She hoped Trump would revive her farm. Now she worries his policies could bankrupt it.

Retard alert class! Retard alert! - Mr. Garrison

I hope she faces bankruptcy. If you are too stupid to understand the basics of economy then you should be a director of a company.

MAGA, by hiring foreign people because as she says, “The American worker doesn’t like labor, they don’t like to do laborious jobs”.
400k for 10 workers. How much of that do they make? Why isn’t she working hard? Let her farm go under, she’s a welfare queen. What a dumb cunt.

There has been so many stories of Trump over the year's fucking over small businesses, he requests a custom piece, they spend weeks/months making it. He never pays.
I want to say I can't believe people are this dumb. People are this dumb.
- Yet to many of this followers these stories are all just bullshit lefty propaganda to smear the name of their great leader. They aren't completely dumb they just have been brainwashed to only believe certain people and certain news organizations.

Who could have seen this coming, except for EVERYONE! Lose your farm, get fucked and don't vote for a fascist next time.

Trump doesn't care about small businesses? But how????

Hope she loses everything because somebody this dumb isn't ever gonna learn the lesson
- Whatever she loses, it will be the libs fault.

They are dumbasses who deserve everything they encounter.
Fuck them.

In the words of JC Denton, What a shame.

"I’ll admit to you, I bleed Republican. (...) Her farm had been awarded a grant worth $400,000 through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (...) Carlson was planning to use her USDA grant money to hire 10 temporary workers from Guatemala to help with this year’s harvest."
The sheer amount of stupidity is crazy. The same people that were crying that everything bad was the fault of Biden actually had they farm working thanks to Biden.
Will they realize at some point ?
- I thought you are going to mention that she's receiving an enormous amount of money from the government, even though she's Republican.
  I can forgive someone for now knowing who specifically enacted some bill or something, but being simultaneously against supporting people with government handouts while relying on $400K from the government to survive? Wtf.

I hope it withers and blows away. It's what she deserves for voting Trump.

Despite all this, we all know damn well that she will vote republican again. She’ll vote for whatever scum trump endorses. These people never learn.
- brave of you to assume there will be another election.

Those immigrant workers were stealing valuable and very in-demand American fruit and vegetable picking jobs. Surely now she can hire from the huge line of American workers desperate to do this job. /s

One thing that trump is good at is making companies go bankrupt just like his casinos.

Haha, stupid fucks. You get what you voted for. I hope your farm closes down. Scumbag people.

A half million for temporary workers. Nice to see republicans embracing socialism and public welfare to prop them up.

“I was expecting to see a drastic turnaround for the better for my farm because the Republicans have always been for the American farmer,” said Carlson, a longtime Republican and Trump supporter.
When?
Seriously, when have Republicans ever actually been there for American farmers, or even just Americans that aren't millionaires at the least? Seriously, please point out a single law enacted by Republicans that wasn't there to benefit the richest layer of the US?
Yeah Democrats are spineless idiots but Democrats at least left stable economies after receiving shit economies from a Republican. Seriously, look it up, it's funny to actually see it. They actually made things marginally better for everyone instead of a very select few
So, when?
- Oh it was quite recently back in the 1910s. Ya know when like nobody alive today was even born.

Her farm had been awarded a grant worth $400,000 through the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help pay for the costs associated with hiring seasonal workers from overseas through the H-2A visa program, which farmers have used for years to hire temporary agricultural workers.
The USDA describes the program on its website as a way to address labor shortages on American farms and reduce illegal immigration. It's backed by $65 million in funding from the American Rescue Plan, a Covid stimulus bill passed in 2021.
IOW she was only getting that $400K because of a program funded under Biden. Which of course is why trump is freezing it, along with programs funded by the Inflation Reduction Act, also passed under Biden. He wants to undo everything Biden did.
Carlson has been trying to get an answer from the USDA about the status of her grant, but her grant manager told her that they were “awaiting guidance from leadership.” When she followed up more recently, she received an out-of-office email.
Because they got fired!
- So she voted Trump after relying on a Biden era grant. Geez

... Holy shit, this woman is fucking dumb and deserves to lose her farm.
-~~wanted~~ Needed a grant from the Government.
-Needed to hire migrant workers.
-Voted for the guy saying he was going to gut federal funding programs and close the borders.
- Republicans believe in I guess what you'd call individual exceptionalism, in that they always believe that these shitty awful policies are magic missiles that will only target the "bad people" and not themselves or the "good people" they know. I'll never forget that when they were planning the Muslim ban, a person I worked with was talking about how they're all the enemy and we should keep them out. When I pointed out that he worked with a Muslim woman, he went "oh, well, that's different, I know her, she's a good person" without even ruminating on it for a second. For him, the logic was obvious, the bad policy wouldn't affect her because he knows her and knows that she's a good person, so obviously she'd be spared the ill effects of any bad policy. That's why instead of getting fucking pissed, these people are always confused and astonished when the bad policy they advocated for affects them. "But wait, no, I'm a good person, there must be some mistake". No, there's no mistake, dumbass, good or bad person never entered the equation, just in the club or out of the club.

