Sure you have, it was called Trump’s first term.
This was all a calculated strategy to make independent farmers go bankrupt and into foreclosure, so that the big agritech companies could snag prime agricultural land for pennies on the dollar.
At some point, most food will be grown by corporations that can set whatever price they want for that food, and people will have to pay that price or starve to death. It’s the definition of “captured audience” that makes the Parasite Class extract so much wealth from the working class and become so fantastically wealthy.
Has this not already happened? The mythos of the independent farmer has existed since the great depression. I’m not convinced independent farmers actually exist anymore. Farmers are serfs who buy their seeds and their herbicides/fertilizers from Monsanto, and their tractors from John Deere. They lease the land from generational trusts and wall-street speculators.
Why would a corporation want to assume the risk of actually producing anything?
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
Sad trombone.
You got exactly what you voted for you jackasses.
Go protest, cause I’d love the farmers to be antifa.
They might even already have pitchforks
Insert Nelson meme, “haha!”"
I guess they have very short memories
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?
According to the bots in r/Conservative, they are not.
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.
Wisdom is chasing them, but they are faster.
“fuckin whoops”
But they’ll continue to vote Republican.
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).
This already happened. Like 70+ years ago.
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.
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.
He’s not trying to learn anything, he just wanted an excuse to kick the can down the road 18 months.
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.
“He needs a third term…”
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.
I seriously doubt any election at this point will be free and fair.
What do they even see as a positive outcome of the tariff shenanigans?
That more Americas will… uhh… buy tofu, I guess?? Enough to make up for the entire Asia markets?
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.
Once China develops a buying source they aren’t likely to ever return. Why would they?
Complains that Americans are too lazy to milk cows and doesn’t realize they are part of that group. Doubt they will learn anything.
“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?
“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.
“Oh geez it’s not our fault, nothing could be done” they say as they overwhelming voted for Trump and said his policies would be better for them.
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.
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
It was in their control. They gave it up by voting against their own interests despite being told loudly
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!
When I see why the EU has serious issues with American agricultural products, I seriously doubt that superiority.
Is there any american agricultural product that’s at least a whole step above dirt?
I got you.
Where not even two years before:
Of course this is fine for them.
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).
