There is truth in the observation that tariffs and immigration hurt agriculture but FFS there is absolutely no one in the state of Nebraska who has this accent, so I suggest consulting a professional dialog coach before filming your next Tik Tok https://t.co/92deSWanCZ
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 5, 2025
March 5, 2025
About that Nebraska accent.
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"Something like 70% of our entire workforce is undocumented"
Oh you poor sweet summer child...
Most farmers are already hurt by the Big factory farms.
Nothing to do with tariffs.
Trump Voters Are Stupid tag?
The left's base is dumb. This is for them.
Unlike most internet brothers and sisters, I admit that I don't have a lot of confidence in the depth of my understanding of trade and economics. I know the basics.
Throughout the last year, I felt Trump's ideas carried the risk of huge downsides. Tariffs (which we have limited experience with) and eliminating illegal workers (which I strongly support) have upsides and downsides. Which will be greater?
For now, I'm relying on blind faith that this will work out for Trump and America.
How do legal businesses who employ illegals pay them without violating multitudes of laws. Especially at tax time?
I was stationed at a remote communications site in Nebraska for almost two years. I lived in a town with a population of less than 1000 people, and the town’s economy centered on agriculture. None of the people I knew sounded anything like that.
I’m old enough to remember when hiring illegal immigrants was illegal. Now that it is again- my shocked face…
I thought it was going to be a rant about tariffs. Nice to see Burge again- rehajm not on X…
Did they not believe Trump when he said he'd levy tariffs? Did they not remember what happened to agriculture during Trump's first term? Always so very interesting to consider the mindset of these voters.
Huge shift in soybean production and Chinese imports from the US to Brazil during the last Trump term , for examples. And Trump voters could easily have known that.
Statement from the US National Farmers Union:
“The tariffs announced today, along with retaliatory measures from China and Canada, will have serious consequences for American agriculture. Our farmers are the backbone of this country, and they need strong, fair trade policies that ensure they can compete on a level playing field—not be caught in the middle of international disputes.
“We are already facing significant economic uncertainty, and these actions only add to the strain. Trade policies must come with real, tangible protections for the farmers directly affected. We’ve heard there’s a strategy in place—now we need to see it. Promises alone won’t pay the bills or keep farms afloat.
“Without a clear plan, family farmers will once again be left to bear the burden of decisions beyond their control, and eventually, so will consumers. We urge the administration to work with our trading partners to prevent further harm to rural communities.”
Unfortunately, farmers did have control over this issue as Trump made it clear he would use tariffs and retaliatory tariffs were sure to follow- and they voted for Trump anyway by a large and decisive margin. And as farmers should certainly know, you reap what you sow.
They're clueless. It was either this, or a "You Betcha" accent.
Is Nebraska still associated with a neutral accent? Like Johnny Carson?
They sound like they're from the South, not Nebraska. Is there even a Nebraska accent? The Great plains usually has no accent, unless its a sorta of like North Dakota, dontchaknow.
The whole point of the video is absurd. Guess we cant run cattle ranches without illegal aliens. And it seems only .0001 percent of the illegals that poured in by the millions actually worked in Agriculture. Maybe we need to find a smarter way. Because letting in 2 million immigrants/year to get 200 thousand Ag workers, who all quit within a couple years, seems kinda stupid.
RCOCEAN II said...
They sound like they're from the South, not Nebraska.
That's what you get when a bunch of urban Leftists know-it-alls try something like this. Reminds me of the Harris campaign video where they had a bunch of soy boys talking about how "real men" should support a woman as President. How'd that work for them?
As a lifelong Nebraskan (so far), I can confirm not a single cattle rancher speaks like that. I can further confirm that the packinghouse workforce hasn't left their jobs. Across the street from my office is Omaha Steaks. I drive by Greater Omaha Packing. My new girlfriend lives in Schuyler and there is a big packinghouse there. The parking lots are full.
It’s definitely “fake news“. Or satire, or Astroturf, or whatever you want to call it. Reading down in the comments, it seems this woman has a video clip like this for pretty much every state and stars in each one. I did not check this independently, but that would match with the shrewd observation of the great Iowahawk about the authenticity of this clip.
Maybe she moved from a southern state, but I believe that would be a rarity for a southerner to move to Nebraska and become a cattle rancher. We raise a lot of cattle in Florida, so who knows. That aside, there is zero percent chance a Trump voter wouldn't realize his promise to crack down on illegal immigration wouldn't effect a business that hires a workforce that is 70% percent illegal aliens! It's also highly doubtful a Trump supporter would use the term "undocumented immigrants". Lastly, if this is legit (doubtful), she's an idiot for admitting to breaking the law.
