Somewhat hidden in this week’s headlines about the Kleptocrat being roundly booed (and falling asleep) at Game 3 of the NBA finals, him declaring that he “love[s] the inflation” and him getting pissed off that Iran’s not behaving like Republicans in Congress and therefore resuming war crimes was news that America’s farmers are struggling.
He flew to Wisconsin last Friday to rally the racists, where
he had to mock up a “panel” of others so he could sit instead of stand at a
podium. Then he threw a hissy fit when sitting in a mocked-up barn being
interviewed Meet the Press; Kristen Welker kept asking for evidence of his
insane claims about rigged elections past and present, so he ripped off his
mic, stomped on it and then stormed out with a parting, “Thank you, darling.”
During the “panel”, he announced that he’s going to hawk up
another few billions of taxpayer money to help farmers over “the bump” of
tariff-tanked soybean sales to China, climate-change-induced drought and
escalating fuel prices and fertilizer shortages due to the Iran war. He’ll
probably eventually come through with it because the mid-term election is in
five months.
Even so—farm bankruptcies are skyrocketing and so are food
costs for us, the consumers. It’s not a pretty picture.
So my earworm for today is Nanci Griffith’s “Trouble in the Fields”. Sadly, it’s as true today as it was when she wrote it during the farm crisis in 1987.
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