President-elect Trump won landslide support in much of farm country, but his embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his plan for a tariff fight with China alarms many farmers and agriculture experts.
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They didn't learn from those first four years, when crops rotted away due to being unable to get to market and all those farms that had to go out of business.
I for one so happy that they are “alarmed”. It will be a much worse feeling once tariffs take place as well. 🍿(honestly, I don’t wish any ill on farmers but like so many others who voted for Trump/MAGA, unless they feel undeniable pain from HIS policies, they’ll never get why he’s horrible for them)
No, no! Trump "fixed" it by giving them a load of cash to make up for it, so he remains their hero. It doesn't matter that it took a long time for the soybean market to recover and the handout didn't cover what they lost. (My husband was a farmer and frustrated by how stupid these people can be.)
Remember when DonOLD Trump started those trade wars that increased costs to Americans and caused irreparable harm to family farmers/ranchers, and then he spent 30 billion taxpayer dollars to bail them out?
What is most alarming is how many Trump voters are *alarmed* by his plans after the fact. Were they not paying attention? What did they think they were voting for?
These people are just complete morons. He did it in his first term and many farmers lost their farms or committed suicide. He said in his rallies again & again that he’s going to apply tariffs on everything. I guess the pain of his first term wasn’t enough for them!? No sympathy! Ran out of it!
There's a reckoning coming. It may take a year; maybe two. All those who bought into the lies of President Trump are going to be saying WTF. When all the fed programs, that made your life easier, are gone, just remember Harris eggs were too expensive. But the KoolAid was tasty.
To be honest, NPR was pretty vague about the possibility that Trump's policies might be a problem. If you didn't know before you heard the storiesthey aired, you might not suspect the truth. NPR was once good but it's been a steep downhill ride since the turn of the century
Hope they enjoy their votes and get everything they wanted. Granted, they wanted the negatives to apply to "others" and not themselves, but hey the leopards have to eat.
I mean, I live in farm country, and it sucks that the bad choices of some of my neighbors will hurt all of us, but yeah... Time for some consequences, I reckon. These people are never going to learn until it hits them in the nards.
Same. I’m not looking to the next four years of suffering but I will tolerate it if it leads to peoples realization of poor choices. At the same time I fear that they will just be told everything is great and believe it. Or some Fascist crap like we all have to suffer as good patriots. 🤮🤮🤮
My money is on them concocting increasingly unhinged conspiracy theories about how the Democrats are operating a secret shadow government that is maliciously sabotaging all the good things Trump is trying to accomplish, because admitting that Trump is just f-ing things up is too much to ask.
Don't even get me started. I follow a lot of weather pages because I live where the weather is constantly trying to unalive us, and the comments are full of people who think doppler radar stations steer hurricanes. 💀
Spot on. They would rather suffer economic consequences than come to the realization they actually are rubes who were taken in by a conman. They will try to preserve their own sense of self-esteem and victimhood at all costs.
im pretty sure its never going to hurt them enough... remember farm aid in 1985?
theyd rather lose everything many times over than have the slimmest, most remote chance they may encounter a fully clothed trans woman washing her hands in the ladies room
It’s terrible that those who didn’t choose this will be hurt. But you are right. MAGA will keep choosing the worst leaders until they are personally negatively impacted by their bad decisions.
Honestly I have no time for anyone being alarmed with either of these clowns—Trump has always been one, and people are brain-dead if they didn’t think he’d bring the circus. 🤡
They deserve what they’re gonna get.
They don’t give a shit. They got that sweet sweet socialist subsidy checks coming either way. Wait till China stops buying corn, soybeans and hogs from Iowa.
The US/trump - UK/Brexit parallels continue:
US farmers incomes plummeted in the first trump administration
US farmers just re-elected trump
UK farmers always vote Conservative...54% voted for Johnson to take UK out of the EU
Boris ran up a £22+ billon debt giving Covid funds to his cronies
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19th November, London will be overrun by farmers protesting the Labour abolishing Inheritance Tax Relief for farmers in part to help recover the £22 billion Johnson gave to his cronies
Labour now ''taxing UK farmers out of existence...''
Farmers whose incomes have plummeted...because of Brexit
If they are worried about tariffs, then why the eff did they vote for him. It’s not like he didn’t announce time and again that TARIFFS ARE HIS ENTIRE ECONOMIC PLAN (well, and tax cuts for billionaires).
But farmers are really good people.
I have been told this by people that grew up rural, but for some reason would never move back to their 500 person town and the farm their family sold 10 years ago.
congratulations, agriculture, if you aren’t a conglomerate, you f’ed yourselves again. Get ready for trump to destroy you just like he did last time.
He drove you out of business and then made us bail you out.
short memories, long consequences.
2.6 million does not equate to a landslide. i expect better from @npr.org a 'landslide' is traditionally defined as: A victory is an election result in which the winning candidate or party achieves a decisive victory by an overwhelming margin
Farmers should be concerned. However if those who harvest their products are all deported, these issues become secondary right? Maybe they should have thought about this before voting for Trump.
