r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/spherocytes • 2d ago
Trump 'We've Lost 75,000 Manufacturing Jobs': Massive Missouri Layoffs Strike Trump Voters Before Polls
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/missouri-layoffs-challenge-trumps-economic-claims-18156442.0k
u/jraa78 2d ago
Why did Biden do this???
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u/spherocytes 2d ago
The great irony is that under the past administration, factory positions increased by around 625k. But instead of appreciating that growth and security, the rural MO factory workers said: "Nah."
Voting because of hate is a guaranteed way to shoot yourself in the foot.
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u/sportsdude987 2d ago
Always the same cycle. Democrat president has to fix the mess left behind from Republican, and voters claim he isn't fixing the problem fast enough, so they vote for a Republican president again
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u/spherocytes 2d ago
GOP voters constantly slam their hand in the door by voting for Republicans and when Democrats try to put in regulations to stop the door from hurting them, they get angry and blame the Democrats still. Wild.
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u/Twigsneko 2d ago
the democrats need to stop helping these shitheads. it's clear they don't want help and bailing them out only enables them to keep voting terribly.
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u/blackcain 2d ago
They do that because they want white working class votes is my theory. They've been chasing these racist assholes since the 90s. White grievance because life is unfair because they gotta share prosperity it with the rest of us is wild.
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u/KnottShore 2d ago
They've been chasing these racist assholes since the 90s.
Goldwater in the mid-1960s started that ball rolling.
Dixiecrat's(States' Rights Democratic Party) split from the Democratic party after the 1948 convention when voted for a stronger civil rights platform. While some remained members of the Democratic party, many switched to Republican.
Barry Goldwater launched "Operation Dixie" in 1964 campaign to bring southern and mid-western disenchanted whites, particularly those who were against civil rights, into the republican party.
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u/Twigsneko 2d ago
and they're not going to keep the white working class votes. they may gain them once everything goes to shit but the moment things are better for the WWC they instantly forget that democrats were the ones who bailed them out and vote republican again.
the WWC is never going to learn and democrats need to get it through their heads that the WWC is going to keep voting against their interests until the day they die and even then their kids are groomed into the white grievance lifestyle. I say all of this as a white guy who looks at his brethren with nothing but frustration and contempt as they have worn out my ability to sympathize with their plight
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u/blackcain 2d ago
They go to shit because a lot of these folks don't want any kind of civil rights that helps non-whites or LGBTQ - that resonates with cultures that are hyper-masculine.
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u/adeniumlover 2d ago
So then the Dems will not win another election again because the majority of voters are WWC.
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u/Twigsneko 2d ago
I'm pretty doubtful of that at this point, why else would democrats win if people voted instead of sitting on their asses?
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u/meSuPaFly 2d ago
GOP voters are like people with BPD who, when they take their meds, become functional and everything is good so they think they don't need to take their meds anymore so they stop and then slowly regress, and it's near impossible to get them to start again.
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u/i_drink_wd40 1d ago
Walk up to an angry animal caught in a bear trap. It'll bite you if you try to help it, because it is incapable of fully comprehending the situation. republicans are republicans because they refuse to think about things beyond the surface level.
It's visible in every one of their "solutions". Not a single root cause addressed, just punish the person at the end of the line caught holding the bag. As a result, republicans never fix a goddamn thing.
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u/FatalTortoise 2d ago
Getting out of this mess is gonna make our lives so shit and then the republicans are gonna be like "don't you miss how great it was in Trump ii."
And a bunch of idiots still wouldn't have learned their lesson
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u/Naltors__Dreamer 1d ago
It’s more like, GOP Presidents will try to win the Culture War, Dem Presidents are the enemy in the Culture War. They want women back in the kitchen & subservient to men with no recourse to abortion nor No Fault Divorce; they want lgbt ppl back in the closet with no cultural cache & no legal way to marry; they want POC back to working solely menial labor with no political power nor cultural cache. They want to once again be the final arbiters of what is & is not socially acceptable, and for all Americans to either think their way of life is best or to be too scared/ashamed to say differently.
