There is going to be shortages on a lot of things..
Particularly in the food, service industry ..
It’s gonna hurt the pockets of businesses, but it will show the community how much those businesses are needed, but the community voted out those businesses when they voted out immigrants.
We told you asshats that this would happen. It's going to happen with the entire food chain, the hospitality industry, the construction industry, and so many more. This will not work out for Americans.
As a result of lives being torn apart and destroyed, people are losing their livelihood. And, what, you’re laughing because they’re on the other team or something? There’s nothing to celebrate here. There’s nothing funny there’s no win. It’s just suffering.
Well, he does not care. Don't expect him to change.
Plan B: The congress? It is compromised. So, he is not going anywhere.
Start thinking of plan C concretely. Use the protest to inform, educate and put it into action. Time is not in our favor.
#DefendDemocracy #Resist
I usually buy Washington cherries when they show up at my grocery store in Ontario. But yesterday I turned my nose up at the US cherries as I have done with all US products. Canadians boycotting American goods will be long lasting because we have and continue to add alternative suppliers.
This is the natural extension of eastern Washington voting out Tom Foley and being surprised they didn't get to keep speaker of the house back in the day. The leopards have been hanging around for fresh faces.
I just finished eating the bag of cherries I bought on the side of the road near Mattawa last weekend. They were so good. It’s unspeakably horrible what those amazing workers tolerate in their daily lives to bring us food. Now add ICE. It’s so awful!!!!
It's another way of turning food into a weapon. Dictators like to do that. Especially in this time when it seems they want only Rich White People in this country.
When it works, the cherry harvest, and nearly all of Washington’s fruit harvest, is a well-choreographed operation.
Washington growers rely on thousands of migrant workers who arrive in the state after finishing the cherry harvest in California. They then move north Washing to harvest their crops
What in holy hell happened to all the migrant farmworker visas? This never used to be an issue! Did Trump revoke them all? Did they stop issuing them? This was an essential part of our ag sector for generations!
Not all farmers automatically = Trump voters.
Go ahead and sneer so you can feel good about "owning the ags." Some of whom did not vote for him.
Go ahead and HA HA while food rots.
Your food.
Your kids' food.
Food for everyone, including the poor.
Hilarious.
Fuck those blue farmers too, right?
I'm not talking about Trump voters. I'm talking about every ag person who did not vote for this being lumped in with Trump voters because of their occupation.
I'm a blue dot in UT, one of if not the most red states in the country. Fuck em, I don't care. I'm not offended by finger waving at my state. They chose this and I feel no ownership over their choice, even if I'm in the same state as them, and will suffer along with them. Fuck em right to their face
This maga fvckery must end. We need a Nuremberg-style trial.
The Constitutionally disqualified, illegitimate, corrupt, Russian asset, political thief, criminal felon and his cronies and enablers all need to go!
#MAGATerrorists
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The frail elderly in care homes left unattended, shortage of fruits / vegs in stores, no roofers available when severe weather damages homes. If the inhumane cruelty of Trump / Miller / ICE doesn't move people, wait until their own interests are affected. "Why is this happening to me?", they'll ask.
Trump will end up once again bailing out farmers with more govt welfare - as those same farmers vote for Trump because he'll deny any govt assistance to others.
Techbros think they can do it better because they are the crown of creation because money and they control information keeping people ignorant about tech
It is ok with this administration that farmers fail. Their billionaire friends who deal in private equity mega farming are on standby to buy up the land at a rock bottom price.
Americans don't want to perform farm work even when farmers do offer a decent wage. Republicans in my state asked ICE to leave ag alone. JBS (meatpacking plant) has/had a recruitment program for Haitians, but they might need to find different people to exploit thanks to the travel ban.
Brutal .are there not kids that need summer jobs? We exploit our farm workers here in canada too but we appreciate them in our communities.. we don’t disappear them
There are not thousands of people in Spokane available (or willing) to pick crops even if they paid $50 an hour. Not to mention the immigrants are skilled pickers and they'd have to train new folks.
