Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, Endorsed by Trump as a “MAGA Warrior” says President Trump's push to bring in more foreign beef is hurting US ranchers and could cost Republicans some midterm elections. Miller calls for mandatory country-of-origin labeling for beef on Balance of Power.
When asked if he’d vote for someone else, he stumbled over the answer and certainly didn’t sound convincing. Even when this is hurting him and his fellow ranchers, it still doesn’t seem like enough for him to regret his vote. They’re feeling the consequences, but still holding onto that vote for dear life.
Imagine throwing away farmland that has been in your family and kept them and your community fed for generations and you decided to throw it away to some corporate overlord who won't give two shits about it and place a data center smack dab in the middle all because you were too proud to admit you fucked up. Let them lose their farms.
It’s no longer about what’s best for the country; it’s about being too insecure to take responsibility for your actions and bullying as a way of overcompensating.
Agreed. After the things said from that side of the aisle, if they lose their farms, so be it.
Agreed. F this guy and everyone like him that voted for a convicted felon, rapist, pedo, low IQ, spoiled ass bully who isn't fit to lead a casino let alone the USA.
I get that people were upset that Biden threw the doors open on our borders, me too, but that could be handled much, much better than is ICE is doing.
Let's not forget about alienating neighbors, allies and cuddling up to the billionaires, Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping, and doing Israel's bidding.
Reap what you sow Mr Farmer and think twice next time you're in the voting booth!
I was at that point on a certain night in November, 2024. if bringing in foreign beef will knock the Republic*nts out of power at the Midterms, I say bring it. most folks around here are lucky if they can afford a lousy 2lbs of ground beef a week. it's not going to hurt my feelings to do without cow meat for the forseeable future. I'm past caring if I sound petty.
Besides this guy and very few others I honestly haven’t seen or heard any of them regretting anything. Last night I scrolled into a TikTok live where that was one of the questions and there was a lot of “I would vote for him again I stand ten toes down with him”. I don’t think there’s anything he could do at this point to make them turn against him.
He would vote for again. Even if he promised to take his farm away, deport his wife, imprison his children. Because to vote for a democrat is worse than voting for the devil himself.
Living in Texas now as a Massachusetts native you are 🎯🎯🎯🎯
I see it all the time down here. There are people in Texas who would vote for Satan before voting for a Democrat. It's pretty wild to see the near Psychosis the GOP has people in in Texas. As a party they have a death grip on the state.
I'm hoping this will finally be the cycle that grip is broken.
That’s the result of 50 years of propaganda. Started after Nixon resigned because he was going to be impeached. Roger Ailes and a bunch of hard core fascist Repubes got together to create a media ecosphere that would never allow that to happen to a Repube again. Thus Faux Nooze was born. Then Sinclair started scooping up the AM radio stations and turning them to hate radio. Their whole grift was to convince people that their media bubble was “the only one” all others were “librul” and only they were “fair and balanced”. It was all propaganda. Then after the Soviet Union fell, the Fucking Russians realized there was a way to undermine the west much cheaper than a big war machine, they started feeding propaganda to the Right wing news bubble. They created the troll farms, the bots. Then they paid influencers that were spewing the messages they liked. That one was probably their masterpiece. They didn’t have to feed the propaganda, it had taken root. They just kept feeding the influencers money for the messaging. They didn’t have to shape it, the influencers were already doing their work. They just paid them to keep going. Now we’ve had 50 years of this demonization of the opposition and division of the western electorate. The good news is studies have shown that if you diversify the sheeple’s media diet, they become more rational and sane. The bad news is that Faux is like a drug, and they’ll likely just go back to it and revert to being fascist assholes.
Ummm, pretty sure the orange pedo blob annexed hell long before he took over Dumbfukistan. He is the devil's dark overlord and shit in hell got exponentially worse since he dethroned the devil.
Maybe that stench that reportedly follows him wherever he goes isn't a just a poopy diaper, maybe the stench is his human suit leaking and the sulfuric miasma of hell is wafting out around him
Yup FFFF ‘em and feed ‘em beans!! These people are so stupid literally vote for the team that constantly screws farmers over every single time a republican gets prez they all have money woes yet when there’s a demo in charge you don’t hear hardly anything from them!!!
Ya lose your land and everything that’s on yall as yall are gluttons for punishment and I no longer give two ffff’s because they’ve constantly keep repeating this!!
They think they’re owning the libs, all the while, they’re being owned by the same party they supported. Meanwhile libs aren’t feeling owned, because we’re too busy laughing at their dumb asses. 🙄😂
That happened 2 miles down the road from me. A pretty good sized dairy farm and acres of of hay and alfalfa long before the 20 years I moved here.
