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Mr.WeRP

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Wed Oct 1, 2025, 08:19 AM Oct 2025

Dear American Farmers: Trump Rode You Hard and Put You Away Wet [View all]

Leaked texts on Scott Bessent’s phone suggest the White House got played bailing out Argentina—and U.S. soybean farmers are the casualties

https://fortune.com/2025/09/30/what-happened-soybean-farmers-argentina-china-scott-bessent-phone-texts/

According to a photo of a private text on the phone of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Argentina responded to the treasury secretary’s $20 billion bailout by turning around and removing its export taxes on soybeans and striking a huge new deal with China. That diminished the price of U.S. soybeans and weakened U.S. trade leverage with China, which immediately pulled out of its existing arrangements with soybean farmers in America’s heartland.


That’s right. Trump gave $20 BILLION of your tax dollars to Argentina, which allowed them to reduce their own taxes while making a deal with China that left the American farmers begging for socialist handouts. You fucking suckers and losers keep voting against yourselves.
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