Zero fucking sympathy for the longtime Nazi and Russian supporting POS. Don't worry, your farm will end up in corporate hands thanks to your pure racist stupidity.

I seriously hate these people more than Trump.
I mean, did they do literally no research into what his policy proposals were? What the repercussions would be for those in her line of work? Did it not occur to her that the migrants she pays shit wages to were the people he was ranting about deporting?
The answer, of course, is no. She did no research. She dedicated no meaningful thought to it. She wanted to fuck the liberals because they put Harriet Tubman on a twenty dollar bill and she heard about the three trans athletes in her entire state and that was about where her consideration of the matter ended.
On a just barely positive note, we dedicate a frankly stupid amount of funding to keeping farms going despite their being laughably uncompetitive, most of the funding not really helping our food supply or economy, so it would probably be for the better if these cuts stick and idiots like her are forced to actually run their farms like businesses instead of thousand acre welfare queens.
- She is racist.
  That's why she voted for Trump.
  All the excuses she gives are secondary to the fact that she's white and hates seeing non-whites who didn't work as hard as her get government cheese.
  These people voted Trump not because of "fuck the libs" or "save my farm" but because, they were first and foremost, racists.
- thousand acre welfare queens
  Holy shit lol
- I mean, did they do literally no research into what his policy proposals were?
  They "researched" hard enough to see the (R) beside his name and voted based on that research.
- You are right but it still makes me sad that she's just going to get gobbled up by some factory farm. Some about leopards and faces I guess.
  
  Shouldn’t make you sad it should make you angry. She voted for this and now wants sympathy. Her and her farm can fucking burn, consequences of actions n that.
  
  That is literally what will happen if small farms go under. This would make our food supply chain even more homogeneous and less resilient. And probably increase costs at the supermarket as a result. It's too bad so many of these farmers are actively voting against their actual interests instead. For many of them the "find out" phase will hit them like a semi truck and they will never recover.
- Farmers in the US are just welfare nobility
  
  Not really. The few independent small farmers left are just trying to make a living and raise their families.
  The problem is the big conglomerate farms that own millions of acres that siphon off millions of gallons of water because they can.

So these are the real welfare queens, not the people they voted to hurt. Fuck them and their farm.

So let me get this straight: she had everything planned and set up under the policies of the Biden administration, everything was working fine and a large part of the plan were immigrant workers. So naturally she voted for Trump. I struggle to empathize, tbh.
- Struggle to empathize? I'm reading this with glee.
  
  In Dutch we have a saying: "Wie zijn billen brand moet op de blaren zitten" ->( if you burn your asscheeks, you have to sit on the blisters). It means that if you do something stupid, you have to suffer the consequences
- It's only half-topical, but let me say one thing: farmers are romanticised waaay too much in my opinion. Yes, they usually have a more precarious business, and agriculture as such is, of course, very much the foundation of our societies and very lives.
  But don't be blinded by the image of homesteading and such - most farmers are basically just business owners, with their class interests often removing them from a large part of the population. Many of the seasonal workers for example have shit pay on top of shit conditions, and they are notoriously overrepresented with some kind of "rurally wholesome" image, when they can be just as much business assholes, that mainly own a piece of land and the machinery necessary to use it for agriculture.
  This will only get worse, because bankruptcy like this has one main effect: consolidation, even more farmland operated by big business, even though I personally think small business like this one is clearly already not as good as people tend to make it out as.
  
  People romanticize farming because it was the basis of society and its economy 100 years ago. Agriculture was key to human survival for millenia before that.
  In our increasingly tech driven lives, there's something pure about your work being dedicated to cultivating the earth and bringing sustenance to people.
  But there are modern US farm owners that harken the image of plantation owners during America's chattel slavery era. Exploiting undocumented workers with undignified working conditions and paying them insufficiently in exchange for irreversibly wearing down their bodies.
  
  Agreed, and to add to this, I grew up in farmland and have never met a broke farmer. These folks are typically quite wealthy thanks to massive government subsidies. Huge modern home, brand new cars, plenty of toys like ATVs. They're not living the same life as the standard working class.
- The fundamental weakness of Western Civilization is empathy, after all.....
  
