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BumRushDaShow

(163,346 posts)
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:01 AM Monday

'Outraged' Trump voter says he feels 'completely swindled'

Source: Raw Story

November 9, 2025 5:46PM ET


A Pennsylvania Trump voter says he regrets his vote and that the president's conduct in office is a "complete betrayal" of his vote, reports The Daily Beast.

Morgen Morgus, a self-described Libertarian, writes in a letter to the editor of USA Today that "A year after the president election, I feel completely swindled. If the presidential election were held today—with the same candidates—I would sit it out,” he went on. “There was a hope that they would be willing to listen to us, but unfortunately that is not happening.”

Morgus, The Daily Beast notes, "joins a growing number of disillusioned voters who have publicly expressed regret backing MAGA at last year’s polls."

One of those voters is Betty Szretter, a "MAGA fan" who deeply regrets her vote as well because she relies on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to keep her daughter's diabetes in check. “It all seems very selfish,” she told NBC . “Now he’s busy out of the country and demolishing the White House."

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/outraged-trump-voter-says-he-feels-completely-swindled/

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'Outraged' Trump voter says he feels 'completely swindled' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Monday OP
He would listen to us ..translate hurt brown not white people JT45242 Monday #1
Trump's cruelty and theft was supposed to be directed to everyone else but them. Irish_Dem Monday #2
If only we'd known that he was going to do these things. Permanut Monday #3
hmmm markie Monday #4
Exactly, regrets his vote, but still wouldn't vote against him. Walleye Monday #9
But they'll still vote "R" in 2026, 2028 and beyond. sop Monday #17
sop 2 Scarlet Begalas Tuesday #44
Ya, it's no better than voting for Trump in the first place. cstanleytech Monday #20
They're on Their Own RecoveringJournalist Monday #24
I find this very, very... Mike Nelson Monday #5
I remember some documentary series special years ago (forgot who did it - may have been Moyers' program) BumRushDaShow Monday #7
That LBJ quote... Mike Nelson Monday #8
They don't even support their own church members. They have this fantasy that travelingthrulife Monday #27
Her poor daughter. mgardener Monday #6
FAFO MarcoZandrini Monday #10
Take your regrets and stuff them, trump voters. Paladin Monday #11
Morgen Morgus?? moose65 Monday #12
It sounds, doesn't it PatSeg Monday #31
Gee... COL Mustard Monday #13
Duh! Too stupid for a brain. Wonder Why Monday #14
"There was a hope that they would be willing to listen to us...." DFW Monday #15
They heard the lie: "*will bring down the costs of eggs on Day 1" Justice matters. Monday #43
Well, after last night, I can relate to how he feels. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Monday #16
Oh Betty, you ain't seen nothing yet. xuplate Monday #18
These people are going to be the death of us Blues Heron Monday #19
And our friend the leopard says, "Burp!" Botany Monday #21
A Libertarian but he voted for Trump? LOL!! Bengus81 Monday #22
Libertarians are just Republicans who like to smoke pot. travelingthrulife Monday #28
"I thought he would only hurt the coloreds" JI7 Monday #23
"Libertarian" is simply a less polite word for "asshole" Orrex Monday #25
They would still vote for him. They have been trained for 50 years to hate Democrats. travelingthrulife Monday #26
He's outraged that he was swindled by a swindler he voted for? Aristus Monday #29
Hhmmm....let me see if I can find some sympathy... mwmisses4289 Monday #30
These MAGA members are slow on the uptake aren't they? Ray Bruns Monday #32
Live and learn, little dude. republianmushroom Monday #33
Remember what Ron White said: colorado_ufo Monday #34
trump demolishing the White House should run on an endless loop next year, Bayard Monday #35
Exactly! Rebl2 Monday #41
Bottom line: YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID. AZ8theist Monday #36
maybe not.. keroro gunsou Tuesday #46
this idiot would sit out the election and not vote Democratic. what an imbecile. samsingh Monday #37
"He's not hurting the right people!". keep_left Monday #38
Libertarians - Been swindled by Republicans since I could vote. OAITW r.2.0 Monday #39
He's doing Rebl2 Monday #40
We need to stock up on Ozempic. Xolodno Monday #42
Libertarian Blumancru Tuesday #45

JT45242

(3,740 posts)
1. He would listen to us ..translate hurt brown not white people
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:20 AM
Monday

You voted for this, just thought being white should and would protect you.

