cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/44641840
Machia voted for Trump, drawn by promises of border control and national security. “We didn’t want drugs or gangbangers,” he said. But what he didn’t expect was losing some of his most dedicated employees to immigration arrests.
“It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”
LOL. Idiots
He fucking TOLD you what he was going to do. In very simple, plain language even.
Now We’re Milking Cows Alone at 4 A.M.
Well, you voted Trump, now you get to milk it for all it’s worth. At 4 AM.
Get rekt, and pay a living wage next time you try and start a business.
My parents used to export fruits For a brief moment, I worked for the family business and had the pleasure of meeting some of these people.
I met a farmer that sold cherries. Over dinner he was telling me how pissed he was about Mexicans taking jobs away from Americans.
When pressed on why he doesn’t just hire Americans, he said no Americans wants to work minimum wage to pick cherries for 10 hours a day.
My dad has been trying to convince him for years that his rhetoric is ultimately going to hurt his livelihood. But his patriotism/ tribalism outweighs all logic.
No idea how he is doing now, but I imagine he just let his fruit drop this year.
I mean, if you hire illegal immigrants you have to know someday you might lose those employees. The key is in the name: illegal.
Or even hire legal immigrants, they still get deported all the same.
Which is usually a benefit for them. You call enforcement when they start talking about labor conditions or unions.
The fascists are morons and overplayed their hand.
And to this milk farmer I say: Shut up and keep milking
I hope the industry collapses.
Stop moaning. It can’t possibly be hard work, because you pay a pittance.
It almost sounds as though this labour was chronically undervalued and absolutely taken for granted. If I strain my ears, hard, I can almost make out the dawning realizations.
I hope their fucking cows die. Idiots.
Not the cows fault
Fair point. I hope the cows rebel in an animal farm like scenario that sees them topple their oppressive rural overlords but to a better end result?
Really I just want to see deserving people have their faces eaten by leopards
To be fair, death is probably a better alternative to being a cow in the dairy industry.
Cows wouldn’t have voted for this shit.
I dunno, I feel like they’d be pretty susceptible to a populist campaign
Something about herd mentality
If you voted for Trump you deserve worse than you’ll get.
We voted for nazism and deportation, but didn’t think it would affect us and our undocumented workers. Trump his first term was economically really bad, but Trump said it was the best and I trust him more than facts and numbers so I voted for him again, but didn’t think he would fuck up the economy even more than before. I support the tariffs on China, but I didn’t think it would affect the price of fertilizer I import from there, so now my farm is going bankrupt because China now doesn’t want to buy my product anymore with the counter tariffs and they were my only customer. But I completely support Trump and fully trust him. Just from a cardboard box under the overpass from now on.
If you don’t want to have to be milking cows in the wee hours, maybe cow farming isn’t for you.
Don’t worry, Dustin Machia, fifth-generation dairy farmer from Sheldon.
Sell your farm to Farmco Inc: their robots will milk your cows.
Buy an overpriced house in the city to live, maybe one with lots of drugs and gang-bangers.
Make sure you support Trump’s election bid in 2028, and/or vote for Donald Trump, Jr, lest a satanic Democrat moderate who defeated AOC by just a hair wins.
If you get age related health problems, look to RFK, Jr.
Remember the days when Americans and Canadians could cross the Vermont-Quebec border with relative ease? Those days are gone, and much of Canada, and perhaps a third of America, now hate people like you.
Not a shred of simpathy from me. Now milk faster. Papa needs his cereal in the morning.
remember when humans were free of intoxicants and violence ?
the good old-never-fucken-happened days.
I wanted a new piercing but now I have a hole in my body with a piece of metal in it and am out $100. How could this go so wrong‽