The only person I know who worked in a slaughterhouse was a white American. In the tomato town where I lived in Florida, the whole town -- first all frontier whites, then whites and Mexican immigrants with green cards -- did the few weeks of planting and harvesting each year, and then they supported their families otherwise. Where I live now in the poultry capital in Georgia, I know several white adults and even young adults who still work or worked the hatching houses, feeding houses, slaughter and prep houses. The system worked for everyone until Bush One threw open the borders. Now gangs occupy my old tomato town. The population is majority illegal. The people who oppose this most are the legal immigrants who stood in line to gain citizenship, raised their kids to go to college or good manual labor, then watched the bottom fall out of their seasonal incomes. Now busloads arrive every day -- not good people. They only work until they have the first kid, do't marry but live together to maximize their bennies, steal from food banks, live in trailers off welfare of various sorts, and buy expensive cars. They're drug dealers, gang members, and just damn lazy. Ditto up here in Georgia.
I'm familiar with Connealy Angus in Whitman, Nebraska; the heart of the Sandhills. Mom and Dad run this giant ranch with the help of three of their kids and spouses. They do the work. Two of the kids are Creighton alums; both had perfect ACTs. The son played basketball for Creighton. They have some hired help, but they are not illegal aliens
More authentic than Springsteen’s Nebraska album
I hadn't even read Iowahawks comment at the top when I started the video. I was immediately thinking this person is not from Nebraska and they have never even seen a cow outside of a petting zoo.
"..Our farmers are the backbone of this country, and they need strong, fair trade policies that ensure they can compete on a level playing field....."
When I hear talk like this, I start checking my pocket to see if my wallet's still there. It sounds more like the Meat Packing industry, saying 'leave my victim alone, I'm busy'.
Listen to me now and hear me later...the 100% correct and totally fair strategy on tariffs is "reciprocity". I'm not going to put a tariff on your goods if you don't put a tariff on my goods. And if you put a tariff on my goods, I'm going to put exactly the same tariff on your goods. Not more, just same.
Equal = stalemate = stop it! Also = fair and irrefutable, so shut up too.
If 70% of your entire workforce is undocumented and you voted for Trump you are stupid and probably a criminal.
Levi Starks said...
" How do legal businesses who employ illegals pay them without violating multitudes of laws. Especially at tax time?"
didn't you Know (i thought we'd been through this)?
The undocumented immigrants use the SSN's of long dead citizens.
this HELPS america! (some how)
it's just like the way the undocumented immigrants use the identities of long dead citizens to vote for their Democrat leaders.
See? It's ALL GOOD!
That's the kind of accent that has a picture on the wall of Trump, with an eagle on his shoulder. Too uncultured to be a double-wide, though.
The Left thought because the speaker is wearing red, then she was a real Nebraskan.
She's probably an illegal alien herself -- a refugee from Red Texas. I suspect this is "astroturf" from Democrat consultants, but are they so foolish as to believe that the illegals issue is a winning one for them? Playing up the possible effects of tariffs could be, but somebody who runs a ranch with illegals isn't going to get much sympathy. Isn't that more what the big meatpacking plants do, not the ranchers?
My experience of ranching only runs the gamut from "The Big Valley" and "The High Chaparral" to "Yellowstone" but I think the general practice when you take on a hired man is to pick some poor local boy and start out by having him shovel manure and serve as the butt of practical jokes.
the 100% correct and totally fair strategy on tariffs is "reciprocity".
Exactly. Trump is all for free trade, if our trading partners reciprocate. All too frequently, they do not. There is a reason that American cars are rare in Europe, and it’s not because theirs are so much better. Until recently, Japan forbade the importation of even a single grain of rice, and most of Asia is highly protective of its rice farmers. If our farmers could crack the Asian market for rice, the export market would rival corn and soy beans. Under NAFTA, American farmers were already being crushed if they farmed any crop that could also be grown in Mexico.
The other thing that everyone seems to be overlooking is that Trump is quite on board with a guest worker program, with carefully screened and documented individuals who follow the rules and obey the law. The mechanism for this is being put in place right now. With the border closed, the focus of the immigration authorities can be turned to vetting and processing people we want to come in and work, instead of chasing those we don’t want.
Finally, with serious reform of welfare and unemployment, benefits, able bodied young men will soon find it quite uncongenial to be shiftless layabouts living on handouts. They will work, or they will starve in the gutter. This is a good thing.
