These farmers are what Chomsky means when he talks about "worthy victims". I'm sure many of these people voted for Donvict knowing that he'd be harming lots of people, including themselves, but based on his first term, that he'd throw some money at them...
These people deserve welfare because, well, reasons.
Who doesn't want farmers to prosper? And are they farming for altruistic reasons?
Is there any credible site that has been trying to estimate the excess amount of American deaths due to Donvict's two terms?
I mean, we all know and have seen the estimates of excess deaths from his bungling of Covid, but there should be a place that is collating all of it, including the dumbasses that are anti-vaccine being given a platform and a position of power...
Didn't this genius do nearly the same thing in his first failed term?
Ronnie Raygun's admin started the ball rolling on so many awful things.
However, some of what really motivated the extremist right wing predates that - the Watergate stuff infuriated the same sort of people that make up today's base, and not because Nixon committed crimes, but that Nixon eventually was forced out of office because those crimes were uncovered and reported on. They vowed to construct their own parallel Orwellian mediaverse to counter factual reporting - they actively set out to create fake news, and now they have the gall to call anyone else "fake news".
And, always, ever since the first red scare (1917) at least, you've always had very fringe individuals and groups and plots, from the fascist plot to have corporations seize the white house (Business Plot - 1933) and Father Coughlin and The John Birch Society, we have always had conservatives trying to ruin this country.
But yeah, a whole lot of stupid conservative schemes wormed their way into our institutions under Ronnie Raygun. Until Donvict, anyway, he was probably the very worst president in history. Certainly he had the most criminal administration in history, objectively.
Thiel is a very weird freak. Not only does he associate with that weird little troll Curtis Yarvin, but he wrote the forward to a new edition (in 2020) of The Sovereign Individual.
These people are fucking weird. Democrats should really take up that mantra when talking about the enemies of the people. Walz started down that path and it was resonating, then someone reeled him in.
The reason the cons all try to make everything about trans is to try to paint their opposition as weird, when the reality is that the Republicans and conservatives are the real freaks here and they are just projecting again.
The orange skidmark does not need any more power, FFS.
Not sure why this is even the least bit controversial with church leadership. They might want to re-visit that bible of theirs...as far as "immigration officials", well fuck 'em.
Isn't that a thought crime under Pam Blondi?
LOL, "resigned".
Hastert was a child molester. Boehner and Ryan were nothing to get excited about, either.
And then there is Newt, who bears responsibility for so much that is awful about our political situation these days.
Depends on what they are farming and what you mean by "everyone".
The article says most of this will go to those that produce soybeans and corn - most of that is livestock feed.