cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35684522
Despite his support for Trump, Ragland has become increasingly vocal about the need for immediate trade resolution. “We desperately need to get something rectified quickly with China, our biggest export customer,” he told CNN. “We wanna encourage the administration to get a proactive trade deal done.”
Don’t forget farmers overwhelmingly voted for Trump at 78%.
Democrats should absolutely not vote for a bailout. While it would be good governing to do so, now is not a time of good governing. Make republicans eat their own turd.
Talking point: “Trump’s tariffs caused this. Trump can fix this at any point without a bill. The only responsible way for congress to fix this is to take away tariff powers from trump otherwise we’ll have a new bailout every week for the next 3 years.”
Oddly, that aligns with lower education levels amd less exposure to new information, between rural and urban settings.
Farmers may well be outstanding in their field (pun intended), but that’s where it stops
When your understanding of how the world works comes from modern country music, you’re fucked.
“My wife left me, the earth is flat, and my truck wants a divorce and I just can’t stop singing my song.”
Needs beer.