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‘We Voted for Trump to Fix the Border. Now We’re Milking Cows Alone at 4 A.M.’ – Vermont Farmers Face Harsh Reality as ICE Raids Hit Home (thesarkariform.com)

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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

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[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 64 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

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?

[–] pno2nr@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works 47 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

The guy is worried about gangs, yet lives in rural Vermont. What a fucking idiot.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 points 1 minute ago* (last edited 43 seconds ago)

Dude, fox news has crammed rural folks' heads with so much terror, fear, and propaganda that they straight up believe that our cities- the very cities fox broadcasts from- are wartorn hellscapes brimming over with kiddie diddlers, drugs, and random violence. I used to work in a rural community with people that rarely went down to the central valley, and one dude in particular who watched Fox like he was gold medalist in it was always super freaked out anytime he/we went down to the valley. One time, he went to Modesto with another co-worker and, after they walked past one dude going the other way in a hurry, was like "holy shit dude, that was scary, I thought I was going to have to shoot that guy." Second co-worker was like "dude, wtf is wrong with you, that guy was clearly just in a hurry", but this clown swore that he felt their lives were in imminent danger.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

Idiot, or extreme coward?

... ok you got me, it's both.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago

It is kinda crazy how easy it seems to convince people the safest time in American history is the most dangerous.

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 23 points 11 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.