Turkeys voting for Thanksgiving dinner.

Strange wonders these days.

It's not like the rightwing corporatists and "party of business" don't have a track record of crashing the economy and hurting small businesses and "real Americans" despite all their big talk and "low tax" promises. The referenced 1980's farm crisis was under their watch, too.

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Karma sure hit the farmers hard.

Trump was just supposed to screw the people they hated.
Not them.

Hey, wait a minute...!!!

as they were losing their multi generational family farms in his first Term when he screwed over the Soy Bean farmers royal.

The bankrupt family farms all crashed & burned, CORPORATE Farms came in and got there farms and equipment for next to nothing, and the rest of the farms didn't look any further than end of their noses......First they came for the Soy Bean farmers, and since I wasn't a soybean farmer, I looked away, and didn't care.....

"Lock her up!" they were so happy to chant... well they FAFO (not just once, but twice!)

What's that old saying? Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me? I think that's it.

on various news channels blubbering and crying about how the tariffs and resultant blowback were killing them and how China had completely zeroed out their orders, not a single dollar of soybeans bought from the US the entire prior quarter (Q2)... And I thought that sounded familiar. And I was right, it did. Because that. was. exactly. what. happened. in. 2018.

You know, right before most of those farmers voted for this guy. Twice more.

Jesus Christ.

Trump did that

I can get all my meat, fruit and vegetables from South American countries. The farmers voted for this, not me.

Here is a hint: it was not the Democratic Party.

!!!!!!

Those who voted for this travesty will probably never receive any appreciable measure of sympathy from me, sorry to say. They made choices, for all of us.

On farmers by passing a bill to allow 15% ethanol in gas all year around.
This will be a significant turn of events as the pressure increases on corn farmers to grow more fuel grade corn (called field corn)
(I think it's important to mention here that corn for ethanol, field corn, is very different than sweet corn and the vast majority of corn grown is already fuel/feed grade because it's more profitable)

farm equipment uses gasoline........more likely Diesel.......The farm equipment diesel is dyed red, because they don't have to pay any state or federal tax on it, so it is cheaper than you would pay for your diesel street vehicles......

But even without the tax, their prices are going up double digits.

TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS to fill up my Diesel Pickup a few days ago. I am sure it will go much much higher before Trump's temper tantrum stops. Even still, the pipe lines still won't start flowing for another 30 days, so the laws of supply and demand will be in force until then...........

and that is the way of no competition business and big business has control of you

Most voted for him 3 times. If given a chance most will vote for him a 4th time. Validation of their hatred is more important than bankruptcy. They know who he is. They know he betrayed them repeatedly. They are genetically incapable of admitting error since it would invalidate their reality.

I talk to these people daily. There is no hope for them.

That should help.

we here all know krasnov will sell the farmers out to China.

Because most farmers voted for it and now they complain and want us to bail their asses out. Next time, Mr. Farmer, vote for people who actually want to help and not strip you of everything to give it to the already rich. Any of them who voted for the Convicted Felon, and that's most of those assh*les, deserves bankruptcy. Go broke and fold the farm. Your Republican congresscritter will help sell it to the billionaires for a data center. Idiots.

Plus 10 for trump..even with Dubuque.

Face eating leopard...yum yum

in rural northwest Missouri …about 50% of the fields have not been planted

Some people are going to learn a lot, the hard way, about what goes into their usual food choices.

Vote for an ass hole. Expect shitty policies.

He raised tariffs in his first term. They were hurt and needed to be bailed out. He fooled them twice, shame on them.

and walked out of a town hall filled with his MAGA farmers and others. Plenty of Dems are challenging him but I'll guarantee those MAGA farmers and others who have been SCREWED over by Trump and Marshal (and might have been at that town hall) will trip over themselves to vote for Marshall once again.

It's in the DNA of this State (with Governor being the exception) and many other States,they loved getting fucked over by Republicans.

There are not enough farmers - farm owners - to affect election results, even in the most heavily agricultural areas. People identify with the image, with the stereotype, and the Republicans play on that imagery, but we shouldn't buy into it. Farm owners vote in alignment with the way owners in every industry vote. They skew Republican maybe 60/40. In this agricultural area here, Trump got 10,000 or so votes, but there's only 300 voters.

Republicans point to those maps with all those huge expanses of red in rural areas and suggest that the country is mostly conservative. We reinforce that illusion when we buy into the idea that it's mostly farmers in those areas. Acres don't vote. People do.

In my sig.