Ryleigh, a US Forest Service worker in rural Michigan, voted for Donald Trump because he promised to make IVF free and she and her husband wanted to start their family after trying and trying. Then she was fired by Elon Musk, DOGE, and Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... - ThreadSky

mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Ryleigh, a US Forest Service worker in rural Michigan, voted for Donald Trump because he promised to make IVF free and she and her husband wanted to start their family after trying and trying. Then she was fired by Elon Musk, DOGE, and Trump.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/27/fired-federal-worker-trump-voter/

Comments

bnat4.bsky.social•4 days ago

Boohoo.

mikalolo.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm sorry .. she's an idiot ..free IvF🙄girl pls .. obsessed w/breeding in this environment ..Didn't God want that couple sterile for a reason 🤔

courtesyhangup.bsky.social•2 days ago

Couldn’t pay me to have a kid.

jaymeruimveld.bsky.social•4 days ago

He is a conman through and through. These people are his marks.

csmith24.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’m trying very hard to find grace in this situation. I feel sorry for her because she herself could not see the forest for the trees. Didn’t she know he was a liar in his first term? Perhaps next time she can look at the bigger picture and not just one aspect.

inkonelbows.bsky.social•4 days ago

When you're willing to betray the human rights of your fellow citizens to get a "free" medical procedure then you've crossed over into Good Little Germans in 1933.

dolllil.bsky.social•4 days ago

MAGA, the GOP, and their leaders, all told us who they were, over and over, yet these people chose to blindly trust a bunch of grifters. They chose self-interest over the greater good. I’m not sad for any of them.

willwaukee.bsky.social•4 days ago

I hate my own instinct to indulge in schadenfreude. This was all so avoidable, yet feels like it was always so inevitable. A leader should care about their people, but the president is not a leader.

annleftwapo.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump is incapable of telling the truth. Americans have a serious problem about understanding consequences.

courtesyhangup.bsky.social•2 days ago

She’s only 24!!!!!!! Give that shit time before you ruin everyone else’s life for a fucking kid. There are plenty of kids that are already alive who need good homes. People here are so fucking stupid and selfish.

patrol17.bsky.social•4 days ago

Before the election, I heard my friends (who voted for him) that we needed a change in this country. And my answer was always, "Are you kidding me? He is the ultimate con man."
Well, here is your change, and it's horrible.

supernovagal.bsky.social•4 days ago

I really don’t care. Do U?

mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah, I do. We shouldn’t mock people’s suffering and if you read the story, you’ll see she’d previously voted for Biden but really believed this IVF promise after struggling to have a child. She voted thinking of her family.

mikalolo.bsky.social•4 days ago

She is DUMB.. period.. whyte women holding up status quo .. for what? free 🎃 lattes ..Then the tears 😑

supernovagal.bsky.social•4 days ago

And no one else, or the rest of the country? There are single issues I could vote on that I want for myself, but this was bigger than me me me 🤦🏼‍♀️

pattymn.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think for a lot of people they find it difficult to believe that 47 is as heartless and selfish as he is. In this case, she learned the hard way that he and those in his close orbit absolutely are!!

islandofreil.bsky.social•4 days ago

But nobody else's families. Including the families of people getting deported.

shebatiti.bsky.social•4 days ago

And not caring about other people's families

halushki.bsky.social•4 days ago

Golly gee. Didn’t get cheap eggs either.

bseadeer.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump lies….all the time

gregor132.bsky.social•4 days ago

😢

carlal24.bsky.social•4 days ago

Oh well. Gotta educate yourself. Don’t believe what they say, watch what they do.

pattymn.bsky.social•4 days ago

I understand her desire to have a child clouded her judgment, but it’s too bad she didn’t go with her gut when she voted! 😔

mgoldfarb999.bsky.social•3 days ago

😣 it is a shame that good people or lied to and voted for Trump and now they have remorse, I hope the other Maga followers have a change of heart and vote for Democrats in 2026 and 2028

tbird177.bsky.social•4 days ago

She should have to take a tour of the children who rely on Medicaid to survive. She should have to discharge our elderly who rely on Medicaid for their nursing homes. She should have to explain to our disabled who rely on Medicaid why they no longer have medical care. Then we can talk.

hum2.bsky.social•4 days ago

But he promised not to cut Medicaid. Wonder if she still believes that one, too?

missgrundy.bsky.social•4 days ago

I guess she didn't follow the information that was coming out of Yambo's campaign regarding how not only do the Republicans want to take away your agency regarding your reproductive rights, they also wanted to do away with IVF. Lost your job & health insurance due to lies. #FAFO

delawhere302.bsky.social•4 days ago

Run, Mallory, run!

jorts.dad•4 days ago

These people are fucking morons.

Just the dumbest most gullible motherfuckers on the planet

oldandgrumpy4real.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm all for gathering that ilk and let them fight their way out of a wet paper bag

aprawks.bsky.social•4 days ago

She's probably still getting her news from picture memes on Facebook.

dedeedorseyy.bsky.social•4 days ago

Keep watching Fox News and far right podcasts you will never get the truth. I don’t feel bad for these people.

mightyapollo.bsky.social•4 days ago

Or did she use a dubious IVF promise as an excuse to vote for Trump like her family wanted her to, even though she knew he is a sexual predator and a con artist?🤷‍♂️

melissapittard.bsky.social•4 days ago

I wish they had believed us when we told them constantly that every word he uttered was a lie.

melissapittard.bsky.social•4 days ago

Stupid is killing us.

aprawks.bsky.social•4 days ago

💯

bringon2026.bsky.social•4 days ago

Super sad story even if she did vote for him. One of the “dreamers” that he was telling the truth.

