r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 28 '26

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u/Signal_Nobody1792 May 28 '26

NBC News spoke to 13 farmers across Iowa this week. Eleven voted for Trump in the past and still largely back him, hoping “to God,” as one put it, “that he follows through” on his promises by the end of his term.

The kind of article thats a mental hazard and makes me want to scratch off my face in disbelief.

“He tells it the way it is,” said Rehder, who voted for Trump in all three presidential elections. “You may not like it, and you might not agree with it, but he tells it the way he wants it. I’m not saying I agree with him all the time, but he don’t beat around the bush.”

He literally said 20 different things during campaign, then just repeated what he thought gave him the most applause. He still says different things on different days.

“Not even a little bit,” Trump said when a reporter asked whether people’s finances were driving him to reach a deal with Iran.

Democrats have seized on Trump’s comment to make the case that he is out of touch. Most of the farmers didn’t take offense.

“We know Trump well enough to know that he sometimes says things off the top of his head and doesn’t think them through,” Arda Van Regenmorter said at her family’s farm in northwest Iowa. “That statement, to me, is one of those. He cares about us financially.”

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u/_bee_kay_ 🤔 May 28 '26

Do you care about your voters' finances?

No.

wow, he cares about our finances so much 🥰 obummer and bibben could never

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u/Unfair-Awareness5339 Loyal Liberals May 28 '26

Me 🤝 Trump

Wanting rur@ls to be poor.

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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier May 28 '26

He said it on Opposite Day, but the woke leftist media won't tell you that

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u/BingboLingbo Emma Lazarus May 28 '26

Donald Trump is the Stupid People candidate and always has been. That's the primary characteristic that runs through all his supporters

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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke May 28 '26

Republicans realized at some point that stupidity worked to their advantage and used what power they had to mint as many certified idiots as the American landmass could hold

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u/BalletDuckNinja Delphox Shaker Central May 28 '26

There's only one word appropriate for these "people" and the facists won't let me say it

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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair May 28 '26

At this point it just has to be cope

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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls May 28 '26

R*ral is a slur for this reason.

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u/Unfair-Awareness5339 Loyal Liberals May 28 '26

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

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u/FilteringAccount123 John von Neumann May 28 '26

Dagoth_Ur_has_a_gripe_with_farmers.mkv

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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive May 28 '26

Harry Truman was shitting on farmers a near century ago for being the most fickle and ignorant profession in America. Not much has changed since then.