TDS Time Machine | Farmers
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Farmers march on Washington, demand return to agrarian-based economy, either that or trucks of money. Farmers from across the United States marched on Capitol Hill Monday hoping to repeal a 1996 law that gave major corporations an advantage over family farms. The protesters carried placards with slogans like, Wait a minute, what about the farmer? And chanting, Hey, hey, ho, ho. Farming requires hay and a ho. The freedom to farm law removed most federal controls on what farmers grow, letting them shift from crop to crop to better meet market demands. Unfortunately, most farmers are still unable to grow DVDs and drawstring cargo pants. Here's one man who is down on the farm. It's scary, folks, that it's evolved everybody.
If you eat, this is your fight.
Soon afterwards, this man buried his grandfather in an unmarked grave along Pennsylvania Avenue with a note reading, nobody killed him, he just died. Farmers at the protest were treated to a 25% reunion of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. All you need to do is be able to afford to grow the food, buy the seeds, pay for the machinery, and then sell your food at the market. Huh. You know, his live shows just aren't what they used to be. In the escalating trade war between the United States and everyone, one of the hardest hit groups has been US farmers.
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue just announcing moments ago that the Trump administration has approved $12 billion in aid specifically going to farmers, an industry that has been hit very hard by what they call today illegal retaliatory tariffs from China.
Farmers, many of whom were Trump voters, right, they've really been hurt by the president's trade wars.
Okay, this is weird, because I'm not opposed to a president using government assistance to help people through a crisis, you know, like after a hurricane. But in this case, the president is the hurricane. He made this happen. Right? Like, imagine if a hurricane went through your house, like, oh, here's $20 for the mess. That's what's basically happened here. So Donald Trump screwed a bunch of farmers, and now he has to pay them off. I guess now they know how it feels to be Stormy Daniels. But let's move on now to our top story. The $1.9 trillion relief bill that Joe Biden signed into law earlier this year had money for everything from COVID vaccines, to stimulus checks, to a year subscription to Biden's OnlyFans.
And it also gave $4 billion in loan forgiveness to black farmers, which it turns out not everyone is happy about. Joe Biden sent billions of dollars to African-American farmers in this country purely because of how they look. Now, that's illegal. It's immoral. It's completely divisive. It's not a bill for black farmers. It's a bill against... white farmers.
I don't think they understand our business one bit. Nobody asks you what race you are when you price fertilizer.
White farmers need not apply by virtue of the color of their skin. The Democratic Party is becoming the party of reverse racism.
Farmers are being denied aid solely because of their skin color. In this country, you do not punish people because they look a certain way, because their ancestors come from a certain place. Because if the government has the power to destroy a business because of how someone looks, what's next? Put someone in jail because of how they look? I mean, what if they make it illegal to look like a testicle that just escaped the scrotum, just as an example. But it isn't just Fox News gargoyles who are upset about this aid to black farmers. Last week, a federal judge blocked the aid from going into effect while a lawsuit from white farmers proceeds through the court system. And you might be hearing this story for the first time and wondering, wait, why should black farmers get special treatment?
Are their cows the ones that make chocolate milk? Well, yes, but that's not why. The real reason is something we're gonna explore in another edition of If You Don't Know, Now You Know.
When you picture a farmer in your head, what do you see?
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