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On a windy September morning, Josh and Jordan Gackle huddled to discuss the looming crisis facing their North Dakota soybean farm.
For the first time in the history of their 76-year-old operation, their biggest customer — China — had stopped buying soybeans. Their 2,300-acre soybean farm is projected to lose $400,000 in 2025. Soybeans that would normally be harvested and exported to Asia are now set to pile up in large steel bins.
Who are the sad soy boys now?
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 17, 2025 2:09 PM |
Guess they'll need another bailout
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 17, 2025 1:08 AM |
[quote] “Our family is involved in the farming business, in soybeans and corn, so I’m very sensitive to this and very up-to-date,” Mr. Bessent said. “The American farmers have been very loyal, 90 percent of rural voters voted for President Trump. So they should know that their interests are his interests.”
Translation: It's ok that Trump does terrible things to other people! Just don't do it to us, daddy!
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 17, 2025 1:14 AM |
Ain’t nobody give a good goddamn!
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 17, 2025 1:18 AM |
"Gackle"?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 17, 2025 1:42 AM |
R2 That is basically the mindset. Be cruel and destroy the lives of others, but don't do the same to me because I voted for you.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 17, 2025 1:58 AM |
R5, yep! That's a constant theme with them.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 17, 2025 3:25 AM |
Hope they got them bootstraps still lying around!
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 17, 2025 4:06 AM |
Couldn't happen to a nicer group of fascists.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 17, 2025 5:47 AM |
Funny stuff. Go broke. Who cares?
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 17, 2025 5:50 AM |
Considering China is by far their #1 export for soybeans, you'd think they would have had some reservations voting for Trump and all the tariffs he telegraphed imposing before the election.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 17, 2025 6:06 AM |
You can search farm subsidy payments online and find out what they’ve gotten for 20 years or more. It’s very public. Name and state.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 17, 2025 6:17 AM |
I have a friend who is a soybean farmer—hates Trump, did not vote for him—who is probably going to lose his business. It’s sad because he’s the fourth generation to run this farm, and it’s all going away thanks to Dump.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 17, 2025 6:21 AM |
It would be so easy to sympathize with their plight, but was there ever a whinier, more self-pitying bunch than American farmers. Salt of the earth! America's breadbasket! Crying "poor me!" while land poor to the tune of millions (a nicer cushion than most whose businesses suffer a bad turn.) Bitching about imagined "government subsidies" to fucking rainbow crosswalks on city streets and saying fuck all about being shored up by real government subsidies. They've made an millennia old noble occupation into an art of self-pity and grasping.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 17, 2025 8:20 AM |
So does this mean China isn’t paying their allocation of tariff revenue? How fucking rude.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 17, 2025 9:54 AM |
R13
Q: Why are American farmers buried in only a foot of dirt rather than six feet under?
A: So that even after they’re dead they can still get a hand out.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 17, 2025 2:09 PM |
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