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HAB911

(9,722 posts)
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 07:37 AM Apr 2025

I can honestly say that I regret voting for Trump

(now that it affects me)

https://www.wfla.com/news/polk-county/i-want-to-stay-longer-haitian-man-family-members-worry-about-deportations-with-protections-rescinded/

‘I want to stay longer’: Haitian man, family members worry about deportations with protections rescinded
LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) – Members of two Polk County families said they are devastated over decisions by the Trump administration that threaten to deport their loved ones back to Haiti, a war-torn, gang-controlled country.

“These are people. This is not stuff that we’re moving around. These are people’s lives,” said Dawn Chappelear.

Chappelear and her husband, John, moved to Haiti in 2013 to do full-time missionary work.

During their time there, they met Cabila Toussaint, a Haitian boy.

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I can honestly say that I regret voting for Trump (Original Post) HAB911 Apr 2025 OP
No Tears, FAFO Best_man23 Apr 2025 #1
I feel sorry for the Hatian man BlueKota Apr 2025 #4
yep.... democratsruletheday Apr 2025 #8
They're not the ones who will suffer. yardwork Apr 2025 #10
After this large Tax Hike, be a lot of people regretting Emile Apr 2025 #2
"It's easy to fool someone." gab13by13 Apr 2025 #3
Describes my in laws. Woodwizard Apr 2025 #7
Dumbass. And it's that kid who's paying the price. She'll be vocal about it for a while, Scrivener7 Apr 2025 #5
I am totally fed up with Trump voters expressing regrets DFW Apr 2025 #6
I'm so sick of hearing "I didn't vote for this." yardwork Apr 2025 #11
They did, indeed DFW Apr 2025 #12
Tough shit, trump voters. Paladin Apr 2025 #9
Gosh, if only they'd had some inkling Sky Jewels Apr 2025 #13

BlueKota

(4,435 posts)
4. I feel sorry for the Hatian man
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 07:46 AM
Apr 2025

not the American family. What the hell, "this is not what was forecasted," plenty of people outside the magat bubble were warning what tsf would do. Not anyone else's fault you were too fucking brainwashed to listen.

democratsruletheday

(1,394 posts)
8. yep....
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 08:56 AM
Apr 2025

all they had to do was read and LISTEN. The orange fucker said what he was gonna do and he's doing it. Tots and Pears.

yardwork

(67,342 posts)
10. They're not the ones who will suffer.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 09:36 AM
Apr 2025

It's always that way with these sanctimonious jerks.

gab13by13

(29,054 posts)
3. "It's easy to fool someone."
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 07:42 AM
Apr 2025

"but it's hard to convince someone they have been fooled."

It pretty much takes the leopard to do the convincing.

Woodwizard

(1,189 posts)
7. Describes my in laws.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 08:50 AM
Apr 2025

They have invested so much emotional energy to the clown that at this point they are just too far in.

Scrivener7

(56,539 posts)
5. Dumbass. And it's that kid who's paying the price. She'll be vocal about it for a while,
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 07:50 AM
Apr 2025

but then promptly forget it.

And continue to vote for the people who did this.

DFW

(58,591 posts)
6. I am totally fed up with Trump voters expressing regrets
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 07:56 AM
Apr 2025

There is nothing happening now that anyone with an IQ in double digits could not have foreseen.

If you voted for Trump, this is what you voted for. All the human misery, the economic chaos, the environmental disasters waiting to happen (if they haven't already), the deterioration in foreign relations, the deportations, including of people dear to you, the rises in prices--this whole package was laid out, not only by Democrats, but by the Trumpanzees themselves. They made no secret of it. They were PROUD of it. They are proud still. They are proud of the chaos, they are proud of the incompetence, and they are proud of your misery, and that of those you claim to shelter, you "well-meaning" Christian missionaries.

You are all the King of Didd before Bartholomew laid it out for him. Don't you hang your head and tell me you're sorry. I won't starve, and I won't be deported. Go on your knees and beg forgiveness from those whose misery you deliberately encouraged and enabled, all the while falsely claiming you had no idea. Then go deplete your entire net worth trying to make it up to them. You won't succeed, but at least you will be putting yourself in a position where one might believe your regrets.

DFW

(58,591 posts)
12. They did, indeed
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 09:58 AM
Apr 2025

If listening to Fox Noise convinced them otherwise, that's on them. No one forced them to listen to that drivel, and if they did anyway, no one forced them to believe it. You can't cut off your left hand and expect your piano playing to be as good as it was before.

Paladin

(31,122 posts)
9. Tough shit, trump voters.
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 09:06 AM
Apr 2025

I'm reserving my sympathy and support for those who are genuinely deserving.

 

Sky Jewels

(9,148 posts)
13. Gosh, if only they'd had some inkling
Thu Apr 3, 2025, 10:03 AM
Apr 2025

that Trump is a raging racist batshit crazy white supremacist Nazi.

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