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Showing Original Post only (View all)If this is true, it is hysterically funny to me. [View all]
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-to-change-my-vote-searches-spike-in-states-won-by-donald-trump/ar-AA1u0yBRBuyers remorse, eh?
My brother in Floridistan tells me he has been engaging with one of his neighbors and the guy voted for the orange gibbon. He railed about this and that. Well sir, on the Friday evening after Election Day, my brother went out to find the neighbor walking around his yard with a very depressed look on his face. He inquired and was told that, earlier in the day, his staff was called into a meeting where the were told that they were not getting their Holiday bonuses this year because the company had to stock up on as much whatever imported things they use on account of the tariff threat. He did not know this would happen. He did not know that his company would do such a thing.
Except that he did. My brother had explained all of this to him on the Sunday before Election Day when they were chatting over the fence while their dogs went to go potty. My brother told him all of this. The guy basically said that my brother was lying about how tariffs work and how that idiot was going to wreck things for most of the country thanks to tariffs that would destroy some industries entirely.
He believes my brother now... the stupid get...
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Too sweet for my palate, I cut them with saccharine to get the bitter aftertaste and balance it out. (n/t)
Moostache
Nov 2024
#4
I used to work shipyards as a contractor. Don't be surprised what small manufacturing will do to avoid giving bonuses...
haele
Nov 2024
#42
I heard the "won't get their holiday bonuses" in a slightly different setting already
Hamlette
Nov 2024
#20
I revel in their pain, their regret, and their last dying gasps; it ain't gonna be "Rosebud."
NBachers
Nov 2024
#28
My doctor was saying that they will all deny they voted for him. That's what his Patients told him after George W.
kerry-is-my-prez
Nov 2024
#36