Farmers are getting angry at Trump

Amelia said:

Many of those who voted for him are trying to keep a stiff upper lip. Trying to be supportive of his policies because they're team players even though they're doing worse under his policies.

But what percentage of those voters will stay with him until November 2020 in spite of their personal hardship?

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My dad is a trump supporter, small business guy who is practically a millionaire after selling the house. He's considering retirement and seems to be excited about collecting social security. Trump wants to gut it and he doesn't seem to know that, thanks to his endless watching of Fox News.

NeverTrump said:

My dad is a trump supporter, small business guy who is practically a millionaire after selling the house. He's considering retirement and seems to be excited about collecting social security. Trump wants to gut it and he doesn't seem to know that, thanks to his endless watching of Fox News.

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I doubt you're the only one.

Funny thing happened the other day when my parents came up North for a visit. My dad, a lifelong Republican, total conservative, was complaining about all the people down in Fla who were to the Right of him. I busted out laughing, told him now he knows what I felt like talking to him all those years.

He actually got it.

calamity said:

I doubt you're the only one.

Funny thing happened the other day when my parents came up North for a visit. My dad, a lifelong Republican, total conservative, was complaining about all the people down in Fla who were to the Right of him. I busted out laughing, told him now he knows what I felt like talking to him all those years.

He actually got it.

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Yeah Florida is crazy. I used to live there for four years. It's got an odd culture that's now a meme ya know. My father is not going to retire, I think he just wants to join his friends in the Social Security group so as to not feel left out. But he is working a lot less and is almost 70. He's got a lot in Social Security since he worked the same job for 50 years, and cannot understand today's current job market.

I used to be a full blown conspiracy theorist right winger even when I got here I was on the tail end of that still, but once I couldn't question certain conspiracy theories, they started calling me a RINO and a poser, I got more left and more moderate. Funny now though, I'm surrounded by a bunch of people who use those terms at work.

NeverTrump said:

Trump farmers: "Well sure I lost my farm, but people in New York city got rich, and I have my penny stocks, so that's good enough for me! They just probably work a lot harder than I do and they really deserve it more! I like Feudalism. "



North Dakota farmer says if Trump ‘doesn’t lose 100 percent’ of his farm belt support over trade war ‘people are kind of crazy’


But guys.....We might get new trade deals...eventually!



‘Ridiculous slap to the face’: Iowa farmers decry Trump’s latest move to curb ethanol sales

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Who cares about a call by a disgruntled farmer.

Trump has really been all over the place on ethanol. Originally he rolled it back to 10%, undoubtedly because Obama changed it to 15%, shockingly with the support of the Sierra Club because of the habitat damage caused by the extra land being put into production. He then moved it back to 15% all year round but he is now under a lot of bipartisan pressure to roll that back to only seasonally at 15% because California doesn't like more smog and conservatives don't like half of US autos out in the field never made to run on the stuff dying in the middle of summer.

Amelia said:

I won’t be voting for the president again, says Ohio farmer who backed Trump in 2016

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I saw him this evening on ‘All In With Chris Hayes’. He explained it well. It’s liking losing 25% on your certificates of deposit for two straight years. Lost markets not coming back.

He referred to the two bailouts as ‘hush’ money, coming directly from the American taxpayer. He also said the ‘hush’ money was being spent right away in farm communities for the needs of farmers.

Only eleven months now until the Democratic Convention in your state. With all 50 states having a proportional allotment of delegates in primaries and caucuses, vastly different than the winner take all’s for the RNC, I expect a brokered convention. On the 2nd ballot, Superdelegates can vote. After the DNC Convention, it will be a wild 6 weeks until the RNC Convention.

I’d point to the approvals/disapprovals of Trump by individual states as an initial gauge to the Electoral College. Morning Consult.

More input on this, video in link.

Trump touts tariffs as trade leverage. But what do U.S. farmers and retailers think?

President Trump has spent much of his term confronting other countries over trade practices. In particular, he is engaged in a bitter tariff war with China.

But how do these tensions affect the U.S. economy? William Brangham talks to Iowa farmer Denny Friest and the National Retail Federation's David French about what they see in agriculture and retail -- two sectors caught in the crossfire.

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Trump touts tariffs as trade leverage. But what do U.S. farmers and retailers think? | PBS NewsHour

Common Sense 1 said:

:lamo So just who are the farmers going to vote for..... Crazy Bernie or Warren I have high cheek bones?
The farmers know they will be better off with some short pain for a long term gain! The democrats don't give a flying blank about
the farmers. The dems will have them paying for the illegal aliens government provided free healthcare and all the other free stuff for them.
Just another silly thread.

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Another post rooted in pure ignorance.