I’m a farmer. I warned my neighbors. I’ve had two hardcore trumpers walk up to me nowon two separate occasions now and tell me to my face “you were right”
I took no victory lap when either of them admitted it. The fact they admitted it was mind-blowing in and of itself. I didnt think they could ever be broken to admit it.
My response, “we’ve got three more years of this bullshit”.
We’re all in this together. But now you fucking understand.
Honestly I don’t think they actually understand. Ask them who they plan to vote for in the mid-terms.
If they truly understand then they should never utter the word Republican for the rest of their lives.
You are probably right. But from personal experience with both of the people who admitted they were wrong, the huge dose of humble pie they ate to ever admit to me, that’s takes real effort. One sees it in his pocketbook. He may forget. The other sees it after a solid dozen of his employees have been deported after ice raids. He’s hurting in his pocketbook and in the personal relationships he has built with his employees.
To be fair I’ve told these people that all farmers should be voting dem across the board, quite militantly, for years now. But guns and “Jesus” made them think I was a madman. I know and understand who’s blood and sweat our tiny world is built on,and finally they are starting to understand it. I hope it is a lesson that sticks. I’ll be doing my damned best to make sure it does.
These are people that have fallen for propaganda. Decades of it. They aren’t bad. They are just stupid for not paying attention. We can fix that. Call it out but please don’t forget your empathy. I’m having a hard enough time as it is.
As a guy who grew up in farmland, still have family friends out there, I honestly am just tired of it all man and have gone full Robot Chicken Batman v Superman.
Sorry but after hearing 30 years of handouts vs helping hand, listening to them moan about crop insurance, literally a social safety net, being too expensive and not getting them to connect the dots that climate instability is ruining your crops, I mean how the hell do you have so many bad years of winter wheat all of the sudden, and hearing “you’re one of the good ones”, no dude I’m your average American as are all of the others you complain about with inaccurate alternative facts.
I’m just kind of all out of F’s to give. I just nod and say hi when I see people for the most part when I go home and just shake my head.
Reminds me of the idiom, “things have to get worse before they’ll get better” – one could say these people are suffering from an addiction to right wing ideology and from the perspective empathy is the wrong choice until they choose and remain on the path to face and overcome their addiction.
I think that’s analogy can make the line clear for those who suggest we do anything that would enable working class republican’s political behavior.
They’ll pull another W. Bush era “republicans got us into this mess so we’re voting them back in so they have to fix it”. I still can’t believe how stupid Americans are.
I still can’t believe how stupid Americans are.
believe it, never forget that the fascists are ‘stupid’ for the same reasons that nigerian prince emails are full of spelling and grammar mistakes
Yeah they should have learned after his last term. There is no hope.
“we’ve got three more years of this bullshit”.
An optimist?
LOOOOL you think he is leaving in three years??
…the only way that piece of shit is leaving the white house is feet first
But will they vote for a Democrat next time? I hope so, but the cynic in me says fuck no they won’t.
Mark my words, Democrats will make it so tempting to not vote for them.
They will find a way.
I’m already getting blasted with ads for the heir apparent to replace Beto here in Texas. Some baby faced compromise that the Texas DNC has picked because of the fucking algorithm or something. Useless bastards all of them. All the Dems in deep red that I know are watching with waited breath for mamdami to win so we can use it as an actual example of what real policy ideals and ‘fuck the DNC’ effort can be. It’s a thousand miles away but that’s what we fucking need to show that these basic ass milquetoast candidates don’t work. Ann Richards hasn’t been relevant for thirty years but they keep trying the same goddamn thing. Fingers crossed they figure it out eventually.
They’re not gonna figure it out because their paycheck depends on it. The DNC — the entire party establishment — needs to have the baby thrown out with the bathwater if the average American has any hope of legitimate opposition to corporate dictatorship.
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The problem is that the economic and legal policy is dogshit on both sides of the aisle. Less dogshit on one side, but it’s not like the Democrats were ever trying to solve people’s problems in the last 50 years.
ROFL, this is 100% Trump and Republican owned. Dems don’t currently hold a single branch
Yes, I’m explaining why they don’t hold a single branch.
Same here. No tears
My tears are for those of us who either voted against it or didn’t get a choice (i.e. the rest of the world). Everyone else can use their own tears for lube while we’re all fucked.
So true. I do feel for those who voted against this or didn’t get a say
Farmers: I’ll still vote for Trump every opportunity I get.
They’ll be out in great numbers, sporting their cult gear to vote for dump a third time.
I don’t feel bad for those immorally underpaying and abusing the desperate and undocumented (maybe the vast majority of them?), but I kinda do for those who weren’t. It’s not so black and white, sometimes people are just more stupid than they are evil and fall for low level propaganda. We should strive to build a world that’s a bit more foolproof, IMO.
Immigrant labor abuse depends on what you’re farming. Corn and soybeans are ridiculously well automated and only need a few people to run hundreds of acres.
Anything else? Needs teams of workers, and of course those are going to be abused immigrants.
The situation echoes the 2018-2020 trade war, during which U.S. agriculture lost $26 billion, with nearly $20 billion in soybean losses alone. Soybeans accounted for 71% of agricultural losses experienced by American farmers during that earlier conflict.
Despite acknowledging that he believes Trump “loves farmers” and is “trying to do what’s right for this country,” he emphasized the need for immediate action: “We gotta make sure that we survive through these tough times.”
Friends… nothing is changing.
China’s smart to redirect purchases to Brazil so aggressively. If they want to create political pressure, it’s effective… But I think they underestimate political loyalty to whatever Trump’s doing these days.
CCP, if you’re reading this, go after the rich guys’ pockets. Trust me, that will create pressure overnight.
Listen: That’s where our food comes from.
This calls for a change of diet: eat the rich.
I’m tired of farmers holding us hostage with this rhetoric.
Trump pulled this shit first time around. This is China Trade War 2.0. They had all the time in the world to think on their vote.
They don’t think. They’re told how to think by the billionaire propaganda machine, and by an evangelical pedophile every Sunday.
Yes, technically, because I’m guffawing so hard it physically hurts.
There are actually a lot of democrat farmers. Most of their polls get really poorly represented by being lumped in with Agriculture Industry as a whole.
Nobody will be laughing once there’s no food.
Eating the rich is the new keto diet
Can someone explain how Trump screwed over farmers? I work with farmers in the northern US, and it was a shorter season for some, but I don’t know how Trump hurt them. Is this strictly because you think tariffs are hurting them, or is it something I missed?
It’s currently affecting soybean farmers the most and it’s a combination of 2 things:
The tariffs have caused China to shift their entire soybean import to Brazil entirely. China purchased 60% of our soybean export and was the biggest customer
The second biggest customer was…USAID…which drumpy also nixed (iirc I think they were another 30% or something)
Are trans-farmers a thing? Are they more than meets the eyes?
Trans farmers, Robert’s in disguise.
Oh they’re more than meets the eyes alright 😏
