The Trump Administration is hurting American farmers. By freezing USDA conservation grants for farms and ending USAID, which buys 10-20% of the whole export market, Trump is taking direct aim at our farms. - ThreadSky

altcdc.bsky.social • 13 days ago

The Trump Administration is hurting American farmers.

By freezing USDA conservation grants for farms and ending USAID, which buys 10-20% of the whole export market, Trump is taking direct aim at our farms.

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jamesmccullar.bsky.social•12 days ago

They voted for him. Let 'em suffer.

shipvalet.bsky.social•13 days ago

Prettt sad considering the majority of them probably supported him.

nohyphens.bsky.social•13 days ago

I am pro-farmer Dairy farmer for years so this is stating fact, not a condemnation. ( this is my opinion:We need farmers, small farms to survive as a country) He screwed over the farmers in his first term, and the tax payers payed billions to keep them afloat, thank god.

nohyphens.bsky.social•13 days ago

He’s an asshole. Just because he only eats Big Macs, and I’m pretty sure McDs isn’t getting any grain for their buns from a reputable farm.
I’m now going to fantasize about pushing him a manure pit, no way he can keep his face out of the sloppy, rank shit

snowsnake76.bsky.social•12 days ago

One of them burgers must have been infected with Mad Cow disease

nohyphens.bsky.social•12 days ago

Hahaha !

fishymcgee.bsky.social•13 days ago

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/06/trump-california-water-policy-farmers-00202751

whahtsnext.bsky.social•13 days ago

In my very red state of Tennessee, many farmers are finding out just what they voted for. It’s pitiful, really. But this is what they wanted. Hopefully they’ll learn from this. Glad I voted against it. My conscience is clear.

homesteadres.bsky.social•13 days ago

The leopards are eating well

sabrinarj.bsky.social•13 days ago

😡

mamamouse.bsky.social•13 days ago

*blinks in rural Nebraskan*
Wow, it's almost like we tried to tell these farmers to vote blue

annahistorian.bsky.social•13 days ago

Eventually, they want the food supply to control the US population & as a world trade negotiation tool. See Venezuela.

jcabalquinto.bsky.social•12 days ago

They will reap what they sow.
78% of the largest farming counties in the country voted for the Felon. Maybe next time farmers will listen... but most may not be around next time.

solenne-e-um.bsky.social•13 days ago

📌

dbergstr.bsky.social•13 days ago

Where are the benefitting at interests? Nobody’s gonna complain about $ shut off?

stuffabouthockey.bsky.social•13 days ago

Why is Congress even making a budget if they've ceded spending power to Elmo?

Any bipartisan stuff to gain D support will be canceled by Elmo, so they're not operating in good faith.

jcucco.bsky.social•13 days ago

Looking at the states' votes, a huge majority wanted this. We will just bail them out and they will praise Trump as their savior when he causes their problems in the first place. This country isn't smart enough for democracy.

strisi.bsky.social•12 days ago

Many of those farmers will not admit that he is harming them. They will lose their farms cursing Biden despite reality.

gburkes.bsky.social•13 days ago

Just the little family farms. Large corp farms a special "citizens" that have back door access to welfare subsidies from taxpayers.

openingmyheart.bsky.social•13 days ago

Farmers knew tariffs affected them negatively during Trump's last term, yet they still voted for him en masse. I'm sure we can expect bailouts paid for by the taxpayers in the near future.

fishymcgee.bsky.social•13 days ago

This is exactly why they supported him… They want socialism… They want to privatize their profits and shift their costs onto the public

openingmyheart.bsky.social•13 days ago

To be fair, farmers have ALWAYS received subsidies, And they likely always will under our current form of government. Even Daniel Mitchell of the right-wing Cato Institute acknowledges the scam. https://fee.org/articles/the-absurd-world-of-agriculture-subsidies/

florafaunafarm.bsky.social•13 days ago

This doesn’t apply to all farmers. We are a very small farm, but we do farm for profit and aim to feed our community. And for the record we voted for Harris.

florafaunafarm.bsky.social•13 days ago

To be more fair, it’s a certain scale or class shall I say of farmer that has always received subsidies. Commodity growers that are all about production. They’re capitalists just like Wall Street folk, it’s just these ones ride atop a $1M piece of machinery.

openingmyheart.bsky.social•13 days ago

You're absolutely correct, and my apologies for not stating that clearly.

florafaunafarm.bsky.social•13 days ago

It’s cool, I know the larger discussion isn’t really about farms like mine and I recognize that me commenting can create infighting which we definitely don’t need. But I do feel that people making broad statements about farmers makes the general public suspicious of people like me and it sucks.

florafaunafarm.bsky.social•13 days ago

This doesn’t apply to all farmers. We are a very small farm, but we do farm for profit and aim to feed our community. And for the record we voted for Harris.

onewillfall.bsky.social•13 days ago

Yep the Trump first term farmer bailouts cost tax payers 16 billion in 2018

37526699.bsky.social•12 days ago

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feraljoe.bsky.social•12 days ago

He hit them hard with the USAID destruction and migrant workers deportations too. Going to see a lot of farms fail this year.

feraljoe.bsky.social•12 days ago

Wonder if that is the goal. Starve the serfs to make them more pliable.

xhado.bsky.social•13 days ago

The end goal is to eliminate competition and place food production into the hands of a powerful few. After it becomes impossible to farm as a business, they will eliminate right to farm laws, making sure your access to food is thru them alone. He who controls the food controls the empire

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