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  1. 22 points
  2. I'd say the only way he'll make it to 2030 is if he cuts out the sweets, most of the other carbs, gets regular exercise and goes on statins and BP medication.
    20 points
  3. https://fortune.com/2025/03/12/ceos-losing-faith-trump-tariffs-yale/
    19 points
  4. Sorry Caleb. Not really, though. You chose....poorly Caleb Ragland, a soybean farmer in Magnolia, Ky., voted for President Donald Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024. Now, however, he has to navigate a tariff minefield at a time when the sector is already facing major headwinds. Ragland works with his wife and three sons and has deep roots in the community. His family has been farming on the land for more than two centuries. But in recent years, he has seen a double-digit percentage decline in crop prices while production costs rise, with soybean futures having gone down more than 40% over the past three years along with corn futures. As pressures mount in the industry as a result of tariffs imposed by the second Trump administration β€” as well as retaliatory levies from other countries β€” he’s worried about the longevity of his business. β€œMy sons potentially could be the 10th generation if they’re able to farm,” Ragland, who is also the president of the American Soybean Association, told CNBC. β€œAnd when you have policies that are completely out of our control – that they manipulate our prices 20%, 30%, and on the flip side, our costs go up – we won’t be able to stay in business.” β€œWe’re already at the point that we’re unprofitable,” Ragland said. β€œWhy on earth are we trying to add insult to injury for the ag sector by basically adding a tax?” Ragland pointed out that he β€œappreciates the president’s ability to negotiate” and wants Trump to be successful for the sake of the country. However, he emphasized that those in the industry, especially soybean producers, don’t have any β€œelasticity in our ability to weather a trade war that takes away from our bottom line.” β€œFolks are upset,” Ragland said about sentiment from other farmers, stressing that they all need relief through deals that reduce barriers to trade and a new five-year comprehensive farm bill – legislation that provides producers with key commodity support programs, among others. β€œYou’re talking about people’s livelihoods,” he remarked. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/11/how-trumps-trade-policy-is-putting-pressure-on-us-farmers.html
    19 points
  5. Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. β€œAs ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counseled one and all, and everyone said, β€œAmen."
    17 points
  6. We’re disappearing green card holders for their speech - of course the precedent was set when we looked the other way when Virginia resident and WaPo journalist was murdered by MBS so what do we care of middle Eastern people anyway. We are permitting a foreign billionaire to dismantle US agencies that have active regulatory enforcement investigations into his companies simply bc he was the President’s biggest donor We have politicized our entire federal law enforcement arm from prosecutors to the FBI itself - no more impartial rule of law, emphasized of course by pardoning terrorists who assaulted cops in a literal effort to stop the certification of votes electing a President I used to believe there were immutable issues that everyone shared that were the backbone of the American idea. We’ve instead become a Russian vassal state All that to say that I don’t believe in third rails. There’s not a single issue this government can take on that will result in a wholesale rejection of Trump or MAGA. GOP politicians and voters alike would rather eat glass than admit we should have people inspecting our food to make sure it doesn’t have glass in it
    17 points
  7. They’re gonna make it so the olds can’t use a phone to resolve stuff with their SS. (This is a WaPo reporter, legit source).
    16 points
  8. When Trump guts Social Security and Medicare, I’m betting that a lot of MAGA seniors will be surprised to hear from their kids that, β€œNo, you won’t be moving in with us. You can try praying to Trump…”
    16 points
  9. Monsanto Industries Senior Extreme Rural Farmer They will love being SERFs.
    15 points
  10. A Chef’s Tale Chef thinks β€œHmmm.. this elon guy has a lot of money. And attention. Attention is good!” Chef fails to consider DC has a few government workers in its population. Let’s go tweeting and retweeting!! FAFO commences. Chef’s ownership group weighs in. Chef likely doesn’t have a firm grasp on the first amendment. Chef assumes Sheldon’s nickname. The retractor. Chef matt hiding his tweets now. FAFO indeed. Fin.
    14 points
  11. Trumpy choads, take my job from the place I belong West Virginia, Mountain MAGA Take my job, Trumpy choads
    14 points
  12. 'sorry grandpa, you can't call anymore... use your Win10 computer that takes 4 minutes to boot up, go to ssa.gov, find the FAQ and hope you can find an answer. you can't? oh, well try the AI chatbot. no, sorry, can't help you, busy fomenting civil unrest and forcing sex changes on middle schoolers. but good luck, love you!' 🀣🀣🀣
    13 points
  13. "I support what you're doing, just not how you're doing it." Remember, that means "I support you cutting off social security to black and brown people, because we know they're all DEI freeloaders, but you shouldn't cut it off to good god-fearing white folks like me." That's it. They 100% support the action. They just don't want it to happen to them. That's the entire thought process.
    13 points
  14. Whenever you hear a Republican waxing patriotic as they claim to honor our armed forces, remember, they are full of shit. Republicans have proven they are willing to surrender freedom, and they have forever dishonored our military.
