The nanny state should stop enabling these Eastern WA welfare queens.

All this will mean is a little more subsidy in the next farm bill and less migrant workers hired, so the people getting hurt won’t be the people you think should be hurt.

Farm subsidy? What happened to letting the Free Hand of the Market decide?

It is kind of fun to see the right wingers explain why higher taxes are a good thing.

"If Trump's going to screw voters, the least they could do is screw him back."

Indeed. This will be a reasonable test of the power of post-modern propaganda.... will Trump-screwed voters /still/ vote for Turnip if they are bombarded with enough emotionalist propaganda?

My guess is 'Yes'.

Beacuase racism & sexism, and white supremacy in general. WS is an unspoken element of the very Fabric of America, it just 'feels natural', and goes unobserved and unquestioned amongst the majority, many of whom appear to be asymptomatic carriers of the virus.

But appeal to it, --or /challenge/ it--, and people start frothing at the mouth.

The apple-tariff will be cast as Mexico's fault, [insert racist epithet].
Easy-peasy.

Well, they can always become coal miners.

It pains me to see the economic damage that Trump is wreaking with his policies, but I agree, it’s hard not to feel also a sense of grim satisfaction.

“Trade wars are good, and easy to win” — a moron

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/969525362580484098

For a second I was upset because I felt that people were ignoring our wonderful Apple farmers in Western Washington that provide us with the very apples that end up in our cider or local coop. Then I realized they were never sending them overseas anyway, only the much larger shitbags out East do that.

Fuck em', let them starve.

@11 Except there were many other more important actors (China being the most important) that wanted NK to calm the fuck down for economic reasons anyway.

The same situation is, like you said, occurring here except the US is now the one who needs to be subdued. And, seeing that we're largely no longer relevant in a globalised economy, that turns us into a pariah to be cut up and further sold to the higher bidder.

I suspect that Trump and his family will end up much the same way as the Mussilini's once the trains stop running on time.

Hey! Chill out everyone! It's ok. Trump & Cumpany are all using OCCULT MAGICK to consolidate power!

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/06/dark-star-rising-magick-and-p.html

Everything is gonna be fine!!

@11 -- Sorry, China had everything to do with the Korea's sitting down. Trump not so much.

Well, to all those eastern Washington apple growers who voted for Hillary, you just got caught up in this contorted vengeful and sophomoric narrative through no fault of your own.

11) If you wouldn't mind, could you walk me through what exactly is being negotiated in this breakthrough summit? What value are we gaining from legitimizing this tyrant?

Denuclearization?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/world/asia/trump-korea-summit.html

Burger restaurants?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/cia-report-says-north-korea-won-t-denuclearize-might-open-n878201

Or is it just a "get-to-know-you" situation?
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-44339289/trump-it-s-a-get-to-know-you-situation

@16 - . . .