“Farmers have some tools, but none are quick fixes.”
Actually there is a pretty quick one. Vote for Democrats for the House and Senate. Get all your farmer friends and everyone in related businesses and communities to vote for Democrats. A Democratic majority in both houses of Congress can stop Trump in his tracks and move towards recovery.
i use the lens of the antichrist to explain pres. satan. it pretty much covers the gamut. it's not just america that he is ruining, but the entire world as well. a truly evil, soulless creature. that nothing has stopped as of today. we need an exorcism! hello, pope leo!
I recently had an acquaintance who is a farmer tell me that "farmers are hurting under Trump" was just a talking point of the left. He literally said that any farmer "worth his salt" would be able to weather "small increases in prices." The denial of reality and the lack of empathy for others is just a hallmark of MAGA.
but they couldn't stand temporary pandemic related inflation under biden....they are all just so full of shit. i would have more respect if they just said they supported the hatred and bigotry. we'd know where they really stood. and could stop arguing over economics....
Trump doesn’t care if farmers lose their farms due to bankruptcy. His tariffs destroyed overseas markets for their crops, eliminating USAID dried up another important market for US farm products, and his war in Iran has driven up fertilizer prices and fuel costs. Trump clearly doesn’t give a rat’s a**.
Who benefits? Well, remember the news reports that his Treasury secretary buys up farmland from distressed farmers? Hmmm…
david, if they haven't figured it out by now, i doubt they ever will. a lot of people have given up on him, based on polling, though some writers gotta go and find the most favorable polls showing him at close to 40....when there are plenty with him at lower than that.
Q: If a rising power is confronting a dominant power, that's a Thucydides Trap. So, what's a rising power confronting a declining power? A: A Trump Trap.
The ones I know say that Trump changed and that seems to make them comfortable cutting their support for him. It's not that they were gullible and got taken. Whatever gets them to vote differently or at least not vote R.
And regarding Trump’s new view that Taiwan is a “bargaining chip”:
Someone better wake up the CEO’s of Apple, Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Broadcom (among others), since they rely for their chips on TSMC, based -duh- in Taiwan. It has about a 70% share of global chip manufacturing. If China controls Taiwan, we will have a Digital Strait of Hormuz.
Thanks Simon, I share your fury. In the "picture's worth a 1,000 words" department those photos of Trump with the world's dictators (and past dictators, buh-bye Orban) say a lot. Whatever that is smirking in those pictures, it's not an American President. This one from 2018 always sticks in my mind as well, with its smile of appeasement. https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-president-trump-smiles-thumbs-174144239.html.
Today is Day 5 of the 12 days of political donations my wife and I have committed to in May, front loading our 2026 political donations. Today’s donation went to Hopium's Audacious Expansion Fund. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/hopiumexpansionfund. Never used to think about state parties that much, but I've learned the importance of them (e.g. Maine defeating its anti-voting initiative last year, Minnesota training constitutional observers for elections).
each time i read an article about farmers and rural voters, it has to come with a caveat that they still support the orange shit head. well, it took the public 30 seconds to turn on joe biden over prices, but these people sticking with trump when he is screwing them over with high fuel, and fertilizer prices, and inflation overall, tells me that inflation was never the issue to begin with.
Fisher this just isn't the case and you should stop repeating it. We don't know what is going to happen in farm country. Even a shift of 5% points could help turn a strong election for us into a rout. This isn't about winning farmers it is about cutting his margins, creating an opening that we can build on in future elections, and every candidate we've heard from understands the opening we have and are working it.
i just read an article on this topic this morning, it's a headline piece at reuters....and it wasn't the only one. are you saying these reporters are incorrect? i know a reporter can cherry pick quotes, but i have seen this kind of thing reported frequently over the past few months. whether a percentage of these voters peels away in a future election is beyond the scope of the reports.....they can only report what residents are saying right now. and, why shouldn't we try to win farmers? my mother's family were farmers in indiana; they were solid democrats, worshipped the ground fdr walked on, and fondly recalled "give em hell harry" truman. my mother wouldn't have voted republican if you paid her. neither would my italian father. but in indiana today, republicans hold sway.
