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Leigh Ann Wilson, a Democrat, voted for Trump in hopes he'd use health care reform to curb the opioid crisis. She's not happy with the results so far.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/this-mother-voted-for-trump-to-curb-the-opioid-crisis-shes-not-happy-with-how-things-are-going/
Leigh Ann Wilson hoped that President Trump would improve a lot of things in her home state of West Virginia, particularly an issue close to her heart: expanding treatment for people addicted to opioids.
Wilson lost her daughter, 21-year-old Taylor, to an opioid overdose last year. Weeks later, she voted for Trump, won over by his pledge to fight the opioid crisis by building a wall to keep out drugs - and by reforming health care.
She is not impressed with how things are going so far.
And so on Sunday, Wilson spoke at a health care rally in Charleston, W. Va. organized by the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org. The featured speaker: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. The goal: To press moderate Republican senators to vote against the GOP health bill this week.
CincyDem
(6,338 posts)...because I believed him when he told me he was going to come home from his private golf course on his private jet with his golden toilets...and do something to care far families like mine."
You can't cure stupid.
Education won't work
maxrandb
(15,297 posts)"I voted for a lying, misogynistic, racist, narcissistic homophobe...now feel sorry for me!"
CincyDem
(6,338 posts)How could I have know that he would f'ck me like this? Easy lady - you got sucked in by the tribal rhetoric of Make America White Again and it made your (conscious or unconscious) heart sing with joy so you looked pass every f'cking signal, message, and blaring siren to put this asshat in office.
And you could have known if your tribalism didn't blind you to the truth - he shits in a golden toilet because he has mastered the con...and this time, you were the mark.
Sorry for your loss but not sorry for you.
Well said.
barbtries
(28,769 posts)she lost her daughter. i just keep wondering what the fuck it would take for people to see what's in front of their eyes and has been all along.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Stupid is incurable.
Did she really think 2 Scoops would take time out from golfing and grabbing pussy to do something honorable?
Trumped played his con game against her raw emotion over losing a child and won her vote. I'm sorry for her loss, but that still doesn't excuse her voting for a man who mocked the disabled.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)nikibatts
(2,198 posts)WoonTars
(694 posts)...They vote for the arsonist and then act all surprised when he sets fire to everything....we are surrounded by self-serving morons...
XRubicon
(2,212 posts)I bet she has major investments in Beenie Babies too.
CincyDem
(6,338 posts)Ilsa
(61,690 posts)DFT has never given a dime to those less fortunate unless there was free publicity for himself.
jmowreader
(50,529 posts)Trump is famous for promising to give money but not actually giving any of it. If Trump donates any money at all, it's through his "foundation" - which is more of a money laundering scheme than it is an actual charitable foundation. None of Trump's own money is in his "foundation." Trump likes to have people who owe him money send it to his "foundation"...the idea is, if you "donate" to his "foundation" you can deduct it as a charitable contribution.
The first problem is a donation with a tangible benefit to the donor is not tax deductible. If I set up a charity ball that has a $500 ticket price and includes a dinner with fair market value of $250, you can only deduct $250.
The other problem is this kind of scheme is about as abusive a tax shelter as it's possible to construct.
CincyDem
(6,338 posts)HAB911
(8,867 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)LonePirate
(13,408 posts)I'm sorry for this woman's loss; but she was a moron to think 45 or any other Republican would ever do anything about the opioid crisis or any other health related matter. How the hell can people be so stupid?
boston bean
(36,219 posts)The woman running had a magnificent plan.
Not just, "believe me it will be good, the best".
Dayum, what a bunch of dumb idiots we have in this country.
Sorry for your loss and the thousands more that will occur because you voted for a lying buffoon.
ProfessorGAC
(64,854 posts)Your third sentence is a home run.
BumRushDaShow
(128,503 posts)That stuff ain't coming from Mexico (maybe cocaine, which is often shipped or flown in). Like meth, they are "manufacturing" the street drugs (whether the actual valid pain meds or mixing them with other stuff) right here in America. And the heroin that gets into the mix (whether straight or otherwise combined with something else) generally comes from places like Afghanistan or SE Asia.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)So at least we have that going for us.
AS I SAID in another thread this morning, I hope this is "Mueller Week."
