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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDisabled and on food stamps, Michael Lyras voted for Trump 3 times. "I regret my last vote enormously"
Among Britos followers there are personal stories that reflect anguish and regret. One is Michael Lyras, a 44-year-old American, who lives in Volusia County, near Orlando, in central Florida. Lyras studied addiction counseling in college but is currently disabled and receiving food stamps. He voted for Trump all three times but says he is upset with the way things are going: I regret my last vote enormously, he says.
It was necessary to make changes, but not in this way, sacrificing our civil rights and liberties that are enshrined in our Constitution, Lyras adds. He [Trump] is turning this into a police state and hes acting like an authoritarian. I didnt vote for any of this For some voters, the ultimate blow has been seeing neighbors or loved ones caught in the unstoppable machinery of deportation, which they deem unfair. They feel a mixture of guilt, anger and bewilderment.
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But not all Republican voters are disappointed. Some, like Kimberly Delgado, 28, maintain their support for Trump despite the difficulties they face. What motivated me to vote for Trump was the immigration laws he was implementing, and also because the last four years with the Democrats in office were a disaster, she explains.
A resident of Weston, northeast of Miami, Delgado says that although she works at a funeral home and her husband also works full-time, they cant afford to feed their two children, and they have been receiving food stamps for four years. Delgado was born in the U.S. to Cuban parents and she assumes that the situation with the government shutdown is going to be difficult for many like them people who work full-time and yet still need help due to the rising cost of living.
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-11-03/im-angry-with-my-president-trump-voters-in-florida-confront-the-fallout-of-his-policies-a-year-before-the-midterms.html
Aristus
(71,276 posts)Thanks for sticking us with this shit!
dem4decades
(13,390 posts)Since when are Cubans natives, just because they vote Republican doesn't mean they're better than other immigrants.
Dave Bowman
(6,242 posts)See you in 6 months, sucker, you'll be deeper in it.
agingdem
(8,699 posts)Last edited Tue Nov 4, 2025, 09:22 PM - Edit history (1)
the Trump voting Latinos regret their votes when their mothers/grandmothers/children are rotting in detention facilities awaiting deportation...or the Trump voting farmers/ranchers who see their generational farms and ranches go into foreclosure because their "savior" is importing beef from Argentina and their fields of fruits/vegetable are rotting because seasonal workers who glean their fields are staying away out of fear of capture..or the mother who is pro-life until her 10 year old daughter is raped by her stepfather and has to carry the baby to term because Roe v Wade was overturned....
Thoughts and prayers and a giant fuck you!!
RockRaven
(18,349 posts)THIS is exactly what you voted for. Stop lying and take some... what was that word you all loved so much... oh, yeah... personal responsibility.
taxi
(2,636 posts)Next time he will vote for the same dumbass because that dumbass won 2 out of 3 times.
DFW
(59,342 posts)Yes, you did. You voted for all of it.
Do I want you to shrivel up homeless and hungry and die on a sidewalk? No. I'm NOT a Republican. What I want is for you to do now is make amends to your fellow humans and go out and apologize to people, and tell anyone who will listen how sorry you are, and how you are going to work to make amends for as long as you took to spread the false propaganda that got us to this horrible point we're currently at.
sarisataka
(22,144 posts)That this is exactly what he voted for. It was very clear that the Constitution meant nothing to trump.
It is his own fault if he believed when the leopard said I am going to eat faces he thought his own face would be excepted
Tribetime
(6,959 posts)Cha
(315,774 posts)For the Fucker, too.
MerryBlooms
(12,106 posts)Get second jobs! Wtf wrong with you? Suckin off the taxpayer teet!?! BTW, are you the right color!?! You voted against yourself, dumbass.
fujiyamasan
(948 posts)Thats basically the republican philosophy right there.
And I hope Ms Delgado has her papers and an immigration lawyer ready when ICE accidentally snatches her or a loved one away and theyre trying to figure out what happened.
So much stupid.
Maru Kitteh
(31,000 posts)Hows it feel?
BeerBarrelPolka
(2,094 posts)What does she call this frigging mess we are in?
Iris
(16,768 posts)I really don't understand what "changes" were so necessary that a vote for a convicted felon, repost, and pedo was required
Eggs were like $600 a dozen! And men were in little girls bathrooms! Schools were forcing kids to change their sex!
/s
tanyev
(48,279 posts)2MuchNoise
(603 posts)helpisontheway
(5,356 posts)gopiscrap
(24,509 posts)no sympathy here...FAFO asshole!
sop
(16,848 posts)They won't have the opportunity to vote for Trump again, but if they keep on believing the same lies, they'll just vote for another Republican.
2MuchNoise
(603 posts)madinmaryland
(65,625 posts)2MuchNoise
(603 posts)Blue Owl
(57,890 posts)mucholderthandirt
(1,715 posts)These idiots can just fuck off. Lose their disability, SS, food stamps, whatever. When Trump said it, he mean it, fools. FAFO, morons.
DavidDvorkin
(20,424 posts)Totally Tunsie
(11,434 posts)is just as stupid as the other two.