• Folstar@lemmus.org
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    8 days ago

    White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said: “Farmers suffered for years under Joe Biden, who increased the United States’ trade deficit to over $1.2 trillion, raised input costs, and pushed woke DEI agricultural policies." I love that official US policy has become fundamentally not understanding trade deficits and running as far as possible with that lack of understanding. Follow that up with the vague claim of raising costs when the baseless Attack on Iran raised costs by more in a month than four years of Biden. Then finish with the absolutely irrelevant to family farmers woke boogeyman. Are we great yet?

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      pushed woke DEI agricultural policies.

      What the fuck is that even supposed to mean? How fucking lazy of these morons that they have to keep recycling this same boogeyman even in areas where it makes zero sense.

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        Farmers suffered for years under Joe Biden

        Also - where are all these people that supposedly suffered so much under Biden (and Obama)?

        Are they in the room with us right now?

        I call bullshit on all their gaslighting horse manure. They keep stating these things as if they are facts and facts that everyone just accepts. They do the same thing with their claims of the “horrible economy” that poor little Pumpkinhead inherited. It’s all just complete nonsense; the economy was definitely going in the right direction by the end of the Biden admin.

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      Oh yeah dude it’s fucking nuts. I live in a populated area of Illinois on the Iowa border (about 400k pop in the area). But when you get about 5 miles out of the city in any direction farmland starts.

      These farmers sit there taking government subsidizes while bitching about SNAP and welfare. It’s the most ridiculous hypocritical shit ever. And they all vote Republican, zero shits who it is.

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        I grew up in a very rural area and that explains most conversations I would have with people in that area.

        “Welfare” was for the blahs and people considered The Other; but all the benefits these people got? Well, that was something else, because they were white.

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    I’m visiting my wife’s family in Indiana soon. Can’t wait to interact with these fucking chuds.

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      That gets addressed in the article. They say it doesn’t help because suppliers know they’ve got a payout and all want a piece.

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      Literally betting the farm on an Idiot giving them money. Ironically, while bitching about “deadbeats living off government handouts.”

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    You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

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    He invited hundreds of farmers and ranchers to the White House in March. Speaking from a balcony, with a gold tractor below him, he assured the gathering that they “once again have a true friend and champion in the Oval Office.”

    Ok Mussolini

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    just like with the 1st term, they will still vote for him, because they think it will come through, or that dems will come save them in the end and they get to go back whining about liberals. this time is not likely to happen. without people like mitch, or other old guard GOP that ends taking credit, magat gop are less competent than that.

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      Correction: for some reason they still think Dems running things would be worse! So after 8 years of Clinton & Obama, and 4-years of Biden and them not losing their farms during any of that, they still think Dems would be worse than them actually losing their farms after not quite 2-years of Trump 2.0! They will happily walk right to the poor house saying republicans are “better for the economy,” and keep saying it as any benefits they might get whilst in the poor house are stripped away by said republicans.

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    If Democrats have learned anything hopefully they play fire with fire and screw over these farmers in the future and just force feed them a lie about how it’s Trump’s fault.

    A couple million dollar campaign of billboards, airdropped leaflets and AM radio ad buy-ins about how Trump and GOP caused all their issues.

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        My shit comes from farms in Cascadia. Could go the rest of my life without that Iowa corn and mistreatment of hogs.

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      They haven’t and they won’t. We’ll just get more bullshit “it’s time to heal as a nation and let this go” and they’ll continue all the insane policies because it benefits them personally too.

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    8 days ago

    When you’re so unwilling to face cognitive dissonance that you’re happy you shot yourself in the leg.