Trump's $12 billion bailout of farmers hurt by his trade wars has been a massive bust: NYT

[Gothmog]

Link to tweet

[Wounded Bear]

1. I'm sure that ADM got their cut...

[Iliyah]

2. DUH

With the new House, cuts to SSI, Medicare, Medicaid, et al., have been put hold, I hope forever.

The government is spending more than what they have while milking the working class.

[ck4829]

3. Going to end up as 'Selling the farm at a fraction of it's value and at a big loss to own the libs'

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Link to the NYT article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/us/politics/farming-trump-trade-war.html

[LakeArenal]

5. I'm not sure, but didn't farmers overwhelmingly go Trump?

I won’t say freudenschade, because we need farmers so much but...WTH?

[duforsure]

6. Yes

Bet they won't do that again, especially when they're looking at losing their farms, and driven out of business from trump and the republican nazi' party's policies, or maybe they'll continue voting for this con man and losing more.

[LakeArenal]

9. Not to mention the money they pour into Mega-farms

While losing family farms.

[Gothmog]

11. The irony of the support that trump got from farmers amuses me also

[nycbos]

7. Whomp Whomp

[Achilleaze]

8. republicans are systematically weakening America

This shit is another massive kick-punch in America's gut.

Bet the russians are loving it, watching the republicans screw over the USA

[Gothmog]

10. Trump has really screwed soybean farmers

Link to tweet

[Takket]

12. so this got me to wondering.............

who did farmers vote for in the midterms?

with a little help from google i found THIS list of most farms sorted by congressional district......

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2012/Online_Resources/Congressional_District_Rankings/cdr_1_001_001.pdf

here's the top 10:
Nebraska 3
Minnesota 7
South Dakota
Iowa 4 (King's district BTW)
Oklahoma 2
Kansas 1
Montana
Oklahoma 3
North Dakota
Missouri 6

So... How many of those voted Democrat in the midterms?

That would be ONE. minnesota's 7th. Which is honestly one more than I expected..............

[Tarheel_Dem]

13. But they stick by him, for the most part. It's bizarre. n/t

[eleny]

14. Another Republican constituency kicked in the teeth