The whole point is to ruin farms…a fire sale on farmland that can be sold to corporate farms who can pollute the water and air with impunity. There will be no one left in these communities to demand these corporations be regulated or pay taxes. - ThreadSky

piperformissouri.bsky.social • 7 days ago

The whole point is to ruin farms…a fire sale on farmland that can be sold to corporate farms who can pollute the water and air with impunity.

There will be no one left in these communities to demand these corporations be regulated or pay taxes.

Reposted from Mark Cuban

Any farmers out there that can speak to whether they can get info for planting season ? Or loans to help them get through this ?

Are federal offices open to even process loan requests ?

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catherinezoltan.bsky.social•7 days ago

The whole point is to undermine the nation's food supply.

carolyn10.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just like Mexico.

againstfacists.bsky.social•7 days ago

Mark knows this

jskogs.bsky.social•6 days ago

Also, very convenient for JD Vance and his AcreTrader

nebraskadude.bsky.social•7 days ago

Governor of NE is attempting the same shit here. So far he’s been successful.

texasippihippie.bsky.social•7 days ago

https://civileats.com/2024/09/18/jd-vance-invested-in-acretrader-heres-why-that-matters/

Vance and Peter Thiels plan.

nomad39.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thanks for the informative post.

w0x0f.bsky.social•6 days ago

But they will still have just as many Senate seats.

swmckay.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s not just farms they’re trying to ruin. It’s everything.

sah1109.bsky.social•7 days ago

I could call my renter and ask him but I won’t because he voted for Trump and bragged about it…

zen1924.bsky.social•7 days ago

He is good at failing businesses and causing businesses to fail

vj18.bsky.social•7 days ago

And no immigrant farm workers who work as cheap labor. So Americans will take the job and it will be at a higher wage will which will rise the cost of carrots green beans peas, any vegetable you want to name.

momsapplepie.bsky.social•7 days ago

Perhaps, but if he totally wrecks the economy, there may be more hungry, desperate Americans who will basically become indentured servants just to survive.

simoneviolette.bsky.social•7 days ago

And don't forget the farms RFK Jr is advocating for to "cure" depression, ADHD, drug addiction, etc.

passonx.bsky.social•7 days ago

Yup. @mcuban.bsky.social has no idea!

thisaintright.bsky.social•6 days ago

He’s working the plan

gailwadsworth.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yep. Bill Gates is the largest owner of farmland in the US. He won't suffer.

robert-e-630.bsky.social•7 days ago

The farms will be sold to Indians and Russians

fairkid.bsky.social•6 days ago

Is Big Agri getting the information on the side?

msisson.bsky.social•7 days ago

And of course abuse the local peasantr—I mean, workforce!

There is a highly feudal mindset in the far right.

ifarmky.bsky.social•6 days ago

USDA already announced cash for grain farmers (essentially). I know grain farmers that are ready and waiting to receive- it's the casino
Meanwhile, USDA has cut climate money which was using to assist farmers to be better growers and implement key practices- you know, useful stuff.

celia11.bsky.social•6 days ago

So glad you’re trying to educate these folks about their peril. Kudos.

lisao61.bsky.social•7 days ago

Southern Idaho is a desert. Why allow so much dairy? The Snake River is heavily polluted due to industrial discharges, agricultural runoff, and municipal wastewater entering the river, along with the impact of dams on its flow and water quality, particularly from large dairies and feedlots.

georgiareece.bsky.social•6 days ago

Agree

daisyanne.bsky.social•6 days ago

Also try John Russell works with nonprofit newsroom More Perfect Union.

njohnc.bsky.social•7 days ago

It isn’t just the farms. They are destroying the economy so the rich can buy companies, real estate etc for pennies on the $. There will be no social programs to help. We will work for next to nothing to survive and thank them for it while they get richer. The USA will never be the same. 💔

samson0223.bsky.social•7 days ago

It'll be back to the old coal town days, better look up the lyrics to 16 tons to refresh

abrooksders.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yep, I think that’s the plan. USA as one big company town

comfypantsnp.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is also why they are cutting SNAP. SNAP benefits is billions that is directly invested in grocery stores and by extension the farmers who stock grocery stores. The decrease in demand will certainly hurt farmers.

