'It's Like A Diet': Ag Secretary Mocks Farmers' Trade Losses

[DonViejo]

Eric Boehlert

July 20, 2018 5:32 am

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue belittled American farmers on Wednesday.

“It’s a little bit like weight loss,” Perdue said of the tariffs that are damaging the bottom line for lots of red states, U.S. farmers. “It’s going to be good to get there but it is a little painful in the meantime.”

Perdue referred to Trump’s reckless tariffs as “trade disruptions we’re experiencing,” as if they weren’t specifically manufactured and imposed by the Trump administration. His remarks echoed Trump’s dismissive rhetoric about how trade wars are “easy to win.”

“Wait a minute, ‘Trade disruptions we’re experiencing.’ That sounds very passive,” stressed Axios editor Mike Allen, as he interviewed Perdue. “In fact, it’s your president, it’s your administration, that’s disrupting trade.”

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[Achilleaze]

1. republicans mocking the farmers they suckered

just like they laff at all the voters they suckered

[Eyeball_Kid]

10. Oh. You just felt my piss on your leg? That's rain, you asshole. n/t.

[dalton99a]

2. Goddamn psychopaths, every one of them

[Freethinker65]

3. Just wait until big Ag comes to the rescue to buy up those struggling farms

Farm consolidation by big Ag was part of the overall plan all along.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Probably right, although I'm not sure these clowns thought it up. But...

China and others are rapidly replacing their suppliers and may have no reason to get back to us. And I thought everyone knew Big Ag was less efficient than local farmers because they can live on even smaller margins.

So, everyone loses.

[tanyev]

4. Ha, ha, ha! The person who's forcing you to diet thinks it's hilarious that you're hungry!

[lunasun]

6. Wonder how the farmers will figure out how to blame Obama when big AG buys them out low bid

[exboyfil]

7. You have to wonder why it's not the headline

In every newspaper through the soybean belt. Liberal media my ass. There is virtually no coverage. I am trying to find independent verification of the quote.

[OnDoutside]

8. womp womp

[hlthe2b]

9. well, it may not be 5th Ave, but Trump is surely killing these farmers....

Perdue has largely escaped scrutiny simply because he's kept his head down and actually HAD some administrative experience. But I expect that the blowback willl be fierce.