Summary
Trump’s move to defund USAID is causing unintended consequences for American farmers and businesses.
The Washington Post reports that USAID purchases billions in U.S. agricultural products, with American farms supplying 41% of its food aid.
The funding freeze has already halted $340 million in food shipments, leaving tons of wheat stranded in Houston.
Experts warn this decision directly harms American jobs and businesses, as much of USAID’s aid is administered through U.S.-based organizations employing American workers.
They write these stories like this isn’t the result he is looking for. The point is to crash, not rebuild; nothing the Trump administration is doing is geared to help, rebuild, or make America great. That’s not how they make money. The more I see, the more I hear the more I am convinced the whole point is to destabilize and rebuild to get rid of that pesky constitution.
Maybe I am just angry or doomsaying, but I’ll be damned if it doesn’t look that way, and to make matters even worse, people just can’t wrap their heads around the whole organized minority rules over the unorganized majority thing.
They write these stories like this isn’t the result he is looking for. The point is to crash, not rebuild;
I’m noticing a slightly different pattern with these actions. I don’t think trump and his cronies were actually seeking to hurt farmers, but something else.
- hurt everyone temporary to see who screams.
- Those that scream that are opponents, continue to deny them the government benefit
- Those that are allies, extract concessions and/or pledges of fealty before returning the same benefit they had before.
- For those that don’t scream, or don’t scream loud enough, simply pocket the benefit for himself and his own goals.
nothing the Trump administration is doing is geared to help, rebuild, or make America great.
Agreed.
Basically pull all the cables and see what breaks that you care about.
Then just fix that.
Basically pull all the cables and see what breaks that you care about.
Then just fix that.
Yes. In IT we call this the “scream test”. This feels like that with added corruption.
Thank you for sharing your perspective.
I thought as the OP did (Trumps goal was to overwhelm and destabilize the U.S.)… your response gave me pause.
I guess we’ll find out who was right in 4 years…
They know it’s all about destroying the government. They’re just too chicken shit to say it.
Something like almost 80% of farmers voted Trump. Those leopards are eating good
Those leopards are eating good
The leopards are becoming obese now, WONT SOMEONE THINK OF THE LEOPARDS
Unfortunately, we won’t be in the coming months.
They’ll stand by their vote while blaming democrats for the dei hires responsible for their farms getting shut down.
Ah yes, the Brexiters! Quite an overlap of talking points too. Minus the healthcare, there’s non to speak of in US.
Almost like they don’t know what the purpose of government is…
“gambit”
Sure, let’s call it that.
It’s the normalization blues
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If they didn’t learn last go around, do we expect them to this time. I remember during his first term, his tarrifs made China reduce purchasing (I forgot which crop) from the US. Instead, they looked to other countries like Brazil. To combat the lost revenue to farmers, he created a fund to aid them.
But they just wanted to have someone to punch down on the trans, the brown people, and force everyone to go to their church, that’s all!
Mate, the orange halfwit has just flooded a huge number of farms in California. They’re still gonna vote for him.
I mean, if they vote for Democrats, they might turn gay or woke.
Well, it’s what they voted for in their blind hatred of everything that made America great.
Seriously, only people permanently stuck in adolescence with bullshit Libertarian notions about government believe that you can BREAK government and things will turn out well.
Only a dumbfuck Randroid type (or maybe the random leftist veering on wrapping all the way around the horseshoe) thinks that burning it all down is going to lead to better things…it’s easy if you are totally ignorant to think that “government doesn’t do anything for ME” as an actual thing you believe.
Trump: “If food prices are so high, what if we just… keep all the food here? That will bring them down, right?”
Dustbowl 2025, fuck yeah! Bringing back the classics!
(Farmers won’t or can’t spend money to plant -> too many fallow fields -> giant walls of airborne topsoil)
Murph!
Surely they’ll still buy those goods and give them to Americans. They aren’t just dissolving programs and making money disappear, couldn’t be.
The Washington Post reports that USAID purchases billions in U.S. agricultural products, with American farms supplying 41% of its food aid.
I did not know this myself.
Basically all of foreign “giving” by America is done by purchasing American goods and giving them in exchange for goodwill, soft power, regional stability, favorable trade deals, or other political capital.
Many Americans don’t understand any of that and think their tax money is going in the form of a check to people who don’t care and don’t give us anything in exchange. And it’s not like this is a secret, it’s just kinda gauche for the government to explicitly state it
That’s the thing about how headlines mislead. When they say, “US sends $x in aide or weapons,” what they really mean is that the US is subsidizing an American lobby group. Not to say that is bad thing, just that it gives the wrong impression.
