So that $10B bailout for farmers.
Is it a payout for political support? Yeah. Bold move for an industry that talks so much about hard work & independence!
But it's also worse than that. This is a US food crisis in the making.
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/03/18/usda-expediting-10-billion-direct-economic-assistance-agricultural-producers
Let's talk about the payoff part first?
Is it a payout for political support? Yeah. Bold move for an industry that talks so much about hard work & independence!
But it's also worse than that. This is a US food crisis in the making.
https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/03/18/usda-expediting-10-billion-direct-economic-assistance-agricultural-producers
Let's talk about the payoff part first?
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This is me telling you "the US farm situation right now is very bad. We SHOULD worry about this."
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/04/12/russia-ukraine-war-wheat-global-food-supply-panic/
And US farmers will lose lots of sales as trade wars shut off their export markets.
Farmers knew this bc he ran on it!
https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/us-canadian-farmers-face-soaring-fertilizer-prices-amid-trump-trade-war-2025-03-07/
I said "Hey, we both know Trump'll stab you in the back. You know he doesn't care if your farms are viable or not. He'll wreck your livelihood just because he's feeling mad about China that day."
And he said "Yeah, we know!"
He mumbled something about how there are "other benefits" to being in the Trump coalition that his farmers & industry group members "didn't want to miss out on." So they prefer to "support Trump in public, and negotiate out their differences quietly."
But tax cuts & deregulation only help so much. They're useless if you lose your farm to trade wars!
What *does* keep your farm afloat during a trade war, though? Free money!
Now the wild part isn't that an industry would agree to a cash-for-support deal. That's corrupt. But it's ~politics as usual.
The wild part is how this payout says "Policymakers & the farm sector have given up on actually growing food."
I submit that bigotry is so addictive that getting it validated means people will set their fortunes on fire and lie to themselves about it.
the farm industry, like most industries, generally expects actual financial payouts in exchange for support
'Hyuk, we don't have to do nuthin this yar, Stinky gon give us money' boy did this trigger the libs... hyuk
This may be a problem.
Also a problem.
Improving my lot is a real goal, it's been a tough couple yrs.
Turns out “real America” were the real freeloaders w/ their hands out voting for free stuff
Also, isn't this the Trump 2020 playbook? where is the fiscal responsibility / tariff talk?
92 Percent of Trump’s China Tariff Proceeds Has Gone to Bail Out Angry Farmers
https://www.cfr.org/blog/92-percent-trumps-china-tariff-proceeds-has-gone-bail-out-angry-farmers
Without that majority, you and I have exactly the same power they do.
Just gut these Trumpists like a fish
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