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They voted for Trump in 2024. Months later, his administration fired them

www.cnn.com /2025/03/08/us/fired-federal-workers-trump-voters/index.html

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Federal workers who voted for Trump in 2024 are facing unexpected job losses as the administration implements massive workforce cuts.

Michael Graugnard, an attorney advisor at USDA, was laid off three months into his role despite managerial assurances. While he supports "government efficiency," he didn't anticipate this implementation but doesn't regret his vote.

Similarly, IRS veteran James Diaz criticizes the administration's "chainsaw" approach to cuts. However, others like Ryleigh Cooper, who voted for Trump's IVF promises, now regret their decision after losing her Forest Service job.

The layoffs are part of Trump and Musk's plan that has terminated thousands of federal workers and convinced 77,000 others to resign.

Leopards Ate My Face @lemmy.world

They voted for Trump in 2024. Months later, his administration fired them

www.cnn.com /2025/03/08/us/fired-federal-workers-trump-voters/index.html

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"Still, Graugnard said he does not regret voting for Trump."
The measles outbreak is small potatoes comparative to the cognitive dissonance disease underway.
- Meanwhile there was a video interviewing illegal Brazilians in the US who supported Trump. Most of those were in favor of expelling immigrants, if they broke laws (ignoring they are illegal themselves). They saw themselves as “good guys”, so it wouldn’t apply to them. And some of them complained that nowadays there was more immigrants and hence more competition for jobs, so they wanted it to be more difficult to get in. Typical “now that I’m here, kick the stairs”. I just assume most of his supporters are selfish people who wouldn’t miss the chance to throw someone else at a bus to have some personal gain—as long as they don’t stain their own hands with blood.
  I would look for the video, but it was in Portuguese anyway.
  
  This self-ish mentality is rife and something I noticed alot more during covid. When most people during that period would not even take basic measures to help protect their own community, mind you these same people are also always the ones that decry freedom of speech and rights. The right for them to say anything and also the right to not vaccinate. But then you ask them about trans, gay rights and abortion rights then you really see who they are, because it’s just rules for me but not for thee with these people.
  Then they try the it’s against my religion approach, then you ask them about those same freedoms for other religions, whoa whoa slow down there because this level of freedom only applies to Christians. Hypocrites
  Not to mention the gay conservatives that have essentially voted for their own rights to be chipped away at by the far right. It’s like they are wearing blinders to their own prejudice being ushered in again after decades of progress.
  It’s truly staggering the amount of cognitive dissonance, hate yet at the same time the inability to even realise that the freedoms that these people try to strip away from others are also the same freedoms that will also be stripped away from them at some point as they through their own idiocracy inch themselves further into authoritarian dictatorship.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_alright,_Jack
- You can't fix stupid.
- These people are the reason lasers have warning signs saying not to point tmem at your eyes.
  
  More typical unnecessary gubbmint regulation keeping down the laser pointer industry!
- ‘Step on me harder daddy!’
- We already saw the cognitive dissonance of people gurgling the last words "COVID's a liberal hoax" as they drowned to death on their own bodily fluids filling their lungs. Literally no amount of reality can sway people who just won't accept it.

“I still support all of the goals of the administration, and I think that I can respectfully disagree with the way those things are carried out,” he said.
That's why you're a fucking moron who can't be reasoned with.
- The really gross part is this prick is patting himself on the back for being so high-minded and principled. He might feel even better about his choice now, if sacrifice is the measure of commitment to a cause.
  "I may disagree with the leopard that's eating my face, but there sure needs to be a lotta face eating and I can support that despite what I'm going through", he said smugly, looking up from the boot he's licking.
  
  "Personally, I'da gone with Tabasco, but if they prefer to sprinkle Sriracha on my face before digging in, I have to respect their decision."

Still, Graugnard said he does not regret voting for Trump.
it's absolutely fucking mind boggling to me that these people who can't stop perpetually whining about drag queens and immigrants can't even admit they fucked up voting for the people who literally wrecked their life plans
republicans are so fucking stupid

"Unexpected job losses" lmao maybe these people, specifically, were incompetent. They couldn't even bother to read the fucking platform of the person they voted for!
Fuck your own life over I don't care but to be so selfish and incapable of critical thought to the point of harming millions of people to sooth your ignorance is straight up evil.
You know how history is gonna remember these people? The same way everyone thinks about the poor Germans who voted for Hitler because they were afraid of losing their small business in the depression: as fucking nazis.
- Valueable insights, tell me more about poor Nazis

Still, Graugnard said he does not regret voting for Trump.
All I need to know
- This is the worrying part. It's all but a "stop hitting yourself" kind of situation and I really hoped there could be some learning.

Lotta very full leopards out there these days.
- On a bright note, leopards' CITES conservation status has been upgraded from VU (vulnerable) to LC (Least Concern).

"I didn't think that the leopards would eat MY face!" - says person who voted for the Leopards Eating Faces party
- “However, I’m still glad that I voted for the Leopards Eating Faces party.”
  
  So sad, and so predictable
  
  "I can respectfully disagree with their exact method of eating my face and still support all their goals... of eating my face."
- He is even not complaining, he got his face eaten but still supports the party

I didn't know leopards could get jobs in the first place

Imagine being pissed off at freeloading scumbags, so you vote Trump into office, and it turns out you where the freeloading scumbag all along.

I enjoy a hearty chuckle at their expense. Thanks, dumbfucks.

It's a cult. There's no other way to describe it.
- .. like a Jim Jones 'light' ?

Fuck them. Fuck them all. Fucking leopard voting fucks.

Fuck 'em. They got what they voted for.

In my country just a rumor of a potential factory shutdown that cause the loss of 200 jobs will create huge strikes and riots in multiple cities.
In the USA, unjustified firings for thousands and thousands of persons and all you get are news pieces like this, "[the person that just lost his job still] supports government efficiency, [...] but doesn’t regret his vote"
- Yeah because we're largely stupid, not passionate about anything other than hate, or busy dicking around on TikTok. I hate it here and hope to move abroad somewhere, someday.

The way Ryleigh presented her story made it sound like she was expecting the trump administration to impregnate her. Incredibly absurd...
At least there's still an option for her: all she has to do is message Musk...
- Please don't mock her personal tragedeigh.

"IVF promises"
Whoever thought he was going to give people free IVF have got to be the most gullable of the bunch...
There is no way, and that should have been obvious.

You reap what you sow.
I'm sad for all the workers who didn't vote for Trump and have to deal with this shit, but I'm not sad for the ones who voted for him. They got what they asked for; they were just too dumb to realize they'd be impacted too

karma.

What's the line of reason? They voted according to their core values and since they have to pay for the implementation, they should change their values or should have voted solely by self interest?
Is the position of 'the left' that it is right to vote in self interest and not for the common good?

Oh no! Anyway...

Morons being tricked is by scammers. More at 7.

Natural selection

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