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    8 hours ago

    Why would he do that?

    It’s not why, but when. He already did this during his first term, the first time he started a trade war with China (which he lost).

    He didn’t bail out the farmers because he actually cares about them, but because there was an election in 2020 that he was trying to win and needed their support.

    Remains to be seen if he will bother to help them again this time. He’s talking about a 3rd term and other frightening shit, but his second term has been moving so fast that I’d like to think he doesn’t care about what the public thinks anymore, he just wants to extract as much value of of the position as possible.

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      3 hours ago

      If he holds another election it’ll be like a Russian election. You know, where it doesn’t really matter who you vote for, Putin wins anyway.