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Tags | donald trump , Trump supporters |
View Poll Results: Which Trump supporters do you feel the least amount of sympathy for |
Those who rely on Obamacare | 47 | 48.96% | |
Those living near the border who may loose their homes due to the wall | 15 | 15.63% | |
Those concerned about internet privacy | 11 | 11.46% | |
Those with friends/relatives who were affected by immigration policies | 23 | 23.96% | |
Other | 38 | 39.58% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 96. You may not vote on this poll |
13th April 2017, 09:30 AM | #1 |
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Which Trump supporters do you feel the least amount of sympathy for
Now that the U.S. has a racist orangutan as president, many of his supporters are now complaining about some of Trump's policies. It may sound rather callous, but in many cases its hard to feel sympathy for people who knowingly voted for Trump, given what his policies and political rhetoric were. If you feel the same way, who do you have the least amount of sympathy for:
- Trump supporters who are worried about loosing health care due to the republicans wanting to dismantle Obamacare, such as those in Coal country. (They fell for the empty promise of Trump planning on bringing back coal jobs, but thought he was "just kidding" about wanting to get rid of Obamacare.) https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...=.6a12e16e6f47 - Trump supporters in the southern U.S. who may find that they are loosing their homes due to Trump's border wall http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/news...s-house-mexico - Online Trump supporters after Trump signed a bill allowing ISPs to sell browsing history. https://www.aol.com/article/news/201...peal/22017215/ - The woman who voted for Trump even though her husband was an illegal immigrant and has recently been deported. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.b1075e88be5d |
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13th April 2017, 09:33 AM | #2 |
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I have no sympathy whatsoever for any Trump supporter that Trump screws over.
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13th April 2017, 09:36 AM | #3 |
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Other: all of the above and then some.
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13th April 2017, 09:38 AM | #4 |
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No sympathy for any of those *********** idiots.
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13th April 2017, 09:40 AM | #5 |
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MAYBE it may be possible to feel sympathy for the people concerned about internet privacy, since unlike health care/immigration/etc. I don't remember it ever being a campaign issue, but even then they should have realized "Trump=scummy businessman". |
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13th April 2017, 09:57 AM | #10 |
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Other. The people who thought he was anti-interventionist.
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13th April 2017, 09:59 AM | #11 |
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Here's another group... Farmers (who overwhelmingly supported Trump) are now worried that Trump's plans to renegotiate NAFTA will affect their sales.
http://www.grubstreet.com/2017/02/fa...-position.html |
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13th April 2017, 10:01 AM | #12 |
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Considering the 4Chan connection, I'm gonna go with internet privacy
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13th April 2017, 10:03 AM | #13 |
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The sad thing is that most of the Trump supporters that he screw over will vote for him again.
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13th April 2017, 10:07 AM | #14 |
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Yeah, other... I only have a few American peers who were Trumpies, and they're all on silent running right now.
Most of them operate businesses that depend on modifying imported items, which are now at risk of seeing their costs skyrocket. For example, I have a friend in Seattle who frosts glass in chandeliers. The blanks are manufactured in the Philippines, and he's always monitoring American sourcing as alternatives, but evidently domestic supply will quadruple the final price, which will reduce his sales volume considerably, and jeopardize the viability of his business. |
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13th April 2017, 10:18 AM | #17 |
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r/the_donald subscribers on reddit. The reddit is filled with the most foul apologists on the planet and the moderators are currently on a massive ban campaign on any subscriber who dares to question if trump is anything other than the greatest 4D chess player on planet earth. Many people over there are getting antsy over the bombing in Syria as many there were convinced the chemical attacks were a false flag event by the global elite and that trump was too smart to fall for it. After he attacked a wave of panic rippled through the pages followed quickly by mass banning. Just wait until their master, Bannon, is kicked to the curb.
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That was day 1.
Defeating ISIS (30 days). Elminate the debt - 10 years. BTW, the latest Trump lie: he did not know Steve Bannon before Bannon joined the campaign. Although when he hired Steve Bannon, he claimed he had known him for years. He had been on Bannon's radio show multiple times. OK, this is a trivial little lie, but then again, it's stupid. Why bother lying about something so trivial? It's because he has no regard for the truth. |
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13th April 2017, 12:27 PM | #24 |
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Hey, I have a better question!
Which Sesame Street character do you feel sorry for since Hillary lost the election?!?!?!? I've been wondering this fornever! |
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13th April 2017, 12:57 PM | #26 |
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I don't remember him promising to defeat ISIS in 30 days. I do remember him talking about telling his generals to come up with a plan in 30 days. Can't remember if that was before or after he said he'd fire all the generals. Then he said it didn't matter because he was smarter than the generals.
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But I love what Trump has done so far, and hope he continues to 'win' until we are all thoroughly sick of it. Though personally I hope to never become sick of it, because I hate America! |
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Other- none of them. I don't feel sympathy for any of them. They knew what they were signing up for. I know one person who voted Trump, and he regrets it. I don't even him ask why because I can't manage to care.
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None. Why should I feel sympathy when people get what they want?
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By the looks of them, I'd say no, but I'm no interior decorator. A mix of crystal and cut glass with frosted faces on the outer rings, some cheap brass fittings, tassels. I think they're hideous but he sells tons of them through home improvement chains like Home Depot. Around $1,000 retail. All his competitors import as well, mostly Indian manufacturers.
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I have no sympathy for any of them, but some gratitude. They have provided the US Right with the opportunity to demonstrate just how bankrupt their ideology is, without any "liberal interference" to blame their failure on.
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I feel no sympathy for any Trump voter.
Many of them are going to literally die because of him. I have no sympathy - they're getting what they voted for. |
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Another "Other" would be Canadians who support Trump.
Specifically, I have a work colleague who was excited about Trump, "because he'll bring our jobs back." I didn't really want to get into it with her in the Fall, but since the election she's shifted to asking questions. A bit late, IMO. Anyway, the fact she had somehow overlooked was that WE'RE NOT THE USA. So when Trump said he would be bringing jobs 'back' to America... that's going to come from a million Canadians in the Quebec-Windsor corridor building auto parts for GM and Ford. People like her brother. So now she's grokking that a US plan to strongarm the world to siphon value into the USA means Canadian standard of living is in the crosshairs. Having said that... another Trumpie I met on the bus last fall might still be happy. He was unemployed anyway, and his solution seemed to be to 'send all the darkies back where they came from'. The guy was kinda hilarious in that he was so furious that he once saw n-words openly smoking a joint on the street... meanwhile he's talking to me sipping a bottle of red label wrapped in a paper bag, on a public bus. It was like he was trying to be a stereotype. Here six months later, I'm still entertaining the possibility it was performance art. |
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Well there's the economy. If the markets start gyrating as they well might in response to his stream-of-consciousness things may seize up abruptly.
Then there's States' Rights, or in general the delegation of policy to the State level, which people tend to find attractive in principle but disconcerting in practice.
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