Face meet leopard

markie

(23,757 posts)
4. hmmm
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:27 AM
Monday

"...If the presidential election were held today—with the same candidates—I would sit it out,”

not good enough buddy... you are still not living in reality

Walleye

(43,207 posts)
9. Exactly, regrets his vote, but still wouldn't vote against him.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 06:16 AM
Monday

Showing complete ignorance of the system and the candidates. But sure go ahead and cry, Maga.

sop

(16,882 posts)
17. But they'll still vote "R" in 2026, 2028 and beyond.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 07:46 AM
Monday

These folks may not like Trump, but they hate Democrats. Right wing propaganda doesn't give them any reasons to support "R," it only tells them to mindlessly oppose "D."

Scarlet Begalas

(67 posts)
44. sop 2
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 01:41 AM
Tuesday

So true, and so sad. My elderly mother didn't vote for Trump, but made sure to let me know that she didn't vote for that "crazy" Harris. They're all brainwashed.

The entire Rethug party is based, not on good things they do, but on hatred and fear of "the other." They disgust me.

24. They're on Their Own
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 08:49 AM
Monday

To anyone in my circle who says this, I tell them that not voting is not good enough. You must actively resist what's happening by voting D. If you don't, then don't expect any assistance of any kind from me. You're on your own. Good luck!

Mike Nelson

(10,837 posts)
5. I find this very, very...
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:37 AM
Monday

... strange. The example given is a woman who has her SNAP altered. Don't these people realize they are voting for Republicans? They have a few very standard beliefs. One is that "Big Government" should not be "taking away our money" and putting it in social security programs. People should "Get a Job!" for money and use prayer for assistance, which could lead to a Christian church member or helpful relative providing food assistance. These people... they thought what?

BumRushDaShow

(163,346 posts)
7. I remember some documentary series special years ago (forgot who did it - may have been Moyers' program)
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:58 AM
Monday

where the subject was "welfare" and they were interviewing people about it and featured one loon who I think was living, literally in a shack in Mississippi (or similar southern state), who was ranting and raving about "those people on welfare" ( "in the inner cities" ), and then the correspondent/interviewer/narrator filmed a mail carrier come and deliver the woman's "welfare check" and even confronted her about it, and she shrugged it off.

There are millions out there like that, the same type who like in Kentucky, insisted that they "didn't want no 'Obamacare'" but nobody better take away their 'kynect'" (which was the name of the ACA/Obamacare exchange in the state).

They are suffering from a severe mass psychosis that has helped to lead to the destruction of this country.

LBJ nailed it over 60 years ago regarding these people (as I post often) -

Opinion

Bill D. Moyers

WHAT A REAL PRESIDENT WAS LIKE

November 12, 1988



WHILE Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of time and place, he felt the bitter paradox of both. I was a young man on his staff in 1960 when he gave me a vivid account of that southern schizophrenia he understood and feared. We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs.

Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs. "I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he said. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

Some years later when Johnson was president, there was a press conference in the East Room. A reporter unexpectedly asked the president how he could explain his sudden passion for civil rights when he had never shown much enthusiasm for the cause. The question hung in the air. I could almost hear his silent cursing of a press secretary who had not anticipated this one.

But then he relaxed, and from an instinct no assistant could brief -- one seasoned in the double life from which he was delivered and hoped to deliver others -- he said in effect: Most of us don't have a second chance to correct the mistakes of our youth. I do and I am. That evening, sitting in the White House, discussing the question with friends and staff, he gestured broadly and said,

"Eisenhower used to tell me that this place was a prison. I never felt freer." For weeks in 1964, the president carried in his pocket the summary of a Census Bureau report showing that the lifetime earnings of an average black college graduate were lower than that of a white man with an eighth-grade education. And when The New York Times in November 1964 reported racial segregation to be increasing instead of disappearing, he took his felt-tip pen and scribbled across it "shame, shame, shame," and sent it to Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader in the Senate. I have a hard time explaining to our two sons and daughter -- now in their twenties -- that when they were little, America was still deeply segregated.

