Actually Argentina got $20 Billion so it's like 1,000x worse
And no those customers don't want to buy our crops anymore BECAUSE WE WERE GIANT ASSHATS so we better put our big boy capitalist pants on and find new ways to earn a living
I thought it got doubled to 40 billion.
You're right
So it's actually 2,000x worse
What's an extra 20 billion between despots? Like a rounding error eh? Actually unsure on the Argentina side but if Trump okays billions I think that says enough.
i'm sure if we all hit the pavement and go country to country we'll find someone willing to buy our exports. there's plenty of money out there for people who are willing to work for it
Big thanks from Brasil. Our soy exports are up like 30%
Corn and soy are about the only agricultural products that aren't extremely scarce this year...
Guess what the US exports instead of buying from Brasil? Nature wants them to fail too.
Honestly you're welcome. I'm glad someone is benefiting from this absolute shit show.
Guess the farmers will have to sell their farms to billionaires for half price now.
Go work for Amazon while Jeff Bezos uses your land to save money on groceries.
As was the plan all along.
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I would MUCH rather LITERALLY LOSE MY ENTIRE INDUSTRY AND WAY OF LIFE then to have ONE Trans Kid NOT feel suicidal!
-LITERALLY all Republican Voters!
More generally, VOTERS killed farming in America.
And the people who pointed out this would happen were laughed at or told we were being overdramatic
Congrats republicans, you MAGA'd your way to the downfall of America. Maka America Garbage Again
Let's not give them all the credit. All the dumbass nonvoters deserve their fair share of responsibility too.
Well the alternative was voting for Harris and I think she would have gone around and personally shot the farmers.
I definitely heard her say she was going to do this
Many people were saying it
Most farmers voted to burn their own fields... again. The same man who nearly crippled American agriculture last time was welcomed with open arms. Tariffs, trade wars, and labor shortages wrecked their profits before, but somehow they lined up for another round. It is like watching someone hire the same man who burned down their house and expecting him to rebuild it this time.
in his first term, i read an article where the farmers were hopeful he would turn things around despite him putitng the tariffs in the first time. theres no helping these people.
IMO there's a good chance that Trump's second term will mark the end of the United States as a super power.
Speed running the collapse of an empire.
It's guaranteed because it's basically already happened. The ramifications just take time to be felt
A has-been empire with a massive military and an aggressive desire to get back to the days when everyone respected them.
They'll probably decide, fear is as good as respect...
Customer retention is a huge thing. Customers are often hard to get and easy to lose. Piss them off and they'll find an alternative and they are not coming back. Trump has crippled us for decades.
But Trump knows that his base will still vote for him regardless of how his policies directly impact them.
Their desire for hate and oppression trumps (pun intended) whatever economic hardship they face.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Dear US Farmers, You wanted America First... Enjoy being America Alone. Have the day you voted for.
kind regards, The rest of the world
Trump is bankrupting America like he bankrupted all of his businesses.
I couldn't believe how many people don't realize that a country literally CANNOT be run as a business.
Yes, but now the US can use all the water to train chatbots that invent facts wholecloth. Checkmate, China.
What I don't get is how come this hasn't translated to more plentiful and cheaper soybeans here for the local market. You can't buy fresh soybeans at my local grocery store. You can only get them frozen and they're about four bucks a bag. Which isn't hugely expensive but it's not exactly cheap either.
You think things are going to get cheaper just because there's an excess of it? No, no, that's not how that works here. You're used to paying $4 a bag, therefore you will continue paying $4 a bag or more until the heat death of the universe. I'll be surprised if it isn't $6 a bag by this time next year.
Anything not sold will, obviously, be destroyed. Can't have anyone trying to eat it for free.
This is why a responsible government is slow to change. Because move fast and break laws doesn't work for a democracy.
That's one way to get the farms into the hands of billionaires for cheap.
My wife said this tonight and it really hit me: China will be eating burgers and America will be eating soy
I hope we all like soy beans because that is going to be the only affordable thing in the grocery store.
Soy is great, you can make some really good-tasting, high-protein food with it for very cheap. But I'm afraid there won't be a lot of cheap soy in grocery stores, instead those farmers will just go bankrupt.
Padme: this will mean cheaper soy products for U.S. domestic market, right?
I eat quite a bit of soy because I'm meatless.
When this shitshow is over It would be nice if we could reconstruct our farming practices to focus more small local and sustainable farming instead of corporate conglomerates that damage our environment and wipe out biodiversity.
Lol might as well ask for the wholesale dismantling of all capitalism...
(Yes please)
This is why farmers shouldn't monocrop. Even if a farmer doesn't care about the environment and soil health, monocropping makes a farmer vulnerable to the volatile nature of geopolitics and the global economy.
Canada, Russia, Belarus and China are the major players in potash mining and production. The US doesn't mine or produce any in a substantial number. The US has huge import tariffs on China, and can't currently buy from either Russia or Belarus.
Canada needs to put a 50-70% export tariff on potash. That would crush US farming.
If Trump wants to play, let's burn them to the ground. Here is your 51st state you cunt.
Ok, ultra corrupt and all, but at least from environmental pov (especially water) killing soy where USA grew it en masse is a really good thing afaik.
It was too forced & unsustainable.
I'm going to end up emigrating from this fucking country primarily so I can stop bailing out dumbfucks.
This is absurd.
We're going to bail out "bootstrap" assholes after they were warned they were going to kill their own livelihoods. Fuck that clown shit.
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