Leopards eating MAGA faces

[TechPapi]

FreightWaves CEO weary of Trump’s tariffs


When he voted for President Donald Trump several months ago, Craig Fuller thought he was supporting pro-business policies and small, targeted, incremental tariffs that would encourage strategic industries to bring production back to the United States.

That's what voters got during Trump's first term, he said.

"I did not vote for a neutron bomb to wipe out supply chains and small businesses 100 days in," Fuller, the founder of Chattanooga-based analytics company FreightWaves, wrote on social media April 20.

Trump's aggressive, erratic trade penalties on a litany of goods, including from Mexico, Canada and China, have stirred some wariness among American businesses, causing a slight slowdown in domestic freight, Fuller said in a phone call. Tariffs on Chinese goods now stand at 145%, which Fuller said is effectively an embargo.

[TechPapi]

TL;DR, there are probably millions of stories of people getting bit in the ass and/or face by their vote, and yet even if it were the 3%+ needed to completely flip the vote margins, you'd probably have a <10% chance to personally know a regretful Trump voter. While waiting for the next election isn't the actual move, this should give a general idea of what a change in public opinion actually looks like.

Ok, now to the math. To oversimplify, Trump won the popular vote by about 1.6%. To flip that margin around, you'd need to change the mind of about 3.2% of voters (assuming they're not jumping all the way from red to blue; if they are, it's less.)

2016 research showed that most Democrats (and Republicans) had "few" or "no" close friends of the opposing party (as opposed to "some" or "a lot"); it's probably even more extreme now. Similarly, parents are over 80% likely to have kids of the same party; extrapolating is a bit funky but this definitely implies >65% for the general family. Let's estimate 3 family members you'd talk to within the month, and 1 or fewer resultant Trump voters, and similarly 2 Trump voter friends.

Then, if you voted blue, even in the world where the margins of support have already fully flipped, you'd have around 5,000,000 flipped votes, and a 90+% chance to personally see 0 leopard-eaten-faces. (With those numbers, 1-.9683, or 90.7%, but these are approximate.)

Now again, obviously this is an oversimplification. There definitely wasn't an immediate 3.2% flip. It's almost certainly less, and not all of the change will be positive, e.g. blue-voters who have given up on voting, red-voters having more children, etc. There are probably dozens of caveats I could come up with.

But let's put that another way: If you know a reluctant Trump-voter, and you can get even a 5% of getting them to vote for no one, or third party? You're doing more than your share to get the votes back on track. All you have to do is complain together about things like billionaire overreach, and not give up completely.

You shouldn't pretend that a few dozen stories on equates to a blue wave of millions. But you also shouldn't pretend a few dozen people claiming there are no regretful Trump voters means there's no change in public consciousness. It is almost certainly a fact that the billionaires and facists in the US government have pissed off millions who helped vote them in. It might even be enough to change things.

Mentioned statistics:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics...disagreements/

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-re...heir-children/

[Lantern2814]

Yet 92% of Trump voters are happy with their vote and approve of the job he's doing. Despite the lies the left throws out on a daily basis.

[eccieuser9500]

Originally Posted by TechPapi

This thread will serves as the registry of regretful MAGAts.

Originally Posted by Lantern2814

Now to rain all over your lies. 92% of people voting for Trump are HAPPY with the results. Easily putting the lie to the blather from the usual suspects.

Originally Posted by Lantern2814

Yet 92% of Trump voters are happy with their vote and approve of the job he's doing. Despite the lies the left throws out on a daily basis.

"Stop talking like that!"

Stop raining on our parade with your tears.

1 in 4 Trump Voters Disappointed or Regret Voting For Him: 'I'm Scared'


https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trum...rating-2066120

Navigator Research's poll, conducted April 24 to 28 among 1,000 registered voters, found about 1 in 9 (11 percent) of respondents who voted for Trump in 2024 regretted having done so, another 16 percent do not regret voting for him but were disappointed.

Among those who identify as moderates, 47 said they regret voting for Trump or are disappointed by his early performance, while 43 percent of Trump voters who do not identify as MAGA said the same.

But the vast majority (73 percent) of Trump voters neither regret their vote, nor feel disappointed by his first few months back in the Oval Office. Only 13 percent of MAGA Republicans said they regret voting for Trump or are disappointed by his early performance.


According to Navigator's poll, Trump's approval on the economy is underwater at net -16 (40 percent approve versus 56 percent disapprove). His approval rating on the economy is the lowest ever in Navigator's tracking, and even lower among independents (net -31).

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by Lantern2814

Yet 92% of Trump voters are happy with their vote and approve of the job he's doing. Despite the lies the left throws out on a daily basis.

Where do you come up with that suspicious number?

The same place you got gas for 1.98?

You’re on a roll, bro!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[TechPapi]

For all these MAGAs trying to hijack the thread, just go start your own. For all the ones arguing with them over their posts trying to hijack the thread, please stop and just do what they do...report them.

[TechPapi]

Oh that's right. Construction workers. I wonder who they voted for?
Wynn Resorts CEO Craig Billings said the company will delay $375M in projects due to high tariffs. About $200M is a remodel of the Encore Las Vegas hotel tower.


Billings said the project will be looked at "once tariff rates have settled."

[Lantern2814]

Originally Posted by Lucas McCain

Care to provide a link to a credible source that supports your made-up approval number? Of course not, because you can't. You MAGAs are funny with reality.

Not made up. You'd know if you actually looked at anything but CNN and MSNBC. Or if you quit lying about everything Trump related. You delusional leftists are not funny with your constant lies. Remain in your fantasy land while we move on to a better age.