BumRushDaShow
(128,503 posts)(solar panels are an anathema to people like him)
Maybe making it a softer landing for Humpty Dumpty.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)So stupid
Sgent
(5,857 posts)comes from Mexico. That said, the fentynal etc. that is actually killing people is coming mostly from China.
BumRushDaShow
(128,503 posts)https://www.deamuseum.org/ccp/opium/production-distribution.html
The other drugs (including the APIs) tend to come from places like China or India.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)to some people, I guess.
Probably less difficult to understand than, say, treatment on demand, harm reduction policies, safe injection sites, etc.
Those words have more syllables.
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)When you vote one one issue, you got all of it. When you voted for Trump, you voted for "grab them by the pussy", "They're drug dealers and rapist", and the "2nd Amendment remedy" for Hillary Clinton.
I have ZERO sympathy for any remorseful Trump voter!
gordianot
(15,234 posts)Trump picked up well on wedge issue suckers, in spite of her sad story she got punked by someone that cares not.
leftstreet
(36,101 posts)Where's the wall?
Where's the coal jobs?
Where's the affordable health care?
Thrill
(19,178 posts)Exactly what plan did he present to have her think that? Dumbasses
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)He told us that...why would we have any reason to suspect otherwise?
"Nobody knows the system better than me."
And the red hats bought it hook, line, and sinker.
Bengus81
(6,928 posts)FUCKING kidding me? The ACA FIGHTS Opiate addiction,your buddy Trump and his THUGS are the ones wanting to take it away. Nah...you just want to vote Republican on the hopes it would all work out.
HOW MANY times are people like this woman going to get a 2 x 4 to the head by Republicans and then vote for them AGAIN like they do here in Kansas??
Do I feel for you or your "cause" because of your daughter? NOT IN THE LEAST. No...because YOU are one of those who are causing this to happen to others in the same condition as your daughter was. Your a Trump enabler,get it?
Penn Voter
(247 posts)don't complain when you get what you voted for. A poor state such as West Virginia overwhelmingly voted for Trump. I guess their electorate is conservative until it needs the federal government to help them.
Demsrule86
(68,469 posts)Penn Voter
(247 posts)also, why would West Virginia and Ohio vote for conservative governments to combat the opoid crisis. maybe tax cuts will trickle down and help (sarcasm)
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)NURSING HOMES, ET EFFIN' CETERA.
She can just cry me a *$^&^$#$ river.
Demsrule86
(68,469 posts)Obamacare and premiums have spiked mostly due to uncertainty and not enough penalties to force people to buy insurance.,,so the sick buy it while healthy folks don't.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Demsrule86
(68,469 posts)He is a liar. She should have know better, but at least she is speaking out and not supporting him now...we get enough of that sort, we beat the bastard.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Demsrule86
(68,469 posts)reason how are we different than the GOP who give no quarter for mistakes that lead to poverty or what have you? How is it different. I am not agreeing with you on this one.
tanyev
(42,521 posts)Last two paragraphs. Why is she calling herself a Democrat?
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)Let's ease up on the attacks please. She must have been in a terrible place mentally.
Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)who did something so bad for other people, then wants pity for it, then wants to do it again.
You can feel sorry for stupid and ignorant. But not if it is used to hurt millions of other people. She is guilty.
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)There are plenty of other people you can judge who don't have that excuse.
Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)I lost a son to cancer. His battle was made easier for him by medicaid. I didn't immediately start trying to end that service for others.
There are plenty of other people you can feel sorry for that don't use stupidity as a crutch and beg pity while still doing the stupid thing that hurts others.
You need to watch who you start getting all judgy with.
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)Sorry but no. I'm just as sorry that you had to go through that as I am that she did, but grief hits people in very different ways. Judgement here is pointless and petty. She's one voter out of 60+ million for christs sake.
Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)She was an ass. She was a sad ass, but she was an ass who put her stupidity and selfishness ahead of everyone else in the world. She should be ashamed to use her dead daughter as an excuse for such action.
She is one voter who wants pity for being selfish and stupid. There are idiots who voted for trump and then came to their senses and apologized for it. She doubled down. Feeling sorry for her is enabling.