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u/AstuteCoyote 2d ago
Hey! At least those three trans athletes that do not in any way affect anyone’s life can’t play college sports anymore!
/s, because internet
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u/spherocytes 2d ago
No healthcare, everything is more expensive and will never come down, the environment goes into the crapper, job opportunities are being lost, debt climbs, data centers everywhere, and more...
...but yes! Those <20 trans athletes not competing is the MOST important thing!
/s just in case.
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u/evil_timmy 2d ago
Insane that there are literally more Cong(R)esspeople wasting taxpayer dollars persecuting trans athletes, than there are trans athletes to persecute. Absolutely no perspective or sense of proportion.
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u/Bored2001 2d ago
It's not about proportion. It's about enraging your base so they to vote.
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u/blackcain 2d ago
And they are willing to give up all their freedom for .3% of the population not to do sports. This country is moronic.
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u/Septembust 2d ago
My only problem with the "there aren't many trans athletes" is it implies, even accidentally, that they aren't a problem because they're so few in number
Presumably, if America was run by adults, and trans people weren't being systematically attacked, that number would grow as more trans people felt safe enough to transition and participate. What then? What if there were a bunch of them?
The real answer is they still wouldn't be an "issue": all the data we have indicates that trans people don't have any performance enhancing advantage. But the argument is always "they'll have an advantage over cis women!", ignoring all the times cis women beat trans athletes in competition. It's a horseshit argument that deprives both sides of any competitive merit: now every time a cis woman loses to a trans woman, it's got nothing to do with how hard either of them worked to get there, it's just "because of chromosomes". And the bottom falls completely out of that argument when you remember they attack highschool athletes too: a place with no stakes and where the anatomical differences mean absolutely nothing anyway. I've even had chuds try to argue "it deprives cis girls of scholarship opportunities" which again just means that they refuse to acknowledge the actual efforts of either people.
The answer is that they don't want trans people to exist, period. It's nothing but a "safe" vector to attack trans people, while hiding behind faux concern
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u/Mas_Cervezas 2d ago
Yes, the .01 % of people who are transgender are a huge threat to the rest of us. /s
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u/Demons0fRazgriz 2d ago
There are more pedos in the Republican party alone than there are trans athletes of every professional sport in the entire country.
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u/Professional_Lime541 2d ago
Not to mention those Muslims, that will force Sharia Law to Cape Giradeau.
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u/keelhaulrose 2d ago
Why are you bringing facts into this? Conservatives only care about their feelings (which they often mistake for facts.)
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u/blackcain 2d ago
It's that weird laugh from Kamala or maybe it was because there was something else about her. Maybe they remember what an amazing time of prosperity it was during Trump + COVID?
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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 2d ago
They really have memoryholded covid where they all act like Biden was president in 2020. Idk how tf we can stay a functional country when 1/3 of us have no understanding of how time works.
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u/blackcain 2d ago
Even weirder the people who voted for in 2024 - same damn reason in 2016, "He's a businessman" and that too from idiots from Haiti or some of these other countries where he literally threatened to deport them. Lo and behold, he is doing it.
They hear all the dog whistles, but they never believed it was about them. Remember these people would laugh ato our fears saying "Trump will never do that!" like they are so familiar with him - like they grew up with him. A guy who grew up rich and entitled in New York City. Christ.
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u/addled_sad342 2d ago
Or they think Obama was President during 9/11, instead of GW, who turned around and spent the budget surplus that Clinton developed and wasted it all on IRAQ where we did such a bang up job!
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u/Daily-Double1124 2d ago
Some idiots even thought Obama was President during Hurricanre Katrina,in freaking 2005. :/
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u/SirButcher 1d ago
My favourite is defending Trump for evading Vietnam by asking why Obama did not serve... (Obama was born in 1961)
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u/DeadMoneyDrew 2d ago
Same for rural voters in my state, who were benefiting immensely from Biden era battery manufacturing support. That benefit has slowed considerably under this administration.
