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‘MAGA Junkie’ Fired in DOGE Cuts Now Regrets Voting for Trump: ‘I Expected Better’

www.thedailybeast.com ‘MAGA Junkie’ Fired in DOGE Cuts Now Regrets Voting for Trump: ‘I Expected Better’

“I was a MAGA junkie, a MAGA junkie who thought her government job would be safe with Donald Trump in office,” says West Virginia woman fired from the Bureau of Fiscal Service.

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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'MAGA junkie' fired in DOGE cuts now regrets voting for Trump: 'I expected better'

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‘MAGA Junkie’ Fired in DOGE Cuts Now Regrets Voting for Trump: ‘I Expected Better’

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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.

Imagine the world we'd have if Republicans could feel empathy for something before it happens to them.....
- That's still not empathy. That's just feeling bad for their situation.

"I expected better" translates roughly as "I'm really fuckin' stupid".
- I watched the CNN video, she's so close. And yet so far away.
- More like racist
  
  That's just a subset of stupid

“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?
- 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
  
  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
  
  Exactly how dumb are his supporters?
  The answer is yes.
- 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!
- 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.
- Skill issue, was likely overemployed all things considered. Question the qualifications or anyone who would say this.

These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:
1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
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.
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.
- “They would never, it would be such a bad idea!” - a phrase that I keep hearing but keeps being wrong. If people were vaguely smart they’d be out voting, and they surely wouldn’t be voting for the far right. Instead they’re just repeating that phrase like it’ll be different this time because they refuse to acknowledge that people are dumb and/or struggle greatly with basic moral principles. To that end, I’d also argue that calling people who underestimate stupid people non-stupid are themselves part of that group, just a different flavour of moron.

“I expected to be safe because I’m white” is the translation

Glad she got cut! Hope she can't find work anywhere and gets screwed over till it stops!

MAGA women confuse the shit out of me. Why vote for your own oppression?
- The most generous explanation I can come up with is that many of them are ignorant and have been told all their life that white christian republicans are the good people and are THEIR people.
  And many of them are just dumb mean conservatives the same as the men voting against their own interests.
- 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.
  
  One way to look at it is that these women are so used to being abused, to the point that oppression is deeply ingrained in their minds as just "the way it's supposed to be". Another way to look at it is that there are people out there who truly enjoy being submissive, and who truly think that being seen as lesser is all well and good. Truth is probably somewhere in between. However, It's a really dangerous tightrope to walk about saying that a huge majority of grown adults can't make decisions for themselves because they are literally incapable of choosing the best for themselves due to cultural manipulation. It basically debunks democracy as we know it. It makes it really hard to defend democracy when you can't fully trust the ability to make informed and educated decisions of the majority of your population, so we pretend that it's a non-issue and simply don't talk about it.
- I don’t know, it’s quite simple when you view it from a race-perspective.
  White women in America do not want a black president, male or female.
  In 2008, when Hillary Clinton lost the Democratic primaries, do you think white women rallied behind Obama? Nope. They overwhelmingly switched their party to Republican, so “I can see Canada from my house” Sarah Palin, a white woman, could serve as VP to another old, decrepit white man.
  What about in 2016? I personally got shitted on for supporting Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton, and was called misogynistic by white liberal women.
  Oh, and the cherry on top. In 2024, a young, healthy, uncontroversial, educated black woman ran against a vile, bigoted, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynistic, capitalistic septuagenarian. EVERY demographic majority voted for him except black men and women.
  As I said, it’s really simple when you view it from a race-perspective.
  
  For the record I voted for Hillary and Harris.
  That said, Hilary is/was a shit person. Harris is/was a shit candidate.
  I voted for them because the other option was a literal traitor rapist, but that still wasn't enough becuase the Dems ran shit candidates.

We all expected better, lady. From you.

The hell? What would possibly have made you believe to expect better than this clown show?
- The brainwashing worked for just as long as it needed to. He got her vote and threw her away like an old shoe.
  
  The brainwashing worked for just as long as it needed to.
  You're so right. Print it on a T-shirt.

LOL, this stupid cunt can die.
- Luckily, one day we all will.

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.

What a selfish fucking asshole

He’s hurting the wrong people, and no one is more wrong than a republican.

Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers.

Her woes have not stopped.
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, 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.

Have the day you voted for, dumbass

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

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Watching these knuckle draggers get exactly what they voted for makes it almost worth the hell we are going though.... almost.
- With all the doom washing into my feed, a nice LAMF post every now and then is positively refreshing.

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.

ah she's a dumb bitch from WV, makes perfect sense

Expected better? She deserves this.

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.

"Better" as in "only happening to dark people", probably.

G O O D

Hope no one else will hire either. They deserve that they get, because there are so many people who voted against and are getting the same or worse.

Real magas would double down and think that this was a good decision. This person is just a selfish asshole who hates everybody

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