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Cattle ranchers are making less money in the US despite beef prices at an all-time high. In the meantime, Trump started importing beef from Argentina to lower beef prices, but only achieved to lower cattle prices.

Trump supporting cattle ranchers weren't happy

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 163 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

“I’m still a Trump supporter. I’m just not a happy Trump supporter.”

Anybody who supports trump at this point is either brainless or heartless. Stopped reason after that. That means the guy is either completely uninformed, or he should say "I'm still a pedophile sympathizer". Ergo, his opinion on the matter is completely worthless.

Seriously most of these people...ranchers especially...are sitting there like Gilles Fucking Corey yelling out "more face-eating leopards".

Y'all need to go vegetarian in protest. Or at least give up red meat. Fuck this guy and fuck his industry.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Instead of giving up red meat, I have been saving the trimmings so when planting season rolls around I can just grow my own cow.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

This is the best kind of cow, since as the cow grows it's unable to move and all the suffering enflavens the meat.

[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I gave up red meat, it's not that hard. Honestly, I'm hoping the market will take this opportunity to come up with more decent vegan alternatives. I'd like to give meat up altogether but the products that are out there currently are pricier than red meat, ffs.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (25 children)

This is one reason why I stepped back from veganism after like 6 years and into ovo-lacto.

The cheese alternatives, especially. You're paying top-dollar for a sub-par product made by the same Big Food conglomerates. Why give them more money for a worse product. The money still ends up in the same dirty hands, and IMO cheese is way harder to give up than meat or "other dairy". Other dairy products have come a very, very long way.

Also fate wound me up with 9 hens and I can't pass up them eggs.

[–] Firebirdie713@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago

Follow Your Heart, which is one of the biggest (and best IMO) for vegan cheese, isn't owned by another company. Violife is owned by Unilever, but Miyokos was only just bought by Melt Organics. And the only other brands I have seen are all very small brands that are local. So I am not sure why you claim they are owned by "the same Big Food Conglomerates" when Violife is the only one that is true for.

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[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Giles Corey wouldn't enter a plea to face an unjust trial so they tortured him to get him to enter a plea.

Giles Corey endured torture so his family would get his property

There's no correlation between "More Weight" and "More face-eating leopards"

Giles Corey was in the right, he wasn't a wizard. He fought an unjust government.

"These people" are nothing like Giles Corey

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I was thinking about that after I posted. Giles Corey was a fucking badass and he doesn't deserve that king of comparison.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago

It could be both.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Or at least give up red meat.

The high prices have done that for me, eating more white meat than ever.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

I've mostly given up eating beef for my own personal health reasons. I won't seek it out but if a beef dish appears before me at dinner or something, then I'll have it once in a while.

Cattle prices had reached record highs throughout 2025 after years of drought dried up grazing lands and forced producers to slash the nation's herd to its smallest size in decades.

Keep on voting for climate change deniers, I'm sure it will help.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 57 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nebraska is a heavy red state, especially out west. those dipshits will vote red for the rest of their lives and nothing can change it. Those communities are brainwashed completely, and anyone that dare speak differently is harrased and riduculed into submission.

They voted for racism, they deserve every bit of pain they receive. But it wont matter, becuase they will still vote red. The sate is just over run with willfully ignorant, hateful, "christians".

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (12 children)

those dipshits will vote red for the rest of their lives and nothing can change it

People keep saying this (or things like it), even after we just watched the 2025 mid-terms where across the board districts flipped that went for Donald in 2024.

I dunno, man. I think this is evidence that your ingrained prejudices might be wrong, but we'll see.

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I hope you are right. I would love to eat my words.

All I can do is report what i see with my own 2 eyes. The racism runs deep here and often has no opposing viewpoints in the small ranch towns on the west side of the state.

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[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

More Democrats and people who were originally apathetic to politics are getting out to vote while more of the GQP supporters are staying home than usual. Trumplings are not changing their stances, and they still vote GQP til the end. The well has been heavily poisoned in certain areas of the country against anyone but Republican thugs. I find a lot of people who do not live in these areas do not understand the mentality of red until dead they take. They'd sooner vote for Satan himself than Jesus if he ran as a Democrat.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Anyone telling you trump supporters are changing their minds are lying to you. This shit is nonvoters coming out of the woodwork and saying "fuck this stupid shit". Trump still has like 95% support among republicans. Its the people that never vote that are flipping seats.