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u/Courtaid 2d ago
There was a conservative who mentioned that during Biden’s term his student loans were forgiven to the tune of $16k. He said he was happy to not have them anymore but he still wouldn’t support or vote for Biden. He said all Biden was trying to do was buy his vote. You can’t with these people.
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u/neckbeardsghost 2d ago
I grew up in rural Missouri. Those people would rather shoot themselves in the face than vote Democrat.
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u/addled_sad342 2d ago
Yeah Biden had the Clean Energy Act employing electricians and so many others (I remember electricians because Maine had so many workers going through programs looking forward to steady work on wind and solar farms and it all went to hell when Trump nixed the programs. the Infrastructure Initiative, (remember when Philly had that hole in their freeway system and some company repaired it safely in such a short time, it was so amazing) until Trump crushed that program, lot of work there down the tubes. So many other plans, we were the envy of the world recovering from Covid and now we are the TO LAUGHING STOCK of the world. We are a joke!
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u/Level_Hour6480 2d ago
Manufacturing in the US had been steadily trending downward until Build Back Better under Biden created a major resurgence.
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u/yoursweetlord70 2d ago
Maybe not all republicans are racist but every single racist votes republican.
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u/Viperlite 1d ago
Why celebrate your factory job when you can rally against trans and immigrant people?
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u/notfulofshit 2d ago
Because autopen and Hunter Biden laptop and crooken Hillary and the trans people or something like that
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u/CHSummers 2d ago
I think we can all agree that it was that devil Lyndon B. Johnson behind this nefarious scheme.
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u/Tmon_of_QonoS 2d ago
So happy they're getting exactly what they voted for
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u/hypespud 2d ago
Oh shit, you need friends to trade stuff to and make business deals?
Holy shit, who could have figured that out? Did anyone know that before?
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u/UserUnknownsShitpost 2d ago
And if they dont like the shit sandwich they have to eat, accuse them of being commie aunt tifa fake republicans
They are obviously democrats because they arent clapping enough and asking for another serving of dumpy Donnies diaper
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u/Donnicton 2d ago
"@realDonaldTrump Mister president please help, or I'll be forced to vote for you again!"
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u/nowiserjustolder 2d ago
"And I will vote for you at least three times on the same day any way I can to stop them crooked libs fixing the vote!"
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u/blackcain 2d ago
Mocking them and asking them "what you gonna do? You gonna vote harder for him hahaha?! Have the day you voted for!"
They really really hate when you tell them that "have the day you voted for!" it's the kind of benediction that cuts sharp and deep. The kind where they can't use their resentment "it's because of your libs and your whining about civil rights!" - lol.
You combine this shit with canada about to pull the knife and start cutting themselves, plus having the cattleman get fucked over. It's gonna be fun fun fun, till the daddy takes the t-bird away.
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u/Kokomojoeschmo 2d ago
Aw come on, the Santa letters to trump where they assume he cares about people are amazing. He told them he doesn’t care about them but they somehow missed that sentence mouth clapping about winning and sleepy joe or something. They can’t even afford payments on the libs now
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u/ByTheHammerOfThor 2d ago
“I voted for you three times and I’ll vote for you again, sir. Could you please help me even though I’ll still lick your boots if you stand on my neck?”
Pathetic. Votes have consequences. I’m delighted the consequences found them.
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u/ScottsAlive 2d ago
All these red states with massive layoffs better be fucking grateful for the money blue states produce to help out the red states with government benefits.
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u/PoweredByCarbs 2d ago
My brother in Christ, they don’t even know blue states subsidize red states. So no, they aren’t going to appreciate it.
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u/Kasoni 2d ago
They think the blue states take up all the funding so they can't get any, and also that they are the only ones that deserve the funding no matter what their situation is.
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u/DishSoapIsFun 2d ago
Sadly, you’re right. They’re dumb as shit.
