Nicholas Gilbert- a NY dairy farmer- truly believed that other countries would pay for the tariffs. Instead he received

[riversedge]

well, trump has said other countries will pay the #Trumptariffs --or the company will.


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Nicholas Gilbert- a NY dairy farmer- truly believed that other countries would pay for the tariffs. Instead he received a Trump surcharge fees that he cannot pass on to consumers (because he belongs to a co-op.) His farm has gone bankrupt and will close in 2 months

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Link to tweet

[mountain grammy]

1. I'm sorry, it's sad to see this happen to anyone

but my question always is "who did you vote for?"

[yardwork]

53. I feel as if this is a deliberate Trumpian plan to get people's farms.

I wonder who will buy this farm - and others like it that will be sold. A Chinese company, adding it to a huge agribusiness? A foreign company that will develop it for houses?

I read that an astonishingly large amount of real estate in the U.S. is owned by just a few huge companies.

[Autumn]

2. It's shocking to me that anyone is really ignorant enough to belive that.

I don't care if he loses his farm. He got what he voted for.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Especially Since...

...it would take 5 seconds to look up how tariffs work.
But, cult members don't research anything after the leaders says whatever the leader says. Even they they claim to do their "own research".

[malaise]

16. I will never understand how people think basic knowledge about

Issues that affect their lives can be ignored. This is basic high school shit.

[allegorical oracle]

51. He apparently missed that he would have to pay fees as a co-op member. nt

[usonian]

4. One of the biggest mistakes people make is believing their own lies.

But, you say, they were Trump's lies.

Well, there's a section of the brain, little used by many, that seeks truth, because not only can truth set you free, IT CAN PREVENT YOU FROM GETTING TAKEN TO THE CLEANERS.

That "other" part of the brain, that reacts to danger and fear, REAL OR IMAGINARY, often "wins"

Ohhhhhhhhhh, Thinking hurts.

[republianmushroom]

5. Live and learn the hard way, dude.

The convicted felon lies, often and a lot.

[magicarpet]

54. Mexico paid for the southern border wall,...

.... it did not cost AmeriKKKa one dime. 92% has been completed under the first trDUMP admin. , 8% remains to go up.

PREVARICATING LIAR !

Fuck off trDUMP.

[RockRaven]

6. If you "truly believe" easily and voluminously refuted nonsense, I cannot help you.

Check the definition of tariff in any standard dictionary. It is very clear what a tariff is, it is a specific thing not some vague catchall term.

Check how tariffs worked (as in, who paid them and in what manner) the last time The Convicted Felon was POTUS. That information is publicly available. There you have recent historical evidence of the exact phenomenon in question.

If you won't "truly believe" the above evidence in favor of the mouth noises of TCF, there is nothing anyone else can say to stop you from destroying yourself.

[GoCubsGo]

7. The Leopard is going to need some hairball remedy to go with that face.

If that is, indeed, the farmer in question.

I seriously cannot believe how many people don't understand how tariffs work. We have achieved The Idiocracy.

[Celerity]

22. That pic is not the NY farmer in question. It is a Fort Dodge Iowa Trumper from 2023.

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/supporter-of-donald-trump-shouts-from-the-crowd-at-the-fort-news-photo/1790164335

Former President Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Fort Dodge, Iowa

FORT DODGE, IOWA - NOVEMBER 18: A supporter of Donald Trump shouts from the crowd at the Fort Dodge Senior High School on November 18, 2023 in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Former President Donald Trump spoke on various topics pertaining to things that happened during his term in office as well as current events. (Photo by Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

[Celerity]

26. Iowa state flag

[Brenda]

39. riversedge needs to STOP spreading misinformation

Reposting something with the wrong image of the person the story is about is spreading disinformation.

Thought that was frowned upon here.

[Playingmantis]

8. I have checked and apparently a lot of people think the exporting nation pays the tariffs.

Stupidity and ignorance come with a cost..No tears from me!

[Ms. Toad]

38. Including some very intelligent, liberal-learning folks

I have encountered.

The failure to/inability to do basic fact-checking is a serious and growing deficiency, and it isn't limited to the right wing. We may have different blind spots - but ours are just as real.

[JohnSJ]

9. If he believed that is because people like tapper completely ignored the

facts and were more concerned with destroying Biden’s legacy.

