A Missouri cattle farmer is facing financial ruin after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) froze funding for key conservation programs, despite previously signed contracts with the government.
The freeze, part of the Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of spending programs, has left Skylar Holden, a first-generation farmer, scrambling to save his land.
Holden, who voted for President Donald Trump, had signed a $240,000 contract with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to improve water lines, fencing, and wells on his farm.
“Local small business owner utterly fails to do due dilliegence, dooms business, country.”
I bet he had plenty of time for Fox News.
Holden defended his thought process in trusting the quiz and voting for Trump, explaining that his 17-hour workdays leave little time for political research.
If he’s working 17 hours a day 7 days a week, he’s farming wrong.
Even if he is, it is not mind occupying work out there. I grew up in farm country. He had a radio on, how much you want to bet it was tuned to the local conservative talk radio constantly?
Leopard don’t care. Om nom nom.
Holden admitted that he relied on a 25-question online quiz to tell him how to vote
This shit is why stuff like Free Software and the Fediverse matters. Who made that quiz? Was it propaganda? How’d he run across it? Was it pushed at him by a proprietary social media algorithm?
The oligarchs are using technology to stack the playing field against democracy. It must be forcibly leveled again, at all costs.
This isn’t an issue of simple individual responsibility. There’s an entire conspiracy behind exploiting these idiots.
Probably on FB, so you can imagine.
There’s an entire conspiracy behind exploiting these idiots.
there’s a certain type of person that feels their ignorance is as valid as someone else’s educated knowledge, so even when we point out to them that they’re being taken, they only hear they’re being called rubes… and double down on whatever grift is draining their pocketbooks.
it’s famously worked nearly flawlessly for religion for all of human history.
Yeah there was only the year+ of his initial campaign, and his first 4 years in office, and 4 years after it to discuss and study that, almost all of which Trump spent campaigning in some way or another. Better go with the guy half the country says will be an economy wrecking fascist (and established traitor, racist, and child rapist).
Genuinely, I have absolutely zero sympathy for idiotic fucks like that.
If you didn’t have time to research then you didn’t have time to vote.
Right?
He’s full of shit anyway. If his life wasn’t going down the shitter he’d be all-in. He’ll probably still be all-in voting red down ticket in November. As long as they hurt everybody else it’s cool just don’t hurt me.
Research needed on a second term president?
If you take Trump at his word on the 2020 elections, then it would be his third term. Which, ya’ know, is illegal.
“Then you were a terrible captain but a captain nonetheless!”
Naww… he was always a sociopathic narcissist. He has only ever been president in name
If he has a ‘contract’ with the Government then what’s he worrying about? Surely they’re good for the money?
If not then can’t he just go after Trump for $1 billion dollars for being a ‘mean guy, a stupid guy’? Cough, cough…
And Missouri will still be R+18 in 2028
I wish we’d go back to being a swing state…
Until enough of the voters in Missouri learn the hard way they will always be suckers
Missouri isn’t known for “learning” lol
Well the good news is he should have plenty of time to research for the next election once he loses everything
