“She also believed him when he said that Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican administration that suggested mass cuts to the federal workforce, was not his plan.” https://apple.news/Av161Tv0FTfClWz9N-BUvAQ
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Sorry Ryleigh - we really do sympathize - So do a couple hundred thousand other Federal Civil Servants. Maybe next time you won’t believe a damn thing he says - except he doesn’t plan on any of us having a “next time”!
Hard to gen up much empathy for such a low information voter. I hope the intense feelings of betrayal and disappointment last with her for a long time. Another example of voting against one's own interests, and those of a Nation.
I can't disagree with that but it sure is hard to reason with people that are unwilling to be reasoned with in the first place. I have a feeling many, many others will have to be personally impacted, and not in a good way, before they will come around.
So, explain to me how one reasons/wins over the radical red hatters when all they want is to see Democrats, liberals, and just the middle of the roaders dead 'cause that's all they've been taught since the cradle. Just like I was 'til I got out of the John Birch Society Cult from the 60s/70s.
His lies come at us like a firehose, and people hear 1 thing in all that BS and cling to that like it's truth. These are people who think FOTUS is the wizard of Oz.
Don't care about Trump voters FAFO phase, they deliberately choose to vote thinking it would affect only black people or POC specifically. It's their hate that put ALL our lives at risk now that Musk access and distribution has our SS#, financial, personal and medical info.
Of all the things he said and all the things said about him, she clung to one thing he said at the end, almost in passing. The one thing that served her. And she's like, that's the perfect guy to run this country🤦♀️
Nevermind what the other 300 Million people will go through...
Rather tired of all these stories about drumpf supporters who wanted harm done to others, but are shocked that they could be harmed too.
Worse still, they lack any self-reflection & realize that the maga agenda is inherently cruel & they should cease supporting such wretched politics full stop.
It’s actually very telling that, if the well of public discourse gets poisoned to this degree, people’s basic sense of morality and critical thought can be completely subverted by propaganda and lies.
FAFO - support a rapist felon whose “economic policies” you decided were good and dismissed his chief skills - lying, cheating and assaulting women - as character flaws.
Lol! Trump told you he was going to fire you, you dumb schmuck!
I'm not a FAFO kind of guy. I'm a " tough shit, moron" kind of guy. She had nine years to figure it out and dove in whole hog. She wasn't duped. She just didn't care about anyone else. Why should anybody else care about her selfish ass. I hope she ends up sleeping under a bridge.
That's cruel and unfair. Did you read the article? You think you're not capable of being manipulated by a sociopathic liar? With a massive international propaganda/media/bot/troll operation behind him? Who manipulates your emotions by promising to give you the one thing you want most in the world?
The magical-thinking Americans, “Of course I can trust what he says. It won’t happen to ME - I voted for him.”
I start feeling sorry for people in her situation and then slap myself back to sanity - they caused this - for themselves and millions of others who don’t deserve it. FAFO.
Wow, that Project 2025 sure sounds bad! Anyway, guess I won't bother spending 15 minutes searching the entire sum of human knowledge to see if anyone other than Trump has any opinion on it.
Find it almost inconceivable that any serious, sentient person could believe anything Trump said during the election (or any other time). Requires ignoring all history, fact and reality.
But, OK, if that’s true, what is she doing to do now to fight this evil and rally everyone to save America?
All the was poor people who just believed Trump, even though he was a convicted felon and rapist and fraud, was only gonna go after non white people and immigrants… to quote one of trump’s favorite bits of poetry.. “you knew he was a snake”
Gawd, do these people not remember the most basic lies that dropped from his mouth since 2015? We’re still waiting on his taxes and his healthcare plan from back then. The man is a walking, talking pile of bullshit. Sure, he knew nothing about Project 2025. Sure, IVF will be free. F’n dummies.
She believed a man that told 30,000+ provable lies his first term, who has cheated on every wife bc vows and oaths are just words said to get whatever...
A "friend" of trump joked, if you asked trump the time of day, he'd lie to you to stay in practice.
They never care until it affects them. Be real. She's not uninformed. She's selfish. We have been telling them for damn near 10 years who he was. A racist bigot rapist was not a deal-breaker for her. These people are not naive. They are ethically and morally messed up.
We won’t win any future elections (assuming we still have them) by cruelly mocking everyone who voted for Trump, suffered under Trump’s government and might be more open to voting against MAGA candidates in the future.
