No, that's phase 3. Phase 2 is foreclosures, bankruptcy, and buying at insanely discounted rates. THEN it's slaveprison labor.

I have been predicting the return of slavery wide scale via prisoners for years.

Even "better", only people with the right connections will have access to this slave labour, so only very wealthy or very Fascist farmers will get their harvests harvested.

Win, win, win for Fascism in the US.

Phase 3: Expansion of laws to criminalise any vauge behaviour the govt decides is unacceptable.

When everyone is guilty, you can extort the funded class to look the other way and exploit the unfunded class by imprisonment and forced Labor. The legal system will be saturated by arrests for 'disorderly conduct', 'resistimg arrest' and 'anti-governmemt activities' faster than the courts can keep up with tossing out bogus charges. If you have money,you post bail and try really hard to behave yourself and not rock the boat. If you don't have money, it's off to the work farms for you.

Its always the same formula

Don't forget the chillun, unless they only yearn for the mines... ☹

Neoslavery.

Actually, I think I heard it first in the 1200s when Genghis Khan had similar concepts. He also would raze the village, kill the men and children, and rape the women......but give it time. Maybe that's one of the provisions within "the big beautiful bill". Maybe it's coming next year.

.........I don't know if I should indicate that I'm joking. It's the kind of joke where you laugh, but also it's a nervous laugh because you no longer feel safe in your own country, and it REALLY feels like we need a new modern civil war to take out the trash like we did 200 years ago.

Actually this year is "Nobody reaps what you've sown and it rots in the field" but that's not as succinct.

So slavery with more steps?

That sounds realistic except how do you rent out slaves from Alligator Alcatraz. It’s not exactly commuting distance to any Texan farms?

" you vote for what i campaigned, on deal with it"-trump

I thought I was the only one who thought this. I've never met someone wearing a cowboy hat who had integrity.

what about food security?

isnt the us even a net exporter?

Good news, Texans: the tailor that makes bootstraps didn't vanish overnight

It really felt like it, but it has a human’s name on the byline, fwiw. And there were some “rounded corners” that made me think a person edited it a fair bit.

Disappointing to see such slop so heavily upvoted just because it fits what people want to see.

You telling me that "Animal planet HQ" might not be a reliable political news source?

They were totally blindsided

No, they are just racist schmucks, just like we suspected

It's gonna hurt a lot more.

Yes.

Um......who's "them" in this scenario? Because if the farms shut down, that means EVERYBODY starves. Can't feed the public if there's no food supply.

Texas exports a lot to Mexico and Canada. This is not something that will only affect the US. Here's a link for some of that if you're curious.

https://ustr.gov/map/state-benefits/tx