Good news Red States

[KS Toronado]

[spooky3]

1. ?

[underpants]

2. I swore off going apple picking years ago

“Oh let’s go apple picking at Carver Mountain!!!”

Me: “Nope. I’m not paying to do migrant farm work”

[oasis]

3. Construction, moving & storage, gardening

housekeeping, child care.
It’s D.Y.I. time for you knuckleheads.

[Grins]

31. More like "on your own knuckleheads!" NM

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. LOL

[piddyprints]

5. When I told my son-in-law that grocery prices would increase

because of the deportations, he said, "One other thing that will increase is jobs." So I asked if he knew anyone who would do those jobs. They're hot and back-breaking and mostly done by Mexicans. And our unemployment rate has been historically low, so it will be harder to fill those jobs. He changed the subject.

One of my first jobs as a teenager was picking, sorting, and packing blueberries for $1.75/hour. That's not as hard as many other agricultural jobs, but it was hard enough!

We are in for a long, hard 4 (or more) years.

[Klarkashton]

9. Years ago there was a bogus push to get citizens

To do the strawberry picking in California.
Those that tried it lasted less than a hour.

[DENVERPOPS]

18. You should have asked your SIL

if he ever saw any san-o-lets, toilet paper, or washing stations in the fields where he and other workers will be working soon to be picking the fruit and vegetables......

That is why they always tell you to wash the Fruits and Vegetables before eating......EColi is extremely un-forgiving.......

[Metaphorical]

28. Detassling Corn In Illinois

I did this as a kid, hot nasty work, and you'd come home with your arms and face cut up from the sharp edges of the corn leaves. It paid squat. I suspect that most people have no clue how hard farmwork can be, and yet they complain about the price of produce.

[IL Dem]

32. I was too short for detassling.

Did walk beans, though, for two summers when I was in high school. It was also hard, hot work.

[KS Toronado]

6. Plus a lot of these probably pay less than $5 being in red states.

[dickthegrouch]

7. And probably has to pay for their substandard lodgings too

[rampartd]

27. it is "piece work"

you might need good eyes and fast hands to pick $5/hor

[Coventina]

8. I don't see anything?

[spooky3]

20. I don't either--on two different browsers. Nt

[KS Toronado]

23. I'll send an email, see if that helps

[KS Toronado]

22. I'll send an email, see if that helps

[Omnipresent]

10. The rich republican farmers and ranchers had it good for decades..

Now it’s time to reap what they sown…by themselves!!

Now get to work, you dumb bunch of Fuckers!!

[Cirsium]

11. A couple of points

Last edited Thu Jan 30, 2025, 04:32 PM - Edit history (2)

Much produce comes from "blue states," Washington, Oregon, and California in particular.

Experienced farm workers here make closer to $20 an hour. Entry level is $9.

Disruptions in the food supply affect everyone, regardless of how they voted.

Paramilitary raids, mass arrests and indefinite detention, denial of due process, Gestapo tactics and horrific abuses have all been going on for 20+ years.

(I was called away. Here are some more observations.)

States don't vote, people do. Millions of Democratic voters live within the boundaries of "red" states. Even in "red" districts 40-49% of voters can often be Democratic voters.

Many immigrant farm workers here have earned citizenship.(They are under pressure). Many are from Europe. (They are not under pressure.) Many ag workers are white and are US citizens.

Here is how it breaks down in my experience:

Hispanic people are being terrorized, no matter where they work and no matter their status. It has nothing to do with immigration, it is white nationalism.

Workers with language skills, math skills, literacy and familiarity with machinery are not field workers, no matter their status or ethnicity

Workers without language skills, math skills, literacy and familiarity with machinery take field work. At one time that was mostly Dust Bowl refugees (think Grapes of Wrath). Today it is mostly immigrants from the South.

[RockCreek]

30. Worth its own posting n/t

[johnnyfins]

12. DEI for poor white supremacists

[Oneironaut]

13. AI image generation needs to be tossed into the sun

[William769]

14. We used to have u-pick farms here in S.W. Florida

not fun.

As to your pick?

[progressoid]

15. This is confusing.

Never mind the horrible unedited AI text and image.

Are we celebrating the fact that corporations use and abuse immigrants for back breaking work?

[KS Toronado]

24. I took it as "OK all you idiots that voted for this, now go picking."

[progressoid]

25. I guess.

But it didn't work when John McCain said it. I doubt it'll work today.

https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/opinion/columns/your-voice/2018/09/02/mccain-knew-that-immigrants-outwork/10864463007/

[usonian]

16. FAFO flags for magats. (they make nice calling cards, too.)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219770873

Lots of them. Added one last night.

[DinahMoeHum]

17. With apologies to Tom Lehrer's song "George Murphy"

Should Americans pick crops? Trump says no,

‘Cause no one but an immigrant would stoop so low,

And after all, even in Egypt, the pharaohs,

Had to import. . . .Hebrew braceros.

[mainer]

19. My son lasted one day raking blueberries

He was a teenager, and he quit because the work was too hard. The Mexicans just kept raking.

[Figarosmom]

21. Nawh, this is why red states

Have child labor, they see closer to the ground and can pick faster. And then they have prison labor for all the taller produce like oranges snd apples.

[OldBaldy1701E]

33. BINGO!

Any slack in farm labor will be subsidized by prisons and child labor law removal. They will force the poor and destitute to do their work because they don't want to part with one cent of their wealth. They expect the poor and destitute to do this because why else are they allowed to live?

And, we will let them do it again. 'No such thing as a caste system in the US' my fat old ass...

[sop]

26. Picking fruits and vegetables can't be as horrible as working in food processing plants.

[Dem4life1234]

29. MAGAts are lazy and obese

They won't do it! Plus they are entitled.