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Trump spending freeze sticks Iowa farmers with millions in bills for conservation work
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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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He fucked them the first time he was President. He's fucking them again now. They didn't learn a goddamn thing. They made their bed and now they can lie in it. Stupid fucks.
I will never understand how an Iowa farmer could have been okay with him. They literally depend on (usually illegal) migrant work. They can't afford to pay minimum wage, but here they are, once again.
I don't live in Iowa but have a small farm and live surrounded by farmers and ranchers. You have to understand that these people have the tiniest of perspective to the world. They spend almost their entire lives on one property, rarely go anywhere due to the nature of farming, and constantly have right-wing radio on in the truck and the barn and fox news on at home. You combine that with limited education across multiple generations and you have a group of people perfectly suited to consistently buy into propaganda and almost never able to identify things that will eat their face in the end.
Oh I know, I grew up there surrounded by them. You're right, that's exactly how it happened, but I don't let them off the hook for it
TIL Iowa farmers love to be fucked
Please: It's called getting a cornjob.
"Riding the Corn Silo"
I’m less sure about the migrant worker in Iowa’s case. I think Iowa is mostly corn and soy, which have been machine-picked-and-processed for close to 100 years now. I’m sure that some migrant labor is being used, but one automated combine can pick A LOT of corn in a day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detasseling
TIL (I’m clearly not a farmer).
You both are right overall, so yay for everyone learning.
Racism. Because those farmers are racists.
You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.