Agriculture products are fungible, there are only so many soybeans in the world. If China starts buying from Brazil then whoever was buying from Brazil will have to buy from the US. The tariffs are not on the whole world.
If China stopped buying beans at all then that would be a problem, mainly for the Chinese government who would have starving peasants rioting in the streets.
There will be some friction, but Cargill and big ag can figure it out.
LOL, a Nebraska accent, like most plains accents is fairly neutral. This is a DC ad agency casting somebody who claims regional skills and is using a parody Texas accent to stand in for "HICK"
The speaker is someone who thinks a proper tenderloin sandwich is one where the meat fits the bun. Dave knows an imposter. Dave is right in all things except Iowa/Indiana sports contests. We even agree on Caitlin Clark now.
That aside, there is zero percent chance a Trump voter wouldn't realize his promise to crack down on illegal immigration wouldn't effect a business that hires a workforce that is 70% percent illegal aliens!
But many Trump voters believe that deporting all these workers will result in lower grocery prices. And that tariffs will magically also reduce inflation.
Something wrong with her face as well as her accent. It might be AI generated. Anyhow, the face looks a bit jagged. You used to get that look by repeatedly editing a low pixel image but I haven't seen that over-edited look for a long time and never on TikTok. Enlarge and then look at the teeth or the eyebrows. AI?
The accent proves nothing, she could have married in.
However, this woman also did a video claiming her family owned a Kansas wheat farm that was going bankrupt because they lost their one customer as they had been selling 100% of their crop to USAID.
Yes, it’s complete bullshit but whose bullshit? My bet is MAGA.
What that video needs is background music - a calliope maybe - at 1.5x volume of the speaker. That would pair well with the pendulum zoom lens to make it auditorily as well as visually repulsive.
Meh
"If 70% of your entire workforce is undocumented and you voted for Trump you are stupid and probably a criminal."
If 70% of your entire workforce is undocumented, you are a criminal. Doesn't matter who you voted for.
Freder, you write "But many Trump voters believe" and I'm curious how many Trump voters you've talked to to arrive at that conclusion.
The day laborers available at the Home Depot on I-35 south of Austin have decreased neither in number nor in desperation for work. However, none of them do agricultural work. Landscaping, sure, but not ag harvests. But then again, Austin is a sanctuary city, so they have that going for them, which is nice.
I should add that the going price for day labor is ~$20/hour here in Austin.
If I might explain what the kids are up to these days, TikTok videos like this are little skits conveying the strong emotions of a morality play — “truthy” but not true. The content creator behind this one mostly does celebrity gossip for clicks and likely doesn’t even live in the United States.
According to Iowahawk, who looked into her TikTok history, this woman says she has had FIVE farms go bankrupt, in five different states, in the six weeks since Trump took office.
https://x.com/iowahawkblog/status/1897348199377154091
That poor woman! Five bankrupt farms! Oh, wait, does she also get funding from USAID for her videos?
Freder, you write "But many Trump voters believe" and I'm curious how many Trump voters you've talked to to arrive at that conclusion.
So, if it is not true (and Trump voters knew that his campaign promises were bullshit), why on earth did they vote for him?
You can't tell me it was simply to own the libs.
then watched the bottom fall out of their seasonal incomes. Now busloads arrive every day -- not good people. They only work until they have the first kid, do't marry but live together to maximize their bennies, steal from food banks, live in trailers off welfare of various sorts, and buy expensive cars. They're drug dealers, gang members, and just damn lazy. Ditto up here in Georgia.
So if the new illegals only last a season or two in the field, and then live off welfare (which of course, as you should know, cash welfare is no longer a real thing--at least not for the long term, and even if it was, is not available to "illegal" immigrants) or drug dealing or whatever, how does that impact the wages of honest, hardworking, legal immigrants? Seems like farmers and chicken plant owners would shy away from "illegal" immigrants and stick with the honest, hardworking, ones.
According to the American Immigration Council, Nebraska has an illegal immigrant population of 53,000, which is 3.7% of the entire population. 15% work in farming, fishing, and forestry.
Canada imposed a new 25% tariff on $30 billion of US products.
LINCOLN, NEB. – “It is no secret Nebraska’s farm and ranch families are heavily dependent upon international customers for one third of their annual income. Nebraska’s exports of our top five agricultural products accounted for over $3.5 billion in 2024. Those sales helped support the largest segment of Nebraska’s economy, which hit a rough patch in 2024, falling 17% as compared to 2023. Today’s announced tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, some of Nebraska agriculture’s most important trading partners, only adds to the economic uncertainty which remains the top concern at dinner tables on farms and ranches across our state and nation.” - Nebraska Farm Bureau
David Burge is one reason I stay on X. He is a national treasure, and a threat to liquor store front windows everywhere.
