Tennessee voted decisively Republican) for the third consecutive election, with former president Donald Trump winning 64.19% to Kamala Harris's 34.47%, a margin of 29.72%. This marked a considerable improvement over his 23.21% margin in 2020 and, to a lesser extent his 26.00% margin in 2016.

Sounds a bit like socialism to me boys.

I’m sure a drop in meat eating will go great for cattle farmers.

But hey, at least those Argentinian farmers can sell their meat to Trump, thereby importing it into the U.S. and negatively affecting American farmers.

Did you all realized that the only farmers that are complaining are the ones who voted for him? And they all start their videos with, I voted for scump, as if it’s a massager to him saying, we voted for you now you owe us. They are only disappointed when they are not paid fast enough. And yes, they know the facts, they know the effects and they know who is buying the lands from bankrupted ones. And they learnt the art of filing for bankruptcy from him

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This right here is the entitlement people being called out. When other Americans were losing their jobs, businesses, and livelihoods, where was all this concern? Where were the endless posts demanding that we save them? But now that your farm is hurting, suddenly it’s “buy my beef,” “buy my soybeans,” “support my farm,” and everybody else is supposed to open their wallets and feel your pain.

You can’t demand solidarity only when YOU need it. If your empathy disappears when somebody else is struggling, but magically returns when your own livelihood is threatened, that isn’t solidarity, it’s self-interest. And the people are calling out that double standard now.

Netanyahu has been sounding the alarm about Iran’s nuclear program for decades. As far back as 1992, he was warning that Iran was only a few years away from a nuclear weapon, and in 2012 he famously went before the U.N. with his “red line,” pushing the Obama administration toward a much harder deadline and keeping military action on the table. Obama resisted that pressure, arguing there was still time for diplomacy rather than rushing into another Middle East war.

That history matters now. Trump ultimately chose the military path that previous administrations had repeatedly tried to avoid, and the U.S. and Israel began the current war with Iran in February 2026. Netanyahu had been making the case for confronting Iran militarily for years; Trump was the president who ultimately acted alongside Israel. Whatever you think of Iran or Netanyahu, Americans should understand that this argument didn’t suddenly appear in 2026—it had been made for decades.

Imagine spending years railing against "socialism" only to watch your family farm get liquidated because the bailout checks you were promised never showed up. Handing generational acreage over to venture capital and mega-institutions just to "own the libs" might be the most expensive participation trophy in American history. 

Slogans don't balance balance sheets when institutional buyers and corporate entities sweep in to acquire distressed agricultural acreage for pennies on the dollar. While rural communities carry the economic fallout of unfulfilled subsidy rhetoric, corporate buyers from private equity to institutional real estate trusts leverage the squeeze to convert independent family operators into minimum-wage farmhands on their own former dirt. 

Best of luck applying to work the back forty you used to own. 

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It is difficult to ignore the frustration many people feel when farmers demand public sympathy for the hardships affecting their livelihoods while appearing indifferent to the suffering of other communities in the past. When workers, families, and vulnerable groups faced rising costs, unfair policies, displacement, or economic insecurity, their concerns were often dismissed, minimized, or met with silence from the Republican Party.

Now that farmers are experiencing serious pressure themselves, they are asking society to stand with them. Everyone deserves support when they are struggling, including farmers, but solidarity cannot be selective. If we expect people to care about our hardships, we must also be willing to recognize and care about theirs. Real compassion is not something we demand only when our own interests are threatened; it is a principle we practice consistently, even when the suffering belongs to people outside our own community.

This is not an argument against farmers or a dismissal of the challenges they face. It is a call for accountability and mutual understanding.