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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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[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Generica@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week 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.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

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

I hope the industry collapses.

[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's too bad. ANYWAY . . .

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[-] Bravo@eviltoast.org 19 points 1 week ago
[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

So did this Make America Great Again?

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

May you have the life you voted for.

[-] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

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

[-] mhague@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

What it actually is is that they have strapped us all (including themselves) to the flaming wreckage of our nation that they themselves created, and have been laughing maniacally as it plummets from the sky, while the rest of us scream in terror.

Now they are starting to scream in terror, and I'm just about ready to start with the maniacal laughter.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

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

[-] jimjam5@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago
[-] SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 week ago

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

[-] iMastari@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Tiger eats face.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

remember when humans were free of intoxicants and violence ?

the good old-never-fucken-happened days.

[-] Steve@startrek.website 10 points 1 week ago

Just hire Americans

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 10 points 1 week 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.

[-] TassieTosser@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

Which is odd because I thought it was all done by machine these days. Even on the boutique milk farms.

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[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week 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‽

[-] mogranja@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] Wazowski@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
[-] AntelopeRoom@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Thoughts and prayers

[-] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week 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!

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[-] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] plyth@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Farmers will pay more to hire local workers and they can sell their products for more because everybody has to pay more. This will effectively rise minimum wage for every citizen because demand for legal workers will increase.

Are only the farmer short sighted or do the emotions in this post come from people who know what is coming? Soon there will be a time when prices for food will rise but wages have not adjusted. It's not the farmers who will work more but every above minimum wage worker whose wages don't adjust.

Regular citizens have profited of human trafficing and low wages for unskilled workers.

[-] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 22 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure America is already deeeep in the stage where prices have significantly outpaced income....

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