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President-elect Trump won landslide support in much of farm country, but his embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his plan for a tariff fight with China alarms many farmers and agriculture experts.

npr.orgSome in the U.S. farm industry are alarmed by Trump's embrace of RFK Jr. and tariffsPresident-elect Trump won landslide support in much of farm country, but his embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his plan for a tariff fight with China alarms many farmers and agriculture experts.

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Uh, the farmers welcome the tariffs as Trump will appease them with increased subsidies like he did in 1.0. They know JFK won’t be there long.

I for one so happy that they are “alarmed”. It will be a much worse feeling once tariffs take place as well. 🍿(honestly, I don’t wish any ill on farmers but like so many others who voted for Trump/MAGA, unless they feel undeniable pain from HIS policies, they’ll never get why he’s horrible for them)

No, no! Trump "fixed" it by giving them a load of cash to make up for it, so he remains their hero. It doesn't matter that it took a long time for the soybean market to recover and the handout didn't cover what they lost. (My husband was a farmer and frustrated by how stupid these people can be.)

Remember when DonOLD Trump started those trade wars that increased costs to Americans and caused irreparable harm to family farmers/ranchers, and then he spent 30 billion taxpayer dollars to bail them out? GENIUS

What is most alarming is how many Trump voters are *alarmed* by his plans after the fact. Were they not paying attention? What did they think they were voting for?

These people are just complete morons. He did it in his first term and many farmers lost their farms or committed suicide. He said in his rallies again & again that he’s going to apply tariffs on everything. I guess the pain of his first term wasn’t enough for them!? No sympathy! Ran out of it!

There's a reckoning coming. It may take a year; maybe two. All those who bought into the lies of President Trump are going to be saying WTF. When all the fed programs, that made your life easier, are gone, just remember Harris eggs were too expensive. But the KoolAid was tasty.

More FAFO. This time it's farmers. And it's only November 2024. bsky.app/profile/npr....

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President-elect Trump won landslide support in much of farm country, but his embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his plan for a tariff fight with China alarms many farmers and agriculture experts.

I mean, I live in farm country, and it sucks that the bad choices of some of my neighbors will hurt all of us, but yeah... Time for some consequences, I reckon. These people are never going to learn until it hits them in the nards.

Same. I’m not looking to the next four years of suffering but I will tolerate it if it leads to peoples realization of poor choices. At the same time I fear that they will just be told everything is great and believe it. Or some Fascist crap like we all have to suffer as good patriots. 🤮🤮🤮

My money is on them concocting increasingly unhinged conspiracy theories about how the Democrats are operating a secret shadow government that is maliciously sabotaging all the good things Trump is trying to accomplish, because admitting that Trump is just f-ing things up is too much to ask.

im pretty sure its never going to hurt them enough... remember farm aid in 1985? theyd rather lose everything many times over than have the slimmest, most remote chance they may encounter a fully clothed trans woman washing her hands in the ladies room

It’s terrible that those who didn’t choose this will be hurt. But you are right. MAGA will keep choosing the worst leaders until they are personally negatively impacted by their bad decisions.

The US/trump - UK/Brexit parallels continue: US farmers incomes plummeted in the first trump administration US farmers just re-elected trump UK farmers always vote Conservative...54% voted for Johnson to take UK out of the EU Boris ran up a £22+ billon debt giving Covid funds to his cronies 1/2

19th November, London will be overrun by farmers protesting the Labour abolishing Inheritance Tax Relief for farmers in part to help recover the £22 billion Johnson gave to his cronies Labour now ''taxing UK farmers out of existence...'' Farmers whose incomes have plummeted...because of Brexit

If they are worried about tariffs, then why the eff did they vote for him. It’s not like he didn’t announce time and again that TARIFFS ARE HIS ENTIRE ECONOMIC PLAN (well, and tax cuts for billionaires).

And don't forget RFKs war against seed oil. The top U.S. states for seed oil production are: North Dakota - Leading producer of canola and sunflower oil Iowa - Major soybean oil producer South Dakota - Significant sunflower and soybean oil Thanks for voting!

As farmers they should understand better than anyone: you reap what you sow. He said he was going to do all this but they dismissed it as hyperbole. Now we’re all going to pay the price.

congratulations, agriculture, if you aren’t a conglomerate, you f’ed yourselves again. Get ready for trump to destroy you just like he did last time. He drove you out of business and then made us bail you out. short memories, long consequences.

2.6 million does not equate to a landslide. i expect better from @npr.org a 'landslide' is traditionally defined as: A victory is an election result in which the winning candidate or party achieves a decisive victory by an overwhelming margin

Farmers should be concerned. However if those who harvest their products are all deported, these issues become secondary right? Maybe they should have thought about this before voting for Trump.

Trump voters get a kick out of making other people scared, sad, frustrated, depressed etc. They don't care for the country they live in, they don't care they will suffer either. Its a mental disease.

I do agree they get some thrill out of seeing things collapse. They believe government failed them (with good reason) so they like seeing someone make it suffer. They forget the rest of us suffer too & it’s all part of this plan to make people hate government even more & make it more ineffective.

The MAGAs sure are. Just because you're rural you don't have to be a rube that falls for Trump's BS. Especially in 2024, when you have the Internet and you know how bad GOPs are for farmers. We will bad-mouth bad PEOPLE, not because they're rural, but because they choose to lose. You should too.

At this point, we really really need to be holding Fox News and others like it accountable. They're networks in America doing things that border and in some cases cross the line on treasonous like behaviors that keep getting allowed to do what they do. The Dominion case SHOULD have ended them

They forgot we were subsidized by the Trump Administration due to low prices. Low prices due to the tariffs. We watched him lose trade that we'll likely not get back. I'm still confused why I'm the minority in the farm community

Every single farmer who voted for Trump should NOT receive any subisidies that they will need to keep their farms afloat in the future. Fuck those motherfuckers. I want each of them to lose their farms to a farm corporation and then have their house demolished. Fuck them.

It's racism. Why the fuck can you people not understand this? White farmers will ALWAYS vote against their self interest if it means that a person that doesn't look like them might suffer just a bit more. JFC you people have so many resources to know this, but you remain ignorant.