Farmers: We Did Not Vote for This

Friday, March 14, 2025

The nonstop chaos that President Donald Trump is delivering with his erratic tariff policies and spending cuts is already hurting many farmers who voted for him in the 2024 presidential election.

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"We're just in such a state of shock. We just don't really even know how to respond to all this. We thought that this was sacred and really untouchable," said West Virginia farmer Jennifer Gilkerson. "Everyone thinks all farmers voted for this, but we did not vote for this."

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-- Robson Fletcher (@robsonfletcher.com) March 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM

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But you did vote for this.

You were warned; you had all of the information you needed.

You want out? Stop voting MAGA.

It does not give a crap about you.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-14 08:50 AM | Reply

YES YOU DID.

10000%.

You're a special kind of stupid if you think a billionaire is looking out for you.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-03-14 10:05 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Veterans protesting, farmers, senior citizens and CEOs becoming uneasy? Hmm, maybe the worm is starting to turn against DonOLD Dementia?:

Focus group: Trump swing voters in Michigan have buyers' remorse

Most Michigan swing voters in our latest Engagious/Sago focus groups said that although they voted for President Trump in November, they have objections, frustrations and fears about his behavior since he returned to power.

Zoom in: A focus group is not a statistically significant sample like a poll, but the voters' reactions suggest that Trump risks overplaying his mandate to reshape government, trade and international alliances.

www.axios.com

#3 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-14 10:08 AM | Reply

MAGA Farmers: We're Actually Dumber Than The Stereotypes.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-14 10:12 AM | Reply

I live in an area with big Farmers for Trump signs.

Not a single one has come down.

#5 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-14 10:25 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Nor will these farmers leave the republican party. Red counties will remain red. Some might turn a little pinker but they won't flip.

The GOP simply has to run someone next time that distances himself from the obvious policies that are hurting horribly right now and those folks will still show up on election day and vote for the GOP.

#6 | Posted by eberly at 2025-03-14 10:32 AM | Reply

-Most Michigan swing voters in our latest Engagious/Sago focus groups said that although they voted for President Trump in November, they have objections, frustrations and fears about his behavior since he returned to power.

They're still voting for a republican next time......assuming we are talking about rural red county residents. The ag community.

"objections, frustrations, and fears".....okay, fair enough. But they are still voting for a republican next time.

#7 | Posted by eberly at 2025-03-14 10:35 AM | Reply

Agreed, most farmers vote Republican and aren't swing voters. Unlike folks in the focus group who are and whose vote could flip:

"The online panels, conducted Tuesday night, were made up of Michigan voters who backed former President Biden in 2020 but switched to Trump last November. Eight were self-described independents, four were Republicans and one was a Democrat."

#8 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-14 10:43 AM | Reply

"They're still voting for a republican next time......assuming we are talking about rural red county residents. The ag community."

No, we're not necessarily. Sorry I confused the issue. I shouldn't have put the focus group info in this thread, so I started a new one about it.

#9 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-14 10:45 AM | Reply

"objections, frustrations, and fears".....okay, fair enough. But they are still voting for a republican next time."

^
Solid gold explanation for why Trump loves the poorly educated.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-14 11:55 AM | Reply

Understood. Agreed.

He loves you too, snoofy. You work hard for him.

#11 | Posted by eberly at 2025-03-14 12:37 PM | Reply

#5 | Posted by Dbt2

As I was driving on a two lane highway thru a rural area last year, I saw more than one decrepit farmhouse with rusty appliances on the porch and other junk on the lawn, flying huge Trump flags by the highway, hung from a backhoe, with floodlights to light it at night.

My thought was, why would these people vote against their own best interests?

We sold a 120 acre farm we owned just a couple of years ago. The people who farmed it for us grew 75% soybeans and 25% wheat. It's fortunate we don't own it anymore. Trump's actions are hurting farmers "bigly."

#12 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-03-14 02:00 PM | Reply

China and other importers of U.S. crops have turned to other countries for their imports now ...

#13 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-03-14 02:01 PM | Reply

12: We moved a couple years ago from 20+ years in central Appalachia. That's about 70 percent of the population.

