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Beartracks

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32. Yep. Great - more corporate megafarms on the horizon. Good job, Republican voters.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #1)

Sun May 17, 2026, 03:04 AM

4 hrs ago

It's not like the rightwing corporatists and "party of business" don't have a track record of crashing the economy and hurting small businesses and "real Americans" despite all their big talk and "low tax" promises. The referenced 1980's farm crisis was under their watch, too.

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Farmers growing increasingly desperate amid rising energy and fertilizer prices [View all] BumRushDaShow 14 hrs ago OP

80% of all farm counties voted for Trump. Irish_Dem 14 hrs ago #1

Yup. Chickens coming home to roost. Joinfortmill 14 hrs ago #2

Chickens voting for Col Sanders. Irish_Dem 14 hrs ago #3

Who now appears to be Chinese. ananda 13 hrs ago #6

Yep. Great - more corporate megafarms on the horizon. Good job, Republican voters. Beartracks 4 hrs ago #32

GOP also got rid of their cheap farm labor. Irish_Dem 1 hr ago #33

Oh man, if only somebody would have warned them that voting for Trump would be bad for them... RockRaven 14 hrs ago #4

None of them figured it out popsdenver 11 hrs ago #13

But "Her laugh" would've been so much worse durablend 10 hrs ago #20

Learned nothing from the first Trump go around. paleotn 8 hrs ago #24

Last fall the head guy from the soybean farmers association was making the rounds RockRaven 8 hrs ago #27

Will they wear their MAGA hats to their foreclosures? dem4decades 13 hrs ago #5

Thanks to Trump Bluestocking 13 hrs ago #7

Gee, and what party was in charge during the 1980's? Bluestocking 13 hrs ago #8

Read my mind!! BumRushDaShow 12 hrs ago #11

So the party of "Greed is Good" is eating your young? WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THAT COMING?? Maru Kitteh 12 hrs ago #9

Plus Congress added more stress angrychair 12 hrs ago #10

Not sure that popsdenver 11 hrs ago #15

You are correct Miguelito Loveless 11 hrs ago #17

I went well over popsdenver 11 hrs ago #18

Free face-eating leopards to Trump voters! sakabatou 12 hrs ago #12

Small farms will be bought up by big agra business and you will PAY THRU THE NOSE !!! for groceries Stargazer99 11 hrs ago #14

Most voted for the Child Rapist Miguelito Loveless 11 hrs ago #16

Vote harder for Republicans next time durablend 10 hrs ago #19

Won't Farmers for Trump help them? live love laugh 10 hrs ago #21

They can sell their farms to China JI7 9 hrs ago #22

That's Xi's idea not fooled 6 hrs ago #29

Why it matters? Icanthinkformyself 9 hrs ago #23

Northeast Iowa was 57 percent for repub congress JT45242 8 hrs ago #25

It's very interesting out here UpInArms 8 hrs ago #26

Prices of... well... *everything*... next year will be wild. RockRaven 7 hrs ago #28

Well that's a shame isn't it fujiyamasan 6 hrs ago #30

This message was self-deleted by its author bmichaelh 5 hrs ago #31