Trump’s MAGA might not admit it, but many will pay dearly for their vote Many of us have seen the MAGA fallout from the Tesla Chainsaw Massacre — Donald Trump voters with tearful posts on social media, crying that they’ve lost their federal government jobs, or storming Republican congressional town halls to blast their representatives for allowing the president and his henchmen to cut programs and funding that red states rely upon. Trump even mocked his own supporters on Truth Social, his social media platform. And for the MAGA who haven’t been hit yet, the New York Times has some advice: Duck! Because unless Trump folds in his trade wars, his tariffs — which even the Wall Street Journal calls “the dumbest in history,” will have a boomerang effect as other countries retaliate. And that boomerang is going to hit Trump voters the hardest. China has targeted corn farmers and carmakers. Canada has put tariffs on poultry plants and air-conditioning manufacturers, while Europe will hit American steel mills and slaughter houses. Since Mr. Trump ordered steep levies on some of America’s largest trading partners in February and March, other countries have begun imposing their own tariffs on American exports in an attempt to put pressure on the president to relent. The retaliatory tariffs have been carefully designed to hit Mr. Trump where it hurts: Nearly 8 million Americans work in industries targeted by the levies and the majority are Trump voters, a New York Times analysis shows. Some of those voters told the Wall Street Journal that they’re behind Trump’s economic vision, even though the stock market and their retirement fund have been battered in Trump’s first six weeks. Voters who resisted former President Joe Biden, who gave the U.S. the strongest economy in the world, near full employment and a roaring stock market, are now preaching a stay-the-course sermon, because it’s their guy. “He’s doing some hard work, some things that are very difficult for people to understand and difficult for people to accept,” physician Patrick Williams of Louisville, Ky., told the Journal. “But it’ll be to our long-term benefit.” Meanwhile, the Times says Kentucky is in the tariff crosshairs, along with other states that Trump carried in the November election. The retaliatory tariffs target industries employing 9.5 percent of people in Wisconsin, 8.5 percent of people in Indiana and 8.4 percent of people in Iowa. The shares are also relatively high in Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky and Kansas. As a doctor, Williams likely won’t feel the tariffs professionally, but if Trump and Elon Musk hack the heart out of Medicaid and Medicare, along with Social Security, doctors like Williams might have a different outlook. A change of opinion, though, on Trump? Probably not.
Kentucky has rare earths near their coal mines, someone should build a refinery. Tariffs will force industry back to the USA If 2026 goes well, we can impeach commie judges. Doge is defunding the deep state. Dems want an unaccountable gravy train, they see people the same way criminals see victims.
Growing up in Kentucky and with friends who had a parent working in the coal mining industry. One in particular friend followed in her father's footstep as an advance skill technician (she's a mining engineer) in REE mining... The high costs and environmental challenges associated with traditional REE mining, and the need for industrial-scale separation and purification facilities, remain significant hurdles due to the lack of federal funding and state funding. Simply, DOGE would be hypocrites to allow such a high cost project to proceed while knowing it will take many years to be profitable. Regardless, DOGE has already made massive cuts to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and cancelled already invested millions in projects focused on developing technologies to extract REEs and other critical minerals from coal and coal byproducts. Thus, those needed to finish the already spent dollars are now gone...without a job. Most of them are now looking for jobs in the private sector that is more lucrative but will require relocation. Ironically, Trump wants to buy other countries for their mineral resources instead of stopping DOGE from causing chaos to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) after Trump made a promise to drill baby drill. The false positive...those thousands of employees from the DOE will help Trump pad the numbers of creating new jobs for Americans in the private sector when in reality they are people who had previously been fired from the DOE...preventing or delaying many energy projects...costing America millions more to restart the projects if/when the new government decides to drill baby drill. https://trellis.net/article/doge-directed-layoffs-at-doe-could-benefit-the-private-sector/ Talk to the people who voted for Trump and his promises...this is not what they asked for in America's energy projects especially those living in Kentucky. P.S. The friend I mentioned above, has found a new job in Canada working for a private energy company. Same pay but in American dollars. With the current exchange rate...it's a 43% pay raise doing the same work in Canada...plus the new job is reimbursing her for the moving costs and wage lost after 3 weeks of unemployment due to actions from DOGE. Another American citizen skill worker lost by Trump's DOGE. I think Canada should be contacting more of these skilled Americans in the energy sector after they've been fired by DOGE and they can still be "conservatives" but with a better quality of life in Canada. wrbtrader
As a kid growing up in Kentucky, our family would sometimes take vacation in Tennessee. I remember one time asking my old man why do some of them say "eh" ? He said they're not Americans but are Canadians because Tennessee has sister city relationship to cities in Canada. That relationship would later grow and Tennessee declared it as "official" in 1990 with Edmonton, and Alberta...one of their common ground is country music. Now as an adult, the few times I've visited Edmonton and Alberta...you'll sometimes come across someone from Tennessee. In addition, Nashville also has sister city partnerships with Belfast, Northern Ireland; Caen, France; Chengdu, China; Kamakura, Japan; Magdeburg, Germany;Mendoza, Argentina; Taiyuan, China; and Tamworth, Australia. Something else that's very interesting, I'm able to tap into my home cable TV service in the north suburbs of Chicago while living at my primary residence here in Quebec, Canada. I've recently started seeing more TV commercials with tourism AD for Japan to encourage Japanese citizens to visit or come live in Nashville, Tennessee. In contrast, Quebec Canada has recently stopped buying commercial air in the Nashville area because they're currently not interested in encouraging residents of Tennessee to visit or come live in Quebec, Canada because of Trump's tariff war threats and trolling. Lost income for Tennessee Simply, separatists up here in Quebec, Canada has put aside our grievances with Canada to take on Trump full-time. I sometimes do a jog in the mornings passing by the The Citadelle of Québec...there's a little cafe not to far from there... I saw teenagers wearing Canada hats that say "Buy Canadian Fuck Trump". Yet, I suspect they're from Ontario or maybe Newfoundland because it's written in English. If I see it again or see someone with a "FU47" Canada hat that I heard Canada Truckers are wearing...I'll take a picture and post it here at the forum. wrbtrader