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enid602

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2. No big deal

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Tue May 6, 2025, 05:27 AM

May 2025

No big deal. There are currently no foreign buyers lined up to purchase the produce. In two months there will be no domestic demand for the produce, as unemployed Americans will have no money to purchase food. Genius Trump has it all figured out.

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And so it begins. Some farms already have produce rotting in fields due to lack of workers. [View all] DetlefK May 2025 OP

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