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Farmers in Iowa are struggling in Trump’s economy, but many say they still support him
(www.nbcnews.com)
It's the Biden's fault... Those damn lib'rls
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When you're so unwilling to face cognitive dissonance that you're happy you shot yourself in the leg.
Fucking idiots.
"He's making life very hard for me and my family... but I support that!"
We’re pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps! Witness me, papi Trump!
They might like sitting on their own balls, too.
Common clay of the new West.
HA HA HA HA, these magats are just the dumbest creatures on earth. My dog figures out I that don't have a treat in my hand faster than these fuckwits.
What a fucking dumbass
Let this go down in the history books as to why you shouldn't worship a head of state as a God.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
It takes a special form of stupid to be that dumb.
I love the dumb fucks who are like "Trump's policies may have completely fucked up our economy and we made more money during Biden's administration but he speaks plainly and doesn't sound like a politician so I still support him."
I sincerely hope these fuck heads lose everything.
Doesn’t sound like a politician, sure.
Speaks plainly? Buddy, if everyone around you speaks like him, you’re in a medical ward or something. The meandering insulting no point self contradictory mess that passes for him speaking is definitely not ‘speaking plainly’. People that still support him can rot. I only lament that these farmers will go under, get gobbled by big agriculture and that’s probably not great.
A lot of these farms are getting bought up and consolidated under an increasingly rarified group of oligarchs.
And a lot of the lay voters are in it for the culture war shit - hating migrants and bombing Iran and beating China (the industry's biggest buyer).
China is very quietly executing the "Never interrupt your enemy when they are a making a mistake" strategy.
That's the tongue in cheek response. But I think they were very happy to buy up enormous amounts of Iowa pork at competitive rates. And I suspect more than a few CCP bureaucrats are incredibly annoyed at how US racism and fear mongering gets in the way of any economic cooperation
what did you expect?
I'm visiting my wife's family in Indiana soon. Can't wait to interact with these fucking chuds.
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.
Ahh should've looked before I posted! You beat me to it!
The video adds something extra to it. Cleavon Little's restrained grin is perfect.
Inbred morons.
I'm not one to blame the victim...but when you repeatedly walk back into the pedophile's house, bend over, drop your panties, and loudly proclaim to the world, "Surely I shan't be raped this time!" I start to blame you.
The reason you don't "blame the victim" in most situations is that victims generally do not bear causal or moral responsibility over their situation. These stupid fucks bear both.
Exactly, they are not victims. Blame away!
It is more important to be openly racist than to have a functioning economy
Every election for these fuckwits:
“The magnificent leopard pads silently through the…cornfields…”
I don't want to see any more coverage of trump supporters. They are idiots. Humanizing them makes the problem worse. They follow their peer group. The only coverage should be about abandoning trump and conservatism.
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.
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.
Farmers are feeding you. The serve them right mentality is toxic
My shit comes from farms in Cascadia. Could go the rest of my life without that Iowa corn and mistreatment of hogs.
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.
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.
or that dems will come save them in the end
They don't think this
Yes, because they'll make more money from the bail outs than they would have otherwise.
Literally betting the farm on an Idiot giving them money. Ironically, while bitching about “deadbeats living off government handouts.”
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.
probably not coming this time around... at least not to them
Idiots.