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Jim Beam shutting down bourbon production at Kentucky distillery for a year as Trump’s trade wars hit sales
(www.independent.co.uk)
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They weren't swindled, he was president once already. Anyone claiming to not have seen this coming is either too stupid to care about or lying.
Seriously, if they voted for Trump in 2024 they are either heartless or brainless. Probably both. Those soulless shells of people have less sense than the dead people they think keep voting for Democrats.
Their kids and disabled family members get my sympathy, but the grownups who chose this? They had it coming.
Brainless and cruel. I know some absolute morons who still vote democratic because they're fundamentally good people. They don't hate people on the basis of being gay, or race, so they vote democratic.
Include clueless. Watch Mamdani interview NYC Trump supporters on the street. Americans are politically stupid, they vote according to their pocketbook and their vibes, always have.
We say they are stupid because they don't have the same information we have. We run in different circles, and read different information intentionally.
But there are neurosurgeons out there who live in towns where everyone watches Fox News and such and everyone around them repeats the same shit, and they believe Biden caused the inflation, and Trump did nothing wrong and was going to fix inflation with a magic wand and no policies to do so. It is enforced by everyone/thing around them. Should they realize, yeah.. but that neurosurgeon isn't "stupid", they are ignorant.
I don't think they are stupid. I think they are greedy and cruel. In the past that could lead to them getting ahead of their fellow Americans. The reality is that they are now in the pool of people who are hurt by greed and cruelty and they were willfully blind to it. Many GOP voters would still vote for exactly what is happening to them right now if only it would affect people they hate (everyone) more than it affects them. American "exceptionalism" and "individualism" contributed to this.