r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 14h ago

It turns out you cannot eat pure political rhetoric when the trade war bill comes due.

Nothing screams rugged, independent free-market capitalism quite like begging the government for a multibillion-dollar bailout because your own preferred trade policies vaporized your customer base.

You voted to burn down the global grain market and are now stunned to discover you actually have to live inside the ashes. 
Broad tariff regimes inevitably trigger direct retaliatory duties on domestic agricultural exports, converting thriving family operations into federally dependent welfare cases overnight. Handing out billions in taxpayer-funded stopgap relief does not recover structural export market share; it simply forces the public to subsidize avoidable self-inflicted losses while multi-generational farms fold under the debt. 

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u/PenaltySquare2414 14h ago

It's probably the only time I've hoped that the photo is ai.

But I don't think it is.

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u/Jrylryll 14h ago

It’s not because it’s been part of my collection for 10 years. Here’s another

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u/madbeachrn 13h ago

OMG! I love this so much.

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u/NoHippi3chic 13h ago

My god. This image was the shit heard round the world. Rational people really were full of hubris that these fools were clowning themselves when behind the scenes, a whole machine of tech and politics was identifying a core consumer base to grift and manipulate.

Fucking aye what a time to be alive

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u/RizNP 10h ago

I don’t know what she is laughing at, that guy is a real “smarty pants”.

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u/MobileArtist1371 8h ago

He's wearing a robe cause he left his superior jeans at home.

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 5h ago

Calvin Klein? Jordache? I've no idea what jeans are superior these days. 😉

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u/Jrylryll 5h ago

Bedazzled

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u/EduinBrutus 3h ago

Not AI but photoshop.

The kerning shows that a wider letter has been replaced with the I.