Trump voter can go fuck himself. Then get back to fuckin work doing what his employees used to do before he voted for Trump.
“It’s quite a shock. You get to know these guys, you become their friends—not just an employer but a friend,”
This guy doesn’t understand how friendship works. You guys are my friends, and that’s why I’ve voted in someone to ruin your life, because I care about you! But this is mildly inconvenient for me too guys, c’mon think about me.
The real problem is that the MAGA movement doesn’t really believe Trump’s literal words. Because the man lies so often, they seem to just go on vibes. But then when Trump actually does something he said he’d do, the voters are suddenly all surprised Pikachu when Trump’s actions don’t match their personal interpretation of what they thought he meant.
This is quite amazing to me since it seems to be the actual case. The people who were saying we shouldn’t listen to him, but watch what he does, were openly advocating for a man whose word they know means nothing. It’s perplexing. Politicians are an untrustworthy lot one and all, but god damn, the open and naked willingness to vote for someone whose position they can’t know, whose promises carry absolutely no weight, that’s truly stupendous.
They are at once admitting Trump says horrible shit, but also that he’s an inveterate liar and that makes it better somehow. Both him being honest and dishonest should be equally disturbing. That’s some next level cognitive dissonance.
He’s a hypocritical pos
Starting to feel cheap getting so much use out of this
Should have used the version of this picture that makes his face bigger
thanking intensifies
They’re the same picture.
No I think using memes featuring the guy’s real face are important.
But that is his real face. /s
“It’s quite a shock. You get to know these guys, you become their friends—not just an employer but a friend,” he told NBC6
After he said he didn’t really have buyer’s remorse. Fuck this guy.
trumpers never admit buyers remorse, than they will have to reflect on thier decisions.
Scardina says he voted for Trump and still supports many of the former president’s policies, but this isn’t what he signed up for. “Buyer’s remorse? I don’t know, a little bit,” he said.
Maybe a little bit. I mean, that detention and deportation stuff might be just a touch heavy handed. One of these roofers had a little girl! I think. Oh well. Trump must have a plan or something.
I am trying to make it satire, but I don’t think I am managing…
HE’S their EMPLOYER! If there were any justice he’d be in jail for employing them.
Adding to Scardina’s annoyance, the men had valid work permits and pending asylum applications, according to their attorney Regilucia Smith. “They are legally here,” she said. “Valid work permit, not even close to expired… again, no criminal records—not here, not in Nicaragua.”
Remember, it’s not only the people who are here illegally that are being arrested/deported.
It’s important to remember that it isn’t your citizenship or documentation that is the problem, it is your origin. If you were born somewhere else, they want you out, no matter what your legal situation is. Once they get done rounding up the undocumented, they will come for the rest. They don’t even respect birthright citizenship, which is baked into the Constitution, they certainly aren’t going to respect green cards or naturalized citizenship.
If you were born someplace else, you are unwelcome by the MAGA Nazis, and they will send you back, citizen or not.
Elon Musk has been a US citizen for more than 20 years, and they were talking about deporting him after he questioned Dear Leader and some of the Project 2025 agenda. And he’s not even a person of color.
They definitely don’t care about the law. They only care about homogeneity in both thought and appearance.
Now he can hire American workers, right?
What do you mean that American workers don’t want to work for less than minimum wage and no benefits?
No one wants to work anymore!
Guy is a fucking roofer, and he’s voting to kick out all foreigners. What a putz.
I was in roofing for a few years, and believe me, you want a Mexican ( or some other south of the border) crew working on your roof. They are fast, quiet, efficient, and fast. They will get it done, and get it done right.
Only a terrible businessman, and really stupid person would vote for the guy who is expressly saying that he intends to hurt your workers, and your business. “Yep, Im voting for the guy who is promising to ruin my business!”
This guy deserves everything he gets.
They are fast, quiet, efficient, and fast.
Wow that’s really fast
They call him Gonzales for a reason
Muy speedy
Pure leopard material yes, but this also highlights where the goalposts have shifted. The business owner fell for “were getting the criminals and rapists” lie, while the admin is rounding up everyone.
According to his lawyer, these employees had their papers in order and no criminal records domestically or in home country. So why were these employees collected? and why are so many republicans okay with this behaviour?
So why were these employees collected? and why are so many republicans okay with this behaviour?
it’s racism. always has been. cult leaders give their followers an easy target to blame their shitty lives on, and it works. legal, illegal–doesn’t matter. they’re brown. that’s literally the reason
how can we get to the point where the “why are they doing this?” no longer needs to be asked?
