Farmer "hopes" Trump is "listening" as he plays golf and plans his big fugly yuge gold ballroom

[Miles Archer]

WHY DO THESE PEOPLE STILL SAY SHIT LIKE "I HOPE HE'S LISTENING?"

'Hope he's listening': Farmer makes dire plea to Trump as US 'backbone' risks collapse

An American farmer made a dire plea to President Donald Trump on Tuesday, saying "hope he's listening," as America's "backbone" risks collapse.

Arkansas farmer Scott Brown told CNN it's unclear how he or other agriculture producers will survive Trump's ongoing tariff war, especially as the fall harvest begins.

"I hope to break even, but I mean, we don't know," Brown said. "We're not cutting soybeans yet, and I don't know what the yield is. We're just finishing up corn. I'm a pretty low-debt-load farmer. I farm 800 acres. My equipment's all paid for. I do it all by myself. I'm a first-generation farmer, so I don't have as big of problems as a lot of the guys do. But, I mean, I have friends that farm thousands of acres, 5,000, 10,000, 11,000 acres. They've got worlds of problems. I mean, I don't know that there's any way to yield yourself out of this."

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"I hope he's listening because, you know, agriculture is the backbone of rural America," Scott said. "For every dollar in agriculture, you get $8 in your rural community. I mean, we help pay taxes on schools, roads. We're the guys that keep the park store open, we're the guy that keeps the local co-op open, that 20 guys work at, and the little town I live in, we have a chicken plant, about 600 chicken houses, except for the school and the hospital. Almost our entire town of 7,000."

[Champp]

1. Republican billionaires will buy this land cheap

after the Republican poilticians bankrupt all the farmers and screw up the national economy

[Midnight Writer]

8. And the billionaires will allow him to work his former farm for ten bucks an hour, if he is lucky.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Famers think they are special. But they are just disposable props to Trump.

He doesn't give a rat's ass about them.

[Miles Archer]

4. Remember those photos of a smiling Kim Jong Un "inspecting potatoes?"

I think of them every time I see something about Trump and farmers.

It's ironic that a guy who coined an idiot phrase like "Make America Great Again" doesn't see greatness beyond Stormy Daniels and an overcooked steak smothered in ketchup.

It's all of those "groups"...Farmers for Trump, Latinos for Trump...they actually think he cares if they live or die.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Trump is destroying everything that makes America great.

The supreme irony of his slogan.

Yes everything is a publicity stunt to dictators.

[ananda]

9. Farmers seem to have a special brand of hate for liberals.

This hate goes very deep too.. probably because
liberals have made them feel inferior for so long.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Farmers can be quite insular and removed from the real world.

They have been subsided heavily by the govt for decades.
So feel a bit special and privileged.

Also they have lived their entire lives in small town rural America.
Little or no diversity and proud of it.

[ananda]

13. I'm from a Texas family that had been farming ...

for just over 150 years when I was born. They
came to Texas from Tennesee in the mid 19th c
in covered wagons, enticed by the Spanish land
grants in Texas. Each grant was 208 acres, so
they got two and divided it up 4 ways. So my
grandparents farm about 75 miles south of
Dallas was 104 acres.

My dad's parents were the last ones. All the kids
got out by way of the New Deal and the GI Bill
after WWII. IOW, they took everything the
government had to offer. But once they made it,
they did not want to share it with Black or
unworthy people... and they all turned Republican.

My aunt found slave papers of some of them
when they farmed in Tennessee.

They are all very racist and bigoted. They used
all the code language, and honestly believed
that Blacks were inferior and lazy.. and that
whites were hardworking and superior.

Even today, when a Republican calls their
constituents "hard'working families, I cringe...
because the only reason Blacks are thought
of as not being those things is strictly because
of white racism.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Yes.

Same thing I have observed having lived in a rural area.
The farmers take every handout.
They are special, privileged, and entitled.
No one else is allowed to get any help.

[ananda]

16. Dig deep...

One thing I discovered growing up was that
farmers had it really tough. And I mean tough.

Econoically, they were the low end of the totem
pole... and they never were able to dig out from
under.

I suppose they just wanted to feel better than
somebody, and that turned out to be Black people.

They also latched onto a certain kind of heirarchical
thinking among themselves that was very sexist
and adultist, and they took care of each other as best
they could.

Getting government handouts literally saved their lives,
but I think you're right in thinking that they had to find
some way to make it palatable with less shame attached

Remember, people who had to migrate from the Dust Bowl
during the Great Depression were really looked down on
and treated horribly by people in other states, particularly
California as an example.

My dad's family had to migrate from the Panhandle, but
they went back to their old farm south of Dallas and got
help from by Grandfather's brother's family in Hillsboro
before the farm was ready again.

My grandmother was totally attached to that area from
then on and wouldn't leave it even it meant my grandfather
could get a job in Forth Worth. I think she just wanted
to stay around family and friends she knew she could count
on, but my dad never forgave her for it.

The problem now is that farmers have completely lost that
way of life. They may or may not get the Trump handouts,
but they will never be independent farmers again.

To me, that's both sad and ironic as hell, but the owning class
has wanted it this way for a long time, and now they have it

[Irish_Dem]

17. Yes back in the old days it was a hard life.

Then when they found out about handouts, life got a lot better.
But they hung onto the old insular attitudes.

[Blue Owl]

3. That and a nickel will get him five cents

[louis-t]

6. Farmer Scott needs to realize

He doesn't give a fuck about you. The End.

[Vinca]

7. Trump's thinking about that classy wrestling match he'll be holding on the White House grounds. No time for soybeans.

[Tribetime]

11. The farmers want to get bailed out yet they voted for him

What they could give to s**** if everybody else suffers its fine with them

[B.See]

12. Did Scott also mention, "We're

the guys who VOTED FOR TRUMP, in spite of the fact he fk'd us LAST time"?

[hatrack]

14. Pull you head out of your ass, Cletus. HE. DOESN'T. CARE. ABOUT. YOU.

"If only Stalin knew!!"