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reagan bankrupted thousands of farmers too. conservatives are horrible for the rural voters who always hit that button
Yea but do dems have cowboy hats? See, you vote for the hat cuz that means you share VALYOOOZ!
George W was awful to the military and veterans get screwed by republicans all the time. Yet they love republicans and vote for them in droves. People don’t make sense.
People don’t make sense.
Sure they do. Stupid people fall for propaganda and these losers are stuuuuuuuupid.
Mr. Farmer, when trump talks about finding fraud in government, he's referring to USAID paying you for your farm products. You are the waste he is referring to.
This dude doesn't mention Trump or Republicans once during the entire video. I wouldn't be surprised at all if somehow he blames this on the previous administration. I've already had multiple conversations blaming any adverse effects from Trump's decisions on Biden and the Democrats in a similar fashion.
The "conservative" plan is and has always been to eliminate small businesses. That dipshit's land will get gobbled up by a corporation.
Dude doesn't quite connect the dots. The government — under Biden — had a deal to save his farm. The government — under Trump — is changing all the rules, reneging on the contract. If all he groks from this is "government bad," then game over. Except it's not a game.
My impression from the video is that all he is taking from this situation is “government bad.”
we can only hope this is the rock bottom that people need in order to see their way out of the fox news pit of lies.
First time?
I sadly suspect that this is the type of voter who will continue to blame anyone and everyone else for the problems they triggered themselves.
Cognitive dissonance has well and truly set in.
I think fundamentally this is the underlying issue with the current situation in the USA. I'm not sure what fixing it looks like.
This isn't something that started in November last year, it's been brewing for decades, perhaps even longer, it's that right now it's burst out like an infected boil and become visible for the whole planet to see. It's why I used triggered, not caused. I think it's much, much deeper than the latest election.
Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of people left who don't think like this, but they are losing ground fast as their democracy is demolished bit by bit by the billionaires.
Organising, protesting and actively fighting this appears to be where it's now at.
This is nothing new for Americans. This will go on for many more years, it might not change at all until the corpos do it for them.
Even after he loses his farm. Even after his friends and family cut him out of their lives. Even after he goes bankrupt from medical debt.
He will still vote exactly the same as he always does. It's the definition of a conservative: They don't change. Consequences be damned!
To be honest, I have never understood why the "average joe" ever identified with Trump, whose whole point is that he is a "successful" billionaire businessman. Why they believe he's looking out for the little guy is beyond me.
These people are the common clay of the land.
Rural people generally on average mistrust city people. City person shows up one day and gives them riches beyond their wildest imaginations, two hundred dollars and a luxury import chocolate. Other city people say "don't trust these gifts, that guy is a known con artist". Rural people didn't grow up in an environment where scammers could just get away with it, cuz they'd get beat up by the other 80 people in the town that all knew them.
They don't have the defenses mechanism of skepticism built in from day 1. They often do not understand the difference between the law as written vs as intended, because strict interpretation of the rules is not required for a small society of people that all generally know teachers other to function.
I don't think I will ever get tired of this:
Good.
MAGAts can only learn the hard way.
So this chode actually has a shot at learning something for once in his life.
No he'd vote for Trump all over again tomorrow. He doesn't care how clearly bad this is for him, he's still better than black people, women, and Hispanics.
And he will still vote red in the midterms because otherwise a trans woman might get to play darts.
I don't feel bad at all for anyone that voted for Trump. I've lost all my sympathy this round. I hope he loses his farm. You fucked around, I hope you find out.
"The whole world is laughing at us."
No, they're laughing at Trump voters. The rest of us they just feel sorry for.
I literally don't even get schadenfreude from these faceless people being attacked by leopards. This country is being destroyed because people chose hate over listening to any source that wasn't Fox News. For years... So now we all have to suffer?
New York real-estate and South African tech billionaires don't actually care about the working man?
Who could have forseen such a turn of events???
re: first 2 links: Notice he never mentions, blames or criticizes Trump. It's "the government" doing this to him.
I dislike how the slow roll of economy coincides with voting cycles. These iowan farmers would get gutted now, but the whole impact of that would grow well over 4 years of presidency, and those dealing with it by them would not get credit for it like it always happens, and many would vote degenerate right again as they usually do.
In four years, these same people will vote against their own interest again because "Trump said he would save my farm after this next election". While conveniently overlooking the fact that both parties will be offering to save their farm by that time, and only one of those will have actual solutions and won't have caused the problem in the first place.
I saw this guy's Tiktok on my FYP a couple of hours after he posted it, and in the comments he was DOUBLING DOWN on voting for Trump. He's now either deleted them, or they've gotten buried.
Either way I don't think these guys are getting it, even as they lose everything.
Sunk cost fallacy. Also, admitting to having been wrong is hard. It's one of the core mechanisms cults use to ensure loyalty. The more embarrassing, absurd and shameful the accepted "truths" become, the harder it is to exit the cult.
We tried to deprive you of this disillusionment. You could have lived the rest of your life in bitterness after Trump lost and got convicted of more crimes - and at least you still would have had your farm. But no, you had to go and hand him your fucking farm.
Why do they always get into their car / truck to panic?
Honestly, maybe so the family doesn't see, while they can gather composure. A little bit of "men don't cry" and a little bit of "don't want the family to all have heart attacks before I know for sure"
Must be the 50th such post I've seen in the past 7 days. Would people now vote differently if there was an election tomorrow or are they incapable of learning from their mistakes?
You know the fucking answer to that as well as I do. They voted for hate and would do it again.
"But a billionaire is already rich, why would they need to steal from us?"
What so many people fail to realize is that you only become a billionaire if there is something broken in your soul. Sane people retire to live very comfortable private lives, to enjoy the remainder of their finite time on this Earth with their family, friends, and hobbies. Sane people stop earning money and retire long before they reach anywhere near even a single billion in wealth. The one exception to this are those who create a product while of modest means and see it explode in profitability; see someone like Notch. But even Notch sold Minecraft off and now spends his time pursuing passion projects, rather than tirelessly working to wring more dollars out of his golden goose.
Sane people work to live. You do not become a billionaire unless your greed is insatiable.
Most people say that Elon Musk is the richest person on Earth. But they are wrong. I don't know who the richest person on Earth is. But I know for a fact that I am wealthier than Elon Musk. He is a pauper before me. I have something Elon Musk has never had, does not have, will never have, and is utterly incapable of ever having.
Enough.
FUCK THEM ALL FAFO
As a warning to my own side: Mark Cuban is eyeing Bluesky. Do not trust him even if he's saying the right things about Trump and a few other things about American politics.
If you make a deal with the devil, you should not be suprised if you have to pay your due
This isn't even a monkey's pawn kind of deal. They get nothing at all in return.
At least the devil delivers on mad guitar-playing skills before taking your soul.
That's super funny. Get a factory job and enjoy!
Whoops they've mostly been outsourced. I guess you're homeless! Wait, that's illegal now . Go to jail. Heyy good news while in prison you get to work on your old farm again!
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