I always have to laugh when I'd see people online arguing for rural areas/rural states and getting chapped about states being called "flyover states". They'd start with that "but WE supply your food! The people in the cities would starve without us!"

WTAF. Get outta here with that shit. First of all, most of what I eat comes from Mexico and California. Secondly, it's not as if these people are supplying food out of a sense of altruism. They act like they are really doing something truly noble and everyone else should bow and scrape over their racist bullshit because of that?

These people are going to really not know what to say as automation really, really starts taking flight for these kinds of jobs (why we started applying AI to things like white collar jobs first I have no idea). I know for a fact that full, end-to-end automation is a goal of the coal industry and it sure as hell is one for farming, too, as I saw a presentation on it being made several years ago. In any case, it's going to be hard for these morons that happen to live near corporations extracting food from the land act like they should call the shots on how most Americans live their lives.

These assholes have been unable to deal with the reality that most Americans live in cities and have for quite some time....they just have not caught up. But these people think a minority are "real murica".

I’ve been saying for a while that the USA needs to disband and form (at least) three new Unions - a West Coast Union; a Northeast Union; and a Midwest/South Union(s). Take away all of the safety nets that red states get from the federal government supplemented by blue states and they’ll descend into utter chaos in a matter of months. That’s the only way that red state constituents will have a chance of realising how much they benefit from the federal government they so often rail against.

You want states’ rights? Secede and see how long you last.

Paying twice. You pay the tariffs on imported goods and pay again to bailout the local farmers who can't sell their goods overseas.

Well, it's certainly not coming from the tariffs

No, socialism is only for corporations and now farmers too I guess.

Stop growing avocados and making toast!

It’s actually quite simple. Bail them out now, wait for the midterms. Let the farmers go bankrupt next year so mega corporations buy up their foreclosed fam land. Then the mega corporations and billionaires get to privatize the profits and socialize the loses. There’s no better investment than that.

Pay them to destroy the crops that they grew, of course!

exactly. I would rather see all incentives removed and let those companies choke on their land grabs.

Framers are millionaires. Their farmland the equipment needed to run it is hugely expensive. They voted for bailouts and tax breaks the first time, and that's what they voted for this time. When they weren't getting what they voted for they threatened to turn on him until he gave in. They won't learn anything from this except that they get tax breaks and bailouts from Trump.

Don't worry 90% of it will go to Cargill, ADM, Tyson, Smithfield, John Deere, and Bayer/Monsanto.

All the remaining small farms will fight over the scraps and then get bought out by one of the first four, depending on what they farm...or be entirely under the thumb of the other two.

There is a video of a farmer saying the same thing. They knew they would get bailed out.

Or you could feed them to the wood chipper

It solves nothing.

Saw this on (slight retch) reddit, might be helpful to you:

Well, that's probably what the tariffs are for. Pay tribute to Taco via the Taco Tax, and then he gets to dole it out as favors to buy votes for the conservatives.

I think their business plan, such as it is, is hire the guy to disrupt the lives of everyone, including destroying their own livelihoods, but he'll bail them out. Everyone else can get fucked. Science and technology - destroyed. Institutional norms, democratic morality, (real) free speech, freedom of religion, the right to vote - all wiped away. But women, POC, immigrants, liberals will all be put in their "place", which may involve a literal grave for some and imprisonment/torture for others.

I'm sure most of it is rooted in racism when it all boils down....because none of it makes any fucking sense and racism is inherently very irrational. These people will not have their lives made better by Taco.

Nah they voted this fully knowing they’d both get hurt by these policies, then get a bailout that would a net positive for them.