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Sure you have, it was called Trump's first term.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 7 points 37 minutes ago* (last edited 36 minutes ago)

Durrrrrr I'm gonna crack down on immigrant farm labor while I add lots of tariffs to foreign food durrrrrrrrrr

Fuckers trying to make America North Korea again

[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 43 minutes ago

Sad trombone.

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 2 points 45 minutes ago

Insert Nelson meme, "haha!""

[–] lemmylump@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You got exactly what you voted for you jackasses.

Go protest, cause I'd love the farmers to be antifa.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 points 36 minutes ago* (last edited 35 minutes ago)

They might even already have pitchforks

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 hours ago

I guess they have very short memories

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Well, at least they don't have to worry about "liberals" inflicting horrible thoughts on them via Colbert or Kimmel.

Are they tired of all the winning yet?

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

According to the bots in r/Conservative, they are not.

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 2 points 58 minutes ago

Because conservative ideology requires an other to rally hate against so the base and core voters don't realize its the elites and party leaders adding suffering to common folk lives for the elites short term benefit.

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Wisdom is chasing them, but they are faster.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

"fuckin whoops"

[–] DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

This is no mistake. The general plot is to create a situation where land can be purchased all across the US at low cost. Then the land will be owned by the wealthy for data centres and corporate owned and governed cities, states and mini nations (e.g. the breaking up of US into smaller corporate nations).

[–] jason.crabtree@piefed.social 6 points 4 hours ago

But they'll continue to vote Republican.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 19 points 6 hours ago

Complains that Americans are too lazy to milk cows and doesn't realize they are part of that group. Doubt they will learn anything.

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 101 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

Despite his troubles, Maxwell remains supportive of Trump, saying that he is “going to be patient,” adding, “I believe in our president.”

However, there is a limit to Maxwell’s patience with Trump. “We’re giving him the chance to follow through with the tariffs, but there had better be results,” he said. “I think we need to be seeing something in 18 months or less. We understand risk—and it had better pay off.”

They're giving him 18 MONTHS?? For fuck sake, these people Do. Not. Learn.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 4 hours ago

He's not trying to learn anything, he just wanted an excuse to kick the can down the road 18 months.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 hours ago

They didn't learn in his first term. No way they'll learn anything here either. These people are completely fucking stupid and never voted for him based on any kind of intelligence.

[–] Mamdani_Da_Savior@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Hopefully they are thinking of the midterms...if we have elections and the GOP gets whiplashed we just might be able to stop the worst of Trump. Imagine we get say 51 democrats in the sesnate along with a majority in the house that's healthly.

[–] GuyFawkes@midwest.social 4 points 4 hours ago

I seriously doubt any election at this point will be free and fair.

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 46 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It’s only 24 months. I bet it won’t even take the whole 36 months. Just a quick and easy definitely less than 48 months.

[–] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 24 points 8 hours ago

“He needs a third term…”

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 12 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What do they even see as a positive outcome of the tariff shenanigans?

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

That more Americas will.. uhh... buy tofu, I guess?? Enough to make up for the entire Asia markets?

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They didn't recover a large part of their soy bean market during Biden's administration where China picked back up some of the ag products and now they lost all of the market. They're idiots if they think that this will recover any of their markets at any significant part this time around.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 5 points 5 hours ago

Once China develops a buying source they aren't likely to ever return. Why would they?

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Its no use saying that you dont know nothin. They're still gonna getcha if you dont do something. Even the hero gets a bullet in the chest, oh yes. Once upon a time in the west

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 97 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

“So much of what has happened and what’s going on here is totally out of our control,” Meadows said. “We just want a free, fair, and open market where we can sell our goods... as competitively as anybody else around the world. And we do feel that we produce a superior product here in the United States, and we just need to have the markets.”

The Republican small government, everyone

Why do I feel like these same people would say Biden’s economy was worse for them?

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 52 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

“The weather is in the control of a higher power,” he added, “and the economy and the markets are in control of Washington, DC.”

Yep! Nothing at all that could have been done about either of these situations. Just two natural disasters sent by god themself. What a shame.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 44 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] snooggums@piefed.world 22 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They learned nothing from his first term where he screwed them over by targeting immigrants and he just dialed that part up and added more.

Absolute morons.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Yeah but imagine voting for a black woman. The dem candidate could have promised them wild subsidies the likes the they never dreamed, but if it was “sleepy joe” or any other minority they disliked they still would have chosen Trump

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

And we do feel that we produce a superior product here in the United States, and we just need to have the markets.

lol. lmao even.

Facts don't care about your feelings bitch!

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 29 minutes ago

When I see why the EU has serious issues with American agricultural products, I seriously doubt that superiority.

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 24 points 9 hours ago

It was in their control. They gave it up by voting against their own interests despite being told loudly

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 43 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

MARC ANDEREESON wanted to buy up farm land in Solarno CA, for his "California Forever" private owned town.

Thiel has expressed similar.

Musk has his own corporate town (Starbase, Texas).

Bezos has an area of Malaysia.

Zuck has parts of Hawaii.

Sam Altman invests in a private town in Honduras.

....they ALL want private towns, fifedoms to rule over in America. And by rule over, I mean SETTING THEIR OWN LAWS.

This is happening.

Anyways, I'm sure this story on Trump bankrupting farmers is completely unrelated. I certainly have no evidence it's related. But I think it's concerning (farmers refusing to sell large tracts of America is what held up the "California Forever" project).

You Aren't Allowed in These Billionaire Towns

[–] 7112@lemmy.world 63 points 9 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 27 points 9 hours ago

No way of knowing this would happen says people who were told repeatedly what would happen, shown the plan of what would happen, and shown past historical examples of what would happen.

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry! Trump will hand them $12 billion like he did last time.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 4 points 4 hours ago

"One for you, three for me, one for you, three for me..."

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 28 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

They will get bailed out.

The people who vote Republican, and vote trump. They scream and screech about government spending. They complain about helping people with food stamps, free school lunches for kids. They reject Medicare for all and relieving college tuition debts. They vote to give tax decreases to billionaires who have 500 million dollar yachts, multiple hundred millions dollar mansions that sit empty, Lamborghinis that just sit there and never get driven.

They'll get bailed out with tax dollars. And they'll continue being hypocrites until they die.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 21 points 9 hours ago

They're not against government benefits. They just believe that 90% of the recipients are lying, lazy, liberal commie, transgender, urban criminal freeloaders who just don't want to work. If we could just get rid of all the abusers then the programs would have enough money to pay to the people who really deserve and need it (ie themselves).

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 22 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

They've already been bailed out. To the tune of $42B so far this year.

https://www.fb.org/market-intel/disaster-assistance-fuels-2025s-farm-income-rebound?_hsmi=379596581

That's the first step. The next step will be blaming the farmers for not fixing their problem, in whatever nebulous fashion they should have.

When it's the farmer's fault, no more bailouts. That's when AcreTrader will show up.

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 hours ago

Biggest welfare queens in the world.

Every accusation is a confession from conservatives.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 30 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

That ain't workin', that's the way you do it

You play the martyr on the Fox TV

That ain't workin', that's the way you do it

Tariffs for nothin, no more sales for me

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

See the little fascist with the hairplugs and the make up Yeah, buddy, not his own hair That little fascist got his own jet airplane That little fascist, he's a millionaire

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Force the farmers to pay back the bailouts back. Hypocrisy needs to carry severe monetary punishments

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 16 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

theres this farmer youtuber who was talking about this. She is like everyones like we never thought he would do this and she is like. You 100% knew he would do this from both his first term and everything he said before winning election.

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