American farmers are having a tough year, in no small part because of President Donald Trump’s trade war. Now, the White House is gearing up to extend them a multi-billion-dollar bailout, sources tell CNN.
Now show me how much of that shit is (or, should I say, was, until the advent of orangeboi’s brilliant tariff policy) exported.
This is what the bailouts are for; the symptom being treated is a gunshot wound to the foot, caused by the patient aiming and discharging a firearm at said foot.
Honestly, my reaction at this point is to engineer around the middle of the fucking country. New England and the pacific states and Illinois should just build shitloads of vertical farms and roll with that. Fuck the flyovers. They’re by and large holding us back with their idiocy and regressive politics - or more pointedly, their gullible susceptibility to such an incredible variety of idiotic political scams.
I’m not convinced any significant part of my food is produced by flyover states. I eat local when I can, I know California is a huge food producer, but it seems like most food is from other countries.
Let those flyover states continue to milk that high fructose corn syrup I try to avoid and that ethanol I don’t use in my EV, right into an early grave
Checking the tofu (soy) in my fridge…… it doesn’t say where it is from but “distributed by” and import company certainly implies it’s sourced from other countries
Yup. Same. The food made in flyover states is mostly stuff fed to animals (which I don’t eat) or is piped into a lot of processed foods, which I try to minimize my intake of, while I try to maximize my intake of things made in California (and Mexico), etc.
Now show me how much of that shit is (or, should I say, was, until the advent of orangeboi’s brilliant tariff policy) exported.
This is what the bailouts are for; the symptom being treated is a gunshot wound to the foot, caused by the patient aiming and discharging a firearm at said foot.
Honestly, my reaction at this point is to engineer around the middle of the fucking country. New England and the pacific states and Illinois should just build shitloads of vertical farms and roll with that. Fuck the flyovers. They’re by and large holding us back with their idiocy and regressive politics - or more pointedly, their gullible susceptibility to such an incredible variety of idiotic political scams.
I’m not convinced any significant part of my food is produced by flyover states. I eat local when I can, I know California is a huge food producer, but it seems like most food is from other countries.
Let those flyover states continue to milk that high fructose corn syrup I try to avoid and that ethanol I don’t use in my EV, right into an early grave
Checking the tofu (soy) in my fridge…… it doesn’t say where it is from but “distributed by” and import company certainly implies it’s sourced from other countries
Yup. Same. The food made in flyover states is mostly stuff fed to animals (which I don’t eat) or is piped into a lot of processed foods, which I try to minimize my intake of, while I try to maximize my intake of things made in California (and Mexico), etc.