This Storm-Battered Town Voted for Trump. He Has Vowed to Overturn the Law That Could Fix Its Homes.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-biden-ira-climate-red-states?utm_source=blueskyCM&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky

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  4. “People vote with their feelings” yea no shit. Stop gloating about the ruin of this country

  5. The ending is the heartbreaking icing on the cake of sadness. This community relies so much on the politicians they have been brainwashed to hate.

    Conservative news sources that make up stories to inspire fear amongst their audience should be charged with a crime. They put so many lives at risk for profit and influence.

  6. >Though not a single Republican legislator voted for the law, an outsized portion of its historic $1 trillion in climate and energy provisions has benefited red congressional districts and states that voted for Trump

    I’m reminded of Thaddeus Stevens’ line from Lincoln: “Shit on the people and what they want and what they’re ready for. I don’t give a goddamn about the people and what they want. This is the face of someone who has fought long and hard for the *good* of the people without caring much for any of them.”

    Must be exhausting to try to help these red states. All while your adversaries fight you tooth & nail with lies & disinformation, backed by billionaires & their massive propaganda apparatus. Then when you fail they say govt is broken, or when you do get the occasional win they take credit for it back home/via SM.

  7. It’ll give them the opportunity to pull themselves up by the bootstraps and fix their own problem. It’s not like they want a free hand out.

  8. He could make an exception for red states/towns/cities or is he just gonna keep “hurting the wrong people?”

  10. Welcome to the find out phase folks. Where you all realize that Donald Trump couldn’t care less about the people that voted for him. Especially if you’re poor and/or uneducated.

  11. Yeah, but at least transgender people won’t use the wrong bathroom!

  14. Elections have consequences. Guess those red states need to stop depending on handouts and pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

  15. Pro tip for morons… when you vote for a party that pledges to end government, you can expect not to have government support when you need it.

  16. We can send them thoughts and prayer when their town is destroyed

  17. I mean, if I were one of them I’d say how I don’t want my tax dollars paying to rebuild their houses and that they need to grab those bootstraps and get pullin’

    But I’m not, so I’ll just say…nothing.

  18. The foreign born Murdoch-Musk media oligarchs that regurgitate Russian propaganda are hard at work.

  19. Man, the company making the world’s smallest violin is going to be really prosperous during his term.

  20. Terrifying for myself, I’m very ok with this. It’s time we let these people suffer the consequences of their choices. America’s success is its biggest failure. Much like vaccines, which were so effective in eliminating terrible diseases that people can no longer understand why we need them, the American way of life has been so successful for much of the 20th century that people forget it was progressive policies that were responsible for this success (yes I know I’m painting with a broad brush, I’m sure you’ll let me know ALL about it!). Unions built America. High taxes on the wealthy, and other progressive policies regulating businesses helped build our social safety net, fund our schools, and lift people from poverty and ignorance. We used to lead.

    So go ahead and vote against your best interests. Vote away your healthcare, your department of education, the EPA, consumers protections, air and water quality, and vote against workers rights. Vote out every social program and vote against every policy that helps anyone not white, straight, and wealthy (you must be all 3, no choices). Vote to punish women and minorities. Vote against policies that would support the working and middle classes, and vote for bigger tax breaks for the wealthy. Vote for your masters. It wasn’t them that shipped your jobs oversees or automated them. It was foreigners! Vote those foreigners out! We voted for all the things that raised America to prosperity, and guess what – prosperity is too good. Vote it all away.

    Am I oversimplifying? Sure. Am I cynical? Yes! I’m fucking tired of these dumb fuck red state, over opinionated, under educated , fucking leaches voting against everything and everyone, and then turning around and crying when things don’t go their way. Watching the shit head running the school in Kentucky complain about losing federal funding while voting for the person who promised to take it away. Listing to the sad fuckheads crying about Trump removing the 35$ insulin cap while voting for him. Fuck these people.

    Are we all going to suffer? Yes. They’ve taken us down with them and it’s time. Vulnerable people are going to die. It is so fucking bad and it’s going to get worse. These are the faces of people that voted for this. They can’t be reasoned with. They can’t be brought around. They can’t use critical thinking ( they voted against it), they won’t listen, and they don’t care. The only thing they know how to do is suffer and complain, and then ask for more.

    One day, hopefully very fucking soon, a political party will rise in the USA that is focused on making real, positive change for working and middle class people, protecting our environment, supporting our schools, while reigning in our corrupted, and unchecked government. It’s certainly not Trump or the republicans, and the democrats abandoned many of these issues long ago. Fuck these pathetic shitheads in this Podunk town that their beloved free market decided against. Fuck them and everyone one like them. Now we’re all down in the shit. The next 4 years, and maybe the rest of our lives are going to be an eating contest, and in this they will find great success, because living in and eating shit is what they excel at.

    MAGA = Morons And Gullible Assholes

  22. But Republicans/Trump will make their lives better by making minorities, women, and the LGBTQ community a lot worse. And that is what really matters to MAGA…even if their lives get worse too.

  23. Then they will get what they deserve, hopefully.

  24. Good for them!

    Now they can learn that they are the “others” that they have been worried about.

    I hope nothing bad happens to these folks but I fear that unless he starts doing things that negatively affects his base they will never see the light.

  25. If you start feeling bad for them just remember. They would vote for him again.

    As long as the brown people “get what they deserve”.

    And it was the Dems fault anyway… They will find a way. Trump could visit that town and go “fuck you you morons.”

    They would find a way to vote for him.

  26. Trump lied to many towns in Ohio , telling them to not sell their houses yet . Did he help them , no . Did the plant close down and move to Mexico, yes . They should have been furious , but no . Not only did they vote for him again , they voted out the one Senator that actually worked for Ohio. I just can’t believe people are that stupid .

  27. Don’t worry, if they save enough cartons from these soon to be dirt cheap eggs he promised, they’ll have enough nesting material to make a nice mattress to go fuck themselves on

  31. I think their book says something about ‘reaping what you sow’?

    Fuck ’em.

  33. Once the new administration comes in and she doesn’t get the “damned grant”, she will blame the Biden people for turning it down. Educated enough to apply for a grant, uneducated enough to not know who to blame.

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