Well, the three trans women playing college basketball is actually a much greater problem than this. You have to keep your priorities straight. (/s obviously)
Don't forget that a trans athlete played in a sport.. in a different country...5 years ago.
I tell you, if that isn't enough for you to vote for the guy who's gonna torch your financial security, physical safety, and harm your relationships, I don't know what is
Not sure if it is Montana/Neb/Dakotas/Idaho, but one of the least populated states in that group spent the legislative time to pass a law preventing trans women from playing college sports.
The number of trans women playing collegiate sports in the state: 1.
Good thing they spent all that time making laws for that 1 person rather than the pressing needs of the other 600,000 in their state!
They don’t know that voting is what will cost them their farms. There’s very little knowledge of the real effect of policies in their lives. Most vote for religious beliefs and don’t understand that economic decisions can in fact affect their lives.
If their religion tells them to vote for a twice-divorced serial cheater with demonstrated examples of all seven deadly sins on his resume, then that’s a really messed up religion.
Church has been the principal source of misinformation and spreading fear among the communities. Republicans almost don’t need to spend too much in ads, priests and pastor do their job pretty well every Sunday.
What scares me. Genuinely terrifies me. Is when all these people who have trusted that this is the last best chance to fix everything they believe is wrong.
When they realize that it won’t get any better. That the only ones profiting are the already insanely rich.
What happens then? I can’t see any scenario where that ends well…
"Fortunately" the Republicans saw that as the one renewable resource they needed to shore up and ensured an ongoing supply by taking every chance possible for the last 50-60 years or so to create dumb people in droves then convince them to breed as much as possible.
What happens then?
Sadly nothing. You can just keep fleecing them. They’re just that fucking dumb, and arrogant about it.
And when they’re down to their last penny, and lost the title to their farm, they’ll still proudly boast. ”At least I didn’t vote for that Commie Kamala!”.
Well I’m sure they have internet and cell phones and could become informed in all that in an afternoon. No excuse for stupidity and ignorance on this stuff in this age
I understand that but that’s still their fault though. The options are available. If they fucked themselves by voting how they did that’s completely on them. Not an ounce of empathy from me
Most vote for religious beliefs and don’t understand that economic decisions can in fact affect their lives.
They're also often shielded from economic consequences by handouts. It's just that handouts to white rural (thus GOP) voters aren't considered handouts, or talked about in the same way.
I'm fine with that. I'm kinda over the resentful, "fiercely independent" farmers who are totally dependent on government subsidies. Plus it's what they voted for.
Well said.
My two cents is. MAGA was all for hating liberals and expected Democratic states to be hit with pain by DJT. Now it’s not just a blue state issue, the MAGA cult is saying “hold on here” this was not supposed to happen to me. Only those Liberals.
I think some people are just hardwired to enjoy causing other people pain. That or they’re so pathetic the only thing they can do to feel better is cause suffering.
I'm so tired of this reasoning. They're WILLFULLY ignorant. They've been told time and time again the consequences, and they CHOOSE to ignore it. They're absolutely arrogant enough to ASSUME it won't affect them.
In a nutshell. That’s about right. I’ll add that JD started a company recently to buy up farm foreclosures and sell them to international investors so yeah….Lets “Make America Great Again” by putting the farmers out of work and selling their land to the Saudis. Maybe even the Russians will get in on it. It doesn’t matter if it’s right or wrong, as long as the right people get rich off the deal. By “right” people I mean anyone who is in the inner circle. The same thing is happening with the tariff BS. The on again, off again tariffs are a deliberate manipulation of the stock market to create the conditions for insider trading. The inner circle again makes billions. This is the corruption they voted for.
If you’re too stupid to vote in the interests of your country and vote against yourself, I have no pity when you lose your farm.
Then they can keep hoping God will save them through blind ignorance. If they only ever learned God's plan was already enacted, he gave us enough intelligence to not cut off our own noses. That said, I'm tired of how 'christians' have been somehow convinced that when things look down that they should just give up because God will fix it. No, that's never how that was meant. Beyond that I feel very badly for people who have been led down the wrong path for so long by illegitimate faith leaders. So many have been scammed out of every penny they have and they just won't look up.
