Sipping tea from beer mugs with his co-workers, Kyle Bos listed the ways his life is changing.

Bos has two daughters, with a third due in January. At the grocery store, five items cost as much as a full cart once did. And on Wednesday, Bos and nearly 1,400 other people were laid off from their jobs at what had been the Navistar truck factory in southwestern Ohio.

The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump's rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. And they are one reason why Bos, 30, plans to spend the final weeks before the November election canvassing votes for Democrats.

Asked how many times he had voted for Trump, Bos held up three tattooed fingers. But he said he's done with the president.

"Something has to change politically in this country," said Bos, a member of the United Auto Workers who identifies as a centrist. "Seems like it just kept getting worse and worse and worse."

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[–] 1 point 46 seconds ago

thanks don donny. are we great yet?

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  • [–] 18 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    He identifies a a centrist but voted Trump three times. Can someone help me with the math because something doesn't add up.

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  • [–] 2 points 42 minutes ago

    There are several ways to get there. One is to draw tha scale so the Clintons are basically communists and the other end is a 1930s radical fascist. Another is to assume that you have the most reasonable, correct, and moderate political opinions. Like all the people who say they are Libertarian while voting straight Republican so they can support bad things without owning up to it.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 hours ago

    Ohioan: Lowers Trump flag to half-mast

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  • [–] 48 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    Asked how many times he had voted for Trump, Bos held up three tattooed fingers. But he said he's done with the president.

    Look, I was all in for ruining other people's lives, but now that I lost my job, I'm out

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  • [–] 4 points 3 hours ago

    Now that Trump can't run again and isn't even going to be on the ballot I'm done with him.

    (Ya I know Trump is going to try to stay in office but if that man lives another 2 years the world ended anyways.)

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  • [–] 7 points 5 hours ago

    What? Gas guzzling vehicles aren't in high demand right now?

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    Truly none of this matters. They will still vote straight R down the ticket, to dismantle those unions that protect them. I despise what they've done to America, almost as much as the billionaires themselves.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 hours ago

    Leopards ate my face

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  • [–] 12 points 7 hours ago

    plans to spend the final weeks before the November election canvassing votes for Democrats

    Oh good, they can learn eventually.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 hours ago* (2 children)

    International sold the plant to Roshel, a Canadian company that makes armored vehicles. They are expected to hire many of these folks back within a year, and will have to negotiate a new contract to do that also, ultimately planning to have about double the existing workforce.

    From the article:

    Laid-off workers like Donnelly say they expect to be rehired in six to 12 months by Roshel, a Canadian manufacturer of armored vehicles that is buying the plant. Roshel said in a statement that it's "working with everyone involved not only to protect the current workforce, but to more than double it over the coming years through a phased process."

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  • [–] 4 points 7 hours ago

    lol my gut feels fine. Theirs should, too, they obviously got what they wanted.

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