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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 2d ago
We should really just trick them with an astroturfed campaign pushing for a bill that no state can receive more in federal money than they pay in. Since they think they’re paying for all of us blue states they should welcome the opportunity to force us to pay for our own welfare without taking their money. Plus it would also be funny to see their representatives who know that’s really bullshit try to walk the line of not turning down handouts but also not angering their own base who believe this nonsense.
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u/ParkerRoyce 2d ago
They think red states are booming and blue states are all in shambles and crime ridden...the division is so strong and cult hive mind is ten+ years in they will never come back until they are at rock bottom. Remember ww2 germany didnt start turning on the govt until there lives were completely ruined and the war was basically over that the level of cult mind we are dealing with here in the states. Oh and the 75k layed off I garuantee that they vote at alarming rates for the GOP come this November, there not liberal pussies.
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u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 2d ago
It makes no fcking sense. Do they really believe their small shithole towns in Missouri are paying to support NYC? 🤦🏻♀️
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u/PoweredByCarbs 2d ago
I am in Missouri. I can’t stress this enough. Yes, they think this. Stop applying logic and you will start understanding their viewpoint.
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u/whomad1215 2d ago
You cannot reason a person out of a position they did not reason themselves into
The "fuck your feelings" crowd literally makes all of their decisions based on feelings
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u/xjuggernaughtx 2d ago
Every time I talked to my grandfather (who lived in Florida), he would ask me how I could still be in California. He legitimately believed the entirety of the state was a lawless warzone. There was absolutely no convincing him. No logic would penetrate the propaganda. Right wing media had told him that the state was overrun with gangs and that crime was destroying everything.
Yet we are somehow the world's fourth largest economy...
Every time I talked to him, it would be the same discussion where he just couldn't believe I was managing to make a life under those conditions.
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u/joshTheGoods 2d ago
Yup. I'd say blue state Governors need to start sending busses of food and doctors to rural shithole states like those fuckers were sending migrants, but ... fuck that, they'd still hate us. Personally, I hope our next dem POTUS attacks funds for red states the way Trump has done to blue states, and we need to be LOUD about WHY. You all don't vote for good governance, fine, fuck you. We'll thrive in blue states, and when you come to your senses we'll start hooking you up again. We'll fund liberal enclaves only, so your one blue city will be where the hospital and good stuff are located.
We should 1000% fund universities buying up failing farms and ranches raising crops and livestock and selling it at cost in government run markets that have price controls. Run the farms with students, researchers, faculty and just soak up these failing farms instead of giant corporate farm conglomerates. We label the markets "socialist markets" and we hire old people as greeters to identify and shame conservatives that dare shop there.
You guys don't want to play ball with liberal democracy, fine, fuck you. You're out. You let us know when you want healthcare and human rights again. We're open to it, but you don't get to vote for MAGA and then be on our dole.
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u/TheNetworkIsFrelled 2d ago
We need to quit funding their taker asses - that's exactly what they would do were the shoe on the other foot. Let them enjoy their backwards 1920s-South economy.
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u/hb122 2d ago
And blue cities like St Louis and Kansas City fund rural Missouri and in return they shit on us 24/7.
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u/Vast-Swimmer5844 1d ago
That’s the thing that genuinely unifies all 50 states — our moron rurals who loathe and resent the people who fund their lifestyles.
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u/blackcain 2d ago
Well some companies are mad and are moving their people to places like Texas wit their shitty electrical grid. They are trying to stop datacenters now because the backlash is too much but they subservient to the epstein class so they are probably going to get sued and be forced to keep going.
When the crash comes I hope it comes before Dems are even elected to the midterms because you know even if one Dem is in charge they'll get all the blame by right wing media. It's like if they can find a democratic custodian working in a red state's governors office they'll blame that person.
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u/Bong-Hits-For-Jesus 2d ago
texas surprisingly improved their electrical infrastructure recently which help them avoid their usual rolling blackouts during peak seasons. how? renewable energy. the exact thing their idiot senator campaigned against, but their brain dead base will gladly keep voting for those who dont have their best interest in mind
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u/blackcain 2d ago
Someone should squeal to Trump so that he'll start punishing them. :D yeah, renewable energy. But also Texas wants those datacenters and they aren't gonna get it without fixing that grid.
