It’s not even funny or ironic at this point. I feel sad these people are in our society. I feel sad that in the back of my mind there is a thought that the world would be better without them in it. This horrid thought is that our quality of life in this world could be increased by a systematic euthanization along party lines, goodbye MAGA, etc.
These are Hitler ideas, but I can’t form a rebuttal against them because it feels like a legal defense for literal evil (deranged pedophile greed worshipping control freaks).And the worst part is, the bastards count on moral, ethical people balking at doing what those selfsame bastards would love to do
I’m a little bit sad about the same thing, but I think I’ve gotten over it.
The thing is, these people don’t want some other people to have the right to exist. That disqualifies them from having the right to exist, and so removing them from existence so that everybody else can live peacefully is okay.
Ah the paradox of tolerance.
it’s a necessary thing
I agree. People who break into my house at 3AM don’t want me to have the right to sleep at 3AM. This qualifies them to sleep forever.
Have they seen the ‘Kamala was right’ memes from the libs? Those are funny. Send them those…
I am going to laugh and shame every trump voter that gets fucked by his policies. Fuck em.
Yup. Been almost a decade of this shit. I’ve got no sympathy or understanding left.
All the farms around me are proud MAGA and some still have their ugly flags up still. I refuse to support any of them, but my neighbors will. I don’t hope for ill will since so much food will go to waste, but sometimes the only way MAGA people understand is when it hits their wallet and HARD.
i’m not laughing.
that is food shortages for our future. not just higher prices but missing grocery items from US stores.
Thank goodness we’ve densified cities and increased their populations drastically, certainly nothing can go wrong with a single point of failure, people who live in cubicles with no land will just grow some weeds on their windowsill and survive that way.
Farmers: Good thing Daddy Trump loves me or else he’d be hurting me, my family, and the country a lot more. I better vote for him again, so he knows to be on my side next time.
I’m happy for them because they got what they voted for.
I’m a farmer. I warned my neighbors. I’ve had two hardcore trumpers walk up to me nowon two separate occasions now and tell me to my face “you were right”
I took no victory lap when either of them admitted it. The fact they admitted it was mind-blowing in and of itself. I didnt think they could ever be broken to admit it.
My response, “we’ve got three more years of this bullshit”.
We’re all in this together. But now you fucking understand.
LOOOOL you think he is leaving in three years??
…the only way that piece of shit is leaving the white house is feet first
Honestly I don’t think they actually understand. Ask them who they plan to vote for in the mid-terms.
If they truly understand then they should never utter the word Republican for the rest of their lives.
You are probably right. But from personal experience with both of the people who admitted they were wrong, the huge dose of humble pie they ate to ever admit to me, that’s takes real effort. One sees it in his pocketbook. He may forget. The other sees it after a solid dozen of his employees have been deported after ice raids. He’s hurting in his pocketbook and in the personal relationships he has built with his employees.
To be fair I’ve told these people that all farmers should be voting dem across the board, quite militantly, for years now. But guns and “Jesus” made them think I was a madman. I know and understand who’s blood and sweat our tiny world is built on,and finally they are starting to understand it. I hope it is a lesson that sticks. I’ll be doing my damned best to make sure it does.
These are people that have fallen for propaganda. Decades of it. They aren’t bad. They are just stupid for not paying attention. We can fix that. Call it out but please don’t forget your empathy. I’m having a hard enough time as it is.
As a guy who grew up in farmland, still have family friends out there, I honestly am just tired of it all man and have gone full Robot Chicken Batman v Superman.
Sorry but after hearing 30 years of handouts vs helping hand, listening to them moan about crop insurance, literally a social safety net, being too expensive and not getting them to connect the dots that climate instability is ruining your crops, I mean how the hell do you have so many bad years of winter wheat all of the sudden, and hearing “you’re one of the good ones”, no dude I’m your average American as are all of the others you complain about with inaccurate alternative facts.
I’m just kind of all out of F’s to give. I just nod and say hi when I see people for the most part when I go home and just shake my head.
Reminds me of the idiom, “things have to get worse before they’ll get better” – one could say these people are suffering from an addiction to right wing ideology and from the perspective empathy is the wrong choice until they choose and remain on the path to face and overcome their addiction.
I think that’s analogy can make the line clear for those who suggest we do anything that would enable working class republican’s political behavior.
They’ll pull another W. Bush era “republicans got us into this mess so we’re voting them back in so they have to fix it”. I still can’t believe how stupid Americans are.
I still can’t believe how stupid Americans are.
believe it, never forget that the fascists are ‘stupid’ for the same reasons that nigerian prince emails are full of spelling and grammar mistakes
Yeah they should have learned after his last term. There is no hope.
