cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nz/post/27987863
An Irish grandmother who has lived in the US for most of her life and holds a green card is facing deportation because she wrote a bad cheque for $25 in 2015.
Donna Hughes-Brown, 58, was detained in July after landing in Chicago on a flight from Dublin and is being held in isolation in a detention centre in Kentucky. She has lived in the US since 1977, has five children and grandchildren, and ran a horse farm in Troy, Missouri.
Her husband, Jim Brown, a US citizen and military veteran, told reporters his wife was not a criminal and that he “100%” regretted voting for Donald Trump as president.
I’m annoyed that they only regret their votes when it directly affects them negatively in a super clear and direct way. Otherwise they just continue their support besides the higher prices due to tariffs, the shit job market, etc.
He’s probably vote for him again.
Well it DID really suck losing my wife, but owning the libs was just so sweet.
That’s a key identifier of conservatives … and stupid people but I repeat myself.
“I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative” - John Stuart Mill
And Cipolla
“A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.”
And yet it’s less infuriating than the people who are directly affected and still engage in cognitive dissonance in order to continue to believe that their vote was a good thing and that this is just the price they gotta pay to ensure “those people” don’t take advantage of them.