r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 6h ago

so MAGA farmers chased off immigrant farmworkers because Trump said they were taking American jobs, now they can’t find anyone to pick their crops. Funny how the pick-yourselves-up-by-the-bootstraps crowd suddenly needs someone else to do the work

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u/isaiddgooddaysir 6h ago

I can’t believe that these idiots believed that African Americans would be flocking to their farms to pick their crops for slave wages.

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u/West-Discussion7257 5h ago

They are MAGA “make America great again”, they didn’t say when America was at its greatest, to them that may very well be when slavery was legal.

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u/tyler98786 5h ago

I'm pretty sure for most of them it was the 1800s

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u/corvettee01 3h ago

They've asked Trump supporters before and they usually say "Uhhhhhh, I don't know, the 50's or 60's."

They have no fucking clue what they actually want, they just needed an excuse to be racist.

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u/mitchENM 2h ago

The 1850s

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u/Southern-March1522 4h ago

The last time America was great was sometime around 4000bc.

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u/Knubinator 2h ago

An argument could be made for around 1100CE.

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u/Certain_Photograph29 2h ago

maybe in 1491???

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u/Roflmancer 4h ago

It's time to finish what general Sherman started!

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u/External_Music_3927 1h ago

I do believe the current administration would have no problems with slavery. Trump will do anything to avoid paying his workers and stiffs them all the time. He’s notorious for paying as little as possible, if he actually pays them. Slavery would not be such a stretch of the imagination.

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u/veryfungibletoken 4h ago

That's 100% it.

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u/Senior_Torte519 2h ago

I'd say about 1152 A.D. was a peak year for America.

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u/beefncheddar1 5h ago

They’ll just incarcerate more African Americans and use the prisoners as farm labor.

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u/PowerDump_69 5h ago

Let's see how motivated the prisoners are to make every possible bushel by the pound the way migrant workers were, and how many are available, the farmers are fucked and they did it to themselves.

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u/flip69 5h ago

Correction they did it to the entire nation.
We’re all in this lifeboat together and what they and every other red hat has done is done to us all.

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u/Soggy-Beach1403 4h ago

To the entire world. In the long run, third-world nations will have massive starvation and hunger. Republican voters will masturbate to images of that and continue to support the GOP.

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u/flip69 1h ago

Anyone that does that lacks empathy for their fellow human being.. that’s how atrocities happen.

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u/yellowcloak 18m ago

One slight thing Trump has done kinda...sorta...right was to open up more food imports. If my office labor has to compete with foreign workers, why can't a cowboy's?

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u/Waiting4Reccession 2h ago

Will be another bailout coming especially with elections on the horizon.

These guys should be losijg their farms and we should have nationalized farms decades ago instead of nonstop bailouts and subsidies. Probably cheaper by now.

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u/Comet_Cowboys 5h ago

This is how we got diahrea lettuce.

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u/Mastiiffmom 4h ago

That came from GOP regulation slashing. It used to be a requirement to provide Satellite portable toilets and wash stations for farm workers. Not anymore. Just shit on the lettuce & don’t bother washing your hands. We’re good.

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u/MsMarvelsProstate 54m ago

Nah that doesn't get people sick to this scale. Regulations were relaxed so far that farms are watering crops with water that just barely doesn't qualify as sewage water.

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u/sparklynugz 5h ago

where do you think anybody out there shits?

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u/VegetableMethod624 2h ago

Back in the day…right there in the field.

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u/MistakesTasteGreat 4h ago

If we want to eat their lettuce

The bowels is where they'll get us

Diarrhea. Diarrhea.

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u/CaptainDildobrain 1h ago

"That just sounds like slavery with extra steps!"

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u/Successful-Doubt5478 26m ago

First you will pay through your nose for food.. Some of you will starve.

Some farmers will go bankrupt and give away their land.

I am guessing the slave labour shows up when the new landowners are set up.

I hear Vance invested in one of those companies a year or so ago.

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u/SaltyYumYumBalls 5h ago

Eff, that. I didn't get two degrees and a bunch of certs to make less than $150k and have to work outside. My chocolate brown ass is an indoor black man.

