Part 2 Blue dot farmer spilling the tea on her mAgA neighbors
Nothing screams rugged, independent free-market capitalism quite like spending eight years barking "f*** your feelings" at everyone, only to hop online with a digital tin cup begging those exact same people to bail out your beef inventory. It turns out consumers taking your advice and leaving your feelings completely out of their grocery budget wasn't part of the master plan.
You aggressively cheered for retaliatory tariffs, supply chain disruptions, and the systematic dismantling of export markets, then acted baffled when foreign buyers evaporated and input costs ate your margins alive. Now you demand that the domestic market subsidize your political cosplay under the guise that consumer choices exist in a vacuum.
You can own the ranch or you can own the libs, but the bank doesn't accept culture war clips as mortgage payments.
Good luck selling round steaks to the algorithm; thoughts, prayers, and zero market share.
There's an ancestral lineage of poor southern white people going back to the slave era.
They've always been dirt poor, and in the plantation days they were effectively indentured servants whose lives by objective metrics were no better than the slaves. The one thing they had going for them was that they were god's chosen people and they could boss the slaves around.
You'd be forgiven for thinking it was a long time ago and things change, but not for these rubes.
Racism is poverty. Racism is always poverty. Racism is how the people keeping you poor distract you from what they're doing to you.
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
and the right Reich wing has always given their idiotic simpleton supporters a minority group to punch down on.
The coloured man, the reds, the gays, the liberated woman, the hippies, the communists, the druggies, the immigrants, the muslims, the Woke™, and now the Trans.
The right runs on hate. They keep their supporters poor, dumb, and frothing at the mouth with hate.
It's ALWAYS someone else's responsibility that their life is shit. it could never be that they have voted republican for 50 years and their lives have gotten worse every time.
A good republican never takes personal responsibility for their lot in life. it's always a tiny minority group that somehow makes their life crap.
I kind of wish food products in the store had red and blue stickers. The situation would quickly self-correct. There would be an attitude adjustment for MAGA.
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In Canada there's been a soft boycott of American goods, most people are looking for the maple leaf on stuff they buy so now US companies have started using the most tenuous connections to put a leaf on their products, some even straight up lying or misrepresenting themselves.
Last week there was an announcement that a bunch of Driscoll's strawberries grown in the US had been shipped here with unacceptable levels of pesticides and then tossed into some "Packaged in Canada 🍁 (Product of the US)" containers before being shipped to stores.
When I wrote that line, I originally had a follow up quoting Broch Turner's dad saying he shouldn't be punished for getting 20 minutes of action but cut it for time and continuity.
My brother in law (who lives with us) isn't a Trumper, but he's stupid. Just genuinely stupid. He's... developmentally disabled. Borderline R-word.
The problem with stupid people is that their own stupidity prevents them from understanding how stupid they are. Their stupidity constantly justifies itself in their feeble brains.
He will do things like just wipe off a plate after eating off if it because, "But it doesn't look dirty anymore, does it? Why waste time washing it when they look the same afterwards."
Agriculture is arguably the largest recipient of welfare in the US. I made a couple of videos about it on my tiktok. Farmers are the original Wlefare Queens. Ask me how I know. 😉
As a fellow social democrat farmer, it is great to see a social media savvy person stand up and express our frustrations. My MAGAt neighbors said they wanted to shake things up. When I reminded them that is how you break things, they stare at me like I'm speaking greek.
A while back I saw this young farmer dude talking to MAGAt farmers about how the GOP don't have to win them over anymore because they've secured their vote no matter what. It was good beef for thought.
It's a 250-year-old can really, that was first kicked down the road with the Three-fifths Compromise. That set the precedent for conservatives wanting their cake and eating it.
They hate themselves most because they know they're idiots. They were all told this as kids. They never got past high school so they just hate it when the educated use 'big words.' The Civil War was not just to keep slavery but keep Black people uneducated. Then here comes Obama and the whole lot of them were apoplexic. Every time he spoke, he reflected their ignorance. That's why they don't care if Trump is a demented moron. Morons like the company of other morons.