The sad part is that even if the lives of these MAGAs get worse - worse than the lives of the immigrants they look down upon in their home country, they would likely still be racist.
There are pockets in rural America, an obscenely rich country, that are borderline third world country conditions, and they still vote Republican with a sense of superiority and extreme ignorance of their relative standard of living compared to rest of the world.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if some of them were okay with trading electricity and sewage systems (return to 1700s) for racial and religious homogeny.
President Lyndon B. Johnson was correct when he said:
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
That was 60 years ago. It hasn’t changed. The rich and the political elite like it this way.
Yeah, I know, and it’s sad (but not surprising) that it’s still true. I should read up about the larger context of that quote.
I personally believe with zero background knowledge that we’re just not evolved enough to have empathy beyond our physical sphere of influence. Like as an aggregate, unless we personal interact with another human, we seem to have no problem vilifying them. We seem to even be able to hate ppl who look exactly like us too, lol. Civil wars are so ridiculously common in history.
It’s like we tend to hate humans who look nothing like us or exactly like us, lol. Everything between that spectrum is acceptable.
So why were these employees collected?
Brown people.
That, and the fact that there just aren’t as many undocumented immigrants in the US as Trump and his advisors have claimed. So to stoke fear they need to keep the numbers up. Any innocent, law-abiding, legal residents caught up in their net are acceptable collateral damage (in their view).
One can only hope that in 50 years, Trumpism and mass deportations will be a short-lived historical anomaly like McCarthyism and the Red Scare.
I might be naive, but many Republicans are okay with it just because it hasn’t affected them yet.
Oh, this guy knew these workers, thought of them as friends? Clearly they were just hiding their criminal lifestyle from him. Not like MY friends. Hey, why are there a bunch of white vans outside their house?
They’re OK with it because on the surface level, it’s what they want. Any single little bit of inspection and it falls apart, but they get to call them illegals, criminals, etc and talk about how good a job Trump is doing. They get to claim a win over the Libs, and that is the height of what they want from this presidency.
Scardina, who runs a small roofing business in Florida’s Lower Keys, cannot believe it. “It’s quite a shock. You get to know these guys, you become their friends—not just an employer but a friend,” he told NBC6, visibly emotional.
He continued, “It’s almost like they’re actual people. I mean not actually, but almost, you know?!”
I am sure he will feel better once DoJ shows him photoshopped pictures of his former employees’ MS-13 tattoos.
yeah… ya’ll really dumb enough to ignore every sign this was going to happen. Thing is, you were always racist. You’re just upset that your wealth is at risk from voting in a psychopath that doesnt care about anybody but himself.
Won’t someone please think of the business owners!? These are actual businesses being impacted by this shit. :(
Small businesses don’t count, we only care about large multinational conglomerates!
I hope all these maga trump supporting idiots go bankrupt
i could only hope.
but it’s not even close to the amount of punishment they deserve.
they ruined the lives and communities of so many people, and are upset that they hurt them so much they can no longer exploit them.
Still, his colleague, Virgil Scardina, says they count themselves lucky. “I get to go home and hug my kid,” he said. “These guys don’t. And they don’t deserve that.”
“Given what you know now will you vote against trump and the GOP in all races coming up?” - reporter probably
“Absolutely not! The GOP will always have my vote!” - this Roofing company owner probably
im deeply confused as to how this isnt the standard follow-up… “would you change your vote if you could?” and “will you continue to vote for the party that has these policies in their platform?”
Actual journalists tend to avoid anything that appears partisan. Their job is to report the news, not to deliver commentary.
And a 20-year campaign by Republicans against mainstream journalists has left them in a position where even straight factual reporting is considered biased by 50% of voters.
I agree that someone should follow up with these people and get them to really consider how their politics are affecting their own daily lives. But that really needs to be dealt with by pundits and talk-show hosts instead of reporters.
right, those actual journalists who are from organizations ejected from the whitehouse and threatened by a fascist takeover of the fcc to lose their licenses for pointing out the king has no clothes.
hows that neutrality workin out for ya, switzerland
kind feels like the story is the zombified population voting against their own best interests and it should be followed up on by everyone with a voice.
this isnt 50 years ago when honesty, decorum, respect existed and the league of women voters ran presidential debates. we are now a non-trivial percent away from no longer being a democracy.
“Well… if they promise that this time it will be different and they will only deport criminals and not the others…”
Vincent is another MAGA POS, zero sympathy. Hopefully this asswipe ends up on a roof with 30 C + temperatures.
