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"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
Farmers and ranchers are well aware Trump is to blame. They know who buys their products and why those customers are not buying now.
Will they completely forget it the moment they get near a voting booth is the better question.
Yes!
the farmers and ranchers that I know are absolutely not aware of anything that's going on right now. if it's good then Donald Trump is doing it and if it's bad then China is doing it
It's clearly Joe Biden's fault.
i've never known a farmer to stay in the business long if they were dumb as shit. politically naive? sure. growing crops isn't as simple as scattering seeds and waiting.
I agree that broadacre farming in 2025 isn't something an idiot can do successfully.
However, these people did vote against their own interests, which isnt very bright.
Its unknowable, but I'm curious how many have actually changed their political alignment in recent months. Very few I suppose.
There as an article recently quoting a few that were kinda saying they understood the need for some short term pain, but they were trying to tough talk. Something like "we will take the hit for Trump but it better turn around in less than a year".
As though they think Trump cares about them. He's very happy to sacrifice them on the alter of his enormous ego.
i mean i used to belong to a cult where they believed and very quietly taught that democrats and liberals are worse than the devil. there's reasons upon reasons someone might vote against their apparent self-interest and be behaving in a perceivably irrational manner, that's just the first that comes to mind. the social effects of being one of two open democrats in a deep red county are far beyond unpleasant. they might value their immediate social standing (even though they never have to tell anyone how they vote) more than the business they could have had were the US tariff/trade waffling bullshit not drastically reducing the markets they have available for sales.
i guess my point is what appears to be irrational behavior to an observer usually has a rational basis if you understand the person's motivations and preferences
Irrational reasons do not make rational decisions. They Irrationally voted against themselves. Even if they believe otherwise deep, deep in the core of their souls. Logic does not care. They actively demonize logic. Why would you try and defend them with it?
Irrational decisions are only irrational to people who misunderstand the decider's reasoning. The things you value more, they value less. Your value assessment is by definition wrong for everyone besides yourself. People don't vote solely based on how they expect to be affected financially, even though that's really the only assessment you can make that doesn't fail immediately due to the quantification problem. Since people typically vote based on unquantifiables, why do you assume that your valuation of said unquantifiables is correct for everyone?
Oh I know they have the capacity to be smart I'm saying their systemically disadvantaged preventing them from acting in their best interest in this instance
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.
A lot of farms still went under, but mostly small ones.
Worse was that farmer-suicide rates rose significantly. Imagine having a tarrif policy that knowingly killed many people first time round, so the second time you dial it up to 10.
It was sad seeing farmers, who lost farms that had been in their family for generations, on the news saying they'd still vote for Trump.
Ah, so it's a Ponzi scheme then on top of everything else?
it’s a Ponzi scheme on top of a Ponzi scheme
That's socialism, LOL.
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?
That, and making heavy use of the 13th amendment to work the farm.
They won't care. Trump will tell them it was Obama (because he will forget to say Biden).
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.
Suicide rates are climbing with US farmers. Some of them get it at the end of the day.
They already know and are begging Trump for help. They're also suffering for lack of immigrant workers.
the only thing farmers know is the price that the 5 giant beef companies are paying them for their cows
Not all US farmers are Republicans and voted for Trump, though.