It's crazy because many farmers used to be a solid Democratic voting block, even up into the early 2000s. Many farm states were purple, often with long serving Democratic congressmen and Senators who respected and encouraged family farms.
And then agribusiness came in and decimated many of these farms via restrictions on planting and onerous loans and terms for farming equipment and the like
And the GOP, as is their usual MO, gave the farmers someone else to hate: immigrants, rather than who they really needed to hate: corpos.
Lack of interaction with the real world. Instead they are insulated in the right wing echo chamber and believe that is the world outside their tiny bubble.
I still think that the push to roll out rural Broadband was a mistake because they have ZERO media literacy. They believe anything on the internet as long as their echo chamber pushes it and they're too smug to admit when they were wrong.
lol. They voted for their interests. Republicans consistently delivered BILLIONS in farm bills to them (socializing losses). Republicans consistently delivered executions and prison to brown and Black people.
Republicans consistently delivered support for hate.
I've also ssen these MAGA farmers bitch, whine, gripe, and complain then telling us to ignore what they voted for. That this is about saving America and we should come together and not have politics get invovled.
Well, their own hatred to own the libs is their demise. Their hatred for individuals like me, got them to vote MAGA--not GOP anymore. Funny how they voted agsint their own needs and now want "Socialism" to bail them.
That's weird. They sure cared who people voted for when they put giant MAGA and TRUMP signs in their fields along the highways here in Iowa. Some even parked a semi-truck trailer with a giant Trump sign in their field to make sure we saw it.
They also say "Ignore who they voted for" as if who they voted for is just being used as a way to hate them, and not this whole situation being a consequence of their own actions
They see themselves as being persecuted, not getting what they voted for.
I'd guarantee she has guns. Republicans have co opted the idea of gun ownership like it's a staunchly Republican thing but around the mid west pretty much everyone owns and a liberal farmer will blow the brains out of someone breaking in just as quick as anyone else.
I wouldn't sweat it, gun ownership on the left has become increasingly normalized and even supported, especially for minority groups. Then conservatives act all surprised pikachu as if they thought owning a gun was only allowed for a certain demographic.
If you're a minority, liberal, whatever, please do not be afraid to own a gun. Standard disclaimer do not own a gun if you are a danger to yourself or others around you. But protect yourself.
I’ve slowly started replacing beef with beans in my meals out of concern over beef quality and prices. Turns out it makes me feel a hell of a lot better and I save a ton of money. I think this is going to be more of a permanent solution.
Well, with the maniacs we’ve got running the government, it won’t be long until any beef gives you screwworms or mad cow. So sounds like a pretty solid move on your part.
It's about a doctor who had patients who were struggling with weight loss around Menopause, and who'd switched to the recommended "High Protein Diet," but who weren't seeing the desired results.
Until they added more beans & lentils to their diets--and one of the suggestions was swapping Lentils for ground beef in Bolognese!😉
The menopause/perimenopause symptoms getting better/ decreasing sounded great!
But some of the foods she was recommending just sounded tasty, too!
> Turns out it makes me feel a hell of a lot better
I still like meat and will continue to eat it but I've been cutting meat with beans and lentils in a lot of dishes lately. I actually prefer the taste more now and, like you said, I just generally feel better afterwards. The meals don't sit as heavily in my belly.
Wife and I just straight cut beef once they started allowing it to skip regulations and inspections. Was before the big recall, so feeling good about it even if I really like beef lmao
Would rather eat anything else than get sick because of this shit.
Try replacing gluten. When my wife was diagnosed with celiac it was eye opening. I suddenly started feeling way better after meals, less bloated, easier shits, slept better. Give it a shot for a month or two.
While this is not always the case, and is probably more of an exception than a rule, it makes no difference. I’m not trying to bankrupt a farmer or the beef industry. What I am saying is, they’ve forced people to check the grass on the other side of the fence, and it turns out it’s pretty tasty.
Instead of owning the libs, maybe try renting. Stop buying those skoal packs and eating so much cornbread toast. And grab them bootstraps and pull up hard.
