She Hoped Trump's Victory Would Change Her Life, but Not Like This

Saturday, March 01, 2025

Ryleigh Cooper exhaled as she slid onto the couch after nine hours of work for the U.S. Forest Service, still covered in the blue paint she used to mark trees for local loggers. Then she got the text. "I hate to be the bearer of bad news," her union leader wrote.

Posted by Nixon at 04:31 PM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink

One reason self-imagined lefties are nuts to attack Ryleigh Cooper is bc that's what Russ Vought wants. Another is that her story, told locally, is the quickest way to educate people what government really is. www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/28/r ...

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-- emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) February 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM

Comments

'"That's bulls---", she recalled thinking'

Yes, and it always was.

You ironed your own hand. Let's see if you're teachable.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-28 09:48 AM

Point and laugh at the unemployed trying to get pregnant magat scum

Hey ---- you eat the ---- you voted for ----

#2 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-02-28 10:05 AM

If she was voting for something that would change her life, she certainly did. Just not how she wanted it to change. Wallow in it, bitch.

#3 | Posted by HeeHaw at 2025-02-28 10:47 AM

Once upon a time, this nation had a pint-sized modicum of compassion for people who fell victim to a con man.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-02-28 10:52 AM

Once upon a time, this nation had a pint-sized modicum of compassion for people who fell victim to a con man.

#4 | Posted by snoofy

Innocent victims, sure.

But not for willful idiots.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-02-28 10:56 AM

Apparently you can fool almost half the voters a couple of times at least.

Forgiveness can be had in 2026 though.

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-28 11:37 AM

Would be a darn shame if she isn't able to spit out a couple baby-MAGAts due to her infertility/Trump unemployment/lack of health insurance to keep the conveyor belt of gullible idiots going.

The suffering of this MAGAt sparks joy. I will preserve the article in my Marie Kondoed bookmarks.

#7 | Posted by censored at 2025-02-28 12:40 PM

You people are sick. She is suffering and I for one think we should be helping these people out!

For example, I'm sending her a list of nice bridges to live under and a map of the best restaurant garbage cans she can dumpster dive for food.

#8 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-02-28 02:13 PM

Her life changed alright.

MAGATS are ------- retarded.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-28 03:40 PM

Of course, it's bulls^%#, moron.

How f*^%ing stupid do you have to be to believe Trump? Seriously? Stupid doesn't even fully encompass how lacking in intelligence such a person is.

#10 | Posted by jpw at 2025-03-01 01:33 PM

I voted for hate. Pls feel sorry for me.

#11 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-03-01 04:04 PM

>covered in the blue paint she used to mark trees
>woman
It checks out.
Spray cans can be difficult to control, even if you use them every day!
I'd suggest using a paintball gun, but then she might lose an eye.

#12 | Posted by itchypossum at 2025-03-01 06:41 PM

Considering what she brought on to the people of Ukraine I can't feel sorry for her.

#13 | Posted by eightfifteenpm at 2025-03-01 08:18 PM

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