Sipping tea from beer mugs with his co-workers, Kyle Bos listed the ways his life is changing.
Bos has two daughters, with a third due in January. At the grocery store, five items cost as much as a full cart once did. And on Wednesday, Bos and nearly 1,400 other people were laid off from their jobs at what had been the Navistar truck factory in southwestern Ohio.
The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. And they are one reason why Bos, 30, plans to spend the final weeks before the November election canvassing votes for Democrats.
Asked how many times he had voted for Trump, Bos held up three tattooed fingers. But he said he’s done with the president.
“Something has to change politically in this country,” said Bos, a member of the United Auto Workers who identifies as a centrist. “Seems like it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.”
I’d be willing to bet 1200 of them still vote GOP in November.
I’m straight up ready to abandon the American blue collared workers. They have been willingly duped for too long. Let them starve
And that’s the point!
Pretty much no viable Republican would say such a thing. They’ll do 10,000 things that make it clear they’ve abandoned blue-collar / working class people. They’ll support 1,000,000 more things that make it clear they’ve abandoned blue-collar / working class people. But they would never actually say they abandoned (or are ready to abandon) blue-collar / working class people.
So, Republican/MAGA managed to take near total control of the 3 branches of the USA’s federal government, a huge portion of state governments, and an enormous amount of local governments without even having to really try. Because “the other side” is more than happy to abandon the folks who voted for it.
Lying in parliament should be a crime. These things should matter when you are a decision maker for a country. Calling them out on it somehow makes the accuser seem petty?! We need to ditch 17th century sensibilities and take these tools to task for their malignant mismanagement.
Willingly duped?
They knew he was a full of shitz, everyone has known trump is full of shit for many decades. They just thought he couldn’t fuck it up that badly and he’d be real mean to immigrants and queer folks. Yes, willingly duped.
I try to keep a pulse on this thing, i live in deep maga territory. I understand the instinct to believe everyone knows they are being duped, but after i spent time getting to know some Trump supporters i have become deeply infuriated at the education system: they are indeed that dense. For disadvantaged men, at least, the culture of being tough and masculine leads to a lot of unaddressed trauma that is then channeled by the media to reinforce conservative ideology.
It is not that complicated to see, for example: being gay is bad in the ideology, anything deemed as gay is ostracized; human sexuality is a spectrum and only a small minority are perfectly straight, so any given man probably has some subtle gay feelings they have to repress. These men are then fed the story that they are better than the gay men because they (the conservatives) have self restraint. This contempt that has been manufactured is then translated directly into votes, because why would one let “reckless unrestrained fools” (my paraphrasing of perspective) run the country?
This is why culture war nonsense is so damned important, if people knew they were being fooled the culture war wouldn’t work.
Idk man it’s still a choice, you’re not wrong in what you said but if people keep choosing hate because of human psychology in our DNA or something, then yeah we’re just doomed which is the way it looks like it’s going. An empathetic perspective like yours doesn’t offer any solution, neither does my cynical perspective other than just protect yourself and find an opportunity to leave.
“Why are the unions turning against the left? Must be AM radio.”
Not that neolinerals being “the left” didn’t cause this problem in the first place.
DRUMP’S ECONOMY
Something about leopards…
If they vote Republican again they can make 5,000 dollars so i’ve been told by the orange paedophile.
Also they can sleep soundly knowing Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
Also they can sleep soundly knowing Iran can never have a nuclear weapon.
Frankly, I wouldn’t put it past him to fuck up that part too
If only there were some kind of deal with iran that prevented them from getting nuclear weapons.
And Trump will tell people at the rally to stop complaining because affordability is a hoax by the democrats and it would have been so much worse if Biden was president. And far too many people will leave the rally believing it.
Family member of mine said it’s because the the Democrats have the Senate and Representatives… He was/is brain washed and didn’t realize who is holding power right now
I have to make sure I heard that correctly. You’re saying you have a family member that believes the House and Senate are currently controlled by democrats?
That is correct. He didn’t believe it when I told him. I think when you hear fox news all day you’re left with that assumption
I hope he also gets to have the day he voted for ✨
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Keep munching on the shit sandwich from MAGA and guzzle down the Orange Kool-Aid. Zero sympathy, you voted for it.
What? Gas guzzling vehicles aren’t in high demand right now?
in a High gas price due to illegal war.
plans to spend the final weeks before the November election canvassing votes for Democrats
Oh good, they can learn eventually.
Only after they personally are harmed. Zero empathy.
why would biden do this
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Pretty sure it was Obama and his damn Tan suits
and his dijon MUSTARD on his hot dog.
Nope. It was a trans athlete in scranton NJ.
those darn trans people!
They are the new antifa.
Truly none of this matters. They will still vote straight R down the ticket, to dismantle those unions that protect them. I despise what they’ve done to America, almost as much as the billionaires themselves.
Asked how many times he had voted for Trump, Bos held up three tattooed fingers. But he said he’s done with the president.
Look, I was all in for ruining other people’s lives, but now that I lost my job, I’m out
Countless statements to that effect. MAGA will end itself. 🎉
… or so I hope.
Now that Trump can’t run again and isn’t even going to be on the ballot I’m done with him.
(Ya I know Trump is going to try to stay in office but if that man lives another 2 years the world ended anyways.)
Now he’s “done with the president.” Well he’s fucking term limited so he bravely made his choice after he no longer had the option to make it.
lol my gut feels fine. Theirs should, too, they obviously got what they wanted.
Ohioan: Lowers Trump flag to half-mast
