#TRUMPXIETY: that awful feeling that a stupid dishonest unpredictable President is going to destroy your business, your markets, your food supply, your ability to get car parts & appliances & medicine, your investments, your retirement, your courts, your education, your healthcare, & your liberty.
So who sells the most pulled pork sandwiches? Cause they better up their advertising campaign. And with Medicare being defunded you're going to see a lot more jammers.
Tariffs are an import tax. Paid by the importer. Chinese owned pig farms will not be worried by tariffs unless they are importing pig feed. This is China cancelling orders to debase the pork price in the US so that Republican pig farmers make no money or even have nowhere to sell their pork.
I don't think they ever should allow foreign countries to own American farms & use our resources to grow food to ship back to their people while Americans are food insecure.
We are only food insecure because of distribution. American farmers can easily grow enough calories for everyone in the world.
We dump mountains of cereal grains and beans every year because distributors won't send it to areas threatened by famine.
Food insecurity is just profit caused.
If you give it away then why will people pay for it at all? If you want to maintain prices and profits, sometimes you have to manufacture shortage. Who cares about people; the world runs on profit.
The corollary to this of course is food could be a lot cheaper if they sold everything.
That probably doesn't even count the small Chinese family investments in smaller farms, where they own the debts of farms owned by US citizens. Chinese farm investment is massive.
People in the Southeastern US are paid so much less than people in other parts of the US that international investors are heavily invested in farms, factories and call centers down here.
Consequently, the Southeast currently suffers an extreme labor shortage...
Which will not last long.
Tragic.
Farmers fear what's outside their farms.
I always wanted to start a farmers' radio station, with country and Native music, weather, commodities report on corn, beans, OJ, and pork bellies, with talk shows as antidotes to Faux Snooze.
Blue states need to Stop supporting red states, at least until all this is resolved. We are no longer united. They want to treat us like enemies but still Take? I will die on that fcking hill.
North Carolina hog farms are heavily contracted by Smithfield, which is owned by WH Group, which is a Chinese company. We were surrounded by those hog farms when we lived there.
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As others have said China would be stupid to tariff something they want.
But cancelling sends a strong message that “hey we will go elsewhere or do without”.
I really don’t want to be cheering for this but the only way MAGA is going to wake up is when the harsh reality hits them personally. They don’t care about anyone else.
If it were 1935, would you feel the same way about the Nazis? It's okay to cheer against the bad guys. They have wiped out 100 years of progress and you feel bad about cheering? They are loathsome and they need to be knocked down so far that they never try this again.
I am seeing the layers of ability to defend this slowly chip away. It’s hard to seperate the word tariff from Trump and put in on Biden. They see it as a short term sacrifice and are trusting him right now— but that may not last much longer.,
These people have been on the receiving end of a MASSIVE, decades long disinformation campaign. The very poor have been preyed upon, using information silos and natural communal behavior. They've been told their entire lives that the dems are evil, and have never been shown any other truth.
That's never happening. That's not how cults work. Anyone who was going to come back to reality, has already done so. These are the true, Kool-Aid drinking believers. If he asks them to jump off a cliff, they will. We all need to accept that they are never going to figure it out.
That is a lot of $ lost for the pork farmers. Unfortunately. Maybe they should deliver the pork to the White House Lawn. DOGE can't find any fraud or waste? How about 12,000 metric tons of Pork?
Karma. Everybody around the world knows the Republicans are trying to bust the constitution so they will do whatever they can do to hurt trumps people to make him look bad, that’s what it has come to. China must know Democrats are trying to save democracy. 😂😂👁️
The sad part is that his voters are mostly incapable of recognizing things for how they are, especially from foreign countries. So he'll tell them some BS & they'll be believing the other countries are doing this for other reasons instead to hurt them all. They'll never get mad at him.
Apparently, the trump admin is under the impression that China and other countries are dumb, uninformed and without power. I never thought I would agree with China standing up the USA, but here we are.
Couldn't have happened to a more deserving group of people. This is just the beginning and its going to affect every aspect of their lives. Medical, schools, food, all of it.
"After the tariff hikes, China inked two agricultural trade agreements with Spain, for pork and cherries, as Beijing looks to strengthen relations with European countries, Reuters reported."
Oh dear. 😆
red states, owning the libs may not work anymore, the country and WORLD is onto you. and wait until blue states stop helping you! have fun with all that!
I know CA needs to be banking the revenue that gets passed onto red states for a fund to prepare for disaster relief we know we will need and this admin will deny.
Turn it over to food banks!
