Rural West Virginia Town Voted 76 Percent for Trump -- Now it's Starving

Saturday, October 10, 2026

The Republicans' "One Big Beautiful Bill" ushered in such significant budget cuts that one rural West Virginia town is experiencing a hunger crisis.

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A hunger crisis is gripping the small community of Dunlow, West Virginia, a town that overwhelmingly supported President Donald Trump in the last election ...

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Let them eat road salt.

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-10-09 10:45 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-09 10:50 AM | Reply

Actions, meet consequences.

#3 | Posted by morris at 2026-10-09 12:02 PM | Reply

via GIPHY

#4 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-10-09 12:49 PM | Reply

It just all goes to prove that you must be very careful about the gods you choose to worship.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-10-10 08:45 AM | Reply

I imagine that socialism is looking pretty good in West Virginia right now.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2026-10-10 08:46 AM | Reply

Remember that Mao and Stalin both grew up in rural and small town settings.

#7 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-10-10 08:49 AM | Reply

The funny thing is that these people are likely to be fed, and likely by Liberals.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2026-10-10 08:55 AM | Reply

Mao's Great Leap Forward was fit the literal definition of progressivism. Laissez-faire capitalism fits the literal definition of liberalism.

#9 | Posted by sentinel at 2026-10-10 09:19 AM | Reply

Mao's Great Leap Forward was fit the literal definition of progressivism. L

#9 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

What's the literal definition of hunger?

Why are these West Virginians hungry?

Who made them hungry?

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2026-10-10 09:31 AM | Reply

#9 | POSTED BY SENTINEL

Do you want to see these people fed?

I can tell you, after watching MAGA for a decade, that the classical response of that movement is to say let them starve.

It's just that they never expected it to be them.

Never in their wildest, selfish, dreams.

#11 | Posted by Zed at 2026-10-10 09:33 AM | Reply

"Only the weak will fail".

What famous MAGA said that?

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2026-10-10 09:44 AM | Reply

I suggest these folks start setting fur traps, stringing fishing lines, and eating squirrels and such.

And don't forget your bootstraps. Now get to work.

#13 | Posted by horstngraben at 2026-10-10 10:22 AM | Reply