Today I met a regretful Trump voter

[PJMcK]

We were swimming in the ocean and this fellow and his wife struck up a conversation with us. A very friendly guy. He's an American citizen living in Panama and his comments were striking.

"I feel Trump lied to me."
"He never said he was going to break the U.S. government."
"When did he become a fan of tariffs?"
"Trump sold us a bill of goods."
"My portfolio is in the shitter."
"I never expected him to be so stupid."
"I wish he would die already."

I politely told him that many people were in the "Find Out" phase and Vance wouldn't be any better. He laughed then said, "Still, things are better than if THAT WOMAN had won."

Hopeless. I just shook my head.

[spooky3]

1. Misogyny and racism are alive and unwell among MAGATs. Nt

[Meadowoak]

38. We will never have a woman president. Not any time soon.

Not in my life time. I hope we don't blow another election trying to make it happen.

[soldierant]

46. Hoo boy, are you ever

singing my song.

And don't let anyone tell you you are misogynist to say that.

I too am sick of us sacrificing our best women on the altar of - something or other.

[delisen]

57. List of our Democratic male losers-Stevenson to Kerry

Are you tired of sacrificing our best men?

Democratic male loser list: should they not have been sacrificed on the political alter?

Adlai Stevenson (2x)
Hubert Humphrey
George McGovern
Jimmy Carter
Walter Mondale
Al Gore
John Kerry

[Walleye]

76. The misogyny is real. And the frustration is genuine.

I’m 76 years old the misogyny I’ve seen in this country just pisses me off

[delisen]

56. Thanks for being so open about your anti-woman stance

It makes it so much easier to build a lasting democracy when people are honest about their beliefs than when they profess a belief in equal rights but will not fight for it.

[Walleye]

78. Do I detect a little sarcasm in this message?

[Escape]

59. I understand your frustration...

but Hillary won the popular vote and we may find out some day that Kamala actually won the election.

Those who voted against Harris "because she is a woman" would have voted against Biden "because he's too old" or against Gavin Newsom "because he's too handsome", blah blah blah.

Many people who voted for Trump did so out of ignorance.

I personally think we will likely elect an Independent to the presidency soon----an actor or a person with a dynamic personality.

It's just a popularity contest to most Americans now. They don't understand the issues and have no interest in learning about them.

[Walleye]

79. Too many people didn't come out to vote. They were more inspired by a racist and a rapist then a woman as a leader.

[RicROC]

68. 1st woman Pres?

I still wish Joe Biden would have resigned so that we could have had the 1st woman President.

[calimary]

74. That's what I expect, too. With HUGE regrets.

Too many people still think leadership is a man’s world. Even in this day and age.

And just because they stand when they pee, it doesn’t mean they’re ready to sit at the Resolute Desk.

[Walleye]

77. Only 30% of a Congress is women

And it took many years to get this far.

[Cha]

2. I would have said

Back..

No, VP Harris would have made an excellent President. Our country would be getting Stronger & Better and Better Not being thrown Away

Mump Lied to you about what he is.. they Lied to you about who Kamala Harris is TOO.

💙🕯️🕊️🌈🌻🇨🇦

[PJMcK]

6. Yeah, I know

But my wife was with me and she gets upset if I engage in political arguments when she's around. You know, happy wife/happy life.

Actually, he was a very pleasant fellow and the politics came at the end of our half-hour swim/floating. His wife was from Spain and she was lovely with a terrific sense of humor.

As I'm getting older, I'm learning to choose my battles more carefully than when I was a hot-headed youth!

Enjoy your holiday weekend, Cha!

[Cha]

21. I totally understand..

I never would even encounter someone like that.. I just wanted to get it out there about what we as a Nation and the world lost.

🕯️🕊️💙🌈🌻🇨🇦

Have a peaceful Alone Memorial Day weekend, too, PJMack.

[CTyankee]

40. But OTOH, you could just say "Well, we will just have to agree to disagree."

You are not being unpleasant, but you are standing your ground.

At my age, I find it harder and harder to "brook fools, gladly." I don't go out much. It's probably good that I don't...

[colorado_ufo]

52. Or maybe

"Well, now we'll never actually know if that's true, will we?"

[CTyankee]

53. Ha! That will enrage them....

leave them sputtering helplessly....

[OMGWTF]

13. I would add that Fux (oops, a typo) News has been lying to him too.

Probably for decades.

[Meadowoak]

39. They don't care. It's just that his 401K was in the shitter. Trust me, he'd vote trump

Again, if the election were tomorrow.

[Cha]

48. Right! Well Mean But

I don’t care about his 401k.. only those who voted for Democracy 🕯️🕊️💙🌈🇨🇦🌻

[sdfernando]

3. There are none so blind

as those who will not see.

[Rebl2]

4. I guarantee

him if that woman was president we wouldn’t have all these tariffs on every country and the stock market would not have dropped like it has.

[misanthrope]

5. I couldn't have resisted asking

"Which woman do you think would make a good POTUS?"

[PJMcK]

7. They have three college-aged daughters

I could have asked who they voted for but my wife hates it when I get into political arguments.