Fisher, again. It just isn't the case you can "they are sticking with him." Based on what, interviews with 5 farmers? Where's the data? I have shared interviews with over a dozen candidates, on the ground, who said support for the Rs in farm country is eroding, and we have an opening. The math is simple - if he gets 90-95% of his people in this part of the country it is bad news for him and very good news for us. So of course a majority of Republicans, of farmers, of MAGA are sticking with him. But that's not the issue. They cannot afford to bleed any votes here so we only need to make small gains to have a big impact given how motivated our voters are and how much indies have swung against them. The "Republican voters are sticking with Trump" meme is lazy and wrong given all the data we have.
Another harm he's doing: I'm in the DC area, and a friend drove by Memorial Bridge, across the Potomac, and saw two thirty-foot pillars already up where Trump is building his Trump-phal Arch.
Hopefully, the Eastern Plains and Western Slope farming communities wake up and reassess their support for the Trump economy that is devastating their prospects.
“Farmers have some tools, but none are quick fixes.”
Actually there is a pretty quick one. Vote for Democrats for the House and Senate. Get all your farmer friends and everyone in related businesses and communities to vote for Democrats. A Democratic majority in both houses of Congress can stop Trump in his tracks and move towards recovery.
Yup, he is that and so much more.
At the heart of it all.
He is an idiot, just a stupid freaking idiot.
I could say more, but I think that is enough for today...
He’s a useful idiot to the oligarchs who want to rule the world. The entire GOP is in on it.
i use the lens of the antichrist to explain pres. satan. it pretty much covers the gamut. it's not just america that he is ruining, but the entire world as well. a truly evil, soulless creature. that nothing has stopped as of today. we need an exorcism! hello, pope leo!
I recently had an acquaintance who is a farmer tell me that "farmers are hurting under Trump" was just a talking point of the left. He literally said that any farmer "worth his salt" would be able to weather "small increases in prices." The denial of reality and the lack of empathy for others is just a hallmark of MAGA.
but they couldn't stand temporary pandemic related inflation under biden....they are all just so full of shit. i would have more respect if they just said they supported the hatred and bigotry. we'd know where they really stood. and could stop arguing over economics....
Thank you Simon as always for writing about all of the Trump/MAGA/Repub horror. I hope our great country survives…
Thank you, Simon! Lovely day here in the DMV and I hope you get to go out and enjoy it.
I am writing postcards to Ohio voters today.
Trump doesn’t care if farmers lose their farms due to bankruptcy. His tariffs destroyed overseas markets for their crops, eliminating USAID dried up another important market for US farm products, and his war in Iran has driven up fertilizer prices and fuel costs. Trump clearly doesn’t give a rat’s a**.
Who benefits? Well, remember the news reports that his Treasury secretary buys up farmland from distressed farmers? Hmmm…
We must do everything we can to let the American People know the truth about Trump and the Republicans who still support him!!!
david, if they haven't figured it out by now, i doubt they ever will. a lot of people have given up on him, based on polling, though some writers gotta go and find the most favorable polls showing him at close to 40....when there are plenty with him at lower than that.
Q: If a rising power is confronting a dominant power, that's a Thucydides Trap. So, what's a rising power confronting a declining power? A: A Trump Trap.
Tagline for Dems reaching out to Republican and Independent voters: You've been had.
They were lied to by Trump, and they know it. This is a bit softer than saying they've been lied to. They know they were had.
The ones I know say that Trump changed and that seems to make them comfortable cutting their support for him. It's not that they were gullible and got taken. Whatever gets them to vote differently or at least not vote R.
Interesting point. I'll take whatever floats their boat.