“we’ve got three more years of this bullshit”.
An optimist?
But will they vote for a Democrat next time? I hope so, but the cynic in me says fuck no they won’t.
Mark my words, Democrats will make it so tempting to not vote for them.
They will find a way.
I’m already getting blasted with ads for the heir apparent to replace Beto here in Texas. Some baby faced compromise that the Texas DNC has picked because of the fucking algorithm or something. Useless bastards all of them. All the Dems in deep red that I know are watching with waited breath for mamdami to win so we can use it as an actual example of what real policy ideals and ‘fuck the DNC’ effort can be. It’s a thousand miles away but that’s what we fucking need to show that these basic ass milquetoast candidates don’t work. Ann Richards hasn’t been relevant for thirty years but they keep trying the same goddamn thing. Fingers crossed they figure it out eventually.
They’re not gonna figure it out because their paycheck depends on it. The DNC — the entire party establishment — needs to have the baby thrown out with the bathwater if the average American has any hope of legitimate opposition to corporate dictatorship.
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I’m pretty upset about it. I really don’t like seeing fields of rotting crops, and I don’t want all the farms sold to mega agrocorps
It’s like an idiot ignoring your warnings and losing a finger. It just doesn’t feel good, and now there’s blood everywhere, and they’re not going to be the one cleaning it up
You’re absolutely right, it DOESN’T feel good to see so many people getting fucked like this. We SHOULDN’T have to see this in our lifetimes. We’re SUPPOSED to be better than this.
But in this day and age, in this absolute clusterfucked circus of a timeline, some people are just so goddamn stupid, so deeply indoctrinated, and stubborn, and hateful, and all the other things we associate with modern Republican voters, that the unfortunate truth is that trying to talk to these people, and warn them of the consequences of their actions, just doesn’t work anymore. They don’t wanna hear it, and should you try to tell them, they either legitimately don’t understand, don’t give 2 shits, actively want it, or some combo of all 3 and more.
And so the only option we have left is letting the idiot blow off his fingers with the firecrackers, while trying to contain the fallout, because at this point they simply will not learn, otherwise. It’s awful, and terrible, and a nasty way to deal with it, but when the people we’re trying to help and save are so adversarial towards anyone trying to help them… all you can do is wait for them to come to you.
I think that’s very true, but spite is just a toxic emotion in any context
I’m angry. I’m angry at them for making their brain dead decisions my problem. I don’t have a lot of sympathy for them, I’m not very motivated to help them
But I don’t enjoy their suffering, because their consequences are going to be felt by all of us. I don’t really want them to suffer at all, it gives me nothing. Not even the satisfaction of being right - there was no question this would be the outcome
When they come crawling back, if they ever have a moment of rational thought, I don’t want to say “I told you do”. I want to say “I want what’s best for everyone, including you, and what’s best for everyone is you stop having opinions. Shut up and find someone smarter than you”
Well said.
if the idiot in question got your fingers cut off as well as theirs, I would take some pleasure in their pain. I’m not proud of that. it’s very corrosive, and it’s not good for my soul. but… it quenches my anger, somewhat. :/
The situation echoes the 2018-2020 trade war, during which U.S. agriculture lost $26 billion, with nearly $20 billion in soybean losses alone. Soybeans accounted for 71% of agricultural losses experienced by American farmers during that earlier conflict.
Despite acknowledging that he believes Trump “loves farmers” and is “trying to do what’s right for this country,” he emphasized the need for immediate action: “We gotta make sure that we survive through these tough times.”
Friends… nothing is changing.
China’s smart to redirect purchases to Brazil so aggressively. If they want to create political pressure, it’s effective… But I think they underestimate political loyalty to whatever Trump’s doing these days.
CCP, if you’re reading this, go after the rich guys’ pockets. Trust me, that will create pressure overnight.
How do you fall for this twice, when he continues to hype the same exact ideas that caused this exact same thing to happen to eg exact same farmers in his first term
To be fair, it was unimaginably stupid the first time too.
Trump’s goal was always to smash small businesses and prop up large corporations. Just because someone has the same racism and xenophobia as you, does not mean they are your ally. Maybe someday these idiots will stop letting themselves be manipulated by culture war issues, and realize the economic and legal policy is what’s important. It’s harder to understand, but it’s what actually affects your life.
The problem is that the economic and legal policy is dogshit on both sides of the aisle. Less dogshit on one side, but it’s not like the Democrats were ever trying to solve people’s problems in the last 50 years.