Enjoy the holiday weekend, misanthrope!

[misanthrope]

19. Understood, but that question doesn't take sides or lead to conclusions

It is just an open-ended query that doesn't require additional commentary on your part. Let them answer and that's it.

However, it would likely lead to them asking you the same. So your wife's point is taken.

Happy holiday weekend to you as well!

[Hornedfrog2000]

8. Not regretful enough

Still in the fucking around stage. Maybe if shitler takes his whole portfolia he will be remourseful, and the woman wont seem as bad?

[Meadowoak]

41. Half of this country will NOT vote for a woman, especially a black one.

Forget about it, it's never going to happen.

[mgardener]

9. I hope

The poor man didn't drown.
He sounds that stupid.

[PJMcK]

10. Well, he and his wife were floating with styrofoam noodles

I guess he has noodles for brains.

I hope you have a great holiday weekend, mgardener!

[defacto7]

12. It has to be some kind of reality disease. Even when they regret a mistake ...

they can't allow themselves to be wrong. It's going around.

[WarGamer]

11. Regret but would vote for him again tomorrow.

[Javaman]

14. Here's the give away...

"My portfolio is in the shitter."

If the tariffs didn’t happen, this guy would be aokay with everything.

Notice he didn’t mentions the illegal deportations of American citizens

[Lucky Luciano]

15. Your last sentence is a key point.

Just because he may not like trump does NOT mean they prefer the Democrats.

Hearing about disaffected trumpers doesn’t mean we will win the next election. I know for me that I often became optimistic about the disaffected trumpers, but that optimism was unfounded. We still have to sell our side. Or we die.

[dutch777]

16. Yep, unhappy, butt burned and still clueless. My neighbor, a registered Dem, did the same stupid thing. All anti woman

and probably anti POC too. Said Kamala lied about Biden's mental condition. Trump's 27,372 lies I guess were more benign somehow. NUTS!

[msfiddlestix]

17. not a very smart guy. it was all quite foreseeable.the second clue was his comment on "that woman".

like I said, not a very smart guy.

[Evolve Dammit]

18. Hopeless is right

[Aristus]

20. I don't understand why he thinks anyone should feel sorry for him when he's such a racist dick.

Sounds like he wasn't able to keep up the "very friendly guy" ruse for very long. Sooner or later, the chimp is going to shit in its hand and start throwing it around...

[Karasu]

22. "He never said he was going to break the US government." They had 900 pages explaining how they were going to do

just that, and EVERY fucking Republican primary candidate in the last presidential election cycle signed off on enacting it if they won. All of them. Not just Trump.

So many people just chose to stick their heads in the fucking sand and deny that Project 2025 was the agenda when it always was.

Oh...and anyone who falls back on "Still better than the Dem" clearly isn't that regretful. They're still trying to justify their vote.

[PJMcK]

23. Agreed

Trump's supporters deserve every pain and sorrow they reap thanks to their stupid votes for a CONVICTED CRIMINAL!

I have a particular and seething hatred for all the so-called Christians who supported a man who violates all Ten Commandments blatantly.

My impression was that this fellow was more foolish than hateful, however. Our conversation was mostly about family and life in Panama than politics. It was quite pleasant until he started bemoaning his decisions.

In any event, I wish you a happy holiday weekend, Karasu!

[Karasu]

26. A very happy holiday weekend to you as well, PJMcK!

[dsc]

24. Not to defend Trump

but literally the one and only consistent policy position the man had for the last 40 years was to be in favor of tariffs. For any of his voters not to understand he would impose tariffs is simply surreal.

[elleng]

25. Interesting, but still a FOOL!!!

[JT45242]

27. Racism against "that uppity black woman" runs deep

When did trump become a tariff..always

Project,2025 spelled it all out.

But racism and sexism is more important

[Emile]

28. The guy orchestrated an insurrection four years ago

and he still voted for him.

[Bengus81]

29. And in Nov 2026 he'll vote a straight Republican ticket in the mid-terms on

everything from Senator to dog catcher. Those cultists will never change,I wouldn't waste time on them.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

30. Another member of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

[a kennedy]

31. Well good then, SO GLAD HIS RETIREMENT FUNDSARE IN THE SHITTER.

Stupid ass. 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬

[2MuchNoise]

64. Yeah, the same place his brain is.

[Iris]

32. What a garbage human being. I'm sorry this story didn't end with a shark attack.

[Violet_Crumble]

33. Sharks are fussy about what they eat....

They'd probably reject the high concentration of misogyny and stupidity in one body...

[PJMcK]

42. Yeah but I was swimming ten feet away from him!

Also, there haven’t been many shark attacks in Panama over the years.

Still, I understand your point.

However, our half hour conversation was mostly non-political and friendly. We were enjoying the beauty of the Pacific and chatting about our kids. They will not be our friends here!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Iris. I wish you a wonderful holiday weekend!

[Iris]

49. Ha! Well, I was thinking the shark might be selective!

[ananda]

34. See how that works?

The Trumpists are white male supremacists.

They don't care about anything else, even if
they are upset and whiny about the way
things are going for them.