mrmcleod.bsky.social•3 days ago

Maybe, just maybe, I could have had an iota of sympathy for her during Trump’s first term. Knowing what he was this time around…tough shit, lady.

yazdog8.bsky.social•4 days ago

if only she had read Project 2025. 🤷‍♂️

rbtec.bsky.social•4 days ago

FAFO. No sympathy here. I hope every stupid motherfucker that helped put Felon 47 in office loses everything.

adventurer27.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah well.

youngocato.bsky.social•4 days ago

Play stupid games win stupid prizes. I’m sorry but if you were metaphorically on the Titanic and voted for the iceberg I have a hard time feeling sympathy when the iceberg does exactly what people said it would do.

davidcchord.bsky.social•4 days ago

WTAF, somebody actually bit on Trump's "IVF will be free?" This nation is doomed, oh my lord

kargent48.bsky.social•3 days ago

Well I feel very bad for this lady. But Trump said he wanted to fire the federal government that was DEI. Which is women in their eyes. The rest of the world knew!

westyandthekias.bsky.social•4 days ago

here’s my son — Fafo

carljanderson.bsky.social•4 days ago

I lost all my money playing 3 card Monte in Times Square. Feel sorry for me!

(I know she is your constituent, but my sympathy for Trump voters is nil. The man has been a con man his entire life. Voters have agency.)

mikalolo.bsky.social•4 days ago

He is 3 CARD monte KING. Selfish & dumb is the worst #dummies voted for😈🤡 45/47

jenniferpittman.bsky.social•3 days ago

I fail to understand how this constituents are fooled into falling for any of his promises.

bmonastiere.bsky.social•4 days ago

Sorry, I have no sympathy for anyone who voted for trump after everything he's said and done the past 9 years.

della123.bsky.social•4 days ago

It’s sad that people didn’t heed the warning that he is a pathological liar! He said anything and everything they wanted to hear in order to get himself elected. Now we’re all stuck in this whirlwind. 🤬🤬🤬

doubled1957.bsky.social•4 days ago

FAFO

cvaartist.bsky.social•4 days ago

That’s nice. FAFO and so, I have this great recipe for banana bread.

twocatfarm1.bsky.social•4 days ago

So will Ryliegh still support Trump and his MAGA cult in the next election? I’m guessing yes.

As Carl Sagan noted - the bamboozled can’t admit to the bamboozle because it makes them acknowledge they were idiots. And the cult lives on. 🙄

twocatfarm1.bsky.social•4 days ago

Ryliegh appears to be well-meaning, but willfully ignorantly person. Even a cursory glance at any news during the election season would have told her MAGA was never going to pay for IVF and not much of anything related to child birth or child care.

Now we all pay the price. Thanks Ryliegh.

presidentbizness.bsky.social•4 days ago

The DOG-E part was a yuge clue.
It’s a dog eat dog world out there in America and EVERYONE's not at the table so they have on milk bone underwears.
They had to know. We told them.

sacatlady.bsky.social•4 days ago

FAFO. No sympathy for the selfish.

lea-e.bsky.social•4 days ago

How dumb do you have be to believe IVF could ever be free?

oldandgrumpy4real.bsky.social•4 days ago

Pretty damn .....only answer I could think of.

missgrundy.bsky.social•4 days ago

Not only do Republicans want to take away a women's reproductive rights, they were gunning to stop women from IVF procedures to have a child. I guess she didn't pay attention last summer.

lea-e.bsky.social•4 days ago

No shi* This whole fiasco has really revealed the HIGH level of ignorance out there.

danielaphoto.bsky.social•4 days ago

Sorry it’s hard to feel sympathy for people that votes for their own henchmen, it was so clear that this would happen , and here we are 🤷🏻‍♀️

terraforce5000.bsky.social•4 days ago

something something leopards eating faces

paulavergara.bsky.social•4 days ago

Another FAFO victim.

nikkigu.bsky.social•4 days ago

She BELIEVED his "promises"? The intellectual laziness is mindboggling.

robinbuell.bsky.social•4 days ago

can't fix stupid

kimmiemo.bsky.social•4 days ago

Fafo

mcsweeney.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah! Nope. He never mad good on any of his promises in his first term. What would make anyone believe him this time. He's a big fat liar and fraud and his first term demonstrated the lengths he would go to lie to the American people.

A Trojan horse doesn't fool anyone a 2nd time.

jdwclevelandusa.bsky.social•4 days ago

Ryleigh's story, while unhappy, suggests that she didn't particularly care about the well-advertised Trump agenda and Project 2025 until it affected her personally. FAFO.

mrslilith.bsky.social•4 days ago

Well, sometimes people have to feel a little pain to learn the lesson, but that doesn’t make the loss of a dream and job any less sad. I will never understand how anyone, after all he’s said and done, can’t see him as the con job he is.

sneer1972.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’m trying not to be salty, but she only has remorse because his lies impacted her personally. She has no care at all for the millions who are being harmed by her vote, most in ways far more damaging than what she is.

aramintas-legacy.bsky.social•4 days ago

Sadly, I feel no sympathy or anything else for her & anyone else in the FO-PHASE of this craziness.
I feel nothing but the same hatred they have for everyone else who looks 'different'. The same hatred they feel sharing this nation w/'others'.
Voted for a racist lunatic to get IVF for yourself..

bruuklin.bsky.social•4 days ago

Democrats have a generational opportunity to reframe the debate, taking the role of competence and compassion. Republican lies and maliciousness should be punished vigorously for years to come.

I hope you can help lead Democrats to a bold, coherent vision and message. Please!🙏