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And how did those farmers vote?
From the interviews I've been seeing, at least some of them voted against Trump due to concerns about bullshit like this. I expect the majority did vote for him, in which case yes, karma's a bitch. But a) we shouldn't be treating them as a single voting block that all vote the same way, and b) regardless of the schadenfreude we get watching the Trump supporters among them freaking out now, there are grave knock-on effects for consumers looming - including those consumers who didn't vote for Trump.
blaming your fellow citizens will only get a repeat every four years
elites want us blaming each other and not them
It was my fellow citizens that voted for this cunt. They are to blame.
Yup. Trump and co haven't been sneaky and deceptive. They've been loud and clear this whole time. These voters weren't tricked. They voted for their trans neighbours to be dehumanized and made to suffer. They voted for their wives and mothers and daughters to be controlled and owned. They voted for their workforce to be plucked off the street by masked government grunts and shipped to a maximum security prison in another country for life. Personally, I would never be able to look this fucking scum in the eyes again without my hatred of them being visible.
That's exactly the thing. Trump is a liar, but he's not lying about what he's doing, he's lying about the outcomes. When called out for shit, he lies then too, but he has told everyone exactly what he has wanted to do. A vote for Trump was a vote for a racist, bigoted, rapist, wanna be dictator. His literal words were that he wants to be a dictator. There is no trickery in what he said, and the people that voted for him wanted exactly that. Now they're upset it's hurting them, and that's about the only silver lining I'm find through all of this. If it wasn't affecting me and mine, I'd have died from schadenfreude a month ago.
fellow undereducated citizens are to blame for the schools not being funded enough not the megacorps with lobbyist paid to do just that and to keep this shitty narrative going sure
not to mention the ongoing pollution, toxic media, etcetera but all our fellow citizens fault
I don't know why we make excuses for people who voted for this. I was raised by undereducated republican parents in rural Indiana, I went to public school, I didn't go to college, and I work in a factory in my extremely red home town. Didn't vote for this. Never would. Education isn't what makes me different, it's empathy and the tinest bit of effort to understand the world I live in.
Same on all counts, except I don't currently work in a factory.
fellow undereducated citizens are to blame for the schools not being funded enough not the megacorps with lobbyist paid to do just that and to keep this shitty narrative going sure
not to mention the ongoing pollution, toxic media, etcetera but all our fellow citizens fault
Nah. Not letting them off the hook for a foreseeable disaster
And I voted for genocide and union strike breaking.
First Past The post voting pushed us all into a corner and there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel. The democrats will proclaim they are not trump, and everyone will vote against their self interests yet again.
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Videos on alternative electoral systems
Guy keeps sticking his keys in a power outlet and gets hurt.
My guy, if you keep sticking your keys in the power outlet, you're gonna hurt yourself.
Blaming the guy's pain on his sticking his keys in the power outlet will only get a repeat of the behavior.
Elites want us blaming each other and not them.
Except, he’s sticking his key in the power outlet, knowing it will hurt him, because it’ll hurt people like me worse.
No. Fuck anyone who voted for Trump. Fuck you for thinking that I don’t deserve the same rights as they do.
This is those voters' oyster.
So... Trump has scared off the significant numbers of ... well just any kind of immigrant, legal or illegal... farm laborers...
Cancelled a bunch of farmer loan assistance programs...
... And started a tariff trade war that makes it essentially impossible for them to... import needed materiel, export harvests... or even be able to plan for a future scenario with any kind of new established, solid trade paradigm.
... Man we're all gonna starve, fucking great.
EDIT: Do not know how this did not occur to me initially:
American holodomor, anyone?
I don't trust individual story headlines on topics that are not individual stories
Getting what they voted for yet again.
My vendors & customers all have crops rotting in the field right now.
This is the start of the American Holodomir, thanks to the GOP & Putin.
The farmers should take a page from the European one's book and block the roads. Or even better, drop tons and tons of manure on the White House lawn.
Better yet, Mar a Lago.
Farmers showing us that working hard and working smart are clearly two different things. Shame they completely forgot the latter. TFI said “profits!” and those hard workers just assumed he meant theirs. The morons obviously didn’t learn fuckall from his first regime.
well fuck them
He’s gonna bail them out and they wont learn their lesson. They need to taste the nasty medicine!
Make sure to vote republican again you idiots. Just wait until trump takes all that welfare money you get.
If we replaced First past the post voting, Republicans could be free to vote outside the two party system without a spoiler effect. This would spur the creation of new political parties and encourage a competition on who can represent people the best.
Or not vote at all because of being a stupid fucking moron, and also genocide or some shit.
There are still some family owned farms. Can't go back to feudalism without all the family farms going bankrupt and selling out to mega-farm conglomerate corporations.
They should all start dumping mounds of shit on the steps of congress.
agriculture is facing another looming financial challenge with the recently announced SHIPS Act [...] with Chinese-made vessels calling U.S. ports to be charged port fees of upwards of $1.5 million starting in the fall.
Ugh, I hate this reality so much .... :(
Last ship from China is next month. Even if T**** drops the tariffs today, supply lines are already compromised for months.
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