Trumpster admits trade war is screwing his business- but he still backs Trump-because: OWN THE LIBs

[kpete]

Link to tweet

[wcmagumba]

1. they so smart...nt

[Roland99]

2. No finer example of willful ignorance than this.

[Wellstone ruled]

14. You can not help these people.

12% on a 5k job turns that sale into a extra 600 dollars so now you have a bill of 5600. Did I miss something,60% of US households can't find 400 bucks in a emergency. WTF!

[theaocp]

22. While this is in GA

I wonder how much we need to temper our message to conservatives in other red states? Say, WV or AL? We gotta keep those seats, so I guess the patience we exercise for conservatives is contingent on if we have seats in that state?

This isn't really about your post, but you're the first one I saw regarding how we can't "help these people". I no longer think that is an absolute and is instead very subjective to other priorities. Cheers.

[Wellstone ruled]

24. It is all about the message.

Doing a pocket book campaign always wins the day.

[theaocp]

26. I don't disagree.

I'm just tired of saying we have to keep red state seats by kowtowing to conservative voters while simultaneously dismissing those voters as the enemy. Personally, I can't fucking stand conservatives, but which is more important to people: sucking up to conservatives in states where we have congressional seats OR disparaging them as dumbasses who aren't worth our time? Too many seem to want it both ways and I'm sick of the disingenuous shit.

[matt819]

3. We're seeing this all over the place

The nail manufacturer.

Harley-Davidson employees.

Soybean farmers.

Yes, we're being hurt, but we understand what he's trying to do.

On the one hand, it sounds like a mass masochistic psychosis. Maybe it is. But it's also a reality that these people would rather be hurt, and ask for more pain, than risk voting D and having non-white people getting "stuff" that they - white people - more rightfully deserve. That's really what it comes down to, IMHO.

[Cosmocat]

7. Sadly, yes

I have been pulling my hair out for decades, since the early 90s when as a young adult I saw how insane these people were over Clinton. Knew it was all bullshit, and self destructive, but while they obviously were comfortable with race baiting, I never could bring myself to directly assign it to racism.

But ... it is all out in the open now, and there is no way to avoid it.

[JHB]

16. "Yes we're being hurt, but it's worth it to crush you traitorous bastards"

And we're being uncivil when we tell people who swallow horseshit that their breath smells bad.

[bearsfootball516]

4. I remember an article a couple weeks ago with a quote from a Harley employee who was losing his job

He said something along the lines of “Well it sucks, but Trump is a great businessman so it’ll all work out in the end and I’m okay with it.”

I mean...you can’t fix stupid.

[bettyellen]

29. The one I saw had not yet lost his job at HD. He speculated he might, but ive noticed they're not

interviewing people who have lost their jobs and are pissed off. I guess they’re a little harder to find- but I think the media loves this narrative too.

[pstokely]

37. MAGAts are dumb freaks

But freak shows get ratings

[Initech]

5. Keep voting for your own demise, assholes.

[Girard442]

6. Sort of like the Nazis waiting for Hitler's secret plan to kick in.

While Berlin was being pounded to rubble.

[jalan48]

8. Tribalism is more important than self interest.

[gratuitous]

9. Clearly economic anxiety has nothing to do with their support for Trump

I know that's the favored narrative of the popular media, the economic angzieties, but this nitwit and his ideological compatriots all seem to think that their suffering will be short term and the reward will be long term. We'll probably find out how long that short term of suffering will last before they get dislodged from their Trump uber alles position.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

10. I hope he goes out of business.

And I'm not sorry for saying that.

I hope that he has to live in his car.

I hope his employers realize that it's him and his values that are the reason they don't have a job anymore.

He wants to 'own the libs'? This lib doesn't give a flying fuck if he thinks he's 'owned' me.

[NewJeffCT]

11. I've already heard Trumpsters that have said

that while it hurts them personally, they still support Trump because he's a "brilliant businessman" and he "must be doing it for a reason."

That said, we just need a handful out of every 100 to not vote Republican to win elections. Just 1 Trump voter in 100 deciding not to vote or voting 3rd Party swings PA, WI and MI to Clinton. 1 in 75 Trump voters swings NC and FL to Clinton as well.

[theaocp]

25. So reaching out to conservatives is necessary.

I only wish they EVER had to reach out to liberals.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. Deplorables would eat poop if liberals had to smell it.

[Initech]

27. I have said that if we were against kicking puppies...

They would literally start kicking puppies. We say we're for children, they say we're part of a globalist elite pedophile ring. If we said we're against jumping off bridges, they would go start jumping off bridges. I could go all day. It's just fucking madness.

[smirkymonkey]

33. Then by all means, lets start saying we are against jumping off bridges!

We could have a lot of fun with this! Liberals against drinking grain alcohol while medicated, Liberals against driving with brakes, Liberals against swimming in rip-tides, Liberals against golfing in lightening storms...could go on and on with this!

[Initech]

36. Reverse psychology! I like it!

[DFW]

13. "ten's" of millions more

The guy even writes in Republicanese, and I find his story just a little too generic--as if it had been churned out of the Frank Luntz book of Republican fairy tales.

[dalton99a]

15. Trump's nth-dimensional chess is on a galactic scale and beyond the comprehension of mortals

I hope those motherfuckers go bankrupt

[Kentonio]

17. 'Dully elected'...

[Mariana]

23. I saw that, too.

Does that mean he was elected by dullards?

[TeamPooka]

18. I love the "it's the economy stupid" and "tariffs aren't econimic" in the same sentence. LOL

[Solly Mack]

19. Yeah, well, when the banks come calling, don't call us.

[IronLionZion]

20. He admits to a price increase but doesn't expect a decrease in demand?

Many consumers shop for the lowest price on things like air conditioners, or may hold off on a purchase if the price is too high.

[Blue_Tires]

21. When did the political landscape turn into Reddit?

[Trust Buster]

28. I find it so hilarious when these wingnuts falsely claim that the trade war would end with

“Hundreds of thousands of new jobs”. Think about that for a second.

* The birth rate is the lowest it has been in 30 years.

* The huge Baby Boom generation is retiring en masse.

* The unemployment rate is 4%.

* Current jobs go unfilled for lack of an adequate labor pool.

* These same right wingers want to worsen the labor pool situation by kicking out every last undocumented immigrant.

QUESTION: In the right wing fantasy scenario of hundreds of thousands of new jobs, WHERE THE HELL DO THESE MORONS THINK EMPLOYERS ARE GOING TO FIND THAT LABOR POOL ?

[kairos12]

30. Trump zombies would set themselves on fire with paper from the NY Times

and would claim they are better off somehow.

[Cha]

31. That's their KARMA then.. cut off their collective

nose to Spite their Stupid face.

[Mc Mike]

32. Shame these buttholes can't just go self-immolate, without dragging

the rest of us with them.

[GulfCoast66]

34. Get one thing straight!

When we say they are demonizing liberals we are being inaccurate...

I am a 50ish upper middle class, southern kind of urban red neck liberal. Social Democrat even.

We all know it is not me they have in mind when they hate ‘liberals’.

After this there had best not ever be another ‘economic anxiety’ post on DU.

[BSdetect]

35. He swallowed the "Fake News" turd it seems.