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A really good piece on the realities of this topic is here: https://youtu.be/badGHJLDpP8

TL;DW: Farmers thought they were voting for cheap labor and a bailout, like they got last time. They also thought that, as wealthy landowners^1^, they were on the "right side" of these disastrous trade policies and were going to be carried through this mess.

^1.^ I struggled with this concept at first. Things have changed a lot since the pre-WWII era that conjures up images of Ma & Pa Kent in a weathered century-home, on a lonely corn farm in Kansas. It's big business now. Good farm land isn't cheap, equipment is expensive, (legitimate) labor is expensive, fertilizer & irrigation costs a lot, pest control costs, crops are risky in general, and so on. When you work out how much money is moving around and what a farm's net worth is, these people are millionaires even if they're not in the black all the time.

are the farmers in dire straits, or are independent farmers in dire straights?

i make the distinction because of the purpose is to make the rich, richer, then this is a feature, not a bug for republicans

We're well on our way towards famine.

But at least the leopards are still well-fed

This was all a calculated strategy to make independent farmers go bankrupt and into foreclosure, so that the big agritech companies could snag prime agricultural land for pennies on the dollar.

At some point, most food will be grown by corporations that can set whatever price they want for that food, and people will have to pay that price or starve to death. It’s the definition of “captured audience” that makes the Parasite Class extract so much wealth from the working class and become so fantastically wealthy.

https://youtu.be/dkAxuqrVNBM

Durrrrrr I'm gonna crack down on immigrant farm labor while I add lots of tariffs to foreign food durrrrrrrrrr

Fuckers trying to make America North Korea again

You got exactly what you voted for you jackasses.

Go protest, cause I'd love the farmers to be antifa.

Insert Nelson meme, "haha!""

Well, at least they don't have to worry about "liberals" inflicting horrible thoughts on them via Colbert or Kimmel.

Are they tired of all the winning yet?

I guess they have very short memories

Sad trombone.

Despite his troubles, Maxwell remains supportive of Trump, saying that he is “going to be patient,” adding, “I believe in our president.”

However, there is a limit to Maxwell’s patience with Trump. “We’re giving him the chance to follow through with the tariffs, but there had better be results,” he said. “I think we need to be seeing something in 18 months or less. We understand risk—and it had better pay off.”

They're giving him 18 MONTHS?? For fuck sake, these people Do. Not. Learn.

“So much of what has happened and what’s going on here is totally out of our control,” Meadows said. “We just want a free, fair, and open market where we can sell our goods... as competitively as anybody else around the world. And we do feel that we produce a superior product here in the United States, and we just need to have the markets.”

The Republican small government, everyone

Why do I feel like these same people would say Biden’s economy was worse for them?

MARC ANDEREESON wanted to buy up farm land in Solarno CA, for his "California Forever" private owned town.

Thiel has expressed similar.

Musk has his own corporate town (Starbase, Texas).

Bezos has an area of Malaysia.

Zuck has parts of Hawaii.

Sam Altman invests in a private town in Honduras.

....they ALL want private towns, fifedoms to rule over in America. And by rule over, I mean SETTING THEIR OWN LAWS.

This is happening.

Anyways, I'm sure this story on Trump bankrupting farmers is completely unrelated. I certainly have no evidence it's related. But I think it's concerning (farmers refusing to sell large tracts of America is what held up the "California Forever" project).

You Aren't Allowed in These Billionaire Towns

"fuckin whoops"

Complains that Americans are too lazy to milk cows and doesn't realize they are part of that group. Doubt they will learn anything.

But they'll continue to vote Republican.