Now it's a massive googley data center and the other acres built a shit ton of empty industrial concrete buildings (perfect for detention centers) sitting all around the area.
It's been depressing to watch happen over the years and I feel bad for the new neighborhood that was built years before googley moved into the other half of the block sized farm field. But, I guarantee that the farmer and family who owned the land is sitting quite comfortably, retired, and sipping iced teas.
They constantly vote for their hangman, but when they lose, we all lose. Their farms are foreclosed and bought by corporations who drive up prices, drive down quality, and lobby against regulations that stop them from poisoning us. All so they don't have to vote for a Democrat.
The one silver lining out of all this is that Texas does NOT have the grid to be able to sustain the energy demands needed by all the data centers. They submitted a request for 478GW usage and Texas had to turn them down instantly and immediately put a hold on any more being built because Texas' grid can only handle 85-91GW at most.
These dummies thought using 5x that amount is completely fine and got turned down instantly when making the proposal. My bet is they also knew this going in but decided to lie in their #s. My guess is that they're likely way closer to the 550-600GW range that they'll be needing.
So at least for now, we won't be getting any more data centers up and running. However, that won't stop them from still likely buying up all that farmland to start building solar farms or preparing for when the grid gets upgraded fully and they start building data centers by the masses.
Yep then you have those people who are like, instead of making fun of them, we should educate them and be all nice to them yadda yadda. Fuck that, imma laugh at their faces, no sympathies from me. There's no need for pacifism with those idiots.
This. We spent a decade warning them, trying to teach them, leading them to water. The horse chose not to drink. Is it sad? Sure. Am I gonna lose sleep over it? Nah. I did all I could. Something something economic darwinism. This is what they voted for 3×.
Aaaand…when democrats take over both houses this fall, and there’s a democratic president voted in in 2028, and they start to fix the issues affecting the farmers and rural America they’ll scream and resist and want things to remain broken. They will not want their leopard eaten faces to heal.
Psshh pls. They're SOMEHOW still gonna say it was trump all along that made murica great again. We continually underestimate their stupidity 😭 It's genuinely hard to feel optimistic
The understanding that some of the awful parts of the ‘big beautiful bill’ don’t take effect till after the midterms so that the democrats will be blamed.
Its not sad. They deserve it. They chose to vote for a racist pig who screwed over their country once before. If theres anyone that deserve it its them.
Yup existential sadness, ty for giving me this word, coz it's exactly how i feel. No sympathy for those idiots, but I'm sad for the world type of thing
Learning requires recognizing that you don’t know something or were misinformed previously. Admiting you don’t know something is viewed as weak. It’s why Trump claims to be an expert at everything
This. The reason he stumbled over his answer about voting is the right wing political-media complex had spent the last 25 years telling them the Democrats are godless enemies of the country bent on taking their guns and turning their kids gay. Many conservatives believe in their heart that's true and they only have one choice.
That gut punch I felt that following November morning and the weeks that followed, as these dipshits were “owning the libs” parading around town as if their team had won the Super Bowl, the one thing I clung to in order to get me through the rest of 2025 and into the T.2 admin was my decision that I would turn my empathy switch off and actually derive some sort of morbid satisfaction from the incoming consequences they had no fucking clue were going to hit them in the face.
“I thought he’d deport the other people, not my husband/wife” … “I lost my Medicare coverage and I can’t afford anything” … “My crops are rotting in my field because my usual buyers are retaliating against tariffs and decided to buy elsewhere”
So yeah, I have zero sympathy to spare on these farmers and ranchers.
Buddy I work with a lot of them I tried nice and educating and all that jazz and I was told I was exaggerating or overreacting and that trump said he had nothing to do with that yadda yadda yadda. You can’t inform people who dropped out of tenth grade because “that was enough education for them” you can’t convince someone who’s against abortion because “that just makes it harder to adopt” these people only momentarily have a second of recognition when it personally affects them and if you blink you’ll miss it. It isn’t long lasting it just changes what they complain about that day. I used to be optimistic I really did but the “facts don’t care about your feelings” crowd is only interested in THEIR own feelings and zero contradicting facts. I’m pretty tired of being told to extend an olive branch to people who swat it down and set it on fire repeatedly. My trees looking pretty bare at this point and I don’t think they can survive any more pruning. Focus on the people you’re close to, try to build community where you can, but the only overlap of beliefs I’ve seen as of late is everyone hates flock. Outside of that I don’t see much of a path forward. Good luck, godspeed, and if necessary good hunting
This. These people are fucking pathetic, complete morons, and totally malevolent. They don’t deserve anyone’s sympathy, they should be fucking shamed out of existence. These people need to be totally ostracized for the rest of their lives. We are all paying the price for their insane self destruction death pact.