    13 points
  15. Over the last 50 years, your generic plastic army men (you know, these guys): Have been stamped the following things, in this order: Made in Japan Made in Taiwan, ROC Made in China Made in Vietnam (I think that's the new locale) The point being that jobs in factories that make cheap injection molded plastic toys are NOT first-world country jobs; they move as economies develop. We are never getting "cheap injection molded plastic toy jobs" back in the US....nor do we want them. Because the choice is either a shit job paying a sub-par wage, or a job in American conditions paying a good wage, in which case your $5 bag of plastic army men just became a $15-$20 bag of plastic army men. Now, do the same for plastic car parts, electronic components, etc. etc. ad infinitum. Americans DO NOT WANT THOSE JOBS. How do we know? Well we can look around at OTHER really hard, low-wage jobs: picking strawberries, installing roofs, working low-level construction jobs....and see that Americans don't want those jobs, either. That's why millions of hard working brown people are doing them. AND.....American consumers don't want to pay for goods, products, and services at the high prices that would follow such jobs paying the wage necessary to draw Americans. If you hated $7 eggs, you're REALLY gonna hate $8 lettuce, and $10 strawberries, and a new house that costs $300k instead of $240k. You can bring back 90,000 cheap injection molded plastic toy factories.....not one job will result. Or you can force the issue...and the factories will still close, because nobody is gonna buy the $20 bag of plastic army men. Sure, there are some manufacturing opportunities and jobs that can and should exist in the US. And yes, globalization has left some people behind. But what is happening here is the elevation to god-like status of "mediocre white men." What, oh WHAT will we do with all of our mediocre white men? We yell at EVERYONE ELSE to "better themselves...learn to code!" and all that shit. But for mediocre white men? Nope, they should stay EXACTLY as they are, and we should just jump into a time machine to take us back to a time when 1) we had the the only major economy left standing after WWII, thus making us a manufacturing center, and 2) they didn't even have to compete for most of the decent manufacturing jobs because minorities and women largely need not apply. The Trump administration is trying to turn back time. All that they'll accomplish is wrecking shit that will take decades to repair. Fucking idiots.
    11 points
  16. I have a 100 percent trade deficit with my supermarket, and not only that shopping there has cost my family jobs as field hands. If I can shift all food production to my house, all profits, revenues, and jobs will stay in my house.
    11 points
  17. Heavy metals in Samoas you say?
    11 points
  18. y'all understand the end goal here, right? make the national parks inefficient and get people to care less about them so they can privatize the land. same with all these institutions. the goal is to ruin them to "prove" government doesn't work so they can roll everything into the private sector. if you look at what is going on right now through that lens, I guarantee things will start making more sense
    11 points
  19. Party of small govt telling the food industry to voluntarily remove food dyes from their product or RFK Jr. will force them to remove it. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/12/rfk-jr-pressures-pepsico-kraft-heinz-to-remove-artificial-dyes.html Remember the outrage from the right when Michelle Obama recommended most fresh foods for kids, or NYC wanted to limit the sizes of cokes. Funny how quiet they are now.
    11 points
  20. πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚
    11 points
  21. Wordle 1,362 3/6 β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1143 5️⃣8️⃣ 6️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Worldle #1146 (12.03.2025) 2/6 (100%) πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β†—οΈ πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŽ‰ https://worldle.teuteuf.fr Connections Puzzle #640 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦πŸŸͺ🟦🟦 🟦πŸŸͺ🟦🟦 🟦πŸŸͺ🟦🟦 🟦🟦πŸŸͺ🟦
    11 points
  22. Bastian was vocal about how the Trump administration was going to roll back all of the consumer protection policies that DOT instituted under Mayor Pete’s leadership. I hope the leopards enjoy his tasty face as Trump’s administration kills the economy and craters demand for air travel.
    11 points
  23. The "I voted for Trump, but I didn't vote for..." posts are my favorite. Yes. You did.
    11 points
  24. yeah duh! Hate to break it to some people but THIS WAS THE GOP"S PLAN FOR THE LAST FORTY FUCKIN YEARS. I'm a simple man of average intelligence but I've always been a leftist/Republican critic (save that one brief Alex P Keaton phase in my mid teens) for one fundamental reason: people applying for a job in a sector they basically hate should not be given the opportunity to prove why they think it sucks! That's the GOP approach to government. GUMMINT BAD! ELECT ME SO I CAN PROVE IT! And the rubes fall for it over and over and over again. And here we are, watching them in their endgame as they fundamentally destroy everything our government has ever built for the betterment of our society so the richest, most powerful, least deserving individuals can profit at the expense of every class below them. Brisket, kindly point me to the highest ledge.....
    10 points
  25. Democrats better not fucking cave. It’s telling when the GQP wants to avert a shutdown when they have been the party of shutdowns
    10 points
  26. He is the best thing to ever come out of that university
    10 points
  27. Wordle 1,362 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #640 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1143 6️⃣5️⃣ 4️⃣7️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    10 points
  28. Wordle 1,362 3/6 πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
    10 points
  29. Wednesday puzzles. Wordle 1,362 4/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Worldle #1146 (12.03.2025) 2/6 (100%) πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨β†—οΈ πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŽ‰ πŸ§­β­πŸ“πŸš©πŸ—ΏπŸ“œπŸ›‘οΈπŸͺ™ https://worldle.teuteuf.fr πŸ™‚ Daily Quordle 1143 8️⃣4️⃣ 6️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ #travle #819 +1 πŸŸ§βœ…βœ…βœ… https://travle.earth Connections Puzzle #640 🟦πŸŸͺ🟨🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦πŸŸͺ🟦🟦 🟦🟦πŸŸͺ🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 πŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺπŸŸͺ
    10 points
  30. There is a plausible argument that Ronald Reagan was the most destructive president in the history of the United States. He made regular people hate the very government that guaranteed and protected their way of life.
    9 points
  31. I love this line... a feeling that "Trump's policies were bad for the U.S. economy"
    9 points
  32. This thread was more fun when it was for giving guadaloopy a hard time about his FSD fantasies and not about how Elon is trying to destroy our country from the inside.
    9 points
  33. Dumb motherfuckers
    9 points
  34. Leopards don't discriminate against their prey, they eat gay faces too.
    9 points
  35. Ragland pointed out that he β€œappreciates the president’s ability to negotiate”
    9 points
  36. 9 points
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