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Showing Original Post only (View all)Charles P Pierce: Why I'll Never Sympathize with Regretful Trump Voters [View all]
YOU SADDLED THE REST OF US WITH MISRULE AND DISASTER. OWN IT...................
And you know what I say?
Shut up.
This is a story about hypocrisy, not about ambivalence.
You fell for a con. Seventy percent of you voted for the very policy that has taken your friend away because you thought the damn coal mines were coming back when everyone has been telling you for years that the coal industry is as dead as Kelsey's nuts and that Donald Trump, Jesus Christ, and J.H. Blair working together couldn't bring it back. Because, I suspect, you know that better than anybody, you channeled your frustration and despair into chants of "Build The Wall!" And, Ms. Johnson? Virtually all of "those people" actually do come here and help. If that head of lettuce on the counter could only talk
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Tonight, the president will unveil his facsimile of a federal budget and I guarantee you it will make the lives of practically every person in all these stories worse, not better. And, in a few months, when it's really begun to bite, the editors and news directors will send out more expeditions to find out what "real Americans" feel about the disaster they've wrought on themselves, and us. They all had the same choices we did. They all had the same opportunity to inform themselves; I mean, it wasn't like the campaign was under-covered, and it wasn't like the eventual winner hasn't governed precisely the way he campaigned.
Feeling lost and desperate is a terrible thing. But if, out of loss and desperation, you drink 20 cold beers out of the old preparation room and smash your car into a daycare center, the judge is not going to care how lost and desperate you felt. You build your own prisons in this life. You design your own sentences.
the XLNT rest:
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a53491/regretful-trump-voters/
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Charles P Pierce: Why I'll Never Sympathize with Regretful Trump Voters [View all]
kpete
Feb 2017
OP
"...it wasn't like the eventual winner hasn't governed precisely the way he campaigned."
Snarkoleptic
Feb 2017
#7
It's not as if tRump DIDN'T say he was going to do what he is doing.
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2017
#22
I agree, but for a different reason. Everyone who voted for trump knew he was a racist, sexist, and
still_one
Feb 2017
#30
And the fact that they want to revive such a terrible-in-so-many-ways industry
Dark n Stormy Knight
Feb 2017
#45