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A fired federal worker grapples with her vote for Trump in Michigan (archive.ph)

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

After she was sexually assaulted at 16, Cooper had sworn she would never be caught unprepared. But here she was. Betrayed by her body, which would not cooperate. Betrayed by her family, who supported firing federal workers like her. And, perhaps most painfully, betrayed by herself.

She did not want to vote for Trump. Cooper hated what he said about women and hated how he treated them. 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.

Sexual assault victim votes for sexual assaulter is in the same vein as Jews for Hitler. Maybe not to the same degree, but definitely in the right direction. How stupid do you have to be?

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is what boggles my mind. The continued uncritical belief in anything Trump says

[–] DarthBueller 4 points 22 hours ago

If you think she was at all aware of Trump’s rape case you’re dreaming. She was probably too young to even remember “grab her by the pussy” Because I don’t have the feeling she’s ever been engaged politically.