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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 minutes ago

Stop moaning. It can't possibly be hard work, because you pay a pittance.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 50 minutes ago

We voted for nazism and deportation, but didn't think it would affect us and our undocumented workers. Trump his first term was economically really bad, but Trump said it was the best and I trust him more than facts and numbers so I voted for him again, but didn't think he would fuck up the economy even more than before. I support the tariffs on China, but I didn't think it would affect the price of fertilizer I import from there, so now my farm is going bankrupt because China now doesn't want to buy my product anymore with the counter tariffs and they were my only customer. But I completely support Trump and fully trust him. Just from a cardboard box under the overpass from now on.

[–] CircaV 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Don't worry, Dustin Machia, fifth-generation dairy farmer from Sheldon.

Sell your farm to Farmco Inc: their robots will milk your cows.

Buy an overpriced house in the city to live, maybe one with lots of drugs and gang-bangers.

Make sure you support Trump's election bid in 2028, and/or vote for Donald Trump, Jr, lest a satanic Democrat moderate who defeated AOC by just a hair wins.

If you get age related health problems, look to RFK, Jr.

Remember the days when Americans and Canadians could cross the Vermont-Quebec border with relative ease? Those days are gone, and much of Canada, and perhaps a third of America, now hate people like you.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago

hahahahaha

what a bunch of fucking idiots. I'd laugh harder if the actual threat to my life wasn't real.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Or, you know, they could offer good wages and benefits to attract legal workers and charge enough for the milk to cover their costs. I'm lactose intolerant anyway, I don't care if milk and cheese become a little more expensive. But I know, my idea is crazy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

What's interesting in watching all this unfold is the revelation to us all just how unsustainable a lot of this is.

I'm doing ok, saved a bunch ahead of this dumpster fire bc I was afraid it'd happen. But it's weird watching people suffer at their own self-inflicted consequences.

I want to help, but... 🤷

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

This is the kind of thing that made me realise how much a urban being I am.
The way, I'm imagining a farmer, at least the one with milk farm is a guy waking before the sun because he must milk the cows at 4 a.m.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Propaganda works.

[–] TheBloodFarts 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Complete and dangerous lack of education and critical thought in any capacity

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

Lies about brown people are their favorite, they can't resist. They'll believe anything you tell them as long as it's bad.

Someone was bound to figure that out and start doing it (40 years ago)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

I come from a deep red state but all the farmers out there are Democrats, as are most degree holding individuals in general. It's the people who work retail, the police, the oilfield, and the miners who all vote red.

[–] CircaV 1 points 1 hour ago

At some point Maga will realize the grift and there will be some sort of a reckoning. And I’ll be watching and laughing. Mind you, it will probably be a right wing uprising but still I will laugh at that stupid fucking country’s implosion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

Sounds like he just incriminated himself from his own illegal business practices, lock him up!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump...

Then he gets what he gets. I don't feel a damn bit sorry for someone that stupid.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago
[–] phoenixz 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And the drugs is still happening anyway and those gangbangers were locals anyways so yeah, congratulations 🎉

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't Trump let in family members of some Mexican drug cartels?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

They good. They got the gold card.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"We voted for trump..." = you deserve whatever you get

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Have the day you voted for 🌈

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Thoughts and prayers

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

"I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face :("

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 hours ago

Thoughts & prayers, idiots.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

There is no we about it, the majority of farmers are Democrats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 25 minutes ago

Anecdote. I own a seasonal nursery. All of my customers that I've personally met are farmers in the Southeast US. Sample size is around 200 farmers. All of them but one supported this dumpster fire & the one that didn't, sold her farm because she hated it in Florida & somewhat ironically bought an orchard in Vermont.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't know that. Thought all rural farmers were republican

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

I tried to find some data to back my claim up, but it's been pretty difficult. Conflicting sources on both sides.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Then are you sure you should be claiming and repeating it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago

Yes because I believe it to be true.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

"I hate black people unless they work on my plantation" - GOP voters

[–] whoisearth 21 points 6 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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