Do you feel sorry for these people or are they getting what they deserve for trusting Trump ?

Is it possible to feel both?

I’m supposed to feel sympathy for people who willingly followed the exaggerated boastings of a crook?

Tough shit. If they were smart enough to work for the government, they should have known better than to listen to Trump’s empty promises.

Let ‘em suffer. There should be a price paid for stupidity.

Not one iota.
I do not even have any sympathy for all the people that died during the allied carpet bombing of German cities at the end of WW2.

I feel sorry for them, even though I disagree with their actions. They may be naive or even dishonest, but they’re still people. With kids and pets and partners to support.

But I also picked up seven drowning earthworms on my way home from the bus stop just now – so there’s that.

Feel sorry for grifters that didn’t get the debt forgiveness promised by the Grifter-in-Chief?

These people weren’t naïve, they threw their lot in with the ant-American crowd trying to loot the government.

@longgone….one time we had a big rain.. When my daughter was about 7 she spotted an earthworm that she thought was stranded out of the water he belonged in. She kindly picked him up and put him back in the water. sigh.

Sure you can have sympathy for suckers, even suckers who put their trust in a know nothing scumbag. That they get what they deserve is justice. But it’s the fact that so many of them learn nothing from the experience and readily accept the subsequent deluge of obvious lies without so much as batting an eyebrow—this is what transforms any compassion for these chumps to contempt. It’s a matter of sheer exasperation.