[flashman13]

35. You just can't fix stupid. That woman indeed. I'm sure she would have blown up the government.

[Baitball Blogger]

36. From now on the first question should be

Does this end with, but I would not vote for Kamala? If so, you!re not sorry enough for me to listen to your laments because the result wouldn’t change the outcome.

[usonian]

37. Buy him a Bud Light.

In a broken




Styrofoam cup.
Sorry.

[marble falls]

43. Fuck 'em and their excuses, Mango Jebus never lied to them. He told them exactly what he had in mind.

[markodochartaigh]

44. Summer on the ocean in Florida and

Trump supporters.

I was on a small boat with some other people when a huge cruise ship just missed us. The ship's wake swamped us and we started to sink. On top of it the cruise ship dumped their sewage as they passed and there were turds floating all over.
Another boat sailed over but was having difficulty getting close enough for the tow line to reach. Nobody wanted to swim through the turds, but the water in the boat was getting higher.
Finally the Trump guy dived in. We all watched as the turds floated to either side and left a path for the Trump guy to swim to the other boat.
One guy seemed not to be surprised so I asked what had happened. He turned to me and said "Professional courtesy".

[ProfessorGAC]

45. Your Last Sentence Suggests...

...that he doesn't actually regret his vote.
Regret would seem to include a realization that he voted the wrong way.
But the "that woman" statement is abundantly clear that he would still vote for the felon.

[struggle4progress]

47. Voting for a sexually-assaultive white supremacist felon with a history of fraud and theft

instead of a black woman with a long history of publics service was a no-brainer for some people

[niyad]

50. Never seems to be a rogue wave around when it is needed.

[2MuchNoise]

63. or a shark

[MorbidButterflyTat]

51. I don't think I could have

listened to that lengthy list of grievances and that stupid misogynistic comment, and respond by just shaking my head. I would never consent to politics in the ocean.

Sounds like a real "friendly guy."

[mucifer]

54. Doesn't sound too regretful then.

[bluesbassman]

60. And not very bright either.

Sounds more upset that he is personally suffering financially. That’s not regrettable, it’s selfishness. He’s still a MAGAt, just mad he’s being adversely impacted.

[mdbl]

55. my reply to his statement "I never expected him to be so stupid."

I never expected YOU to be so stupid.

[Ruby the Liberal]

58. It would be terrible if things got worse for him

Sounds like the consequences of his voting actions haven't totally set in yet.

[aocommunalpunch]

61. His use is now limited to fertilizer.

Some day. What a waste of oxygen.

[Dem4life1970]

62. This is why I have zero compassion

For these gullible idiots who made the stupidest decision of their life by putting a twice impeached convicted felon back into the White House...and they refuse to own their idiocy. Better than if vice President Harris became president? How would he even know that? Does he have access to an alternate universe or alternate timeline that the rest of us aren't living in? Things are playing out exactly as we warned them and the lies that Trump predicted about Biden in 2020? None of them came true. So I hope he enjoys finding out and may he find out more and more and more...

[D_Master81]

65. Trump amnesia was real

I said during the race last year that I feared a lot of people only remembered the stock market going up in his 1st term not all the chaos that happened and the total lack of leadership when it was needed during Covid. Everything this guy complained about trump was saying during the campaign he just didn’t think he’d actually do it.

[blubunyip]

66. They've got to think that way

because how else can you justify extreme stupidity?

"Well at least I didn't..." they'll say (cue racism and /or sexism)

How many tRump voters--either low Maga or high Maga-- just voted because everybody else they know did? A whole hell basket full of em!

[iluvtennis]

67. "Still, things are better than if THAT WOMAN had won." 🙄🙄🙄

[Beowulf42]

69. The obvious learning point about this conversation is

that America is a woman hating pit. Most of the 1/3 population of the USA that is male will not vote for a woman as president. If you can fool yourself with the idea that losing your retirement is better than having Kamala as president, then this nation is lost. It isn't like DJT is a disappointment, it's that he is a total disaster. They know it and yet they tell themselves that nonsense.

[Playingmantis]

70. I remember as a child watching Milton Berle on TV

making fun of the idea of a woman as president.. He stamped his feel and pursed his lips as he pretended to be a woman president pouting about Nikita Khrushchev.. Really got a laugh out of the audience.. I cant find the video on line but that was the thinking then and apparently still is.

Better a convicted felon who kills US democracy than a competent woman especially if she is black!

Ya that is how they think...Fucking morons!!

[Clouds Passing]

71. THAT WOMAN

Woman Haters

[LNM]

72. I would have said "hope you don't get a cramp"

You’re on your own.

[GoodRaisin]

73. If he had to ask when Krasnov became a fan of tariffs he wasn't paying very close

attention. Very uninformed voter. Too bad about his portfolio.

[cab67]

75. How, exactly, would it be worse?

That's what I would have asked. I'd want specifics - would your portfolio be in the shitter? If so, how? And be specific.

That seems to fluster red hatters ore than anything else - asking for specifics and not letting go until they either provide them (which they usually can't), try to deflect (which I won't allow), or just shut up.