WaPo: She hoped Trump's victory would change her life, but not like this

[Dennis Donovan]

WaPo - (archived: https://archive.ph/GQEya ) She hoped Trump’s victory would change her life, but not like this

Ryleigh Cooper is normally more focused on motherhood than politics. Then came DOGE.
Today at 6:00 a.m. EST

By Emily Davies

BALDWIN, Mich. — Ryleigh Cooper exhaled as she slid onto the couch after nine hours of work for the U.S. Forest Service, still covered in the blue paint she used to mark trees for local loggers. Then she got the text.

“I hate to be the bearer of bad news,” her union leader wrote.

It was the second Thursday in February, and a historic White House purge aimed at federal workers like Cooper was sweeping the country. But the headlines felt far away from her life in rural Michigan. She figured her job, with paychecks totaling about $40,000 a year, would be safe from the cost-cutting campaign led by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk.

Besides, motherhood was her most pressing concern. Cooper, 24, and her husband were trying to get pregnant, but the doctor said that IVF might be their best chance. Trump had promised to make it free. That is what she thought about in the voting booth.

Now she was staring at her phone, learning that probationary workers in the Forest Service were the next to be fired by his administration. Cooper would likely be one of them, her union head told her.

/snip

[BoRaGard]

1. "More Suckers and Losers. Ha ha." - G.O.P.

[usaf-vet]

59. Sorry, sorry because they are now going to KILL IVF.

Here is the real point of this post: Now that you have figured it out, do you want to keep the life you built for yourselves?

ALWAYS ALWAYS VOTE DEMOCRAT! We might not always give you what you want. BUT WE WILL NOT TAKE AWAY WHAT YOU HAVE.

[4catsmom]

63. so true

He lies about everything. Sorry you were dumb enough to believe him.

[pandr32]

71. That's a good slogan, and we should use it.

It might make some sense to the common senseless MAGAs of whom many still think dismantling our government means they will have more freedom. They somehow believe that by destroying our carefully assembled government bureaucracy we will stop funding wars, sending aid, "paying people who do nothing", kick out all the criminals (brown), get black people back under the thumb working for their hand-outs, and restore prayer in schools, speak English, etc.. They twist that all up to come up with the conclusion that we'll have more money--a surplus perhaps. Life would be better in 'Merica'.
As white Christians they would all live in a better country "under God" that God-sent Trump would make possible.
No more giving away free stuff, like healthcare, housing, opportunities, and food assistance to those who don't deserve it and shouldn't be part of their dream 'Merica'.
One by one they are finding out what they have broken as it shatters their above delusion, so maybe the slogan would resonate.
Not to the 1% in charge, though.

[Solomon]

82. What a great slogan!!!!!

Outstanding for simplicity and truth! Excellent!

[Still Waters]

93. Do the Repubs even support IVF?

Doesn't IVF run the risk of embryonic death, therefore against their abortion stance?

[Mountainguy]

101. No

They would rather no babies be born instead of some fertilized eggs not developing.

[maxsolomon]

123. Hypocritical Repukes do.

I'm related to 2 of them. Staunch Pro-Life voters, both have IVF twins.

[ninjanurse]

125. Transactional

He will allow the states to ban IVF and the Feds to make it more difficult if that advances his power

[JoseBalow]

159. "...should I continue?"

Oh yes, please do continue!

[Prairie Gates]

2. ...

[UpInArms]

21. So stupid

These people are so stupid

[brush]

53. Yep, not smart voting for a convicted crimanal who went backrupt...

running casinos, for God's sake, and tried to overthrow the government.

Not a good bet to give TSF another chance to fuck every thing up AGAIN.

[IbogaProject]

131. Who has done little but reneg on deals

He couldn't even have an infrastructrue week PR stunt how could you expect him to keep any promise to a non 1%er?

[Jrsygrl96]

34. Awww!

Did this beauty eat her face?

[Ray Bruns]

64. Better yet.

[Solomon]

79. !

You're killing me!

[Justice matters.]

107. Yep. They're stuffed...

She was not born yet when w didn't read the pdb and went to "watch that drive" instead...

She grew up on FB and faux snooze instead of CBS News...

As a result, she only knew the rw lies about the dems.

She had no idea about in reality the Dems work for the people while the repukes work for billionaires and screw the people...

RIP.

