Cattle ranchers are making less money in the US despite beef prices at an all-time high. In the meantime, Trump started importing beef from Argentina to lower beef prices, but only achieved to lower cattle prices.
Cattle ranchers are making less money in the US despite beef prices at an all-time high. In the meantime, Trump started importing beef from Argentina to lower beef prices, but only achieved to lower cattle prices.
One can only hope.
As a Nebraskan, we’re actually on the verge of losing our Blue representation. We’re one of two states that split our electoral vote, one district goes blue and the other two go red. Our governor has had a huge push this last year to change to winner-take-all, which would effectively silence the majority population of the state that lives within the blue district for the Conservative Values of the rest of the State.
It could happen.
They effectively legalized gerrymandering here in Missouri, but the bigger problem is that the Democratic Party here is 100% Schumer/Clinton-esque centrists, which appeal to no one.
We are the cautionary tale against centrism. In 2024 Republicans won every major race. In that same election Missouri voters approved amendments legalizing abortion, mandating a $15 minimum wage, and requiring paid sick leave. If Democrats had run a Mamdani Democrat here, they’d have won big. Instead they ran the same milquetoast, billionaire-loving bedwetters that they always do.
That unique election happening here in deep-red Missouri is why I’m not willing to listen when people just spout prejudices against red states. In 2024 I think it was far more about how much people hated Democrats (and rightly so, after ignoring the affordability crisis) than how much they liked Republicans.
I’m on the left and even I hate dems right now. Maybe the old school ones will die in the next 30 years and we can keep Jasmine Crocket for 50 years instead.
The Dems haven’t been left in a long time. To Europe they are at best center right.
Love the progress you guys have been making down there. We came close to electing an Independent for senator this past year, but we’re also fighting with our Governor and Surgeon General over a medical marijuana bill that passed the overwhelming majority of voters this past year yet they don’t want to support nor acknowledge. Our farmers are feeling the heat from the economic situation. I think if there’s any time to see Nebraska start to shed its fierce loyalty to Husker Red (Husker White isn’t so bad, is it?), we’ll see it happen very soon.
This is why I am, in part, optimistic about Donald losing control of Congress. Between his decision to target legal immigrants (rather than criminal) and his decision to essentially bankrupt American farmers, I expect a reckoning. The shitty thing is that, even if we hand Democrats power, it’s unlikely they’ll do anything meaningful with it. It may be significantly beneficial for the Mamdanis of the country to have an actual check against Donald’s power that, at least performatively, has to support the changes he’s trying to make. (Assuming he tries to do what he promised.)
You can only alienate your coalition so much before you imperil your own power. Just ask Democrats after their constituents told them they wanted affordability and to stop sending WMD’s to a genocide.