I'm saddened by a young person wanting to do the right thing but being misled by lies: IVF would be a strong pull for young couples🌹There seems very little empathy, and that is sad as well. Giving people a reason to vote Blue requires our empathy for next time, given the chance🦅
An intelligent woman. How desperate she must be to believe his bullsh!t, "Trump, at a campaign stop an hour and a half south of her, had promised to make IVF free. She knew that from a video clip she saw on TikTok. And she had believed him". Tempted to make a FAFO comment but it's just sad
To add, she's exactly the kind of person we need to recruit for future elections. The FAFO comments may make us feel good but it doesn't help moving her to our side
We told #MAGA what he was going to do. We gave them examples, & even showed them proof. They laughed at us & said we had tRump derangement syndrome.
They're not laughing now.
I found this story so frustrating. She was pretty focused on one thing -- the "free" IVF-- instead of how his administration would affect so many others.
“Believing” Trump is these peoples’ first mistake.
As an empathetic person, I really want to feel for folks. But damn it, you put your faith in a serial liar and criminal…what do you expect??
Zero sympathy. Pure selfishness, now pretending she somehow didn't foresee that a sociopathic, pedophilloic, rapist, would grab her by her pussy while eating her face.
What reproductive specialist is going to give away IVF procedures for free? It sounded stupid when he said it. Be for real. She voted for a habitual liar instead of the smart woman in the pantsuit. She’s in the find out phase.
*May* be an update for her. But what's so striking in this report is the jaw-dropping brazenness with which the DOJ lawyers and the acting OPM director just ... lied.
I hope that itself becomes an issue in this litigation.
I'm familiar with Baldwin and so many other rural areas in Michigan. Almost all of the people there are unreachable to reason. I don't feel any sympathy for the woman, but I have great respect for the journalist who wrote this story. I just hope Bezos doesn't fire her for writing it.
This is a recurring theme - people voted for their own interests, which is fine, but based on stupid outlandish things that Trump said. So, the left scoffs when Trump makes promises, but the reality is that people respond to them. Do Dems need to do more of the same? It’s a shitty situation
I knew their jobs were in Trouble because Trump isn't a "take the kids to enjoy nature" kind of guy. He is a "take the kids to see Jeffrey Epstein" kind of guy.
White conservative women aren't real women. They are brood mares. Slaves. They do what their master tells them, and they like it that way. Trans women are more women than a conservative woman could ever hope to be. That's where the hate comes from.
Give me a break. I DO NOT FEEL SORRY FOR HER AT ALL!!! So in the article it states that she was sexually assaulted when she was 16 and yet she voted for a rapist! What the hell is wrong with these idiots! So I Cannot muster up ANY sympathy for her!
So, you voted for a guy who failed miserably the first time? A convicted felon? A liar, someone that tried to overthrow our government? There should be no 2nd chances for someone like that & there wouldn't have been if that Merry Band of Republican Senators had done their job. Sorry, not sorry.
Sometimes I wonder if these people just locked themselves in closets for most of last year. This information was out there, on TV, online, in newspapers. How do you ignore all of that? Makes it incredibly hard to feel sorry for any of them. We tried to tell you. WE TOLD YOU SO. Deal with it.
There were red lights, sirens and warning bells going off in the run-up to the election. Cable news (other than Fox News of course) warned us what would happen if Trump won. Still you voted for him.
Well hon, you made your bed. Suck it up and maybe do better in 2026. Good luck.
She voted for Biden in 2020. Didn't really want to vote for Trump in 2024, partly because of things he'd said about women. But she was lied to and manipulated by Trump, and people she trusted (grandmother, history teacher) also fell for his lies.
The STUPIDITY hurts so badly. Because of their stupidity, our Country and the World has to suffer! Felon47 is letting Project 2025 authors do whatever they want along with Billionaires.
The fraudster said she would get free IVF. The fraudster said he wouldn’t use the Project 2025 plan. Guess when you believe a convicted fraudster, this happens. 🤷♂️
Elections have consequences, she will have to deal with the ones that affect her. Unfortunately, people don’t invest in being fully informed before they vote and listen to only sound bites.
People, let’s not let MAGA turn us into cruel assholes. This woman was just living her life in a cultural environment that is vulnerable to Trump. She was not a rabid Trump supporter, just shaped by her community and family and his lies. Hopefully she and others will learn. Make them allies!