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)I'm asking people to simply show a little compassion and not use this one woman out of the millions to pass harsh judgement on. I don't think that's an unreasonable request.
Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)I'm asking people to simply show a little honesty and not use this woman's tragedy as an excuse to vote for harsh government. I don't think that's an unreasonable request.
Also. Of course you are judging. Don't be facetious.
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)But it's the one who asks them to stop who is 'judging'..
Sorry, I've no interest in talking to you anymore, I'm done with passive aggressive people here. I won't see any replies you make.
Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)I don't think those words mean what you think they mean.
If, when my son died, I had decided to deal with that grief by drinking a couple of bottles of vodka and taken to the streets and killed a small child on a tricycle on the sidewalk, would you want to say that it was okay, that I was grieving so that no matter what I did to other people was worthy of your compassion and approval? Or is consistency not a good thing to you?
She could have kept her mouth shut about this, but wanted the spotlight. She could have spoken up and asked a ruined country for forgiveness for her part in providing a trump administration as a legacy for her daughter. Instead, instead of ruing her action, she asks us to feel bad for her while saying that she intends to keep on doing harm if she gets another chance.
Ahh. I have no interest in talking to you either. I'm done with fuzzy thinking and truth avoiders.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)I hear exactly what you're saying...I didn't attack her, nor would I.
Would I say "What you are feeling now is a direct consequence of your choice to vote for Trump?"
Yes, I would, because it's the truth.
This is the tip of the iceberg. This isn't the worst story we are going to hear. No one should suffer. No one should lose a loved one.
I equate EVERY one of the "But you PROMISED" stories to the old Harvey Korman & Tim Conway "Jaws" spoof on the Carol Burnette Show. Korman witnesses a guy swimming to shore who is eaten by a great white. Conway pauses reflectively for a moment and says "He woud have made it, too, if he wasn't wearing his LUCKY HAM."
This woman, as well as every other Trump voter, was wearing a lucky ham on Election Day.
Attack them? No. Hold them personally accountable for where we are at right now? Yes, I will do that, with no qualms, regardless of their circumstances.
Kentonio
(4,377 posts)Let's let the woman who just went through a horrific experience that most of us will hopefully never have to go through have some peace.
If we've reached a point where 'holding people accountable' matters more than simple human compassion then I'm out.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Sorry, but no.
Blue_Adept
(6,393 posts)No sympathy.
If she believed that his building a wall would have helped to fix things? Then she plainly is a moron that doesn't understand what's happening and why.
If she believed that he'd be the one to fix health care after Trump's party has been taking it apart for years and railing against it?
She's a moron.
A. Fucking. Moron.
ananda
(28,836 posts)This kind of stupid delusion is what people who voted for 45
are all about.
Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)and she was in mourning. "Weeks later", she voted for trump. She couldn't possibly have been in her right mind. Ms. Wilson heard what she wanted to hear, even if it was a lie. Then she owned her mistake & spoke out.
writes3000
(4,734 posts)Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)She's a Democrat. Her daughter died at an early age, and I think that broke her. It left her vulnerable to trump. She said she still supports trump, which I don't understand, but she's actively speaking out against this killing "health care" bill, which I do understand.
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)She is not a fucking Democrat. I know of not a single Democrat who voted for Drumpf.
Call her a republican. Do it to her face. That's who she supports, that's what she is. My bet is she voted for GWB at least once as well, perhaps twice.
Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)What a legacy for her lost daughter.
Coventina
(27,063 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,972 posts)And that's WHY I have zero fucks to give about this person's problems.
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)And failed it bigly
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)but, she was, at best, hopelessly naive if she thought Trump would solve the opioid crisis
lunasun
(21,646 posts)She is still a trump supporter why is she being featured on DU???
Why not some of the people that did not vote for Trump and the issues they are having with his policies?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Johnny2X2X
(18,973 posts)Trump is slashing funds for prevention and treatment, their only answer is prison, so they can line the pockets of their private prison CEO donors.
Prisons are nothing more than a way for these evil sick f***s to own slaves again. They want to see millions of poor Americans filling their labor camps where they can bleed their bank accounts dry and force them to work for pennies.
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)Trump is on the internet for everyone to see. I seriously doubt she took everything that Obama or Hillary said at face value but she did Trump?
