Disabled and on food stamps, Michael Lyras voted for Trump 3 times. "I regret my last vote enormously"

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Among Brito’s followers there are personal stories that reflect anguish and regret. One is Michael Lyras, a 44-year-old American, who lives in Volusia County, near Orlando, in central Florida. Lyras studied addiction counseling in college but is currently disabled and receiving food stamps. He voted for Trump “all three times” but says he is upset with the way things are going: “I regret my last vote enormously,” he says.

“It was necessary to make changes, but not in this way, sacrificing our civil rights and liberties that are enshrined in our Constitution,” Lyras adds. “He [Trump] is turning this into a police state and he’s acting like an authoritarian. I didn’t vote for any of this” For some voters, the ultimate blow has been seeing neighbors or loved ones caught in the unstoppable machinery of deportation, which they deem unfair. They feel a mixture of guilt, anger and bewilderment.

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But not all Republican voters are disappointed. Some, like Kimberly Delgado, 28, maintain their support for Trump despite the difficulties they face. “What motivated me to vote for Trump was the immigration laws he was implementing, and also because the last four years with the Democrats in office were a disaster,” she explains.

A resident of Weston, northeast of Miami, Delgado says that although she works at a funeral home and her husband also works full-time, they can’t afford to feed their two children, and they have been receiving food stamps for four years. Delgado was born in the U.S. to Cuban parents and she assumes that the situation with the government shutdown is going to be difficult for many like them — people who work full-time and yet still need help due to the rising cost of living.


https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-03/im-angry-with-my-president-trump-voters-in-florida-confront-the-fallout-of-his-policies-a-year-before-the-midterms.html

[Aristus]

1. We all regret your vote, asshole.

Thanks for sticking us with this shit!

[dem4decades]

2. Delgato? That's not an American name, get that immigrant out of here.

Since when are Cubans natives, just because they vote Republican doesn't mean they're better than other immigrants.

[Dave Bowman]

3. These idiots only have regrets when it affect them personaly. And apparently that woman didn't get crushed enough,

See you in 6 months, sucker, you'll be deeper in it.

[agingdem]

17. that's true..just like

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the Trump voting Latinos regret their votes when their mothers/grandmothers/children are rotting in detention facilities awaiting deportation...or the Trump voting farmers/ranchers who see their generational farms and ranches go into foreclosure because their "savior" is importing beef from Argentina and their fields of fruits/vegetable are rotting because seasonal workers who glean their fields are staying away out of fear of capture..or the mother who is pro-life until her 10 year old daughter is raped by her stepfather and has to carry the baby to term because Roe v Wade was overturned....

Thoughts and prayers and a giant fuck you!!

[RockRaven]

4. A big "fuck you" to every coward and liar who utters "I didn't vote for this" or equivalent.

THIS is exactly what you voted for. Stop lying and take some... what was that word you all loved so much... oh, yeah... personal responsibility.

[taxi]

5. Yeah, he says he voted for a dumbass three times and regrets doing it once.

Next time he will vote for the same dumbass because that dumbass won 2 out of 3 times.

[DFW]

6. "I didn't vote for any of this."

Yes, you did. You voted for all of it.

Do I want you to shrivel up homeless and hungry and die on a sidewalk? No. I'm NOT a Republican. What I want is for you to do now is make amends to your fellow humans and go out and apologize to people, and tell anyone who will listen how sorry you are, and how you are going to work to make amends for as long as you took to spread the false propaganda that got us to this horrible point we're currently at.

[sarisataka]

7. It gives me no pleasure to point out to Mr Lyras

That this is exactly what he voted for. It was very clear that the Constitution meant nothing to trump.
It is his own fault if he believed when the leopard said I am going to eat faces he thought his own face would be excepted

[Tribetime]

8. Maybe if they didn't get their news from fox and other sources

[Cha]

9. That's nice.. We Regret your votes

For the Fucker, too.

[MerryBlooms]

10. You voted for All Of This!

Get second jobs! Wtf wrong with you? Suckin off the taxpayer teet!?! BTW, are you the right color!?! You voted against yourself, dumbass.

[fujiyamasan]

11. Fucking eaters should pull themselves up by their bootstraps

That’s basically the republican philosophy right there.

And I hope Ms Delgado has her papers and an immigration lawyer ready when ICE “accidentally” snatches her or a loved one away and they’re trying to figure out what happened.

So much stupid.

[Maru Kitteh]

12. Baby you voted for this to happen to somebody else. That's what you mean.

How’s it feel?

[BeerBarrelPolka]

13. Biden was a disaster?

What does she call this frigging mess we are in?

[Iris]

14. What was disastrous about the past 4 years?

I really don't understand what "changes" were so necessary that a vote for a convicted felon, repost, and pedo was required

[pimpbot]

19. eggs!

Eggs were like $600 a dozen! And men were in little girls bathrooms! Schools were forcing kids to change their sex!

/s

[tanyev]

25. And masks! They tried to make us wear masks and get shots!

[2MuchNoise]

22. Nothing! Kimberly or whatever her name is doesn't know what she's talking about.

[helpisontheway]

15. Oh yes..this is EXACTLY what you voted for..nt

[gopiscrap]

16. stupid fucker

no sympathy here...FAFO asshole!

[sop]

18. These people voted for Trump because they believed a pack of lies.

They won't have the opportunity to vote for Trump again, but if they keep on believing the same lies, they'll just vote for another Republican.

[2MuchNoise]

20. A disaster?! What the f#ck is she talking about? Even she doesn't know!

[madinmaryland]

21. FAFO. Morons.

[2MuchNoise]

23. This makes me want to SCREAM!

[Blue Owl]

24. Go wallow in your self-created misery

[mucholderthandirt]

26. It's exactly what he voted for. Trump told everyone what he'd do, and now he's done it.

These idiots can just fuck off. Lose their disability, SS, food stamps, whatever. When Trump said it, he mean it, fools. FAFO, morons.

[DavidDvorkin]

27. Fucking. Idiots.

[Totally Tunsie]

28. One out of three trump supporters

is just as stupid as the other two.