ROFL, this is 100% Trump and Republican owned. Dems don’t currently hold a single branch
But when they did hold power, they spent that time giving handouts to their rich friends, and screwing over the working class.
Yes, this instance is totally Trump’s fault, but they aren’t wrong in saying that the Democrats have been pretty openly not trying to solve people’s problems.
Which specific bill are you talking about that served their rich friends, and screwed over the working class? Because this is fucking news to me.
This isn’t a specific bill, but the US government has been an oligarchy for quite some time now. This is why leftists keep complaining about corporate campaign contributions and FPTP while most elected Democrats are mysteriously fine with them.
FWIW, I meant that as two separate things, although there is some crossover.
Giving handouts to their rich friends:
Edit: Wrong link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilization_Act_of_2008Correct link: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2009/12/13/obamas-big-sellout-president-has-packed-his-economic-team-wall-street-insiders
Screwing over the working class:
Edit: Wrong link https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/25/politics/covid-19-relief-programs-ending/
Correct link: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/23/biden-social-safety-net-2024-00128488
Edit: Wrong link https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/neil-barofsky-on-foaming-the-l
Correct link: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/obamas-failure-to-mitigate-americas-foreclosure-crisis/510485/
And that’s just stuff off the top of my head. I’m not mentioning the wars, the cushy government contracts, etc.
Link 1 explicitly lays out why it’s not a handout to the rich.
Link 2 is about legislation in 2008. Who do you think was president in 2008? Because it was Bush. The same guy who caused the 2008 recession.
Link 3 is about how Congress undid covid relief when Republicans took back control in 2023.
Link 4 seems to basically just be an ad with no substance, mostly talking about how Bush fucked shit up and Obama didn’t do enough to unfuck Bush’s fuck ups?
Link 1 explicitly lays out why it’s not a handout to the rich.
Oh, well, just because they said it isn’t a bailout must mean that it isn’t a bailout. There’s no way politicians would lie.
For links 2-4, I posted the wrong ones. I’ve added corrections, my apologies
Wall Street handouts in the wake of the 2008 crisis.
Yes, I’m explaining why they don’t hold a single branch.
People are fed up and looking for answers. Republicans give the wrong answers, while Democrats gaslight about how much progress is being made. When people don’t buy the rather obvious gaslighting, they turn to the only answers being offered.
“wrong answers”
That’s a funny way to spell complete and total fucking lies.
Yes. Democratic gaslighting is “complete and total fucking lies” too. I was differentiating. Republicans lies offer a narrative and enemies to fight. Democratic lies try to tell people watching the American dream die that it’s all just “progress”. Of the two, Republican lies are way more viral, in more than one way.
Name a time when the right wing Democratic party have had a clear shot at improving things. You know since they’ve had to clean up the absolute DISASTERS that every Republican lying cheating stealing thief of a “president” has forced upon us. Every single time that they seize power, they destroy the economy and our rights. Every single fucking time.
I don’t look to them for salvation but holy fuck at least you can count on somewhat of a sense of stability when the actual (still shitty) human beings are in charge.
Having a chance to improve things is a Democratic nightmare scenario, and they do everything in their power to make sure they never get that opportunity. But how about today? Today they could endorse the Democratic nominee for mayor of NYC. That has a good chance of improving some things. Or how about Bill Clinton not choosing to dismantle the federal safety net, or Obama choosing to prosecute Wall Street criminals instead of reward them? How about not kneecapping Medicare For All at every opportunity? How about not trying to be Republican lite on immigration or trans rights? How about articulating any kind of vision to compete with Republican hate mongering in the public psyche?
It’s not all about passing legislation. Passing legislation is what happens after you have done all the real work that the Democratic establishment refuses to do.
I’m not disagreeing with any of that. I’m simply stating that things are ALWAYS exponentially worse when the demon spawn fascists seize power.
I wasn’t ever thinking about converting my USD to Renminbi when Biden was in office. Didn’t expect the entire country and economy to collapse at any moment.
So yea, things aren’t nearly perfect under democratic leadership. But significantly and undeniably better in every single metric.
Name a time when the right wing Democratic party have had a clear shot at improving things.
Under Obama and Biden, they had the power to improve things. Instead they chose to give handouts to their rich friends, and screwed over the voters.
Every single time that they seize power, they destroy the economy and our rights. Every single fucking time.
Oh, you mean like what the Democrats keep doing?
Who do you think is going to buy up all the farms on the cheap? This is bad for all of us
Supposedly couch boy vance himself who is said to have shares in a company for distressed business. Directly profiting.
https://civileats.com/2024/09/18/jd-vance-invested-in-acretrader-heres-why-that-matters/
If only there were signs 😞
