"This is a fucking disaster": Generational Republican family loses 95-year-old mill to Trump's tariff mess

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24. I have both pity and disdain for these people.

I get no personal satisfaction from seeing fifty-plus working class people being tossed out onto the sidewalk with no greater financial reserves than whatever spare change passers-by are willing to toss their way.

However, no one needed a PhD in Economics or Political Science to understand that what Trump was offering before the election is what he delivered after the election. The laid-off workers can’t say, “we didn’t know,” because Trump told them what was coming if they voted for him and he won. Both their pre-election slogan and their post-election slogan was, “well, Harris would have been worse.” They hang on to this despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. If the Biden years were so absolutely awful, OK, they should please elaborate how. Fox may have told them so, but they had jobs, a roof over their head and enough to eat. They now have none of the above, but things are better now? I hope their local Fox Noise affiliate has a soup kitchen and a hostel to offer them, because the help that probably would have been coming from a Harris-Walz administration will not show. For that matter, had there been a Harris-Walz administration, their jobs never would have been in peril in the first place.

So, sure, they can have my pity, but not my sympathy. Why not? Here’s why: had I been one of those suddenly tossed out onto the street due to changes ordered by Trump, they would not only have no sympathy for me (good Christians that they are), they would tell me that my misery was God’s will, and that I should just accept his judgment. I offer the same comfort. Try voting for the other party next time. If Fox and Frauds says not to, check to see how many of THEM are living under bridges, and make your own conclusions.