danhawkins11.bsky.social•7 days ago

Excellent insight!
👍

manmaytag.bsky.social•7 days ago

Just like what happened when Dubya played genius in 08

patsybaloney.bsky.social•7 days ago

Thank you, Jess. Folks just aren't thinking because this really isn't so hard to understand.

billypilgrim26.bsky.social•6 days ago

He's fucking clueless. I wish he'd get another hobby besides sucking Bkuesky bandwidth and heaping advice on the hoi polloi.

radbradley.bsky.social•7 days ago

If this pain in the pocketbook is supposed to make it great later, for all of us - what is the later great going to be? What is the goal in this bro budget?

This is Illiterate Econ 101

(Or maybe the Kremlin Plan carried out by Agent Krasnov?)

kalifissure.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is a CORPORATIST attack on the American people and the American economy.
They are taking away all help and supports for the small farmers.
That's why they hate the Canadian system.

jumpingjax.bsky.social•7 days ago

There should be a law against that.

tree83.bsky.social•6 days ago

Just like the 80's. Same thing Reagan did to family farms. When will these farmers learn to stop voting for these assholes??? I grew up with them and I just don't get it. Remember the John "Cougar" song "Scarecrow"? It's how FarmAid started.

nancyannn.bsky.social•7 days ago

Fire sales on all our assets, not only farms. That’s the goal of the oligarchs funding the destruction of democracy.

THE RICH CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH.

crissxapplesaus.bsky.social•7 days ago

This. Bring farms to ruination so that they can buy them up cheap and turn them into corporate farms with no regulations or oversight.

ddrae.bsky.social•7 days ago

No loans… no nothing. Trump went golfing.

mhodgson6.bsky.social•6 days ago

This is how they run businesses. And why the government should NEVER be considered or run as a business.

here4democracy.bsky.social•7 days ago

Like Vance wants. W his AcreTrader

k8nebraska.bsky.social•7 days ago

You nailed it, yet again.

bobvanbrabant.bsky.social•7 days ago

irishrock.bsky.social•7 days ago

JD owns part in that company that buys up farmland for Pennie’s on the dollar.

augustadsays.bsky.social•6 days ago

https://civileats.com/2024/09/18/jd-vance-invested-in-acretrader-heres-why-that-matters/

kgwalker315.bsky.social•6 days ago

I heard Karoline Leavitt say Chinese are scooping up US farms!

laurachatain.bsky.social•6 days ago

They are. Saudis too

laurachatain.bsky.social•6 days ago

Exactly

tmahon1.bsky.social•6 days ago

Agriculture is tantamount to national security & this administration is killing it.

solarjedimaster.bsky.social•6 days ago

Check to see what your favorite farmer in your zip code is bringing in from federal welfare. It’s fun.
They don’t like to talk about it though.

https://farm.ewg.org/search.php

kafkasrecruit.bsky.social•6 days ago

A return of share cropping and tenant farming.

jatman.bsky.social•6 days ago

And don't forget JD's little entrepreneurial exercise!
https://acretrader.com/home

jatman.bsky.social•6 days ago

Think of all those new jobs on the factory farms!

mylight55.bsky.social•6 days ago

Acretrader

mylight55.bsky.social•6 days ago

Vance Acretrader

akirchuk.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yet another national tragedy

brk-ms.bsky.social•6 days ago

Not just corporate farms. Farms owned by foreign nationals.

agora01619.bsky.social•7 days ago

Farmers sold themselves out. The problem is they never admit their mistake. They typically double down. It's why they overwhelmingly voted for him again.

sanfele.bsky.social•7 days ago

Our local USDA office is open, though much of the staff has been fired. We are working with them on our two NRCS contracts and continuing to spend money on them to fulfill our enfd of the bargain though our partial reimbursements remain frozen. What else can we do?

mitflunkie.bsky.social•6 days ago

And when there are no more jobs, they'll gleefully bring back slavery and serfdom.

skybarney.bsky.social•6 days ago

And every single one of the MAGA voting asswipes deserves it. It pains me to say this, but we are leaving the states.

