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[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

I'm not really interested in hearing assholes moan about buyer's remorse.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 19 points 6 days ago

World's biggest fucking idiot comes to terms with being a massive fucking idiot

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

You can still take solice in knowing that you "owned some libs" though. That just makes the whole thing worth it, doesn't it?

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

And just WHY did he vote for donvict, anyway? Was it really for "business savvy"?

:/

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 232 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I did not vote for a neutron bomb to wipe out supply chains and small businesses...

Yes you did jackass. People like him are the reason I don't have a job anymore.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago

Hey, be fair to the guy. He only voted for all the ways Trump promised to hurt the people he didn't like, not for the ways Trump promised to hurt him.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Sucks, bro. Sorry. I tried to stop this.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 140 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 35 points 1 week ago

At some level, I'm just jealous of these people for getting what they voted for. I haven't gotten what I voted for ever since I was old enough to vote.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 121 points 1 week ago

I'm heartbroken. But not for this motherfucker.

[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 114 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Craig Fuller thought he was voting for business savvy, not economic shock therapy.

Does he know anything at all about the felon who has left a long trail of failed businesses and can bankrupt ~~a casino~~ three casinos? Trump is doing pretty much exactly what he said he'd do and any CEO that doesn't know that deserves to be unemployed.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 97 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bet they won't stop voting Republican tho

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"See the next GOP president will fix it all with this one simple trick. Yup. It'll totally work. USA USA."

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[–] PorradaVFR@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago

Heartbreaking? Nah. More like utterly infuriating that they were duped despite the prior term and decades of demonstrated corruption and incompetence.

I’ve no sympathy at all.

[–] Vertelleus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 71 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't understand, why doesn't he just "pull himself up by by his bootstraps" and work harder. That's what they tell everyone else, right?

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[–] TheDeadlySquid@lemm.ee 58 points 1 week ago
[–] match@pawb.social 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm sick of calling my senators I'm gonna start calling these guys and dunking on them

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[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 week ago

Heartbreaking.

I can’t stop crying about this redcap’s 23% loss in profits. Never mind that I’m not sure whether my Social Security disability will continue at all (it’s been delayed the last couple of months, to the point I can’t afford ramen right now) or that they’re building interment camps. Or that my doctors say Medicare won’t allow my prescriptions anymore unless I can travel the hour and a half to physically show up at their office, which I cannot do since I’m 100% homebound and Medicare has suddenly decided they’re not allowing remote visits anymore, so I’ll have to stop taking lifesaving meds I’ve been on for 20 years.

But yes, this guy’s 23% profit loss will keep me up tonight.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

...voting for business savvy...

Did this guy sleep through Trump's first term? Things are worse now than it was then but he messed things up the first time too.

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[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 39 points 1 week ago

Spoiler alert they will still vote republican.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

In his view, the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods are functionally an embargo, and they’ve been rolled out so suddenly that U.S. companies haven’t had time to adapt. “It’s too much too fast,” Fuller told reporters in a phone interview. “The economy can’t absorb it.”

If only an expert had known this beforehand.

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[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

TL;DR:

Craig Fuller, founder of FreightWaves and once a potential Trump transportation pick, says the 145% tariffs on Chinese goods have triggered a supply chain collapse, truck traffic from LA ports is down 23%, with 50% import drops predicted. Even major logistics firms like Knight-Swift blame "toxic tariffs" for plummeting volumes.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago

Man helps throw gasoline on his own house that was set fire by arsonist who told everyone he was going to burn houses ..... the man who threw gasoline around is now heartbroken that his house is on fire.

[–] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (9 children)

This is just like Chinese Cultural Revolution. That destroyed their economy and it took them a few decades to rebuild.

It is easier to destroy but hard to build..I hope they learned their lesson.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I hope they learned their lesson.

Oh I'm sure the Chinese did, republicans however? ...

[–] sowitzer@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The vast majority of them won’t learn anything. They are just looking to blame someone right now. Next election (if there is one) some dem will say something they hate, things will be better for them, and they are right back on the trump train.

Most of them are too far gone, in the cult, and listen to nothing but the propaganda. Any soft realization will quickly be forgotten when they are told how it’s the other sides fault b

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Yep, they'll just blame the Chinese, Europe and of course the Democrats.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I doubt it. They will later have all kinds of apologists explaining how donvict just didn't do his idiocy HARD enough. That's assuming we even still have elections and the Republicans feel any need whatsoever to "explain" their cult leader's actions.

But I watched these dipshits in the wake of Ronnie Raygun's destruction, and no, they ain't going to learn shit.

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[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago

My heart bleeds purple peanut butter.

Oh and my little friends violin

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Zero fucking sympathy and this is just the beginning of the US collapse. There will be plenty of used trucks and trailers.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 23 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Missing from the article: lessons learned.

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