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.”

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    She voted for Trump, hoping for change

    You know, I’m sick and tired of having toast for breakfast everyday, I need CHANGE, so I’ll switch to cat diarrhea mixed with broken glass instead!

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    They won’t learn a goddamn thing. They’ll vote for him again.

    This won’t help anyone. Not the country, not the left, hell, not even the right.

    But you know what?

    I’m done with empathy for these fucks.

    I’m glad they’re suffering.

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      I just can’t get over the contractors who told their stories about how they got absolutely fucked by Donald trump in New York and it tanked their companies because he refused to pay and then said “I’m still going to vote for him.” They’re cucks. He could fuck their wives and they’d still vote for him. A combination of stupid and pussy that I’ve only ever seen in hardcore conservatives. Ironic since being masculine is supposed to be one of their favoured traits. Pretty typical when their definition of “manly” is a dude who applies orange makeup to his neck every day.

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      They may learn through suffering. The problem with Trump’s first term is that people like her did feel much. He set back climate policy, destroyed alliances, dramatically increased the deficit, and lost more. However, none of that cause her any pain so she kept voting for him. She isn’t wrong about the Dems abandoning her. She just thought the other side was somehow better. Now hopefully she will learn. Unfortunately, there are going to be lots of people that are going to be harmed for the next 4 years for her to learn this lesson.

      If she wants empathy, she should try to empathize with the people she hurt and is hurting with her vote. She only seems to think of herself while asking others to be empathetic.

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    If you lack critical thinking skills to the point where you vote for an open fascist and then complain that it affected you, I really have no sympathy. Great argument for better education.

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    But there has been zero compassion for anything or anyone in this process

    Reap what you sow, that’s your toll to own the libs

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    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.

    So basically, “hE’s NoT hUrTiNg ThE rIgHt PeOpLe!!!111” Cry me a fucking river, lady.

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    “Steward said she had consistently voted as a Democrat but felt that, as a Black woman, the party had taken her vote for granted. She voted for Trump, hoping for change, in 2016, 2020 and last year. But she now feels Musk has helped lead the president astray.”

    complete bananpants

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      black. woman. career federal worker. works at “centers for medicare and medicaid services”. works for veterans and others in need.

      voted for the (bloody bowel) movement, the party, and the ‘man’ that… hates blacks, hates women, hates veterans, hates medicare, hates medicaid, hates people (who don’t give them lots of money), hates government anything that he cannot personally profit from.

      not once. not twice. but three fucking times.

      and she’s still drunk on maga (not so) kool-aid. blames musk, not trump.

      wants ‘empathy’.

      hahahhahhahahahahahah fuck you.
      enjoy the hell you helped create for all of us.