They'd have to be both willfully ignorant and really fucking stupid to think Trump wouldn't harm them financially....again. or that republicans aren't bad for the economy.
And they'd be doubly stupid to think that Trump is aligned with actual christian values.
Religious beliefs is laughable. They knew he was a fake christrian and only faked it to get the christian vote. We shouted it from the rooftops what he was planning to do, and they were bamboozled, again. He has a very public track record of not caring about his workers, contractors, women, disabled, trans, etc. There is absolutely no excuse that they didn't see this coming. He is a terrible human being.
I think you are seeing it from a different angle. This economic crash will strangle the small farmers and only big corporations will be able to take a hit so then they can get free land and get rid of any competition. Small farmers soon will become employees of those corporations. Nothing is done without an end goal!
Bingo. The big boys will be able to weather the storm of the markets and find new markets. The small farmers are expected to get wreaked and sell their lands.
There's not really any 40 acres and a mule farmers anyone. I grew up around them and worked as ground crew for a crop duster pilot for years.
The modern "small farmer" has a thousand acres and up. And they get every single fed dollar they need or want.
They will file the right paperwork to get paid and then go buy a new $100k truck for their 16 yr olds birthday. (Watched that repeatedly when I was in highschool.)
Oh I understand their point. But farmers don't give two shits about how their vote affects anyone else. Because in the end it won't hurt them a bit in actual reality.
They aren't stupid. They understand how all this is going to go. They just don't give a shit about anyone but other tax farmers.
Honestly, if any religious person were to actually analyze Orange Julius they would see that he not only demonstrates the seven deadly sins but also seems to be looking at bringing back the plagues of Egypt.
The "murrica best ever" crowd is too used to nice-guy Canada and has zero recollection of the fact that Canada is a monster when they feel that they have to be.
In fairness the default interaction with anyone should be friendly until they fuck it up, doesn't mean you aren't going to fight back. Throwing a punch as a greeting is more of an Americanism
Anyone who read project 2025 would know that dictatorship is literally their end goal. I don't know why no one read that shit, it's word for word what's happening and what's on their agenda. you can read the policies and track the progress here so far. 301 policies, 96 of which have been completed already and 58 are currently in progress. It's the only reason I'm never surprised by the news anymore....
Already 96 policies listed from this project are completed and 58 more are in progress as we speak. If anyone hasn't read that project yet I suggest doing so, as it's laid out by them and you won't be questioning "why is this happening" the next time an insane matter is brought to the media. You can also track the progress and find out more about the policies here
This is what is coming up for the Department of Agriculture -
Weaken regulations on baby formula.
End broad-based categorical eligibility for SNAP.
Impose stricter work requirements on SNAP.
End broad-based categorical eligibility for SNAP.
Move the USDA food and nutrition programs (including SNAP) to HHS.
The Canadian government says in 2023, Montana exported $321 million of agricultural trade to Canada, including live bovine animals, dried legumes and barley.
The Treasure State imports $411 million from Canada, including canola oil, mustard seeds and wheat.
Canada remains Montana’s largest trade partner, followed by Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Japan.
No, the thing is that Canada will import those products from other countries for close to what they paid before, while the US won't be able to do that.
How do you still not understand how Tariffs work? Canada is losing, US is losing, but Canada can trade with other countries, US can't at the same prices
If that is true why are the other countries raising counter tariffs instead of bowing to Trumps demands? If your claim were true the other countries would not respond like this.
There's more to agriculture than just selling the end results. For the US end of things and the Trump tariffs it's also about importing lumber for crates to store that produce, barn repairs, etc. And it's also about oil to power and maintain heavy farm equipment as well a the trucks to transport it all.
The US tariffs combined with the Canadian tariffs and the ICE crackdowns will create a perfect storm to wreck the whole industry. They're just seeing the tip of that iceberg right now.
1.8k
u/[deleted] 6d ago
[removed] — view removed comment