Of the people who I had some respect for who were still toting the GOP line when I left, most were just unrepentant good ol' boys whose families had been there for generations and they were lawyers or business owners -- sizeable small businesses. Rarely a doctor.

And a smattering of people would still like to be liberal Republicans -- "conservative fiscally, socially liberal" -- but they were lying very low. And if they were voting D, it wasn't showing up in the polls.

#14 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-14 03:33 PM | Reply

The orange diaper sniper has always looked out for farmers.

www.forbes.com

#15 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-14 04:43 PM | Reply

40 years of brainwashing from right wing talk radio, Fox "news," all mainstream newspapers, even the alleged liberal media cable news outlets has created a separate reality for rural Americans, to the point that they believe that they didn't vote for exactly the things that they were told were going to happen. They just vibed their way into the nightmare. Because they refuse to engage with liberals, or have reasonable, sane conversations about politics, they are doomed to find out. Enjoy the next 4 years, folks, you totally voted for this!

#16 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-03-14 05:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Farmers: We Did Not Vote for This

Too bad, you get what you get, and you don't get upset.

Also, Eff your feelings.

#17 | Posted by censored at 2025-03-14 05:19 PM | Reply

You could have proffered a decent Conservative in 2016. You wouldn't be in this fix if you had. Just sayin.

#18 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-03-14 05:27 PM | Reply

"You could have proffered a decent Conservative in 2016."

Trump is the truest example of "Conservative Values" to ever occupy the White House.

The most corrupt.
The most ex-wives.
The most money.
The most sexual assault convictions.

He is a walking talking testament to everything that Conservatives admire.

He is their Ayn Rand Superman.

And now, he will deliver undo us the answer to the question, What If Atlas Shrugged?

#19 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-14 05:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

40 years ago used to be a republican, Ronny Regan changed that.

Now I cannot ever vote republican as they are a very poor choice of character.

I feel sorry for no one who votes republican as they prove they make poor choices by doing so.

Clean up you own mess and stop relying on other people to do it for you, then the next election vote for the same party that made the mess in the 1st place.

Stupid people deserve what they get.

#20 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-03-14 05:39 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

One can now understand why Trump did not call JV his successor. A few more hours of the present administration and there will be no MAGA hacks to run for office--they will all be swinging from trees. Strange fruit, indeed...

#21 | Posted by catdog at 2025-03-14 05:40 PM | Reply

Yes you did magat scum, eat ---- and die

#22 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-03-14 05:45 PM | Reply

It would be nice to hear from an actual regretful farmer.

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-14 05:52 PM | Reply

#21 | Posted by catdog

Most MAGA House members recently quit having town halls because they were packed with MAGA voters screaming at them about Trump's nefarious actions against vets, broadband buildouts to rural areas being canceled, and a couple of other issues.

The newest bad news for MAGA voters (and any college grad with loans):

Every student loan recipient is about to have to pay a considerably more every month thanks to Trump's most recent action.

Wait'll he guts Medicaid and rural voters discover medical facilities shut their doors, or if they're just dropped from coverage entirely.

#24 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-03-14 08:52 PM | Reply

Stupid people deserve what they get.

#20 | POSTED BY BAT4255

This is true, but stupid people also wind up dragging everyone else into the mess they're in. I didn't ask for dumbf**k Repubicans to screw everyone over. They chose to do that all on their own, and they're not the only ones paying the price. F" them. My life was good before MAGAdiot cultists started screwing up the country for whatever dumb"s religious, racist, ignorant reasons they have for burning it all down.

#25 | Posted by chuffy at 2025-03-14 09:35 PM | Reply

"Every student loan recipient is about to have to pay a considerably more every month thanks to Trump's most recent action."

I made sure to pay that shit off long before Jan 20.

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-14 09:37 PM | Reply

"The Republicans have always had a challenge that they were the party of wealthy Americans and business. The problem is wealthy Americans will always be a very small minority of Americans. So for wealthy Americans, they have to convince at least some nonwealthy Americans to support their platform. How do you do that? Well, you do it with issues of identity, their sense of threat, their sense of fear, their sense of the world is changing and "I'm being left behind." It's very effective."

Barbara Walter

#27 | Posted by SomebodyElse at 2025-03-14 10:11 PM | Reply