  Why do you say that?
  
  Lol
- Do you want to hate yourself both literally and philosophically? Seek out the news coverage from your closest Sinclair affiliate. There's a good chance this is more attributable to the fall of the fourth estate than any sort of ignorance or stupidity. A lot of these people get their news from the local broadcast. And when Sinclair controls all of those they cannot help but be uninformed.
  This is actually a chance for us to reach out to them pointing out the failure of the media they relied to be informed with. Or we could choose to not build allies and coalitions and just laugh at them. For things that we ourselves could easily fall victim to
  
  Nope, it’s a choice to uninformed. Stop making excuse for dumb asses.
  Plenty of people choose to actually be informed on actual policy, and use critical thinking to figure out what it means for society.
  They’re racist, anti intellectuals who choose to be fed bullshit cos it’s fits with their poisonous, dumb ass racist ideology of “immigrant bad”
  Stop making excuses for them.
  
  they cannot help but be uninformed.
  Bullshit. They've had way too long to figure out that reality doesn't match up with the news they're getting. It's just easier to not question it
  
  A lot of these people get their news from the local broadcast. And when Sinclair controls all of those they cannot help but be uninformed.
  Lived in a rural area, cannot confirm.
- I don't struggle to empathize. I'm downright gleeful these people are getting the instant karma they so rightfully deserve.

I'm sorry, if you're growing cherries, fucking expensive ass cherries, and can't stay afloat without almost a half million dollars of welfare, then what the fuck are you even doing? I don't fully agree with it, but I at least understand the importance of giving welfare to people growing crops we actually need, but frivolous shit like cherries? What a waste. If we're paying almost a half million dollars in taxes to give you cherry welfare, those cherries better be free or close to it.
- If cherries are expensive, blame capitalism, not cherries. Cherries are densely nutritious: one cup of American cherries has less than 100 calories, but 12% of the vitamin C you need in a day, vitamins A, B6 and K, potassium, copper, manganese, is very high in polyphenols -- which protect against diabetes, brain disease, heart disease, certain cancers, aid in muscle recovery after strain, and ease inflammation, especially in the joints. As a bonus, cherries also contain serotonin, tryptophan and melatonin, which elevate your mood when you are awake and then help you get a good night's sleep.
  You can buy all those things separately, as supplements, for significantly more than the cost of a cup of cherries, or you can buy an entire pound of your favourite type of cherries for between $US2.20 and $US5.26 depending on type (prices as of yesterday). In Canada, the price when converted, is about the same. I would not recommend trying to get all your nutrients just from cherries, though: many years ago, a friend and I raided a neighbour's tree and ate our fill, then spent some time in our respective bathrooms learning that cherries also have a lot of fibre!
- I can't speak for this lady, but farming is expensive. There are tons of unnecessary challenges that are expensive to overcome (e.g., no right to repair on John Deere, seeds/genetic lines owned by Monsanto, etc.). Essentially, if I recall correctly most farming operations require tons of subsidies to continue existing. This woman's political beliefs are against her own interests and are terrible, but the money the U.S. gives the farmers is more about our system being broken than problems with the farmers.
  This woman voted against her own interests. If she loses her farm, I won't feel bad for her. I do feel bad for farmers in general, and I don't begrudge them their subsidies in many cases because of the way the system is set up. I think John Oliver has one or two episodes on farming. If you haven't looked into it, I think that's a great place to start.

She sounds pretty dumb. Maybe someone smarter will take over the farm.

There seems to be a huge disconnect between supporting trump and paying attention.
- The real gulf of America.
  
  This got me 😂

Sorry, I would care. But your leader told me that empathy is humanity's biggest weakness.
That said. How the fuck can the richest country in the world have less social security than any country in Europe? How the fuck do you even survive until your 18?
- We’re only the richest country in the world because we have roughly a football-stadium sized number of billionaires and multi-millionaires. The remaining 300+ million of us have largely been brainwashed to believe we need to sacrifice everything to prop them up.

Electing a criminal is such a great idea.

Vote on a compulsive liar and hope all goes well. Fucking idiot.

They get a $400k grant for free (previous years?) and struggle to keep the farm running?
- Indeed. What did they think "welfare" is?
  
  No no no. It’s only welfare if you get it. It’s critical operating capital if they get it.
  
  Single black mothers getting 100 bucks in food stamps a month.

Hopefully her farm does go under. These people are not going to learn until they face the consequences in their daily life. This country will have to tear itself apart before we wake up.
- She will still vote Republican as a bag lady, I'm afraid.

“ThE lEopArDs aTE mY StuPiD, uGLy fAcE!!!”