Squinch
(50,916 posts)"Building a wall to keep out drugs." Jesus wept.
brutus smith
(685 posts)She was willing to screw over millions of people for her one issue. Selfish!
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)lol
Sorry
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)She's full of it. The vast majority of meth is made right here by lovely real Murkins.
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)I know, I know.
haele
(12,640 posts)It's all those "Bad Hombre" Mexicans and Isis who can be stopped from coming up and getting Granny, "blue collar workers who are given opioids just to shut them up" - and of course the teens who steal the opioids from Granny, et. all to party with - by just building a wall.
I'm sorry her daughter got hooked on opioids and o.d.'ed. But if she believed Drumpf, and still supports Drumpf, then she's om a rage and just wants to punish someone - anyone - for that loss. Hooking up with a bully in power is the best way to feel like one is in control when one hurts a bunch of people.
BTW, I doubt she ever really thought about consequences in voting and politics past what happens every April 15.
She's the type that just votes with her emotions - the "I'd like to go out to lunch with that person" type of voter.
Haele
Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)I feel sorry for her loss too, but her grief has, as you stated, taken over her thought process and become ugly. More about making someone pay than it is actually preventing the next death.
While synthetic opioids tablets laced with fentanyl do cross over from Mexico, and other places, building a wall won't stop the illegal drug trade, or the illegal drug trade from doctors who are willing to provide the actual drug without any real need or checks.
Building a wall won't prevent poverty or create jobs in WV. It won't produce much needed health care. It won't improve education and it won't offer any real benefits in the lives of those most affected. Building a wall will not stop everything that goes into creating an addict.
You can't build a wall around the country and keep "bad" out. You can build a wall and scapegoat people who had no control over any of it. Which is what Trump, and those who support the wall, are doing.
Just looking for someone to blame, to get people to cheer about, in order to distract them from how bad they are being screwed over.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)border was going to solve the OPIOID crisis? If so, then you are a special kind of stupid. And what makes you think that a rich, lying, cheating, self-centered, narcissistic buffoon is going to give a damn about solving the problems of people like you?
And you double-down on the stupid and STILL support him! Had you thought things through for even a moment you would have realized that Trump was the type of person who could only make your problems worse. Now you and everyone like you is going to suffer for your stupidity.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,395 posts)Did she think that Trump-of all people- had a solution to the Opioid crisis??? Building a Wall isn't going to keep all of the drugs out of the country/off the streets. I'm sure that she's devastated by the loss of her daughter but I would have trusted Hillary way more to help solve the problem than Trump. If Republicans succeed in passing their atrocious "health care" plan, things will be worse.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Against her interest and then whines about it.
I have no patience or even tolerance anymore for this nonsense.
hatrack
(59,578 posts)I was prepared to concede that, considering that she voted for Shitstain a few weeks after her daughter's death.
But apparently no - she still supports him today, though she's "not happy".
SMFH
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Aristus
(66,294 posts)That's the only explanation.
I mean, how stupid can you get? She thought a wall on the Mexican border would stop the opioid crisis? Did she think it was going to wall out Florida and its pill-mills, too? Has she never heard of the US Postal Service?
If the ACA is repealed in spite of her head-fake in the direction of remorse, I'm blaming her personally...
ck4829
(35,038 posts)refugee, and publicly disagrees with the notion that people who look and believe like her "earned" welfare unlike everyone else who is just lazy and looking for a handout.
Expand your mind and your spirit, make real changes and self-improvement along with Trumpgrets. Because without them, Trumpgrets are hollow.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)very cruel. I have been taught by masters." ("The Heiress"
Masters Trump, Pence, Ryan, McConnell, Mulvaney, Mnuchin,.....
CanonRay
(14,084 posts)and that a wall would help?
Freethinker65
(10,001 posts)And this one is from West Virginia
still_one
(92,061 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Vote for a slogan on a Chinese made hat and hope for the best.
Well done Ms. Wilson. Thank you for being a well-informed voter.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)phylny
(8,368 posts)"Phylny, a Democrat, voted for Hillary Clinton because of Clinton's vast experience and strong character. She is now living an unceasing nightmare."
