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Just now, Surly Bevo said:

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It was amazing. This was 2016 during the campaign.

Kid was legally blind, on financial aid, mom real sick, etc. At one point he asked me for something quickly and said he wanted it because "i have to work with these government offices to get my benefits and they take forever." I asked him if he thought electing Trump, who had promised to cut staffing and funding at all these offices, would make the government quicker or get him better benefits. "It can't be worse than it is now" was his response. 

Oh buddy you have no fucking idea...

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2 minutes ago, South Austin said:

It would have been worth your career to punch him in the face.

I tried very hard to keep it all positive as I knew I was the only person in his life who he respected that would also gently push back on all this bullshit. He was a decent guy. Just sort of dumb.

Ended up going to Liberty U for a Masters. I'm sure they enjoyed taking his money and I'm sure he's still in debt to those great "Christians."

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I teach poli sci and had to have a conversation with a big Trumper student where he told me that Donald Trump doesn't lie. He just engages in "truthful hyperbole"

I wanted to bang my head against the wall

Colbert was onto this shit with “truthiness” even before Trump came along.

“Alternative facts” - Kellyanne Conway
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16 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

When this crashes and kills Trump, would that qualify as the leopard eating its own face?

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This shows one of the ways that we're worse off than Idiocracy and that we'd kill to have President Camacho right now. Instead of the smartest man, Trump gets the richest man to solve all our problems. Then there are no consequences for Elon's failure. If Not Sure failed, he was to be killed by Beef Supreme with a flamethrower. 

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With multiple tariffs looming, farmers who support Trump grow nervous

https://wapo.st/4k6EpTT

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FARMERSBURG, Iowa — Like all successful farmers, Suzanne Shirbroun has learned to manage uncertainty.

But President Donald Trump’s near-daily edicts on tariffs and trade threaten to upend all her careful calculations. As the president mulls a revolution in global economics, farmers like Shirbroun, who raises soybeans and corn with her husband, Joe, find themselves in the crosshairs.

Trump’s recent tariffs on Chinese goods will make the herbicide she uses to keep her fields weed-free more expensive. The levies he’s announced on foreign steel and aluminum will raise the already inflation-swollen price of tractors and other farm machinery. And his enthusiasm for increasing taxes on all imported products could ignite a global trade war that boomerangs on American farmers, the principal targets of foreign retaliation in Trump’s first term.

“It’s all a toss-up right now. And that’s what is unsettling here on the farm,” Shirbroun said. “It’s like, okay, we’re throwing all these balls in the air and we don’t know where we’re going to be as far as our soybean and corn markets.”

Trump draws strong support from farm states. And many here endorse his stated goals for tariffs of encouraging the return of lost factory jobs, striking back against “unfair” trading partners and raising government revenue. But the prospect of a trade war sequel has farmers — including those like the Shirbrouns, who voted for him — on edge.

Iowa produces soybeans for China and corn for Mexico, and it depends on Canada for almost 90 percent of the potash fertilizer that makes it all possible. Each of those countries has been hit or threatened with tariffs during Trump’s first month back in the White House.

Shirbroun, who has traveled to Vietnam, Chile, Brazil and Colombia on industry trade missions, worries that the president’s “America First” approach could become a costly turn inward that overlooks farmers’ need for customers outside the United States.

“I’m going to have a lot of soybeans and corn that I need to move. So I don’t want to fold in where we are only looking at the U.S.,” she said. “Our goal is to make Iowa and U.S. soybean farms profitable. And to do that, we need these international markets. We need to keep growing demand.”

Meanwhile, there’s only so much she can control on her sprawling farm. The rains will come, or they won’t. The Mississippi River, which carries her crops to export terminals downstream, will thaw when it thaws. And market prices for commodities will rise or fall depending upon harvests, conflicts and crises far from the Hawkeye State.

There is nothing farmers can do about the president’s frequent ruminations about taxing U.S. imports and the risk that other nations would respond by shunning American crops.

Trump’s remaking of U.S. global economic engagement, however, adds a fresh element of worry as farmers already are grappling with an unforgiving business environment.

