Farm Fail and Getting Wired
Sack Classics—-Farmer Bailouts
Farmers love Donald Trump, and Donald Trump loves farmers. They see him as a hero, while he sees them as a bumper crop of bamboozlable bumpkins. The same crowd that got so upset at the idea of student loan forgiveness has no problem becoming its own type of welfare queen.
When the Tangerine Toddler’s tariff tantrum began, it wasn’t Wall Street or the big importers who paid the price—it was farmers. The people who actually grow things. Decades of carefully built export relationships were wiped out in a matter of weeks, crops piling up in storage like unsent letters, and commodity prices sagged. So Dementia Don rolled out a massive bailout, not because things were going well, but because the damage was that severe. And now, to no one’s surprise, Trump points to that bailout as proof of how much he “helped” farmers—as though the arsonist deserves applause for handing out fire extinguishers. It’s the same old routine: break something in broad daylight, then demand a medal for showing up to admire the wreckage.
It’s not just crop prices affected, but farm equipment manufacturers. The sticker shock on a new tractor is gonna hurt.
Sadly, for some, the bailouts were too late….
Farm bankruptcies continue to climb in 2025—an entirely predictable result when farmers were hit with collapsing prices, soaring costs, and export markets blown apart by retaliatory tariffs. After decades of building reliable buyers, they watched those markets vanish overnight, and now many are closing their gates for the last time because of a mess they didn’t create.
MAGA!
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Fun Art #19—-Wire Art
“Those Eyes, Those Lips…”, wire, 18x8”
A few years ago, I found myself wandering through the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and I stumbled upon an exhibit of Alexander Calder’s wire sculptures. I was immediately taken by how playful and whimsical they were, and I decided I’d give it a shot myself. I picked up a spool of heavy-duty copper wire and, with just a pair of needle-nose pliers, started bending it into all sorts of fun shapes. After spray-painting the finished pieces black and adding a few touches of paper, I mounted them about half an inch from the wall so they cast subtle shadows.
“Placid Puss”, wire, 36x26” • ”Tatt-Man”, wire, 25x20”
“The Smooch”, wire, 36x11” • ”Sunny”, wire, 50x50”
Over time, my wire pieces got weirder and more abstract—I’ll share some of those in a future post!
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So the farmers' bailout is being financed by the tariffs, like those on the essential Canadian potash that those same farmers will be paying more for as a result. Sort of like masturbation, huh? BTW - small farm bankruptcies make it easier for the billionaire-owned agri-conglomerates to buy up at Going-Out-of-Business prices.
Liked it all. Especially the wire art!!