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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.

“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?

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

Oh noes! Reich Wingers getting exactly what they demanded, and feeling the consequences of it!

You got exactly what you voted for you jackasses.

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

A really good piece on the realities of this topic is here: https://youtu.be/badGHJLDpP8

TL;DW: Farmers thought they were voting for cheap labor and a bailout, like they got last time. They also thought that, as wealthy landowners^1^, they were on the "right side" of these disastrous trade policies and were going to be carried through this mess.

^1.^ I struggled with this concept at first. Things have changed a lot since the pre-WWII era that conjures up images of Ma & Pa Kent in a weathered century-home, on a lonely corn farm in Kansas. It's big business now. Good farm land isn't cheap, equipment is expensive, (legitimate) labor is expensive, fertilizer & irrigation costs a lot, pest control costs, crops are risky in general, and so on. When you work out how much money is moving around and what a farm's net worth is, these people are millionaires even if they're not in the black all the time.

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

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.

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

are the farmers in dire straits, or are independent farmers in dire straights?

i make the distinction because if the purpose is to make the rich, richer, then this is a feature, not a bug for republicans

I have more sympathy for my toenail clippings than I do for Trump voters getting exactly what they voted for.

But at least the leopards are still well-fed

I guess they have very short memories

Dont worry. Hard working people from blue states will bail them out. Again

Maybe don't be a fucking moron and vote for a fucking moron then???

I hope leopards run wild in this country. Maybe a brain cell will rub against another braincell and spark a fucking thought in their tiny little skulls.