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Voter remorse MAGAregret

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by l_boy, Feb 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM.

  1. l_boy

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    This thread will be dedicated to those voters who somehow rationalized a Trump vote and now have been screwed by him.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/27/fired-federal-worker-trump-voter/

    Besides, motherhood was her most pressing concern. Cooper, 24, and her husband were trying to get pregnant, but the doctor said that IVF might be their best chance. Trump had promised to make it free. That is what she thought about in the voting booth.

    Now she was staring at her phone, learning that probationary workers in the Forest Service were the next to be fired by his administration. Cooper would likely be one of them, her union head told her.
     
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  2. l_boy

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  3. G8R92

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    How does a non-citizen vote for Trump?
     
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  4. l_boy

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    I suspect that there are citizens and immigrants with legal status that have family and friends that are refugee status. Also at issue is the revoking of these temp refugees ability to work status.
     
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  5. Gator515151

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    Ask Biden.
     
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  6. G8R92

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    I couldn't read the link so I wasn't sure the context. Thanks for elaborating.
     
  7. citygator

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    Sad story. I almost feel sorry for her. But then I read the news at what she and those like her enabled and I think it’s much needed medicine.
     
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  8. Orange_and_Bluke

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    Talk about your classic thread fail.
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  9. citygator

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    Well we wont know until midterms honestly so the thread is a little early. But there is almost zero chance the Pubs pull the house next election. I’ll bookmark your response so we can see if it really is a fail.
     
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  10. VAg8r1

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    The most likely explanation is that the story conflated two different categories of Venezuelans, those who become citizens and exercised their right to vote by voting for Trump and those whose Temporary Protected Status will be withdrawn making them eligible for deportation back to the Maduro's socialist paradise and by the way the latter category very likely includes relatives of Venezuelans in the former category. Venezuelans who have acquired US citizenship tend to vote the same way that Cuban Americans do for the same reason, Republicans have much more vigorously opposed the Marxist governments of the homelands. Said it before if there was still a Soviet Union and Venezuela was an ally of the Soviet Union Venezuelan immigrants would be welcomed and automatically granted refugee status as have Cubans for decades although even the status of Cubans now depends on how they entered the US with those that end up on a beach in Florida being treated better than those who crossed the border from Mexico

    Edit: The story itself was accurate. It was the title that conflated American citizens originally from Venezuela with Venezuelans with TPS. If I'm a Venezuelan who fled the Marxist regime of Hugo Chavez 20 years ago, was granted asylum and became an American citizen and I have relatives who fled the same country five years ago and may now be sent back by the Dear Leader that I helped elect I'm not going to be very happy.
     
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  11. l_boy

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  12. gator_jo

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    This.

    There should be a way for Trump voters to get fired twice, so non-Trump voters don't have to. Since they didn't allow themselves to get conned by a criminal con man.

    Trump voters with remorse? Zero *somethings* given.
     
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  14. WarDamnGator

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    Don’t worry, she can just get one of those “black jobs” trump promised will be widely available once he runs all the immigrant roofers and fruit pickers out. should work out fine for her.
     
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    Does this gif bring you joy? Humor? Comfort?
     
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    all of the above
     
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  17. 92gator

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    Trump's got a ways to go to match Doh! Biden's millions of missing voters from '20-'24 that either didn’t vote at all, or went Trump, upon realizing how gawd awful the Dumb alternative to Trump/GOP was.
     
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  18. VAg8r1

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    He'll get there and it will be sooner rather than later.
     
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  20. insuragator

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    OH I am LMAO because a similar thing happened to me. I was going up the escalator in DC visiting my son. He yelled, "Dad" so I waved (while taking my hand off my suitcase). The suitcase started going down while the escalator was going up. I tried to chase it and lost a shoe, my jacket and my new $30 metro card. Twisted my ankle and all we did was walk all week. Once my son found out I was OK he said, "IF there is video that shit will go viral" :). Drinking on a plane is always awesome!
     
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