"U.S. farmers have lost out on shipments worth billions of dollars"
Wait until this sinks in to the farmer's heads. Next year farmers will fully experience the rotten fruits of the current administration.
They'll blame Democrats
"Democrats did this"
The radical left.
they blame China
Thanks to Republican education cuts and propaganda, they're dumb as shit and won't put two and two together
Trump is already promising to bail out the farmers with the money from tariffs next year.
Yeah, It's what he did the last time he destroyed soybean exports.
Create the problem and sell them the solution kinda guy.
Ah, so it's a Ponzi scheme then on top of everything else?
it’s a Ponzi scheme on top of a Ponzi scheme
They won't care. Trump will tell them it was Obama (because he will forget to say Biden).
And ALL that farmland will be gathered up by “Govt approved corporations”. Then they’ll produce the food after paying shit to the former workers, as well as shit prices for the land.
Like gathering up butterflies…
How’s your Trump now, bitches?
the only thing farmers know is the price that the 5 giant beef companies are paying them for their cows
Most of them won't have enough critical thinking skills to realise what happened. They'll just blame whoever Fox or Tiktok tells them to blame.
It makes sense, Australia is much closer. Congratulations to Trump on being so eco-conscious.
Seems a bit woke, honestly.
Australia isn't woke, it has crocodiles!
Notoriously sleepy reptiles.
Also koalas, arguably the least woke mammals on earth.
We even have lizard called a Sleepy Lizard. Cant get more Anti Woke than that
in global shipping, closeness actually doesn’t make things necessarily more eco friendly: when you have 100 ships full of cargo heading from china to the US, they’ve got to return too… either they return full of something, or nothing
i’m not sure how it all works out in this case, but slowly moving things from the US to asia is practically free, in pretty much all regards
I said it before... it is incredible how fast America's dominance is falling. I remember shortly after 9/11 when the idea of US market dominance failing seemed ridicules... even dystopian shit still had the US dollar be number one... but this? Fuck me...
It's a good thing.
America will be better off after being taken down a few pegs. They'll start trying again.
now imagine for a moment - go back to that post-9/11 period - and imagine that our standing in the world and our economic dominance are both failing not because of some new innovation from our competitors, or climactic disturbance in politics or crops, no, it's all falling to shit because, and only because we elected a conman to lead the country, twice, and it's gone terribly both times.
oh and gwb iraq didn't really set things up for greatness, but damn, ten years of trump has run this country right into the ditch.
impressively rapid descent into shitocracy.
Have noticed Australia is also replacing the US here in Canada as well.
Getting loads of amazing New Zealand apples in Canada now instead of ones from the US. They’re very good! 😊
...and its soy market to South America.
And that...
So in the past couple of weeks, MAGA has been Make Argentina Great Again and now Make Australia Great Again.
I wonder what Trump is gonna fuck up next week so that Azerbaijan can swoop in to start selling to China.
He already rescued Azerbaijan from two brutal wars that nobody ever heard of. Hasn't he done enough?
Australian here.
I just thought you'd be interested to know that the nutty is kind of leaking.
Thankfully they are very few, but we do have some MAGA Trump supporters here, and yes they occasionally say "make australia great again". Its so shameless.
I live in a place called albany, and yes on precisely one occasion I've seen someone say make albany great again.
We're having a local council election. About a third of the candidates are dickheads with no chance of getting up, and yes they include things like anti-woke and anti-DEI in their bios.
Someone should run with their platform as, 'Make Dog Rock Great Again!!'
They'd be named emperor of the Great Southern within weeks!
Good. The tears of the ranchers next will be sweet.
RIP Beef prices here (Australia) for a few years.
Demand will outstrip supply and as always, we'll come second to the export market.
Hopefully this demand is the new normal and not just a bubble, otherwise it's just high prices for nothing.
Don't worry, the next time we 'hurt the feelings of the Chinese people' things will be back to normal.
Maybe this will mean red meat will finally get cheaper.
Oh wait, no it won't, we will just lose all that meat and money. Taxpayers will have to foot the bill for Republicans like always.
US cattle inventory is at a 70 year low anyways.
Meaning we couldn't keep up with global markets anyways. Let other countries take on the ecological destruction that comes with trying to export meat. Every have a feed lot next to your water supply or a processing plant in your town? We need to fall back to smaller domestic market where local butchers are actually needed to supply their communities and not large grocery stores.
Ah but immigrants....
This is the first thing Trump has done that actually could lower grocery prices.
"Good news, everyone!"
Trump the comical Farnsworth of the real United States.
Right after ceding the global ev market to china. The guy is a jeenius.
i hear argentine beef is really good, but i haven't been out there to try it.
In another year, when all of the post-tariff trade agreements are completed, we're going to be ceding a whole lot more than that.
Not that Donald will give a shit. He'll have added 5-10 billion to his personal net worth by that point, and that's all he cares about.
Ahahahaha America is the land of complete douchebaggery!!!
The leopards will be feasting on farmer face (again)
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