Wait, the farmers cannot harvest ANY of the cherries? They can’t get their family and friends to help. Them, or hire all the unemployed white peoples in town to pull together? Are they just farm owners and not actual farmers?
The parapet is the wall at the edge of the roof or the top of a wall provides cover from projectiles from the outside. The square sawtooth stone thing is a parapet with the gaps being embrasures or crenels.
I’m on the southwest coast of Canada and I’m eating oranges from our friends in Morocco and apples from from our friends in New Zealand and vegetables from our friends in Mexico. It’s nice having real friends. You know …friends that don’t threaten to invade you.
I could totally see the old orange deranged POS doing so more than ever now, especially after invading his own country that he’s supposedly leading. Time for squatting POS to end his reign of terror.
The refusal of Canadians to buy American is our way of showing our contempt for Trump, Republican politicians supporting Trump, MAGA and Foxes disinformation machine.
And I'm fine with that hurting the people who very likely voted for him, and even the rest of us along the way. Sometimes 70 million selfish, idiot children need to get burned when they insist that sticking their face in the stove burner is "winning."
I’m not looking for or expecting an apology I’m just not dealing with trumps USA if I can avoid it. And I DO feel for normal Americans; on the US side of the Peace Arch is inscribed “Children of a common Mother”
Can we also acknowledge that in a country where work is supposed to equal healthcare access that these jobs are also just not…real jobs for that matter
“I don’t care about that stuff. I just know that this is affecting the growers directly whether they are Democrat or Republican or whatever" --the director of the cooperative of farmers (who is probably an R).That's the problem. He should care and be vocal in support of immigrants.
Yes, yes, yes‼️ How is it he can't connect the dots to his lack of concern on ice raids, shortage of workers, and rotting/overripen cherries⁉️ If I'm a member of this coop, I'm definitely asking wtf is wrong with him that he can't see the obvious.
This was always the plan. Put small farmers out of business so corporations and foreign billionaires can buy the farms and own literally all of our food production.
Explains why cherries haven't been for sale in the supermarket recently. This should be cherry season, but it isn't. Thanks a lot, Trump, Stephen Miller, and ICE. And Republican Members of Congress who could stop all of this RIGHT NOW, if they would do their damn jobs and defend the Constitution.
Trump's buddies will pick up the farms cheap, and have cheap undocumented labor on those farms next year, after paying a fee to Trump to not get ICE'd.
Unenforced laws can be turned into a weapon and even the people who do nothing wrong will lose to those that buys protection from the Orange King.
I can vouch for this on a much more micro level. My single sour cherry is coming to fruition on my city plot. When they are ripe there is a 2-week window to pick the tree clean or they rot and attract worms for the next year's crop. I offer them up to whatever friends can pick and use them.
I loathe Trump, but if you're going to base who deserves what on who they voted for, you should know that a majority of people who live in Washington's farm country voted for Trump. https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/wa-county-voted-president
There's plenty of cherry pickers in the Republican party -- especially among the so-called "Christians." They cherry pick the parts of the Bible they want to follow, the parts of the constitution to follow, all kinds of things. Those are transferable skills.
All those MAGAs that claim the immigrants have taken their jobs have a perfect opportunity now to get off their asses and do some picking! All the fruit will rot on the trees thanks to the felon!
I live in the Grandview/Prosser area that was mentioned. You would have been hard pressed to find a Kamala sign on any of these farmers' lands. Elections have consequences, and it's about time these voters learned that.
While this is undoubtedly karmic and satisfying, this is just one component of our food supply that is going to be massively disrupted, not to mention made massively unsafe, by this administration’s reckless and hateful policies. It’s going to suck a lot more than it feels good to chuckle.
Do you hear yourself? This isn't just about cherries either- our entire agricultural network is at risk here. Food is already getting extremely expensive, and who do you think hurts the most from that? Not rich people, I'll assure you.
Exactly! We've already had so many small businesses, especially farms, slurped up by land-destroying monocrop megacorps. A chump-voting indie farmer still does less overall harm than chump-supporting conglomerates.
