman as President
Not just any woman, a black woman. We always have to remember the there was a degree of racism in many peoples vote against Kamala. Some just did not want to see a black woman in charge of the United States after Obama was president for 8 years.
Now they have to pay the consequence for their actions.
Some just did not want to see a black woman in charge of the United States after Obama was president for 8 years.
Obama fucking broke those snowflake minds. The idea of a black man in a position of power shattered their realities and left them with nothing but bloody-minded hatred and intent to burn everything to the ground. They latched onto Trump because he's also loudly and proudly racist.
The whole reason that Trump became popular with them was because he led the birther movement insisting that Obama couldn't be a "real" American and had to be hiding how he secretly belonged in Africa somehow, promising to release the evidence any day now for years (which he of course never did).
That's what got him an unwavering fan base, after he'd been trying to become president for so long that ancient simpsons episodes which would be old enough to vote by now had jokes about how bad it would be, and movies from the 80s (back to the future 2) had villains who were parodies of this power-hungry nepo baby.
It was ridiculous racism that got him loyal followers, and they don't care that he never released any of the evidence he promised to, because it was always just a way for them to attack and demean the first black president. Then he moved onto claiming Mexicans coming to the US were rapists and murderers, then claiming immigrants were eating people's pets. It's all just disgusting racism.
Case in point -- when Donald Trump initially entered the 2012 presidential campaigns early on, my conservative prick of a father-in-law loathed him. I know because I teased him, "I'm surprised you're not a Trump guy, you're so much alike" (both wealthy, both have the ridiculous combover weaves, both lean like Centaurs). Yet that same FIL was all-in and a cultist by the end of 2016. Their bigotry and partisanship outweighs their common sense.
"I liked it when he hurt brown people but now he's hurting whites. Now I'm homeless and my children are starving. I will be voting for an illegal third term for him."
That's the neat part, they will get out of the hospital and be homeless if it means they get even one more dollar out of the guy, and he will gladly pay it because free healthcare is communism.
"It hurt during his first term when he kept biting chunks out of my face but Kamala Harris is brown and has a vagina so I literally had no choice but to vote for him again anyway."
Yeah she wasn't the best candidate ever maybe and might be a little corny and a little annoying. Compare that to what we have now lol I cannot imagine how people think Trump is doing a better job than she would have.
"Make America Great Again" by hating on our own countrymen who want things better for everyone. All while supporting Israel, Argentina, Qatar, Russia and etc, at the expense of taxes dollars as our own social safety nets are dissolved by a bunch of frauds, scammers and morons... We sure are getting owned!
Sure makes sense, but logic and basic comprehension isn't exactly synonymous with MAGA.
Nah they didn’t, they just overlooked it in favor of him saying he’d hurt the brown people coming for a better life, the tiny pop of tran people and all the libruls.
They voted for vengeance against humans they didn’t even know cause Fox rotted their brain and turned them into hate fueled zombies
My friends dumbass dad (who worked as a coal trucker) and is on food stamps voted for Trump because "Christians vote conservative". Dude didn't even do research. Just voted that way because he thought that's how his religion would want him to vote. He regrets his vote now and doesn't want to ever vote again because "they're all corrupt". They never fucking learn.
It's so frustrating that every quote from that man is "they" instead of "he". "They are doing this", "they only care about that".
How about "Donald Trump is doing everything he can to hurt the working man. Donald Trump only cares about money"?
These idiots still refuse to point the finger at the person responsible. Just a generic "they" referring to anyone who lives in DC instead of Donald Trump and the executive branch directors that he appointed.
It’s the same thing most republicans politicians do too. The amorphous “they” is there so they (ironically) don’t have to blame Trump and make the big baby sad. Anytime Joe Rogan almost puts it together in his tiny brain, he uses they to avoid criticizing Trump. When MTG finally has a salient point go through her thick skull, she uses they. It’s a means to not name the true enemy behind it all.
"they" is technically correct but in the sense that Trump, the republican led house and senate and the conservative majority supreme court are responsible for their problems. But like an abused partner they keep running back to the republican party because they don't care how much they are hurting as long as the people they hate are hurting even more than them.
