Sipping tea from beer mugs with his co-workers, Kyle Bos listed the ways his life is changing.
Bos has two daughters, with a third due in January. At the grocery store, five items cost as much as a full cart once did. And on Wednesday, Bos and nearly 1,400 other people were laid off from their jobs at what had been the Navistar truck factory in southwestern Ohio.
The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. And they are one reason why Bos, 30, plans to spend the final weeks before the November election canvassing votes for Democrats.
Asked how many times he had voted for Trump, Bos held up three tattooed fingers. But he said he’s done with the president.
“Something has to change politically in this country,” said Bos, a member of the United Auto Workers who identifies as a centrist. “Seems like it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.”
The problem was that Trump sold himself as the change. He said he was the outsider who was going to clean up Washington. Heck I even voted for him the first time, because honestly, I never in a million years thought he was going to win. Irregardless, we are all in echo chambers: the left, the right, whatever you believe in. The little square of doom running on the algorithm that wants to keep everyones attention on the little square of doom has figured out how to give everyone the confirmation bias they crave and keeps everyone engaged with thinking that theyre the only ones who understand.
Well I know what kind of guy got duped by the dumbest con man in politics
Oh bullshit.
The only change he sold was the ability to drop the mask and be openly bigoted and hateful again.
I wasn’t talking about now, I was talking about 2016. Unfortunately, when he didnt “drain the swamp” people still thought that he was going to in 2020 and 2024. They held on to that change narrative when it wasn’t going to happen.
So was I.
Exactly, we have the president our people deserve. Just voting for shits and giggles.
Just a tiny nitpick, it’s Regardless. Iregardless isn’t a word.
He could of said that, but I could care less
If people say it, it is a word. Irregarless grinds against my sensibilities like orientate does, but you can’t fight the tide (and shouldn’t because language changes).
We already have a word, it’s called Regardless.
Irregardless is also a word. It is in dictionaries and was first documented to be used in the 1700s. You’re free to not like it, but people will continue to use languages in the way that’s useful to them regardless of your opinions. https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/887649010/regardless-of-what-you-think-irregardless-is-a-word
Orientate comes from when maps used to point to sunrise, the Orient, in the east. Then North took over a little later.
My issue is that you can say orient as in “I use a map to orient myself in a new city.” Orientate is just a longer way to say the same thing. My point was I don’t like it, but I don’t pretend it should be policed either.
That’s a dumb fucking argument. I guess in your world know one can understand you anymore
Did you understand irregardless?
No, I have no idea what you’re saying and now we have to talk about it
I perceive thou dost not honour English, wherefore this discourse doth lead to naught.
Meh. I get your point I just would just say this term has been denied for 20 sum years now. Fetch isn’t happening either. Also, using incorrect words like this just devalue anything you were trying to say in the first place. Just look at how it’s called out right away.
Try 220 some years: https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/887649010/regardless-of-what-you-think-irregardless-is-a-word