A self-confessed ’MAGA junkie’ from a red-voting city devastated by Department of Government Efficiency firings has said she regrets voting for Donald Trump.

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    4 months ago

    “I expected better” translates roughly as “I’m really fuckin’ stupid”.

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    “I expected better from you. I really did,” Pigott said, when asked what she would say to Trump if she got the chance. “I expected that you would do what was right and cut waste and fraud and all of those things that you promised us before we elected you in office, but you’re not doing that—you’re creating a disaster and I don’t know what America is gonna look like if this continues.”

    He did exaclty what he said he was going to, why would she expect him to do anything better?

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      Exactly how dumb are his supporters? Seriously who in their right mind thinks a billionaire will support the working class? Billionaires are the reason the working class is suffering…

      Billionaires only care about wealth and power… nothing else

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      She expected her job to be safe. The waste and fraud she wanted cut was, you know, that DEI stuff and programs that support those other people. Woops!

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      I’ve always thought that most trump supporters just projected what they wanted trump to be on to him and trump never corrected them. Why would he?

      so it’s no surprise to hear these regrets because their false images of him are cracking and they don’t know what to do.

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      4 months ago

      Skill issue, was likely overemployed all things considered. Question the qualifications or anyone who would say this.

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
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    They never understand that their wages, their benefits, their subsides for their businesses to survive are the “waste” that the right is talking about. To cut “waste’” is to cut all government because government only exists to stop the rape and pillage by a business entity strong enough to be doing it. Why should the food you consume be safe - that cuts into corporate profits. Why should children be educated - that cuts into corporate profits. Etc. If you aren’t the owner of said corporation, you do not matter. Of course Trump needed their ill-informed vote to do what his is doing now. This is exactly what they explicitly voted in favour of, even if they were too dim to understand that.

    The Canadian version in our current election is climate change denial. We can’t have any restrictions due to carbon/fossil fuels because that costs money. Even though by not have any restrictions, fossil fuel corporations are shifting 100% of their environmental damage costs on to taxpayers. We don’t get the revenues, we don’t get the profits but we get all the costs. Once again: privatized profits, socialized costs. The status quo of big business.

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    4 months ago

    She didn’t expect better, she expected everyone BUT her to be hurt. Once she was hurt by Trump, suddenly she thinks things went too far.

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    These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:

    1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

    1. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

    3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

    1. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

    5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

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    4 months ago

    HAHAHAHAHAHA! Watching these knuckle draggers get exactly what they voted for makes it almost worth the hell we are going though… almost.

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    I expected better, for me, at the expense of others. Which I was totally fine with.

    Now other people are getting better, at my expense and I’m not OK with that, surprisingly.

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    If you regret voting for Trump already at 2 months in, then I think that you might be in group of people who’ll get to get to regret it even further down the line.