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Trueblue Texan

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Tue Sep 2, 2025, 09:23 PM Sep 2

This video offers a credible explanation for the apparent... [View all]

deliberate destruction of farmers via tariffs. It's long, but the short take is that tariffs are devastating farmers, the bailouts mostly went to the corporate farms, leaving the little guys in bankruptcy, losing their farms. At 14:46-15:33 in the video a woman says J.D. Vance's venture capital firm Narya is invested in AcreTrader,(an app that basically sells interest in agricultural land, according to Snopes). Then at 16:36-17:23 a woman talks about the ICE activity "being part of a greater land grab."

This is a perspective I've never considered, but the sweeping ICE raids of so many thousands of immigrants that are causing the destruction of so many farmers, makes a lot more sense in that context. Wow. If this is true, farmers really need to wake the f*ck up! We will all starve to death at the rate things are going, but if these policies have been cooked up to deepen the grasp of a fascist regime on the American people, things are much worse than I'd feared. We ALL have to wake up and stop this, Left and Right together.

Check it out:

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