Trump is a pathological liar.
Trump is a pathological liar.
Why does the media report everything he says. Trump and Musk crave the attention the media is giving them.
STOP IT!!!
Consider what might've been if enough oppressed white MAGA women found the wisdom to listen to Julia Roberts - or maybe the strength to BUMP-OFF THEIR MAGA husbands - and then go forth free to vote for Womens' LIBERATION rather than more Womens' continued OPPRESSION!
Oh, I think they can see and hear just fine. They just figured he'd attack Those Other People, while they got to sit back and watch, safe and sound. We tried to warn them, only to get self-righteously smacked down in return. No. Sympathy. From. Me.
I believe it’s an error to assume white women were uninformed or fearful when they voted for Trump. They supported him and still do, but they want him to target others.
No sympathy with one-issue voters who *chose* to remain ignorant on all other issues. FAFO and honestly, no loss if she doesn’t manage to pass that idiocy on via nature or nurture.
We lost our democracy when citizens decided that good moral character was no longer a prerequisite to hold the highest federal government offices in the country.To this administration the constitution is just a piece of paper..Good luck America
When you are comfortable voting for policies that harm others, you can’t expect any sympathy when the policies harm you. Stop claiming to be disconnected from politics when you’re a voter and following issues on social media.
If you voted for someone who promised cruelty to others because you were hoping for something free for yourself, you definitely don’t get an ounce of sympathy from me.
It sure is. They may now be recognizing that Trump cares nothing about the suffering of others, but they don’t seem to recognize that their vote for him based on the hope of personal gain indicates they are exactly the same!
Her story highlights a problem with our nation. We are a selfish lot. Too often, we think only of ourselves & our tiny circle. We rarely seem to care about anyone or anything until it affects us personally.Worse if others are treated shabbily, cruelly or unfairly, we look away. Then one day it’s us.
While I don't consider myself Christian anymore, wouldn't it be something our country actually espoused true Christian ideals like love and compassion?
This is a perfect example of why Trump wants to cut department of education (keep em stupid) Disable WHO, FDA, HHS, ebola and bird flu experts and cut Medicaid (keep em sick) shut down CFPB, drive the economy into recession (keep em poor). It's all been done before. Look it up.
Welcome to your self-inflicted nightmare Ryleigh. Maybe a little reflection time in the mirror, asking yourself those hard questions, will bring some clarity and truth. Got to own it to make a change.
I have no sympathy. She knew what Trump was like in his 1st term and w/out guardrails, we knew his 2nd term would be worse. She’s dumb AF to believe what Trump says. She doesn’t need more kids- they’re expensive/not a necessity. Now, b/c of people like her, we all suffer under his 2nd term! 🤬
I know they do but the point is to dad a clear and string collective message. Even sharing articles gives them a pass. I mean Target still sells some cool stuff too. But no.
"She believed him..." I feel for her. Getting duped by a conman that's not even a good conman. Hopefully she remembers this and does better next election. If there is a next election.
I'd say there are great deals for oceanfront property in Arizona and bridges in New York for these sorts of people, but you know what? After a decade of Trump and Trumpists, I just don't believe their excuses. They're just awful people who take refuge in professed ignorance.
Sounds like she voted for him, like so many others, and now the chickens come home to roost...or is that turkeys come home to roost...well, something came home to roost...
Voting matters. Another story in NYT about Medicare recipients losing virtual doctor visits on April 1. This really will hit Trump voters in rural areas.
As a domestic abuse survivor myself, I find it hard to believe another survivor can look at a “man” who’s been found guilty of *any* sort of abuse in a court of law and honestly think he’d not be fucking lying through his teeth. He has shown us who he is repeatedly. 😒
Folks, folks, I get the desire to be angry at these people. And I was as well, but we do really need to be willing to embrace them and stories like this are *a good thing*.
Focusing all our energy in "I told you so" feel good revenge won't do shit for us long term.
Get your fill of it but when you engage with these people directly, try and show some compassion and help them feel embraced l.
In a lot of ways they are victims of the lying, manipulative media and social settings they live in. Pushing them back towards that won't help us win when it matters
I had a while of "I told you so" for the first few weeks but I really think it's the most toxic, anti-liberal, cultish behavior that honestly makes me repulsived by the level of hatred for others.
