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Cattle Farmers Explain Trump's Argentina Bailout (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Thursday
OP
They sound very good, but, however, comma.... they voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
Norrrm
Thursday
#1
Maybe they will stop voting for the GOP. However, they have actually increased their GOP support
walkingman
Thursday
#2
Norrrm
(3,494 posts)1. They sound very good, but, however, comma.... they voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
walkingman
(10,143 posts)2. Maybe they will stop voting for the GOP. However, they have actually increased their GOP support
for the last 3 election cycles - in 2024 almost 80% voted for Trump. Doesn't seem that hard to understand.
ChicagoTeamster
(214 posts)3. Farmer in video referenced 80s when family farms were getting destroyed by high interest rates and low commodity prices
Last edited Thu Nov 20, 2025, 06:56 PM - Edit history (2)
Farm Aid was started by musicians Willie Nelson, Neil Young, and John Cougar Mellencamp in 1985. They organized the first concert to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to provide financial support to keep them from going bankrupt due to a farm crisis. That was 40 years ago. These guys were probably kids and young men working their family farms back then. And even more recently Trump screwed the farmers with tariffs in his last administration. How many times are they going to fall for the lies? Can't they see by now who has their back and who doesn't?
NotHardly
(2,322 posts)4. They only regret that "other people" didn't get hurt.
They thought they were special