A local Iowa farmer killed themself recently due to the current state of affairs. I emailed Chuck Grassley to let him know that his constituents have started committing suicide thanks to his choices and those of his admin, and that he has literally blood on his hands. It's not even bad out there for farmers yet, but it's about to be, and that fear has been enough for people to give up.
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Well yeah, that's the plan, so the private equity can buy up the land for cheap
Mia Wong of Cool Zone Media has been screaming this from her own mountains of madness since at least April 2nd. This is going to cause cascading impacts across the economy
We're at war with a far right authoritarian government intent on destroying our way of life and conquering the entire world. The Chinese Communist Party has to be stopped at all costs. This is a small price to pay in order to bring an end to Xi's Totalitarian Regime.
Google "Tiananmen Square" and then get back to me, if you don't think this is serious.
I'll take "this fucker doesn't know how anything works" for $200, Alex.
had me in the first part, the US is indeed far right and authoritarian. and must be stopped. 😉
China will 100% win this war tho lol. They have all the resources, manufacturing capacity, etc. The US is a dead shell with no ability to self sustain without global trade.
China will 100% win this war tho lol.
I mean, more seriously, it's not a war anyone can win. China's insourcing a lot of their productive capacity, but not because they love the idea of jettisoning all the talented Western engineers and manufacturers. It's because they can't risk being sanctioned out of the supply chain on some asshole's racist whims.
The US/China relationship was symbiotic. Ending it hurts us all.
The US is a dead shell with no ability to self sustain without global trade.
We continue to enjoy enormous professional, technical, and industrial capacities. But we're cannibalizing them for short term profit.
It's not anywhere close to gone, but it won't last forever, either.
I love these stickers because I know he’s staring into the sun, like the damn moron he is.
It makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
For the first time in 7 years? Hmmm, would that make it Biden or Obama's fault then?
This is a trick question. It was Hillary's fault.
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/1015/soybean-farmers-trump-bailout-china
Mr. Trump has angered many farmers by providing economic aid for Argentina, which almost immediately responded by suspending its export taxes on soybeans and other goods. That allowed China to buy a large lot of Argentina’s soybeans at a discount, further undercutting U.S. soybean farmers. Farmer sentiment – a measure of how farmers view their financial future – fell last month, reversing all the gains it had made since Mr. Trump’s election last year, according to the Purdue University-CME Group Ag Economy Barometer Index.
When America’s soybean exports diminish, farmers in Brazil and elsewhere in the Southern Hemisphere expand their acreage and grow more soybeans for export, diminishing U.S. farmers’ market share. That’s what happened in Mr. Trump’s first trade war with China in 2018.
South American farmers are beginning to plant their soybean crop. If there’s no imminent sign of a U.S.-Chinese arrangement over soybeans, then they have more incentive to increase soybean acreage. That’s a long-term threat, Mr. Gerlt says, because once in cultivation, those acres don’t go away.
Farmers have mostly voted for Trump, so may they reap what they have sown.
They should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps! The market always decides!
farmers...reap what they have sown
Dammit. I wish I'd come up with that one.
Actually thinking about the idiom, I wonder if people used to complain a lot about the types or quality of vegetables they grew. It might be purely metaphorical, but I can definitely imagine it, having lived in a place where the owners didn’t box in their zucchini and I had to eat it twice a day for two months. I have a bunch of bomb zucchini recipes, including a self created prize winning quiche recipe (it’s just good homemade crust with an egg and no water, blind baked, then filled with zucchini rounds about 4mm thick sautéed with thin sliced red onions, balsamic vinegar, and rosemary, a little bit of good Parmesan and only two eggs in a 2:1 ratio with heavy cream- I don’t have it more precisely at hand rn), but I couldn't enjoy it for a decade afterward.
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Adding this as a footnote to the Black Book of Communism
lol ..... communism is bad ... unless they invest in your economy
That's not real Communism
Of course not. Where’s the progroms? The mass murder? The restrictions on the press?
Gaza and Myanmar and South Sudan, mostly. Although the US is coming up fast.
So I guess they're the communists.