[mdbl]

137. LOL

[Wingus Dingus]

3. Reading through the article, her family sounds awful.

Typical nasty MAGA's. Lesson: sometimes the people around you, and even the people who raised you, are in fact stupid.

[Aviation Pro]

4. Fuck around, find out

Guess they'll have to put off procreating until they become billionaires. I suggest a life of crime.

[hatrack]

5. A few strategic meme coin investments, and they'll be set for life!!!

[Omnipresent]

10. Actually, it might work out for the rest of us, in a way.

They won’t be able to afford to have children, to raise as dumbass’s!

[JI7]

6. Fucking dumbass

[tanyev]

7. I don't understand how anyone can believe anything that Donald Trump promises.

He is an inveterate liar and conman. Every molecule of my sensory reception reacts with revulsion when I see him or hear him.

[Wingus Dingus]

13. She was probably too young/nonpolitical enough to remember his first term.

But if Kamala had won, she'd still have her job--that's gotta sting!

[travelingthrulife]

37. If Kamala had won, you would still have your job.

I like that. Simple, easy to understand.

[Justice matters.]

109. AND you would have IVF for free.

Women solidarity (well, democratic women, that is).

[maxsolomon]

124. For FREE?

No one I know has gotten free IVF. Where do you get that?

[Hekate]

133. It was a promise made by trump in the waning days of the campaign. I heard him.

It was such a lie. Texas and other red states are outlawing IVF because fertilized eggs that don’t pass screening for health* or prove excess to requirements** are thrown out. Anti-abortion fanatics frame that as killing babies.

* Health: some conditions are completely incompatible with life. Want a Tay-Sachs baby? … Didn’t think so.
** Excess: Some women only produce a few eggs (my friend got 3, none of which proved viable) , and some women produce a couple of dozen.

Trump lies like other people breathe. Reading the audience so he can exactly tailor his lies has always been his superpower. I could not fathom how he got so many women to vote for him — I am beginning to get an inkling.

[yardwork]

148. Trump used social media to lie to different groups of voters.

Nobody else knew the lies he was telling to different groups, because social media is siloed. English speakers didn't know the lies Trump was telling on Spanish radio. Etc.

It's how he won. He used the data stratification that Mark Zuckerberg sold him.

[Hekate]

154. That's a tech-updated version of Reagan's schtick when he ran for governor: 5x7 cards...

He had all his various talking points neatly segregated by audience. If the audience was middle aged and prosperous he had a whole different set of promises to make than he did for seniors: just shuffle the deck and remove some cards and add others.

Hucksters. Ya gotta admire their sheer gall.

[maxsolomon]

152. I was replying to comment #109

who commented that IVF would be free IF KAMALA HAD WON.

it made no sense so that's why I asked. I knew Trump had BS'd about making it free.

[Hekate]

155. Oh, thanks

[birdographer]

76. Someone should put that on billboards around DC

If Kamala had won, you would still have your job.

[standingtall]

134. She remembered it will enough to have voted for Biden in 2020

As another article about her says. I don't know if this one does, because it's behind a paywall. Any way there is no excuse for her she was just stupid. Democrats may have lost some support with young voters, but young voters and especially young females favored Harris.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

106. Same! I don't know how anyone can listen to him speak

for more than a few moments and not pick up on the fact that he's a total BSer who knows very little about anything except bragging about himself and mocking people he dislikes. And I don't know how anyone can hear that smarmy voice and not shudder with revulsion.

[Norrrm]

8. Congratulations! You got what you wanted. Trump in the White House.

[lark]

9. FAFO

N0 tears for her!

[LisaL]

15. We are all going to suffer so much because of Trump voters.

I have no tears for any of them. They deserve what they get. We don't. But we are going to suffer because of them.

[lark]

20. Yes and that pisses me off so badly!

We, people who have intelligence and caring, are so screwed by idiotic, mean, greedy, rich fucks who really only care about hurting others for their own profit.

[LisaL]

35. A lot of them are going to end up hurting themselves.

No pity for any of them when they get fired, lose their health insurance and so on.

[Demovictory9]

11. Her family always said the women who accused the president of sexual assault had either made it up or deserved it. Coope

Her family always said the women who accused the president of sexual assault had either made it up or deserved it. Cooper heard them and kept her own experience a secret, thinking that they might feel the same way about her.

[UpInArms]

25. She could have shared her story

And maybe it would have changed their minds

[Demovictory9]

115. They know it now

[skypilot]

28. "made it up" is bad enough...