Their costs for seed, fertilizer, labor and equipment are rising even as the prices they receive for their crops hover at multiyear lows. Farmers who borrow money to bridge the gap face punishing interest rates of nearly 8 percent, up sharply from three years ago.

After reaching a record high in 2022, net farm income, a broad measure of profitability, fell for two consecutive years, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Farmers’ take is expected to rebound this year, largely because of government disaster relief payments to compensate them for damage from hurricanes and other storms.

With costs high and revenue pressured, profit margins are thin.

“That’s the hard part about agriculture. It takes 3 million [dollars] or 4 million worth of equipment for a small-percentage return,” said Joe Shirbroun. “So, you know, why do we do it? Well, we just love the challenge of the crop. And it is stressful some days. And when you get tariffs ... all of a sudden, your market changes.”

Many farmers are responding to the pervasive uncertainty by pausing discretionary investments. The Shirbrouns, for example, usually trade in their giant combines for a new model every two or three years. But not this year.

“We’re holding on to equipment longer. Same thing with tractors, planters, all the equipment. We’re just not going to be able to upgrade as often as we have in the past,” Suzanne Shirbroun said.

Sales of farm equipment slumped last year, long before Trump reentered the White House. John Deere, a maker of tractors, combines and other machinery, said this month that its profits fell by half for the quarter that ended Jan. 26. The company said it expects sales of large agriculture equipment in the United States to remain weak for the rest of the year. Tariffs would only add to the gloom.In the November election, Trump won Iowa by a 13-point margin, and he remains popular in the farm belt. The Shirbrouns are Trump supporters, though not blindly loyal. Suzanne described herself as skeptical of all politicians’ promises.

But she applauded Trump’s North American trade deal and the partial accord he inked with China in January 2020, which called for the Chinese to dramatically increase purchases of U.S. farm products.

President Joe Biden’s failure to enforce that agreement or negotiate any others, and what she regards as his overzealous environmental regulation, persuaded her to back Trump — even though in his first term he killed a trade deal called the Trans-Pacific Partnership that would have opened several of the foreign markets she covets.

Like the rest of rural Iowa, Clayton County went hard for the president in 2024. Fully two-thirds of county voters backed Trump, giving him a bigger margin than in 2020 or 2016. One reason: Many here associate the Democratic Party with extreme social views.

“I think farmers are pretty down to earth people that maybe don’t agree with a lot of the far-left ideology. You have a lot of pretty meat-and-potatoes people around here,” said Adam Rahe, a local agronomist and farmer. “This is rural Iowa. You’ve got a male, and you’ve got a female. We don’t have pronouns.”

Shirbroun’s family has farmed this part of Iowa since 1874, when her great-grandfather emigrated from tiny Liechtenstein. The family navigated the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, the two World Wars and the farm crisis of the 1980s. Joe, 60, and Suzanne, 57, took over the farm in 1999 after both had worked for several years as agronomists. They prospered in the years leading to Trump’s first term, before he imposed tariffs of up to 25 percent on $360 billion worth of Chinese goods.

At the time, China retaliated by erecting its own barriers to U.S. goods, including a steep tariff on soybeans. Chinese purchases of American soybeans fell from $12.2 billion in 2017 to barely $3 billion in 2018. Brazilian suppliers rushed to fill orders that once had gone to farmers like the Shirbrouns.

Trump got Congress to approve a $28 billion bailout to cover farmers’ losses, more than three times what the federal government spent to rescue the auto industry during the 2008 financial crisis. Farmers welcomed the help, but chafed at the need for it.

“Who wants to take money when you have the ability to raise a wonderful crop or produce a product and you can sell it? That’s not how a farmer wants to live,” Shirbroun said.

Now, it’s not just tariffs that cloud the outlook for agriculture. The president froze spending at the U.S. Agency for International Development, citing waste in foreign aid programs, which put at risk roughly $2 billion in annual payments to farmers for products such as wheat and soybean oil that are shipped overseas as humanitarian assistance.

The fate of the Agriculture Department’s “Climate Smart” cost-sharing grants, which help farmers afford to plant cover crops, is also uncertain, leaving Iowa farmers waiting for roughly $9 million the government owes them.

The president often expresses his affection for farmers and recently castigated Biden, saying “the last administration hated our farmers, like, at a level that I’ve never seen before.”

