'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.

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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.
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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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply | Funny: 1

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 | Reply

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 3

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

#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 | Reply

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

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

#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 | Reply

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 | Reply