What's that? Red states won't do that? They'll let it rot first?
Wonder what's wrong with the US....
I still blame NRA-think: "I'm just itching to shoot someone DEAD... !"
So we should all expect pork chop and bacon prices to plummet now then? What, No you say? Because corporate profits you say? Oh, okay. I'll keep paying too much as usual.
Dude let them red states starve. Seriously. I absolutely LOVE that the ENTIRE FUCKING CIVILIZED WORLD AT LARGE IS ATTACKING RED AMERICA. THIS IS WHAT SHOULDVE FUCKING HAPPENED THE MOMENT WE FOUND OUT REPUBPICANS LIED TO GO TO FUCKING WAR 24 FUCKING YRS AGO.
Tell that 2 Sarah Huckabee Sanders right now begging 4 disaster relief & literally being told "Handle it yourself" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They don't give a fuck. He got his second term & the only thing that makes him even give a slight 💩 about his approval rating now is his thinking of a 3rd term. Otherwise wtf 🤷♂️
The hypocrisy is real with them. Im 40 & was able to recognize it back when I was 16 watching the 2000 elections & still in A.P American Gov im high school. Fucking insane ppl are so gullible & naive. Its not wonder being a con man is so profitable, ppl really are dumb
I dont know if its as much an oxymoron as it is more a conundrum. See cause they claim to be "self made" while basing that off work their family did generationally. Whereas today a "self made farmer" would be someone who says "Im buying a farm" & runs a successful farm.
I agree sick of a donor state being pushed out by magat taker states. Fuck them all. If we get no benefit from federal government why send them money secede
I've been saying the masses should protest by not paying their taxes for a long LONNGGGGGG time now. A) they couldn't possibly arrest us all & the statement would be made B) the wealthy of the world would literally shit themselves & would accept paying closer to their fair share. #OurBostonTeaParty
I hate that farmers will suffer, but maybe, just maybe this will finally sink in for the red hats that Trump is only for Trump. He doesn’t care about you unless you can buy his cryptscam coins.
I know we’re talking about pork, but poultry farmers were more than happy to DONATE 30,000 eggs for the stupid WH egg roll (where no child gave one fuck about real vs. plastic eggs) so fuck MAGAt farmers too.
Trump is biting the knuckle that feeds US: Smithfield Foods, a Chinese owned company, controls more than a quarter of U.S. pig production and owns about 146,000 acres of land, making it one of the largest landowners in American agriculture.
I’m glad the focus is on the red states, though of course it affects your entire country. Trump doesn’t care, though. Until it affects him directly he won’t do anything about it.
China has been outplaying Trump here but every time he lies about Xi coming to the table, stocks go up. Conservatives will ignore the farmers taking another loss here.
Is this how Trump will lower the price of pork in America, by making farmers so desperate to not go bankrupt that they will be willing to sell their product below cost? Or will Trump boost farms with a tariff offset handout & force low prices like with the free gov’t cheese programs of the past?
The empty shelves crisis is starting. I read Home Depot, and Walmart and Target begged Trump to stop the tariffs because soon they will have nothing but empty shelves. Trump doesn't care.
I was trying to buy big and tall men’s shirts for my husband last night on https://Belks.com. The Salt Life T-shirts were pretty much picked over. The summer hasn’t even started.
If his cult followers don’t understand that he is set on destroying this country then I think they aren’t paying attention. Everything he has done will hurt the red states more than the blue states.
I am from Iowa, and have a sister whose family are pork producers. They voted for Kamala, and are heartbroken that they are in the FO stage that follows FA and despise the fact that they can say "I told you so."
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It's easy to lose sight of the fact that most red states are made up of a bunch of ordinary people -- kids, teens, single moms, young guys trying to get out of an abusive home, middle aged folks supporting families, elders trying to stretch their dollars. A lot of them very poor, raised in decay.
Yes all that is true but the fact they keep voting for people who do nothing to support them is the problem. It’s hard to feel for them when they blame all their problems on the “the libs”.
Too bad
As great deals in negotiating go
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One state at a time in redness & angsts
American here in a purple state, having same reaction except a slight bit less guilt over it. Hmm… I think if no Americans are going to set boundaries with these people and their absolutely antisocial behaviors then somebody has to.
I hear you but I worry that people don’t distinguish between Trump (who is a pariah) and the average American that we have more in common than we don’t
I agree with you,we are not America for the next four years. We are now Dumbphuckistan,NOT to be trusted until we purge ourselves of these self-serving recycled Nazis who are too cowardly to admit to being recycled Nazis. Good luck to us all, we're all going to need it...
