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Leopards Ate My Face

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Despite his support for Trump, Ragland has become increasingly vocal about the need for immediate trade resolution. “We desperately need to get something rectified quickly with China, our biggest export customer,” he told CNN. “We wanna encourage the administration to get a proactive trade deal done.”

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[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago
[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Don't worry, JD Vance will buy your farm after you go broke.

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 312 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Have they tried budgeting or making coffee at home?

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 155 points 6 days ago (4 children)

If they grow avocados and wheat, they can make their own toast!

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[–] Blade9732@lemmy.world 56 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Maybe they can just not eat T-bone steak and not buy the new iPhone.

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[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 221 points 6 days ago (5 children)

This is the Find Out stage.

Keep voting red you stupid fuckers.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 88 points 6 days ago (13 children)

I can't wrap my head around how some of them can be so hateful and intolerant when they are the true soy boys.

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[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 44 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Liberals become wishy washy and lose elections

Let GOP get in charge

GOP destroys the export economy

Americans are all now forced to eat mointains of feminizing soy

The secret long term plot against conservatives to turn them all gay and trans is almost complete!

[–] hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Soy is not feminizing. Plant estrogens are not mammal estrogen. You have to actually take estrogen. It's really inconvenient.

[–] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 points 1 day ago

Oh I know, the soy thing is a stupid meme pushed by right wingers. See also "Soy Boy" and "Soy Face."

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (4 children)

You are correct but it's a common right wing myth. The Soy Boy diet making men wimpy girls was super common on right wing media.

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 70 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's not a dire situation for the people who want his land.

[–] morebento@aussie.zone 35 points 5 days ago

Yeah exactly. Big agribusiness will scoop these family farms up at very cheap prices. Follow the money.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 90 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

Oh no! If only there had been some way for farmers to know this was going to happen! Like Trump telling them it was going to happen! Or every economist in the country warning it was going to happen! Or Trump doing the same thing in his first term! WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN???

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It still amazes me that they are surprised. They lived through it the first time. It wasn't fake news It was their own reality.

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 63 points 5 days ago (6 children)

They can always blame Biden (Joe or Hunter), Obama, or trans people! 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[–] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago

True maybe the sales orders are in Hunter's laptop. That's why they wanted it so bad.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 33 points 4 days ago
[–] Flanders_Poppy@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Does anybody remember the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade agreement President Obama entered into, that would have opened the Asian markets to American farm products? The agreement that the Republicans ripped up when Trump started his first term?

[–] Ironfist79@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

But it had trans in the name. They had to get rid of it.

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 135 points 6 days ago
[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 65 points 5 days ago (3 children)
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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 39 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

Farmers:

Votes for Trump

Loses business because of Tariff backlash

Gets bailed out

Votes for Trump two more times

Loses business because of Tariff backlash

Who could have seen this coming?

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[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (20 children)

I was about to suggest that maybe not all farmers voted for trump and thus they may not deserve the financial hardship, then I read this

"Despite his support for Trump, Ragland has become increasingly vocal about the need for immediate trade resolution. “We desperately need to get something rectified quickly with China, our biggest export customer,” he told CNN. “We wanna encourage the administration to get a proactive trade deal done.”

lol, gfy.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Every fucking time it's, "the administration just needs to hear my argument, and they will realize this is a mistake and correct the oversight."

Like dude, they know exactly what they're doing.

How do these people not know who Donald Trump is yet, after all of this time?

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 97 points 6 days ago

Oh NO! ALL they wanted was to be able to Kill Black Kids on their Driveway! They DIDNT know it would Effect their WALLETS too!

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 104 points 6 days ago (11 children)

Farmers will sell their land to someone with more money.

More consolidation is what this country needs. /s

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 91 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers.

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 65 points 5 days ago (1 children)

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS HAPPENING. AGAIN. AFTER HE CAMPAIGNED ON LITERALLY THE SAME THING THAT CAUSED THIS THE FIRST TIME.

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[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago

During Trump's last term when he fucked over soybean growers, at least locally in my rural community, the soybeans didn't go to waste. They didn't rot in the fields or in storage. However, farmers ended up having to sell for way less than normal, and basically they didn't make any profit (many even saw losses) that year.

This issue with this year, again I can only speak to my area, is that by the time Trump was elected, most people would have already placed their orders for seed and the specific chemicals/supplies they needed for soy, so they're on the hook for it. They would have been facing the decision to take a sure loss (ex: if they didn't plant the soy they've already purchased and/or if they had to go procure some other crop seed and related supplies) OR they could go ahead as planned with the soy and hope for the best.

Where I live, most farmers aren't "soy farmers", they're just farmers. They rotate crops from year to year on a pretty rigid schedule, so one year it's soy, next might be corn, grains following that, then cover crop / hay. So, they better hope the weather holds up next year for whatever crop they were planning because I doubt a lot of them will be able to tolerate multiple years of essentially no profit.

[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 57 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The biggest purchaser of soy and corn was the US govt, which purchased it for foreign aid.

Well the farmers voted GOP because they opposed all that foreign aid, so Trump removed it.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 75 points 6 days ago (6 children)
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[–] falynns@lemmy.world 46 points 5 days ago

Have the day you voted for.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago

That’s ok, you don’t have anyone to harvest them anyway.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 51 points 5 days ago

This isn't even a "I never thought leopards would eat MY face" this is more "I specifically asked for my face to be eaten by leopards".

[–] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Arrogant dickheads.

China has reached the point it can afford to say no.

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[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Guess we are all eating a bunch of tofu real soon.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 62 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh no.

The consequences of your own voting.

Just like Canada is, China is specifically targeting people who voted red and I have zero sympathy. In fact, I applaud them in this instance.

Every one of these people had more than 8 years to see what Trump was like before voting.

It’ll probably be hard for them to buy some tarifer potash and fertilizer next year after their reduced sales this harvest, but it’s what they wanted.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Turns out fascism is bad for international trade. If only anyone could've seen that coming. 🙄

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago
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