It's quite simple: You vote for a grifter you are going to be grifted. Common sense 101! We are now ALL paying the price for the actions of the Kool-Aid guzzlers.
I grew up on a family farm; worked there for 20 years; oversaw the delivery of federal farm programs for seven; worked with ag researchers for 15. I cannot fathom how so many of my neighbors still submit willingly to the brain-addled felon who delights in making their lives miserable.
"Oh sure Honey, we're gonna lose the family farm, but at least we won't have to put up with no more DEI and Trans boys competing against our daughters for spots on the cheerleading squad"
Then there is the grain that will be harvested and supposed to go to other nations from USAID that will not get a return for farmers...
Many farmers will have a difficult time, if not go bankrupt..
Dems have to shut it down and lead a MASSIVE coalition into the streets. We cannot allow this lawlessness or we are finished. It can't wait long, but protests must be well-coordinated and publicized and timed for impact.
Zero concern for Mags farmers. I'm fine with giving my empathy to people who hate and who also love self harming every election year. They can't learn. Keep putting their hands on hot stoves
Guess that’s what happens when Elon and the Breakfast Club go poking around in servers and messing shit up🙄 Every American should be pissed; it’s not a left/right issue. It’s a We The People issue!!
Crazy how people voted for Trump while thinking he would never come after their industry or livelihood. Understand that Trump and his cronies do not care if you lose your job or lose your hard earned social security payments or your healthcare. They also don't act like they need to get elected again
Good, maybe they might finally wake up and vote Democrat instead of GOP that takes working class benefits away.
How do we like how eggs prices went down? Exactly!
The sad part is, PINO Trump will spin some ridiculous 'story' about how it's nothing to do with him and the FARMERS WILL BELIEVE HIM and buy into his propaganda.
can't loot what they aren't messing with I think Trump learned a few things hanging out with Missouri politicians. They been stealing this state blind since founded give everyone bs taxes forcing them to eat with a smile despite their failures at governance & being a Christian
FAFO. Farmers voted massively for Trump, and the big AG conglomerates behind him. So much for the family farms. But hey, share cropping has it's benefits I am sure?
I'm gobsmacked at how completely stupidly these people are behaving. I mean it's not really even history yet that he fucked everyone over last time, did an insurrection, became a convicted felon, etc etc and y'all still idolised the freak into power. WTAF is in their skull... vaporware?
Trump’s protectionist tariffs will trigger retaliatory measures that will collapse global trade. U.S. agricultural exports will plummet, leading to falling farm incomes and widespread loan defaults in a chain reaction. The cascading effects will destabilize the U.S. economy. 1930’s all over again.
Yep. I can't imagine losing the family farm because of racism, even though all my neighbors are white. I grew up in rural Indiana. It's still about 99% white.
Yep. Bigotry runs deep in certain families and communities. Very hard to get rid of the generational racism. Especially if they never leave to meet other people or go to school with different people .
We visited Liverpool in Sept. People feel so guilty about how the city benefited financially from US slavery and cotton they have established a Museum of Slavery. We can't even teach it in our schools.
Welp, after his SCOTUS flunkies flipped Roe, a large % of white women still went with him on Election Day. Enabling racism & hating libs were their priorities, it seems.
👊 I hope that the Farmers that voted for Trump in the past three elections! Lose every fucking thing they have. TO A DEMOCRAT! Who knows who to stand up for in this country. And will protect our democracy! The one thing you have in common with your master? Counting money! It's "all" you care about!🖕
My grandparents were farmers in NW Ohio. Sometimes I’m glad they passed before DT was elected, so I don’t ever have to know if they would have embraced his rhetoric. THIS would have infuriated them. It infuriates my mother, the farmers daughter turned pharmacist.
We all saw this coming. Trump's policies impacted farmers his last presidency, yet they still supported him. Why? He will buy their votes like he did last time by offering them a bailout.
Looks like a Regan era farm collapse on the way. I remember when the auctions were going on so many farms.
Regan told farmers to plant grain from fence to fence. Told farmers to count on wheat sales to Russia.
Then the sanctions came. And Regan left the farmers to fend for themselves.
Harsh times
Project 2025 calls for family and small farmers to be run off the land in favor of agribusiness. One would have hoped that these farmers had educated themselves on this, but I definitely don’t want to see Trump succeed in this.
It did come in “chapters”, so anyone with special interests, say, farmers, could have read the section on ag, and it wouldn’t have been too much. I am really hoping Canada stays true. The last thing we need is for Trump to find a fellow traveler to the north.