I’m an American. It was my first reaction, too. Seems all Americans are going to have to suffer, but if it crushes MAGA, everyone I know is ready to suffer.
What is wrong with y'all?
Here's my question: Did EVERYONE vote to remove the United Kingdom from the EU? You remember that, don't you? EVERYONE must have because that is what happened. See where I'm going with this, or do I need to pull out the crayons and draw a picture?
It's a reality check that some deserve.
You can't FA, without eventually FO. It's a pity that all of us will have to suffer the consequences of the actions of the few but, at least none of this comes as a surprise to me!
...and I, as an American, hate myself for it as well. Some lessons are hard to learn but we can not go it alone on this small blue planet, third from the sun, called earth.
Checkmate, libtards!! I'll be happy in poverty knowing that a drag queen will never kill school children by bludgeoning them to death with a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird....
I fucking hate this timeline. I want to go back to the Berenstein Bears timeline. Thanks alot, CERN!
Great article, thank you. The swine sections of my ag degree discussed lagoons more than anything else, but it’s good to see at least one of the farmers trying to utilize the waste in a safe, sustainable way with the digester setup.
I read that series in Rolling Stone years ago and there is plenty more where that came from, easy to find online and not paywalled. They really dug into the story, pardon the pun. Maddening, really, how poor US communities in the Carolinas were exploited like that.
We’ve switched places thanks to the original owners wanting to make money at the expense of American society, and Trump is working to take us all the way back to the child labor sweat shops and coal miners slaving away at gun point.
Yup will buy iPhones and electronics from china and they will by advanced value add stuff like Pork and Corn from us. The Biden investments created chip factories and high tech. I think Trump wants us to start sewing clothes. And everybody wants to work at a: "Now with less safety" coal mine.
It's so fckn sad though (jokes aside) It's the same vibe as all the fishermen who who voted for Brexit here (🇬🇧) and now the whole fishing industry is in tatters.
And the farmers, who had to let entire crops rot due to immigrant labour shortage. Not enough I-told-you-so in the world.
Given Russia, interfered in the Brexit vote, similar to the way they helped Trump win. I never understood why more people didn’t make the argument that Brexit vote was illegitimate and it should be redone.
Free ribs for a year in the Carolinas!
No pork with Chinese food I’ll bet!
Can republicans find more ways to hurt themselves?
I sure hope so cuz they are so good at it.
Therefore, logically, the price of Boeing jets and pork should hit an all time low! Supply vs demand. What a concept. If only we didn’t allow our tax dollars to make up the difference through subsidies. America first, but not if it interferes with profit. #AmericanGenocide
I agree! I wish people would get their pork from small farms that raise their pigs humanely. I have access to bacon and pork that has the certified humane label on it.
Agreed, but until Blackberry makes a major comeback or we get a Canadian version of Apple and as disappointed as I am with Tim🍎 for helping to fund Trump's Project 2025 by giving him a One Million dollars, I think I would still need some services like iCloud, apple pay, private relay, music & news.
These people have been on the receiving end of a MASSIVE, decades long disinformation campaign. The very poor have been preyed upon, using information silos and natural communal behavior. They've been told their entire lives that the dems are evil, and have never been shown any other truth.
China is playing 3D chess while the orange one can barely manage checkers. This along with the cancelled Boeing orders is going to leave a huge mark. Art of the deal my ass.
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The irony is that the largest pork producer in the U.S. is Smithfield Foods, which is owned by the WH Group, a Chinese company and based in Smithfield, Virginia.
...when the coming recession (looking like it could be a depression) materializes, at least we'll have plenty of pork and soybeans for domestic consumption 😒
Never start a fight you can’t win, don’t have a plan or a way out. I guess in 90 days we are going to pretend that none of this shit ever happened. Tariffs, who said anything about tariffs?
By canceling red state contracts, China is playing the smart game. Very smart. I hope pocketbook pain brings our red states back into the democratic fold. It would be for the wrong reasons, but I’d be willing to overlook that.
'Blue' states are going to feel the effects too--China doesn't want Boeing's planes. In rural eastern Washington State, the biggest apple importers are Mexico, Canada, the Middle East, India, Taiwan, Central America...and China & Hong Kong. Sweet cherries, wheat, hay, etc. Farmers will hurt here.
Consequences are the only thing a conservative understands. They’ve had so so many chances. Now that they’re drowning, it’s time to put the hose in their mouths.
The only silver lining that any of this could possibly have as we all sit online & gloat about FAFO, is that this will be the death knell and the complete and utter destruction of the Republican Party once and for all. Hopefully their base will wise up & finally see them for the demons they are.
