She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.

Isn't that just the free market in action? Can't find workers, raise the wages until you do. Supply and demand right there. You demand workers and they demand you supply an acceptable wage.

Americans, even if they're paid well, will not go stand in the sun for 12 hours a day. Sometimes it's not about money. Sometimes it's about the job being shit and you need to change the job.

But also money.

In defense of farms, they're squeezed from both ends. She's not entirely wrong that it's getting harder and harder to be an independent farmer and as things get worse, the small farms are bought up by the mega corporations.

What she's wrong about is that a carpetbagger from manhattan would ever do anything for her. One of the big things that would help small farmers get labor would be for this country to get a real single payer healthcare option. Many, many people would tolerate a lower wage if their healthcare was covered. We could also start getting rid of the subsidies that only the major farms get and are using it to undercut smaller farms. Two things the republicans would never do.

What do they want to pay? Minimum wage for 60 hours per week with no overtime.

When your business requires the exploition of cheap labor, you deserve to go bankrupt.

the first part is probably from COVID increasing the cost everything else, and trying to low-ball immigrant pays. some people on reddit on the very same post, why doesnt the family work on the farm.

Stealing this

"The sour taste in your mouth is blood. Because of the festering sores in your mouth. Which you contracted by suckling the micropeen of a cheating, raping misogynist who ran on a promise of ruining your life. But hey, at least your grandkids disowned you and your social security is about to not exist."

And the EU starts putting tariffs on farm products from the USA, so that bleeding could increase.

It's a religion to these people. It doesn't matter what the policies are or what the impacts are. They need to be part of that local in-group.

Waiting for them to all bleed out.

If it bleeds...

They’re bleeding you, alright

I didn’t vote for the guy and even I didn’t even imagine the level of destruction and chaos that’s come so far.

It's been pretty astonishing. I was expecting a lot of vindictive attacks on those who he though had wronged him, and an element of tearing down anything that might regulate his buddies' industries, but this is a level or 5 beyond that. It's like their trying to go as fast as possible, doing as much damage as possible before someone stops them. In fact, I suspect it's exactly that, they know that some form of opposition will eventually form, and are trying to get as much done as possible before that happens. I imagine they can't believe their luck at how long it's taking.

A “science will save us” comment, handwaving in the direction of future unrealized solutions for a crisis happening today.

“Let’s face it…”, offering solutions that are years away, affordable only by Big Farm, and ignore the fact that there are simply many crops that are not harvestable by machine is a very unhelpful comment. You may be right about the dangers of farming, it has always been a dangerous occupation, but pointing out what could be accomplished a decade from now is no solution for the crops rotting in the fields this season. Wit this administration we are FAR more likely to see incarcerated and detained individuals forced into the fields than we are to any advances in farm tech - especially with the idiotic tariffs in place that will jack up the price of any imported machinery or the raw materials needed to produce said machines and will be unprofitable to attempt.

but its cheaper to have "Slave" workers, than expensive machinery, where you have to maintain it.

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

Ptffff PPE is woke

According to her, the first term was great

So she is either alien to the concept of math or another "fuck you, got mine" psycho who got lucky

Stupid I could pity. Simply stupid people are society's wards.

These people are malicious, and vote for policies sold on the basis of cruelty for cruelty's sake to people who aren't them.

Their malice Trumps their stupidity, especially because most of these people don't suffer some cognitive deficit, but have been trained to be willfully ignorant with for profit media using cruelty as the training incentive. That's the stupidity you choose.

I really don't understand how these people think. A person reliant on government funding and immigrant workers votes for the guy who campaigned on cutting government funding and getting rid of immigrants.

They aint starving.