...but "deserved it". WTF?!

[walkingman]

12. Another self-centered person that only cares about themselves....welcome to MAGAworld.

[JI7]

16. Right, they thought it would be non whites that would be targeted

only and that's why they voted for him.

It really says a lot how so many that work un government are resentful of others and think there needs to be a clean up. But they themselves are ok, it's certain others that are the problem.

[Happy Hoosier]

22. A line I've been using a lot lately....

is: They voted for misery. They just didn't think it would be their OWN misery.

[Squaredeal]

70. That was my first thought.

[LisaL]

14. Free IVF and cheap eggs.

Neither of which is going to happen.
Now she will have no job, so I guess IVF is not in her future.

[UpInArms]

26. No eggs, either

[3catwoman3]

80. No hens' eggs and no human eggs.

[Solomon]

83. Ironic!

[chouchou]

17. We can count on one thing The next election, she'll still vote for the most asshole Republican on the ballot.

Ignorant people never seem to learn shit...

[Happy Hoosier]

18. Let me introduce you to this very nice face-eating leaopard.... NT

[JI7]

19. The things she was looking forward to such as maternity leave were all passed by democrats

Existing programs were supported, advocated , and passed by democrsts.

There is nothing to show Republicans support any of these things any more than Democrats. In fact the evidence is total opposite.

Reality is she thought he would hurt some minorities and that will help her in some way.

[CTyankee]

32. Ugh, oh well. FAFO I guess...

[Mysterian]

23. Who's Ryleigh going to vote for next time?

Whomever Fox "News" tells her to vote for.

[BeyondGeography]

24. Show a little restraint folks, she's not the typical Trumper

Read the article. She’s a sexual assault survivor who agonized for 15 minutes at the voting booth over her choice and made the wrong one. She voted for Biden in 2020 and spent the next four years surrounded by Trumpers and their non-stop bullshit. She’s a future blue voter. She does not deserve your unconditional scorn.

[UpInArms]

27. Ummm ..

Sorry … no pity here ….

She only wanted her life to be better. She doesn’t care about anyone else.

[BeyondGeography]

31. I changed sympathy to restraint

Hope that helps and I’m not being snarky. I think it’s a better way to put it. If all we do is pile on people like this we’re not doing ourselves any political favors.

[groundloop]

51. You're absolutely correct.... once people admit they made a mistake we should accept them.

We'll never increase the number of Democratic voters otherwise.

[JI7]

61. She didn't admit to making any mistake

[lonely bird]

87. Pile on? No.

That being said…

Trump is a well documented liar. He lies about everything. He is possibly mentally incapable of not lying unless he is sucking up to a Putin or other authoritarian if he can grift from the relationship.

She knew this but, sadly, her wanting a child blinded her to what she knew.

It is sad for her but it is also sad for multiple millions of people.

Elections have consequences.

[hatrack]

30. She deserves every bit of it. Like everybody else, she had four years of living through chaos and disease with Trump.

She didn't learn anything from that experience.

So, she voted to fuck people who aren't like her, and people who are.

She voted to fuck people here in America, and people in other countries.

She voted to fuck poor people, she voted to fuck black and brown people,

She voted to shred the Constitution and to shit on the law, and to keep shoveling money to people who don't need it.

She couldn't tell shit from Shinola and now we all get to pay the price for her bad judgement.

[BeyondGeography]

39. What was she when she voted for Biden in 2020?

[hatrack]

42. Momentarily caught up in a spasm of improved judgement

.

[Demobrat]

94. Biden wasn't running against a black woman.

[Betty Boom]

102. Exactly

I don’t know why people don’t acknowledge this more often. This is solely about racism and misogyny

[CTyankee]

41. History informs us just as you have described. I try to have sympathy for those who made such a WRONG choice, but I

am too angry and will try to keep it all together and not let anger dominate my life. Anger can motivate but I don't want it to tie me up in knots and make me less effective.

[JI7]

38. Nancy Mace is a SA survivor. Doesn't make her any less of a piece of shit

Why does sheer not deserve scorn ? She was hoping he would just go after non whites and she would be happy if that's what was happening.

[BeyondGeography]

40. Nancy Mace never voted for Biden

Or maybe you didn’t read the article.