I’m very concerned The Joint Chiefs haven’t stepped into remove him yet. What are we waiting on here? No President in the history of this country has ever been such a clear and present danger to the ENTIRE world. All enemies foreign and domestic ? We’re at the domestic part, LFG Joint Chiefs!🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
One has to wonder at this point, how they could be so gullible. 🤦🏻♂️Many are getting off the train but, sadly it took them taking a hit before that occurred. They were fine with every other evil illegal degree until it hit them personally. Hopefully they’ve seen the error of their ignorance.🤷🏻♂️
“Moral hazard arises when one party has an incentive to behave in a way that increases risk, knowing that the negative consequences will be borne by another party.”
MAGA should be treated like Lehman Brothers. Moral Hazard has to apply to Republicans like everyone else. We can’t keep encouraging their evil and stupidity by socializing losses from their irrational behavior.
I’m wondering what the farm bankruptcy rate needs to be to change their politics?
To be fair, some of them "just couldn't do 4 more years of Biden" for no other reason than that's the slogan they were instructed to believe as gospel.
The election results were hacked by Musk.
We do not have any idea how anyone voted or how many voted for either party...
Sure, there are lots of MAGA farmers, but with only hacked vote totals to look at, it does not make sense to blame any victims, unless they are wearing their red hat of stupidity.
I'd actually like to see a few red states, like Texas & Florida, have their election results audited. My gut feeling is that their results might not be as red as we assume. I mean, who really believes Ted Cruz was reelected without hacking? Even the GOP would not give him cash for his campaign... 😇
Don't do the not trusting elections thing, it makes you as bad as them.
And after watching him for the last few months do you really think Musk is actually smart enough to pull that off?
The probable election hack in '24 has no similarities with the Stop the Steal BS from '20.
In '20, the election results were audited to high heaven & zero fraud was found.
In Nov, absolutely no forensic auditing or hand recounts were conducted, despite evidence of hacking.
The two are not the same.
I’d bet they were all just quotes from the zombie MAGATS who are like parrots and just repeat everything their dear leader says. If that was even remotely true they wouldn’t have lost the House and Senate.
If there had been strenuous forensic auditing of the battleground states' "results" in Nov & it showed Trump winning, despite all of the anomalies, then I would join you in saying "okay, Americans are dumb & too many are willing to accept GOP fascism".
But, there was zero forensic auditing. Zero.
The evidence of Russian election interference for Trump in '16 is also indisputable. Hence Trump's strenuous efforts to suppress & obstruct any investigation of the election in '17 & Barr's bastardization of the Mueller Report when it was completed.
Only the naive would "trust" the GOP in '24.
Believe what makes you happy.
The GOP stole the 2000 election w/ their Brooks Brother coup in FL. There was a court-ordered hand recount going on when the SC stepped in to give W the WH.
In 2004, the GOP won solely by malfeasance in Ohio. Confirmed by the NY Times in 2005, after it was too late.
Unfair and short-sighted. Both progressives and conservatives live in red states. None is truly red or blue -- all are different shades of purple. All of us will be hurt
So what, they're getting what they voted for, they hated people because they're different than them, fucked around, finding out. Zero pity for them, ZIP, ZILCH, NADA!!!
There is such a thing called moving trucks. Red states are red states and blue states are blue states; and then there are the purple states who unfortunately determine our elections. You chose to live in a red state so own it.
And sometimes you find yourself in a red state & live in a blue city & lived there 71 years; have a home & community that you don't want to be uprooted from. Many blue cities are in red states with a large rural population that votes red.
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We dump mountains of cereal grains and beans every year because distributors won't send it to areas threatened by famine.
Food insecurity is just profit caused.
The corollary to this of course is food could be a lot cheaper if they sold everything.
Consequently, the Southeast currently suffers an extreme labor shortage...
Which will not last long.
Farmers fear what's outside their farms.
I always wanted to start a farmers' radio station, with country and Native music, weather, commodities report on corn, beans, OJ, and pork bellies, with talk shows as antidotes to Faux Snooze.
Shut it all down, unions wobble, airlines, manufacturing, retail, trucking, transportation, shipping! tRump, vAnts, johnson must resign.
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If my math is right.
As others have said China would be stupid to tariff something they want.
But cancelling sends a strong message that “hey we will go elsewhere or do without”.
Suck it Trump!
Faux will still tell them it’s Biden, Obama, Hillary, immigrants, Kamala, the LBGTQ, DEI, the woke, Soros, etc.
