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It seems like they are misrepresenting who the subject of this article is. Doesn't seem like a lifelong Democrat bsky.app/profile/milo...

If only they'd actually like... worked on something good.

Dan, have The Atlantic or McCrummen addressed the fact that this truck driver clearly lied to them about his background and they didn’t bother to fact-check?

Well, I’m not going to blame the photographer for this shit it you and Stephanie? Absolutely. Fucking pathetic.

Why are you printing lies? Easily disprovable ones?

The thing is, you don’t even have to fact check. Just attribute. If you said “who described himself as a lifelong Democrat” then the onus is on him, not you. I was a reporter in a previous life and one of my rules was never trust people. Even when they’re stating their beliefs - “said he believes”.

Special like rare brain cancer special, or...?

what is the actual goal of your sadistic depravity? like, i know whats the lie you tell to yourself and would tell others to justify your unjustifiable actions, but i am curious whats the actual reason its just cause you enjoy hurting people?🤔

If only they had an editor that could have asked, “lifelong Democrat that decided to vote for Trump in 2024? Anyone fact check that on his social media?” 😂

A special pairing of bad journalism and whitewashing maga faithful Thanks for continuing to make the Atlantic a joke, folks

A special pairing that described their subject as “a life-long Democrat” who voted for Trump. A very simple and quick fact check would have blown that stupidity out of the water. Real first rate shit here.

Not enough to check the guy’s fucking Facebook page.

And they couldn’t even figure out this guy is a trumper

Pulitzer for what, publicly absolving these dreadful people for what That Kid did to them? That mother is absolutely vile. Real bucket of deplorables there. I'm tired of reading about these people. Do actual Democratic voters exist, or are they just journo sasquatches? bsky.app/profile/milo...

ZERO. but it might battle the NYT for the most fact-challenged pieces grieving for white MAGAs' feelings🙄 bsky.app/profile/mari...

Not even basic fact checking. The unqualified hubris is real.

The Atlantic also whitewashing a rabid Trump supporter as a "lifelong Democrat" despite his easily found public Facebook posts: bsky.app/profile/milo...

Did I just argue with a joke .jpg

I'm sure they're both great at what they do but we do not need a fucking pity party for a trucker that inadvertently caused someone to die both literally and politically

Still no correction on the "Democrat who only voted for trump in 2024" fantasy, huh??

Get a fucking room, pervert.

No one reporting the story checked his Facebook page, huh.

Also throwing WAPO under the bus too lol.

the thing is, this might be technically true, idk. maybe he registered democrat in 1992 and voted one time until 2024. i guess it's possible. the Democrat trump voter is a fiction invented by the beltway media, and it's so ingrained in their ideology now that whether it's true or not doesn't matter

…to investigate that skepticism. It seems likely that an article of this length, or longer, could have been written, with more time, that gives a much fuller sense of their lives, and possibly a different account of Pierre Damas Bel’s death. It’s hard to imagine this occurred to noone…

It’s a shame they don’t have an editor who can fact check their story for them.

Why did you guys lie about his longterm Trump support

Shame they didn't bother to fact check any of their reporting. Hacks.

Yeah the whole clown school is here, amazing work trying to do PR for a guy who liked Trump's coup and wants to sound like less of a monster

Wow, this is gonna do great box office! Boffo! This is the sort of hogwash that makes you wish Billy Wilder was still alive and making movies.

dan did your phone battery run out or what

When does Dan’s plane land, because he’s clearly on airplane mode.

Good. Fuck that Trump Humper.

"senior editor" - what a fucking joke.

Thank you for sharing. A reckoning indeed.

Most MAGA voters do not have to reckon with the deadly consequences of their votes so directly.

Possible. But it might also be just people taking a chance to use a death and a tragedy to make themselves feel good. Lets remember that a boy died and not forget that. Its worth remembering WHY we're angry, and not just that we are.

So was it a lack of effort or lack of integrity?

If an immigrant comes under his truck, I am sure he will run over him again. And if given the choice, he will vote for Trump again

More proof that triple-voting tRump MAGAts are pieces of shit. Go back to your fucking child-abuse protectorates assholes, namely your fucking churches.

Oh my god the mother is a racist c*nt.

Why are you feeling sorry for the POS truck driver who voted for Trump to stick it to the immigrants, minorities and lib? He will vote for a racist again.

America simply took off its hood

Should this be truck not trunk? "he’d seen a man getting out of the car, who was then walking toward his trunk"

My tent is not this big. I Pray this lives with tb trucker for test of living days.

LOCK TRUMP UP ALREADY!!! www.booksbehindborders.org/p/the-most-d...

Choices have consequences. I could care less this trumper is haunted. I want ALL OF THE RED HATS TO BE HAUNTED! How about we put ankle bracelet on all of them and take away their rights..

Please don't post articles with paywalls unless you're gifting them!

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The article states that he knew nothing about the situation in Springfield yet someone found that he was spreading conspiracy theories about Springfield on Facebook. STOP WHITEWASHING THIS MAGA FUCK.

Lol, another shitty article from the Atlantic written to support the white supremacist.

Or trucker confronts the consequences of his actions

That’s what I thought too until her final quote then I was like ??? So strange.

