'I want him to fix it': Trump voters sorry now that tariffs are killing their Missouri nail factory

[Miles Archer]

‘I want him to fix it’: Trump voters sorry now that tariffs are killing their Missouri nail factory



Mid-Continent Nail operations manager Chris Pratt

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/want-fix-trump-voters-sorry-now-tariffs-killing-missouri-nail-factory/

During an interview with MSNBC, Mid-Continent Nail operations manager Chris Pratt revealed that he has already laid off 60 workers from his plant — and he warned that more jobs were at risk due to Trump’s trade wars.

“We should be thriving,” he said. “We were doing pretty good. But now, it’s like he flipped the light switch off, and it’s all because of tariffs.”

Jimmie Coffer, a machine operator at the plant, told MSNBC that he voted for Trump in 2016 because he wanted to see “change” in Washington. Now, however, he worries that Trump’s trade wars will cost him his job.

“I understand why he’s doing it,” he said. “It’s hurting us. It’s hurting us real bad here.”

[nycbos]

1. Whomp Whomp

[Chipper Chat]

2. Crocodile tears......

..,

[beachbum bob]

3. this guy has no understanding on the "why" and neither does trump

1950's neo-economics on same level as the neoconservatives who thought the answer was simple for middle east problems, just force democracy on the countries by war or whatever.

we know how that worked out, same with trade wars

US and the american people get fucked

[JHan]

4. *facepalm*

You voted for change and you got it - except we're all paying the price and We're now fucked.

[NewJeffCT]

5. but, I bet a lot of them will still vote Trump

in the end

[SHRED]

6. I really don't care...do you?

[JHan]

7. Republicans: forever fucking up the economy.

[NightWatcher]

8. Who knew voting for the failed reality tv star would flop?

Who knew? Most of us knew.

[democratisphere]

9. Sorry, I don't get it!

"I understand why he is doing it." WTF do you understand, idiot?!

[Butterflylady]

10. Sorry

But you all wanted a business man, well you got one and now you're not happy. Well we told you he's a failed business man and you didn't listen.

[JDC]

11. Maybe they can get one of those big, beautiful, clean coal jobs.

Coal cleaners.

[Blue_true]

25. Yep.

Polishing those coal brickettes to clean them up.

[jpljr77]

12. Elections have consequences, motherfucker. Maybe don't vote for an unstable nationalist next time*

[DFW]

13. No, Mr. Coffer, you do NOT understand why he's doing it

If you did, you'd be writing your doctoral thesis instead of learning how to fill out welfare forms.

There is one reason and one reason only that I have no sympathy for these people and their impending (or present) economic hardship. That reason is that, given everything they now, they would STILL vote for Trump over Hillary Clinton. I say thus, that they should get what they voted for.

[hatrack]

14. He won. You lost. Get over it.

[hlthe2b]

15. Gawd... the denial is beyond belief...

[deminks]

16. I saw that. What they want is an exception to the tariffs just for their factory.

I guess to hell with the hundreds of other businesses going through the same thing, and the thousands of people that will have to make choices once again between food and rent. That's what happens when you watch fucks news, you don't see the big picture.

He wanted change, I guess he got it.

[Squinch]

17. I lulzed.

[htuttle]

18. Thoughts and Prayers

[kairos12]

19. Are snowflakes constructed with nails?

[SamKnause]

20. Too bad.

You voted for your economic destruction.

Enjoy it.

[Blue_true]

21. Womp Womp.

Where is my real tiny violin? Oh, here it is, in the crease of my elbow!

[Initech]

22. You voted for this, guys.

[Corgigal]

23. Should have called any New Yorker

especially NYC, any random number. We knew what he was, you didn't listen. Unemployment last I believe 6 months now. Better be quick before Trump EO's it down to 3 months.

[Blue_true]

30. The region that they live in don't have a lot of job opportunities.

And what forward thinking company would locate a plant among those knuckledragging turds?

[Corgigal]

33. Agreed

They should have called when Trump was running for the republican candidate. When it mattered, but nope.

[Mr. Ected]

24. Mr. Pratt, your business soared under Obama, but it wasn't good enough

Your success wasn't overwhelming, in your eyes, according to the words you were being told, on television, on the radio, in church, among friends, at the family table. You know, the right wing echo chamber. After the Bush debacle, you should have known better. But the President was a Democrat, and a black man at that.

"Sure, our business is booming, but growth is TOO SLOW". How many times did you pitifully whine those words? I guess Obama didn't know what he was doing, but you did, right?

Eat. Shit. And. Die. Mothahfucker.

You're the imbecile that foisted this Stephen King Clown President on us. You and your faux indignation. You and your outrage at things you can't even explain, like Hillary's emails, her server, Benghazi. Well, now you can't explain Trump, but you pretend you can. At least you're consistent in the areas of stupidity and cluelessness.

Save those last nails for your own coffin, sir. You dug this grave. Now seal yourself in it, and shut the fuck up.

[WhiteTara]

37. Oh, I may not be able to restrain my phone number fingers

from pushing those buttons to call him directly and laugh out loud and hang up.