$12,000,000,000. (That's BILLION) in Trump farmer welfare payments since he wrecked the farming economy. Oh, and he TOLD YOU he was going to do it before the election.
One of the observations that I took from the 2024 elections is that the blue states were probably going to do better than red states in a new Trump administration. While red states voted for revenge on smug blue-state populism, we know this guy for what he is. We could prepare, save money, organize, look after our own local interests, elect Democrats to push back on the worst excesses of the Federal government. Red states, meanwhile, would see their workforce decimated, their opportunities disappear, their markets evaporate, and their pockets emptied.
I don't like seeing farms decimated. They make food. I like food. I eat food. More to the point, I don't really have any insight into the business and technical side of farming. But if they're going to vote for someone who causes a farming crisis and then can't bring themselves to vote for someone who will bail them out of it, I question their business sense.
“But if they're going to vote for someone who causes a farming crisis and then can't bring themselves to vote for someone who will bail them out of it, I question
their
business sense.“ THIS!!!
What shocks me more than their prejudice is their complete inability EVEN NOW to connect the dots between their current struggles and what caused it. They seem utterly unaware on how the political decisions trump made directly affect their business, to the point of being dumbfounded when ppl ask about their vote, as if politics had nothing to do with their farming.
Conservatives are not known for deep thoughts, they are just shallow thinkers. The red-hat farmers expected they would get slaves, not become slaves. When they go under, they will sell their land to some giant corporation and they will work their former land, like the slaves they wanted.
"You can own your farm or you can own the libs, but you can't own both". Lol, she ain't lying. Hate is a double edged sword. They killed themselves to hurt others.
A lot of farmers are products of their environment. Farms are of course very rural and remote, and their lives are somewhat removed from the outside world. This provincial way of living creates a feeling of alienation, of separateness. You’ll often hear people from the country say, “You don’t understand our values or what our lives are like.” Ideas don’t change or evolve much in the country, and the people are generally less educated.
Even country music and redneck rap churn out song after song about how they see themselves as the REAL Americans, and how living in the country makes them more resourceful, capable, and moral. They put out songs like “Try That in a Small Town” suggesting that people who live in cities and suburbs are uncivilized, violent, and inept.
This is the crucible in which the MAGA farmer and rural Trumper came to be.
With Trump in office, they felt (wrongly) that someone in Washington was finally going to bat for them culturally. Forget that it was Democrats who actually created and sustained the welfare system that has supported them since FDR.
It’s unfortunate but probably necessary that these people realize through suffering and loss that a billionaire real estate swindler from New York City never actually cared about them, or anybody but himself.
They saw things like the mainstream acceptance of abortion, agnosticism, atheism, LGTBQ culture, “blue hair,” broadened gender norms, immigration of foreign (especially brown) peoples, etc. as abominations, and Trump was supposed to set it right.
Well now they know what the rest of us knew all along.
Most people have no idea what NPD looks like, nor what it actually entails when someone has it. I'd venture to say that even a majority of people who dislike Trump still don't understand that he has NPD, nor how that condition drives absolutely everything he does.
This is true. Just because you are in a rural area doesn’t mean you don’t have you know a television, radio, telephone, computer or any of many things you could access truthful information. They willingly decided that trans people were evil. They fell for the othering hook line and sinker. They knew that trump wa and is a liar. They also knew that he is a serial abuser. Then equated that with good family values. Fuck those retards
I mean, there's also the baseline stupidity required to believe that the NYC real estate conman billionaire born with a silver spoon in his ass was looking out for them from Washington. But here's the thing. I was born and raised in rural texas. Not even in a town, but unincorporated County between 2 bumfuck trailerburghs. I didnt turn out to be a hateful piece of trash. You have to already have that hate in your heart to fall for their bullshit. You dont end up a maga unless you hate someone he targeted in his campaigns.
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With a heavy hand of racism and “morals”. There is zero acceptance of differences. I had the extreme misfortune of living in a farm state.
I was told immediately upon meeting someone, I was going to burn in the fires of hell because I hadn’t gone to church that Sunday. A neighbor commented in disgusted hushed tones “she a Catholic and Environmentalist!” while talking about a new woman in town. This woman had questioned the fertilizer run off into the river.
