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Trump Says Biden’s Pardons are ‘Void’ and ‘Vacant’ Because of Autopen
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Once he takes away the food stamps from his gravy seals (or similarly disenfranchises folks with nothing left to lose), hell accidentally unleash the crazies on himself.
West Virginians are already fuming with Trump's lack of help with their current floods (oddly missing from the news cycles). The sentiment among WV trump voters is being echoed in interviews statewide, "We showed up for him. He'd better show up for us soon."
West Virginians all unanimously reporting "We need to fund FEMA more."
This process will be slow, but what's happening in WV right now looks like a potential sleeper flashpoint for the erosion of his base.
I think it's missing from news cycles to limit the spread of this damage to Trump's base's support for MAGA.
He'll spin it that Biden did it in league with deep state drag queens and also Canada.
And his base will accept it because they're simple folk.
Because being wrong about something hurts and is embarrassing.
If West Virginians aren't buying this time around...
Him gutting the VA isn't real popular in red states either.
Red state captive here. The trumpanzees don't give a shit. The individual feds that got axed by Trump are pretty upset, but the ones that weren't directly targeted still just play damage control for the fucker any time you bring it up.
This exactly. The MAGA cult has complete tunnel-vision. Unless something affects them directly, they simply do not care. Even if it does affect them directly, they’ll blame everything else but the guy they voted for.
I grew up brainwashed into Mormonism, and what scares me is this is literal, not figurative, brainwashing on a massive scale. But fascism needs its browncoats, so it's gotten exceedingly skilled at creating them.
IIRC, West Virginia was one of the top states to use SNAP. SNAP benefits farmers
which I've commented on before in my "a lot of Trump administration policies seem to be surprisingly disadvantageous to agriculture, given that the GOP in 2025 is the rural party" point
and the poor.
kagis
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/food-stamp-benefits-by-state
https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/millions-of-low-income-households-would-lose-food-aid-under-proposed-house
For anyone not familiar:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program
That being said, West Virginia did get socially-conservative policy on LGBT stuff, and Trump has at least made positive noises about coal; the decline of coal has been a major political issue in West Virginia.
https://profession.americangeosciences.org/society/intersections/faq/which-states-are-largest-producers-and-consumers-coal/
I'm actually a little surprised that Wyoming is that high up there. Might be that Wyoming has risen recently.
Ah, might be that it's because it's more of a jobs thing in West Virginia. Probably employed more people historically too.
I keep reading west Virginians understand the impact on coal jobs of automation over the decades. Even if coal were to come back, the jobs won’t.
A little bit of searching through the data shows West Virginians are the least productive coal miners, most labor required, least automation. Even if coal were to come back, jobs won’t be going to West Virginia nor will mines pay well for lack of productivity.
The economic case against coal is open-shut. Even if you disregard the environment, coal is not coming back.
The funny thing is apparently US coal production had a huge drop during trumps first term and actually increased a little during Biden’s
But it’s not coming back