Post by @benroyce@mastodon.social

@benroyce@mastodon.social · 8 months ago

"A once-in-a-generation economic crisis in rural America means this year could be the last one for many farmers as Trump-Xi call offers no relief"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/once-generation-economic-crisis-rural-164404261.html

certainly not all farmers voted for trump, but you look at voting trends in rural america and for many:

you made your bed

now lay in it

why did you do it?

trans people?

🤦

well now you're fucked

conservative bigots:

obediently delivering their financial ruin to plutocrats via culture war con jobs since forever

JimTheWhyGuy ❌👑

@jimthewhyguy@techfieldday.net · 8 months ago

@benroyce Our WI cabin is in deep red Trump country. Plenty of farms close by - main crops are corn, wheat, + of course soybeans.

Several farms had signs up after Trump's election that said things like "America has been blessed." ✝️

Wait until these tariffs really kick in + for the dairy farmers to realize none of their workers from Mexico are going to show up to help run their farms.

OTOH in their minds at least the libruls in Madison won't force their kids to become transgender 🤦‍♂️

Bart Allen

@barryallen2023@mastodon.social · 8 months ago

@benroyce Wow. Who could have guessed that voting for the same guy who fucked you over in his first term and had a confirmed plan to fuck you over in his second term was going to ...*checks notes* fuck you over? #fucktrump

Su_G

@Su_G@aus.social · 8 months ago

@benroyce
“When are you going to stand up for us instead of kissing his ass…” I mean this guy calls it like he sees it, as it affects his livelihood, & you can feel the agreement in the room: they feel betrayed by their representative, their political representative, a Republican who prefers to kiss ass. I’d be cranky too. 😤

Kevin Lyda

@lyda@mastodon.ie · 8 months ago

@benroyce I've donated to Farm Aid in the past. Won't this time. They voted for this. They get what they get.

Electropict

@electropict@mastodon.scot · 8 months ago

kingmoth

@kingmoth@mastodon.social · 8 months ago

@benroyce I presume that the situation for the farmers was not stellar either under Biden administration, and since there is only one alternative, because of the idiocracy of the US politic system, they expected something better …. Can you really blame peoples for wanting a better life ? Fuck Rep and Dem … America need a strong independent third party who will not give a fuck about woke or bigots and start proposing real solutions to peoples.

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩

@benroyce@mastodon.social · 8 months ago

@kingmoth

the usa is an fptp voting system

there are only 2 parties possible

it's not corruption, it's just math

the only way forward is to take over the party

François @Prague

@FrancoisPrague@mastodon.social · 8 months ago

@benroyce

many will blame the crisis on whatever FOX tells them too, e.g. radical left, trans, blacks, latinos, women, Hillary's server or Obama's Dijon Mustard. Ignorance runs deep in rural US.

🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦

@ZDL@mstdn.social · 8 months ago

@benroyce Ayup. Farmers in particular should understand "you reap what you sow". Time for the hard lessons. And I have no sympathy whatsoever, given how many **DECADES** farmers in the USA have consistently voted against their own interests just to be bigots.

fediverse_user

@fediverse_user · 8 months ago

@benroyce
Same happened in Trumps first term. He tried his bullshit shakedowns and it resulted in more rain forest in Brazil being burned to make room for growing soybean. China stopped buying from US farmers and made deals with Brazil to supply the massive quantity of soy they use.
US farmers complained and also got squeezed by John Deere and other equipment manufacturers by not being permitted to do their own maintenance or repairs on the machinery they purchased from the plutocrats. SMH 🤷‍♂️