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u/External_Music_3927 1h ago

I have two masters in education and have never made more than $42,000 after 23 years of teaching.
That was some time ago, but I hope you can see that $150k sounds like a lot to me.

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u/yellowcloak 17m ago

Christ, I was making about 42k barely outside my internship a decade ago dude...

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u/Quiet_Jury5188 3h ago

Same but a single degree but multiple certs.

What certs do you have?

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u/plaxitone 2h ago

Peppermint and spearmint.

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u/qqererer 1h ago

If picking crops paid $150k, would you get two degrees and a bunch of certs to not pick crops?

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u/Rinzy2000 5h ago

Living in the south, I can believe it. Lol. They would gladly bring back slavery immediately if it were legalized.

It’s just funny to me that we told them it wasn’t gonna happen for under $20/hr and they didn’t believe us.

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u/TwinkieDad 5h ago

$20/hr is literally fast food minimum wage in California. No one with legal status is going out in the Central Valley to pick for a measly $20/hr when they could work at Subway instead. And remember, CA is the number one agriculture state in the country.

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u/Glum_Base_9112 28m ago

and that is why the state is blocking ice as much as it can but these maga farmers against the democratic governor protecting their interest. what was that saying about the tree and the axe?

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u/Karenandfran 3h ago

You nailed it!

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u/FeliusSeptimus 3h ago

They would gladly bring back slavery immediately if it were legalized.

It is legal, just have to convict them of something first.

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u/Rinzy2000 1h ago

Big fact. The prison industrial complex and its use of slave labor is a subject that we could discuss for days. Especially with the government privatizing prisons. This country is shameful.

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u/PsychologicalWear846 3h ago

According to FOX News teenagers are supposed to pick vegetables during summer break. Who's going to pick the spring and summer harvests? Who's going to pick the winter harvest like citruses, lettuce, broccoli, etc.? They're completely detached from reality.

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u/wholewheatscythe 2m ago

Are these teenagers from the same parents who won’t let their kids play outside on their own? Suddenly those same kids will be sent to a farm to pick crops? Lol.

Naturally, they expect someone else’s kids would be doing the work, not their precious kids.

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u/GpaSags 3h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oz8xTl6sGKbuRPDDW

"When you was slaves, you sang like birds!"

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u/MuckRaker83 5h ago

They believe it is the "natural order of things" so of course they did

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u/dr150 4h ago

Fruits and vegetable doesn't affect MAGA. They know what they're doing with their 5D Chess......They eat chips and pasta for their nutrition.

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u/Equal_Refuse_4591 4h ago

They believe whatever their right wing propaganda source of choice tells them, like good little bootlickers

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u/rocketblue11 4h ago

No joke, I’m sure this is what Trump means when he refers to, “black jobs.”

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u/PorchFolder 4h ago

Seeing crops rot in the fields because of political games seems like utter madness. The economic consequences of such decisions always hit ordinary people the hardest. Relying on cheap labor without a real plan was the height of foolishness.

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake 2h ago

It's fine, they'll just learn that they have to raise the wages.

And food will return to the prices it should have rather than something cheap that people don't think much of when they waste it.

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u/Independent-Hurry618 5h ago

I'm sorry - what? Where was this said?

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u/ShockOld4312 4h ago

That will be their next step. They will take away regular working rights from certain groups and force them onto their farms, making them work for pennies or even nothing at all.

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u/IThinkItsAverage 4h ago

Really? I can believe it. In fact, I’m waiting for them to try and revoke the civil rights act so they can go back to slavery. At this point us Americans need a kick in the ass to finally get up and do something about this.

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u/Boaerotica 2h ago

I know right?? Crazy 😂🤦🏾‍♂️

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u/mobydog 1h ago

I think someone told them that they were going to force all the slacking Medicaid recipients (of which there are virtually none) to get jobs and this kind of shitty work would be right in line for those workers.

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u/Dapper-Two-3072 46m ago

We’re working real jobs, we are not a part of this equation, that’s why immigrants were doing it. MAGA was complaining about jobs they should go in the fields.