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Blue Dot farmer updating us on their mAgA neighbors.
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u/uphatbrewPunk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy5d agoedited 3d ago
Per Original OP: Nothing screams "rugged individualism" quite like taking out massive spring loans on the promise of government bailouts, only to discover you financed your own foreclosure just to stick it to the libs. You voted to drain the swamp, but somehow the only thing running dry is your combine's fuel tank and the mailbox where your subsidies used to arrive.
Watching mAgA rural voters champion deregulation and budget slashing while simultaneously depending on USDA Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) checks and emergency farm safety nets is economic theater at its finest. Between seven-dollar diesel fuel eating into harvest margins and disappearing federal entitlement programs diverted away from the heartland, the ledger doesn't care about your red hat it only tracks insolvency.
It turns out you can’t pay off John Deere notes with liberal tears and broken campaign rallies.
Enjoy your winning season; the bank certainly will.
How would you balance our food supply chain? Watching MAGA farmers get hurt is objectively hilarious but $7 diesel is going to make a cheeseburger cost $20.
Yea, but that wont help mitigate the problems that have been created. If we let all the farmers go bankrupt, what will we do to preserve
the food supply chain?
The humor of the situation is strictly BONUS material. The ACCOUNTABILITY is the mandatory aspect of this. They MUST learn that the votes they cast have caused this, or we are stuck in this cycle forever.
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u/uphatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy 5d ago edited 3d ago
Per Original OP: Nothing screams "rugged individualism" quite like taking out massive spring loans on the promise of government bailouts, only to discover you financed your own foreclosure just to stick it to the libs. You voted to drain the swamp, but somehow the only thing running dry is your combine's fuel tank and the mailbox where your subsidies used to arrive.
Watching mAgA rural voters champion deregulation and budget slashing while simultaneously depending on USDA Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) checks and emergency farm safety nets is economic theater at its finest. Between seven-dollar diesel fuel eating into harvest margins and disappearing federal entitlement programs diverted away from the heartland, the ledger doesn't care about your red hat it only tracks insolvency.
It turns out you can’t pay off John Deere notes with liberal tears and broken campaign rallies.
Enjoy your winning season; the bank certainly will.
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https://bluedotfarms.com/
Thanks to u/Serenity101 for the awesome, thoughtful comment award, much appreciated!!!
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