So, this dude is hardcore MAGA and you're just letting him off the hook for being a racist piece of shit?

The trucker who killed him is haunted? Good. The trucker voted for Trump, so he’s responsible for killing that man in more ways than one. Anyone who voted for Trump should be haunted for the rest of their days.

President Johnson spoke about that back in the Sixties. They don't care about the riches. They vote their interest. Their interest is racism.

Be haunted. We all warned you.

May he suffer for the rest of his life. No sympathy for cult members.

Every.....single.....Democrat....told....those....people....what....was .....going....to ...... happen.

I hope JD Vance will never know peace for the lies he spread about the Haitian communities, just to score political points. May he never get a good night sleep for the lives he willfully destroyed (and continues to do so) because judgment is coming for him …

Love to hear the perspective of a Trump supporter being sad he literally killed a man he voted to ruin the life of and will ultimately continue to vote for similar future deaths.

The only victim here is the Haitian man.

Other countries need to step in and give these people a home

Will there be a correction issued when you bother to check this Lifelong Democrat’s background?

Turns out dan didn't fact check bsky.app/profile/dani...

The country he helped make. The country didn't just magically become this way.

Exactly. Carelessness with citizenship unless it hurts me.

I once ate a whole Crave Case for dinner and my tum tum hurt too but I didn’t get a byline in the paper to make me feel better about my choices

I’m sure there are hundreds of stories similar to this all over America this year and last. Lady Liberty is crying daily because of what we have become.

This whole line, "He was beginning to believe that the Trump administration was 'a joke,' and that the Democrats were no better. 'Everything is broken,' Jack said." They are laundering MAGA and falsely implying that Democrats sucking, too, is part of this story. F the Atlantic.

This is like when Proud Boys and Fox News grifters concoct a transparently ridiculous origin story that they “used to be ANTIFA members” but good job getting it printed in a legacy media outlet instead of just Facebook reply comments. bsky.app/profile/dani...

The only appropriate punishment for them is to live and accept the consequences of their actions and reflect on them every day for at least several years of their lives. Sometimes, that's only effective punishment.

if he didn't vote Trump in 2016 he'll likely have voted Clinton although naturally it may feel tempting to read him as either a 2016 third party or abstained guy. Idk

Trump 1 had handlers mostly keeping the government running as usual. It was possible to not pay attention to the particulars, and a whole lot of this nation doesn't pay attention.

people can't even remember who was president in 2020

Agreed.. but for a journalist writing for the Atlantic, “getting played” like this is breathtakingly lazy.

He wasn’t brainwashed, he is just an awful person surrounded by other awful people. What happened isn’t his direct fault, his vote and opinions along with every other MAGA person helped drive it. Lifelong Democrat is obvious lie

Not a week after jan 6. This "lifelong democrat" seems more like hard core maga for the last 10 years.

Exactly! You had to really be paying attention to know how good we had it. We were the envy of the world recovering from Covid so well & getting inflation down. The media never had anything good to say about Biden.

Prisoners of war are brainwashed. This man simply believed the propaganda that vindicated his grievances, validated his identity, and absolved him of responsibility.

It's sad that it worked. And is even still working. And they are still working.

he allowed himself to be brainwashed. it's willful ignorance to believe, and act on, the gop's racist garbage.

Biden *is* old. That part is true.

everything was and continues to be terrible and it was and continues to be partially dems fault. just because republicans are worse doesn't mean his gut feeling about being a lifelong dem voter was wrong.

“Brainwashed”? Come the fuck on. Nobody is mind controlled to vote with their racism and stupidity.

The economy was not good for all people. The data shows this. Do I think voting for that asshole was the answer? No. But I do think that we need to reckon with the fact that the economy was not strong for everyone and guided voting behavior in 2024.

I’m out of sympathy for the “brainwashed” excuse. At some point, being that stupid is a conscious choice.

Economy was humming for whom? It wasn’t working class people. We can talk shit about this guy all we want but the fact his material conditions didn’t improve isn’t him just making things up, it is what happened.

Yeah he deserves to be haunted by actual ghosts

How odd that a supposed "longtime Democrat" couldn't vote for the non-white female candidate. 🙄 So instead, he votes for a convicted felon and likely child rapist whose evil policies led to the death of a boy, struck by him (unintentionally). I have no compassion for him or other trump voters.

His premise itself is baseless, too. Things have gotten better under every Dem except maybe Carter? And when they don't it is always because of R chicanery in Congress or impunity that they enable through state govt they control. I'm so tired of explaining this to people...

You don’t give a shit about any of the victims of Trumpism. If you did, you would try to win back a huge majority of voters to fix the country. But you don’t actually care about other people. It’s all just a game to you, dopamine hits of righteous anger

⅓ of the voting eligible chose Trump. Another ⅓ fought him. The last chose not to vote, for non-uniform reasons. Put all 3 of these together and we don’t have 100% of who could vote if they were registered & informed, plus those whose right to vote was taken away due to prison sentences.

Judging people almost always causes them to become defensive and stay with the side that doesn’t call them bad people, even if they’ve objectively made stupid decisions

Given his documented support for Trump right after J6, I think we now know what he meant by “different.”