“The recently enlisted Bass, who lost his father to addiction when he was a child and became a father himself at 15, said he had increasingly felt despair in recent years over the economy and the state of the country in general. His mother, though she relies on Medicaid and food stamps, said she resents other forms of government assistance that she thinks encourage people not to work.”
The schadenfreude I’m feeling with this is just too good. They voted for Trump, and he is going to cut these programs.
larry_hoover01 on
You gonna learn today.
CheetoMussolini on
As stupid as you think his diehards are, remember they are stupider
JaceFlores on
Well yeah, they’re balls deep in propaganda and what Trump isn’t doing hasn’t really kicked in
Foucault_Please_No on
It’s the photopsia resulting from traumatic brain injury.
I hope these people suffer all the consequences of their willful ignorance. I have no sympathy left to give.
ONETRILLIONAMERICANS on
> Nearly nine in 10 voters here in Montague County, Texas, backed Trump in November, making it among the Trumpiest counties in the U.S., according to results tallied by the Associated Press.
> Montague County, population 21,000, is 84% white with an above-average poverty rate and a below-average education rate.
You don’t say.
> Bass learned more about politics through his grandmother, Melody Gillespie, who serves as the Montague County GOP chair.
bro never stood a chance ✊😔 got oneshot by the Gestapo Granny
> Parlett described friends from Mississippi who wouldn’t allow their teenage son to travel to Texas before Trump was elected, because of fears about the border. (Bowie is 500 miles from the border, and border counties have long had among the lowest crime rates in the state.)
shocked that one got past the *WSJ* editors
> Weems said as a Democrat, he has learned not to bring up politics, but he tries to find ways to subtly resist Trumpism. At the Wildflower, a local vintage market, Weems has a booth selling jewelry, paintings and hats with a picture of a comma and the musical symbol for “la”—a way for people to secretly show their support for Kamala Harris, he said.
this guy’s ready for the Resistance
> Jayson Norby, a highway construction superintendent who voted for Trump, said he has started to view Trump’s moves—including giving power to Elon Musk, and what he said was Trump’s support of Russia—as corrupt and authoritarian.
> “The first go-round with Trump was a lot better,” Norby said. “This one is starting to scare me.”
big “He was just supposed to stop wokeness!” vibes
Aggressive1999 on
Touch the stove, huh
distinguishedsadness on
I still don’t fully understand the point of these articles. What insight are we to truly gain from people in one of the most rural red counties in America? It’s not a fair representation of America in the same way a profile of Brooklynites isn’t representative of America. Of course those folks matter, I grew up in a place like Montague county and Im sure it’s a place full of good people who have been ignored, and we should respond to their struggles. But there is nothing else to learn from their political takes.
LivefromPhoenix on
The only solace I’m taking from this is that these people are going to get vigorously screwed by Trump. It’s literally mind boggling.
Dems need to internalized completely that this section of the electorate is totally unwinnable. When they are in power, the best decision will be to cut as many rural programs as possible, and redirect the money to swing districts and blue states / cities to to improve people’s QOL in those places. Swing districts will win over people on the fence, and making cities function well will help their brand.
The dumb dumbs in the heartland need to be quietly dropped, and we need to stop providing these people with federal dollars in any way, shape or form. And before y’all get on me about some ‘first principles’ thing, I don’t buy it. We are in an all out war for power, and need to recognize it as such.
plummbob on
Surely if we just subsidize some manufacturing in these areas, they’ll finally vote for the Democrats.
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“The recently enlisted Bass, who lost his father to addiction when he was a child and became a father himself at 15, said he had increasingly felt despair in recent years over the economy and the state of the country in general. His mother, though she relies on Medicaid and food stamps, said she resents other forms of government assistance that she thinks encourage people not to work.”
The schadenfreude I’m feeling with this is just too good. They voted for Trump, and he is going to cut these programs.
You gonna learn today.
As stupid as you think his diehards are, remember they are stupider
Well yeah, they’re balls deep in propaganda and what Trump isn’t doing hasn’t really kicked in
It’s the photopsia resulting from traumatic brain injury.
paywall
https://i.redd.it/8nclga65hzme1.gif
I hope these people suffer all the consequences of their willful ignorance. I have no sympathy left to give.
> Nearly nine in 10 voters here in Montague County, Texas, backed Trump in November, making it among the Trumpiest counties in the U.S., according to results tallied by the Associated Press.
> Montague County, population 21,000, is 84% white with an above-average poverty rate and a below-average education rate.
You don’t say.
> Bass learned more about politics through his grandmother, Melody Gillespie, who serves as the Montague County GOP chair.
bro never stood a chance ✊😔 got oneshot by the Gestapo Granny
> Parlett described friends from Mississippi who wouldn’t allow their teenage son to travel to Texas before Trump was elected, because of fears about the border. (Bowie is 500 miles from the border, and border counties have long had among the lowest crime rates in the state.)
shocked that one got past the *WSJ* editors
> Weems said as a Democrat, he has learned not to bring up politics, but he tries to find ways to subtly resist Trumpism. At the Wildflower, a local vintage market, Weems has a booth selling jewelry, paintings and hats with a picture of a comma and the musical symbol for “la”—a way for people to secretly show their support for Kamala Harris, he said.
this guy’s ready for the Resistance
> Jayson Norby, a highway construction superintendent who voted for Trump, said he has started to view Trump’s moves—including giving power to Elon Musk, and what he said was Trump’s support of Russia—as corrupt and authoritarian.
> “The first go-round with Trump was a lot better,” Norby said. “This one is starting to scare me.”
big “He was just supposed to stop wokeness!” vibes
Touch the stove, huh
I still don’t fully understand the point of these articles. What insight are we to truly gain from people in one of the most rural red counties in America? It’s not a fair representation of America in the same way a profile of Brooklynites isn’t representative of America. Of course those folks matter, I grew up in a place like Montague county and Im sure it’s a place full of good people who have been ignored, and we should respond to their struggles. But there is nothing else to learn from their political takes.
The only solace I’m taking from this is that these people are going to get vigorously screwed by Trump. It’s literally mind boggling.
https://preview.redd.it/7u6ieaf8mzme1.jpeg?width=997&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f1e397edded8aed6e4068fcc0c37be9db94d238
Hell yeah! FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT! NEVER SURRENDER!
These people are dumber than dogshit.
Dems need to internalized completely that this section of the electorate is totally unwinnable. When they are in power, the best decision will be to cut as many rural programs as possible, and redirect the money to swing districts and blue states / cities to to improve people’s QOL in those places. Swing districts will win over people on the fence, and making cities function well will help their brand.
The dumb dumbs in the heartland need to be quietly dropped, and we need to stop providing these people with federal dollars in any way, shape or form. And before y’all get on me about some ‘first principles’ thing, I don’t buy it. We are in an all out war for power, and need to recognize it as such.
Surely if we just subsidize some manufacturing in these areas, they’ll finally vote for the Democrats.