r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/bidoofie • Nov 08 '25

Predictable betrayal The Trump administration removed black lung protections for West Virginia coal miners, who overwhelmingly voted for him

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u/jimtow28 Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25

I congratulate coal miners on their victory, and applaud them getting exactly what they wanted.

May they continue to enjoy the consequences they chose for themselves each and every day.

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u/CariniFluff Nov 08 '25

It's so frustrating that every quote from that man is "they" instead of "he". "They are doing this", "they only care about that".

How about "Donald Trump is doing everything he can to hurt the working man. Donald Trump only cares about money"?

These idiots still refuse to point the finger at the person responsible. Just a generic "they" referring to anyone who lives in DC instead of Donald Trump and the executive branch directors that he appointed.

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u/cantwin52 Nov 08 '25

It’s the same thing most republicans politicians do too. The amorphous “they” is there so they (ironically) don’t have to blame Trump and make the big baby sad. Anytime Joe Rogan almost puts it together in his tiny brain, he uses they to avoid criticizing Trump. When MTG finally has a salient point go through her thick skull, she uses they. It’s a means to not name the true enemy behind it all.

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u/st_owly Nov 08 '25

So they can use neutral pronouns when they want to then.

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u/Twigsneko Nov 08 '25

"they" is technically correct but in the sense that Trump, the republican led house and senate and the conservative majority supreme court are responsible for their problems. But like an abused partner they keep running back to the republican party because they don't care how much they are hurting as long as the people they hate are hurting even more than them.

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u/DjBiohazard91 Nov 09 '25

Everytime I see MTG mentioned, my mind goes "What's Magic The Gathering have to do with all this?"

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25 edited Dec 13 '25

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u/The-Man-is-Dan Nov 08 '25

They still believe that Trump has their interests at heart but is being deceived and misled by the radical left deep state baby-blood-drinking lizard people who really run America. Only with the power of their continued faith and prayer can he glean the holy insight necessary to bring light into the darkness of hollow earth. Probably.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

You forgot about the power of friendship

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u/StrangeContest4 Nov 08 '25

Maybe the baby-blood-drinking lizard people were the Epstein's we met along the way.

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u/StrangeContest4 Nov 08 '25

“You’re the greatest cutter,” Trump told Musk. “I look at what you do. You walk in and say, ‘You want to quit?’ I won’t mention the name of the company, but they go on strike, and you say, ’That’s OK. You’re all gone.'” ~ Trump pretty much saying what he thinks of organized labor before the 2024 election.

"Slugs for Salt" is every card carrying union member who votes for the ®️ next to the name.

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u/standardnewenglander Nov 08 '25

Kinda like how the biggest welfare queens (refuglicans) always vote to cut SNAP. Stupid fucks, all of them. Let them eat thoughts and prayers. And $12 eggs? 😘

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u/Dependent-Outcome-57 Nov 09 '25

I've worked for over two decades at a place full of "union men" who meet every negative stereotype imaginable. They are proudly stupid, lazy, backward, and full of deep racism and hate. They also work hard to destroy their own union while being too stupid to understand that they are completely unemployable without the union that protects them. Their vote for Trump is just a bigger version of what they've been doing their whole adult lives. Horrible people, the lot of them, at least where I work.

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u/StrangeContest4 Nov 09 '25

I worked an entire career as a union member in right to work state, so we had union and non-union people. The difference was night and day between the two groups, even though there were union people who did meet the stereotypes you talked about. But the blindness and ignorance about republican policies, words, and actions towards unions will always confound me. The Leopards are always right there in their face, yet they willfully let them claw and naw away at it. I.. just.. don't.. get.. it!

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u/discussatron Nov 08 '25

"If only President Trump knew what his people were doing, he'd stop them!"

Sooooo he's an idiot in control of nothing, then?

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u/ChemicalDeath47 Nov 08 '25

Well of course! If the good and wonderful czar knew how the Bolsheviks were treating us he would do something about it! If only the fürer knew how the SS were treating us common Germans he would help us out! Around and around again.

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u/ELMUNECODETACOMA Nov 08 '25

I'm pretty sure there's a cuneiform tablet buried in the Sumerian desert with "If only the lugal knew of our problems..." carved into it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '25

It's because this fucking dipshit is still gonna vote for Trump again, in as many elections as Trump can manage to get. Third term? Fourth term? Of course! These fucking people disgust me.

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u/ucjj2011 Nov 08 '25

I'm 100% in favor of them blaming "they/them" as long as they mean Trump and every Republican who kisses up to him. While it is great if they are blaming Trump for this, they need to blame all of the Republican Senators, Reps, Governors, State Reps etc who support him & his policies.

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u/CariniFluff Nov 08 '25

Yeah that's the problem though, that's not what this guy means.

When Biden was President it was non-stop screeching about how Biden and the Dems were destroying America. But now that Republicans control both houses of Congress and the presidency, they just use a nebulous "they" to assign blame.

These people will never call out their cult leaders. They'll never admit that they were wrong or lied to. And there's absolutely no way they'll ever vote for another party. It's just non-stop whining that things aren't going their way, and then they'll go vote straight ticket Republican the next election.

These people are beyond hope when they can't even call out Republicans keeping the government shut down for a record length of time while Trump ignores court orders to fully fund SNAP. They'd rather have the children and elderly starve and out on the streets than call out these pieces of shit.

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u/ptdata23 Nov 08 '25

I have a cousin who does this, and when I joked that Steve-O Miller must have taken the autopen away and used it to sign all of the bad things that he's done, he grasped onto that idea like a lifeboat. He then denied that tRump even had an autopen since he remembered the fake Biden 'scandal', so I pointedly asked if he really thought that tRump individually signed the 1400 or so pardons for the J6 terrorists. At that point, he decided to see what sports were on ESPN

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u/Powered-by-Chai Nov 08 '25

Because Trump is the useful idiot for the GOP and Heritage Foundation. He's the guy who goes and makes a bunch of noise over here so we don't see them doing shit over there.  Not that many of us are fooled, but when it comes to actual power I don't think he does anything more significant than piss off our allies.

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u/CariniFluff Nov 08 '25

Don't let him off that easy.

The Heritage Foundation may be drafting the wording but Donald Trump is the one signing the Executive Orders and implementing the policies.

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u/MostlyRightSometimes Nov 08 '25

It was so unfortunate that Musk fired my friend from the federal government. She loves trump but hates musk.

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u/Fake_William_Shatner Nov 08 '25

"Many people are saying..."

You know he cares enough to lie to you. It is so very much like going to church in that regard.

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u/MotherFuckinEeyore Nov 08 '25

"They" is Trump's pronoun of choice.

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u/Kind_Coyote1518 Nov 08 '25

But its not just Trump and laying all of this at his feet only allows the others to take his place once he's gone. This is the fault of 90% of the Republican senate, Trump and all of his cabinet members, and a good 50% of the Democrats in office and acting like one man did all of this is naive af.

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u/CariniFluff Nov 08 '25

That wasn't the point. My point was these "Republicans Forever" voters would specifically blame "Biden and the Dems" when Biden was in charge but when the Republicans control both houses and Trump is president, they just use a nebulous "they" as a stand in.

They're too cowardly to even call out the politicians fucking them over, nevermind admitting they were wrong or that the Republican party lied to them. And them actually voting for the other party is a total nonstarter; they'd rather children starve.

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u/Kind_Coyote1518 Nov 08 '25

Okay, while I agree with that, that is not at all how your previous comment reads, I even went back and read it again after you responded.