'Conservative Republican' in Idaho Pleads with Trump as 3rd-gen Farm Flails

Thursday, October 16, 2025

A conservative Republican farmer from Idaho is making an unlikely appeal to President Donald Trump: "Do the right thing." His call comes as his family farm struggles to survive amid labor shortages he blames on Trump-era immigration policies.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 10:32 AM | 27 COMMENTS | permalink

Thank you Shay Myers. Your content continues to show the humanity of those being targeted by Donald Trump and to show how our well being is interwoven. We need real solutions not just mass cruelty.
Immigration is essential to our nation's success.
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-- Cory Booker (@corybooker.com) Aug 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM

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Farmers voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
Who thinks they're moronic rubes.
Thereby settling the issue in his mind.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-16 05:43 AM

Shay, you had a chance last November to vote for the oligarchy or for the middle class.

You chose the oligarchy.

Tough ---- for you.

Take solace that the billionaires who invested money in Argentina are getting bailed out, the golden ballroom is being built, the Arc de Trump is next to be built and that ----ler is burning through cash to pay for invasions of blue cities for his reality tv presidency.

But hey...he got a $400,000,000 bribe from Qatar that they US will pay at least $1,000,000,000 to upgrade for his personal use.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-10-16 08:08 AM

American businesses did not have to go the route of illegal immigration, and I'm not about to start feeling sorry for them now that it's an inconvenience for them. Just like slave trade, no one forced anyone to enslave others for free labor. Bottom line, it's greed. FAFO

If you based your business model on indentured servitude, You're getting what you deserve.

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-10-16 10:51 AM

And this -------- in the video is lucky I'm not in charge, because he along with is mgmt would be in jail for hiring illegal labor.

#4 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-10-16 10:53 AM

And this -------- in the video is lucky I'm not in charge

#4 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS A

We're all lucky you're not in charge.

Meanwhile, your MAGA farmers are going broke and losing their land.

AND....

Trump's family and friends are buying it up.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-16 11:26 AM

If you based your business model on indentured servitude, You're getting what you deserve.

#3 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Well, that's an awful lot of Trump-voting people.

Doesn't take you much to turn on them.

The favor will be returned, trust me.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-16 11:28 AM

If you based your business model on indentured servitude, You're getting what you deserve.

#3 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

Hypocrite much?

"Trump Tower Was Built on Undocumented Immigrants' Backs"
(The Daily Beast, 7/8/15)

Trump was sued by a construction workers union for using 200 illegal immigrants from Poland instead of Americans to build Trump Tower.

"The 200 demolition workers"nicknamed the Polish Brigade because of their home country"worked 12-hour shifts, seven days a week with no overtime to knock down the old Bonwit Teller building and make room for Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. According to testimony in a protracted civil suit in federal court, the laborers were paid $5 an hour or less when they were paid at all. Some went unpaid after the contractor had financial troubles. A few never received even the paltry sum that was owed them for their dirty and hazardous efforts preceding the construction of Trump's monument to his own wealth." (The Daily Beast, 7/8/15)

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-16 11:38 AM

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-16 11:38 AM | Reply | Flag

And the contractor they worked for should have been put in prison.

#8 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-10-16 01:19 PM

If luvsorangeturds was in charge he'd merge ICE with ------.

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-16 01:28 PM

#8 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

MAGA is being punished for the sins it's committing and, strangely enough, there you are cheering it on.

"Indentured servitude"?

Shouldn't it have been the case that Trump explained this to the farmers before they got him elected?

Ah, but then they wouldn't have elected him at all, would they? Can't have that.

You people, and in the immediate case you, have lost it. You don't know whether you're coming or going; whether you're idealists or craven transactionalists.

Depart. There's not enough good done for the time you people have spent here.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-16 02:12 PM

If you based your business model on indentured servitude, You're getting what you deserve.

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds

You don't actually know what that phrase means, do you?

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-16 02:30 PM

You don't actually know what that phrase means, do you?

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-16 02:30 PM | Reply | Flag:

Of course I know what it means. You're wanting to split hairs.

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-10-16 03:02 PM

Shouldn't it have been the case that Trump explained this to the farmers before they got him elected?

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-16 02:12 PM | Reply | Flag:

Everyone in this country knew Trump was going to crack down on illegal immigrants, be they already here or trying to enter the country illegally. If you missed that during the campaign, I'm not sure anyone can do anything to help you.

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-10-16 03:06 PM

Not according to Eberly.

According to this farmer, there is an intent behind supporting it that isn't good.

www.youtube.com

#14 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-16 03:10 PM

I am trying to understand a Trump supporter that didn't know of Trumps immigration plans.

Lol

#15 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-10-16 03:21 PM

Judging by the howls, there appear to be some folks who voted for Old Yeller who profess surprise at his behavior.
This should not be in the least surprising.
HL Mencken' recognized and described the bred extensively.
Especially in his coverage of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial.

#16 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-16 03:28 PM

Everyone in this country knew Trump was going to crack down on illegal immigrants

#13 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

It is entirely evident that millions of MAGA supporters DID NOT know that he would proceed as he did.

The idea that farmers would vote themselves into impoverishment is stupid.

By stupid I mean flatly insane.

You are a fanatic that tries to cover for Trump's excesses and failures.

On the one hand that makes you fun on a blog.

One the other it makes you one sorry-assed human being.

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-16 03:29 PM

"I am your warrior, I am your justice," Trump said in a nearly 90-minute speech, most of it focused on perceived political enemies and slights. " ... For those who have been wronged and betrayed ... I am your retribution."
Trump
Waco, TX, 2023
lailluminator.com

Anyone who heard that and didn't think Trump was (a) nuts, (b) dangerous, or (c) a and b, well, what were you thinking, huh?

#18 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-16 03:36 PM

Who in their right mind would expect American farmers to survive the Trump one-two punch of labor shortages and tariffs?

Yeah. You are one sorry-assed human being.

#19 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-16 03:38 PM

#16: HL Mencken' recognized and described the bred extensively. Especially in his coverage of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial.

#16 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-16 03:28 PM | Reply | Poignant

Hi Doc Sarvis: I know you are a wee bit older than me, but I had no idea you attended the trial which, like The Gold Rush with the immortal Charlie Chaplin, celebrated their 100th anniversaries this year.

#20 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-16 03:48 PM

Conservative Republicans in Idaho should start getting ready to greet their new masters, the Qataris.

Allah Akbar and all that jazz.

#21 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-16 03:57 PM

The Qataris, and other Muslim officers, have been in the US for decades. Last century I met many at MacDill AB FL and the JFKSWC at Fort Liberty NC: www.centcom.mil

#22 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-16 04:12 PM

One of the farmers I talked to recently said he had his father take all the guns away from him, out of the house," Peiffer says. "He didn't want any guns around because he wasn't sure what he might do."

www.npr.org

Nice going, stinky.

#23 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-17 01:14 PM

Everyone in this country knew Trump was going to crack down on illegal immigrants

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds

And every single Trump support thought it wouldn't affect them. Even when they had immigrants working for them! Not too bright these people.

#24 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-10-17 01:35 PM

I bet he wasn't growing those crops for Americans...

#25 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-10-17 03:47 PM

And every single Trump support thought it wouldn't affect them. Even when they had immigrants working for them! Not too bright these people.

#24 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-10-17 01:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

I agree with you. No one in Trump's circle hid anything about what would happen with Undocumented immigrants from day one in his presidency.