But Trump appears sanguine about the potential costs of a broader trade war. Asked by reporters last week about suggestions that the European Union could retaliate for any new U.S. tariffs by banning imports of American farm products, the president was dismissive.

“That’s all right. I don’t mind. Let them do it,” Trump said. “They’re just hurting themselves if they do that.”

In reality, they also would be hurting Iowa’s farmers.

For now, the Shirbrouns are prepared to give the president the benefit of the doubt. The tariffs could be just what’s needed to pry open markets in places like Europe, India and Southeast Asia, Suzanne said. It will be at least April before the president decides whether to go forward with the tariff escalation or not. Until then, farmers like the Shirbrouns hope that Trump’s tariffs are part of a savvy negotiating strategy, not an end in themselves.

As the midwinter snow carpets the fields, the Shirbrouns are preparing for their spring planting. This is the time to repair the tractors, planters and combines that make it possible to squeeze so much food from an Iowa field.

“There’s just a lot up in the air, you know?” Suzanne Shirbroun said. “But I want to stay positive. Farmers are positive people. You have to be.”

 

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Posted
1 hour ago, MotownHorn said:

I teach poli sci and had to have a conversation with a big Trumper student where he told me that Donald Trump doesn't lie. He just engages in "truthful hyperbole"

I wanted to bang my head against the wall

That's where you tell the kid he'd better investigate his add/drop options because there's no way he's passing your class

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12 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I laugh every time I hear that. “We don’t use pronouns around these parts!!”

Um yes you do.

And it was certainty "We ain't done use no . . . ."

Just now, C-Man said:

That's where you tell the kid he'd better investigate his add/drop options because there's no way he's passing your class

The day after add/drop ends. :) 

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19 minutes ago, Red Five said:

I laugh every time I hear that. “We don’t use pronouns around these parts!!”

Um yes you do.

Honestly, not using pronouns would be incredibly woke. 

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Just now, Dahobbs said:

Honestly, not using pronouns would be incredibly woke. 

Half of this country is about a year away from grunts and other guttural utterances.

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1 hour ago, Red Five said:


Colbert was onto this shit with “truthiness” even before Trump came along.

“Alternative facts” - Kellyanne Conway

100%. And this is where Democrats lose imo. It's all about the narrative/story you're telling and whether voters believe it. It doesn't matter if that story is true or not.

Trump says dumb shit like "there's fires in California because they turned off the water. We just need to turn the faucet on and the fires will stop." and people believe it. Of course it's fucking idiotic and incorrect, but that doesn't matter. All that matters is people believe it.

Also Trump has an entire propaganda machine behind him repeating his bullshit again and again and again until it becomes "truth." Just like at January 6th. A day of love where, ok sure there was some violence, but it was all Nancy Pelosi's fault!

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25 minutes ago, MotownHorn said:

100%. And this is where Democrats lose imo. It's all about the narrative/story you're telling and whether voters believe it. It doesn't matter if that story is true or not.

Trump says dumb shit like "there's fires in California because they turned off the water. We just need to turn the faucet on and the fires will stop." and people believe it. Of course it's fucking idiotic and incorrect, but that doesn't matter. All that matters is people believe it.

Also Trump has an entire propaganda machine behind him repeating his bullshit again and again and again until it becomes "truth." Just like at January 6th. A day of love where, ok sure there was some violence, but it was all Nancy Pelosi's fault!

This.  The only currency of any value to the "persuadable" voters is lies.  Tell them lies, big lies, on repeat, hammering them with a firehose of lies.

"Democrats will double your social security without raising taxes.  Republicans want to take away your social security and are installing spy cameras on your computers right now, through Elon's Starlink, so China can see everything you do."

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28 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

No way of knowing for certain if the caller is Team MAGA, but they are from West Virginia, so.....

Doesn't sound like the caller is a Trumper but he called out his neighbors. 

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33 minutes ago, MotownHorn said:

Trump says dumb shit like "there's fires in California because they turned off the water. We just need to turn the faucet on and the fires will stop." and people believe it. Of course it's fucking idiotic and incorrect, but that doesn't matter. All that matters is people believe it.

