cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/44641840

Machia voted for Trump, drawn by promises of border control and national security. “We didn’t want drugs or gangbangers,” he said. But what he didn’t expect was losing some of his most dedicated employees to immigration arrests.

“It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”

LOL. Idiots

  • ramsgrl909@lemmy.world
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    It’s strange. I live in rural VT and whenever i bike around you see Trump signs on a lot of farm fields. But then you read the newspaper and you read about ICE detaining legal employees at farms and the farmers being upset about it.

    I genuinely don’t understand.

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      3 hours ago

      It’s hilarious because it’s the same shit as Brexit. At its core it’s racist policies that amount to “we don’t like brown people”. Sometimes you need to watch the house burn for people to learn.

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    Sometimes it feels like being happy that Trumpers are suffering is like cheering when a disease dies with the host. It’s a momentary happiness that the Balrog fell… milliseconds before you realize it’s pulling you down with it.

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      Nah, not like that at all. More like having the tiniest drop of schadenfreud when the idiot bus driver finally realizes they fell asleep on the job again and we’re about to go off the cliff. Much better when the idiots responsible for this mess realize it than not.

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    5 hours ago

    “I voted to get kicked in the balls and I must say that I was shocked when I got kicked in the balls.”

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    So you are… Checks notes 2200 miles away from the border. I feel like even if we disregard them voting for trump and just judge them based on that being their main voting issue, they’re dumb as fuck, aren’t they?

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      No he’s near the Canadian border, which he was told was a major route for fentanyl.

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      6 hours ago

      Never understimate the power of bigotry as a political motivator, in particular among the uneducated. Trump and his oligarch cronies certainly doesn’t.

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    10 hours ago

    Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump, the recent crackdown has prompted a deeper reckoning within his community

    Umm, okay, no sympathy then. Burn.

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      8 hours ago

      Imagine being so dedicated to a politician/political party that you’re no willing to make a change that costs you 0$ to save your family business

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      This is exactly when the interviewer should have looked right in their eyes and said “so you didn’t learn a goddammit thing” then “enjoy your udders” then left.