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Arkansas

duckworth969

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15. Big Ag going to buy up those family farms

Reply to LiberalArkie (Reply #9)

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:07 PM

Dec 2025

Any MAGA that is having serious $ issues, they’re reaping (pun intended) what they sow. Farmers been voting Repug since forever.

Why do you think the Oz Scarecrow says about his stuffing being ripped out by the Flying Monkeys, "Oh, no. I just keep picking it up and putting it back in again”.

Effed by monied interests, The Scarecrow keeps taking a beating over and over, and he does that because he hasn’t any brains.

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Arkansas Farmers Begin Destroying Their Own Crops! [View all] LiberalArkie Dec 2025 OP

FAFO we can do it Dec 2025 #1

And they would vote for Trump again if they could. Just not a black woman. BradBo Dec 2025 #2

How devastatingly sad, but 100% fucking true. OverBurn Dec 2025 #19

Oh, man, if only there was a way to avoid the entirely predictable consequences RockRaven Dec 2025 #3

All this happened in rural America even before the Great Crash of '29. flashman13 Dec 2025 #4

I know it may be a little satisying to point and say, "FAFO". Climate Crusader Dec 2025 #5

Good luck with that, they are in for some serious psychic pain when they realize how much they were conned Blues Heron Dec 2025 #6

We have spent the last 30-40 years reaching out to these folks, mwmisses4289 Dec 2025 #7

That is exactly what they say about us. Climate Crusader Dec 2025 #10

There's an underlying animus that is enthusiastically expressed against farmers here. littlemissmartypants Dec 2025 #16

I remember in the '70's and '80's moniss Dec 2025 #20

And this is just Arkansas. The problem is national in scope. patphil Dec 2025 #8

When Rome used to invade and conquer, one of the first things was to burn the crops to make the populations LiberalArkie Dec 2025 #9

That's a good question. I think the people who have caused this haven't thought that through. patphil Dec 2025 #11

I think that if Khrushchev was still present, everyone would know. As Russia still hates the U.S. with a passion we LiberalArkie Dec 2025 #13

Big Ag going to buy up those family farms duckworth969 Dec 2025 #15

So, we need a wizard to give brains, heart, and courage to people who appear to have none. Perhaps they just sleep. patphil Dec 2025 #23

And the department of Ag used to support local smaller scale farms growing high quality crops Botany Dec 2025 #21

And yet food prices are still through the roof LT Barclay Dec 2025 #12

Oh no! I'm being owned! BaronChocula Dec 2025 #14

Also of note about the land values is that moniss Dec 2025 #17

no worries...private equity will buy it all up... ret5hd Dec 6 #29

MAGA is really owning the libs by bringing down grocery prices IronLionZion Dec 2025 #18

The video never explains WHY commodity prices have crashed. Fil1957 Dec 2025 #22

Because our foreign grain buyers took their business elsewhere IbogaProject Dec 2025 #24

This message was self-deleted by its author Fil1957 Dec 6 #25

Thanks for that. I had heard only that China was cutting back on soybeans and nothing about the other staple crops. The Fil1957 Dec 6 #26

It's animal cruelty, is what it is. Ocelot II Dec 6 #27

They can wear their MAGA hats to their foreclosures. They probably will, dopes. dem4decades Dec 6 #28