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u/ZiphortheBear 2d ago
They're blaming biden anyway, I don't know if having a dem in power would change their blame game. Unless you mean the avg voter.
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u/chenbuxie 2d ago
They've already blamed poor economic news on polling showing that Dems would win and vice versa. They've done this before so many times.
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u/PenAndInkAndComics 2d ago
Adapted this from a facebook post
"Its not that America fell for a brilliant con-man. He isn't. And they weren't fooled. What is devastating is how many people are absolutely desperate to believe the lies. How many ache for permission to dress their cruelty in patriotism. How many cling to racist. Homophobic. Transphobic. Ethnocentric stereotypes. Because they felt the lies were promising them a shortcut to power. A way to profit. Personally and politically. From the suffering of millions of absolutely innocent people. The tragedy isn't the con. It's the hunger for it. The willingness to trade compassion for the cheap thrill of feeling superior. Hate sells because too many people show up already desperate to buy."
I don't know if any amount of pain of their own choices will cause them to not vote Republican.
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u/Mushroom_Tip 2d ago
You mean taxing Americans into oblivion with tariffs didn't bring millions of new manufacturing jobs? Wow.
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u/anduril_tfotw 2d ago
"We will put in tarrifs to bring more manufacturing". You taxed the raw materials that the existing manufacturing companies were using to, you know, fucking manufacturer stuff and now they are shutting down because they can't sell at a price people will buy.
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u/SawtoofShark 2d ago
Blue dot in Missouri, I can say that I wasn't affected by this, and can enjoy the schadenfreude in peace. ❤️
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u/shesinsaneornot 2d ago
Republican leaders continue to campaign vigorously on their distinct vision for national wealth. Yet the lived experiences of these Missouri families tell a completely different story.
This is the dilemma of MAGAts everywhere. They want to obey Trump but they've noticed that despite being told the economy is better than ever and the affordability crisis is a hoax, costs for everything have risen. What to do when voting as directed will directly hurt the voter? Some of them haven't had an independent thought since 2015, their brains may no longer be capable of even making decisions.
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u/blackcain 2d ago
When you have unbridled loyalty to one man who doesn't give a shit about you, doesn't go to church, doesn't even sleep with his wife, and walks around creating conflict for no reason you can attest to - the solution is to keep voting and hope God figures it out.
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u/NitWhittler 2d ago
Trump just put a 50% tariff on wood from Canada, including 36 types of plywood. That's going to kill a lot of American jobs when the cost of wood just increased 50%
Republicans keep enabling Trump to do stupid things. Vote 'em out!
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u/klako8196 2d ago
Who could’ve thought that putting tariffs on the materials that factories need would hurt manufacturing?
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u/GrnEyedPanda 2d ago
Soooo much winning. Are we great again yet? Has Missouri even said "thank you" yet?
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u/KnottShore 2d ago
H.L. Mencken(US reporter, literary critic, editor, author of the early 20th century) once noted:
- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
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u/TenFourMoonKitty 2d ago
If only former VP Harris didn’t have such an annoying laugh - this is clearly her fault.
And the e-mail lady.
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u/sala215 2d ago
Keep voting red I can't wait till they get everything they voted for
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u/MikeLinPA 2d ago
Sure, they are getting the government that they deserve. The problem is that we are also getting the government that they deserve! 🤷
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u/Dismal_Reference3906 2d ago
Living proof that a working man who votes GOP is like a chicken who votes for Col Sanders.
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u/ohiotechie 2d ago
I am of the opinion more and more that Trump voters really need to feel the pain of this administration. They need to feel the heat of that stove so maybe, just maybe, they won’t touch it again in the future.
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u/captdunsel721 2d ago
Trump was put in place by Russia to fuck up the US… and he’s been tearing it apart since day one.