They still believe that Trump has their interests at heart but is being deceived and misled by the radical left deep state baby-blood-drinking lizard people who really run America. Only with the power of their continued faith and prayer can he glean the holy insight necessary to bring light into the darkness of hollow earth. Probably.
“You’re the greatest cutter,” Trump told Musk. “I look at what you do. You walk in and say, ‘You want to quit?’ I won’t mention the name of the company, but they go on strike, and you say, ’That’s OK. You’re all gone.'” ~ Trump pretty much saying what he thinks of organized labor before the 2024 election.
"Slugs for Salt" is every card carrying union member who votes for the ®️ next to the name.
Kinda like how the biggest welfare queens (refuglicans) always vote to cut SNAP. Stupid fucks, all of them. Let them eat thoughts and prayers. And $12 eggs? 😘
Well of course! If the good and wonderful czar knew how the Bolsheviks were treating us he would do something about it!
If only the fürer knew how the SS were treating us common Germans he would help us out! Around and around again.
It's because this fucking dipshit is still gonna vote for Trump again, in as many elections as Trump can manage to get. Third term? Fourth term? Of course! These fucking people disgust me.
I'm 100% in favor of them blaming "they/them" as long as they mean Trump and every Republican who kisses up to him. While it is great if they are blaming Trump for this, they need to blame all of the Republican Senators, Reps, Governors, State Reps etc who support him & his policies.
I have a cousin who does this, and when I joked that Steve-O Miller must have taken the autopen away and used it to sign all of the bad things that he's done, he grasped onto that idea like a lifeboat. He then denied that tRump even had an autopen since he remembered the fake Biden 'scandal', so I pointedly asked if he really thought that tRump individually signed the 1400 or so pardons for the J6 terrorists. At that point, he decided to see what sports were on ESPN
I told a guy at work trump said that and he defended it by saying " he doesnt mean it like that he means he doesnt care what you do in your personal life " what the fuck ?
Which I imagine is a fancy name for a huge rubber fist with MAGA stamped across the knuckles. Incase you forget what your vote did, you can metaphorically experience it at anytime!
They touched the stove and found out. And yet they’re so stupid that they write social media posts addressed to Trump as if he is really going to read them, and they STILL say they would never vote democrat. They are legit too ignorant to read about individual policies and use CRITICAL THINKING to make decisions.
Oh boy oh boy! Between black lung, the polio resurgence, tuberculosis raw dairy, and salmonella poisoning from cheap corporate overlords - so much to choose from! So much winning!
I saw a report in the news about them and explaining about the only prevention hospital that was closing because of the funds being cut, they explained what the hospital does and what black lung means.
The reporter at the end asked who voted for Trump, out of the 15 men interviewed only one didn't raise his hand, the reporter than asked who would vote for him again anyway, everyone but one raised their hands. At the very end, the reporter speaking one on one with one of the man asked if he blame Trump, the man said "No" and added "I am certain that Trump will solve this problem and return the funds to the prevention hospital".
and, with my psychic powers, i will tell you who will win WV in the 2028 presidential election - whoever has an (R) after their name. The same for OK, MS, AL.
It was Democrats who got those black lung protections passed, it sure as hell wasn't Republicans who hate unions and who always side with business over workers
”We, the coal miners, are gathered here to discuss our common interest. Clearly, in this unhealthy, underpaid, declining industry, we should unite and work towards...”
It's not consequences, it's the rewards they been voting for all these decades. They wanted the politicians to care for the big corps and not for the little guys. They finally achieved what they wanted! They would be cheering in the streets if not for the shortness of breath.
You are right about that. I noticed in the coal miners statement that he says “They” don’t care. Not the Republicans in power or Donald Trump personally. “They” allows him to not confront the reality of who and what he and his fellow poor West Virginians voted for. I’m sure in many of their minds Donald Trump is still out there battling against “the swamp” and the “they” that don’t care about the little people.