[JI7]

48. I read the article and voting for Biden doesn't excuse voting for Trump

Maybe in the future when we are in a better place I might be less harsh, but not now.

[JI7]

52. Also we know there are racists and misogynists that would be willing to vote for a white man

but not a black woman.

[BeyondGeography]

54. We also know there were many Obama/Trump voters too

Anywhere from 11 to 15 percent of his 2016 vote.

Plenty of people out there who are not terribly engaged and from their relatively apolotical POV are just hopping from port to port in a storm.

[JI7]

60. Yes, we know of the latino and black men that didn't support Harris but supported Obama

and they are misogynists.

But this person claims to have voted based on an important issue and thought it was important enough to have an article on her so based on what I'm seeing her problem was with a black woman.

[thucythucy]

44. As a survivor of sexual assault her lack of empathy for other survivors

is pretty stunning.

So she "agonized" for fifteen whole minutes before deciding to put an adjudicated rapist in the White House.

Potential blue voter? Perhaps, now that she's been burned and burned badly by "Trumpers and their non-stop bullshit." But all the while she knew those Trumpers would hold her in contempt because of her experience as a survivor. She knew their views about rape were ugly and harmful and wrong. BUT she believed all the rest of their BS? It never occurred to her to question any of it?

Again: she chose a man who rapes over a woman who put rapists in prison.

As a survivor myself, I'd have some choice words for her if I ever encountered her for real.

[AKwannabe]

88. This

A rape survivor votes for the rapist!
Damn it actually happens…

[travelingthrulife]

46. Agonized for 15 minutes...

Oh well, ok then.

[yardwork]

149. I actually doubt that it was fifteen minutes.

I think her mind was made up when she went in the booth. Maybe two minutes.

[Cobalt Violet]

58. Fuck Her! How is that for restraint?

There is plenty more restraint where that came from if you want to keep admonishing those directly hurt by her vote.

[tulipsandroses]

112. That's supposed to mean what? The sad reality is that too many people have been victims of sexual assault. That does

not give you a pass for doing stupid shit or being an asshole. Nancy Mace constantly brings up the fact that she has been sexually assaulted, as if that is supposed to be a shield for bad behavior. She's just another selfish dumbass that did not care about anyone but herself. Did not care if others were hurt in the process of her getting what she wanted. No empathy from me.

I am a bit tired of being responsible for the feelings of trump supporters.
Back in 2016 - First it was they are the forgotten - they have been left behind - All the media deep dives into trying to" understand their plight".
Then it moved on to don't make them angry, don't piss them off or they won't vote for democrats.
Now it's, don't call them stupid or call out their bigotry, now that they realize their vote hurts them.
No matter what, democrats are expected to coddle these folks and take their feelings into consideration. When do they do that for anyone else?

[Diamond_Dog]

29. What a dumb ass!

[newdeal2]

33. The lesson IMO is Democrats are better off lying

Sell grandiose catchy plans that people remember even if they might not happen. Voters won’t care.

[LisaL]

36. Yes, our next candidate should promise a free pony for everyone.

You get a pony. And you get a pony. How can he or she lose?

[newdeal2]

45. Something like that

Stimulus checks, cash for clunkers, no denial for preexisting conditions, stay on your parents healthcare until 26, loan forgiveness - these were memorable in the public’s mind.

Trump’s lies about no tax on tips, being the father of IVF, immigrants, etc. worked well enough.

[Solomon]

86. Nope. Won't work. Not unless we say for white people only.

[FakeNoose]

90. Oprah Winfrey - our next Presidential candidate!

[JI7]

62. They hold democrats to far different standards. Even more so if it's a woman

and especially if it's a black woman.

[irisblue]

43. I'd like to feel more sorry for her then I am, but her choice was ill informed.

[maxrandb]

47. Sympathy falls between "shit" and "syphilis" according to Websters Dictionary

Sorry, just treating her with the same "empathy" Retrumplicans have for everyone else.

Oh, poor baby! Medicaid and SNAP will hel........., oh wait.....NEVERMIND!!!!!!

Has she spoken to her Retrumplican Representative yet?

[maxrandb]

49. Thank God she can still use Medicaid and SNAP

[Ocelot II]

57. Or not. DOGE and the GOP are coming after those programs.

[maxrandb]

68. I should have added the sarcasm smiley

[Mr. Mustard 2023]

50. I'm voting for the guy who tried to

overthrow an election, went bankrupt 6 times, lies constantly, and is clearly a woman hater racist.

