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Marycat2021's avatar

"stewardesses"? Don't you mean flight attendants? And "waitresses"? Come on, really.

You ignored the fact that both male and female workers are being affected by Trump's bullshit.

Anyway, who didn't see it coming? Obviously Congress didn't give a shit and they've allowed Trump to fuck over the farmers and, by extension, all of us who eat food in America and the people who have worked the fields and factories for low pay and poor working conditions. Steaks are selling in my local supermarket for $50 each, and ground beef will set you back $8 a pound.

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Stephanie Hobbs's avatar

He doesn't need their votes, so maybe NO bailout?

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Marycat2021's avatar

And how long before we have no elections at all?

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S Nassi's avatar

Trump apparently didn’t just throw money at them; he made it easier to exploit farm workers. The farmers who voted for him like that.

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Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

"Of course Trump knew full well this was going to happen, because it happened in his first term too: He levied tariffs, farm bankruptcies reached the highest level in a decade, and he ended up giving farmers a $16 billion bailout."

That's funny - the Mad King doesn't apply knowledge or reason to any of his actions, his world is pure id, "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing".

The idiot farmers are fucked and so are we. Time to lay out next year's "victory garden".

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larry gassan's avatar

Farmers’ pronouns: Was/Were

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werecat's avatar

This gets to my feeling that this is all just a big tragicomedy and that moments like this, sad as they are, are also worthy of a chuckle. Or as my dad used to say, "American voters consistently vote against their own self-interest out of animosity for others."

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Marcie. To quote Machine Gun Joe Viturbo in Death Race 2000, it's gonna be one big victory for hate. That's what they wanted; that's what they got.

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NH is for 🦡🍄🐍's avatar

Tofu for erryone!!!

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Marycat2021's avatar

Don't get your hopes up. Those soybeans are rotting in their bins.

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JCfromNC's avatar

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If we were cynical, it might seem like a ploy to make farmland real cheap so big agribusiness can buy it all up.

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So are we going to see scenes like this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMSV0ERcnUA

Mike Cross, "Leon McDuff"

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Spleen Victoria's avatar

Just gonna throw this out there. If your farm has its own swag, you’re not a poor beleaguered small farmer, you’re an agribusiness millionaire asking for corporate handouts, my dude.

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Agent of Chaotic Respite's avatar

Nationalize the farms. We've bought them twice now through the bailouts, and FOREVER through subsidies.

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Marycat2021's avatar

And who will pick the crops?

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Agent of Chaotic Respite's avatar

I suggest ICE be reassigned. They are helping make the problem; let them help solve it.

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Nicole Koretsky's avatar

Does Grassley realize he's been played by the PE crowd, looking for foreclosures? That he has sold his own out?

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KWDragon's avatar

Most of these farmers aren't poor. You have to have money - generational money - to afford any kind of farm equipment and that much land. They voted for the Millionaires Boys Club because they are in it. And they fully expected Trump to bail them out again and immediately. They bet, and they lost.

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JCfromNC's avatar

Friend of Wonkette Sarah Taber agrees with you.

https://youtu.be/badGHJLDpP8?si=MOjJ30_4Z9yK_53v

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Lil Snot's avatar

The trump administration is throwing money around like a horde of billionaires getting married for the 2nd ( 3rd? 4th?) Time. No doubt farmers will get bailouts and those of us who want to INVEST in our people will be left holding the check....

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MrEes's avatar

Big agribusiness “farmers” will get bailed out. Actual farmers will either be forced to sell the farm, or will end up buying the farm, so to speak.

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oscarphile's avatar

Except that I would definitely be shot, I would happily drive around the Midwest in a truck with a huge sign saying IF HARRIS WERE PRESIDENT YOU'D STILL HAVE YOUR FARM

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clairence's avatar

pay a pilot to fly that behind an airplane

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Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

Blue states should set up funds to buy the land of failed farmers and then let them work the land as sharecroppers. They want to live like in old times so we should help them and make a profit off them

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