Right now I’m reading,
The Bonobo Sisterhood,
Revolution Through Sister Alliance
Diane L. Rosenfeld
It’s not as devastating, and hopefully has a much better plan & outcome for women.
And it’s needed more now than ever since the USA has just hired predators to office.
If they run the farmers off of oil & gas rich land, then the next Oil Oligarch won’t have to pay surface lease money to anyone. It’s a win for Chris Wright. He will be the Oily-garch, watch.
Thinking it's just part of the plan to bankrupt farmers, allowing mega corporate farms to take over all agriculture. Once that is done, the oligarchs who own the government will control the food supply. Nothing subjugates faster than starvation. See Stalin, Mao, Kim Jong Un, etc.
Maybe 3. All I know was I had a lot of "first woman to" positions, was free from unwanted pregnancies, could rent an apartment without a male co-signer & had my own money. I am old enough to remember when women couldn't get loans or credit cards. Or a million other things. Changed after Clinton.
That attitude doesn’t work. Because these actions affect us all. The economy is on the brink of collapse. When that happens even no federal employees will lose their jobs.
They are welcome to come join the protests but I’m not going to lie and pretend I feel bad for them because the guy they voted for did exactly what he said he’d do in every single speech he gave.
Just the preponderance of those voting in Iowa, unless someone wants to make the argument that the college towns are full of farmers voting D and the rural counties are full of non-farmers who vote R.
Unfortunately that means you’ll probably be screwed right along with those that did vote for him. And I’ll send along thoughts and prayers, because I’ll feel bad - but choices have consequences and a lot of people voted for these consequences - even if it hurts their family and neighbors
Would be helpful if we could get a list of Democratic, leaning farmers and support them by either buying direct or helping them find commercial accounts.
I am a small subsistence farmer. I have never voted for a Republican but then I have never needed assistance from the government that many of my neighbours depend on every season. I will never understand how they don't see that their favoured party rarely supports them. Particularly this version.
I know two farmers, a dad and son, who have milked $2 mil from the government. Their farm is not sustainable and produces nothing for public use. I’m all for freezing funds on farmers and an over haul of the subsides they receive.
You’re not wrong. I had a long conversation with someone with deep ties to Kansas farms. Some of them intentionally wreck their own crops because the insurance pays. It seems to be more prevalent with farms that also have onsite o&g and wind turbines. They are just getting money from all of it.
Many cuts to the small farm and ranch to table programs, by consolidating their products they could compete against the conglomerates. Many programs were within 100 miles of their area, the products reach their destination fresher, require less preservative methods and cut transportation expenses!?
That's a lot of woke BS to the average MAGAt. Kinda "green new deal-ish" and whatnot. No time for all that out here in the country.
I just can't w these people. I'm ready to step aside and let the results of their votes smack them in the face. They won't learn otherwise.
It would be nice to wait it out till they smack themselves silly, but they are doing so much damage so fast, it seems to dangerous to leave it up to fate!
Yeah definitely a good deal of FAFO going on. At some point we need to unite with these folks who are seeing the light for what ever reason because there are tens of millions of MAGA who will never admit nor accept that they’ve been fucked from the front by Trump and the back by Elon.
From a farm family who never voted for this, anyone who didn’t learn their lesson the first time around shouldn’t be crying now. Those tariffs would have bankrupted a lot of small farms if they weren’t propped up by subsequent subsidies because he needed votes. He has no reason to help you now.
It's not as if Trump stole something like $25B from the US treasury to give to the farmers whose crops were rotting due to the useless trade war Trump started, right?
I keep thinking about how much multi-generational expense this mess is going to cost taxpayers if we survive it all. The farmer bailout of Trump’s first tariff war is my touchstone.
Sorry you are stuck with some neighbours and likely family that can’t see thru his ‘charisma’. He wants all corporate farming & he hates us common people - is there any hope that one day those who think they love him will discover that he despises them?
I hope for you the very best.
So you mean to tell me that these farms could go out of business and the billionaires could sweep in and take over their land? Whoever could have seen that coming?
I worry more about Chinese buyers. There’s been a lot of that related to pork production.
Land near defense assets (particularly missile installations) are prized. We’ve been asleep. Bethany Allen’s superb, Beijing Rules is authoritative. And terrifying.
