GOP Governor slams Trump for his trade war that is crippling her state: He's 'driving a lot of...

[Soph0571]

....family businesses out of business’

In an interview with Politico, GOP Gov. Kristi Noem (SD) took a shot at President Donald Trump for starting a trade war with China that is devastating farmers in her state.

According to the Republican governor, agriculture is a major part of her state’s economy, and the farmers are hurting with many feeling they will lose their family farms.

“South Dakota has been devastated by the trade wars that are going on,” Noem explained adding that the woes of farmers affect “every main street business, everybody that has another entity out there that relies on a successful ag industry.”

“I have consistently been an advocate for wrapping up these trade discussions and making sure we’re getting access to better markets,” she continued, before adding, “The problem is that this has gone on now for a long period of time.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/gop-governor-slams-trump-trade-war-crippling-state-hes-driving-lot-family-businesses-business/

WTF did she and her ilk expect exactly? They support the idiot that thinks trade wars are a good thing...... and then whine when it bites them in the arse. My sympathy is literally non existent

[Squinch]

1. There was a way you could have avoided this, Kristi, dear.

[empedocles]

3. Guess that Corp Ag, sees this as an investment 'opportunity' at 'favorable prices'

[alwaysinasnit]

5. Yes, you are quite right. Real estate becoming available quite cheaply.

http://www.startribune.com/more-trouble-for-embattled-farmers-in-the-midwest/501667761/

[Hermit-The-Prog]

26. same as with Rotten Ronnie

Lots of family farms went on the auction block for banks and other corporate 'farmers' during Rotten Ronnie's recession in the '80s.

[alwaysinasnit]

29. Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten about that.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

2. Tough shit, Kristi.

South Dakota (disclaimer: My home state) is so fucking ass-backwards now that they'd ban fire for being too progressive if they could.

Your party is shit. Your policies are shit. And you are shit, too.

I might be a little bit bitter since South Dakota replaced a good senator (Tom Daschle) who wrote or co-wrote over 600 bills which became law to help the state with John Thune, who sat his ass in the House for at least four years and did nothing.

My home state sucks.

[kimbutgar]

17. Your state had a brain drain when you left!

[alwaysinasnit]

4. Well said. It's not like 45's shit wasn't known publicly before they "elected" him. I guess they

figured that it was OK that 45 would screw people, so long as it was other people getting the shaft. So yeah, like you, I am out of patience with them.

[Brawndo]

6. tRump won South Dakota by 29.8%, enjoy sleeping in that bed you made

The only problem is the 7.7 billion in taxpayer dollars farmers received to offset the effects of the tariffs. It insulates them from the consequences of their stupidity.

[alwaysinasnit]

30. I noticed your moniker. Would it happened to have been inspired by the movie "Idiocracy?"

[Brawndo]

31. Yes it's from Idiocracy. Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator!

Love that movie, it's a good predictor of where we seem to be headed.

[alwaysinasnit]

32. I think I'll have to watch that movie again. It was funny then, but it might be a bit

gut-churning now especially when considering the parallels in our current society.

[Brawndo]

35. You should watch it again, it was prescient social commentary

I laugh so I don't cry.

[alwaysinasnit]

38. Will do. Thanks.

[BumRushDaShow]

41. Ditto on a 2nd or 3rd watching of that

It is even scarier given it came 13 years ago.

[gratuitous]

7. Well who could have known, Governor?

Imagine! The Leopards Eating People's Faces party has a leopard and it's eating your face. Once again, Trump is hurting the wrong people. I'm thinking that his Republican fanboiz have counted down to just another 10,000 or so chances, and then, THEN! they're going to get darned mad at Trump.

[NNadir]

42. Leopards Eating People's Face Party?

That my friend, is a beautiful locution.

I plan to steal it.

[gratuitous]

43. Go ahead; I stole it, too

Don't quite remember where I swiped it from, but it spoke to me.

[Hulk]

8. He's "YOUR preznit" sweetheart....

...and he sure as hell isn't mine.

Facebook idiots that are friends of a friend of mine have this comeback with "haters are always gonna hate". Just what the fook does that even mean? Ugly, nasty, negative, sour people are always going to be ugly and sour? Maybe. But it sure as hell doesn't mean people who are sick and tired of this lying, treasonous sack of con artist rotten shit are "haters who are always gonna hate".

