Trump promised to cut electric costs in half. Bills in energy-rich West Virginia now top mortgages (apnews.com)

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[-] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

“It’s breaking me. And there’s nothing that can be done for it, unless the president does something,” Michalski said about her skyrocketing power bills, adding she no longer supports Trump. “And I don’t see him doing it. He’s had plenty of time.”

There it is.

And the article reads as a sad story of people from rural West Virginia who have such a hard life, so few resources for their needs, but continue to vote against their interests.

Against theirs and those of many people of marginalized communities, because of an incredible lack of empathy in the latter case, it seems to me.

[-] U7826391786239@piefed.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/22/nx-s1-5321299/how-empathy-came-to-be-seen-as-a-weakness-in-conservative-circles

you can have empathy or be fascist, not both. oligarch christotechnofascists know this. eliminate empathy (which entails deliberately dismantling education, particularly the humanities) in the bottom third of the population, and they'll vote for you because they want to hurt people they don't like--even if that means hurting themselves also

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

A felon pedophile whose university and charity were shut down due to fraud went back on his word?

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

These poor people want so desperately to be rescued by Trump, who gives less than 0 shits about them.

If only Joe Biden didn’t jack up their utility rates so high..! (/s)

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

You mean Obama? Trump keeps talking about Obama still. He's demented.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

So do sooooo many of the cons. Having a black President broke their brains. I suspect they hate Biden so much because Biden was his VP, and consider him a race traitor.

[-] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

But I thought we should all move out of expensive states to live in cheap states if we can't afford to live in the good areas!

[-] northernlights@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

Wait, the current US president's word isn't worth the air that comes out of him? That is brand new information!

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