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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(12,104 posts)
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 04:50 PM Nov 4

Disabled and on food stamps, Michael Lyras voted for Trump 3 times. "I regret my last vote enormously"

Among Brito’s 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 he’s acting like an authoritarian. I didn’t 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 can’t 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

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Disabled and on food stamps, Michael Lyras voted for Trump 3 times. "I regret my last vote enormously" (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Nov 4 OP
We all regret your vote, asshole. Aristus Nov 4 #1
Delgato? That's not an American name, get that immigrant out of here. dem4decades Nov 4 #2
These idiots only have regrets when it affect them personaly. And apparently that woman didn't get crushed enough, Dave Bowman Nov 4 #3
that's true..just like agingdem Nov 4 #17
A big "fuck you" to every coward and liar who utters "I didn't vote for this" or equivalent. RockRaven Nov 4 #4
Yeah, he says he voted for a dumbass three times and regrets doing it once. taxi Nov 4 #5
"I didn't vote for any of this." DFW Nov 4 #6
It gives me no pleasure to point out to Mr Lyras sarisataka Nov 4 #7
Maybe if they didn't get their news from fox and other sources Tribetime Nov 4 #8
That's nice.. We Regret your votes Cha Nov 4 #9
You voted for All Of This! MerryBlooms Nov 4 #10
Fucking eaters should pull themselves up by their bootstraps fujiyamasan Nov 4 #11
Baby you voted for this to happen to somebody else. That's what you mean. Maru Kitteh Nov 4 #12
Biden was a disaster? BeerBarrelPolka Nov 4 #13
What was disastrous about the past 4 years? Iris Nov 4 #14
eggs! pimpbot Nov 4 #19
And masks! They tried to make us wear masks and get shots! tanyev Nov 4 #25
Nothing! Kimberly or whatever her name is doesn't know what she's talking about. 2MuchNoise Nov 4 #22
Oh yes..this is EXACTLY what you voted for..nt helpisontheway Nov 4 #15
stupid fucker gopiscrap Nov 4 #16
These people voted for Trump because they believed a pack of lies. sop Nov 4 #18
A disaster?! What the f#ck is she talking about? Even she doesn't know! 2MuchNoise Nov 4 #20
FAFO. Morons. madinmaryland Nov 4 #21
This makes me want to SCREAM! 2MuchNoise Nov 4 #23
Go wallow in your self-created misery Blue Owl Nov 4 #24
It's exactly what he voted for. Trump told everyone what he'd do, and now he's done it. mucholderthandirt Nov 4 #26
Fucking. Idiots. DavidDvorkin Nov 5 #27
One out of three trump supporters Totally Tunsie Nov 5 #28

dem4decades

(13,390 posts)
2. Delgato? That's not an American name, get that immigrant out of here.
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 04:59 PM
Nov 4

Since when are Cubans natives, just because they vote Republican doesn't mean they're better than other immigrants.

Dave Bowman

(6,242 posts)
3. These idiots only have regrets when it affect them personaly. And apparently that woman didn't get crushed enough,
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 05:00 PM
Nov 4

See you in 6 months, sucker, you'll be deeper in it.

agingdem

(8,699 posts)
17. that's true..just like
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 05:26 PM
Nov 4

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)
4. A big "fuck you" to every coward and liar who utters "I didn't vote for this" or equivalent.
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 05:00 PM
Nov 4

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)
5. Yeah, he says he voted for a dumbass three times and regrets doing it once.
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 05:00 PM
Nov 4

Next time he will vote for the same dumbass because that dumbass won 2 out of 3 times.

DFW

(59,342 posts)
6. "I didn't vote for any of this."
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 05:01 PM
Nov 4

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)
7. It gives me no pleasure to point out to Mr Lyras
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 05:02 PM
Nov 4

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

MerryBlooms

(12,106 posts)
10. You voted for All Of This!
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 05:08 PM
Nov 4

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)
11. Fucking eaters should pull themselves up by their bootstraps
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 05:12 PM
Nov 4

That’s 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 they’re trying to figure out what happened.

So much stupid.

Iris

(16,768 posts)
14. What was disastrous about the past 4 years?
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 05:20 PM
Nov 4

I really don't understand what "changes" were so necessary that a vote for a convicted felon, repost, and pedo was required

pimpbot

(1,146 posts)
19. eggs!
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 05:49 PM
Nov 4

Eggs were like $600 a dozen! And men were in little girls bathrooms! Schools were forcing kids to change their sex!

/s

sop

(16,848 posts)
18. These people voted for Trump because they believed a pack of lies.
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 05:41 PM
Nov 4

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.

mucholderthandirt

(1,715 posts)
26. It's exactly what he voted for. Trump told everyone what he'd do, and now he's done it.
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 10:12 PM
Nov 4

These idiots can just fuck off. Lose their disability, SS, food stamps, whatever. When Trump said it, he mean it, fools. FAFO, morons.

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