Trump Targets U.S. Farmers Again

Friday, November 15, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump's pledge to levy hefty tariffs on imports is expected to result in retaliation that hits farmers hard, repeating events of his first term, when Washington spent tens of billions of dollars to ease the pain on the agriculture sector.

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Expect more bailouts for big ag, exactly what the magat scum voted for.

#1 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-11-15 01:18 PM | Reply

I've read reports that suggest that more than 90% of the tariff money collected in the first go-round went to make payments to farmers who got caught up in geopolitics. Of course, that the money went to farm subsidies meant that nearly none of it went to the US Treasury as income. It will not really matter, though, when King Dotard II exports all those farm workers. Americans will see their great land of plenty, with crops rotting in the fields because no one will be there to pick them. And its not like folks in Phoenix or Atlanta can drive to Watsonville, CA to pick their own strawberries...

#2 | Posted by catdog at 2024-11-15 01:49 PM | Reply

That's okay....farmers never remember...

They didn't remember that it was Reagan that helped
destroy the small independent farmer.

They didn't remember that Reagan changed up the tax laws
to make it easier for Corporate Farmers to take over.

They never remember when the GOP does things that are bad
for them. No white people do, except for them thar
'liberal hippie types'...

I say, 'you deserve what you get if you are constantly voting
against your own self interest'.

#3 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-11-15 02:26 PM | Reply

Almost forgot, "Thoughts & Prayers".

#4 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-11-15 02:27 PM | Reply

How many farmer suicides is Putin's orange bitch going to cause this time around?

www.forbes.com

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-11-15 05:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Good. They deserve it.

#6 | Posted by dibblda at 2024-11-16 03:09 AM | Reply

I'm starting to think it's all intentional.

F*&^ your average America so bad that even MAGA morons get pissed...then use the backlash as a reason for invoking the Insurrection Act, deploying the military domestically ect.

They didn't get the violence following the election that they promised their idiot supporters, so they'll do their best to invoke it other ways, even if it means screwing their supporters.

Deploying the military will only inflame the situation more and if the military doesn't listen or fights on the side of the people, well...that will inflame the remaining MAGA even more.

At this point, just about anything is win win because anything will result in chaos or increased anger/violence. ----, things are so charged, even if Trump keels over on national TV with nobody around him they'll claim it was a nefarious Deep State plot and the idiots will get all uppity.

Everything they do is meant to induce the death spiral.

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2024-11-16 03:12 AM | Reply

How long will it take for the bankruptcy-prone orange pedo to eclipse the 15% unemployment rate he racked up during his first putrid presidency?

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-11-16 11:37 AM | Reply