• KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works
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    If your business needed undocumented labor to crawl back into the black, maybe your business acumen isn’t as great as you think.

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    I’m not saying he deserves that, ofk he doesn’t. But I’m not really good with multitasking. And I’m already too busy feeling like shit for all the poor people who didn’t even had the chance to vote and was separated from their family, or lost it all, just because dumbass people like him belived that “they” were the problem. So, good luck.

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      I’m not saying he deserves that

      You might not, but I sure will. In fact, I’ll even translate a common idiom into terms he could understand:

      “You cut with the saw you intentionally dulled.”

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    Even after losing his business to Trump’s policies, he stands by his vote: “Given the two people running, regardless of what they said on the campaign trail, I would’ve voted for President Trump again.”

    His brother Stephen agrees: “I don’t think I had a choice to vote any other direction.”>

    This got me. I would put money on that he would vote for Trump again.

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      Yeah the logic always stuns me.

      “If I vote for a Democrat they’ll probably take some of my money through taxes and I’ll be poor”

      Trump wins and ruins their business, they lose all of their money.

      “At least I’m not poor because of evil Democrat taxes”

      They have truly been brainwashed. Whatever bad shit republicans do they still believe the Democrats must be worse, because the republicans told them so. Even though the republicans have provably been lying to them for years.

      • DagwoodIII@piefed.social
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        …And the Left does the same thing.

        Back in the day, a lot of folks couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Jimmy Carter because he wouldn’t take a strong stand on South African apartheid. We got ronald reagan who embraced embrace South Africa.

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          That’s not at all how that played out.

          One, John Anderson ran as an independent in 1980, after losing the Republican primary. He had been a Republican until then. Early in that primary, he was a viable candidate for the nomination. He was initially likely to take more votes from Reagan than Carter.

          Anderson supported the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), as well as an extension to the time for it to be ratified. The Republican party did not. Carter refused to debate Anderson; Reagan did not. On top of all that, at the time, the conventional wisdom was that Carter was a weak president, partially because of the still-imprisoned diplomats in Tehran, and a failed attempt to extricate them - which Carter took full responsibility for. This set of later circumstances probably took more votes from Carter. All that said, Reagan swept the popular vote by almost nine points, and took the electoral college handily.

          Source: I was there.

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      He would have voted for Trump again, even if HE KNEW his business would go under?! Wtf are these people thinking? That’s some royal hate

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        It’s just good old brainwashing. They believe that voting for democrats will ruin their life so they vote for republicans and if republicans ruin their life then it’s bad luck.

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      He committed member of the Pedophile Protection Team (PPT), aka, Guardians Of Pedophiles (GOP).

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      That’s the amazing part. No, not them saying they’d still vote for Trump. The fact that they can still talk with half their face gnawed off. I just wonder - was it because of the “any Democrat/leftist bad” mentality, was it because she was a woman, or what it because she was black? He said it wasn’t anything said on the campaign, so it wasn’t how badly they tanked her run. Maybe a combo?

      If you’re going to pull that dead end thinking, then how about trying to change the Republican party to help the American public? (I initially said “better”, but we’re starting at zero)

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    Don’t worry, your lumber mill will still be there, it will just be owned by someone else.

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      Nah. A lot of these mills don’t open back up because it’s not profitable enough to retrograde them to handle smaller and smaller trees that are harvested.

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        Exactly, there was a huge covid boom for lumber mills and the market got saturated. Now all those small shops that opened during the boom can’t survive on the post Covid margins and are shutting down.

        As much as Trump is a shitbag, this is probably more likely tied to changing mill economics post covid.

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        Usually a reopening also means inspections and addressing building and equipment safety concerns that could’ve been swept under the rug for decades

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        Usually a reopening also means inspections and addressing building and equipment safety concerns that could’ve been swept under the rug for decades

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    Sounds good.

    The less money this freak and his family have, the less they can contribute to felons, rapists, insurrectionists, and pedophiles.

    Hope it hurts.

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    If you were confused (like me) as to how a lumber mill in the US was hurt by tariffs on foreign countries — they were importing their trees from Canada. Plenty of trees in the US, but I guess they’re all spoken for. 🤷‍♂️

    “The U.S. lumber sector is reeling from tariffs on Canadian softwood, which have climbed to 45%. With roughly 30% of its supply coming from Canada”