[TechPapi]

Originally Posted by Lantern2814

Not made up. You'd know if you actually looked at anything but CNN and MSNBC. Or if you quit lying about everything Trump related. You delusional leftists are not funny with your constant lies. Remain in your fantasy land while we move on to a better age.

Again with the thread hijacking. Interesting how the mods only seem to give a shit when it's a MAGA thread.

[Lucas McCain]

Originally Posted by Lantern2814

Not made up. You'd know if you actually looked at anything but CNN and MSNBC. Or if you quit lying about everything Trump related. You delusional leftists are not funny with your constant lies. Remain in your fantasy land while we move on to a better age.

Why is that the MAGA playbook with Trump depends sniffers in here? I don't watch that shit and I'm not even a Democrat. Can't you Trump lovers come up with something more creative than that? LOL

Anyway, if you want to provide a credible source to dispute anything posted, all you have to do is provide one which you obviously have not because you can't. Therefore, why don't you just do what the thread starter has asked you to do and stop trying to hijack his thread because you get butt hurt about anything negative posted about your master... fighting for the honor of your King Trump on a whore board is pretty funny to me though so I'll give you that.

[txdot-guy]

Originally Posted by Lantern2814

Yet 92% of Trump voters are happy with their vote and approve of the job he's doing. Despite the lies the left throws out on a daily basis.

Originally Posted by Lucas McCain

Anyway, if you want to provide a credible source to dispute anything posted, all you have to do is provide one which you obviously have not because you can't.

Actually, I don’t understand this and I think it’s insane that so many people still support the orange clown, but there is polling evidence that Trump voters are that deluded.


Opinion | Trump’s supporters do not regret their vote. Not even now.

Sun, May 4, 2025 at 5:00 AM CDT

A noticeable contingent of Kamala Harris voters has spent this year demanding that people who didn’t vote for her — whether for Donald Trump or another candidate — admit to a mistake that’s not only hurting the country but is hurting (or will hurt) them, too. Social media feeds are filled with people citing the latest Trump outrage and mockingly asking Trump voters, “Did you vote for this?!”

There’s been a new category of schadenfreude-inducing stories focused on Trump voters who’ve lost their federal job, had a loved one snatched by ICE or significantly suffered during the first few months of the administration. On top of that, some recent polls have found that Trump’s approval rating is below 40%. However, in the main, the Trump voter with buyer’s remorse is a mythical character not unlike, say, the moderate Republican.

The Public Religion Research Institute conducted a poll of more than 5,000 adults across 50 states between Feb. 28 and March 20 and found that 92% of Trump voters are satisfied with their vote. More than that, the PRRI poll finds that just about everybody who voted in November is satisfied with their decision, including 95% of Harris voters and 85% of people who voted third party. (PRRI reports a 1.69-point margin of error for its national survey.)

But PRRI’s poll is consistent with a poll released April 14 by the University of Massachusetts Amherst that found that only 2% of Trump voters polled answered yes to “I regret my vote and would vote differently if I could.” And both those polls are consistent with a survey The New York Times conducted among a focus group last month that found that none of the 13 independent voters who voted for Trump in November regrets not voting for Harris.


I suggest everyone read the article.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-t...100000557.html

[TechPapi]

I recommend all of you that want to argue about how stupid or brilliant MAGAt drumpf supporters are, or at what percentage they are, go start a thread about it. I simply do not give a fuck. This thread is about the MAGAt voters suffering the results of their vote.

[TechPapi]

It's even reported on Faux News...so some of the MAGAts here should love it. And here you go - another stupid cunt that only cares about problems that affect her personally. All MAGAs love to solve problems, as long as it doesn't help anyone but themselves. I hope she loses everything she has.

Tandy Jeckel, Woman Small Business Owner in Long Island, N.Y. Gives Trump an "A" Grade, Except When It Comes to Tariffs That Are Hurting Her Small Business

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., held a press conference alongside a business owner and supporter of President Donald Trump, who is speaking out against the president's tariff agenda.

On Long Island on Thursday, Schumer stood with Tandy Jeckel, the owner of TandyWear, a women’s clothing shop in Suffolk County.

"No matter what your vantage, if you're a business, if you are a consumer, if you are in the industry, the tariffs are one giant mess," Schumer said.

Jeckel told Fox News Digital that she is the exemplar of a split-ticket voter – consistently supporting Trump, while also praising Schumer’s years of work on behalf of Long Islanders, including after Superstorm Sandy.

When asked how she would grade Trump, she told Fox News Digital, "I would give him an 8 – it's absolutely not a fail."

"I would say an A," she added, when asked for a letter grade. "But, with the tariffs, that’s my only issue… because I have a small business. So it’s not really political, it’s just something that - this has to be rectified for our small business, because how long can we go on with this for my small business?"

Tariffs, she told Fox News Digital, bring uncertainty to both businessowners and customers, adding that customers are "resistant to buy" these days "because of this shaky uncertainty."

She declined to answer a handful of questions that were political in nature.

Jeckel told Fox News Digital that, in the long run, the Trump economy is "going to be great – once we get this situation with the tariffs" considered.

Meanwhile, Schumer also announced he would force a vote next week to end what he called Trump’s trade war, and called on the House of Representatives to act in-kind.

[TechPapi]

I wonder if she realizes who the president was "Just two years ago" when their husband was flooded with multiple job offers within days...





"To avoid this economic downturn"!!! There was no economic downturn until you voted for Trump, dipshits. I'm starting to think MAGAs are secretly a BDSM club, where they are all "bottoms." lol

[Lucas McCain]

That Long Island lady (post #28) says she approves of Trump, but his tariffs are killing her business. What a brilliant lady... how the hell can you approve of anyone who is going to kill your business? Maybe she hates money and just doesn't know it. Does that dummy think Trump actually gives a fuck about small business owners?