Discussion: Another 'Bale Out': Trump To Pay 'Patriot Farmers' Hurting From His Trade Wars

When Trump is done, the fuckage will be multi-generational.

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Bale vs Bail. Matt was just making a play on words, fer chris’sake. That’s why it’s in quotes.

I, for one, got a chuckle out of it.

For more information, please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_play

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Does he know that some of that magic money will probably go to undocumented farm workers?

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What do you think? hahahahahahahahahaha He hasn’t thought that far and likely never will unless someone tells him that.

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The use of the term “Patriot Farmers” must be music to the ears of his boss, Comrade Putin.

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So, farmers going on welfare. It’s come to that.

Can we add a work requirement plus a brain-deadening bureaucracy, maybe the Farmer’s Welfare Administration? Will Ben Carson lead the agency? Will farmers have to sign an NDA? Will they have to openly pledge as a Republican? Will they have to promise not to sell to democratic nations or ‘blue states’?

Register people to vote. Run for office. Get people to the polls.

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It’s called buying votes.

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Time for drug testing. Let’s start with the opioids.

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Does he know that some of that magic money will probably go to undocumented farm workers?

Only a tiny bit, the Financial Times (UK) had a nice article a few days ago, about how most of it goes to big corporations, which own a large part of the US Agriculture.

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… the tax money the actual rich folks at the corporations didn’t contribute to because of your tax cuts.

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How about instituting a Five Year Plan? Maybe introduce collectivized farming.

BYW I’ve heard Stephen Moore is available to head up this “economic miracle.”

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And yet the “morans” that voted for him in farm country aren’t even getting the payola. The assumption on the part of the regime is that they’ll vote for the regime regardless.

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Let’s all pray that a huge chunk of this money goes to the biggest American Patriot Farmers of them all: those two crooked billionaire brothers from Brazil. Like other American Patriot Farmers, criminal billionaires from Brazil are the only True American’s standing between America’s Free Market and AOC’s socialist horde of foreign Latinos.

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That’s got Potemkinal.

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Communism rules baby! Farmers are nationalized in collective farms. We have gone where Russia was, talk about winning.

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and killing the kulaks.

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OMG no he never thinks things through. All he had to do was stay in the TPP but no. What strikes me though is how you could have assumed it was just meaningless blather when he said our trade deals were so stupid and he would easily renegotiate everything. Most people couldn’t have cared less what he did after he was elected. But he starts pulling out of everything, slinging tariffs around, making a multiyear bonfire out of billions in bailout money, and you have to conclude he actually thought he could do this just winging it. It really is challenging to comprehend how stupid he is.

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This is interesting. It basically shows that Republicans would have to believe that the GOP is destroying the economy before GOP voters would consider changing their electoral preferences. That is why Democrats have to start saying that Republicans always crash the economy and they’re doing it again here, crashing US agriculture. “We could a more efficient and competent job with the economy” simply won’t change votes.

Two things:

  1. This is socialism. I Wish Trumps socialist policies were described as such.
  2. The bankrupting of our small farmers is by design, so that the money the Uber-wealthy received from their tax cuts can be used to buy them up for pennies on the dollar.
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He’s crashing 401K’s as well. The stock market is on a slide again today. Lot’s of retirees out there who will be hurting if the markets keep diving. No bail-outs for those folks.

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