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 | Newsworthy 4

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 5

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 | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 3

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 5

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 | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 2

-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 | Newsworthy 1

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 | Newsworthy 1

Understood. Agreed.

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

#11 | Posted by eberly at 2025-03-14 12:37 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#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 4

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 | Funny: 1

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 | Newsworthy 1

"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 ---- 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 | Newsworthy 4

Boot to the head!

www.youtube.com

#28 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-03-15 06:48 AM | Reply

We thought that this was sacred and really untouchable. So it's just quite a shock and very devastating.

IOW we're going to be okay. After all, Trump's only going after those undeserving perverts, minorities and immigrants!

Whether they have learned their lesson is undetermined. These interviewers always seem to neglect to ask whether or not they support their republican senators and representatives INSPITE of the fact that they are enabling these policies by refusing to speak up!

"I know that this is the way President Trump believes he's going to create better markets long term," he said. "I hope he's correct.

Such a statement reveals how gullible these people are. They still believe a liar, tax cheat, sexual abuser and felon has their and America's best interest at heart.

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.

... Martin Niemller

Truer words have never been spoken

#29 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-03-15 07:47 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Look, the GOP has been talking about cutting farm subsidies for a while - at least the first Trump term. The thing is that it is the only feasible way to keep farms out of the red and production of food in the US without bankrupting all the non-mega farms out there. Even the mega farms would be challenged to stay in business. If these dumb ******* want to keep voting for the GOP they get what they deserve. They are against things like welfare and medicaid yet eagerly take their own handouts. Why? I have yet to hear a good reason.

#30 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-03-15 01:09 PM | Reply

I forgot to add the GOP has actually voted to cut/eliminate farm subsidies as well. The Democrats protected those subsidies.

#31 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-03-15 01:11 PM | Reply

Well that didn't take long.

Suddenly no one voted for THAT!

#32 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-15 01:20 PM | Reply

No worries Kanye and the Nazis are gonna do a benefit rock concert to aid them.

#33 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-15 01:22 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

The Jeffersonian ideal - the yeoman farmer, virtually free land, democratic values blooming in The Garden - was always an aspiration. Today, there's a whole lot of agribusiness out there, with it and the remaining small-scale individual farmers happy as clams to accept their role as producers of heavily subsidized/protected crops. Until the wind starts blowing strongly south.

#34 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-03-15 03:27 PM | Reply

Farmers are just dumb Hicks. What can anyone expect from them but Reactionary voting and hand wringing when it bites them in the ass.

Yawn...

#35 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-03-15 10:21 PM | Reply

@#35 ... Farmers are just dumb Hicks. ...

Another talking point issued to your current alias?

Denigrating those who feed us?

OK, let me ask that differently, what does your current alias know about farming?

#36 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-03-15 10:25 PM | Reply

"Dumb hicks"

Nope, different way of life, different outlook, different concerns. Poorly informed and high on their own propagandistic supply of "heartland" nonsense. But by no means "dumb."

#37 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-03-16 05:23 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This is an 80/20 urban/rural nation. What DOES make folks, rural or otherwise, sound like "dumb Hicks" is constantly blaring the alleged and weird moral superiority of rural culture. That is boolsheet, born of equal parts ignorance and fear.

#38 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-03-16 06:17 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

37. Agree completely. Goes for nonfarming rural folks as well.

I made the mistake of listening to CBS Sunday Morning while visiting friends some years ago when Jane Pauley was hosting and some ancient white guy was doing a feature from the Andy of Mayberry museum in Mount Airy, NC.

Reporter encountered a sweet young family that watched nothing but Andy Griffith, Mayberry RFD, and so on.

He asked, dripping with condescension, "Aren't you afraid your minds will turn to mush?"

They were quite kind in their response.

I wanted to scream, "Have you ever tried to watch three hours nightly, five nights a week, of your g0dd@mn CBS primetime programming? What would it do to you?"

Mofo.

I grew up in NYC. I learned quickly upon arriving in the South how to tell the smart people from the not-so-smart. Exact same formula as in the North. Whatever works for you.

#39 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-03-16 07:30 AM | Reply

Back in 2016, there was a dairy farm a few miles from us with tRump/ Pence signs on every other fence post. It got raided for hiring illegal immigrants.
Now I offer the same tots and pears I send to Muslim Americans, Venezuelan Americans, veterans to farmers.

#40 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-03-16 01:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Farmers: We Did Not Vote for This

Yes farmers THIS is exactly what you voted for.

What you didn't do was listen to reason. And you lived in a bubble and you believed the constant stream of lies Trumpy and Fixed News was feeding you and you didn't do your own independent research.

But hey. You lost your farm.

But you really got to own them libs this time tho didn't ya?

Was it worth it?

#41 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-16 01:38 PM | Reply

On another note, so much for Republican's abiding by "the rule of law."

Exclusive: How the White House defied a judge's order to turn back deportation flights

Why it matters:

- The administration's decision to defy a federal judge's order is exceedingly rare and highly controversial.

- "Court order defied. First of many as I've been warning and start of true constitutional crisis," national security attorney Mark S. Zaid, a Trump critic, wrote on X, adding that Trump could ultimately get impeached.

www.axios.com

#42 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-03-16 04:32 PM | Reply

...adding that Trump could ultimately get impeached.

LOL. Again? Like he cares.

#43 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-03-16 04:35 PM | Reply

Who would impeach him?

House Republicans?

Democrats still don't get it.

This country is fucked.

#44 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-16 05:16 PM | Reply

Democrats still don't get it.

This country is fucked.

#44 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

Pretty sure they get it. They just don't know what to do about it because this country is fukked because this country fukked itself.

#45 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-16 05:53 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Democrats still don't get it.
This country is fucked.
#44 | Posted by ClownShack

I don't know how many in Congress get it. Plenty of rank and file Democrats get it, but as DB, says, they just don't know what to do about it.

#46 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-03-16 05:58 PM | Reply