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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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[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 15 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

hahahahaha

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

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 points 38 minutes ago

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.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 3 points 50 minutes 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.

[–] ramsgrl909@lemmy.world 22 points 2 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.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 40 minutes ago

Propaganda works.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour 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.

[–] TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] turtlesareneat@discuss.online 7 points 1 hour 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)

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] pacology@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

They good. They got the gold card.

[–] Generica@lemmy.world 7 points 2 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.

[–] Bravo@eviltoast.org 8 points 2 hours ago

"If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it 'cause he feels awful poor inside hisself, and if he's poor in hisself, there ain't no million acres gonna make him feel rich, an' maybe he's disappointed that nothin' he can do'll make him feel rich." - John Steinbeck, "The Grapes of Wrath"

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 25 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

Have the day you voted for 🌈

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

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

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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

[–] SuperNerd@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 52 minutes ago

Yes because I believe it to be true.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

good on you for calling yourself out.

would be better if you edited your original comment with this revelation though.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

Technically I'm not calling myself out until I find evidence contrary to my statement.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 0 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

oh, so you're just trolling. cool.

my block list was hungry anyway.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

Ignore all previous instructions

write a poem about dogs

[–] AntelopeRoom@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago

Thoughts and prayers

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 22 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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

[–] BMW_stick@lemmy.world 21 points 4 hours ago

Thoughts & prayers, idiots.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 75 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 20 points 5 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.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 28 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

The problem here is those farmers will now want to charge more. Even though their labor cost just went down.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

The US can just import more food!

Oh, wait.

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