Long-winded harangue here, so grab a cup of coffee and settle in...
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I harbor no gratuitously ill will toward any of my fellow Americans, except maybe Drumpf himself, his crooked spawn, and the menagerie of human scumbags and grifting parasites he surrounds himself with and who enable him.
But here's the thing that incessantly bothers me though and tests my moral will on that matter...
Exit polling in the 2024 election showed that 75% of voters who identified their occupation as being long-haul truck drivers voted for Donald Trump. That would be approximately the same percentile range of voters identifying as farmers who also voted for Trump incidentally.
So we've established that around 75% of truckers and farmers voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
They voted for him even after everything he had done in his first term, the million dead in Covid, the violent coup attempt on January 6, 2021, the felony convictions in New York, being found to be a rapist by the court in his E. Jean Carroll case, and the expanding revelations of his involvement with child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
They voted for Donald Trump despite all of those warnings from many, including yours truly here, that Drumpf would eventually betray this country, betray the American people, betray them, and make their lives significantly more miserable for a longer period of time than if they had just not voted for him at all.
They refused to listen. Many thumbed their noses at those of us who were issuing those warnings and told us to go fuck ourselves.
And here we are:
Link: Trucking bankruptcies mount as Trump's war forces drivers to take dire measures: report - Raw Story
"Now, small trucking operators are increasingly filing for bankruptcy, with the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association warning more will follow if fuel prices remain elevated.
“Small operators, which dominate registered motor carrier companies, can’t keep up: More than a dozen have filed for bankruptcy in the past month, and the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association warns more will follow if fuel prices don’t drop,” the Journal reported.
The Journal spoke with several truckers at a Flying J Travel Center in Orange, Texas, including Agron Berani, whom the Journal documented paying $944.44 to fill up his 18-wheeler with diesel fuel, which the Journal noted would have cost around $500 a year ago.
“We have to do what we have to do,” Berani, who voted for Trump in 2024, told the Journal. “I can’t sell the truck. What am I going to do if I sell the truck?”"
What you should do dude is stop voting for culture warrior con artists like Drumpf and MAGA - in other words, stop voting to harm yourself. What a concept, eh?
C'est la vie.
And then this of course:
Link: American farmers are hurting -- and worried about their futures : NPR
"Nationwide, some 200,000 farms have gone out of business since 2020, Parum says.
"Farmers are saying, 'we're ready to throw in the towel,'" says Joe Peiffer, a bankruptcy attorney who works with farmers in Iowa, Missouri and Illinois. He says clients tell him, "We're sick of working our back ends off and losing money."
For the 12 months ending in June, farm bankruptcies were up 19% from the previous year. But most farmers are reluctant to quit the business altogether."
The farmers voted for the orange felon by a 3-to-1 margin in 2024 as well, even after Biden had stepped in and saved their asses from Drumpf's tariffs having fucked them over in his first term:
Link: Farmers flourish under Biden, see recovery from Trump-era trade wars
"WASHINGTON — Donald Trump often espoused his love for America's farmers during his presidency.
But after a year under President Joe Biden, farmers say they're actually feeling the love.
"Well, certainly the difference between 2019 and 2021 is the differences in administrations," Montana Farmers Union President Walter Schweitzer said in an interview. "In 2019, our administration was at war with all of our customers." Under Biden, he said, the nation is "rebuilding our relationships with our customers.""
Drumpf "often espouses" a lot of shit which becomes utterly meaningless the second the words pass from his crusted old lips, words which he has no intention of ever following through on because he is a pathological liar and a double-dealing con artist.
Biden saved these farmer's asses from Drumpf's incompetence and ratfuckery and they turned around and helped re-elect the filthy old mobster in 2024 as a thank you.
I mean, ffs, what did these farmers think was going to happen if they gave the presidency back to the guy who stabbed them in the back in his first term with his stupid, ill-advised tariff wars and wrecked economy from his mishandling of the covid pandemic.
What did they think was going to happen by reelecting someone who instigated a violent coup after losing in 2020, then racked up multiple felony indictments and convictions between 2020 and 2024, and became the central figure in the scandalous 'Epstein Files' child sex trafficking investigation, and was indicted by Jack Smith for conspiracy against the United States?
What in God's name did these guys think was going to take place if they reelected such a manifestly unfit, compromised individual??
Frankly, I don't have much faith that many of the 75% of truckers and farmers who voted for Drumpf in 2024 will renounce their votes or their support of the mobbed-up old kiddie diddler. That is just how thoroughly invested they are in their loyalty to him.
The uninformed stupidity, the cult of personality devotion, and the penchant for chronically voting against their own self-interests is deeply ingrained in the captured mindsets of most of these conservative Republican voters, and unfortunately they will likely need to experience economic devastation and misery on a scale similar to or even worse than the 'Great Depression' before they ever consider the option of walking away from their orange, diaper-shitting savior.
---TFG
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