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

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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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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~~.
  
  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.

Even so, he said given the choices on the ballot, he still would have voted for Trump—reflecting a dilemma felt by many in rural America.
It's all clowns all the way down, isn't it?
- Yep.
  It’s going to get better as soon as the media landscape improves, though.
  . . . aaaaaany minute now . . .
  
  It's going to take a collapse of the United States to reset the cycle, and it's coming quickly.
  
  I wonder which comes first.
  That.
  Or.
  The wealth starts to trickle down.

"Wahh wahh, they are hurting the wrong people." -this dipshit

Asked what he would tell the president if Trump stood in his sawmill, Wilson didn’t hide his frustration.
“I’d like to say, What the heck? Actually, I’d like to say about nine different explanatives,” he said. “But… President Trump, gee, I understand what you’re trying to do, but you’re on a fool’s mission. And you’re not helping out a few. You’re hurting a lot.”
The White House declined to comment on the closure.
When asked whether they had voted for Trump, both brothers admitted they had—Wilson, all three times. He said the decision felt “disgusting,” and he regrets supporting Trump’s trade agenda, which he now sees as directly responsible for shutting down one of his family’s businesses.
. . . Wilson expressed deep regret about parts of his vote. “There are some things I regret about voting for President Trump? Yes, a hundred percent. Trade policy is one of them… I wish it hadn’t have turned out that way.” Even so, he said given the choices on the ballot, he still would have voted for Trump—reflecting a dilemma felt by many in rural America.
- What a fucking clown. He deserves every part of the closure.
- What dilemma is he facing by not voting for the politician actively hurting him and his community??? These people are ina cult.
  
  Correct.

Got screwed but still can't admit he made a mistake. Fuck him and his mill. Sometimes people get what they ask for and you have to enjoy that.

Good. Now let's hope the property gets bought up by some shitty finance company and torn the fuck down so we can be sure they can never have it again.
- Wtf, this place probably employed many people in their community. You're gloating about the misfortune coming to many people just because someone who has a different political view than you will also be hurt?
  You would rather see a sawmill torn the fuck down and all of the workers on the street just to spite a family who used to own it because they voted differently than you?
  With views like that, I bet that if you were president, you would also be a tyrant who punishes political opponents.
  It wouldn't be enough for you that they lose their mill, you want everyone who ever worked there to be punished.
  
  see the good thing is there will probably be an opening in the market for somebody else to open a sawmill
  not gonna get into whether or not it should be torn down, but "because they voted differently than you" is very disingenuous. it's because they support fascists. those are not the same thing.
  
  Demand creates jobs, not benevolent rich people.
  
  You’re gloating about the misfortune coming to many people just because someone who has a different political view than you will also be hurt?
  LOL you're talking about the conservative mindset. as evidenced by the article in the post, trump voters can literally be devastated as a direct result of trump, yet STILL support him because he's hurting the people they hate. but oops, trump voters got fucked too, so of course now they're crying about it. because they thought the leopards eating faces party wouldn't eat their face.
  and yes, we love to see it
  fuck trump, and fuck trump voters
  why are you in this sub?
  
  To be fair, spite is kind of the point of this community.
  
  Because they voted for a fascist who is actively destroying the country?
  
  They didn’t “vote different.” They voted for a convicted criminal who is a pedo and wants to subjugate minorities.
  
  The employees likely voted for this, too.

"Even knowing what I know, I'd still have voted the same way." Okay, cool, please accept my lack of sympathy for your current situation. Also, emphasis added:
he now sees as directly responsible for shutting down ONE of his family’s businesses.
Yeah, let me expand that lack of sympathy ....

Eat shit losers.

They should pull themselves up by their bootstraps

You were warned this would happen you stupid fucking assholes. I hope you starve.
- And they delighted in the "liberal tears" of those who warned them.
- I disagree. This is the time we should help our fellow "trumpian" citizens after they have been badly bandied about by their dear leader. It's time to mend fences. Trump and his admin are the common enemy here, not the folks who voted him in (if they did...the jury is still out on that). I get it though, violence rules, not democracy.
  
  Even so, he said given the choices on the ballot, he still would have voted for Trump
  Nah, they are lost. They are too thick to be able to think critically, so they'll still vote for him. So they a still stuck in the cult of brainless stupidly.
  
  Nah, fuck these people.
  