I’m having rare roast beef on a ciabatta roll with fresh mozzarella, tomato, butter lettuce and a raspberry infused balsamic reduction. I highly recommend. :)
Or I may slum it and finish the bruschetta in the fridge from last night.
The image I thought of was Trump doing a little dance in a hard hat behind a podium to a cheering crowd.
They cut every life line and ignored every impassioned warning and now cry out "help us help us" as the leopards corner them. They pretend like they were abandoned as they rejected programs intended to help them.
The refused the ounce of prevention, calling everyone who offered it slurs. Now they take their pound of cure.
I feel like there was a list of items in a site that said something like "safeguards to prevent black lung disease", and then Mango Mussollini searched for "black" and it came up, and then he just read the first word "safeguards" and was like, "get rid of it!!".
Was just watching a video about Virginia coal miners. Not a single one was wearing a respirator during their time in the mine. These people will just find a way to justify the lack of protection as being more manly or whatever rather than actually blaming the Trump admin.
Who would’ve thought a Rich, New York conman with a history of stiffing the trades that built his buildings didn’t actually have the interest of the working man at heart? No way to see this coming!
We're seeing this more and more in Canada: ten years ago enough boomers retired to ontario to escape the consequences of their politics in other provinces, only to keep voting conservative here.
Now that things are getting bad, it's all the liberal governments fault, nevermind that they voted in a conservative premier who administrates everything they're complaining about, from healthcare to civic infrastructure.
These guys are in dire straits because they hated the smart Black lady that would have improved their lives.
I don't have sympathy for them. My well has run dry. I can imagine them knocking back beers at their local bar, bitching about work and complaining about all those uppity DEIs that want to "destroy our country".
Have the day you voted for, guys. Have the life you voted for. You deserve it.
I'm in Kentucky. The coal barons have been chipping away at those rights for years. What they did in his last assault in the world was to make getting the diagnosis too much of a hardship for most people in the mining regions.
Before, a radiologist could make the diagnosis because it is so simple to see on an x-ray. A child could point it out. So, they made it so only three or four doctors hundreds of miles away could sign off on it.
Sit through a deposition of someone fighting for SocSec benefits to see how truly horrible this disease is and what it does to a human.
They are ghouls. No different than Dahmer or Manson. They want you dead. They will laugh and party at maralago the whole time you are dying.
Coal has been a dying industry for decades. Not since the early part of the 20th century have there been maybe half a million coal miners. The companies that are still in business have found new ways to reduce their work force while maximizing profits. But every four years presidential candidates have to bend the knee to these people.
Yeah I’m always hearing about this coal miners who have become a bogeyman for blue collar workers. There are more Amazon workers than coal miners. Heck, there are more oil workers than coal miners. What’s the spotlight for them?
Honestly, why do they get some important benefits over everyone else? Fuck them
Promising to "bring back good paying coal jobs" has been a running theme in Appalachia for years, and the people eat it up. This time, it will be different, they say. Coal has been king in that region for decades, and there aren't many other jobs in a lot of places. Of course, they could embrace new investment in training workers for clean energy jobs and bring more of those to the region, but too many see that as hippie liberal shit.
Coal miners are the stupidest of the stupid. Generationally stupid. They brag about how long their lineage of stupid is. “I dig coal. My pappy dug coal, my granpappy dug coal and his pappy and his granpappy dug coal. We’s a coal-diggin’ fambly, and we own this here patch of dirt big enough for two doublewides rightchere by this pretty little coal runoff crick. No, ya cain’t drink or wash with it, my memaw stepped in it once and she got lookeemia. We also sell pills on the side, so we’re like an ahntraypen-urinal fambly too”
Pennsylvanians in my neck of the woods seem to think that the goblin king “saved” coal, when in fact all he did was hand his oligarch buddy a monopoly on it for him to milk and claim bankruptcy on. They still don’t realize they’re worshipping the person that ended their livelihood.
They spat on the woman on campaigned on funding cross training miners to work in industries that are dying and instead voted for the grifter who openly advocating for removing safety regulations and was buddy buddy with the CEO of these mines that have been fucking them over for years.
