cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34101401

Cue Condescending Wonka.

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[–] 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They need to take a lesson from Trump, fire the person giving you real but alarming data and replace them with someone who’ll give you positive data you choose to believe is real.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Cook the books and let it all collapse if/when someone responsible takes charge. Then blame them for the crash and ride that wave back into power!

    Blaming Democrats for the effects of Republican policies has worked for them so far. The only new part is them not even bothering to hide the lies and fraud since it's clear nobody can hold them accountable anymore.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Nebraska.

    Yeah. US Agriculture is currently getting fucked royally. Here in Arkansas, farm bankruptcies have skyrocketed this year. Lots of rural communities lean heavily MAGA so I guess they can have the day they voted for.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    all those immigrants either fled the states, or is detained, nobody picks up your crops.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    nobody picks up your crops, or managing the hospitality sector

    Meanwhile the export counties started to van GMO crops, USA's favorite, foreign tourists are staying away while citizens can't afford tourism anymore. The need to pick crops and hospitality is decreasing.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    no more biden where you can rail on, and then save you, no more dems because they dont control any of the house, or is sufficient prescene in nebraska to reverse things.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    IIRC Nebraska is one of two states to split their electoral vote (I think the other is Maine?). The eastern part of the state (mainly the major cities like Omaha and Lincoln) is purple-leaning-blue and has voted against Trump at least once.

    Of course the Republican Party is looking to change that to winner-takes-all like the rest of the country, which would drown out the liberal part of the state and turn it solid red.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Idk if anyone here heard Kawasaki from Nebraskas farm report, but the average American corn farmer is expected to lose 200k this year by their estimates.

    So just a bit.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It will be Obama’s fault. Or biden’s. Or Hillary’s. Whichever the media says. Pick one.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Dunno, seen and read interviews with farmers and ranchers hurt by these policies and they know damned well it's Trump's fault. Problem is, they think he's ignorant on just this one thing, only fucking up their livelihoods and begging him to turn it around.

    And no matter what, they'll vote GOP again.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago

    "We'll get to the bottom of this as soon as we figure out who shit my pants."

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's only getting started. MAGA Republicans have made America so great, no other country's going to buy corn and soybeans from a bully. Watch what will happen this fall, farming states will suffer and Trump will be too busy distracting from the Epstein files to save them.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He's just going to have the fed bail them out again with subsidies. The farmers know they won't suffer. That's why they keep backing Trump. The pain they would've felt last time was mitigated by federal bailouts.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    The federal agencies have been gutted by DOGE and others, Trump doesn't care much, and Congress has made itself largely irrelevant. Look at how FEMA is (not) operating. What good is Congress' power of the purse if the purse-strings are held tightly shut by the executive? I think the dismantling of the bureaucracy is going to make agencies unable to manage and disburse the funds even if a bailout is prepared again.

    Fox is reporting that America collected $50B in tariffs, but where will farmers and regular people see that money put to use for them, when $150B over 4 years are being given to ICE to hire thugs and build prison camps?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    How many people's wages have lost more than 6% in not keeping up with inflation due to shitty anti-labor practices?

    When do they fight for those? Or they only care about the big capitalism numbers.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Om nom nom.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Even if trump gets "favorable deals" its unlikely individual buyers or decision makers will still buy american. The damage is done.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    "Favorable Deals" actually make it worse.

    Say you're an auto manufacturer. You ca build in the US, pay massive tarrifs (50% on steel, 100% on computer chips, etc) on all your parts and supplies, then have to sell to Americans who expect to pay less because they don't have to pay a tarrif on domestic products.

    Or you can build in Europe, have 0 tarrif-related expenses, and just pass the new 15% tarrif to your American customers.

    It's literally better for existing American manufacturers to move out of the country than to continue operating here.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    The boycotting will continue until Americans know their place*. How miserable you make your country is, of course, your call.

    *Hint: it is not 1st.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Their voter-base are idiots if they don't know who started the trade war.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    6%? Oh no. What a nightmare. Wake me up when it hits 20%+, otherwise this is a statistical blip.

    "Plunged". FFS. Journalism is such a fucking dead industry.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 year ago

    Congratulations on getting what you voted for.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Living in the US. Before I buy anything, I do my best to check the manufacturer out to see that it comes from a blue state. Check on Goods Unite Us to find out if they donate more to Republicans or Democrats. I am postponing or self-performing tasks and work that would require a "trade", since I'm guessing those people are more conservative anyways. Sorry to any reasonable peopIe I may be accidentally boycotting.

    I know it's not perfect, but its at least something.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago

    Time to fire some more statisticians.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We are paying for the billionaires' tax cuts through tariffs now.

    Your grocery bill going up? This is why.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    It's only starting. It'll go up more now that the harvests are supposed to be coming in. And once the non-harvested wheat isn't made into flour, and the excess veggies aren't frozen and canned. It's all going to go up this fall.

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    [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    We're not going to forget what republicans did, and what they are. When the mobs start coming for them, how long before the body guards and cops decide that it's not worth dying over some corrupt shit bag and just step aside?

    I mean that's what Republicans wanted, a return to mob rule, and the days of lynchings. They might actually get what they wish for

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You know what keeps me up at night? Democrats get elected into power and just leave shit all broken. I mean, sorry to say but that is the pattern we've seen from them for decades now.

    Now, please don't get me wrong, I am NOT saying "both sides same, blah blah". I just don't really believe there's anyone in the Capitol who is actually fighting for me anymore, save perhaps a tiny few who have no realistic chance to help. Not Bernie's fault they fucked him over, for example, and I have mad respect for him. But one man, maybe one or two allies, standing in front of this wave of irrational hatred? We're fucked.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You know what keeps me up at night? Democrats get elected into power and just leave shit all broken. I mean, sorry to say but that is the pattern we’ve seen from them for decades now.

    I keep hearing claims they have turned over a new leaf and are no longer fighting against progressives, but the Mamdani campaign, for example isn't giving me much faith that this is true. You may very well be correct to worry about this.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Same. That bs excuse of Jeffries not endorsing him, ‘I live 10 miles outside the city, y’all figure out your politics,’ was just trash. Not nearly as bad as others (gillibrand and the former gov, forget his name especially), but come on man.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Win stupid prizes

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Lemme get out my tiny violin...

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    To government collected $105 (or was it $150) billion…. From Americans (that’s the part that’s always left out.

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