They’ve well trained their audience to always have someone else to blame, never Orange Jesus.
No reason to waste our breath, time, or energy on them.
Much better to focus on the non-voters who are going to be affected.
Oh dear. 😆
Shock.
What's that? Red states won't do that? They'll let it rot first?
Wonder what's wrong with the US....
I still blame NRA-think: "I'm just itching to shoot someone DEAD... !"
More unemployment driving down wages while prices are going up.
You really have to be a special kind of stupid to vote for this.
They don't give a fuck. He got his second term & the only thing that makes him even give a slight 💩 about his approval rating now is his thinking of a 3rd term. Otherwise wtf 🤷♂️
This little piggy stayed home.
This little piggy rotted on the bone.
The piggy farmers lost everything,
Because the Orange One is alone (in his own little world)
Crooks
FAFO
When are people going to realize that the right is comprised of rich people who do not care about anyone else?
I’ve seen companies doing commercials, trying to sell a side of beef at a good price. Not sure if that would work for your sister but..,
A coworker actually bought an additional freezer for their apartment to buy meats on sale, it seems that we are heading towards a depression
People are being hurt!
But they will get a depression.
BACON WITH EVERYTHING!
As great deals in negotiating go
The art of Grifter is hobo Donnie trade Marking his territory with Devaluations
One state at a time in redness & angsts
I cannot abide bullies.
Here's my question: Did EVERYONE vote to remove the United Kingdom from the EU? You remember that, don't you? EVERYONE must have because that is what happened. See where I'm going with this, or do I need to pull out the crayons and draw a picture?
You can't FA, without eventually FO. It's a pity that all of us will have to suffer the consequences of the actions of the few but, at least none of this comes as a surprise to me!
I fucking hate this timeline. I want to go back to the Berenstein Bears timeline. Thanks alot, CERN!
And the farmers, who had to let entire crops rot due to immigrant labour shortage. Not enough I-told-you-so in the world.
Hopefully the new govt are taking steps to reverse it, or at least getting some better trade deals.
Sorting out Russian (Trump) DISINFORMATION is a full-time job.
No pork with Chinese food I’ll bet!
Can republicans find more ways to hurt themselves?
I sure hope so cuz they are so good at it.
And the poor hungry in red states would demand to let it rot. Lol
They voted for him, now they will reap the benefits, lol
That many less dead tortured pigs
Maybe it will close down the hog farms polluting our CapeFear river
I dont eat it
But i have no issue with
That
It time for California to break off and be its own country.
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It's too bad people will suffer for it. It's not too bad that some of them will be MAGA fools.
...when the coming recession (looking like it could be a depression) materializes, at least we'll have plenty of pork and soybeans for domestic consumption 😒
#Tariffs #StableGenius #Economy #Recession #Resist
Fuck Trump
JUST to own the Libs
👍🏻
Not bad
The president was already spending double his predecessor to spare farmers the cost of his trade war. Now the price is reaching unsustainable levels. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/14/donald-trump-coronavirus-farmer-bailouts-359932
I’m wondering what the farm bankruptcy rate needs to be to change their politics?
‘Here’s your check’: Trump’s massive payouts to farmers will be hard to pull back
The president was already spending double his predecessor to spare farmers the cost of his trade war. Now the price is reaching unsustainable levels. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/14/donald-trump-coronavirus-farmer-bailouts-359932
Idiots set their own house on fire, and will be the loudest about how it's burning.
We do not have any idea how anyone voted or how many voted for either party...
Sure, there are lots of MAGA farmers, but with only hacked vote totals to look at, it does not make sense to blame any victims, unless they are wearing their red hat of stupidity.
They fucked themselves because they were so eager to hurt strangers they scapegoated because they failed and have no ability to self reflect.
And after watching him for the last few months do you really think Musk is actually smart enough to pull that off?
In '20, the election results were audited to high heaven & zero fraud was found.
In Nov, absolutely no forensic auditing or hand recounts were conducted, despite evidence of hacking.
The two are not the same.
https://electiontruthalliance.org/2024-us-election-analysis
https://electiontruthalliance.org/2024-us-election-analysis
But, there was zero forensic auditing. Zero.
Only the naive would "trust" the GOP in '24.
The GOP stole the 2000 election w/ their Brooks Brother coup in FL. There was a court-ordered hand recount going on when the SC stepped in to give W the WH.
In 2004, the GOP won solely by malfeasance in Ohio. Confirmed by the NY Times in 2005, after it was too late.
The US needs China!!
Grow some balls America, this will not end peacefully.