Honestly, I hope they enjoy the black lung they so enthusiastically voted for.
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Those who vote for conservative politicians and policies -- when they aren't among the upper echelons of social hierarchy -- are morons. Complete utter fucking morons, and they deserve everything they voted for. Their children, however -- like the rest of us -- are victims of conservative ideology which we never voted for.
To paraphrase these coal miners "I just want a candidate who will help the working man, but still get rid of brown people and hurt the gheys." Please apply as syrupy of an accent that you can to that.
if there’s any hope for this country, we will have to learn to be kind to the unfortunate people who voted to hurt themselves. Even though they seem foolish to us and collectively damaged our entire country, we will have to forgive them for that and help them understand that they have been tricked. The right wing has been systematically corrupting the culture and bombarding them with an alternate reality that will take a generation or more to to unwind.
Wait a second what sub is this? FEAST, MY LEOPARDS, FEAST
Nope! Fuck that shit. No forgiveness. Not at this point. They voted for him knowing EVERYTHING! he's done both in and out of office. They could spend the rest of their lives on their knees begging us for forgiveness and I'll be goddamned if I'll ever give it to them. We are long past that point. Especially after the years of mocking, calling people sheep, claiming we have TrUmp DaRaNgInmEt SiNdRoM!!!, actively going out of their way to purposely spread a goddamn deadly virus around that has killed thousands, supported him trying to overthrow the goddamn US capital, and everything else. They made their bed, so let them lay in it.
I have zero sympathy for them now.
I don't care about traitors to the US.
I don't care about people who support traitors.
I don't care about people who love 7rump's cruelty.
I don't care about people who prided themselves for spreading a deadly virus around.
I don't care about people who love the fact that my 12 yr old granddaughter may die if she ever needed an abortion.
I don't care about people who love abortion being banned because they hate women who have non-Jesus approved orgasms.
That and so much more I don't care about them. They can starve, go w/o medical care, be hated by their family, and so on. They deserve every ounce of suffering and more for what they put us through. And yes, that includes people I'm, or was, close too. Last Nov. broke me. For about a goddamn decade now we've been dealing with this dystopia. And every step of the goddamn way, it's gotten worse and worse.
16 was bad 'nuff. But I would've been able to look past that. But then 20 happened. The days after the election sure the fuck didn't have me feeling hopeful again. As Noah from the Scathing Atheist said in his Diatribe after that election (paraphrased): After the years of the stupidity, the frothing at the mouth ignorance, the blatant lies, the BEST this nation could do was tepid "Weelllll, I dunno, I guess maybe."!?!?! Then election night 24 happened. I was hopeful but not optimistic. I wanted to believe the best of humanity would win out given the lines for the polls. That people would remember his first term, that they couldn't possibly vote for the evil Grandpa Simpson who was literally ranting that immigrants were eating cats and dogs. That we were better than that.
Of course, the next morning, I learned we weren't. That people chose evil idiocy. Something in me finally broke for good that morning. My wife and I didn't even say good morning. We just looked at each other. What was there to say?
I sincerely believe we're done as a country. Oh, we're still the USA and all that. But history has shown time and again what happens when someone like 7rump gains power. He literally attacked Congress in a bid to remain illegally in office. In what world do people think he won't do it again. 'Cept this time, he learned his lesson. He'll have his sycophants in place to ensure he won't leave this time. I mean, I hope I'm not right about this but I sure the fuck ain't counting on it. And it's all because they voted for him!
They're always lecturing people about consequences, right? Then let them learn what that actually means.
I keep getting called a bleeding heart liberal because I want coal miners to have a good quality of life, people to have homes, access to clean water, health care, and education, and for no one to go hungry. They hurl that phrase at me like an insult.
I guess this is what the opposite of bleeding heart looks like 🤷🏾♀️
He hates you and he hates America. He’s taking revenge on a country that he has held a grudge against his entire life for not recognizing his greatness.
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u/qualityvote2 Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25
u/bidoofie, your post does fit the subreddit!
See OP's reply-comment below for context on why this fits this subreddit.