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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2016: Trump got 63% of the North Dakota vote. 2018: North Dakota Farmers Union is "scared."
Farmers are reporting economic anxiety over President Donald Trumps escalating trade wars as the midterm elections approach, The Bismarck Tribune reports.
China imposed a 25 percent soybean tariff as a retaliatory measure against Trumps trade policies.
Right now, I am the most scared Ive ever been as to where the future of farming is going, explained Randy Richards, the Steele County president for the North Dakota Farmers Union.
In 2016, Trump received more than twice as many votes as Hillary Clinton, besting her 63 percent to 27 percent.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/north-dakota-farmers-lash-gop-trumps-crippling-trade-war-china-scared-ive-ever/
CincyDem
(6,346 posts)but I'm sure there was something in HRC's emails that worried you more than going out of business so...all's good, right ?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)But honestly I do care. Mostly because the United States of America in the whole will suffer greatly. Obviously, like majority of the GOPs, they don't consider anything in the whole but care only for the 1-2%ers and oneself.
Xipe Totec
(43,889 posts)dalton99a
(81,426 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)But unlike a lot of your guys, most of us didn't vote for that maggot.....
KPN
(15,641 posts)dflprincess
(28,075 posts)Who do you support in the Senate race?
CountAllVotes
(20,868 posts)and it is a criminal, aka "Don the Con".
Too bad they did not notice. Maybe they'll kick him to the curb if they are "stable geniuses".
Phoenix61
(16,999 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)hatrack
(59,583 posts)Jeroen
(1,061 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)They picked the moron and now they suffer his policies and temperament.
LonePirate
(13,412 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)and liberals.
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)No. So I don't care about them. Suck it up. This is on you
Stallion
(6,474 posts)Karma
Wwcd
(6,288 posts)63% Loved Trump
Afromania
(2,768 posts)We told you not to vote for that guy because this exact thing was going to happen. Now you're scared and you will probably lose your shirt behind this, but they'll probably go out and vote republican again.
RKP5637
(67,101 posts)RKP5637
(67,101 posts)many of them voted this sh** into office. Now, they have to live with the consequences and the destruction their beloved GOP wants to bestow on America.
peggysue2
(10,826 posts)Because things are going to get worse. For them and for us if we do not corral and contain the Trumpster's worst instincts to tear down the country's economic stability.
The only person the economic ruin would serve is Putin and his fan boys which include the Trumpster and his enablers who have their eyes on buying up assets cheap. Bannon is over in the UK right now calling for a populist uprising. Does anyone think he and his acolytes have the UK's economic interests at heart?
The Trumpster is Putin's Apprentice. His supporters better realize that fast before they're totally ruined. And take the rest of us down with them.
DURHAM D
(32,607 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)Squinch
(50,932 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,697 posts)yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)In Minnesota, a former Trump supporter slammed the trade war.
This isnt just numbers on a sheet or percentage of trade or dollar value, Michael Petefish, a Trump-backing farmer, told CNN. This is multi-generational American families, your base, that you are now squarely putting into financial peril.
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)if so he deserves all of it. Yeah, China is the enemy until you want them to buy stuff from you.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)Coventina
(27,083 posts)hatrack
(59,583 posts)That's nice.
Glorfindel
(9,725 posts)marigolds. Shouldn't take more than 3 - 4 days.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)they are collateral damage.
Hav
(5,969 posts)funny how that works.
And talking about scared...I wonder how scared young children are that get separated for months from their parents and then it's in doubt whether they'll see them again because the criminals who separated them also destroyed the paperwork to connect them.
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)They weren't giving two shits about their fellow humans when Trump was pummeling them but now Farmer John wants us to feel sorry when he's getting kicked in the balls.
Now where did I put those thoughts and prayers. . . . . . oh yeah! Right under my nano violin.
MyOwnPeace
(16,923 posts)and, wonder how "worried" they were when thousands of children were ripped from their parents' arms and taken away?
Huh?
Were you worried then?
Did it possibly occur to you, dear Mr. Farmer, that there just "might" be something wrong with this "Fucktard?"
Yeah, I didn't think so....................................
We've heard your "concerns" before:
In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didnt speak up because I wasnt a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didnt speak up because I wasnt a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didnt speak up because I wasnt a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Vinca
(50,248 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)God they are annoying.
My thoughts and prayers are that they all go bankrupt.
Zorro
(15,730 posts)That might be a winning advertising campaign for the North Dakota Farmers Union.
hunter
(38,309 posts)... and hire you and your children at minimum wage to work it.
Enjoy your "retirement."
Qanisqineq
(4,826 posts)You get what you voted for.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)Scared farmers or not, Trump will win ND by a similar margin in 2020, assuming he's on the ballot.
matt819
(10,749 posts)They will say they understand what trump is trying to accomplish because trade rules dont favor America.
But when asked, they cant identify the issues and will vote R.
Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)Most of the soybean farmers will make plenty of money.
Just not the ones in our country.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Thoughts and prayers on the way GOP farmers. We tried to warn you but you put your trust into the hands of a lifelong con man in the leopards eating faces party.
Now they are coming for you.
JHB
(37,157 posts)I undrstand your frustration, but since since you forced me to rise aling with you, please forgive me if please forgive me for my inevitable lack of sympathy. You're the guy who actively swallowed every claim against Obama or either Clinton that came down the pike, while dismissing decades' worth of info on how Trump short changes any little guy once he has what he wants from them.
Yes, yes, I suppose I am being "uncivil" for blaming you for the situation. I prefer to think of it as "not being politically correct".