Sipping tea from beer mugs with his co-workers, Kyle Bos listed the ways his life is changing.
Bos has two daughters, with a third due in January. At the grocery store, five items cost as much as a full cart once did. And on Wednesday, Bos and nearly 1,400 other people were laid off from their jobs at what had been the Navistar truck factory in southwestern Ohio.
The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. And they are one reason why Bos, 30, plans to spend the final weeks before the November election canvassing votes for Democrats.
Asked how many times he had voted for Trump, Bos held up three tattooed fingers. But he said he’s done with the president.
“Something has to change politically in this country,” said Bos, a member of the United Auto Workers who identifies as a centrist. “Seems like it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.”
But… at a certain point, lack of a decent education, critical thinking or intelligence becomes the driving cause. And that isn’t their fault. So it is hard to say someone like the guy in the story truely deserved this. He deserved better. He deserved to be protected by those who had the mental capacity and education to see the reality of trump. Those who saw it, and supported it anyway are the ones who deserve to pay the price.
Keep munching on the shit sandwich from MAGA and guzzle down the Orange Kool-Aid. Zero sympathy, you voted for it.
And Trump will tell people at the rally to stop complaining because affordability is a hoax by the democrats and it would have been so much worse if Biden was president. And far too many people will leave the rally believing it.
Family member of mine said it’s because the the Democrats have the Senate and Representatives… He was/is brain washed and didn’t realize who is holding power right now
I have to make sure I heard that correctly. You’re saying you have a family member that believes the House and Senate are currently controlled by democrats?
I hope he also gets to have the day he voted for ✨
I’m straight up ready to abandon the American blue collared workers. They have been willingly duped for too long. Let them starve
And that’s the point!
Pretty much no viable Republican would say such a thing. They’ll do 10,000 things that make it clear they’ve abandoned blue-collar / working class people. They’ll support 1,000,000 more things that make it clear they’ve abandoned blue-collar / working class people. But they would never actually say they abandoned (or are ready to abandon) blue-collar / working class people.
So, Republican/MAGA managed to take near total control of the 3 branches of the USA’s federal government, a huge portion of state governments, and an enormous amount of local governments without even having to really try. Because “the other side” is more than happy to abandon the folks who voted for it.
Lying in parliament should be a crime. These things should matter when you are a decision maker for a country. Calling them out on it somehow makes the accuser seem petty?! We need to ditch 17th century sensibilities and take these tools to task for their malignant mismanagement.
“Why are the unions turning against the left? Must be AM radio.”
Not that neolinerals being “the left” didn’t cause this problem in the first place.
Willingly duped?
They knew he was a full of shitz, everyone has known trump is full of shit for many decades. They just thought he couldn’t fuck it up that badly and he’d be real mean to immigrants and queer folks. Yes, willingly duped.
I’d be willing to bet 1200 of them still vote GOP in November.
“Something has to change politically in this country,” said Bos, a member of the United Auto Workers who identifies as a centrist. “Seems like it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.”
It’s you. You have to change. You won’t. You voted three times for the guy who has never taken responsibility for his own actions.
Did you read the paragraph before that one? Because it sort of seems like you didn’t.
So they didn’t vote trump 3 times?
The problem was that Trump sold himself as the change. He said he was the outsider who was going to clean up Washington. Heck I even voted for him the first time, because honestly, I never in a million years thought he was going to win. Irregardless, we are all in echo chambers: the left, the right, whatever you believe in. The little square of doom running on the algorithm that wants to keep everyones attention on the little square of doom has figured out how to give everyone the confirmation bias they crave and keeps everyone engaged with thinking that theyre the only ones who understand.
Heck I even voted for him the first time, because honestly, I never in a million years thought he was going to win
Exactly, we have the president our people deserve. Just voting for shits and giggles.
The problem was that Trump sold himself as the change. He said he was the outsider who was going to clean up Washington.
Oh bullshit.
The only change he sold was the ability to drop the mask and be openly bigoted and hateful again.
I wasn’t talking about now, I was talking about 2016. Unfortunately, when he didnt “drain the swamp” people still thought that he was going to in 2020 and 2024. They held on to that change narrative when it wasn’t going to happen.
I wasn’t talking about now, I was talking about 2016.
So was I.
Just a tiny nitpick, it’s Regardless. Iregardless isn’t a word.
He could of said that, but I could care less
If people say it, it is a word. Irregarless grinds against my sensibilities like orientate does, but you can’t fight the tide (and shouldn’t because language changes).
We already have a word, it’s called Regardless.
Orientate comes from when maps used to point to sunrise, the Orient, in the east. Then North took over a little later.
My issue is that you can say orient as in “I use a map to orient myself in a new city.” Orientate is just a longer way to say the same thing. My point was I don’t like it, but I don’t pretend it should be policed either.
That’s a dumb fucking argument. I guess in your world know one can understand you anymore
Did you understand irregardless?
No, I have no idea what you’re saying and now we have to talk about it
I perceive thou dost not honour English, wherefore this discourse doth lead to naught.
He identifies a a centrist but voted Trump three times. Can someone help me with the math because something doesn’t add up.
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Many people claiming to be “independents” or “centrists” are just lying. They are temporarily embarrassed conservatives, usually.
Nailed it.
I think it’s less that they are lying, and more that their lived experiences and indoctrination had led them to believe the center is further right than you.
All I have to say is that towards the end of W’s second failed term, there was a sudden uptick in people claiming “I’m an independent”.
Including people that up until just a short while earlier had Bush/Cheney stickers on their cars…
there was a sudden uptick in people claiming “I’m an independent”.
Most “Independents” are like Libertarians.
Republicans who want to do all the republican shit, and push all the republican hatred, but don’t want to carry the social burden of being associated with Republicanism.
There are several ways to get there. One is to draw tha scale so the Clintons are basically communists and the other end is a 1930s radical fascist. Another is to assume that you have the most reasonable, correct, and moderate political opinions. Like all the people who say they are Libertarian while voting straight Republican so they can support bad things without owning up to it.
Never thought a leopard would eat his face.
this time its trump eating thier face.
Asked how many times he had voted for Trump, Bos held up three tattooed fingers. But he said he’s done with the president.
Look, I was all in for ruining other people’s lives, but now that I lost my job, I’m out
Countless statements to that effect. MAGA will end itself. 🎉
… or so I hope.
Now that Trump can’t run again and isn’t even going to be on the ballot I’m done with him.
(Ya I know Trump is going to try to stay in office but if that man lives another 2 years the world ended anyways.)
thanks don donny. are we great yet?
why would biden do this
He shit in my pants too LMAO
Pretty sure it was Obama and his damn Tan suits
and his dijon MUSTARD on his hot dog.
Nope. It was a trans athlete in scranton NJ.
those darn trans people!
They are the new antifa.
Truly none of this matters. They will still vote straight R down the ticket, to dismantle those unions that protect them. I despise what they’ve done to America, almost as much as the billionaires themselves.
What? Gas guzzling vehicles aren’t in high demand right now?
in a High gas price due to illegal war.
Ohioan: Lowers Trump flag to half-mast
plans to spend the final weeks before the November election canvassing votes for Democrats
Oh good, they can learn eventually.
Only after they personally are harmed. Zero empathy.
Leopards ate my face