"What, huh, who me? Don't be mad at me, how was I supposed to know?"

Good grief people like this anger me.

[JBTaurus83]

55. Low Information Moron

Anyone who still believes a word out of it's mouth is either not paying any attention or criminally stupid.

[Ocelot II]

56. Sad, foolish woman. She didn't like Trump but voted for him

*only* because he promised free IVF. She can't have the child she wants without IVF, which she can't afford, so even though she had once been sexually assaulted herself, she voted for a rapist. She relied on the promise of a con man who never keeps his promises, and that was no secret. But more than anything she wanted a baby, so she voted against everything else that she would need to support that "free" baby. Now she has no baby and no job, no health insurance, even less chance of getting IVF, and god knows what else will befall her - along with the rest of us.

Here, kitty kitty. Pss pss pss.

[JI7]

65. I think she had a problem voting for a black woman

I think that's what it was really about.

[Ocelot II]

67. I don't. I think she was interested *only* in the free IVF promise

and didn't care about anything else. If the Harris campaign had promised free IVF (though Democrats have been protecting IVF against GOP attempts to ban it, they never said they'd make it free), she probably would have voted for Harris.

[alarimer]

66. Anyone who votes for Trump deserves what they get.

No job, no kids.

It's all about what these people want for THEMSELVES. It is NEVER about what is best for everyone.

They can go fuck themselves.

So, not a traditional Trumper, which is probably worse.

[NNadir]

69. Another FAFO story, among what is sure to be tens of millions.

[XanaDUer2]

72. He's making ivf free?

[dchill]

85. He said that once, on TV. But everyone - ALMOST everyone...

...knew that was never going to be a thing.

[iluvtennis]

73. She voted for Don the Con based on a lie he made at a rally (and I think later during the debate). I have no empathy

for her as all she had to do was a little due diligence to know what trump asserted about paying for IVF treatment was a lie.

Boo fkn hoo

[LuvLoogie]

74. I see the media is still centering

White CIS trump voter problems

Do they even give a fuck? They're cool with it in the long run, though.

Even if the GOPs lose the house. I don't see anything besides stopping the bleeding if we regain the Whitehouse. GOP government is all about white supremacy, and these people center that ultimately. So does our media.

[dreamland]

75. He lied at the very start and they believed him. lol.

[Hope22]

77. Her vote didn't change the election one way or another...

…but if she reads these comments there is no way she will join us in the fight! Living in a community of fools and hoping for a last chance at having a family, well if you’ve never been there I guess you will never know. I hope it all works out for her.

[JI7]

78. She was able to join Trump after everything he did

why would anything here bother her after supporting a rapist like Trump ?

[Hope22]

89. If you haven't been in her shoes you won't understand.

Trust me, I’m as angry as you are with these people. They have sold us down the river but where IVF is dangled as a prize all bets are off for me. The man lies to everyone but to the most vulnerable those promised IVF or chemo or treatment for a child I’m gonna give them a pass. Raw emotion. Take care!💗🙏🏼

[thucythucy]

142. "...or chemo treatment..."

Let's talk about cancer and chemo.

A dear friend of mine has a rare form of cancer, a new treatment for which is on the threshold of being tested in humans, thanks to a study by the NIH. Without this new treatment it's almost certain she will be dead in eighteen months, two years at most. It might be the treatment won't be as effective as hoped. It might be she won't be eligible for the first clinical trials. But this was the only hope she had left. Without it, she knows she's doomed to a very early and tremendously painful death.

And guess what? Because of the Trump/Musk jihad against the NIH, it looks like progress on this new treatment is stopped cold. Clinical trials are on hold. Even if they resume, this delay might well prove to be the margin between her life and painful death.

So please tell me again how I should "walk in the shoes" of someone who has helped kill my friend's last and only hope of survival.

How about she take a stroll in the footwear of some of the people whose lives she's helped ruin? How about she and others like her get confronted with the pain her "agonizing" decision has and will cause so many others?

I suspect the only reason she regrets her decision now is because her own life has been impacted. Otherwise I doubt she'd give one solid shit about anyone else who is being crushed by this monstrous regime.

