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Trump Admin. shafts midwest farmers

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'What do you call two farmers in a basement? "A whine cellar."

President Donald Trump's Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue cracked this joke that is not very funny to struggling Midwest farmers, many of whom are going bankrupt due to the Trump administrations trade war with China. Now we find that the bulk of the farm subsidy payments promised by Trump are going to only a few large wealthy corporate farms that don't need the money.

Midwest farmers voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016, but I wonder how many of these farmers will be voting for him again after they've lost their family farms, and start applying for jobs as clerks at the local Walmart.





https://www.newsweek.com/agriculture-secretary-joke-1453914

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-farm-bailout-20190528-story.html


@mchill said
'What do you call two farmers in a basement? "A whine cellar."

President Donald Trump's Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue cracked this joke that is not very funny to struggling Midwest farmers, many of whom are going bankrupt due to the Trump administrations trade war with China. Now we find that the bulk of the farm subsidy payments promised by Trump are going to only ...[text shortened]... 914

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-farm-bailout-20190528-story.html
He had a bunch of them to the White House a few months back for a photo-op.

They stood in the background grinning, wearing their MAGA caps.

They're not exactly grinning now.

Kinda like all the coal miners now, who, after the press went away, are still out of a job.

These are typical working-class Republican voters, voting against their best interests, as usual.


@mchill said
'What do you call two farmers in a basement? "A whine cellar."

President Donald Trump's Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue cracked this joke that is not very funny to struggling Midwest farmers, many of whom are going bankrupt due to the Trump administrations trade war with China. Now we find that the bulk of the farm subsidy payments promised by Trump are going to only ...[text shortened]... 914

https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-trump-farm-bailout-20190528-story.html
You should check out how his tariffs are screwing up the Maine lobster fisherman. Trump is a cancer, no doubt about it.
If it doesn't involve kissing the butt of Vladimir Putin, he could care less.


@suzianne said
He had a bunch of them to the White House a few months back for a photo-op.

They stood in the background grinning, wearing their MAGA caps.

They're not exactly grinning now.

Kinda like all the coal miners now, who, after the press went away, are still out of a job.

These are typical working-class Republican voters, voting against their best interests, as usual.
Oh well. They'll be told it's all the Democrats' fault, and they'll believe it, because the alternative is admitting they were wrong.


@kazetnagorra said
Oh well. They'll be told it's all the Democrats' fault, and they'll believe it, because the alternative is admitting they were wrong.
The ghost of Josef Goebbels walks the halls of the White House .

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