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“This is a fucking disaster”: Generational Republican family loses 95-year-old mill to Trump’s tariff mess - WTF Detective

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For years, Mackeys Ferry Sawmill in North Carolina depended on overseas buyers in China and Vietnam after domestic demand for premium hardwood declined. But when President Donald Trump launched his escalating trade war, the mill’s owners say the damage was immediate and ultimately irreversible. By J...

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Even so, he said given the choices on the ballot, he still would have voted for Trump
see, this is why i don't have even a subatomic particle of sympathy for these people. yea, they'll lament over their own livelihoods being completely destroyed, but they'd STILL vote for trump, for reasons that, at this point, don't need explaining anymore
i'm glad they're suffering
- This is why America has no future. Its people will drive it into the fucking ground thanks to the corporate propaganda machine and conservative culture.
  
  conservative cult~~ure~~.
  
  Regressive culture. They have stolen the word conservative. I'm conservative, in every way in my life. Part of that is not trying to force my point of view on others. I give my point of view and certainty will tell someone I disagree with theirs. I'm living my own life. I drive a fifteen year old well maintained car. I've had two mobile phones in the last 12 years. I rarely buy anything that is not of use to me or my children. I don't want to take rights from people for their beliefs. I don't drink much, gamble at all but don't condemn those that do unless they are harming their children doing it.
  The regressives I see drive huge late model vehicles. They always brag on having the latest mobile or some other frill. They constantly judge others for what they don't have. Those that were lucky enough to be born into stability get upset when reality intrudes on their life. They blame everyone but themselves and enjoy the pain and suffering of others they blame for it.
  That is how I see this whining simp from the article. I bet he hasn't once cared for some ex employee of his in any tangible way.
  
  Those that were lucky enough to be born into stability get upset when reality intrudes on their life. They blame everyone but themselves and enjoy the pain and suffering of others they blame for it.
  as i mentioned in another comment, this is literally the magatrump mindset.
  His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
  https://phdn.org/archives/www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/documents/osssection3pt1.htm
  and you're talking about
  I bet he hasn’t once cared for some ex employee of his in any tangible way
  inserting the assumption that the author has actually had employees. why is that? for that matter, why are so many employers trump voters? obviously: money.
  you're right in that they've stolen the "conservative" label and made it synonymous with fascism. "conservative" as a valid stance deserving of regard and consideration died with john mccain. now they're all fucking trumpcult fascists with zero redeeming qualities.
  i don't know what to tell you. talk to your "conservative" friends and try to convince them that trump is a sack of worthless shit who's ruining the country and the world?
  good luck
  
  A conservative will happily eat a shit sandwich if it means a liberal has to small his breath....
- You miss understand these people. They own a mill. They have wealth, to them its "oh well it sucks on to the next thing." Look how patriotic I am. It's the employees at these places that are suffering.
  
  employees at these places that are suffering
  if by some miracle any of those employees weren't trump voters, then those employees were already suffering, being surrounded by trump voters
  at least now they're not alone in their suffering, and can say "told you so" or not, as they please....but they can go to bed without feelings of regret for their decisions, betrayed by someone they were convinced gave half a rat's ass about them
  
  Yeah the article says they just laid off the 50 employees, put the factory in mothballs, and then got real sad. No one is liquidating their company's assets let alone coming for their personal fortunes. It almost sounds like they wanted an excuse to retire and sell the assets at their leisure, and this gave them that opportunity...
  
  Okay, to be fair, from what I understood they tried offering them jobs at the other mill, but only 10 accepted. I don't know why - whether it was too far or something - but they tried to do right by their employees.
  That doesn't change the fact of being dense as fuck and still wanting to vote for the orange rapist, but yeah.
- ‘I wish more of my bones were broken’ - Deranged Lunatic
  
  "I've lost my multi-generational family business in the span of one short year, but stand by my incompetent fuck-witted decision to vote for a man who wouldn't piss on me if I caught fire."
  
  "Man upset that no one has sympathy after he intentionally stabbed himself multiple times and plans to do it again"
- If anyone knows one of these half-wits, please trick them by asking them a question, then spitting into their mouth when they open it to answer.

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