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She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.
(www.nbcnews.com)
Fk them. Most of them are subsidies beggars.
this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2025
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Dumb ass mf
I truly wish these people would wake up. I know we're mostly smarter than these people so the schadenfreude it's easy to come by, but most of us aren't thriving under capitalism, and 100% of us are compromising voting for one of the two viable political parties.
I didn't vote for the guy and even I didn't even imagine the level of destruction and chaos that's come so far.
I didn’t vote for the guy and even I didn’t even imagine the level of destruction and chaos that’s come so far.
It's been pretty astonishing. I was expecting a lot of vindictive attacks on those who he though had wronged him, and an element of tearing down anything that might regulate his buddies' industries, but this is a level or 5 beyond that. It's like their trying to go as fast as possible, doing as much damage as possible before someone stops them. In fact, I suspect it's exactly that, they know that some form of opposition will eventually form, and are trying to get as much done as possible before that happens. I imagine they can't believe their luck at how long it's taking.
For what it's worth, that's exactly what they said they'd do, and for that reason, in the introduction to Project 2025.
better get your family working on the farm then.
Let's face it. We have been talking about technology eliminating the drudge work of society for decades. We used technology to automate so many tedious but not necessarily body destroying jobs. Farm work is body destroying and should be automated as much as is technologically feasible.
From the CDC:
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Deaths
- In 2022, workers in the agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting industry had one of the highest fatal injury rates (18.6 deaths per 100,000 full-time equivalents), compared to 3.7 deaths per 100,000 FTE for all U.S. industries.
- Transportation incidents were the leading cause of death for these farmers and farm workers. Other leading causes were violence by other persons or animals and contact with objects and equipment.
- In 2022, over half (56%) of deaths in the agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting industry occurred to workers 55 years of age and older.
A “science will save us” comment, handwaving in the direction of future unrealized solutions for a crisis happening today.
“Let’s face it…”, offering solutions that are years away, affordable only by Big Farm, and ignore the fact that there are simply many crops that are not harvestable by machine is a very unhelpful comment. You may be right about the dangers of farming, it has always been a dangerous occupation, but pointing out what could be accomplished a decade from now is no solution for the crops rotting in the fields this season. Wit this administration we are FAR more likely to see incarcerated and detained individuals forced into the fields than we are to any advances in farm tech - especially with the idiotic tariffs in place that will jack up the price of any imported machinery or the raw materials needed to produce said machines and will be unprofitable to attempt.
but its cheaper to have "Slave" workers, than expensive machinery, where you have to maintain it.
Machines are still cheaper. They don't need to be fed or housed every day and you get more work out of machine per hour than any living creature-- be it a horse or slave. And when you are done with a piece of equipment, you turn it off and walk away.
They look like quiverfull morons
If only there was some way she could have known. Anyway....
Cherry farmer? Really? The first time wasn't bad enough?
According to her, the first term was great
So she is either alien to the concept of math or another "fuck you, got mine" psycho who got lucky
Trump supporters have no long term memory capacity. There are ones that believe that Biden was in charge at the beginning of Covid.
Is this the trump derangement syndrome I keep hearing about?
"I bleed Republican."
Fuck you. Hope her farm folds and the debt chases her the rest of her life.
They’re bleeding you, alright
The tall kid looks exactly like Billy Sparks, the neighbor kid on Young Sheldon.
That's Young Sheldon's neighbour on the right isn't it? And why is Mum holding that kid's crotch?
Oh damn, I’m definitely saving this one for later.