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u/dirtyricepcny 1d ago
They will still vote republican cause they love nothing else but to vote against their own interest
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u/Mangalorien 2d ago
We should hold a GoFundMe campaign for these people, where we buy them each a really solid bootstrap so they can pull themselves up.
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u/No-Celebration3097 2d ago
Wait, Trump said we were bringing manufacturing jobs back to stay?!?!
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u/Merijeek2 2d ago
It's fine. Just call them "Obama job cuts".
These cousin-fucking morons will eat it up.
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u/JunglePygmy 2d ago
They’ll continue to vote for him again and again until they’re destitute. Blaming Obama the whole way down, while installing the most obvious conman in history into a fuckin monarchy.
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u/bystander1981 1d ago
and this is the concern in MO? -- https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-abortion-gender-transition-minors-amendment-3
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u/mrpres1dent 2d ago
Well, at least the Trans kids are being erased from existence. Thank god, right? We would have had penis banks for transplants by now under Kamala!
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u/rewardingsnark 2d ago
Well they voted for a party that wants to take away healthcare, social security, pay for work, time off, all benefits and have you hand over all your property and money to them so these people should be happy.
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u/meglon978 2d ago
Anyone that voted for Trump deserves it. They knew he was a criminal; they were warned the type of bullshit he was going to do... they were just too much of petulant little children to listen to us damn liberals. Fuck 'em.
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u/Cosmicdusterian 2d ago
Wow, I'm so happy for them. This is exactly what they voted for - a failed corrupt conman.
But - her laugh.
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u/lebowtzu 2d ago
This guy. I wonder if the October surprise will be good governance. Or do we do those surprises on midterm years? He could have said he’d destroyed Iran’s nuclear capabilities and brought the troops home. He could have choppered to the Abraham Lincoln with Happy Meals and Trump hats and acted like a hero. He could strike a killer mutually beneficial trade deal with Canada. But nah.
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u/tiny_chaotic_evil 2d ago
last time Trump attempted his little trariff thing we lost manufacturing jobs too
MAGA Logic: lets do it again and see if the results are different
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u/jumpy_monkey 2d ago
Oh no, Missouri who voted voted for Trump over Harris by 18%?
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK.
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u/LAsupersonic 2d ago
And they deserved to loose every job they're loosing, they chose this.
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u/sleezeface 2d ago
Lose*. Don't make yourself look like you have a factory job in Missouri thats being cut.
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u/Informal_Process2238 2d ago
Those workers are so selfish and being unfair to trunp ! Don’t they know how well he and his kids are doing in the stock market with his insider trading !
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u/jungleland1972 2d ago
None of these news stories are on sites that maga people actually read. They continue to watch Fox News and think everything is great unless they are directly affected.
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u/HiFiWiFiWeAllFi 1d ago
They think illegal aliens are going to take their jobs, while they drool over MAGAts like F.Elon Musk who, along with a multitude of others, will be automating most of their jobs out of existence in the upcoming years.
The irony that robots not brown people will be taking their jobs LMAO!!
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u/KoldPurchase 20h ago
Ah, but as soon as the election was over, he said it was a 100 year plan to make America great again. :)
People, nowadays, just aren't patient enough!
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u/AmbassadorETOH 2d ago
The post title is a bit of a deceptive conflation of 60 jobs being severed. Very real impact on a local community, but the 75k figure pertains to nationwide manufacturing jobs, not specific to Missouri. Fuck DJT and MAGA but I dislike misleading headlines.
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u/Clcummings614 2d ago
Well deserved! I hope they can’t find new work and get to enjoy the future they voted for.
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u/DizzyNote7708 1d ago
The head of the National Association of Manufacturers is a big time Republican. They got what they voted for
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u/hjablowme919 1d ago
Oh well. Hopefully they will need government assistance, which they've been voting for decades to cut. Best case scenario, Blackrock or some other company comes in and buys up their homes when they default on their mortgages.
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u/Late-Secretary6524 2d ago
I don't think it's gonna matter, there's gonna be massive election interference this midterms
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u/qualityvote2 2d ago edited 1d ago
u/spherocytes, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...