The shy Trump voter is still a real thing. There’s still a statistically significant chance that someone who is a woman/gay/racial-minority/urban/etc. supports Trump but just won’t say out loud. I’ve known a few who confided such views quietly.
This is perfect.
I went by one of my work’s satellite offices yesterday and was astonished to see all of the crazy right-wing anti-Harris and pro-Trump propaganda posted on bulletin boards all over the office.
Back in 2016 there were “Hillary for Prison” stickers (and even a figurine of Hillary in a prison jumpsuit) in some people’s cubicles. This was worse because it was all over the place.
I can’t believe management hasn’t told them to knock if off. I’m guessing it’s because they agree with them, even if they (management) are a bit more circumspect.
Win win? Not if it blows back on you and you get shunned by colleagues and penalized by management because they are Trumpers as well.
If I’m going to go down the whistleblower path, it’s going to be for something more substantial than idiotic Trump propaganda being parroted by Trumpers or even being posted on bulletin boards in a satellite office.*
(I do have standards though. If someone was posting hateful shit like the equivalent of Der Stürmer, I would absolutely go to HR.)
*Although one flyer I saw yesterday was pretty insane and is still pissing me off. It was graphic, homophobic, and anti-Harris all at once.
Not in my industry. That would be very frowned upon.
And win win because then the Trumper’s life is worse.
There was a Vox article about this sort of situation when Trump was president:
There was also the Trump voter who was married to an undocumented immigrant. Hilarity ensued.
And a mention of some obscure Indiana mayor…
I just looked the wife up, she now lives in Mexico with her family. She effectively deported herself.
Man would I love to have that much social capital in a marriage as that husband has, I’m never mowing the lawn or taking out the trash again.
Right, because I’m sure this woman - who voted for Trump - has a history of accepting her circumstances are due to her own poor decisions and not blaming other people for the consequences of her own bad choices.
Yeah, I’d love to read a with interview her about the 2024 election, I bet she’s still undecided.
Never have I seen a more perfect example of that biblical aphorism that you reap what you sow.
From the article:
“When asked why she voted for the “Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party,” she said, ‘I never thought the leopards would eat my face.’”
Per the article, the family lawyer then said:
Ah yes, …simple farmers, people of the land. The common clay of the new West.
How do you deal with working with a non-political asshole or idiot? Do you pitch a huge fit and refuse to interact with them? Or do you just grin and bear it for as long as necessary to do whatever job-relevant task you need to complete, and then bitch about it after work to your friends/spouse/bartender?
That’s how we deal with working with Trump supporters. We grin and bear it, because that’s what the job requires. You seem to assume someone who has high standards for close, personal relationships would have even more stringent standards for casual work relations. That’s not how that works - people who are less important to me personally are held to lower standards. I care a lot more if someone in my family is bigoted against me than I do if the guy who wraps my burrito is bigoted against me. Obviously.
Unless the guy who wraps your burrito is not just specifically bigoted against your class but is willing to take action about it. Then you have someone else wrap your burrito.