Oh I’m quite confident that they and their monied backers are very interested in the plight of the farmers. When those farmers get knocked out of the market, the big agri corps can buy farms for pennies on the dollar.
This Wisconsin?
Yep. Seems like a Leopard Eating Face moment to me.
In the last two presidential elections, farmers voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump
Sure, leopards eating faces and all that, only these people lack that kind of self awareness. As the leopard is eating their face, they’re sitting there telling themselves that this is simply an honest mistake by an administration that’s trying to do the right thing and would never hurt them on purpose.
why would they? “i have your votes, i dont need you anymore”- trump and the rest of the gop.
ELECTION SUMMARY REPORT Chippewa County, WI General Election - Official Results
Harris/Walz: 14,573
Trump/Vance: 23,399
chippewa falls/county is full of maga crazies.
eau claire county, the main part of the ‘metro’ area up there and second-largest in wi-3, is significantly larger (105k vs 66k) and hasn’t gone republican for president in forty years.
wi-3’s largest county, la crosse, matches that 10 straight elections going democrat.
Minus the 38% of voters who were against it.
that’s only true if all eligible voters voted. not voting is voting. so the actual percentage of voters who were against it is likely lower.
not voting is voting
I like to be more nuanced with ideas like this, because I like to acknowledge the widespread voter disenfranchisement that happens in our country.
If a person could have voted and didn’t, then I agree; they made an active choice and that counts.
If a person is eligible to vote but can’t–maybe their voter registration was wrongfully purged, or they genuinely can’t afford to take time off work, or something else valid I dunno–then that’s not an active choice to not vote and I don’t think “not voting is voting” can be applied.
I agree and obviously exclude disenfranchised voters. still 86 million eligible voters didn’t in the election. while I’m sure there’s a significant slice of the population that’s disenfranchised, there’s no way it’s remotely close to 86 million. The unfortunate truth is that people who sat out won the election. It was that bad.
I like to acknowledge the widespread voter disenfranchisement that happens in our country.
Careful. That’s the kind of thing that’ll get you downvoted to oblivion around here.
You generally don’t deviate from the party line of “Biden and Harris did nothing wrong and would have won if not for the people they actively chose to ignore not falling in line” in @politics without some serious blowback…
why is “Voted" capitalized? being the only capitalized word and the leftmost it almost looks like it should be read from bottom to top. weird choice.
And the Leopards dance the dance electric
Ha ha