Blame the billionaires, the influencers, the truly abhorrent. But let's not demonize every person
Selfish/foolish Trump voters like Ryleigh Cooper - who were only concerned with THEMSELVES & not anyone else when they cast their votes - need to be told EVERY DAY how their vote ruined MANY Americans' lives, handed the U.S. to Putin & will end up KILLING many people. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/health/usaid-contract-terminations.html
STOP making excuses for Trump voters. They CHOSE to believe the horseshit or were too LAZY to seek truthful information - many still.
Trump told them OVER & OVER what he'd do. But now that it's hurting Trump voters' lives, they're all like, but wait, it was supposed to happen to "them" - not me.😒
NOBODY should feel sorry for Ryleigh Cooper or any Trump voter. They're the worst ones for thinking their actions shouldn't come with any consequences for them.
Trump voters - every single stupid one of them - made it easy for Putin. But now they want sympathy because THEY ruined their own lives. NO
And now they want empathy from us? The ones who told them o we & over again - Kamala was the only candidate who would help this country. The other one - was a con man. Welp. You found out now - he conned you Ryleigh.
First, it is too bad that you got stabbed in the back by Trump. But, it is also too bad that you voted for him and selectively avoided all of the questions that arose re Project 2025, etc. Trump has always been a con man. He has always been for the wealthy and not you. Now, how can you help fix it?
She believed him…just thought only black, brown, and queer people were going to lose their job and suffer. Hope she suffers worse than what she thought others would. These people aren’t worth my sympathy.
She’s also irresponsible for trying to have a baby if she wants FREE (aka tax dollar paid “socialism”) IVF. If you can’t afford that, you can’t afford a child.
You know…. “Personal responsibility” that republicans always yammer about.
There’s a lot of hate on this thread. She voted based on her perceived priorities. We should be focusing on how we can reach voters like her. She was poorly informed. Dunking on her is a waste.
Not sure if she overlooked what he said he would do or rationalized... but doesn't matter. Her vote for ffotus makes her as much an oppresser as him & having regrets b/c she got caught in his net of victims is not a 'get out of jail free' card
Too bad so sad. Why are we hearing from the pretty blonde lady with her life ahead of her, who will easily find another job and someone to finance her “mission”? Why not the disabled guy, the grandmother likely to be evicted, the single mom losing SNAP?
Exactly. She made a poor choice. She is white and blond so in America she will do well no matter what. Saving my empathy for folks much less fortunate than her, but hopefully smart enough not to have voted for the Liar-in-Chief.
She brags about her gpa and had started working towards a masters…yet unable to find a source for news other than Tik Tok or Facebook. Boo hoo. Zero sympathy for anyone who voted after the disaster or his first term and the criminal convictions and remaining trials that will never happen now. Pfft.
Just so you're aware, just because someone is "white & blond" doesn't necessarily mean they do well in America. I know plenty of white and blond ppl who aren't doing very well. I agree whites have more privilege, how well they do also depends on education. But hair color really doesnt play a part.
How many of the women in Trump's orbit have hair colour any other than blond? And... she is 'well educated,' at least in the sense of having degrees. Obviously not a lot of common sense.
Hey Tom, aren't you sexist pig. Most likely a sexist pig with a small dick. I bet you think you're one of the "good" guys. I'll let you in on a secret you're not. Anyone who speaks abt any woman like you just did is a pig. Because misogyny doesn't just stop at political party.
This woman is going to get mercilessly attacked because of this piece. And people will feel sorry for her. I will feel sorry for her. But we should remember that because of her vote, other people are suffering much, much, much, worse fates.
Fuck that dumbass Nazi.
I have zero pity for these dipshits. I feel deeply for those who voted against Trump but anyone who supported him ever. Fuck em let em suffer the consequences of their choice.
I feel sorry for her. She was naive and she made the mistake of believing the orange turd but she was trying to do what she thought was right. She’s not a MAGA moron simply made the mistake of believing trump. She deserves sympathy.
Don't. She is only mad because it affected her plans of having a kid. Selfish reasons. Only until it affected her. Was she not upset by Musk's salute? Nope, when it affected her.
None of the bigotry bothered her. She is not an ally.
She debated in the ballot box for 15 minutes!! She knew, she knew all about his transgressions and went in big anyway! Cute she thought it was A OK for taxpayers to pay for her IVF treatments…. How’s her “daddy of ivf “ now?