[BoRaGard]

10. The republicons have really suckered Americans this time

and they will sucker Americans again.

It's what they do.

[Sogo]

11. FAFO, Nicholas, FAFO.

Oh, and thoughts and prayers....

[displacedvermoter]

12. If this idiot thought Trump gave any more shits about a NY dairy farm

than he did for a Franklin County, Vermont dairy farm then he is stupid as Trump is and, like his Vermont counterpart, fully deserves the screwing he (they) have coming.

[JI7]

13. But he would still vote Trump over "that woman" .

[Mysterian]

14. A willfuly ignorant idiot

I have no pity for these gullible fools or any others who blindly follow a destructive, hateful ideology.

[SWBTATTReg]

15. Blah away all you want, you're still going to lose the farm. I'm not going to say that it serves you right, but that

as a responsible businessperson, you truly should have been aware of who pays for these tariffs and not the nonsense that you believed. Now it's too late, and you sank the ship on your own dime, your own stupidity, your own actions. Not much to add to this, eh?

[Vinca]

17. I hope his cows find nice homes. He can join Rudy and Mike Lindell under the bridge.

[ret5hd]

27. the farm, the home, the cows, the barns,....

the milking equipment, the tractors, the silos…everything will be sold to a private equity firm.

that is the plan. that is what many don’t realize. the goal is for people…”meat”…to own nothing. No home, no music, no books, no car, no software, and especially no business.

you are a serf. you are a slave. if you perform adequately you will be allowed to survive. if not…

[Clouds Passing]

18. FAFO dumbo!

[flvegan]

19. Somewhere, the most obese leopard is playing the tiniest of violins. n/t

[Buns_of_Fire]

20. The US Fuck Reserve has been depleted for years.

Now, we import most of our fucks -- and, with the new 100% tariff, they've gotten too expensive to give to every Tom, Dick, or Hairy who whines about his poor choices.

[Rebl2]

21. 👍

[Buckeyeblue]

23. Maybe he's just shitty at business like his dear leader

[riversedge]

24. Farmer fooled by tariff talk? Upstate NY farmer stunned as Trump tariffs hit hard, admits he thought Canada, not U.S. fa

Farmer fooled by tariff talk? Upstate NY farmer stunned as Trump tariffs hit hard, admits he thought Canada, not U.S. farmers, would foot the bill

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/farmer-fooled-by-tariff-talk-upstate-ny-farmer-stunned-as-trump-tariffs-hit-hard-admits-he-thought-canada-not-u-s-farmers-would-foot-the-bill/articleshow/120410583.cms


Nicholas Gilbert, a dairy farmer from Potsdam, New York, is facing tough economic lessons in the middle of President Donald Trump’s ongoing trade war. Like many others in border towns, Gilbert assumed tariffs would be Canada’s problem—not his.


But when a recent livestock feed order from Ontario arrived, Gilbert was shocked to see it cost him $2,200 more than usual. The extra cost was due to tariffs, which he thought would be handled by the Canadian supplier. Instead, the bill landed squarely on his shoulders.

“I’m not even sure it’s legal!” Gilbert told The Atlantic. “We contracted for the price on delivery. If your pr ..

Unfortunately for Gilbert and many others, tariffs are legal—and they’re paid by American importers, not Canadian exporters.

Why did the farmer think Canada would pay the tariff?


Like many small business owners and farmers, Gilbert believed what President Trump has often repeated—that other countries would bear the brunt of the tariffs. But that’s not how the system works................

Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimeUnfortunately for Gilbert and many others, tariffs are legal—and they’re paid by American importers, not Canadian exporters.

Why did the farmer think Canada would pay the tariff?

Like many small business owners and farmers, Gilbert believed what President Trump has often repeated—that other countries would bear the brunt of the tariffs. But that’s not how the system works.





Read more at:
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/farmer-fooled-by-tariff-talk-upstate-ny-farmer-stunned-as-trump-tariffs-hit-hard-admits-he-thought-canada-not-u-s-farmers-would-foot-the-bill/articleshow/120410583.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppsts.com/news/international/us/farmer-fooled-by-tariff-talk-upstate-ny-farmer-stunned-as-trump-tariffs-hit-hard-admits-he-thought-canada-not-u-s-farmers-would-foot-the-bill/articleshow/120410583.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/farmer-fooled-by-tariff-talk-upstate-ny-farmer-stunned-as-trump-tariffs-hit-hard-admits-he-thought-canada-not-u-s-farmers-would-foot-the-bill/articleshow/120410583.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

[JustAnotherGen]

58. He's a shitty business man

He deserves it.