[Hope22]

145. And by the same token if TSF had touted over and over that chemo treatments would be 100% free

and he was so convincing and her community and family were overwhelmingly supportive of the very convincing liar I would be equally understanding of her decision to make a twisted vote. All things being the same that one vote would make no difference to this outcome. The Electoral College had that covered. Last chance health treatments and IVF have a lot in common. For many they are last chances.
I’m so sorry for your friend and I hope that somehow she will get the treatment that she desperately needs. I hope that this young woman gets her life altering care that she needs. I’m sorry my comment hit you so hard. No disrespect to you or your friend or the fight you are in. I’m sorry this caused you pain. I hope we can turn this around so our lives can get back to the task of loving and caring for each other. It’s our last hope. What others do or think matter not. Peace and love to you. 💗🙏🏼

[thucythucy]

153. I understand what you're saying,

but I think people should take some responsibility for thinking through their choices, especially when they have the potential for such deadly consequences.

She lived through the first Trump era. If she was paying any attention at all she would have heard claims such as "Mexico will pay for the wall," "the virus will disappear in the spring, it'll be a miracle," "My health plan -- to be announced in two weeks -- will be so much better than Obamacare..." "People will be so tired of winning..." and on and on and on... For her to believe after all that any promise from this habitual liar demonstrates a willful ignorance I find very difficult to excuse. Had she spent half an hour tracking down the reality of the "free IVF" claim she could easily have seen it for the scam it was.

I'm sure you know the adage, "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me."

The fact that she's a rape survivor willing to see an adjudicated rapist in the White House is just icing on the cake.

People need to be confronted with the reality of the misery their votes have and will cause. Like others in this discussion, I'm beyond weary with all the calls for our understanding, our empathy, our willingness to forgive and forget when those in MAGA world most often respond with a celebration of "liberal tears" and "fuck your feelings." And yes, I know this particular person isn't hard core MAGA, but she was an enabler. Without people like her we wouldn't be in this horrific mess.

And yes, one vote may not make a difference, but this person stands in for many thousands like her who seem willing to see pain and hardship and even death inflicted on others, as long as they think they might benefit in some way.

I too hope we can turn this around. I just hope it happens, if it does, before too many innocent people have to pay with their lives. That's my hope, but I fear the reality will be otherwise.

And I apologize for my anger as it wasn't directed at you... well, yes I have to admit some of it was. Mostly though this story--and others like it I've seen--have me fuming. I'll work through it, but when I think of what a contrast a Harris presidency would have been, and how absolutely unnecessary the pain now being inflicted is and will be, it tears my heart in two. I just wish the Bezos Washington Post would spend some time documenting the horrors being visited upon innocent people such as my friend, as opposed to the disillusion felt by all those poor sad Trump supporters who suddenly realize all the many warnings they heard about the man were true.

Peace and best wishes to you as well.

[Hope22]

156. No need to apologize.

We are all one giant raw nerve. We will be waiting nervously for the treatments and deliveries while the wealthy will simply make the calls. It is a nightmare. My daughter in law was nine months pregnant until two weeks ago. My brain and heart were mush. Afraid for her, for the baby and holding my breath that she got the care she needed. It wasn’t until baby was safely delivered that I could let myself breathe. Everything went fine and all is well with baby and momma but I was scared out of my mind. it shouldn’t be with way in a developed country. I understand how your brain feels right now and I am sending prayers and love out that your friend gets her treatments soon. Hang in there! This is beyond words a nightmare!💗

[MagickMuffin]

81. Too bad wasted voter Harris Walz campaigned about IVF

They told everyone the truth.

Tim and Gwen campaigned about it since they experienced it first hand and named their daughter Hope.


Oh well deaf ears will never hear. Her loss, our shared pain.

[Ocelot II]

105. But they didn't promise to make it *free*!

Whether it's covered by insurance depends a lot on state law, but it was never going to be free - it costs $20K per cycle on average, and multiple cycles are often necessary. It was unrealistic to believe Trump could reasonably promise that kind of a benefit - but I guess people believe what they need to believe if they really want something. Sad, but still kind of stupid.

[paulrevere2018]

84. FAFO She has a complete lack of empathy for all that he

Promised to hurt. Now she wants sympathy for her stupid choices.

[mdbl]

139. What I was wondering was how she thought Dump would make her life better

He has never done that for anyone else other than himself.

[ToxMarz]

91. So she voted just for free stuff

but for the guy who's mission is to make sure he is the only one who gets to take all the free stuff he wants, f*&k everyone else.. Doesn't take a genius to figure how that's gonna work out.