Reminds me of "that's what you are, what I am" when we were 8 years old.

[Honeycombe8]

9. Like the old ad says, "You asked for it, you got it."

NOW are Republicans beginning to understand that Trump doesn't CARE about the "common people"? He cares about the moneyed class and large corporations. I guarantee his viewpoint of the small farmer would be, "So what? A large corporate agricultural company can pick up that business and do it more efficiently." The common people can make adjustments until they find something else to do for a living.

[cstanleytech]

10. I agree with not having any sympathy for anyone that supported Trump because his past was

well known and so if they are hurting because of what he has done its their own fault.

[world wide wally]

11. It's a good thing that "trade wars are easy to win"

[KY_EnviroGuy]

25. Always reminds me of W's people saying....

"They (Iraqis) will welcome us with parades and flowers".........

[OMGWTF]

12. Hey Gov -- YOU BUILT THIS!

[blueinredohio]

13. Thoughts and prayers.

[DFW]

14. Not only did she and her state get what they voted for

They got what she and her state WILL AGAIN vote for.

So, Governor, shut up and join the beggars at Times Square or in DC on the Capitol Steps during tourist season if you're hungry.

If South Dakota wants different treatment from Washington, no one is stopping them from voting for a party and a candidate who will treat them differently. As long as they continue to vote for Republicans, the people of South Dakota have no business complaining when those Republicans do exactly what they said they would do if elected.

Please note that I am NOT applying this to any Lakota or other native Americans, whose people were there long before the ancestors of these Anglo idiots showed up.

[kimbutgar]

15. The stupid repukes will still vote for the orange maggot in 2020

These morons are so brainwashed in the cult they will blame the Democratic Party and President Obama because Fox and Sinclair will tell them to look over there! Squirrel!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Trump doesn't like dirty farmers. He likes mega corps who over-funded his inaugural. . . . nt

[BHDem53]

18. I didn't vote for no show nOem or spanky.

[JDC]

19. Bootstraps

[NurseJackie]

20. These are VERY HARD lessons to learn. I hope they don't make the same mistake twice...

... ever again.

[UTUSN]

21. K&R

[TxVietVet]

22. We'll, i'm Willing to bet they

Voted for the orange-faced shit gibbon. Let them enjoy his trade war. They can put on their magat hats, head to the town square and profess their love for no good mutha fukka.

[Wounded Bear]

23. Pretty obvious from the start...

that the trade war would force a lot more family farms out of business and forced to sell out to Big AG.

[Hassler]

24. And Republicons talk about the dangers of socialism, when the real threat

Is the GOPutin Party.

[workinclasszero]

27. Enjoy your president SD farmers...thoughts and prayers

South Dakota Presidential Race
Results: Donald J. Trump Wins

BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AUG. 1, 2017, 11:26 AM ET

Donald J. Trump Republican 227,721 61.5%

Hillary Clinton Democrat 117,458 31.7%

https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/south-dakota-president-clinton-trump

[perdita9]

36. Pennsylvania farmers voted for Trump too

I wonder when they going to take down those big Trump/Pence signs they post on the highways

[Ferrets are Cool]

28. And yet, she will vote for a repug for president next election...

they are just fucking stupid.

[SCVDem]

33. Same situation in Wisconsin

700 dairy farms closed last year. JSonline

They don't think they will be the dairy state much longer.

Yet, like South Dakota, they throw their loyalty proudly in everyone's face to incite a response.

Live with your choice!

[perdita9]

34. If you vote the bread out of your own mouth...

...don't expect a lot of sympathy when you're hungry

[roamer65]

37. Noem, go fuck yourself.

You gave 3 electoral votes to the Pedo in Chief, so STFU.

[Takket]

39. ah yes, the GOP mantra: I want you to do horrible things, just not to me.

[roamer65]

40. I really hope we start to do horrible things to Repukes.

They deserve it.

[Takket]

44. prison is a pretty horrible thing..............

[Cha]

45. Good! I love it when gops call

out that freaking Asshole Puppet in our WH.

[ooky]

46. American history books of the future will look back on this time as the era of stupidity.

The awakening of South Dakota that the emperor has no clothes is just the beginning.