You know he begged Claire McCaskill to help him and she is trying; that's why she is a Senator and I'm not.

Great last line. May I use it in my call?

[Mr. Ected]

41. Oh, please do, it would be an honor

I wish it could be told to every well-established fool who voted for Trump, looking for change.

You got your change, mister. Now suffocate in it.

[we can do it]

26. Well assholes, you got what you voted for.

[ucrdem]

28. And they'll do it again in a heartbeat.

Fortunately they know they can count on the safety net that Barack managed to patch up and keep under them.

[we can do it]

31. Not for long.

[ucrdem]

35. They'll blame Barack

and head to Californy . . .

[we can do it]

46. Who cares, really.

[Blues Heron]

27. File this under "actions, sowing, what you reap"

textbook moran

[tanyev]

29. Why are you complaining? You got exactly what you voted for.

[bullwinkle428]

32. All it took was 2 or 3 missed paychecks.

[WhiteTara]

34. Wimp womp

[Kittycow]

36. None of the people define the "change" they wanted.

I doubt they even know, otherwise they would have elaborated.

I'm to the point with this nail factory that they can't fail fast enough for me.

[ooky]

48. These are really stupid people.

They were ready made suckers for the ridiculous Fox News stories about Hillary Clinton and were sold a bill of goods that they needed "change" that they really didn't need at all. They already had jobs and health care through their jobs, so how did they celebrate this good fortune? They complained that "they didn't want to pay for someone else's health care". Problem is, when they stepped on to the stage and joined the chants to lock up an innocent person they stepped on to a very slippery slope for themselves, given that the only thing they know how to do is make nails. They don't understand "why he is doing it". They don't understand shit. They didn't understand when Trump was reciting to them the parable of the snake, who the snake really was that he was referring to, and that they were about to get eaten. I don't have any feeling for them. I didn't then and I don't now, they are gettng what they deserve. Let them delight in the separation migrant children from their mothers at the border, without a their paycheck.

[Autumn]

38. Thoughts and prayers asshole. Thoughts and prayers.

I hope Trump fixes you real good, as only he can.

[NatBurner]

39. as long as those libtards are mad tho, amirite?

dipshit

[workinclasszero]

40. But our white god emperor Dump was only supposed to hurt PoC and librulls!

Thoughts and prayers GOP rubes.

[peggysue2]

42. They're hoping the Trumpster will . . .

provide a carve out. Just for them. They claim to understand the 'why' of the policy (which in reality makes no sense). But they don't want to be hurt by the policy, as in lose their jobs because the demand for an overtaxed product lis losing its market share to . . . Mexico, China and South Korea. Bitter irony there.

Hello? The Trumpster is just not in to you, guys. Never was, never will be.

Trumpster farmers and ranchers hurt by the tariffs have pretty much expressed the same thing.

Guess they didn't get the memo: They're suppose to suck it up, all for Trumpster love and self-destructive loyalty.

Good luck with that!

My suggestion? Come back to the light, help us fight this moron and his nonsense economic plans. We'll all be better off for the effort.

[Adrahil]

43. People who knowingly voted for a con man surprised they got conned.

Film at 11.

[Solly Mack]

44. I wonder how many of them support punishing kids for unpaid school lunch tabs?

You know, the if only the parents would pay the kids wouldn't be singled out and shamed at school.

I wonder how many of them enjoy talking about "welfare queens"?

I wonder how many of them like to brag - albeit always with bitterness - that - No one gave me anything. I earned it all myself?

I wonder how many of them have said that if people want to eat then they should work instead of getting a "handout"?

I wonder how many of them have said they are tired of paying for the lazy people?

I wonder how many of them have said they are tired of immigrants taking their jobs?

I wonder if they can make the connection between their ignorance and prejudices causing them to vote against their own needs and interests?

[Kittycow]

49. You really..well.. nailed it.

Great post there, Solly Mack!

[Solly Mack]

55. If that company got a bailout to remain in business, they'd all cheer and not see it

as a special exemption and a handout. They'd think they deserved it above others. They would stop complaining, stop asking questions, praise Trump - and then tell other people in the exact same straits to suck it up and shut up about it.

They won't learn from this. Not even if they all lose their jobs. It will somehow be the fault of others.

[oasis]

45. Take up coal mining for a trade, Bub. "Coal is coming back, bigly".

[blueinredohio]

47. He has my thoughts and prayers

[Garrett78]

50. And like the farmers in North Dakota, they'll vote for him again in 2020.

Assuming he's on the ballot.

[pamdb]

51. trump voters

You reap what you sow. I have no sympathy.

[Aristus]

52. ...

[Thomas Hurt]

53. cuz them there tariff thingies mean you are tough and badass and a real man....

(snark)

[BlueDog22]

54. Karma

The fact that his policies are hurting his own voters the worst, is this karma?

[Bleacher Creature]

56. Fix what? This wasn't a mistake. He told us all what he was going to do. NT

[The Genealogist]

57. Better luck next time, bucky

I hate that my state is losing jobs due to Trump's ego but Missouri is red, and is paying for its redness. Wonder what the one guy thought the change would be? Guessing it meant Brown people "put in their place." uuugh.