[Zambero]

92. The Finding Out Phase

She and others like her have found out, and it didn't take long.

[videohead5]

95. Trump does nothing but lie

How can these people believe a word that Trump says after 4 years of lie after lie?

[Fil1957]

96. This is just the tiny tip of a massive iceberg.

There will be many, many more stories like this, many thousands, perhaps millions will have buyer's remorse. This is only just the beginning.

[Demobrat]

97. She's young. She can get another job.

Plenty of openings now that the immigrants taking our jobs are gone or too scared to come to work.

[hatrack]

127. It's Michigan, so she can go get a job picking cherries.

Bootstrap time!

[Betty Boom]

98. Zero sympathy

Somebody who purports to have a university degree should have better critical thinking skills. So she believed a proven liar, selfishly voted on one issue, and screw everybody else because she might get some free lunch? I sincerely hope she does not reproduce Zero sympathy

[flashman13]

99. Sorry Ryleigh - Nine years of nonstop lies and you believed him on election day. FAFO!

[JT45242]

100. WOMP WOMP -- face meet leopard

Seriously -- when have republicans ever made health care cheaper...

Hope she enjoys her childless and potentially homeless next few years because there were already way too many people with degrees in forestry than there were jobs before Mango MUssolini and APartheid Clyde deleted tens of thousands of jobs which will create an even greater glut of workers which will also drive wages and benefits down.

[Joinfortmill]

103. I don't care. Do U?

[XanaDUer2]

104. Her job was low-level epitome of waste

In Musk World. Trump is going to make $$$$$ IVF free?

[tulipsandroses]

108. Another dumbass trump supporter who gets no sympathy from me.

She is only regretful now that her vote is hurting her. She didn't care if it hurt other people.
She really believed IVF was going to be free because she saw it on Tik Tok??? What a dumbass.
Guess what dumbass, your grocery bill is going to be more than $400, you lost your job, you lost your insurance - Good luck getting medicaid or Obamacare because they are trying to take that away too.
Next time, be better. Don't be such a selfish jerk.
Democrats vote for you. Democrats vote for all you dumbasses. We want to live in a country where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.

[CousinIT]

110. Well, that was not a good reason to vote for SHitler for one thing...

...so that was her big mistake.

Costly mistake.

[Johnny2X2X]

111. I hope she can never reproduce

Because her offspring will also be total idiots.

[Vinca]

113. Guess they all forgot about the tens of thousands of lies during the first season of the show.

[republianmushroom]

114. Live and learn, some people are dumb.

[Torchlight]

116. She knew the consequences of voting for him.

She knew who he was was when she cast her vote.

Regardless, my opinions of her, good or bad, don't change the taste of mustard.

[sakabatou]

117. Another victim of face eating leopards

[eppur_se_muova]

118. Turnip was willing to promise ANYTHING to get votes, even when he didn't know what he was saying.

He had no intention of keeping those promises, so it really didn't matter that he had no idea what he was talking about. Just threw it out there to keep the rubes enthralled* and then threw out the rubes after he had their votes -- they had no further purpose to him.




*

Verb

enthrall (third-person singular simple present enthralls, present participle enthralling, simple past and past participle enthralled) (transitive)

To hold spellbound.

Synonyms: bewitch, captivate, charm, enchant, transfix

(now rare) To make subservient.

Synonyms: enslave, subjugate
Antonym: disenthrall

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enthrall




Noun

thrall (countable and uncountable, plural thralls)

One who is enslaved or under mind control.

(uncountable) The state of being under the control of another person.

in thrall to

A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thrall#English

[Raftergirl]

119. Free IVF LMAO! What doctor is going to do free IVF, which can cost up to $100k or more depending on how

many times one must try for a successful implantation. And many times it doesn’t work. Who is going to pay the doctors? The Federal government which is cutting spending on all medical care? Federal law does not require insurance companies to cover IVF.

There are 15 states that require or mandate insurance coverage for IVF. Of course, they are all solid blue states.

Michigan is not one of those states.

This woman is a moron. She might not even have any medical insurance after she gets fired.

[Demobrat]

130. There's always Medicaid.

Oh, wait.

[moondust]

120. If 30,000+ lies during 4 years in office,

conviction on 34 felony counts, multiple other court cases pending, an attempted coup on the U.S. Capitol resulting in multiple deaths, and much more wasn't enough to scare you away from him, I'm not sure you should be allowed to vote. We are all paying for your irresponsible exercise of your voting power.