Nice to see them ask that follow up question. Not enough interviewers do, and frankly all of them should. Make those people put the words in their mouth, see how it feels.
Agreed, these people will let Trump piss down their backs, tell them it’s just raining and they’ll still vote for the same people that enabled him to do it.
Watching videos of those idiots saying they’d never vote Dem now bc people having been calling them out for hanging on to their votes and how we all knew Trump would sell them out from the beginning.
They want all the evil that comes with him, just not the part that affects them.
Every Republican I talk to bitches about Trump but will vote straight GOP ticket. When pushed about voting for GOP just emboldened him and doesn't rain him. Black dead I have nothing stares. That's the problem. They are to dumb to figure it out.
Exactly. He clearly states "We may lose some midterm elections over this". By 'we' I assume he means the Republican party. Even though he's getting royally screwed, apparently it's not hard enough for him to change his vote. Complete awareness failure.
Their one weakness is the one they know non republicans will never exploit: they are all in small population states. If a sea of non republicans moved here and actually saw what these places have to offer and build on it, they could overturn the power in balance.
Want to change the electoral college? Get ten republicans senators. Wyoming only has 700,000 residents total. Cody is amazing. Thermopolis would be a hippie tourist attraction in Arizona.
The land has always been beautiful. It’s only recent that it has been terrorized.
Because they like money and authority more than what's best for their peers, they love Trump's authorian style and how he puts down brown people, they'll always tolerate that over economic concerns.
That's because it's a cult people like him are genuinely suffering but there cult level admiration and support for Trump is conflicting with their suffering
Bingo...and 8-10 years ago, I used to feel bad for these folks, but after 3x voting for Trump, not anymore. They're only complaining because the problem/damage is affecting them (they don't care what happens to others, and want goodies for themselves too), plus they're all just going to vote Republican anyway, to their own peril.
So I'm done feeling empathy for them. Cut them off. Cut the subsidies, cut the special rural healthcare funding, cut ACA/Medicaid to deep red states etc. I want out; they don't like "socialism" anyway, so win win.
This right here. Every time some farmer acts like this the election comes along and they will justify it in some way while spouting of some propaganda.
Best case scenario some of these farmers stay home but they love fucking themselves over and losing the family farm so who knows.
They see it as voting to kill babies or voting to destroy their livelihoods, they might choose none of the above, but they really do see it as voting to kill babies.
That may be true, but they have no problem cutting those babies off from life saving fiscal support.
I'll never believe a person who says they're "pro life" if their concern/fiscal support ends after delivery. They're pro-birth. Birthers are not pro-life. Regardless of how they see themselves. You cannot be pro life if you're okay with starving babies to death or mothers dying preventably during forced childbirth. They see that other thing as voting to kill babies, but not their current vote. It makes no sense.
This whole presidency has been watching various constituent groups fuck around and find out. Gen Z men, Latinos, Farmers. He doesn't need their vote anymore. He no longer even has to appear to consider their interests. Who's next? The Olds? His only loyalty is to himself. He is gutting our government from within.
I keep saying this over and over but this same exact shit happened during his first term I don't understand why this isn't talking point number 1. Ag tarriffs, down profits, farmers cry, subsidies. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Last time they got upset and he sent them millions of dollars. They think he’ll do it again, that’s part of the reason they’re complaining. But I think he’s going to keep the money for himself.
Best we can hope for I think is that they stay home for an election or two, and that some of them stop funding GOP campaigns for a whole. And maybe in this environment that’s enough for now?
Ill believe these threats when they actually start telling members and the public to vote for dems in specific races. This is just a weak messaging effort to try to convince donald to reverse course. But trump knows it’s bs and they’ll vote for him if they just shout “trans mexicans” a bunch on fox news in october.
You see his reaction to "do you think he's losing support if thr farmers"?
Basically like "whoa whoa let's not be too hasty!" Lmao.
They really have made "being republican" such a core part of their identity that voting otherwise is gouging their own flesh or something to them.
It’s insane. “Well Joe, Trump has absolutely humiliated these farmers, he’s bankrupted them and now he’s cutting their market out from under them and they are this close to not still voting for him. Many of them have lost their farms!”
Came to say this lol. So much for “keep government out of my business”. You just can’t make this shit up, how did we get to a place where so many Americans are so fucking stupid.
We've destroyed so many nice things in our country because the wrong people are enjoying it. Most Americans would rather be miserable if it means the out group is also miserable than be happy while the out group is happy.
Not just private equity - but Jd Vance. This is a part of project 2025. And Vance’s acre trader or whatever it’s called is doing well. This is all by design. So now our farmland is going to be owned by technofascists. All around - it’s not good.