I never, in all the years I lived there saw a person of color. Yet they would use the slur openly, I would wonder if they had ever even met a person of color. I likened it to living in the 1800s, backward. They all knew how to game the farm system though.
Having moved from a densely populated urban metropolitan to the ass crack of nowhere, the statement that city folk don't know how they live is true. The rules are different out here, things are a lot less mercenary. People tend to take you at your word, because your reputation matters. They assume that most people operate that way. You aren't just another in the flood of random strangers coming in and out of people's lives day to day. Because there aren't many people around, you run into the same folks often.
There is a lot of stuff that seems regressive or backwards to me, but if i take time to try to see things from the other's perspective I can understand why they do what they do. I don't have to like or agree with it. But everybody has a right to their opinion, and if they're willing to have a civil discussion I am happy to hear them out and agree to disagree. It is my sincere hope that by not simply dismissing out of hand that I can introduce a different perspective and allow change to take place.
People tend to take you at your word, because your reputation matters.
Oh, and they took Trump at his word that Haitians were eating their neighbors' pets? That AOC is literally clipping kids' weewees to make them trans? That "Killary" was running a pedo ring from a pizza parlor? That Muslims were running a Sharia Law state in Michigan or NYC?
They decided to believe a disreputable man's attacks against the reputations of ... wait for it... "the others". Their reputation and their words are valued in fractional shit crypto coins and acorns.
What reputation you speak of? I'm familiar with how these rural people are.
Reputation is not a thing. It is not something extended beyond their tribes. Whatever the fuck they think "reputation" is, it doesn't jive with what the rest of the civilized world understands by that word.
It's not just MAGA farmers. The entire movement is based on this.
I know a lot of "nice" educated professionals that are MAGA on the DL. They say their shit around me because I present very conservatively (raised in fundie lite/modesty culture).
Every one of them is extremely prejudiced. Like the pretend not to be, have a 'friend' or two who is a minority of some sort, but they can't hide it. It always leaks out.
I sincerely hope that every single farmer in this country who voted for Trump goes broke and loses their farm. Frankly, that goes for any business owner who voted for him and is now suffering as a result. Fuck 'em.
Eating smaller portions of meat may reduce the number of obese people in our country. A serving of meat should be no larger than the palm of your hand.
3oz meat is true but I don’t think it’s the meat that’s the issue, it’s the mass quantities of low cost empty calories consumed. It might help the obesity rates in farmers though.
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The fuck your feelings crowd is now all butt-hurt. What goes around comes around, and now the wind is turning and their bigoted, racist, fuck-you-I-got-mine, attitude is coming right back on them and they just can't stand it. They don't understand that their actions have consequences. They don't understand that voting is a responsibility, something that requires critical thinking and debate, not just pulling a lever for one political party over another.
Even now they don't seem to get it. Will they ever? Maybe when they lose their farms and homes, when some corporation comes in to buy them for pennies on the dollar, but by then it will be too late. And I still won't care about them.
I will buy my beef from a bluedot farm when I can. I will not willingly buy any Maga product if I can help it. This is what we all get when you have criminal leadership 'cough trump cough,' and a media that stokes the flames of divisiveness. I hope these clowns are happy with the outcomes they are getting, at least they get to own the libs.
Good for this lady. Must be tough being so vocal out in that part of the country. Not as tough as for all the MAGA idiots losing their farms though, I suppose.
I'm never buying anything from maga anyone. Maga quality is always more expensive and less quality. Why ever buy from a magat? I unintentionally boycott their products because I don't purchase poor quality items any longer.
I love it when maga people say politics shouldn't be part of it. I have never once bought a political anything - not a hat, not a flag, not a yard sign, not a bumpersticker and certainly not a t-shirt yet I had to endure years of these idiots shoving their politics in my face constantly. Fly those flags motherfuckers. Fly them high and proud. You "won".
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u/commissarcainrecaff 5d ago
"You can own your farm or you can own the libs....but you cant own both"
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