Leopards Ate My Face

Mind you, they have learned nothing, apparently:

Still, many farmers, who backed Trump by large margins in the 2024 election, were reluctant to speak openly about their concerns, for fear of being seen as criticizing him or because they hope the administration will protect farmers as it has in the past.

So either they still support him, they are afraid of him and therefore support him, or they hope he'll make sure his bullshit only hurts other people (again).

Joe Exotic posts on instagram that his husband was deported by ICE after years of shilling for Donald Trump.

Jocelyn Steward, a health insurance specialist with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said she thought it was the Trump administration that had lost the focus on the proper priorities.

Steward, who voted for Trump for president in three straight elections, said she believed job cuts would focus on early retirements and workers who underperformed. But she said she lost her job, helping military veterans and other understand their benefits, even though she was just in training and had met all her job requirements.

“Layoffs aren’t easy on anybody. But there has been zero compassion for anything or anyone in this process,” said Steward, who lives and works in Georgia. ”A lot of these federal workers are doing good work. Please just show a little empathy.”

“She doesn’t make speeches anymore. She has become speechless. She stays in her home, but it doesn’t seem to agree with her. How furious she must be, now that she’s been taken at her word.”

Who would have guessed it?

Satirical take on the metaphor. Made this on Procreate, 2025.

Britt Boril addressed Chairman Tim French as “Madam Chairman” during testimony before the Wyoming Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources committee on Friday.

When French protested that his preferred pronoun was “Mr Chairman,” Boril referenced Senate File 0077, “prohibiting the state and its political subdivisions from requiring the use of preferred pronouns.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26049299

Summary

A new poll found that 71% of Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts, while 82% of all voters reject them. Additionally, 60% of Trump voters said cutting food and nutrition programs is unacceptable.

Medicaid has become a key issue as House Republicans push for up to $2 trillion in budget cuts to advance Trump’s legislative agenda.

Their resolution directs the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find at least $880 billion in cuts.

This raises concerns that Medicaid, which covers 70 million people—mostly low-income and children—could be targeted despite GOP leaders downplaying benefit reductions.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/one-month-trumps-second-term-many-feel-buyers-remorse-rcna193009

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25883319

Summary

IRS worker Robert McCabe, a Trump voter, expressed shock after being among 7,000 laid off by DOGE, an initiative under the Trump administration led by Elon Musk.

McCabe stated DOGE is acting like a “wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”

The layoffs, targeting probationary employees with less than a year of service, affect hundreds at the IRS and are part of a broader effort to shrink the federal workforce.

The cuts raise concerns about impacts on tax collection during a critical season.

IRS employee who voted for Trump doesn't learn his lesson and is fired

Another EV related construction project cancelled for Georgia. Bulloch county voted for this result. Good job republicans…really moving us backwards.

Text from article:

David Rice, a disabled Army paratrooper who has been on probation since joining the U.S. Department of Energy in September, also learned Thursday night that he had lost his job.

Rice, who has been working as a foreign affairs specialist on health matters relating to radiation exposure, said he’d been led to believe that his job would likely be safe. But on Thursday night, when he logged into his computer for a meeting with Japanese representatives, he saw an email saying he’d been fired.

“It’s just been chaos,” said Rice, 50, who had just bought a house in Melbourne, Florida, after he got the job.

Rice said he agrees with the Trump administration’s goal of making the government more efficient, but objects to the random, scattershot approach being taken.

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https://lemmy.wtf/post/16645266

Didn't need the psychic hotline to see this coming....