Leopards Ate My Face
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This is the Find Out stage.
Keep voting red you stupid fuckers.
I can't wrap my head around how some of them can be so hateful and intolerant when they are the true soy boys.
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!
Soy is not feminizing. Plant estrogens are not mammal estrogen. You have to actually take estrogen. It's really inconvenient.
Oh I know, the soy thing is a stupid meme pushed by right wingers. See also "Soy Boy" and "Soy Face."
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.
It's not a dire situation for the people who want his land.
Yeah exactly. Big agribusiness will scoop these family farms up at very cheap prices. Follow the money.
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???
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.
They can always blame Biden (Joe or Hunter), Obama, or trans people! 🤡🤡🤡🤡
True maybe the sales orders are in Hunter's laptop. That's why they wanted it so bad.
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?
But it had trans in the name. They had to get rid of it.
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?
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.
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?
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!
Farmers will sell their land to someone with more money.
More consolidation is what this country needs. /s
WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS HAPPENING. AGAIN. AFTER HE CAMPAIGNED ON LITERALLY THE SAME THING THAT CAUSED THIS THE FIRST TIME.
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.
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.
Have the day you voted for.
That’s ok, you don’t have anyone to harvest them anyway.
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".
Arrogant dickheads.
China has reached the point it can afford to say no.
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.
Turns out fascism is bad for international trade. If only anyone could've seen that coming. 🙄