  We tried that, it didn't work
  
  No, we tried to reason with them for a fucking decade now and they let their hate rule them. They can all rot. They don't get to switch sides and be welcomed with open arms just because suddenly something bad is finally affecting them. They can live with the consequences of their decisions.
  
  More flies with honey than vinegar.
  And better than shit, because shit's less sticky, and then flies go around spreading shit everywhere.

Fucked around.
Found out.
Tradition doesnt replace intelligence and paying attention. It’s lazy. It is never a safe bet.

It's almost as if they want to destroy small businesses, to be replaced by giant mega-monopolies focused only on expanding profit.
That's crazy though, it's not as if our government is financed by evil corpo-fascists.
OR IS IT

"Enlightened" people on the left calling for sympathy for Trump supporters are wrong and working against compassionate national policy.
I's charitable to forgive, but babyhands supporters voted for a rapist who stated his clear intent to harm people with greater focus after harming people for years.
Actions have consequences and every cowardly, selfish maga idiot being harmed by their own choice is getting what they deserve.

The tragedy is the countless other people being killed and devastated because of cowardly maga voters.

It's not a disaster. It's a lesson. Hopefully they learn something from it.
- Morgan Freeman Narration:
  They did not.
- Learning is for libruls and children. And he ain't no librul.

Probably unpopular, but I don't care what side you're on, if your company is basically a monarchy, you don't deserve to exist. How is this any different than a landlord just collecting rent? You sit there and "own" the company you inhereited while hundreds of other people do your work for you and you profit off of it. And then you don't even give anyone else a chance to run it, only your nepo babies. If your company is just a means to serve your own family and nothing else, it would be better replaced by someone else.

Perhaps if they had prayed harder, believed harder, held on longer for the Great Lord Trumps promises to be allowed to come to fruition? [sarcasm].

Yeah, that's a shame. ANYWAY . . .

Maybe it's naive, but hopefully 1-2% of the people this happens to will learn something from it.

Oh no! Exactly what they voted for! 😭

Follow shit, you risk falling in it

Cultist weirdos

✨Have the day you voted for 🥰

How long until people realize these crooks are not on their side, in a big club of their own, and are treasonous.
Time to leave the divisive groupthink traps they set up for us to fall into to turn against each other?
- I’ve been asking that since the 80’s. So far it’s only gotten worse.
  
  Yeah, I've got to absolutely cease thinking people will figure it out.
  They're not figuring anything out.
  They're hijacked, so their limbic system takes over, and their frontal lobe stands down, and atrophies.
  ... Incidentally, playing in the background here as I write this reply, is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da8mEBnpB_8 which pretty much says such at the start. The manufactured sideism and frauds to terrorize us, keeping us divided and conquered, and then victim blaming the victims of this terror, calling the victims (both sides), the terrorists.
  I guess we have to find better ways of helping people see through this con, than just asking how long until people realize, like we're merely waiting, like we're insane, doing this same thing, like we expect it to work...
- Xenophobia is a hell of a drug

All I can say is good. Get educated before you vote you dumb fucks.

Where's my tiny violin?

Terrible ads on that page
Better source
https://www.carolinajournal.com/liberated-from-a-legacy-mackeys-ferry-sawmill/
- Ads?

Ha-ha!

🤷‍♂️

Anyways..

Thoughts and prayers.

USA news stuff only in this sub. Totally ruined community. Will Block it.
- You are allowed to block communities without announcing it to the world you know
  Also US conservatives getting their faces eaten is quite literally the only purpose of this sub's existence
  
  Outside of America exists, yet this people think all communities on Lemmy are only USA specific, hence they post USA stuff only.
- Well... bye.
- So be the change you want to see in the world and post some non-US shit?
- You're a moron. Totally ruined my eyes reading your tripe. Will block you.
- It's the most news-worthy country at the moment. The only superpower in the world is turning further and further into fascism and falling in power while still exerting its power on the world as China is rising. Yeah Israel is doing awful things but it's doing it without repercussions, because the US is backing them and using its power to keep anyone from stopping it. All the biggest stories at least tangentially go back to the US right now. I'm sorry you don't like it. Neither do I, but I assume you at least don't live here from this post. Lucky you.
  Edit: didn't realize this was leopardsatemyface, thought it was news but the point remains the same. Leopards are eating faces here far more than anywhere else. Let it be a lesson to all right wing people in Europe that nationalism is not good for a country. Especially not for the common people in the right wing.
- This is an airport. Thank you for announcing your departure.

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