Didn’t alarm them enough not to vote for him. He said he would do both of these things before the election. Sick of feeling sorry for these people. We are all going to suffer because of their votes.
Trump voters get a kick out of making other people scared, sad, frustrated, depressed etc. They don't care for the country they live in, they don't care they will suffer either. Its a mental disease.
I believe deep down, ppl just want to burn everything down, they have untreated mental issues, there is no other explanation. Trump is a criminal, a lunatic a moron, its all in plain sight
I do agree they get some thrill out of seeing things collapse. They believe government failed them (with good reason) so they like seeing someone make it suffer. They forget the rest of us suffer too & it’s all part of this plan to make people hate government even more & make it more ineffective.
The MAGAs sure are. Just because you're rural you don't have to be a rube that falls for Trump's BS. Especially in 2024, when you have the Internet and you know how bad GOPs are for farmers.
We will bad-mouth bad PEOPLE, not because they're rural, but because they choose to lose. You should too.
Like I said, not all of us fell for it, 2016 or 2024. Too many though, sad to say. Apparently many in metro areas also bought his sales pitch, including all the “swing states.”
You don't have decades of brain drain since the Great Depression w/o the stupidity exponentially growing through the people that stayed inbreeding after it was evident the economy was dying.
At this point, we really really need to be holding Fox News and others like it accountable. They're networks in America doing things that border and in some cases cross the line on treasonous like behaviors that keep getting allowed to do what they do.
They forgot we were subsidized by the Trump Administration due to low prices. Low prices due to the tariffs. We watched him lose trade that we'll likely not get back. I'm still confused why I'm the minority in the farm community
GOP Tariff playbook...
A)Put massive tariffs on foreign goods.
B) Foreign countries retaliate by putting tariffs on US goods,particularly Agricultural goods.
C)U.S farmers bitch and moan they sell at a loss.
D)U.S government subsidizes loss with taxpayer money adding massively to the debt which is owed to the country we put the tariffs on in the first place.
CHINA
Every single farmer who voted for Trump should NOT receive any subisidies that they will need to keep their farms afloat in the future. Fuck those motherfuckers. I want each of them to lose their farms to a farm corporation and then have their house demolished. Fuck them.
It's racism. Why the fuck can you people not understand this? White farmers will ALWAYS vote against their self interest if it means that a person that doesn't look like them might suffer just a bit more.
JFC you people have so many resources to know this, but you remain ignorant.
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They know JFK won’t be there long.
#ThoseWhoDontLearnFromThePast
I'm out of sympathy for these people. You chose fake "country culture" over your livelihood.
Yeah didn’t think so.
GENIUS
Their hypocrisy is stunning.
Trump only cares about himself, everything else is transactional.
Govt handouts to farmers because you started a trade war is the opposite everything “conservatives” stand for. The irony of these voters.
They’re the state interventionists they accuse the Dems of being.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Oh wait, nevermind 🤦🏻♀️
JFC, effing MORONS!
https://bsky.app/profile/npr.org/post/3lb5ush2mys25
Please, let's not revive that nonsense of "economic anxiety," there is nothing on that front happening.
theyd rather lose everything many times over than have the slimmest, most remote chance they may encounter a fully clothed trans woman washing her hands in the ladies room
"Wolf Man's got nards?"
They deserve what they’re gonna get.
US farmers incomes plummeted in the first trump administration
US farmers just re-elected trump
UK farmers always vote Conservative...54% voted for Johnson to take UK out of the EU
Boris ran up a £22+ billon debt giving Covid funds to his cronies
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Labour now ''taxing UK farmers out of existence...''
Farmers whose incomes have plummeted...because of Brexit
North Dakota - Leading producer of canola and sunflower oil
Iowa - Major soybean oil producer
South Dakota - Significant sunflower and soybean oil
Thanks for voting!
I have been told this by people that grew up rural, but for some reason would never move back to their 500 person town and the farm their family sold 10 years ago.
He said he was going to do all this but they dismissed it as hyperbole. Now we’re all going to pay the price.
These are the stupidest people in the world.
Narrator: "He was not shocked."
Closed Caption: "Not shocked, he was."
They get what they pay for.
He drove you out of business and then made us bail you out.
short memories, long consequences.
We will bad-mouth bad PEOPLE, not because they're rural, but because they choose to lose. You should too.
You don't have decades of brain drain since the Great Depression w/o the stupidity exponentially growing through the people that stayed inbreeding after it was evident the economy was dying.
We have work to do.
The Dominion case SHOULD have ended them
Indeed, Most Americans made a clear choice.
Landslide? That’s what the media want you to believe.
Roughly 244 million Americans were eligible to vote in 2024.
(73,803,704 votes) - D
(76,481,798 votes) - R
It’s just the beginning. #chaos
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A)Put massive tariffs on foreign goods.
B) Foreign countries retaliate by putting tariffs on US goods,particularly Agricultural goods.
C)U.S farmers bitch and moan they sell at a loss.
CHINA
They can take their "alarm" and shove it up their 🍑.
JFC you people have so many resources to know this, but you remain ignorant.