(WaPo: free?) Touching story of an aluminum foundry in Wisconsin where the workers primarily voted for Trump, and they are now suffering the pain of Trump's horrible tariffs and stubbornness re: the economy. Business is down 35 to 40% from January. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
His illegal tariffs...
Nope, zero fucks given. We warned them, we showed them the receipts, we tried to reason with them, but nope. They needed Cheeto the Tweeter to resolve highly complex issues with hate, vitriol, and division. They'll keep voting red too, seriously, fuck them. My empathy for maga is zero.
They can start working in farm fields for minimum wage like obedient little MAGA while the rich laugh at them.
Take care of yourself.
I can't. I really just can't feel sorry for people who chose cruelty (to immigrants) and ignorance (on everything), above their own practical interests - and now suffer from it.
More Americans need to have read Dr.Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Deals w/ the devil look great, but selling your soul for material advantage, pride, & a feeling of power always ends in tragedy. What makes it so tragic is they did it to themselves, and would probably do it again.
Thank you. I will read it next
"Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, & burned is Apollo’s laurel-bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone: regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise,..."
Regret is real, but it's not like they had no prior information about the candidate. This is indeed who they voted for.
Let them reap what they sowed...
Tots and pears…
Oops, fuck em
Meh. This CEO wrote this opinion piece as an appeal to ONE reader. The CEO mentions the employees wearing MAGA hats for a Biden visit, pointing out they are HIS people and excuses the imposed hardships from tariffs as unforseen, understandable consequence. Imo, this reads like a subliminal plea.