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.
I post this for the memes, but I don’t really get pleasure from the misery of a bunch of working class people getting fucked after being barinwashed, manipulated and conned for most of their lives.
Just give him the welcome he deserves.
This random addition stood out to me
Phil Plummer — who was then Montgomery County Sheriff — to enter politics.
“My jail was 40% drug addicts, 50% mental health patients, 10% criminals,” said Plummer, who has been a Republican state representative since 2019. “We got it upside down — that’s what drove me to the state house.”
Plummer, the Montgomery County Republican chairman, is now on the ballot for the Ohio state Senate and stressed that Trump has been what keeps the GOP’s coalition of businesses and working-class families together.
How can you look at a jail, full of untreated mental illness (addiction is a mental illness), and think "we just need even more regressive policies! Wouldn’t wanna vote for universal healthcare and more mental counseling! Nope! Gimme those draconian puritanical laws that trap vulnerable abused people in a cycle of poverty and crime! Yee-Haw!
Even not asking the stupid to understand the addiction/illness connection, he separated criminals into their own category himself and came out with only 10%. So he acknowledged that 90% of the people in the jail weren’t criminals.
Asked how many times he had voted for Trump, Bos held up three tattooed fingers. But he said he’s done with the president.
Ouch.
Bos, 30, plans to spend the final weeks before the November election canvassing votes for Democrats.
Hm, I wonder if the next time someone even worse comes down the pike and promises to shit on everyone in the outgroup, while pinky-swearing to not harm white blue collar workers, if he’ll swap back because:
“Something has to change politically in this country,” said Bos, a member of the United Auto Workers who identifies as a centrist
Ah, the centrist. Much like the “independent”, LOL.
Centrist are just ashamed Republicans now…same shit with libertarians. Both have been taken over by the idiots who voted for the pedophile in chief because of how bad the repubs have been.
Americans increasingly blame Trump for the high cost of living with just 17% approving of his handling of the issue. Trump has largely sneered at concerns about affordability, but he has promised to give people $5,000 checks if Republicans win the House and Senate next month — something Bos said he found offensive.
“It feels like a bribe, a slap in the face, and, like, that we’re all ignorant,” Bos said.
You voted for a blatant con-man three times! You are ignorant.
There’s also no way that would ever happen! Trump is like the shitty version of a Lannister: he never pays his debts.
I still can’t believe people are really this stupid.
And with a third child on the way, no less!
And they’ll all vote Republican.
I get the impulse to be defeatist, but this is a story about a 3-time Trump voter who’s now voting for and volunteering with Democrats. Would I trust or depend on him? No. But the enemy of Republicans is my (temporary) ally. And he’s not the only one…
If ONLY there was SOME way he Would know that Trump would ONLY go After Trans and Brown kids! If he KNEW Trump wouldn’t JUST go After THOSE kids he would have STILL voted for Him!