Exactly.
It's like a coping mechanism, but I will take it!
I agree with y'all. Whatever we call this - rationalizing, an offramp, face-saving mechanism, it works to all our benefits.
And regarding Trump’s new view that Taiwan is a “bargaining chip”:
Someone better wake up the CEO’s of Apple, Qualcomm, Nvidia, and Broadcom (among others), since they rely for their chips on TSMC, based -duh- in Taiwan. It has about a 70% share of global chip manufacturing. If China controls Taiwan, we will have a Digital Strait of Hormuz.
"Digital Strait of Hormuz" is very good. I'm stealing it!
The CEOs of Apple and Nividia were on the trip to China. I doubt they care about borders.
Thanks Simon, I share your fury. In the "picture's worth a 1,000 words" department those photos of Trump with the world's dictators (and past dictators, buh-bye Orban) say a lot. Whatever that is smirking in those pictures, it's not an American President. This one from 2018 always sticks in my mind as well, with its smile of appeasement. https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-president-trump-smiles-thumbs-174144239.html.
Today is Day 5 of the 12 days of political donations my wife and I have committed to in May, front loading our 2026 political donations. Today’s donation went to Hopium's Audacious Expansion Fund. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/hopiumexpansionfund. Never used to think about state parties that much, but I've learned the importance of them (e.g. Maine defeating its anti-voting initiative last year, Minnesota training constitutional observers for elections).
each time i read an article about farmers and rural voters, it has to come with a caveat that they still support the orange shit head. well, it took the public 30 seconds to turn on joe biden over prices, but these people sticking with trump when he is screwing them over with high fuel, and fertilizer prices, and inflation overall, tells me that inflation was never the issue to begin with.
Fisher this just isn't the case and you should stop repeating it. We don't know what is going to happen in farm country. Even a shift of 5% points could help turn a strong election for us into a rout. This isn't about winning farmers it is about cutting his margins, creating an opening that we can build on in future elections, and every candidate we've heard from understands the opening we have and are working it.
i just read an article on this topic this morning, it's a headline piece at reuters....and it wasn't the only one. are you saying these reporters are incorrect? i know a reporter can cherry pick quotes, but i have seen this kind of thing reported frequently over the past few months. whether a percentage of these voters peels away in a future election is beyond the scope of the reports.....they can only report what residents are saying right now. and, why shouldn't we try to win farmers? my mother's family were farmers in indiana; they were solid democrats, worshipped the ground fdr walked on, and fondly recalled "give em hell harry" truman. my mother wouldn't have voted republican if you paid her. neither would my italian father. but in indiana today, republicans hold sway.
Fisher, again. It just isn't the case you can "they are sticking with him." Based on what, interviews with 5 farmers? Where's the data? I have shared interviews with over a dozen candidates, on the ground, who said support for the Rs in farm country is eroding, and we have an opening. The math is simple - if he gets 90-95% of his people in this part of the country it is bad news for him and very good news for us. So of course a majority of Republicans, of farmers, of MAGA are sticking with him. But that's not the issue. They cannot afford to bleed any votes here so we only need to make small gains to have a big impact given how motivated our voters are and how much indies have swung against them. The "Republican voters are sticking with Trump" meme is lazy and wrong given all the data we have.
Another harm he's doing: I'm in the DC area, and a friend drove by Memorial Bridge, across the Potomac, and saw two thirty-foot pillars already up where Trump is building his Trump-phal Arch.
We are working hard in Colorado to eventually flip at least two Congressional districts this year, CD's 6 and 8.
Here is the status of the Colorado GOP:
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/05/15/weld-county-gop-chairman-arrested-suspected-of-soliciting-child-prostitute/?share=
AND
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/04/13/colorado-republican-party-assembly-candidates/?share=
Hopefully, the Eastern Plains and Western Slope farming communities wake up and reassess their support for the Trump economy that is devastating their prospects.