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[–] Horsey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

In many of those cases though voter turnout was down. Alabama of all places had a progressive-ish democrat for a few years because his opponent was credibly accused of being a pedophile. Red voters didn’t carry Doug Jones to the finish line, the inaction of red voters did.

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 36 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Reuters spoke with a total of eight ranchers who said they still backed Trump, though he hurt prices for their cattle.

Wilful stupidity when they vote. Wilful stupidity when they reap the consequences too. You're supposed to learn something from FAFO.

Have the life you voted for.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Funny, my liberal blue ass is still doing okay in my blue city. Things are more expensive but overall not much has changed for me. Personally I voted blue to help those in need, expand snap, healthcare, and benefits even though in all likelihood I won't need them.

Meanwhile they voted to "own" me, whatever that means. I don't feel owned, but as long as they feel better without those benefits I guess?

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

I feel pretty owned as long as I'm paying hundreds of dollars a month for healthcare, still having to pay when I use that healthcare, and being threatened with death/lack of healthcare if I leave my job.

I thought Republicans were supposed to be about independence.

I don't have room to start my own small business unless I marry someone who can cover our healthcare.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago

the same words the first time trump was in office, and did the same thing to the farmers.

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[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The cult mentality is on full display whenever these folks talk about being hurt by Trump but still supporting him.

Yet add in the blue wave from the recent election, and I can’t help but wonder how much of it is bullshit said to save face, or in an attempt not to ostracize the impacted people’s stance in their local communities. In red bubbles, it’s dangerous to publically go against Dear Leader. To say so in a news article would probably cross a line. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of these farmers are secretly feeling disillusioned by Trump, but feel pressured to tell people that they still like him. Like how a lot of the people, especially in the Baby Boomer generation (I noticed it a lot in my parents’ cohort, which is why I mention it) keep the label of “Christian” even though they stopped believing and don’t actively attend church services. My parents themselves won’t use the word “atheist,” but they live completely secular lives that their own parents wouldn’t recognize (if they were still around.) If they were asked, they’d say they’re Christian all the way. But in reality, it’s little more than a label that links them to their community.

Trump worship is a cult, no doubt about it. Just as members in a traditional cult find themselves surrounded by believers and pressured to play along, I bet a fair number of questioning Trump cultists only hold back from leaving because their communities are entrenched in it. They need to say, “Yeah I still support him” not because they still feel it in their hearts, but because the backlash of just saying, “His choices hurt my livelihood” would come back to haunt them both socially and materially.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

I was in Indiana over 4th of July. My wife's stepdad lives out there, and we were at the fireworks stand when tariffs came up. "Man, they are kicking our ass." In the same breath, "but ya know, it's gotta be done." No you fucking moron, it literally doesn't. Don't vote for that shit next time.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago

I think it’s even worse; suffering for their leader is how they prove their loyalty. Now they’re even more invested in him than they ever were.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We should be happy for them. They are getting what they voted for. Congratulations 🍾🎈🎊🎉

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Theirs their MO.

Plays stupid games, wins their stupid prize, then complains about the quality of the prize. Then repeat ad nauseam.

The very definition of insanity.

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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 27 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Remember all those times Trump made a speech about America First, manufacture and produce everything at home?

His actions never match his words and everything is for sale including YOUR country.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 2 weeks ago

he uses the republican doublespeak, which supporters never could decipher.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

Vote an incompetent idiot into head office, you get incompetent, idiotic leadership. Have the day you voted for.

[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 weeks ago

They worship a child rapist and always will. Hopefully they’ll starve in a sewer

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This president is dangerous and inconvenient, but do love hating people who are different than me.

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[–] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They have the critical thinking skills of an 8 year old which is why Trump loves fucking them so much

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

"i love the poorly educated"-trump, this includes people stupid enough to vote for him, even if they had an education.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

OMG what if the tobacco producers also went out of business?

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 8 points 2 weeks ago

I'm in shambles rn. Please no, or whatever

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As much as I love LAMF, I think it's great that some of them are waking up, even if it's only for selfish reasons, and even if they should have woken up before they voted the damn idiot in a second time.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

“I’m still a Trump supporter. I’m just not a happy Trump supporter.”

OK I take it all back.

[–] BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

A tragedy in two parts

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

HahhahHHhahHHahahahah

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