You'all can wave signs at Elon's dealerships for the two scheduled hour a weekend without us.

laurachatain.bsky.social•6 days ago

Where ya goin?

skybarney.bsky.social•6 days ago

Thailand. We have some connections there due to what I do for a living can actually pick up some work there.

theonlyrealtmcmaui.bsky.social•6 days ago

It's not just the land, they want full control over all food systems. They know the power they can wield over a starving population.

melaniej49.bsky.social•6 days ago

My grandsons firmly believe the economic crisis is intentional. People will resort to selling assets and Trump's oligsrchs are planning on buying up everything.

bean1106.bsky.social•6 days ago

It is intentional. Reference the book "Shock Doctrine"

waimeawitch.bsky.social•7 days ago

Those of us in the middle of the Pacific will pay 2-3x the tariffs (aka TAXES) the Orange Menace imposes. The price of living in paradise keeps climbing. #ThanksTrump

gototown.bsky.social•7 days ago

They want to use AI to farm what's needed but eventually food will probably be grown in a lab. Has anyone seen Brazil? We would be better off with Idiocracy.

heidireinberg.bsky.social•6 days ago

Having just moved to upstate NYC, it will be interesting to talk to all the farmers up here about the impact on them. Not to challenge them, but as a member of the community.

newblue25.bsky.social•6 days ago

You get farmers and rural life. Cuban doesn’t.

breezy217.bsky.social•7 days ago

I’m sorry I’ve lost my empathy for willfully ignorant people 🤷🏻‍♀️the farmers in Montana went whole hog for the orange douche bag, as I’m sure most of your rural communities did. We tried to warn them but their hate and bigotry won the day…welcome them to FAFO

lawnmaker.bsky.social•7 days ago

Don’t let your sense of revenge blind you of the damaged land we leave behind to our grandchildren

breezy217.bsky.social•7 days ago

Don’t let your mumbo jumbo bullshit confuse you into thinking that these trumper farmers give 2 shits about damaging lands for our grandchildren. You reap what you sow.

bulletjournaler.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah, but even us who didn’t fuck around are going to find out. What happens to food production affects all of us.

fboomers.bsky.social•6 days ago

Always give the Fed credit where credit is due!

Fed will again lower interest rates and increase credit availability (but only to those most favored, monied ones, of course) to buy up the 'distressed' acres.

It's GD Chinatown and everyone's in on it.

laurachatain.bsky.social•6 days ago

Not if the tariffs cause inflation

fboomers.bsky.social•6 days ago

Let's watch. There will be a fork in the road with stagflation:

Fed will have to decide to either fight inflation or fund their cronies with cheap $ to scoop up distressed assets on the cheap.

We all know how it's gonna go.

fairydogma.bsky.social•7 days ago

I can't believe Mark Cuban hasn't come to this fucking conclusion like the rest of us have.

Instead, he keeps asking what I would deem seriously inane questions at this juncture.

I'd think he could put his money where his mouth is, but here we are.

They're all the same, these billionaires

fairydogma.bsky.social•7 days ago

ACTING DUMB.

When they full stop know what's up.

Knock it off mark.

dm-underdog.bsky.social•6 days ago

He's planning on running as a "centrist" Democrat in 2028 -- he has the same misguided aim as Schumer, trying to court the center-right instead of embracing the people who actually vote Democrat. These dinosaurs need to be put out to pasture, they're not helping anyone but themselves.

fairydogma.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ugh. I'm over it.

fairydogma.bsky.social•6 days ago

And also, the billionaires time is over. js

all23bunnies.bsky.social•7 days ago

Our growable soil is toast. We have less than a decade of top soil left. (Plows, man.) We could be smart and create regenerative farm cycles within our communities or we could grow in chemicals. They have chosen poorly.

