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Online Poll Of Farmers Shows More Than Half Of Farmers Are Against Trump's Tariffs. [1]

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Date: 2025-03-26

A site called AgWeb recently performed an online poll with 3000 farmers, and it found that a majority of farmers say they think that Trump’s tariffs should NOT be used as a negotiationg tool. Fifty-four percent said “NO” to Trump’s tariffs as a negotiating tool, while 41% were all in on this dumb idea. When asked if farmers will be compensated by the USDA for their losses to tariffs, 36% said, “NO,” while 34% said, “YES.” The rest of the respondents were unsure.

Now, AgWeb did list three more in depth responses from the farmers in this poll. And as usual, there are generally two types of responses from farmers. The first is still, “YEEEEHAW! You Go Get ‘Em Donald Trump!” The second response is, “Lord, this is a terrible idea and will bring nothing but financial pain for farmers, but please don’t ask us to say anything bad about Donald Trump DIRECTLY!”

First response:

This is from, what for it, Bubba Horowitz of Bubba’s Trading.

“I think it’s a great tool to use,” Horwitz said on “AgriTalk.” “I think you’ve seen it with Canada and Mexico to get things that he wanted to get done. And certainly, you can bargain with those tariffs, you can do whatever you want. I think it’s a great negotiating tool, and it certainly can put pressure because remember one thing, the United States of America could stand alone. We could be an island without anybody. We don’t need anybody else to survive, whereas other countries and nations do need us to survive. We could be totally an island and exist perfectly well without the help of any other country in the world.”

Emphasis is mine on the stupidity running amok in that statement.

Bubba is a raging imbecile. Obviously, he has not paid any attention to the last 50 years of fuckin’ globalization. America is too integrated into the world economy to “go it alone.” But Bubba’s thinking is in line with MAGA cultists. They want to dominate and dictate to everyone.

Second response:

From Michele Jones, a fourth generation farmer, in central Montana.

“No, definitely not,” Jones said. “I don’t think that tariffs are an effective negotiation strategy, and I also don’t think that we’re truly being surgical in how we are applying them.”...“They were also very short-term whereas now, we’re just using them as basically a blanket approach and then escalating when the president gets angry, and then he rolls them back, and it creates too much uncertainty. It’s just not wildly effective,” Jones also said on “AgriTalk.”

And from April Hemmes, an Iowa farmer.

“I agree, they were used before the Phase One deal with China, and they were never dealt with under the Biden administration either,” added April Hemmes, an Iowa farmer, who was also on “AgriTalk” last week. “Now all we’ve done is piss off our neighbors with this, the Canadians, bringing Canada and Mexico into it. And now all consumers are going to have to pay up, not just the farmers.”

Notice that neither directly says that Trump is stupid and unstable. The second response attacks the policy but not the dumbo behind the policy, except that one farmer adds that Trump gets angry and escalates the trade war. It’s like, “We know he is an angry guy, and we expect that out of him.” It’s factored into the conversation. And Hemmes has all of “us” pissing off Canada and Mexico.

It ain’t the rest of “us” doing that. It’s the fucking demented lunatic in the White House named Donald Trump who is pissing off Canada and Mexico. I take no responsiblity for Trump because I didn’t vote for that mofo.

I know people will react with a shrug of their shoulders because this is an online poll, and there are always problems with online polling. However, it might be the first bit of data that indicates Trump’s tariffs are not godsends to all farmers. Yes, they knew this was coming from the last time Trump did this to China. But most farmers are in the MAGA cult, and they just couldn’t accept that their leader would fuck them over. Again.

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