[hamsterjill]

25. We can't understand it for them

Sorry, not sorry. These people were corrected time after time after time and they chose to believe Trump over business leaders, economic experts, etc.

Let them deal with the consequences.

[Permanut]

28. Checking my supply of fucks..

Sad news, I'm out of 'em.

[bucolic_frolic]

29. Over-leveraged, protected by a co-op

Didn't the co-op inform its members? It's sad, really, he voted against himself but changing his own vote would not have changed the election obviously. But he wasn't a great businessman if so exposed financially.

[dem4decades]

30. Farm Around and Find Out. To bad he's an idiot.

And screw him, I'm sure his farmer buddies use immigrants to work their farms too. But fucking his buddies and those immigrant workers was fine till it bit him in the ass. Don't forget to wear your red hat to the foreclosure sale.

[Hassler]

31. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps Nicky.

I'm sure Dollar General is hiring. IOW, FAFO. There are a lot of innocent people getting crushed because of his stoopid vote. They get my support, not Farmer Nicky

[a kennedy]

32. To bad so sad, NOT.

and ya know…..I kinda like the idea of buy local!!!! Hate when some of the fruit I buy is not what my brain remembers from years ago……

[Aristus]

33. You can't fix stupid.

I'll bet his cows are smarter than he is. And they give milk. So they have an actual purpose in life. I guess his only purpose in life is to serve as a bad example, and as a warning to others.

Enjoy bankruptcy and unemployment, dickhead...

[sl8]

34. How much of this is true?

I've read the the Atlantic, Economic Times, and Syracuse.com articles from a month ago, and believe them, but they don't mention anything about his politics or impending bankruptcy. I haven't seen anything credible more recently than that.

The same fake picture seems to be attached to the same tweet & retweets that say he's now bankrupt or will be bankrupt in 1 or 2 months, but I've yet to see anything credible that mentions bankruptcy.

[Iggo]

35. I wish he wasn't that stupid.

Other than that, fuck him.

[meadowlander]

36. Thoughts and prayer, Nick.

I'm so sorry they lied to you. I hope you've learned better now.

[bdamomma]

37. Oh well

the person you voted for was NOT thinking about your livelihood just his. You were BS'ed by the biggest BS'er and so many fell for it.

[Cha]

41. My thought is that NG looks Stupid in

That Stupid hat.

[sl8]

43. That's not a picture of Gilbert. nt

[Cha]

45. TY for the Correction.. Then whomever is Wearing it

Looks Stupid.

[sl8]

47. Agreed.

When I see someone in that hat, they might as well be wearing this:

[Cha]

48. lol No Kidding!

[EarthFirst]

42. Bootstraps; motherfu*ker...

Find them.

[sakabatou]

44. Leopard to the face

[edhopper]

46. I have no shits to give

for Trump voters.
Too many people will suffer who aren't idiots.

[mackdaddy]

49. Seinfeld Voice: 'That's a Shame'....

Maybe strive to understand how things work if they affect you directly?

[Celerity]

50. You need to remove that falsely attributed pic (see posts 22 and 26). Your OP is misinformation, something that

is becoming increasingly common on DU as posters lean so heavily into dodgy social media for their sources.

[flying_wahini]

52. It's terrible for the ones that voted against the Orange asshole and are still going to lose their farms.

The others, yawn.

[Norrrm]

55. Actually, he is the businessman/seller whom Trump expects to eat the tariff rather than pass it on.

[Srkdqltr]

56. This is not new, it happened months ago. If it happened at all.

[JustAnotherGen]

57. Boo hoo

When anti-Blackness, anti-Latino, anti LGBTI, and anti Religious Freedom bites you in the ass.

I'm a Trade Compliance Officer at a US Manufacturer who just aid 147.6 % tariff (15K) on a just under 6K dry box necessary to make Patriot Missiles *missile*.

I voted for Harris.

Fuck this guy and all the rest of the maga Repub voters that VOTED FOR THIS.


He did it to himself.