I wonder if any of those blue-collar, working class Trump supporters have seen this quote...

[YoungDemCA]

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1. said the man who went into his father's line of work.

[Le Gaucher]

2. He is an Irony Worker

[dalton99a]

3. +1

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4. most people don't have the imagination "or whatever" to find a more imaginative word than "whatever"

this quote is a rich vein for mining irony.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

6. Get. Out.

[calimary]

21. Barrump-bump!

THAT is a GOOD one, Le Gaucher!

[YoungDemCA]

7. Yes, nothing says hard work like inheriting millions from your daddy to slap your name on buildings

Oh, and let's not forget him stiffing his contractors, investors, and business partners, or hosting a shitty reality TV show where he didn't even write his dumbass catchphrases. What a success story!

[tonyt53]

5. he is talking to people that dropped out of high school at 16. I know lots like that.

I grew up in the western KY coal fields. Guys quit high school at 16, farted around for a couple of years, then went to work for Peabody Coal when they turned 18. An education meant jack shit to them, and they taught their kids to have the same attitude. I, and my 6 siblings, were fortunate. My dad worked for Peabody (surface, not underground - he ran that giant shovel), and he and mom never wanted any of us to work mining coal, and none of us dropped out of high school. We were the exception for the small town that I grew up in.

[mtngirl47]

20. I'm from a West Virginia coal mining family...

My Dad and his 11 brothers and sisters, joined the military, went to college and helped each other to stay out of the mines. One of my uncles ended up back in the mines like my grandfather, but none of the 42 grandchildren ever went into a mine---except for that cool mine museum in Beckley.

[TlalocW]

8. What I don't get

Is why only people with coal jobs are worthy of getting special attention from republicans. "By god, we need to protect coal jobs! People are hurting!" When it comes to just about everyone else, it's pull yourself up by your bootstraps, take some classes/go back to school, etc. Not coal miners, and their jobs are never coming back and will continue to dwindle due to automation getting coal off the surface of mountains instead of underground. So why continue to blow smoke up their collective ass when there are fewer and fewer of them, and it's hardly likely they're going to vote democrat anyway?

TlalocW

[WinkyDink]

9. Electoral votes.

[fwvinson]

19. Russia!

Russia!!

[calimary]

22. Welcome to DU, fwvinson!

True. Russia. trump won the election by one vote: Vladimir Putin's.

[YoungDemCA]

10. It's pandering to anti-environmentalist sentiment, along with getting that sweet dirty energy $$$$.

More dollars and more votes for Republican assholes. That's basically it.

[TlalocW]

14. That's about the only explanation I can come up with

When it comes to the environment, the GOP is made up of two groups (which overlap). One are the ones who want to pollute as much as possible because they know it makes democrats upset, and the other are the religiously-insane who think Jesus is coming back so it doesn't matter what we do to the Earth.

TlalocW

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11. they're cynically using "jobs" because it sounds better than "give money to businesses and owners"

they don't give a crap about workers, coal miners or otherwise. they want to give money to businesses and their owners, including in the coal business. they know damn well that those businesses aren't about to hire more miners or give them raises. and they sure as hell aren't going to make it any safer or cleaner.

[YoungDemCA]

13. +1. These people need to understand this.

[snort]

16. Because it sounds manly.

Throw in some John Wayne swagger and you have a politician who can get the prols to associate that politicians image with people who are actually doing the work, without ever getting their hands dirty.

They all do it. From 'Big John Cornyn' (big bad john), to pot washing Paul 'fuckface' Ryan, they all do it.

[RKP5637]

26. He feeds them lies to get their votes and that's it. He could really give a damn about them and

considers them losers.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

27. Jared Kushner, who had been a Democrat, said that when he met those coal

miners and heard their stories it convinced him he was right to support his fuhrer-in-law's bid for the presidency. I thought, well, what about all the other people in this country who have hard luck stories to tell? And, how could he have believed Drumpf was going to help those coal miners.

Oh, think I just answered my own question. Kushner's story about the coal miners winning his heart was campain BS. He wanted Drump in because of how it would help his business interests.

[Mariana]

12. They would just declare he never said that.

It's a fake quote. You know how Trump supporters are.

[VaBchTgerLily]

15. so IN YOUR FACE

[calimary]

24. Welcome to DU, VaBchTgerLily!

In their faces maybe, but it won't soak in deeply enough to reach any actual brain matter that might be tucked in behind their faces.

[BSdetect]

17. Its the big myth again. Get a better job and lift yourself up to the top of the shit pile.

When you live from paycheck to paycheck you have all those opportunities. Not.

[kairos12]

18. They will say it's Fake News, or claim Obama said it.

[LiberalArkie]

23. I know a lot of people who voted for the Trump

one thing they tend to have in common is their employment tells them what to do. They do not like to think about stuff. They do not have to do much when their employer has trained them on the way to do their job, whether operating a forklift, or truck or rifle or pistol.

Being a Democrat requires thinking about stuff. Voting for Trump did not. That is why he beat the other candidates.

[calimary]

25. I have an acquaintance who told me she voted for trump because her family did.

A family she's at odds with, most of the time, mind you. She's in her 40s and doesn't live with any of them. I had to ask her - what are you? Eighteen? Just because your family did, did you have to? How would they know? Did they give you a lie-detector test? Did they hold your inheritance over your head? Did they physically walk you into the voting booth and move your hand so it punched the ticket for trump?

Because bullshit. Because having to think for oneself (and take responsibility for it) sometimes sucks, I guess.