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A small business owner who voted for Donald Trump recently posted a video on TikTok, pleading for help as crushing tariffs on China threatened to bankrupt his operation, which imports alloy wheels. His call for support, however, drew little sympathy from some fellow Americans.

“Votes have consequences,” he was told, with many comments from Twitter/X users relishing the notion that another MAGA voter was suffering because of their political choice. The backlash prompted a second video from the man, in which he dropped several F-bombs while criticizing the apparent heartlessness of those celebrating his hardship.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 hours ago

schadenfreude

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Are they being mocked, or are people just pointing out the reality of the situation?

well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 32 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

He voted for him twice and says would vote a third time. What a pathetic piece of shit.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 hours ago

Its not a sports team, and people like this don't understand that you don't just vote one way because its the team you cheer for. Vote for what affects your life in the most positive way.

This dumb ass got what he deserves.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

...pathetic piece of terminally stupid shit.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 24 points 13 hours ago

He should be mocked and ridiculed until it penetrates his tiny brain that he is part of the problem and he is getting what he deserves.

[–] rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 18 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

On one hand he voted exactly for this.

On the other hand, he is a worker that was systematically exploited to be less educated about political affairs and then exploited further by having his work taken from him.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 20 points 13 hours ago

It's shitty that people relish in the suffering of another but it only takes a room temp IQ to have realized Trump was a con man in 2016. It took even less intelligence to realize Trump was unfit to lead in 2020. Voting for him post Jan 6th? You're a fucking traitor.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 points 10 hours ago

It doesn't take much education to know what a lying, fascist sack of shit Trump is.

With cleverer, more sneaky politicians, I might pity the man who didn't know. Not with this one. All the morons who voted for Trump knew exactly what they were doing.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

On the one hand, he's a fascist. On the other hand, HE'S A FASCIST.

He's still a shitty person because he likely voted for the horrible things Trump would do.

[–] RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip 41 points 17 hours ago

He can get a job as a picker on another farm. Maybe one owned by a big corporation. Maybe his own former farm once it's sold. They are freeing up work conventionally done by imigrant workers, right? Hard work pays off under conservatives, right?

[–] Bullerfar@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago

Well 0 fucks given. Anyone Saying this wasn't told to them a million times doing the election are either fucking stupid and shouldn't vote, or clearly living in a fucking vacuum on Fox planet.

[–] unicornBro@sh.itjust.works 16 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Is there any reason to believe that he wouldn't vote for him a 3rd time?

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 15 hours ago

no, because he will if he has the opportunity

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[–] kyliemadison@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 15 hours ago

i had to eat notebook paper as a child, suffer beatings, and survive homelessness. pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get good, i guess?

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 8 points 14 hours ago

The thing with that kind of mindset is that it doesn't propagate as within a population not driven by exceptionalism. They feel so special that they can point their fingers and rest assured they are different or would be safe, because they wouldn't commit a specific attributed mistake. Until it happens to them, but couldn't possibly happen to the rest, and again and again.

[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

Wheelhead got exactly what he voted for. And Republicans have the answer: grab those bootstraps.

to everyone in America who is suffering, I feel you you, unless they were MAGA, in which case eat shit you garbage of a human being

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 15 hours ago

Oh you want to talk about "heartlessness"? Give me a fucking break

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago
[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 12 points 17 hours ago
[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 38 points 22 hours ago

It is interesting to read the coverage. Many of us didn't relish anything. We find it ironic, we find it good for the lulz, and we ask ourselves, "Do you think he learned anything?" followed by the observation, "Meh, probably not. Reality never interested him, so why should things be different now?"

We don't want Trump supporters to get fucked. Rather, we want to live in a world where Trump can't fuck over anyone. But that's not the situation right now, and karma's a motherfucker.

[–] banazir@lemmy.ml 28 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Dear Horrendous Cunt. I'm not American, so I don't judge you because you "didn’t vote the same way" I did. I judge you, because you knowingly voted to place tariffs on your own business. Better yet, you dismissed everyone pointing out that this would only ever hurt you (and hurt pretty much everyone else besides, and some worse than you). Now that it is hurting you, I judge you to be terminally stupid, because everything you have done is stupid and you are stupid.

With all sincerity, go fuck yourself like you fucked your own livelihood.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

don't forget the final nail in the coffin of choosing to not learn from their mistake and double down on it

99% of what I see from these people is "yeah I voted for this but I didn't think it would hurt me like this and I am showing no indication that I would do it differently next time"

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