“We may lose the mid-term elections over this” ~ Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller
He admits that lack of country of origin labeling will hurt the 🇺🇸farmer/rancher and the practice is deceiving the 🇺🇸consumer. Imported beef from 20 foreign countries. 🫢😂
But still considers himself a supporter of the Republican party…
These 🤡s have only themselves to blame.
Lack of country of origin won’t hurt the American rancher. Americans are very quick to say that they “will happily pay more more American products produced by Americans”, until they have to open their own wallets.
The average American will always choose the cheapest possible option, regardless of why it comes from.
Why? What would that do? Make our food supply safer? AAAAAHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!! That ship has sailed, mister! FAFO!
Oh, well. In other news, here's a recipe for 3 bean chili. No expensive, potentially unsafe or diseased ground beef (or horse) is required to make this delicious dinner.
Texas ranchers, and any others who believed the bull$hit coming from the orange analmouth deserve to lose billions and their cattle and farms. I don't feel an ounce of pity for them.
This specific rancher is the Texas Commissioner of Agriculture since Jan 2015, and a rabid MAGA donor. For sure Trump actually knows this one.
Which honestly makes this video even fucking funnier. This stupid fuck should have absolutely known better this whole time. Especially after the previous Trump term.
I wish they did label beef with the country it came from so I could be sure to never buy it from any U.S. rancher ever again. They are all fascists cocksuckers who deserve to go bankrupt.
They don't want more Ranchers though, either. So they'd never have voted for Kamala. But I sleep well at night knowing I voted in their best interest, even when they couldn't be bothered because they wanted blood and now are crying that they got it.
Can't save everyone and they're determined to go down with the ship. Too bad we didn't get Harris, though. I'm not convinced Trump didn't cheat on this election, since he calls it "too big to rig" when the 2020 election was just as large but somehow rigged. I think he's still mad about 2020 because he cheated and still lost.
But I digress, this is a great graphic and I'll be saving it for later if you don't mind.
“Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund ghoul, all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but always has been, arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshipped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul, it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.” - Oliver Kornetzke
republicans are planning to cheat and fake outcomes anyway, they don't care, they're done with you, they got the vote they needed, they're done caring about it. Enjoy the fruit of your stupidity trump folk.
They’re not going to vote blue. They’re going to dissent by not voting.
I can see the administration saying or doing something like an automatic registration as a Republican means an automatic red vote, so that’s more reason for someone to convince the right to vote either independent or blue.
Looks like all the fast food chains will be buying this shit beef, and lowering their prices or giving two for one deals and the American consumer will gobble it up without a doubt
Didn’t Texas support trump overwhelmingly? The leopards weren’t supposed to eat their faces. Only other people’s faces. Not too sympathetic to Texas ranchers.
Republicans are the party that has opposed country of origin labeling laws. This is their MO, fuck up, then butch about it. Bonus points if they can find a reason to blame democrats for their fuckups.
A federal labeling program!? That sounds like a costly big government red tape program designed to trample the rights of yew-ess importers, processors and distributors!
People really need to get over their egos and admit they were wrong. It shows emotional intelligence, it shows you still have the ability to change when faced with new information, and it shows you can be somewhat compassionate to everyone else who are suffering as a result of your wrong decision. Do I think this brand of GOP have those traits, NO, but it sure would be nice for once.
Love the guys raising beef but they reduced herd sizes under Biden and now many consumers can't even afford hamburger. And there are a hell of a lot more of those consumers then there are people in the ranching industry.
Ranchers have turned beef into a niche market as far as many consumers are concerned. They don't seem as concerned about increasing the herd sizes to bring prices back to reasonable consumer levels.
Clearly, there is a shortage vs demand for inexpensive hamburger - when i can buy a t-bone or ribeye on sale for less per pound than 85% lean hamburger at nearly $10/lb.
What I heard was bitching about mislabeling foreign beef(good), asking for REGULATIONS(also good). And the point about Consumer protections was 'convenient'. I Also PRAY Republicans Lose the November Elections. They Wouldn't Approve any of his Left Wing Ideology anyway.
We don't believe him. Not even for one second. They will all still vote R. That's a safe bet. They're trying to scare the administration into doing some kind of welfare package for them.
i would like to say he'd already done enough to lose the midterms but then i recalled just how good the Dems are at pulling defeat from the jaws of victory
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When asked if he’d vote for someone else, he stumbled over the answer and certainly didn’t sound convincing. Even when this is hurting him and his fellow ranchers, it still doesn’t seem like enough for him to regret his vote. They’re feeling the consequences, but still holding onto that vote for dear life.