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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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[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 50 points 6 days 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.

[-] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 37 points 6 days ago

He fucking TOLD you what he was going to do. In very simple, plain language even.

[-] CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago

To be fair, everything out of his mouth is a lie. He told us he was going to do many things.

[-] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 6 days ago

Now We’re Milking Cows Alone at 4 A.M.

Well, you voted Trump, now you get to milk it for all it's worth. At 4 AM.

Get rekt, and pay a living wage next time you try and start a business.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

And to this milk farmer I say: Shut up and keep milking

I hope the industry collapses.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

My parents used to export fruits For a brief moment, I worked for the family business and had the pleasure of meeting some of these people.

I met a farmer that sold cherries. Over dinner he was telling me how pissed he was about Mexicans taking jobs away from Americans.

When pressed on why he doesn't just hire Americans, he said no Americans wants to work minimum wage to pick cherries for 10 hours a day.

My dad has been trying to convince him for years that his rhetoric is ultimately going to hurt his livelihood. But his patriotism/ tribalism outweighs all logic.

No idea how he is doing now, but I imagine he just let his fruit drop this year.

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

If you voted for Trump you deserve worse than you'll get.

[-] CircaV@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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[-] jimjam5@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago
[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

If you don't want to have to be milking cows in the wee hours, maybe cow farming isn't for you.

[-] SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago

Not a shred of simpathy from me. Now milk faster. Papa needs his cereal in the morning.

[-] mogranja@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The leopards were supposed to eat everybody else's face only.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

remember when humans were free of intoxicants and violence ?

the good old-never-fucken-happened days.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

I wanted a new piercing but now I have a hole in my body with a piece of metal in it and am out $100. How could this go so wrong‽

[-] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Ah yes, making America Great Again. By bringing us back to a time period in which everyone in the household worked on the farm. Kids didn't go to school during planting and harvesting. Ditto for milking season. Better pump out six kids so you can have farm hands!

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Dont' forget an unchallengable patriarchy and lots of Jeeeezus!!

[-] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

Now they can find a cliff and jump! That would solve the country’s issue with stupidity and solve many national security concerns.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

HAHAHAHA! Hire some MAGA fuckers to help you out. The real shame, the asswipes hiring the illegals should be prosecuted too.

[-] CircaV@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days 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.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago

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

[-] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

It almost sounds as though this labour was chronically undervalued and absolutely taken for granted. If I strain my ears, hard, I can almost make out the dawning realizations.

[-] Primax@lemmy.world 283 points 1 week ago

You have to be a unique kind of stupid to profit from illegal labour and vote to have illegals deported.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 117 points 1 week ago

Not unique, unfortunately, but very common.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago

To be fair, they have been targeted very precisely with a military psychological operation that is explicitly geared to striking fear into the vulnerable and building poor political choices off of that fear.

Yes, they're incredibly arrogant, violent, and stupid, but MAGA (and it's prequel; Brexit) works off of fear and not much else. Maybe if they really like country music I guess that could be a thing. Or flags. It sure as hell doesn't work off of reason or logic, obviously.

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[-] 0li0li@lemmy.world 145 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, because Vermont had so many issues at the Canafian border... and "gangbangers" are such a big problem in rural areas lol

GET FUCKED.

[-] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 7 points 6 days ago

And the guy says he’d still vote for trump too

[-] carotte 116 points 1 week ago

oh no, you lost access to the people you were viciously exploiting because of your racism?

well boo fucking hoo

[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 98 points 1 week 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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[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 94 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

You're the cow now, Trump milks these rubes who don't care what he says or does until it affects them.

This article is focusing on the wrong issue, forget the "woe-is-me-poor-farmer" BS. The real tragedy is the countless workers, ya know the ones that ACTUALLY do the labor that are jobless for justifiable fear of being called a terrorist invader and get a trip to an El Salvadorian prison.

Boo hoo, the workers you were exploiting can't work. Too fucking bad. Do it yourself at 4 AM, it's quite literally and explicitly what you voted for.

Is America finally great again ya fuck?

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[-] noride@lemm.ee 94 points 1 week ago

Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump

Maybe if he just offers the leopards a little more face....

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[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 83 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

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[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 74 points 1 week ago
[-] nyctre@lemmy.world 65 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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?

[-] TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 week ago

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

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 4 points 6 days ago

I wouldn’t proceed with them armed, but that person would benefit from seeing how nice people are in urban areas

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[-] flandish@lemmy.world 60 points 1 week ago

what did they think .. wait. yeah. they’re not capable of thinking.

[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 57 points 1 week ago

Knowingly using undocumented workers, complaining about not having a visa program to continue taking advantage of migrants he degrades, and would still vote Trump, too. I hope they get bird flu from a big face full of cow mucus.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 1 week ago

"We voted for racism, not poverty and hard work! We don't want these jobs - they're for the spi... I mean for those people." --MAGA.

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