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Summary

Michigan farmer Rebecca Carlson, a longtime Trump supporter, faces bankruptcy as Trump’s funding freezes stall a $400,000 USDA grant for hiring temporary workers.

Carlson, who hoped Trump’s second term would revive her struggling cherry farm, already spent $200,000 preparing for labor under the H-2A visa program.

With funding halted, she risks losing $200,000 more and can’t move forward with critical hires.

Trump’s new tariffs and immigration crackdowns threaten agriculture costs and labor availability, leaving farmers uncertain and frustrated with unmet promises.

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 6 days ago

Frog and the scorpion how many hundreds of years ago? We have not learned.

[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

these people hurt them self's. you cant feel bad for people who stab them self's in the leg. you just cant.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Fucking rights. Lose everything

[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

You get what you deserve! #jokerwasright

[–] eric5949@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago
[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago
[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago
[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago
[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 327 points 1 week ago (5 children)

So let me get this straight: she had everything planned and set up under the policies of the Biden administration, everything was working fine and a large part of the plan were immigrant workers. So naturally she voted for Trump. I struggle to empathize, tbh.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 144 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Struggle to empathize? I'm reading this with glee.

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[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 106 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's only half-topical, but let me say one thing: farmers are romanticised waaay too much in my opinion. Yes, they usually have a more precarious business, and agriculture as such is, of course, very much the foundation of our societies and very lives.

But don't be blinded by the image of homesteading and such - most farmers are basically just business owners, with their class interests often removing them from a large part of the population. Many of the seasonal workers for example have shit pay on top of shit conditions, and they are notoriously overrepresented with some kind of "rurally wholesome" image, when they can be just as much business assholes, that mainly own a piece of land and the machinery necessary to use it for agriculture.

This will only get worse, because bankruptcy like this has one main effect: consolidation, even more farmland operated by big business, even though I personally think small business like this one is clearly already not as good as people tend to make it out as.

[–] shawn1122@lemm.ee 68 points 1 week ago

People romanticize farming because it was the basis of society and its economy 100 years ago. Agriculture was key to human survival for millenia before that.

In our increasingly tech driven lives, there's something pure about your work being dedicated to cultivating the earth and bringing sustenance to people.

But there are modern US farm owners that harken the image of plantation owners during America's chattel slavery era. Exploiting undocumented workers with undignified working conditions and paying them insufficiently in exchange for irreversibly wearing down their bodies.

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The fundamental weakness of Western Civilization is empathy, after all.....

[–] anonymous111@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Do you want to hate yourself both literally and philosophically? Seek out the news coverage from your closest Sinclair affiliate. There's a good chance this is more attributable to the fall of the fourth estate than any sort of ignorance or stupidity. A lot of these people get their news from the local broadcast. And when Sinclair controls all of those they cannot help but be uninformed.

This is actually a chance for us to reach out to them pointing out the failure of the media they relied to be informed with. Or we could choose to not build allies and coalitions and just laugh at them. For things that we ourselves could easily fall victim to

[–] Generic_Idiot@lemm.ee 0 points 5 days ago

Nope, it’s a choice to uninformed. Stop making excuse for dumb asses.

Plenty of people choose to actually be informed on actual policy, and use critical thinking to figure out what it means for society.

They’re racist, anti intellectuals who choose to be fed bullshit cos it’s fits with their poisonous, dumb ass racist ideology of “immigrant bad”

Stop making excuses for them.

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[–] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 98 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There seems to be a huge disconnect between supporting trump and paying attention.

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[–] dhork@lemmy.world 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Too lazy to actually read the article, but I assume this is a face-eating leopard farm

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 104 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

but I assume this is a face-eating leopard farm

In sooo many ways.

  • Voted for leopard, leopard's tariffs are screwing her over
  • Was awarded a $400,000 grant (under Biden) but now that's frozen, can't get reimbursed.
  • Can't hire H-2A visa workers.
  • "Nobody wants to work anymore" attitude
  • Complaining she had to spend $200,000 of her own money to renovate her house. Claims it's a business expense.
  • Can't use taxpayer money to pay her staff and can't stay afloat without government subsidies she would likely deny anyone else.

The usual "I got mine" attitude and subsequent whining when the consequences of their own actions finally affects them personally.

[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

And they get a news article written about them for some reason

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Did any Trump voters except billionaire Nazis pay attention to what they were voting for? Or was "he's a racist white man who will hurt minorities" actually all they knew and cared about?

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

______ voted for Trump. Now, Trump's decision to _____ will hurt them.

On repeat.

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“I was expecting to see a drastic turnaround for the better for my farm because the Republicans have always been for the American farmer,” said Carlson, a longtime Republican and Trump supporter.

If there's anything good that could come out of the entire Trump situation, it would be finally breaking the illusion and myth that Republicans are good for the economy and Republicans are good for farmers. It's apparent they will try to keep their head in the sand until they nearly suffocate though.

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 18 points 1 week ago

If you're so into republican policies, why not look back through all they've done. Notice a lack of small farms and farmers compared to decades ago?

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 16 points 1 week ago

Yesss, go bankrupt to own the libs!

Sickos in the window meme. "Yes... Ha ha ha... Yes!”

[–] turtl@lemm.ee 12 points 1 week ago

And they will learn nothing from it lmao

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