I don’t really get the sentiment - it seems like what he’s saying is no matter who the employees voted for they would have lost their jobs. And that’s true, to the extent that his co-workers who voted for Harris also lost their jobs. But it’s also true that if everyone who has been hurt by one Trump policy or another had voted for Harris, Trump wouldn’t have won.
And that’s the basic stumble on that person’s part — the idea that it’s only “political” if it’s explicitly targeted. Everyone lost their job including the Trumpists, so that somehow absolves them of responsibility.
“This experiment blew up in my face. Don’t come saying I should not have done it or you told me so, that’s rude! It could have worked and then no one would be upset ! But since it did blow up, you should care about my injuries!”
Similarly the people lamenting social/family breakups “over politics”: I did not vote for a specific promise to hurt you , [optional: and you are not the one being hurt yourself] so why should you rebuke me?
I stuck ‘Carrie Underwood farm’ into Google and got a ton of hits, and it all comes from someplace called Radar Online, which said:
“It’s become too much for her to maintain, and she’s getting no sleep because she’s up at the crack of dawn taking care of all these animals,” said the insider of the chickens, horses, and sheep on the property, which also includes fruit trees, a greenhouse, and multiple gardens.
“She’s shoveling hay, weeding, fertilizing, harvesting, and then there are the repairs that never end.”
The source added: “It doesn’t help that she’s had a hard time finding and keeping hired hands.”
So, a lot hangs on one sentence, and it could just be she’s a jerk to work for.
The sentiment as I understood it was, “Calamity has happened here and I/we are too overwhelmed to think about politics (and causes).” They need to focus on job hunting, possibly moving locations, paying rent, the kids. I get that part.
There’s a time and place for democracy though, the process by which people govern themselves. The people are sovereign, which implies that individuals need to accept responsibility for their voting choices and their information choices. It’s acceptable to make mistakes -we all do- but making the same mistake multiple times indicates a dim consciousness. You can try to avoid that - or not. Your life, your dance.
“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of who will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”
And how many of their friends know they’re a Trump supporter because THEY brought it up. Some of the Trump supporters that I know, I only know they support him because they’ll randomly bring it up. Whether they’re wearing MAGA merch or whining about something being Biden/Obama’s fault or even saying, without being asked (though part of a bigger conversation) “I’ll admit it, I voted for Trump”. Side note, if you have to say “I’ll admit it”, you’re already aware it’s problematic.
OTOH, I know plenty of people that I suspect are Trump supports but I don’t have any actual evidence, because like a lot of people, they don’t bring up politics for no reason.
I haven’t read this thread, so maybe this has been brought up already, but I thought that folks here would enjoy this article:
This guy owns a couple of “Trump themed” restaurants. One is in Flatonia, about an hourish southeast of Austin. The other is in Kemah, a touristy suburb of Houston near NASA’s Johnson Space Center. At these restaurants, one can pose for pictures with a cardboard Trump cutout and other Trump merch. In addition to his immigration problems, the Trump Organization is suing for using Trump trademarks without permission.
My mom inherited some farmland from my grandfather when he passed away; that’s how we found out about programs that essentially pay you to not plant a specified crop. When my parents explained this to child-me, I promptly started writing extra lines for “Old MacDonald” (and on this farm he had no corn, e-i-e-i-o).