Grew up in Montana. Brothers fought wildfires. Dad was in management on the Rez. We on the Rez are well aware of the motivations of the capitalists colonizers.
if her morals and ethics allowed her to vote for trump the second time, frankly, i don’t want her in our government so i say: concepts of
thoughts and prayers; try cosco.
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I say we give them some grace and welcome them over to our side. We have to rebuild the Dem coalition and federal workers are welcome in my book.
"Ha ha, serves you right!" isn't going to win anyone over and we need to win people over.
If you pile on, so do their defenses.
There's little hope with the Fox News and OANN crowd will come around, but a couple percentage points are all the difference we need.
Be nice. Give grace (a little)
On the other, enough people believed a lying liar to get him elected, which makes it a problem for the rest of us, too.
So what can we do to help people recognize the lying liars for what they are?
Nevermind what the other 300 Million people will go through...
Worse still, they lack any self-reflection & realize that the maga agenda is inherently cruel & they should cease supporting such wretched politics full stop.
Lol! Trump told you he was going to fire you, you dumb schmuck!
I start feeling sorry for people in her situation and then slap myself back to sanity - they caused this - for themselves and millions of others who don’t deserve it. FAFO.
But, OK, if that’s true, what is she doing to do now to fight this evil and rally everyone to save America?
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/agenda47-president-trumps-plan-to-dismantle-the-deep-state-and-return-power-to-the-american-people
A "friend" of trump joked, if you asked trump the time of day, he'd lie to you to stay in practice.
Fuck her…she deserves her shitty fate.
They're not laughing now.
Anyone else want an apology?
As an empathetic person, I really want to feel for folks. But damn it, you put your faith in a serial liar and criminal…what do you expect??
Seriously, she can fuck right off.
“Any government employee who is afraid of transparency,” wrote the man who taught her AP govt class in high school, “is a criminal!”
in 2020 Biden got her vote, she lives in a very red rural town & was swayed by tik tok
She voted for a man who cheated on every wife multiple times because she believed his promises.
Glad to see that worked out.
True, certainly, of Elon, if he's actually a gov't employee. Other than him, which gov't employees are afraid of transparency? Any?
I hope that itself becomes an issue in this litigation.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
But ... maybe not.
Astonishing that it took more than a month for THIS to happen:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/27/judge-probationary-federal-employee-firings-lawsuit/
The “FO” era is here, ladies 🙃
Stupid bitch.
She chose, for what benefited her,and not,what benefited everyone.
I don't care about selfish voters.
Well hon, you made your bed. Suck it up and maybe do better in 2026. Good luck.
Tough titties.
Trump is a pathological liar.
Why does the media report everything he says. Trump and Musk crave the attention the media is giving them.
STOP IT!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaCPck2qDhk
https://youtube.com/shorts/zhCBEkfy2zI?si=xg6V_5SPW9veHUsy
That's why they voted for him in 2016, 2020, *and* 2024! #ypl
https://go.bsky.app/6dCw92a
Do people EVER learn anymore?
Liar in Chief
Grifter in Chief
Let's do a verbal take down as if we were on the other side.
Like surely there would have been signs of his deep narcissism, and contempt for the laws of this country...
Oh wait!! 👀
💅🏿🧘🏾♀️
Focusing all our energy in "I told you so" feel good revenge won't do shit for us long term.
In a lot of ways they are victims of the lying, manipulative media and social settings they live in. Pushing them back towards that won't help us win when it matters
Blame the billionaires, the influencers, the truly abhorrent. But let's not demonize every person
"Can lead something, something, something make it drink."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/health/usaid-contract-terminations.html
Trump told them OVER & OVER what he'd do. But now that it's hurting Trump voters' lives, they're all like, but wait, it was supposed to happen to "them" - not me.😒
Trump voters - every single stupid one of them - made it easy for Putin. But now they want sympathy because THEY ruined their own lives. NO
Zero sympathy.
You know…. “Personal responsibility” that republicans always yammer about.
Who knew??
“Fuck your feelings”
Isn’t that what MAGAs always said?
They are getting their asses handed to them, and this is only the beginning.
Education matters.
I have zero pity for these dipshits. I feel deeply for those who voted against Trump but anyone who supported him ever. Fuck em let em suffer the consequences of their choice.
None of the bigotry bothered her. She is not an ally.
thoughts and prayers; try cosco.
https://bsky.app/profile/normeisen.bsky.social/post/3lj6zdiipfk24
I’m sorry
We’re all suffering at his hands and we warned them!