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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    “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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        They’re certainly dumb, but also billions of dollars was funneled into social media and other efforts to ensure they believed they were doing the right thing. Both by Russia and all the think tanks of the heritage project and the like. They’ve been fucked by corporations/the wealthy since they were born, like most, but they were convinced by the corporations, by the oligarchy, by Russia, that the problem was immigrants, minorities, socialists, communists, and anyone who ever said maybe they should think in a different way. Capitalism empowered where we are and Russia took advantage, fanning the right wing flames

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

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      The brainwashing worked for just as long as it needed to. He got her vote and threw her away like an old shoe.

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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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    Her woes have not stopped. <Foo>, who has spoken to the national press about the issue before, has been targeted by vandals and has even received death threats since speaking out.

    Adding insult to injury.

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    Did she actually say she regrets it? This is big. I’ve seen that like twice. Usually they just ask him to take deep black shits on their faces again

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    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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      And they’re a majority of white woman? Wtf?

      I am aapaled by guys voting for Trump but women voting for him fries my tiny fucking mind.