Today on the leopards' menu: Vermont dairy farmers!

Granted it's not a red state and his vote didn't make any difference, but this level of wilful stupidity is astounding.

The bad people are calling from inside the house...

Dear Dustin, cry more.

Grow a brain. If you voted for a man who’s presented illegal immigration as the thematic foundation of his campaign, why the fuck wouldn’t you think that said man would not come for all the illegals you have working for you. Basic white people are some of the dumbest people on planet Earth. Single digit IQs I guess.

Looks like Hunk, Zeke, and Hickory are gonna have to start getting up at 4AM again to milk the cows.

Would Larry, Darrell and Darrell have been MAGATs?

^Larry, Darryl, and Darryl

Ok

I wonder if ICE will raid Devin Nunes's family dairy farm in Iowa.

Maybe, just maybe, there weren’t as many gang members, drug dealers and border crossings as proven, habitual liars promised there were.

Time to contact Indeed or Zip Recruiter, Dustin.

The stupid. It hurts.

[quote]Despite his concerns about the immigration crackdown, Dustin Machia says he doesn’t regret voting for Trump. “I’d still do it again. I like a lot of his policies,” Machia said. “I feel he’s more for the rural people like us, the middle-class type person.”

And the sad thing is that I think he really believes that.

The Wisconsin guy whose fiancée was detained by ICE for nearly three months and spent the money he had saved for a house down-payment on lawyers also has no regrets.

What else are they going to say? Anything else would be an admission of ignorance. They're too proud to acknowledge stupid behavior and certainly not innate stupidity.

The OP has linked to an AI written article that was devised to attract clicks to earn advertising revenue by promoting false bias confirmation clickbait.

The actual links in the story which are cited as sources don’t contain any of these quotes.

I have Ff’ed the OP for lying.

No, but it contains this gem

[quote] Republican Lt. Gov. John Rodgers said Tuesday that it was “absolutely absurd” for federal immigration authorities to target migrant dairy workers, if their only offense is living in the country without authorization.

Someone tell REPUBLICAN Lt Governor that it’s his own party doing this.

Jesus, R12, how do we stand a chance with his line of thinking? I give up, and I will not speak to a MAGA. I've had sufficient. And that was 8 years ago.

Sounds like he just needs to hire REAL Americans - go ahead buddy, what are you waiting for?

If you can't find any, then pull yourself up by your bootstraps!

R16 it was a made up quote written by AI. You got played for a sucker. You are just as bad as MAGA, you believe anything you are told.

R18, it was not "made up by AI." The Boston Globe story (among many others, but the Globe is the paper covering Vermont most closely) contains the exact quote directly sourced to farmer Machia.

In the day and age of unrestricted AI, it is prudent to verify any story with multiple credible outlets. I'm not saying the piece that OP linked isn't AI or at least AI-enhanced, but the element that I quoted was and is authentic.

I applaud your skepticism, but it is misplaced.

I really don't care, do you?

Yeah, that’s a direct quote from the Boston Globe not OP’s link.

“ Federal immigration authorities say they are not targeting Vermont’s $3.6 billion dairy industry, which is responsible for 63 percent of the milk…Migrant workers are essential to the dairy industry in Vermont, New England, and the nation,” said Vermont Secretary of Agriculture Anson Tebbetts. The recent law enforcement actions have created “tremendous anxiety” for everyone in the industry, he said.

And this gem: “ Machia employs around 25 people year-round, including 11 migrants. Like many Vermont farmers, he said he’s careful to follow the law and asks each worker for documentation required by the state and federal governments. It’s not his responsibility to verify the accuracy of the paperwork.”

Even better: “ Claims that this was a raid targeting farm workers (are) false,” said Hilton Beckham, assistant commissioner of US Customs and Border Protection, adding it “was not a special operation or a worksite enforcement operation.”

So they are just targeting people who are showing up for court dates and meeting with their immigration lawyers

This is just… “Like many migrant dairy workers, Chepe works 12 hours a day, six days a week, beginning at 4 a.m. He said he left Mexico eight years ago in search of financial stability and sends money home to his children, whom he hasn’t seen since.”

And finally:

“Despite his misgivings about the immigration crackdown, Dustin Machia says he doesn’t regret voting for Trump. “I’d still do it again. I like a lot of his policies,” Machia said. “I feel he’s more for the rural people like us, the middle-class type person.”

Stephanie Vanderkellen had no choice but to report the migrants to ICE.

R18 eats the corn out of endless piles of cow shit.

Despite his misgivings about the immigration crackdown, Dustin Machia says he doesn’t regret voting for Trump. “I’d still do it again. I like a lot of his policies,” Machia said. “I feel he’s more for the rural people like us, the middle-class type person.”

We are fucked. People just hate democrats for some reason. They should have never pulled that con with Biden. Never.

Idiots

"We don’t need the drugs and the gangbangers.” Now that he's off drugs.

Idiots. But they would have voted for him anyway.

[Quote] “We had a border problem,” Machia remarked. “We don’t want bad people in here. We don’t need the drugs and the gangbangers.”

This is Fox News at work. False generalization, like our resident rightwing troll uses with black crime or nyc crime.

If you talk about a specific thing A LOT as being bad, people will see it as bad, even though a) comparatively speaking it’s not, and b) other things are much worse, much more damaging.

Good catch, R26.

Figures. Another white guy who gets all of the advantages that life offers, and when he's done wants to pull the ladder up behind himself.