As someone from rural Arkansas who in my early life was around these farmers and their families quite a bit until I was in my mid twenties. I can tell you they are some of the most obstinate people you can meet. They regularly got welfare in the form of subsidies and then talked trash about anyone needing welfare or food stamps. Some of those people were their workers.
I’ve watched them buy new vehicles and trash them in just a few years when they could have taken care in the fields with them. Instead they would twist them like pretzels pulling and pushing on farm equipment instead of thinking things through. They didn’t care because they would be getting some graft from the government to pay for a new one.
So no they don’t need help. Unless it mental health. They will never vote in their best interests. They will continue to believe they are better than everyone around them. They will of course whine like toddlers when they don’t get their way.
from the video: “it’s hard not to be moved by the cries of those who put food on your table”
do not forget that most of them are huge mega-corporations that own vast areas of land and don’t operate based on small-families, but rather economies of scale
and also do not forget that most of these farmers probably voted republican and also that they would decry the exact support measures they’re now asking for as “communism” if these support dollars would benefit somebody else.
The vast bulk of crops grown in Arkansas are comprised of the top three: rice, soybeans, and corn. The rice and soybeans are mostly grown for export. The corn is heavily subsidized and most of it is turned into food additives like HFCS, corn starch, ethanol, etc.
These people aren’t putting food on our tables, they’re lining their pockets at our expense.
from the video: “it’s hard not to be moved by the cries of those who put food on your table”
FFS, I’m so tired of hearing this kind of thing, as if people are doing this for some kind of altruistic reasons.
those who put food on your table
They can fuck right off.
They’re doing a job and running a business just like everyone else. I don’t care if I eat their product or not. It’s a commodity.
They’ve spent years voting and acting against their own interests. Maybe they shouldn’t have been so fucking stupid.
Farmers are such cry babies and think they’re special. They aren’t. The only thing farmers have done in the US is let mega corps beat them into a ditch. If they can’t do the job, someone else will.
Amen to this. I am so tired of the sanctimony from those that happen to live in rural areas.
“Well, we grow your food”.
What, you are doing it for charity or something?
Look at all these socialists!
Does sound a lot like handouts to me.
I bet nearly all of them will continue voting Republican (or just stop voting altogether).
They’ll shove a fork in their eye while chanting “Let’s go Brandon”.
They’re fucking idiots.
What, are they going to vote for the people with Blah candidates or allow the purple-haired trans people to use public toilets?! Are you kidding me? What choice do they even have?
Trump won Arkansas with 64% of the vote. May they get the day they voted for.
“In the last 14 months, five of my customers have committed suicide. That’s how serious this is,” said another Arkansas farmer who also works as an ag equipment financier.
Jesus Christ.
I’ll send some thoughts and prayers (since I can’t afford much else these days)
Hmm, when Trump’s treason and corruption can no longer be denied, maybe we’ll have an epidemic of MAGA suicides. Too bad they ended funding for suicide hotlines.
Too bad they ended funding for suicide hotlines.
I forgot about that. IIRC, Canada had setup some new hotline to help Americans or something along those lines.
It’s already a very poor area, I can’t imagine anything looking more bleak than an entire lifetime of work slip away. What is your purpose after that?
Racism and blaming anyone but yourself, obviously
Attending more Taco rallies and buying more Taco-branded shit from China, now with extra tariffs?
Hopefully it catches on with the rest of MAGA. The world will be a better place without them
Shame on you! If those poor
kidsfacists could read they would be very upset!
Hope they don’t get a fucking dime. Cant vote to fuck the country then ask for handouts from the blue states when it does.
Fuckem. Reap what you sow, assholes.
US farmers are the biggest welfare queens around. They don’t know how to actually earn an entire dollar by working.
Not just the country, but literally themselves
they can’t handle the winning. I think they need to keep winning
They watered their crops with librul tears and are now complaining that someone salted the earth. May they learn to actually think about what their vote will accomplish.
All this winning is getting exhausting
“In the last 14 months, five of my customers have committed suicide. That’s how serious this is,” said another Arkansas farmer who also works as an ag equipment financier.
Fuck, that’s rough. Guess we’re gonna get dragged even more into corporate farms
It’s only gonna get worse. We’re heading towards dustbowl 2.0.
I haven’t been wanting to say it, but it’s crossed my mind several times over summer.
There’s a reason I’ve been stocking up on non-perishables
With tariffs and aluminum, plus the rotting food on farms, that’s all the more reasons to do this. I bought eight cans of tomatoes recently and probably as many beans, with the intention of more
“Struggling Arkansas farmers” or MAGA bootlickers that fucked up and voted to shifty, no-good, greasy, New York sidewinder because of some-dick complex? #fuckaroundandfinout #youdonefoundoit #gofuckyourself