If Joe Biden or Kamala Harris said anything half as stupid as that, the NYT/CNN/WaPO wouldve spent weeks hammering them.

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15 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

If Joe Biden or Kamala Harris said anything half as stupid as that, the NYT/CNN/WaPO wouldve spent weeks hammering them.

Then just call those sources fake news, use the power of the government to go after publishers' other businesses, threaten the owners and their family members personally.

Those are the rules of the game now.  Play by them, or get crushed.

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1 hour ago, MotownHorn said:

100%. And this is where Democrats lose imo. It's all about the narrative/story you're telling and whether voters believe it. It doesn't matter if that story is true or not.

I'd say it's how democracy loses. We know Trumpers will never believe whatever the Democrats say. It literally doesn't matter. There is no public square anymore. These people have chosen stupidity and the only thing that could wake them up is the tangible personal damage they will feel due to Trump/Musk's actions. 

 

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2 hours ago, Ted Lange said:

If Joe Biden or Kamala Harris said anything half as stupid as that, the NYT/CNN/WaPO wouldve spent weeks hammering them.

You're right. Those outlets bend over fucking backwards to be "fair," which means going harder on Dems and easier on Republicans so they won't be accused of liberal bias.

Our news media is completely and totally broken. And Trump plays them like a fiddle. Meanwhile Faux News is about the best non-violent weapon anyone has ever developed for use against the United States of America.

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35 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

That is why I hope the pain is astronomical. To them. And their loved ones.  And their neighbors.   Because that will be the only thing that might keep us away from the dark vision of our country that the GOP is trying to create into reality.    

And to that end, the Dems need to adopt another play from the GQP playbook: 1) purposefully inflict pain directly onto those people, and 2) just repeat over and over that it's the Republicans fault, they did this.  "This is the effect of Trumponomics."  Dems imposing legislation/executive orders that require all farmers to pay an extra 20% in taxes?  "This is the effect of Trumponomics.  That's a Trump tax."

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22 hours ago, Bullneck said:

When they a MAGA man's parents die of what could have been a treatable cancer, when his wife dies during an ectopic pregnancy, his brother lives on the streets after getting dumped out a VA hospital with PTSD, when his company president dies in a plane crash, when his kids suffer the effects of measles, and food is skyrocketing and interest rates on his variable mortgage make his home unaffordable, maybe he'll wonder if maybe he's been duped.  

Nope. He'll blame it on Biden and her emails. Indubitably. And that most divisive president ever, Obummer.

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2 minutes ago, jw4381 said:

Nope. He'll blame it on Biden and her emails. Indubitably. And that most divisive president ever, Obummer.

Weirdly, there is an actual chance that they will blame it on their elected GOP candidates and officials not named Trump.  Why? Because when things start sliding into the giant shit abyss we are headed for, the only sure thing besides death and taxes is that Trump will be blaming it on everyone but himself - and if the Democrats are no longer in charge of the house, the Senate or the oval office, it will be a harder sell to blame it on Biden.    Sure, there will always be mouth breathers to carry his water and blame it on the dems.   But as we have seen, they will turn on anyone in the GOP that Trump tells him is an enemy. And we know who Trump has no problem turning on anyone in the GOP if it gives him the slightest advantage.

That is what so stupid about going all-in on their shitty policies from day one.  As dumb as America is, they can figure out that last month under Biden I had $6 dollar insulin and today under Trump it’s $80.    The much smarter play would have been to slow roll the dismantling of the government and preserve their ability to blame bad things on Democrats.    But Trump had to replace everyone in government with toadies and Myrmidons within two years to be able to more successfully engineer his real goal-  to end elections.  

 

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45 minutes ago, MotownHorn said:

You're right. Those outlets bend over fucking backwards to be "fair," which means going harder on Dems and easier on Republicans so they won't be accused of liberal bias.

Our news media is completely and totally broken. And Trump plays them like a fiddle. Meanwhile Faux News is about the best non-violent weapon anyone has ever developed for use against the United States of America.

Many major media outlets are actually doing a solid job right now of doing real, actual reporting on the insane actions of the current administration.  

