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I think that would affect the rest of us, because that means family farms might be taken over by corporations, which is already a huge problem. Because of the downstream effects on the nation as a whole, I sincerely hope they learn their damned lesson.

Do they deserve to lose everything for their stupidity? Sure. Do the rest of us deserve to pay for their stupidity with an increasingly corporatized or weakened agricultural base? No.

"May have thought" - that would be to strong for him. Thinking has never been his strong point. He reacts to what people around him tell him. He picks up ideas at random and turns them into executive orders.

The purpose of government is to funnel taxpayer money into the hands of the rich, and to enforce laws against the poor, duh.

And almost like they don't realize that large portions of the US economy is highly dependent on the US's interventionalist stance.

It's like every fucking kid learns in history class. The biggest beneficiary of the US Marshall plan was the US - the US is constantly making international decisions that drive more business to the US... those decisions usually start as deficits driving aide abroad and then form strong economic and diplomatic bonds that benefit everyone.

Trump is torpedoing the US's relationships abroad and by doing so the US economy.

They’ll stand by their vote while blaming democrats for the dei hires responsible for their farms getting shut down.

Ah yes, the Brexiters! Quite an overlap of talking points too. Minus the healthcare, there's non to speak of in US.

Those leopards are eating good

The leopards are becoming obese now, WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE LEOPARDS

Unfortunately, we won't be in the coming months.

They write these stories like this isn’t the result he is looking for. The point is to crash, not rebuild;

I'm noticing a slightly different pattern with these actions. I don't think trump and his cronies were actually seeking to hurt farmers, but something else.

1. hurt everyone temporary to see who screams.
2. Those that scream that are opponents, continue to deny them the government benefit
3. Those that are allies, extract concessions and/or pledges of fealty before returning the same benefit they had before.
4. For those that don't scream, or don't scream loud enough, simply pocket the benefit for himself and his own goals.

nothing the Trump administration is doing is geared to help, rebuild, or make America great.

Agreed.

And on the way down, connected rich people have already shorted select industries' stocks, then will buy in bigtime after the crash to profit on the long way back up.

The rich get richer.

EDIT: the way back up won't be so long, as theh recovery will be aided by big bailouts (or bail-ins) at the taxpayers' expense. So we'll get screwed not one, not two, but THREE ways.

Capital leverages instability to transfer wealth to itself from the working class.

Having control over the levers of chaos means that they can not only leverage instability whenever and however they want, they are also singularly able to predict when the chaos will subside. This increases their economic power exponentially.

That's basically what all the instability of the early 20th century was all about. On one end of the spectrum, you had communists and socialist looking at the old order and then reacting by destroying it all. On the other end of the political spectrum, you had the far right movements of the Nazis in Germany who saw the writing on the wall with the socialist wave moving in and instead wanted to create a counter movement to all the socially minded. The wealthy capitalists, millionaires, monarchs and historic aristocracy were more than willing to back the far right conservative movements who were willing to work with them than to let communists in who clearly just wanted to get rid of all the old wealthy class.

The same thing is happening all over again. Different playing field, new dynamics but still the same old ball game. Modern wealth can't work with the current system and they know things have to change so its better to back the far right than to let any kind of social democratic system take over. They'd rather destroy everything because they know that whoever is first to build whatever that remains will be the new kings and rulers of the future. Rather than accommodate and grow in any democratic system, they'd rather watch the world burn and then take over the masses who will crawl out of the ashes.

destabilize and rebuild

destroy and cash-out.

Destabilization is 100% the point. Create problems, sell solutions. Make the people reliant on the government for everything so they fully own and control you.

They know it's all about destroying the government. They're just too chicken shit to say it.

... "government doesn't do anything for ME" as an actual thing you believe.

This happens because people take completely for granted all of the things government quietly does for them.

It's kind of the same as "Why do we even have an IT department? Everything works, what are they even doing?"

I don't know if him opening the dams flooded any farms, but come summertime, they're going to be hurting as the reservoirs empty out long before they should have.

I mean, if they vote for Democrats, they might turn gay or woke.

Dustbowl 2025, fuck yeah! Bringing back the classics!

(Farmers won't or can't spend money to plant -> too many fallow fields -> giant walls of airborne topsoil)

I had some nutjob on a local group tell me that Trump has removed federal taxes as if I and everyone else can't clearly see that we're still paying the same federal taxes on my paystubs. I can't believe how brainwashed some people have become.

Also tangentially related but I filled out my tax return today and owe a lot more this year thanks to his bullshit 2018 tax bill that capped SALT deductions, removed the child tax credit, and only gave temporary cuts to people who aren't in the 1%. I can only imagine that his supporters are either retired, unemployed, or on social security to also not realize how much more he's forcing us to pay to the government.

Yeah, they couldn't possibly be cruel or incompetent, not them!