• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    8 minutes ago

    Listen to interviews and read quotes from people like this. They know damn will it’s Trump’s fault, but they think he doesn’t know. Seriously, always the same attitude.

    “We just need President Trump to know that his $policy is hurting us out here.”

    Imagine begging a malignant narcissist, with spiraling dementia, to give a shit about you.

  • jaschen306@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    The homeless dude begging for money is a Trump supporter. Even someone starving and pennyness, he still supports Trump. That’s stupidity at the highest level.

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    8 hours ago

    Is this related to Trump’s administration actions because of the Argentinian meat subsidies and related competition in the meat sector? Or straight up tariffs?

  • arbitrary_sarcasm@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Taking bets on how many of them are still gonna find a way to blame this on Biden and say that they’ll continue to support Trump.

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      4 hours ago

      A good 90% at least won’t find out ! They will keep believing what their favorite TV host tells them. Anyone else is a liar !

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    10 hours ago

    More voters who fucked up and found out. If only they didn’t cause so much collateral damage to the rest of US and international societies with their stupidity

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    12 hours ago

    I feel so sad for them. They believed in the dream of small America and big corporate winners. In other words, idiots.

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      The thing is, if they can throw out the psychopathic corporate politicians from their state and federal government, they can get some bennies to survive while they find new ways to make a living.

      But will they realize that? I say no, they won’t. And it’s understandable, because a solution two or more years from now won’t help them tomorrow. But still it would be nice if the message could work its way into the back corner of their brain.

  • MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
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    The good folks of Dawson County, Nebraska need to take a deep breath, and consider the bigger picture. They’re finally getting Calibri font out of government documents, and the White House is getting vandalized. Losing some hamburger factory in the middle of buttfuck nowhere is a small price to pay.

    Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers.

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    20 hours ago

    Per the article:

    Tyson, the meatpacking giant that employs about 3,200 workers in the town, will leave all of them without jobs when the facility closes on Jan. 20.

    Per Wikipedia:

    As of the 2020 census, the population of Lexington, Nebraska was 10,348.

    So about 30% of them are without jobs. That’s a HUUUUUGE blow to their economy.

    Per this article:

    https://southernagtoday.org/2025/08/07/u-s-brazil-beef-trade-at-a-crossroads/

    While expanding access to Asia, Brazil also made significant inroads into the U.S. market. In May alone, it shipped 175 million pounds of beef to the U.S., five times the volume of May 2024.

    All they need to do is learn Portuguese and relocate to Brazil. FTFY.

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    Have they thought about not being lazy and just pulling themselves up by the bootstraps? Surely they can easily pivot to available jobs in new industries for future and forward-looking technologies that our government has fostered to prevent large permanent job losses when volatile or transitional roles are threatened or eliminated? Right?

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    MS NOW reported Friday from Lexington — the county seat of Dawson County, Nebraska, a place Trump carried easily with more than 74 percent of the vote last year. Tyson, the meatpacking giant that employs about 3,200 workers in the town, will leave all of them without jobs when the facility closes on Jan. 20.

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    21 hours ago

    The PROBLEM is that there’s too many LIBRULS in the Government that Republicans control EVERY house of at the Federal and State level!