it’s going to be a tough competition for which Trump constituency he’s going to screw over the most but I feel like farmers might take the crown
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Aaron Rupar
Trump on the EU possibly banning food imports from the US: "I don't mind. Let them do it. Let them do it."
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The thing is, unlike last time the actual problem is that agricultural tariff wars that hurt farmers, but who are expensively paid off by govt spending ALSO hurts consumers.
“When a person shows you who he is, believe him”
These boom and bust circles happened regularly in the 1920’s and 30’s.
No compassion.
Let them all go bankrupt.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-voters-heat-las-vegas-b2559547.html
From farm country. Farmers work damn hard. Reasons #1 and #2 why I don't live there. Shame what's about to happen. :( :( :(
also a red state
MSCGA
The real screw over for both sets is the price gouging from suppliers (fertiliser and seeds) and their customers (the big food processors and supermarket chains)
They all had his signs up through the biden years, though. Absolutely cucked.
I told a beef farmer here about how Biden included a whole thing in the SotU about breaking the monopoly of the meat processing companies so farmers could get a better deal and he flat out didn’t believe it.
If karma is any indication, you'll be next.
Farmers everywhere get too much gov assistance.
Most subsidized industry in the world
At least on the "not put in camps" catagory
And the best part is, when non-US producers increase agricultural production to meet demand caused by tariffs, that capacity exists for a long time & permanently lowers ag prices!
https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/10/08/jd-vance-acretrader/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIfQdhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHa59OxiP-HpF_feRRv5ral1fs3LYA1q3pLphFVJjjThvwik4KCyz0dRYdw_aem_a6COA-Wi1AzjZsZEfNOJAw
2. Cut farm subsidies
3. Bankrupt the farmers
4. Buy the farms for a fraction of the price through Trump and Musk aligned companies
5. Re-instate farm subsidies
6. Hire the bankrupt farmers to work the land
In no particular order.
Our farmers always vote for the political party that hurts them the most.
It's very frustrating.
I don't want to see all our family owned farms gobbled up by factory farms, but we seem to be heading that way.
1. Foreign holdings in federal debt: $8 tn
2. Foreign Direct Investment: $5.5 tn
3. Foreign Portfolio Investment: $27 tn
4. US international investment imbalance: $22.5 tn
Who gets blamed & for what is going to be a key metric going forward (and there are so many folks who will refuse to blame the white-guy-in-chief)