(snip)

Mike Nelson

(10,837 posts)
8. That LBJ quote...
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 06:12 AM
Monday

... is one of the best reflections on politics I've ever read. That is in play... today, for sure.

travelingthrulife

(3,813 posts)
27. They don't even support their own church members. They have this fantasy that
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 09:18 AM
Monday

if everyone becomes christians, then everyone would join a church and there would be loaves and fishes for everyone. It is as foolish as all their other thoughts.

mgardener

(2,227 posts)
6. Her poor daughter.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 05:47 AM
Monday

Having her for her mother.
Wait till she sees what Trump and Republicans will do to Medicaid.
What a stupid, selfish woman she is.

She didn't care what Trump would do to other kids.
I hope her daughter will be OK.

Paladin

(32,023 posts)
11. Take your regrets and stuff them, trump voters.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 06:57 AM
Monday

Anybody with half a functioning brain cell should have seen this coming. Thanks for nothing.

COL Mustard

(7,801 posts)
13. Gee...
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 07:28 AM
Monday

If only someone had tried to tell them what would happen. If only there had been another candidate to choose. If only they weren't so ignorant and blinded that they couldn't vote for a woman. Of color.

If only.

DFW

(59,363 posts)
15. "There was a hope that they would be willing to listen to us...."
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 07:35 AM
Monday

Oh, really? And just what, if you don't you mind my asking, gave you such a hope? Did you pin your hopes on the tooth fairy last year, or the Great Pumpkin the year before that? Surely no one still believes what they hear on Fox Noise after all these years?

Justice matters.

(9,107 posts)
43. They heard the lie: "*will bring down the costs of eggs on Day 1"
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 10:59 PM
Monday

And watched FOX News repeat it over and over, and they believed it was "listening to them" ...

travelingthrulife

(3,813 posts)
28. Libertarians are just Republicans who like to smoke pot.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 09:21 AM
Monday

I remember that from my earlier days.

They mostly voted for Trump.

Orrex

(66,389 posts)
25. "Libertarian" is simply a less polite word for "asshole"
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 09:03 AM
Monday

And Morgen Morgus would almost certainly vote for Trump again tomorrow, given the chance.

Aristus

(71,304 posts)
29. He's outraged that he was swindled by a swindler he voted for?
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 09:38 AM
Monday

Sorry, dude, but stupid should hurt. No empathy for you. Charlie Kirk would have wanted it that way.

Bayard

(27,794 posts)
35. trump demolishing the White House should run on an endless loop next year,
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 12:36 PM
Monday

Along with those of his lavish parties and golfing.

keroro gunsou

(2,299 posts)
46. maybe not..
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 08:42 AM
Tuesday

but you can use duct tape to muffle the noise once you put it over their mouths

keep_left

(3,115 posts)
38. "He's not hurting the right people!".
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 01:52 PM
Monday


That's a paraphrase from a NYT article back in 2019. IIRC, Rachel Maddow mentioned it prominently on her show a couple of times.

The full quote is "I thought he was going to do good things. He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting!"...Trump's policies weren't attacking the brown people enough, and were in fact harming nice white people like her.

https://democraticunderground.com/100219776302#post82

That was the bon mot from an interview with a MAGA chud in the NYT. Chud lives are apparently miserable enough that if Trump isn't beating up on minorities, poor people, LGBTQ, etc. on a regular basis, they go into a tailspin because Trump isn't giving them their constant media dopamine hit to which they have become accustomed.

https://democraticunderground.com/100220076901#post11
https://democraticunderground.com/100219566515#post2
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/florida-government-shutdown-marianna.html

Rebl2

(17,217 posts)
40. He's doing
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 08:13 PM
Monday

what he said he would do, well except nobody predicted tearing down part of the White House to build a ballroom and new bunker. Anyway, FAFO as usual.

Xolodno

(7,241 posts)
42. We need to stock up on Ozempic.
Mon Nov 10, 2025, 09:57 PM
Monday

...for leopards.

Those poor over wieght creatures, will no on care about them?

Blumancru

(27 posts)
45. Libertarian
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 07:04 AM
Tuesday

A right wing nut job who doesn’t want to appear stupid…..but is.
We saw through him years ago. If you’re so smart, why didn’t you?

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