"I was afraid this would happen, and it did," said Phylny from her home in a Republican strong-hold location in Virginia. "My fellow citizens have elected a monster who appears to have mental health issues."
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)We're the ones who deserve the articles, not these bigots who are shocked an unstable dickhead and the evil Congress are fucking us all over.
Vinca
(50,237 posts)Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Bank on it.
ConnorMarc
(653 posts)That she's a Democrat.
Moreover, I'm not sorry for her in the least.
Cha
(296,854 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)says a lot to me about the priorities here. Damn the people with cancer who would rather die than suffer without opioid pain treatment! Etc etc etc (there are millions of examples). It provides an easy scapegoat for politicians -- attack doctors and attack elderly and terminally ill patients. What courage
And where is her concern for mental health and addiction services for her daughter, which Trump will devastate? No, it's all the fault of the medication (people who need it be damned to hell quite literally)?
JI7
(89,240 posts)Where if you just keep them out it solves the problem.
Not treatment including govt funding for it.
But i am glad she is doing something useful right now.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)1. When the fucking hell did Trump promise to fight the opoid crisis?
2. How is a wall between us and Mexico going to keep drugs out? They come from different places, doesn't she know?
These "I'm a lifelong Dem but I voted for Trump because reasons" -stories always reek...
Gothmog
(144,937 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)There's no question that this hers was the greatest loss a parent could face. You can't diminish or belittle it in any way.
But what gave her the impression that 45 would do anything about the opioid crisis. He has demonstrated throughout his life that he doesn't care about anyone who is not him. Hell, he has demonstrated that even having the same last name is no guarantee of support. Ms. Wilson, do you have any idea where the opioids are flooding into this country? I don't. But what made you think that a wall would make a difference. The only difference a wall would make is that the drugs might be more expensive. Also worth noting is that a large component of the opioid problem is not illegal immigrants or drug smuggling. It's abuse, and then some, of drugs that have been imported legally. Maybe eventually stolen and redirected to the illegal drug market, but imported legally.
It's a shame that something in Ms. Wilson, even as a democrat, could not allow her to see beyond her tragedy.
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)Don't need to. I know all I need to know when I see "So and so voted for T...". Dumb ass.
dubyadiprecession
(5,697 posts)Its too bad she's not a millionaire looking for a tax cut! That's the only help she will get!
stonecutter357
(12,694 posts)lpbk2713
(42,738 posts)You can't trust anyone like Trump to keep their word.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)She wants that wall. That's all they really want. Fucking scum.
JHB
(37,157 posts)...although if he had, he still would have welched the moment he had what he wanted from you -- your vote.
He's done this repeatedly, for decades. Don't be "disappointed" that he did what he always does. Be disappointed in the people who fell for it. Even the ones in the mirrors.
mathematic
(1,433 posts)So many stories about people that claim they voted based on some ridiculous promise or another. Funny how they always seem to be white people that think mexicans are stealing their jobs, selling drugs, or raping and murdering a path through america's pure, white heartland.
You can tell it's bullshit because they still support trump or insist that we "give him a chance".
MFM008
(19,803 posts)More unhappy with him you dipshit.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)the way trump plans on dealing with the Opioid crises is to imprison people who sell it and also the ones who are addicted. If you are from another country you will be deported after being imprisoned. Probably the help for those addicted will be intense labor to take their mind off of their need for the drug. There is nothing good coming from this administration to help those who have addictions.
stopbush
(24,392 posts)Charlie Brown is convinced that one day, Lucy will let him kick the football.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)No pity for this Trump sucker at all!
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Trump will just say what you want to hear Ignore。 Ignore him! He will lie to you。
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Foamfollower
(1,097 posts)If she didn't realize what she was voting for, she never should have voted.
She welcomed this shit with open arms, now she needs to experience the consequences of her own stupidity.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)Maybe you actually need to research who you are voting for. I'm sorry that you voted for tRump, but don't come looking for any fucking sympathy. Get over it, woman, YOU FUCKED UP. DEAL WITH IT.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Who are these geniuses who think the fucking drug war has accomplished anything besides ruining lives? It hasn't stopped people from doing drugs.
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)Facts about DFT. Poor judgment on her part. She didn't do her due diligence on the candidates.