brooke-8.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh yes the whole United States can be bought cheap when Donald has finished destroying us! Our national forest will be turned into lumber and drill baby drill and his daughter and her creepy husband can build resorts wherever they like and I’m sure there’s more I’m not thinking of…

wonkicorn.bsky.social•7 days ago

Think broader. Not just farmland. Land, period. Land is how they control us. It's the backbone of all our oppressions from the 1st step of white people on these soils. Colonialism, slavery, 3/5s Compromise, the Senate, Electoral College, land ownership for women, redlining, institutionalism, etc.

alrglobal.bsky.social•7 days ago

THIS☝🏽. And the EO on the census—re-apportioning congressional districts!

"They have the land, we have the people."

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5268958/trump-order-census-citizenship-question-apportionment

theevidencesays.bsky.social•6 days ago

And as a bonus, they get water rights when they get the farms…

txcanishley.bsky.social•6 days ago

⬆️ right here.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/31/texas-water-pipeline-dispute-georgetown-bryan-college-station-aquifer/

theevidencesays.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Bush family long ago invested in aquifers in South America. Water is the new oil, the new gold, and the new farm value. No surprise that Bill Gates is one of the largest farm “owners” in the U.S.

txcanishley.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yes! And nearly every aspect of the water crisis as a whole in Texas is a ticking time-bomb in and of itself. To be honest, of all the terrible issues we have in this state, this one flat-out terrifies me the most.

what-do-u-want-now.bsky.social•7 days ago

Those rural communities are still Trump supporters even now.

Jess tries hard, but they are not going to vote for anyone who does not hate the same people they hate.

They will lose their farm, their health, their social security, and everything else before they vote against Cheeto. They’re lost.

harrymaroudas.bsky.social•7 days ago

Most of the rural community are not farmers though.

what-do-u-want-now.bsky.social•7 days ago

I wanted to believe they can be turned around and saved. But they lost a seat at the table by running out those who cared and worshiped the culture of hate.

Until they start voting blue, they’re dead to the Democrats.

rhondafs.bsky.social•6 days ago

The intent is to make sure those with any asset whatsoever go bankrupt. Greed wrapped in MAGA ribbon is still greed.

crazygoatlawyer.bsky.social•7 days ago

Jess, you are a breath of fresh air for rural Dems and lefties.

johnadds.bsky.social•6 days ago

Remember Sonny Perdue in 2019? Same old.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/agriculture-secretary-sonny-perdue-says-family-farms-might-not-survive/

oliverthelakerat.bsky.social•6 days ago

Many family farms are quite large and organized as for-profit corporations. Corporate Farms vs Family Farms is a false dichotomy.

catherineshinners.bsky.social•6 days ago

I have read that Bill Gates is one of the largest owners of farmland in the US

sunfloweralways.bsky.social•6 days ago

I thought em removed all funding for farmers and they were afraid they would lose farms that had been in families for generations. Is Mark Cuban able to assist these people?

artemisprime.bsky.social•7 days ago

It’s all one big money grab

nugoomi.bsky.social•7 days ago

donplummer.bsky.social•6 days ago

There might be some thinking about climate change here too, despite their public denials that climate change is even a thing. They want the best, most arable land as a hedge against climate-related famine and loss of productive lands.

davidmckinney59.bsky.social•6 days ago

The cost of insurance will triple making real estate a bad investment.

stolsen.bsky.social•7 days ago

Worst part is the conservative talking points have been all about how China is bullying the small farmer out of work by buying up small farms. They are laying the foundation to bully the American farmer far worse than the lies they told to retain power.

txcanishley.bsky.social•6 days ago

Exactly. ⬇️ Robstown, TX. My great-grandparents started farming there in 1902, and my cousins are still farming those same acres today. The threat this walking greed monster poses to their water supply is horrifying and absolutely devastating.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/musks-1-billion-tesla-plant-needs-water-in-drought-hit-texas

katherinemary.bsky.social•7 days ago

Thank you, @piperformissouri.bsky.social !
That is exactly what their plan is. 😞

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