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White farmers are getting a taste of their own medicine
The Nation ^ | Dec 12, 2025 | Kali Holloway

Posted on 12/12/2025 9:39:16 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

Trump’s tariffs and immigration raids are driving the latest farm crisis. White farmers have stood by him year after year—and still do.

On Monday, Donald Trump announced that his administration will give farmers a $12 billion bailout—a tacit admission that his trade policies suck. Farmers have spent much of the last year complaining about rising production costs, falling crop prices and the loss of multiple markets due to Trump’s tariffs and the trade wars they have launched. All in all, farmers are projected to lose roughly $44 billion in profits this year, in large part because of Trump administration policies. Caleb Ragland, president of the American Soybean Association, has called Trump’s trade tariffs an “artificial barrier” to American farmers’ success—essentially, a man-made farming crisis.

“Most of the Black farmers in this country voted for Kamala Harris. I endorsed Harris publicly,” John Boyd Jr., the founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, told me. “White farmers—99.9 percent voted Trump.”.....

It’s true that farming is hard. Every farmer must contend with bad weather, unpredictable crop prices, surging inflation—and, under this president, tariffs. But only Black farmers must struggle against a Department of Agriculture that stands against them.

“We love our farmers,” Trump said at the same White House event where he announced the bailout, per NPR. “And as you know, the farmers like me, because, you know, based on, based on voting trends, you could call it voting trends or anything else.”

That’s certainly true for white farmers. And with the latest payout, looks like that won’t be changing anytime soon.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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Kali Holloway is a columnist for The Nation and the former director of the Make It Right Project, a national campaign to take down Confederate monuments and tell the truth about history. Her writing has appeared in Salon, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Time, AlterNet, Truthdig, The Huffington Post, The National Memo, Jezebel, Raw Story, and numerous other outlets.Kali Holloway is a columnist for The Nation and the former director of the Make It Right Project, a national campaign to take down Confederate monuments and tell the truth about history. Her writing has appeared in Salon, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, Time, AlterNet, Truthdig, The Huffington Post, The National Memo, Jezebel, Raw Story, and numerous other outlets.

When Obama was elected I initially consoled myself saying at now we can get this race baiting mindset behind us, unfortunately Rush was right when he predicted that Obama would make it worse.

1 posted on 12/12/2025 9:39:16 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
"campaign to take down Confederate monuments and tell the truth about history."
2 posted on 12/12/2025 9:41:27 PM PST by Bikkuri
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

She sounds racist.


3 posted on 12/12/2025 9:43:19 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (I have nro answers. Only questions.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She IS racist.


4 posted on 12/12/2025 9:45:41 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: No name given

>> She IS racist

Yup. She’s brown, and we’re... fragile.


5 posted on 12/12/2025 9:56:30 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

OK. Big farmers, corporations, things like that are hurting. The American family farm isn’t hurting any more than they normally are. As a matter of fact, they’ll probably be doing better because prices will raise.


6 posted on 12/12/2025 9:58:55 PM PST by vpintheak (The left is violence.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

AND she votes.


7 posted on 12/12/2025 10:44:07 PM PST by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower)
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To: Bikkuri
A Democrat/leftist removing their history perhaps? Ms. Holloway sounds in need of a friend, a companion to spend a few enjoyable hours with every day. Like getting l**d. Pardon me for saying so.
8 posted on 12/12/2025 10:44:46 PM PST by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Under Trump’s tariff pressure the Chinese are again buying US soybeans in quantities similar to before Trump imposed the tariffs. Trump has exerted the same tariff leverage on other countries showing he means business with tariffs and has gotten huge concessions from those countries resulting in opening markets in those countries to US goods and billions of dollars of foreign investment in this country. All of the dire predictions of Trump’s tariffs tanking the US economy have been proven false.

Sadly US agriculture has grown so accustomed to government bailouts that is a way of life. My brother in law used to tease his wealthy farmer cousins saying the only equipment a farmer needed was a free seed corn hat so their head didn’t get sunburned on the way to their mailbox to pick up their government checks.


9 posted on 12/12/2025 11:11:25 PM PST by The Great RJ
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To: jmacusa
> Ms. Holloway sounds in need of a friend, a companion to spend a few enjoyable hours with every day. Like getting l**d.

I imagine her options for humans are rather unappealing considering they're all liberals. In the absence of a friend, she can readily find a suitable "companion" in the form of a battery-powered rubber novelty, down at the local dirty bookstore.

10 posted on 12/12/2025 11:11:28 PM PST by dayglored (This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
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I’m inclined to agree. Or MS Holloway Ca just go o jail and become some big bad black girls girl friend.


11 posted on 12/12/2025 11:21:13 PM PST by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Who writes this nasty stuff and more importantly why is it posted here?


12 posted on 12/12/2025 11:29:25 PM PST by madison10 ("...the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty." Psalm 74:20b [NKJV])
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The lack of slave labor lead to innovation in the north which allowed northern farmers to vastly outproduce southern farmers, including in cotton and the other agricultural products that were the cornerstone of the southern economy - one of a number of reasons the South was doomed to fail.

Relying on low-paid illegal workers is along the same lines - the Left cares only about narratives. Not the well being of anyone. They exploit the vulnerable. The Somali situation is just the latest example. Some Somalis have blown the whistle that systemically they were prevented from assimilating and becoming productive residents/citizens and were encouraged to exploit government assistance programs. Now they are generationally locked in this pattern culturally - intentionally destroyed economically, educationally, etc. to create a powerbase for the Left to exploit and use.


13 posted on 12/12/2025 11:32:21 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Grok:

In summary, yes, The Nation is strongly left-leaning and highly critical of Trump—what could reasonably be called “Trump-hating” in its editorial stance.....

14 posted on 12/13/2025 12:20:15 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Republican Wildcat

A news reporter (female) asked a Minnesota mayor, “How has America failed in allowing such illegal activities?”

(Good grief)!

:-/


15 posted on 12/13/2025 12:55:32 AM PST by Does so (☞GOP should fund a new party. Call it the "Muslim Party", to track it.....Dem☭¢rat ∅ ™ ½¼)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

falling crop prices
________________

The complained about expensive food.

Now they complain that the food is too cheap.
Cannot satisfy them. TDS


16 posted on 12/13/2025 1:42:03 AM PST by AZJeep (sane )
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To: jmacusa

when obama was in what did he do for the black farmers? there ya go, but its trumps fault for playing politics


17 posted on 12/13/2025 2:06:17 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“But only Black farmers must struggle against a Department of Agriculture that stands against them.”

Besides the anti Trump, anti tariff and anti white theme of the article, this pull quote is the reason the Marxist wrote the article. Black farmers are worse off. Recall the Obama’s Pigford settlement? Billions for fake black farmers.


18 posted on 12/13/2025 2:50:36 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Sounds like Kali should round up some of her ‘hood kin and grab those farm jobs that Trump’s policies have opened up to legal citizens that need to get off welfare - I mean find jobs.


19 posted on 12/13/2025 3:25:21 AM PST by Semper Vigilantis (Always remember - the cold war was US against a bunch of countries with 'Democratic' in their name.)
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To: madison10
Who writes this nasty stuff and more importantly why is it posted here?

Know your enemy.

20 posted on 12/13/2025 3:26:34 AM PST by Semper Vigilantis (Always remember - the cold war was US against a bunch of countries with 'Democratic' in their name.)
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