[berksdem]

121. Awww, thoughts and prayers

[Clouds Passing]

122. Vote for notsees and fashisits, fafo, no pity

[Aussie105]

126. The psychology behind the Republicanism Syndrome is rather unsettling.

"My life is too difficult, too demanding, and I have wants and needs and no one seems to care!"

Combined with zero sum thinking.

Then along comes a cult leader, carnival barker, flim-flam artist who uses words that seem to promise to make their lives easier, more rewarding, and do their thinking for them, while tackling those that stand in their way.

Trump: He rode into town on a white horse named Deceit, and all the peasants applauded him . . .

"Peasants? Fooled you!" says Trump as he rides his horse through the White House gates, "I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to Important People!"

Trump strongly believes in the zero sum thing - take from the peasants, give to the Important People.

What's that saying? It's a club, and you and I aren't in it!

Your house is being demolished to provide bricks for the castles of the Important People.

[Hekate]

128. Oh. My. God. That's how he did it. He had a lie for every woman, including this exact lie .

Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch.

[Aussie105]

129. Is that how it's done?

Target your lies, cover every possible demographic, and just keep piling on the lies thick and fast?

That ain't politics though!
Don't know what it is, but it ain't politics!

[yardwork]

150. That's what he did.

His campaign used data stratification collected by social media. Mark Zuckerberg sold it to him. Musk already had it.

Funded by billionaires, Trump's campaign told specific, different lies to people in every demographic. Enough of them believed him.

It would be very illuminating to put all the different groups in a room together and have them reveal to one another what Trump promised them. Great reality show, eh.

Trump didn't come up with this plan or fund it. The billionaire tech-bros did it, to install Trump in the WH and hand them the world.

[Hassler]

132. This is the IVF white woman voter, over there

Is the he promised to leave abortion alone white woman voter. I'm sensing a trend

[Initech]

135. And they'll still vote for the assholes every time because it's what Fox News wants.

Turn that shit off! It is poison! It destroys everything it touches!

[Skittles]

136. honestly, these people make me sick

they didn't care about Trump hurting LOTS of people, as long as THEY were not one of them

SICKENING

[struggle4progress]

138. ... I ran into the fortune-teller who said, "beware of lightning that might strike"

I haven't known peace and quiet for so long I can't remember what it's like ...

Idiot wind: blowing through the flowers on your tomb, blowing through the curtains in your room
Idiot wind: blowing every time you move your teeth ...

Now everything's a little upside down: as a matter of fact the wheels have stopped
What's good is bad, what's bad is good
You'll find out when you reach the top: you're on the bottom ...

Idiot wind: blowing like a circle around my skull from the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol

[Blue Owl]

140. Darwin Awards will be in record numbers the next few years

Stupidity will finally have consequences

[Stargleamer]

141. She knew that. . .

1) what Trump's attitude toward women is, given that she "hated what he said about women and hated how he treated them" and 2) .others had accused the POS of sexual assault. She must have known that given 1) that 2) would naturally follow and be quite believable. She could have easily and correctly concluded that the POS is a liar and that his repeated denials of such assaults are not to be believed, and his promise of free IVF is quite suspect.

We pay the price for her and others' gullibility and shallow thinking

[Faux pas]

143. Sometimes living

with your life choices will bite you in the ass.

[oasis]

144. Yew ain't see nothin' yet chickadee!

[DSandra]

146. I've had it with American voters...

In my lifetime, stupid voters led to Reagan being elected, George W Bush getting elected and re-elected even after the disastrous Iraq War, and then Trump in 2016 and then four years after doing an insurrection and being found guilty of rape, Trump again. The American voter cannot be trusted in being a keeper of the nation.

[wolfie001]

147. I predict a religious cult in her future

She is that stupid. Her and her husband probably should stop trying to get pregnant. End the family line please

[augyboston]

151. Free IVF is all she was thinking about when she was in the voting booth.

Single issue voters are stupid fools.

Rayleigh is no different.

Hope you won't need Medicaid Rayleigh.

For thinking only about yourself, you deserved to lose your job.

There is always a silver lining and MAGATS who are getting hurt by their fuhrer deserve the pain inflicted on them.

My compassion and empathy are reserved for those who voted for Harris.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

157. Well