However, I'm not going to feel sorry for farmers who had to be forced to provide sanitary living conditions to migrants by our governor. Ditto for the farmers who would *knowingly* hire undocumented workers and then call in immigration on payday.
Yes, because if you bankrupt the blue states… They think they’ll become red with weakness I guess. Because all red states are weak. With very weak people running them.
So what are we learning here? how about next time you see a migrant in the store or on the street, say thank you and give them a welcoming nod. Remember the fresh fruit and vegetables you are purchasing, came to your table through their hands and hard work.
Just one of the medieval aspects of US society. Yet those firefighters have been lawfully convicted, while the ones in ICE detention usually have not been.
Too much reliance on "police said" or "convicted" as truth.
Plenty of "possession" felonies fill the jails & prisons.
While undocumented are civil, not criminal, "offenses" - most Voters don't know the difference & would easily condone prison labor of the undocumented.
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Particularly in the food, service industry ..
It’s gonna hurt the pockets of businesses, but it will show the community how much those businesses are needed, but the community voted out those businesses when they voted out immigrants.
Plan B: The congress? It is compromised. So, he is not going anywhere.
Start thinking of plan C concretely. Use the protest to inform, educate and put it into action. Time is not in our favor.
#DefendDemocracy #Resist
https://investigatemidwest.org/2024/11/13/trump-election-farming-counties-trade-war/
hahahahahahahahahahaha!
But that's not how fascism works as even the capital interests it pretends to serve are forfeited for displays of oppression to intimidate for control.
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Hops, yes, Washington grows most of the nation's hops.
No hops, no beer.
Add in California, which is another huge agricultural state. Take into account tariffs and downstream labor, then grocery prices are headed up.
Washington growers rely on thousands of migrant workers who arrive in the state after finishing the cherry harvest in California. They then move north Washing to harvest their crops
Are they, in fact, bounty hunters? They act and dress the part.
This is not law enforcement.
Go ahead and sneer so you can feel good about "owning the ags." Some of whom did not vote for him.
Go ahead and HA HA while food rots.
Your food.
Your kids' food.
Food for everyone, including the poor.
Hilarious.
Fuck those blue farmers too, right?
I'd rather have mega corporate farms than 80% maga farms at this rate. 🤷
The Constitutionally disqualified, illegitimate, corrupt, Russian asset, political thief, criminal felon and his cronies and enablers all need to go!
#MAGATerrorists
#TrumpMustGoNow
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This is the cost of exploiting immigrant workers for their own profit.
TWTVF
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We were told these jobs were being taken from the trump children …don & eric…?
Curious
Unenforced laws can be turned into a weapon and even the people who do nothing wrong will lose to those that buys protection from the Orange King.
But I'm sure MAGA will gladly pick the rotting cherries for $5 an hour.
It's ugly and you feel crazy but I bet we've all done it at least once.
I don't know that they'll learn from this but it's the only thing that really has a chance of breaking through.
The only way anything will ever get better is if they learn a hard lesson or two.
And guess what: nobody actually needs fresh cherries.
Do you hear yourself? This isn't just about cherries either- our entire agricultural network is at risk here. Food is already getting extremely expensive, and who do you think hurts the most from that? Not rich people, I'll assure you.
However, I'm not going to feel sorry for farmers who had to be forced to provide sanitary living conditions to migrants by our governor. Ditto for the farmers who would *knowingly* hire undocumented workers and then call in immigration on payday.
I sincerely hope business owners acknowledge that Trump's policies put them out of business.
We need a stronger voice to convince voters & to let Trump's policies are costing us.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/inmates-firefighters-wildfires-california-incarcerated-wages-b2678652.html
Aiding & abetting is a law - how long before knowing of an undocumented person becomes a felony worthy of prison labor?
#StopCopCity were deemed terrorists - now eligible for prison labor.
Many tax "errors" are felonies unprosecuted by IRS... for now.
Plenty of "possession" felonies fill the jails & prisons.
While undocumented are civil, not criminal, "offenses" - most Voters don't know the difference & would easily condone prison labor of the undocumented.
Just the way they planned it.