It’s no surprise. Farmers have been sold this tale that they’re special-er and more noble to America than most others, and I honestly think both they and this administration believe(d) that farm subsidies came from some gigantic endowment left to Congress by Jesus himself 🧵
when really the subsidies and loans are part of a complex global economic system with a heaping dose of socialism. Freezing the grants and loans is like getting caught by your kid eating the cookies they left for Santa but we all need to grow up eventually.
This needs to be passed around rural Minnesota! Farmers here are generally huge MAGA fans. Farming is big business here. Their perpetual bitching about how they don't benefit from the government (um . . . crop subsidies just fall for the sky, I guess) gets really tiring to hear.
So where are the rural Democrats running for Congress? Let’s recruit and fund them, now that rural America may finally listen. @kenmartin.bsky.social @davidhogg.bsky.social
Part of "flood the zone" is to do disinformation. Which is easy to do b-c we are all so conditioned to believe (certain) things the fed gov says without question.
They are definitely in the FO Stage!!! Welcome to the Party!!! Farmers will be bankrupt and just in time for Musk and Trump to buy up their land!! Good Job Guys! You sealed your fate!
Yep it's true. Here in Wisconsin, dairy and potato farms rely heavily on migrant workers, and now they are concerned that all their help is about to be deported. How do you not have the foresight to see that voting for Trump is going to be bad for you?
Note the first farms to go will be small, poor, and marginalized group producers who likely did not vote for 34 felonies. That FAFO affects farmers markets, farms counting on funding to keep the land they spent their entire life savings on, and your grocery bill. You can’t eat spite.
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Many farmers will have a difficult time, if not go bankrupt..
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Anyway. 🤷🏼♀️
How do we like how eggs prices went down? Exactly!
The same ones who think Democrats just want to dole out money for nothing but think nothing of getting massive subsidies.
Then he'll take credit when they reopen the government subsidy teet.
Classic abusive behavior, and they will eat it up because the media will pretend they didn't know this was the plan the whole time.
He loves the headlines and loves when we say he's bad and they're stupid.
It just gives him the savior headline he wants later.
The only ones he permanently screws are the middle class, non-whites, and women.
but its what you wanted.
These people gave away our country to the not-sies and oligarchs. We will likely never get it back.
2025 Me: oh well, fuck them. Next….
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Both are of equal value on the FOREX‼️😏
Voted for the orange diaper.
https://youtu.be/BEZhvv3cNoQ?si=dPGbPC-cYWY3T-O3
Regan told farmers to plant grain from fence to fence. Told farmers to count on wheat sales to Russia.
Then the sanctions came. And Regan left the farmers to fend for themselves.
Harsh times
The introduction was enough for me.
I best make the effort though. Fascism is alive & growing in kkkanada!
The Bonobo Sisterhood,
Revolution Through Sister Alliance
Diane L. Rosenfeld
It’s not as devastating, and hopefully has a much better plan & outcome for women.
And it’s needed more now than ever since the USA has just hired predators to office.
Did you expect anything different?
The scientists say that Neanderthals live among us.
I’m reading The Bonobo Sisterhood
Revolution Through Alliance
It explains male toxicity & their necessity for control.
If you get a chance read it, pass it on.
We are all sisters! 🥰
Distract the common people with DEI as you pull a bait and switch. He only cares about himself and making money. It’s the art of the deal…
OTOH, if you got a hen or two they're pretty quiet and you'll get eggs. Also, chicken diapers are available.
Now it’s a dictatorship!
Bless their hearts & move on. 😁
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i should, these people killed it in me.
$1.9 billion in crop purchases will be cancelled if USAID is ended.
I just can't w these people. I'm ready to step aside and let the results of their votes smack them in the face. They won't learn otherwise.
And who is going to swoop in and buy all those farms for pennies on the dollar?
Control the food, control the people!
I hope for you the very best.
Land near defense assets (particularly missile installations) are prized. We’ve been asleep. Bethany Allen’s superb, Beijing Rules is authoritative. And terrifying.
The overwhelming majority of conservative rural voters are great people. Hardworking, family focused and honest.
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There are lots of people with conservative values everywhere. I like that.
I'm an indie who's extremely liberal on social issues and conservative in fiscal ones.
That doesn't make me right.
same song and dance this time
So the USAID freeze will directly hurt the Testers.
https://dailymontanan.com/2025/01/13/tester-to-work-his-family-farm-put-some-flies-on-the-water-to-see-whats-next/
It's sad. Pathetic.