Personally, I don't want Occupy Democrats, etc. in my news feed - their framing is just as bad as Fox News in many ways but on the opposite side.  And really, any attempts to launch a mainstream left-leaning network of opinion programs for a mass audience that is the exact inverse of Fox News (like Air America, and to some degree, MSNBC) have not been able to build a large, consistent audience - because most Democrats ACTUALLY WANT TO READ REAL FACT-BASED NEWS.   

But I do not disagree that (1) fast-shrinking local and regional media coverage due to the decline of newspapers and magazines has had a terrible effect on our country's understanding of current events, and (2) Fox News (and the right-wing ecosystem it has helped foster) has done potentially-irreparable harm to our country. 

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2 hours ago, MotownHorn said:

You're right. Those outlets bend over fucking backwards to be "fair," which means going harder on Dems and easier on Republicans so they won't be accused of liberal bias.

Our news media is completely and totally broken. And Trump plays them like a fiddle. Meanwhile Faux News is about the best non-violent weapon anyone has ever developed for use against the United States of America.

Trump: "Dems should be murdered like dogs"

NPR: "What do you think Trump meant here?"

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2 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

they have also chosen cruelty - so long as it is cruelty to others.  That is why I hope the pain is astronomical. To them. And their loved ones.  And their neighbors.   Because that will be the only thing that might keep us away from the dark vision of our country that the GOP is trying to create into reality.    

I’m old, and my parents were depression era kids.  People who suffered in the depression and we’re not able to afford food and clothes and shelter knew in the most personal way the value of progressive policies. They knew we should have some form of healthcare for free, they knew we should have some sort of minimum poverty, preventing retirement plan like Social Security.    They knew labor unions were important to make sure people had a living wage.  

100 years later, people have forgotten all of those hard lessons learned.  So apparently we have to learn them again.  

Yeah why did we need the FDIC again or some limited checks on capitalism, or unions, or child labor laws.

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51 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

Yeah why did we need the FDIC again or some limited checks on capitalism, or unions, or child labor laws.

Reagan taught them that the government was the enemy.  The fact that they never knew the 24-7 massive benefits their government provided them is a secret about to be revealed to them.     

i’m actually happy that an army of Karen’s are about to be demanding to “see the manager of the government stuff”

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3 hours ago, MotownHorn said:

"The last decade has been the Democrats clinging onto the rulebook going "but a dog can't play basketball!" while a dog fucking dunks on us over and over"

99.9% this with 0.1% of stop punching yourself.

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1 hour ago, Born to Run said:

Trump: "Dems should be murdered like dogs"

NPR: "What do you think Trump meant here?"

NYT: "New First Family Pooch Soon to be in Residence!"

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23 hours ago, GenXer said:


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Silk rug. Chainsaw. Leopards.

 

22 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

13 years.  Spec 4/PO3.  Niiiice.

No shit.  This mofo's a hard-charger. 

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On 2/20/2025 at 1:57 PM, GenXer said:

Screenshot on reddit didn’t have the date. My bad. Old leopards are still leopards.

The older the leopard the sweeter the face.

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On 2/20/2025 at 5:43 PM, TexArcher said:

I agree with the first part.  The second, I don't know. 

But this figures to be a huge turning point.  Military leaders have to respect the chain of command, but they also cannot obey an illegal order.  So, what's it gonna be when the illegal orders are coming from the top of the chain of command?

I really don't know how this one will break.

Not illegal if I'm the official act of POTUS. Done.

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3 hours ago, Born to Run said:

Trump: "Dems should be murdered like dogs"

NPR: "What do you think Trump meant here?"

i was yelling at the radio the other day when NPR said, in reaction to trump's claim that ukraine started the war, "that's not true."

 

CALL IT A LIE!

 

 

 

  

2 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

Reagan taught them that the government was the enemy.  The fact that they never knew the 24-7 massive benefits their government provided them is a secret about to be revealed to them.     

i’m actually happy that an army of Karen’s are about to be demanding to “see the manager of the government stuff”

turns out the weak men who make hard times are all the alphas

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11 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Isn’t that like a Corporal? After 13 years? 

Corporal, minus leadership role. It's a rank you slide into after a year or two if you don't punch the captain. When I was part of the Spec 4 Mafia, I thought of it as "High Private."

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