Summary
Trump’s new tariffs—10% across the board plus duties on 60 countries—threaten U.S. farmers already strained by high inflation, rising loan rates, and falling crop prices.
Unlike 2018, today’s farm economy offers less cushion, with depleted bailout funds and federal budget constraints limiting relief.
While herbicides and fertilizers are exempt, farmers fear retaliatory tariffs and export losses.
Farm groups and lawmakers urge moderation, prompting USDA to launch new trade initiatives. Still, widespread USDA staff cuts and uncertain support leave many farmers anxious, risking political fallout in key red states.
I hope every farmer (and that’s sadly most of them) who voted for Krasnov loses their farm and is made homeless. I have NO sympathy for these dumbfucks who voted to foist such a monster on the rest of us.
And once our export markets find new sources, they won’t come back just because the tariff is gone.
This also making other countries/blocs develop their own industry. We can see that in how EU countries are earmarking funds for their own defense industry. Once that industry is developed, they won’t come crawling back to the US.
My fellow Americans, today I must acknowledge that the tariff strategy was, in hindsight, deeply flawed. It was my idea alone, and I accept full responsibility. I offer my sincerest apologies for the harm caused and vow to take immediate steps to repair the damage. This is on me, and I am truly, deeply sorry.
—Donald J. Trump, in an alternate universe.
“Donald J. Trump, in an alternate universe.”
Are you suggesting that there’s a universe where society rewards honesty?
throw that in a deep fake and make it go viral
“We haven’t seen anything like this” says demographic hit hard by something like this by the same exact fuckwit a few years ago.
after voting for him again
He made a lot of promises but was busy playing golf in the first 4 years. This time he can lock in.
He also had a lot of adults surround him who, while still being evil, weren’t total morons. No such luck this time.
And still supporting him now, no doubt.
Rather aptly, they reap what they sow.
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I wonder who he will blame when this implodes. It was Hillary! Biden! Obama! The Illuminati! The Liberal Elite! The media! My father for never hugging me as a child! Oh shit… forget I said that last one…
Trump won’t back down and this time it was purely this administration. I predict Congress will move to unwind it by addressing the national emergency after damage is done but before total disaster. He’ll then blame the democrats who helped create a supermajority for not letting him finish the job, but the real story is Republicans finally reining him in. That or the US economy is a molten crater by the end of summer.
Congress won’t rein him in because they know Trump has an army of brown shirts who attacked Congress once already, and who owes Trump their freedom. Those J6 chuckleheads can openly attack Republicans with insufficient loyalty, and Trump will probably just pardon them again.
Congress won’t do shit, too many loyalists.
Getting the house in almost two years might help. It would help most if we didn’t have to count on “centrist” Dems.
last time it was like this was in the 30s. typical of Americans to forget their history after 100 years of it. they have created an uneducated half to complicate those who’ve learned.
Once everyone is dead who lived through it, and everyone who grew up on their stories, history is effectively lost to everyone but historians. I’ve seen it happening in my own lifetime.
It’s not like we spent a lot of energy making sure our kids understand WW2 lore. It’s presumed irrelevant to their lives so it’s presented as “how we got here” not “this will happen to you.” Hell, we beat the Nazis, right? The subtle shit like hiring them into our countries or displacing an entire people to give (or restore, however you want to look at it but after 100 years I figure everyone is gone who has any kind of claim to the land and that’s that) Jews a homeland—that stuff barely gets a mention.
Point is, I don’t think it’s Americans alone, and I don’t think it’s this generation in particular. The far right is rising globally. We’ve all forgotten. America, as the “sole superpower” might be the worst case, but it’s happening everywhere. And we’re going to create generations of misery because we have to learn the lesson again.
Point is, I don’t think it’s Americans alone, and I don’t think it’s this generation in particular. The far right is rising globally. We’ve all forgotten.
I think it’s human nature. Education is supposed to combat that, but it’s slow and imperfect, and of course the reactionaries among us fight that tooth and nail, most especially if they suspect children will come out of that education changed somehow. But changing minds is the very point. If you believe the same things at the end of education that you believed beforehand, well, then, that’s a failed education.
It’s not about indoctrination - that’s just the reactionaries projecting. They believe the purpose of education is to make children believe the exact same things their parents and religious clerics believe.
I think humans not only forget their history, but also the very bedrock of science. We have people still litigating evolution or a spherical Earth, FFS. And we have people rejecting things like measles vaccines because they didn’t see massive misery and death in their own lifetimes. Like you said, there is not enough people being told: without the proper precautions, this could happen to YOU. Or YOUR KIDS. It’s something that happened to prior generations or people that are old (so what do they know about life, lol?).
It’s why we have monuments everywhere, memorials and a few national holidays to reminds us.
Nazis got very popular in 30s America right? What changed?
Pearl Harbor was the real turning point. Also leadership wanted to support the allies but had to get the public on board. The tide started to turn with Hitler’s invasions of Austria, Czechoslovakia, and especially Poland, but Pearl Harbor was the crucible.
We need an external enemy to distract us from fighting each other and to achieve solidarity.
It’s trite and it’s been said by many. The main thing I’ve learned from studying history is that people don’t learn from history (or not enough do).
So we keep doing the same things.
I mean, just look at something like measles, which was far more recent. But, starting with maybe younger boomers and definitely within Gen X, you started getting this “but what have vaccines ever done for us?” kind of bullshit, because a lot of people are too stupid and arrogant to learn shit from history or their elders.
But those that lived through it tend to remember even if they were not necessarily brainiacs…
It’s sad, but as a group, humans just don’t do very well at learning the important things from their elders or from history…the stupid racism and wives’ tales seems to get passed down, however.
Again, if there is one thing I would hope for when it comes to technology breakthroughs, it would be to make humans smarter, wiser and more empathetic. I don’t know how that might be possible, but truly transferring powerful wisdom to the next generations to all and automatically, would be an unbelievable improvement over what we have. Imagine something like The Matrix, but instead of learning kung fu or how to fly a helicopter, you get the wisdom of the ancients and important lessons from history, at your disposal, for your entire life…and everyone gets that…
I think you have to drink sandworm bile for that.
Or maybe the NeuroBlaster 3000 Quantum Fibrillator?
Ever since seeing that scene in the original Dune where the Bene Gesserit hand down all the wisdom of the past sisters, I cannot help but wonder what an ability like that - even if only through some kind of technology augmentation - would do for humanity.
I would say “go suck an egg,” but I can’t imagine them affording one.
