• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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    7 days ago

    He should chat with a fellow soybean farmer like Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett, a mega millionaire who shares his pain and has already put a bid on his farm.

    To help out a fellow farmer you see.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    Welp. Bankruptcies and suicides is what they voted for. So that’s what they’re going to get.

    Decades of them not giving a flying fuck about anyone else has left me with exactly zero sympathy for them.

    Have fun suffering and dying. I’ll be over here in my deep blue state with the 5 or 6th largest economy on the planet continuing to live.

  • N0t_5ure@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Ragland is a soybean farmer in Kentucky and he has been hit hard financially this year, mainly due to China being the biggest buyer of soybeans. Tariffs have halted the market.

    He explained:

    • It’s tough when you lose 25% of your market suddenly. And that’s the reality of the trade board and the retaliatory tariffs that have came from China against our soybeans. Soybeans are America’s largest agriculture export. We do a great job producing them and the world uses a lot of soy. China is the largest user. They use 61% of all soy consumed around the world. And here in this marketing year, the soybeans are being harvested. We have not sold a single bean to China, and normally they would be purchasing robustly right now, right in the middle of our harvest season.*

    Ah, another farmer reaping what he has sown. Face, meet leopard.

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      7 days ago

      I mean, I could say “but they’re fellow Americans”, but I honestly don’t see them as fellow Americans because I don’t believe you can be a fascist and an American simultaneously.

      They act like our enemies, so they are. And I don’t cry when my enemies die.

  • sturger@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    This person has enough foresight to predict disaster now, but not 12 months ago when he was in the voting booth?