"The accent proves nothing, she could have married in."
She also apparently married into North Carolina, Mississippi, Ohio, and Kansas. She sure gets around.
Freder Frederson said...
That aside, there is zero percent chance a Trump voter wouldn't realize his promise to crack down on illegal immigration wouldn't effect a business that hires a workforce that is 70% percent illegal aliens!
But many Trump voters believe that deporting all these workers will result in lower grocery prices. And that tariffs will magically also reduce inflation.
Remember that the democrat party was founded to protect the institution of exploiting cheap foreign labor. You can call it slavery or illegal immigration. The end result is the same.
Evil people like Freder Frederson want to bring poor people from other countries, treat them badly and pay them as little as possible, and exploit them to expand their own wealth and comfort.
Freder Frederson said...
Freder, you write "But many Trump voters believe" and I'm curious how many Trump voters you've talked to to arrive at that conclusion.
So, if it is not true (and Trump voters knew that his campaign promises were bullshit), why on earth did they vote for him?
You can't tell me it was simply to own the libs.
The new Republican Party under Trump is a working class party. We care about the people that work in the fields and want everyone to live in low crime areas with a decent working wage.
You appear to want large corporations to have an endless pool of poor people to exploit for cheap labor subsidized by government transfer payments just so you can have cheap groceries.
You appear to be a greedy evil piece of ####.
Burge has a follow-up post. The actress apparently has farms in six states that are going bankrupt: https://x.com/iowahawkblog/status/1897348199377154091
Trump voters like me are so stupid, we didn't know that Venezuelan gang members commute from free NYC hotels to work ranches in Nebraska.
Seems to me that if you own a cattle ranch and chewy ribeyes are 15 dollars a pound you ought to be doing OK.
So she's a total fraud. Is this misinformation, disinformation or malinformation.
I have learned that posts on the internet that begin with "y'all" are generally followed by less intelligent and less interesting commentary. Yet I am from a family with deep southern roots (a great grandfather in a Mississippi regiment) and have spent half of my life in the South. Intelligent southerners recognize that it is both quite consciously informal (almost a joke: Y'all come back now/Y'all don't be strangers )and structurally projectionist, and hence not suitable for discursive conversation or writing. It most often appears on the internet used by activist, black or white, and blacks with a grievance, real or imagined. And, yes, she is fake.
Those $15 / lb ribeyes are giving cattle ranchers good prices. But you have to realize that a lot of their input prices (fuel, machinery, feed grains) are rising as well. My brother in north central Montana with 11,000 acres said he "didn't have any shiny new things to show for it" when I asked him about the prices a while back. By the way, the 11-year cycle in cattle prices is quite famous as it has been going on for a long time.
CJinPA said:
Throughout the last year, I felt Trump's ideas carried the risk of huge downsides...
Of course. There's always that risk when you make changes. However, we are 36 trillion in debt because our "public servants" have been rifling through the public purse, we have been overrun with millions of illegal aliens, and there are other existential problems in our federal government which must be dealt with, none of which would have been addressed had Harris won and the Democrats retained power. I'll take my chances that the Trump cure isn't worse than the Democrat disease.
So I wonder how this TikTok lady makes money. Why do I think USAid is somehow involved?
I got all weepy in the one where she tells about her farm in Michigan.
This:
David53 said...
If 70% of your entire workforce is undocumented and you voted for Trump you are stupid and probably a criminal.
If Trump's IRS ran like Biden, they would figure out who she is and audit her.
That ‘ol’ gal sound like she straight outta Tennessee.
“ rehajm said...
I’m old enough to remember when hiring illegal immigrants was illegal. Now that it is again- my shocked face…
I thought it was going to be a rant about tariffs. Nice to see Burge again- rehajm not on X…”
I’m old enough to recall when the I-9 forms first came out in the late 70s early 80s. It was a BIG deal. Two forms of ID required and they had to be specific types. We were threatened with losing our job if they weren’t filled out correctly. It’s obvious there’s been no enforcement for decades.
In the end this woman just has several plantations with imported exploited slaves that she pays as little as possible in order to grow food cheaper to cut costs and make more money.
She is just an 1840's democrat.
Don’t know about NE, but big financial firms used to put their call center ops in SD because the “accent” was neutral enough for all US regions to understand (and also SD was very well situated among US time zones).
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