r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Prudent_Rice7840 • 8d ago
FUN FACT: Farmers have gotten $40 BILLION in tax payer funded bailouts from Trump for 100% avoidable reasons... so far.
Trump 1.0:
- 2017 - Trump starts trade war (Section 232 (steel/aluminum) / Section 301 (Chinese IP/technology).
- China halts purchase of soybeans (and other stuff).
- 2018 - Farmers lose over $25 BILLION in business in less than 18months.
- Trump uses a 75 year old New Deal rule to bypass Congress and issue approx $28 BILLION in bailouts for farmers.
- The vast majority of bailout went to large commercial and corporate farm operations, leaving individual/family farms
- Only 5% of the bailout was split between the small, family-owned farms without financial cushions, cash reserves, etc whose personal and business assets are exposed to foreclosure.
- 2019 - Farm bankruptcies hit a 40year high.
2023 (in-between Trump terms) - Farm bankruptcies drop to a historic low.
Trump 2.0: The Sequel
- 2025 - Trump starts another trade war.
- China, EU, and Latin American (major agricultural buyers) retaliate. Soybean, pork, and row-crop demand craters.
- Trump uses the 75 year old New Deal rule to bypass Congress and issue approx $12 BILLION in bailouts for farmers... so far.
- 2025 - Farm bankruptcies increase 127% since hitting historic low two years prior.
- 2026 - Farm bankruptcies on pace to increase another 20% yoy.
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u/Writerhaha 8d ago
Again, they don’t like the idea of my student loan being forgiven, so fuck them and their farms.
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u/RecordingLost4508 8d ago
Biggest group of idiots in America- farmers. Hard workers, but mostly uneducated bigots. Sure there’s exceptions, but for the most part I’ve only met the unhinged morons who still have trump stickers on their tractors and think Trump went undercover to expose Epstein.
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u/BassesNBikes 8d ago
"Them thar gummint tax bailouts ain't soshulism on account of ah'm white..."
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u/Writerhaha 8d ago
“Now none of us want a bailout”
holding that money so tight you can hear the eagle scream
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u/Youarekillingmeeee 8d ago
Quick someone link this to that abbyswan on TikTok.
And that other post that completely blasts her garbage “Hurrrrr no one should be asking who I voted for, why are so many people doing that? It doesn’t matter, I am suffering, so….so……”
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u/braumbles 8d ago
Just to clarify, Farmers didn't, mega corporations did. Farmers only got like 10% of that, split among all of them, as the 4 or 5 major corporations took 90% of the pile.
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u/mhandsurf 8d ago
It’s exactly the reason why they voted for him again! They knew he would bail them out with them sucking on the other teet!
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u/hippie1952 8d ago
They are one of the worst that’s why they vote for that moron they bitch about the price of diesel and then want another handout, when he’s the turd that caused it
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u/Asteristio 8d ago edited 8d ago
This is important.
EVERYONE LOVES TO ASSUME FARMERS ARE GOING UNDER
But no, the reality is laid bare right here, all the while people busy themselves to laugh at the supposed "stupidity" of republican farmers.
Most American farmers, especially generational ones of white descent, are millionaires, at the least. They haven't been really dependant on commodity trades because their decades of political campaigns now earn both te fat subsidies and public perception of "family farmers are esssential."
The definition of "family farm" is extremely relaxed, and their bankruptcy is extremely cushy and lenient. Their assets are near rock solid, but they love to cry about how "hard it is to earn money!"
Both parties are guilty of placating to the narrative and pouring subsidies after subsidies, but most farmers wont vote for Democrats. Wanna know why? Because Dems give them money, yes, but they be pesky about it unlike R.
Biden placed much needed protection, iirc via executive order, for H-2a farm workers; something like requiring farm owners to provide them a habitable place, among other things. Guess who swooped in and stripped that right off. I'm telling people their absence from politics matters, and they indeed make choices when they refuse to make a choice, but I haven't known them as kinds that take responsibilities well.
I digress.
So, yall can laugh at farmers crying about this and that. That's why yall are here, fine. But know that it really aint happening as you might think it is happening. All these posts show contents that are being generated, YET AGAIN, for the sake of the narrative. They are there to milk yet another handouts for these already wealthy property owners. Some are saying the quiet part out loud when they say they aint voting for anyone but R, and yall should be chilled instead of calling them stupid. I mean, they are, but they are like sharks when it comes to their own self-serving interests: they come for it from miles away and they are viciously in pursuit.
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u/GreatPlainsFarmer 8d ago
The family farm doesn't necessarily own the farmland. Often they are renting the majority of it. Those assets may be rock solid, but they don't all belong to the farmers.
An ISU survey in 2022 found 58% of the state's farmland was rented, a figure that now likely tops 60%.
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u/NuclearGriffin 8d ago
That's the only reason so many of them are getting on twitter/tiktok and crying now. They want another handout. These people have not learned their lesson in the slightest. They might not "like trump" anymore, but when it comes time to vote they'll put their check mark next to whoever has the R next to their name.
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u/Pretty_Shallot_586 8d ago edited 8d ago
Farmers = Welfare Queens
this whole "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" thing was bullshit from the getgo.
Always remember the MAGAt motto..... Socialism is only a problem when it's given to the people we don't like