Why would you vote Trump if youre relying on federal grant money? Its not like he hid the fact tbat he was gonna slash and burn govt programs. People really need to pay the fuck attention to what theyre voting for...jesus christ.
- Imagine someone with totally average intelligence. Then realize 50% of people are dumber than that. Also - they think they are smart.
  
  And this is why trump just turfed the department of education.
- It's clear to me close to half the population stopped thinking after they heard "make America great again".
- Their local media didn't cover any of that. And that's the problem. It's not a case of stupidity or willful ignorance for a lot of them. They don't get their news from cable or online. Just their local reliable broadcaster. Which over the last 20 years has been bought now and replaced with propaganda from companies like Sinclair.
  
  they don't accept sources outside their local news and social circle where they accept everything as truthful and any outsider is automatically untrustworthy. I've run into someone utterly convinced that their local schools were forcing kids to become trans against thier will, because they heard it repeated by thier idiot republican social circle. No evidense required. Instead in thier mind burden of proof is on me for saying that's ridiculous.
  Even when they don't wholeheartedly believe the lies they've been goven they will pretend to for fear of their social circle response.
  
  Well they get “news” online from Facebook I imagine.

Too lazy to actually read the article, but I assume this is a face-eating leopard farm
- but I assume this is a face-eating leopard farm
  In sooo many ways.
  Voted for leopard, leopard's tariffs are screwing her over
  Was awarded a $400,000 grant (under Biden) but now that's frozen, can't get reimbursed.
  Can't hire H-2A visa workers.
  "Nobody wants to work anymore" attitude
  Complaining she had to spend $200,000 of her own money to renovate her house. Claims it's a business expense.
  Can't use taxpayer money to pay her staff and can't stay afloat without government subsidies she would likely deny anyone else.
  The usual "I got mine" attitude and subsequent whining when the consequences of their own actions finally affects them personally.
  
  Did any Trump voters except billionaire Nazis pay attention to what they were voting for? Or was "he's a racist white man who will hurt minorities" actually all they knew and cared about?
  
  Yeah, the nobody wants to work bullshit sticks out here particularly to me.
  Imagine doing backbreaking labor and you come home to not afford a damn thing. There's no way they don't see how expensive it is just to exist, but then snub their fellow Americans who are also trying to put food on the table.
  
  They're talking about waste and I'm paying for her fucking remodel from my blue state coffers? Fuck her business. Freeloading parasite.
  
  And they get a news article written about them for some reason

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on Friday that the department was looking into program to help "mitigate any economic catastrophes that could happen to some of our farmers." Asked whether that would include direct payments, Rollins said, "We're working that out right now."
So they're looking into a mitigation program, they're working out a payment system... now? After annihilating government programs, starting a trade war with everyone and wrecking farmers' prospective income?
Thank goodness the US Govt is now in the hands of such professional, forward-thinking people who care about ordinary Americans and businesses. Such a relief after those radical lunatics who used to run things into the ground!

______ voted for Trump. Now, Trump's decision to _____ will hurt them.
On repeat.
- Put that shit into my veins

Oh no. Anyway.

sympathy for these mother fuckers is counter productive. don't offer it.
especially not if they're so blatantly fucking stupid.

Why would she need a grant for hiring workers when they are about to be deported?
Anyway, dear Leopard, have a nice lunch of faces.

Sorry. Zero fucks given over this idiots sob-story.
Fuck around
Find out <------- they are here
- Yeah. These people don’t even deserve to have their story told. They should just vanish in silence.
  
  No, let them tell their story as a warning for future generations. No one is useless, they can always serve as a bad example.
  
  Hey now, sometimes I can use the momentary boost of hearing these stories.

“I was expecting to see a drastic turnaround for the better for my farm because the Republicans have always been for the American farmer,” said Carlson, a longtime Republican and Trump supporter.
If there's anything good that could come out of the entire Trump situation, it would be finally breaking the illusion and myth that Republicans are good for the economy and Republicans are good for farmers. It's apparent they will try to keep their head in the sand until they nearly suffocate though.
- As you note, they've never been good for either the economy or farmers and that hasn't stopped them yet. I fear very little will change.

Choices and consequences. Hope they learn and I really don't care if they learn the hardest way possible, the family deserves it.
Bunch of welfare queens.

If you're so into republican policies, why not look back through all they've done. Notice a lack of small farms and farmers compared to decades ago?

The leopards are having trouble keeping up with all the faces to eat.
- They wrote project2025 specifically to facilitate eating faces as rapidly as possible. They will get to everyone eventually.
- The Leopards are straight up Type-2 at this point. The survival of the species is in serious doubt.