We also treat a bailout for farmers, or student loan forgiveness as different from “welfare” programs instead of all as ways the government helps support people when they need it. I don’t know that democrats alone can change how this is viewed but it seems worth some effort.

Journalists also need to ask if they will continue these subsidies indefinitely. China is now buying their soybeans from South America. Why is there any reason to believe they will go back to buying from us?

This is at most a very temporary bandaid. I don’t see how we have a soybean export market going forward, which as someone whose family grows soybeans is not a good situation.

He’s lying that the first term tariff strategy worked. Soybean prices never recovered and China had been building ports to buy from South America. They can’t admit he has destroyed American farm exports though.

As an autistic adult with autistic kids, their implication that it is better to risk your kids dying of disease than to risk them being autistic is disturbing. It’s also frustrating that autistic people have been almost completely absent from the public conversation around this.

It feels like urban based pundits telling democrats how to get elected in red states/rural areas are missing a lot.

Like my in-laws, who voted for trump, will just say things like “I don’t understand why everyone doesn’t just get healthcare” or my brother, who almost voted for trump, but is glad he didn’t, says Bernie makes a lot of good points. It’s hard to wrap your head around.

Democrats have given up making a case for so many things and just adopt a slightly less awful version of republican policies. I actually live in a rural area, and when I talk to people about issues, not politics, there is a lot of agreement with democratic policies.

I’m sure it’s satisfying to mock people losing what are often multigenerational farms, but how does anyone expect to get out of where we are as a country if anytime people might have a chance to see they were wrong, their pain is mocked?

A short term bailout won’t fix the long term loss of export markets, just like it didn’t during his last term. Soybean prices never recovered from his previous tariffs and the damage is much worse this time.

I listened to him on a political podcast and had to quit partway through because I was so annoyed.

Republicans only pay lip service to being for farmers, but democrats don’t have policies supportive of small farms, which are better supported in places like Canada. This could be an opportunity for democrats to make some inroads with farmers.

During the last administration, his tariffs already caused long term damage to the soybean market and prices had never recovered. I know a lot of liberals are not sympathetic, but those of us who didn’t vote for him are still facing potential loss of multi generational family farms.

I live on a farm in Michigan and the only politicians we get here are republicans. It’s hard to say for sure, but I think democrats that had actual plans to help farmers might be able to make some headway, although by the time they get any power, I don’t know how many of us will be left.

His last bailout didn’t compensate for ongoing loss of export markets from his previous round of Chinese tariffs. Farmers who wanted to vote for him anyway (including my father in law) overlooked it, but things are getting bad now.

Unfortunately even those of us who farm are getting screwed, but I doubt there will be any sort of bailout. Why would he care at this point? The bailout last time didn’t make up for the soybeans prices that stayed lowered as China found other markets anyway.

I need to look more into the rise of gun culture. I live in a rural area and growing up knew lots of people who owned a gun, mostly to hunt or put down a farm animal if needed, but guns being used to symbolize political identity feels more recent to me or least much more prominent.

small farmers. There are policies that could help, but everyone has been content to let small producers get pushed out. I vote on other issues, but I do was waiting for politicians who gave more than lip service to policies that would help families like mine, I would be waiting a long time.

There are many of us who farm who did not vote for this and are stuck with the consequences anyway. The bail out in the last term didn’t make up for the loss of markets that was ongoing even before these new tariffs. Our government, regardless of party, has done a bad job supporting

I live in rural southern Michigan and it’s just demoralizing that other than statewide offices and president, every single candidate is a republican. I don’t want to vote for any of them. If a democrat runs against Tim Wahlberg for Congress it’s usually not someone who even seems serious.

I understand the media does not want to give democrats credit for things. We need democrats who are able to get attention on their own and not rely on the media to give them credit. Biden was not appearing much because his staff didn’t think he could perform well so he couldn’t make a forceful case.

Part of the problem with Biden not getting credit was he was unable to publicly take credit. Trump is out there relentlessly lying about things he has “accomplished” and a lot of people end up believing it. Biden did not do much media or public appearances taking credit.

I had no memory of what it was called, but after I saw this, I checked, and this was the show that made me want a window seat (which I am still waiting for at 41). Now to solve the mystery of the movie about robot grandmas that we watched in school…

I love PBS passport. My 13 year old won’t watch documentaries and doesn’t like learning history because learning all the bad stuff bothers him, but he will watch Finding Your Roots, so we watch that a lot.

Thanks for making a crappy and stressful week worse by making assumptions that I’m a bot instead of just disagreeing with me on whatever it is that made you decide I was a bot.

How are my comments “telling”? We grow corn in rural Michigan and this is my experience of the process of growing corn.

I am not a bot. I just don’t know anyone in real life on Bluesky so I haven’t made any posts. How are my comments “telling”? I am basing them on my real life experiences.

It goes on the plant itself, not the the corn kernels, so you would then only get a very minimal amount that might be absorbed into the plant. The corn is then harvested, then run through whatever other products it is turned into. It is not enormous amounts like some people say it is.

I don’t know what you are reacting to, but the amount of glyphosate that would be in corn based products would be very, very minimal. We raise field corn, and the amount of glyphosate per acre is about the size of a can of pop, diluted in water it it is mixed with in the sprayer.

The idea that we will deport all the immigrant workers and hire white Americans is ludicrous. Even if they were paid enough, which isn’t possible without substantial food price increases, they wouldn’t know how to do the work and crops would rot.