Oct. 3, 2025 - The David Knight Show
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| Well, and what may be the ultimate backstab we have uh farmers paying the very heavy prices they have before whenever there have been uh tariffs and sanctions against other people. | |
| They did it in the first Trump administration. | |
| It was very difficult for them. | |
| And then came the lockdown. | |
| What happens when we lose our farms? | |
| What happens when it's just the crony capitalists who are friends with Trump or whatever president is there, Biden or whoever? | |
| What about when uh they're the only ones who are making our food? | |
| Well, Trump's answer to all the damage that he's doing to the farms is just, well, we'll put them on some stimulus checks, some welfare. | |
| It was to destroy the businesses and destroy our food supply and put the people on welfare. | |
| As the U.S. now heads in the fall harvest season, this is by the way from Brian Shohavi at Health Impact News. | |
| He said the impacts of Trump's tariffs are being more clearly seen, where farmers all across the U.S. are sounding the alarm about the collapse, with uh one out of every three farms going out of business in some areas of the country. | |
| Think about that. | |
| One out of every three farms going out of business. | |
| What we're seeing this fall in the U.S. are the effects of a mass loss of farm labor due to deportations, increased prices on farm equipment, and other farm materials that are mostly imported, like parts for John Deere and tractors, and of course the loss of the China market, the country where most U.S. farm products have been exported in the past years. | |
| Ohio family farmers describe their life under Trump tariffs. | |
| They say, We're in a hell of a mess here, said Ohio farmer Chris Gibbs. | |
| A severe cash flow mess, a working capital mess. | |
| Gibbs farms more than 500 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat, and alfalfa hay in Shelby County, along with a ninety head cow calf operation, describe the five alarm fire raging in the farming community from Trump's blanket tariffs. | |
| And of course, again, these tariffs were done without any forethought. | |
| Not enough to fund our government. | |
| They were not there even to protect a specific industry, but to go to war with countries that he doesn't like, as we saw with China especially. | |
| Oh, okay, well I'll just I don't like what they said today, so I'm gonna add 45% tariff to uh what I'd already put up, which is already high, taking it over a hundred percent tariffs for a day or so. | |
| Then he took it off. | |
| This kind of erratic, autocratic behavior, is destroying all kinds of businesses, but especially the farmers. | |
| Some growers have called the fallout from this chaotic trade war and the reciprocal tariffs that it provoked a farm agedon that could ruin what made rural America great. | |
| It's that bad. | |
| Trump tariffs are shrinking incomes, exploding expenses for farmers who, thanks to a president they still overwhelmingly support. | |
| This is this is the insanity of uh all this stuff. | |
| They still love him, they still got the red hats and they they like Trump. | |
| Uh and they will applaud him even as he destroys their lives and their communities. | |
| This is the insanity that I cannot stand from this MAGA cult. | |
| Come on, people, wake up. | |
| Get a clue about what's going on. | |
| This is being done to you. | |
| Many don't know how much longer they can hang on, but of course, it's not Trump's fault, and he's out there rounding up the pedophile networks, the guy that hung around with Jeffrey Epstein for so long. | |
| He's your hero in terms of shutting down pedophile networks. | |
| The it's just unbelievable uh how this guy has been inoculated against all criticism and against reality. | |
| Used to talk about Ronald Reagan as being the Teflon president that nothing stuck. | |
| But this is a guy who's got garbage all over his life, and nothing, nothing ever sticks to him. | |
| Trump's punitive tariffs on foreign buyers made their crops less competitive in markets around the world and drove down prices even more, while other senseless tariffs on fertilizer, steel, aluminum, and lumber just sent the cost of doing business through the roof. | |
| The double whammy of Trump tariffs is especially painful for family farms that make up about eighty-seven percent of all farms in Ohio. | |
| Individual farmers are struggling To break even, to buy supplies, to sell their crops, to build a sustainable future with long-term customers. | |
| But the current tariff dance with Trump keeps them up at nights. | |
| Everything a farmer buys, whether it's phosphate or pot ash or agricultural chemicals, herbicides, machine parts, is up 50% over the last decade. | |
| While our proceeds from the sale of crops are down by 40%, said a fifth generation Ohio farmer Joe Logan. | |
| The former president of the Ohio Farmers Union, a group focused on family farmers, maintained the industrial agricultural community is chugging right along, raking in billions of dollars while family farmers are not making any money. | |
| Does this sound familiar? | |
| Does this sound like the lockdown that Trump did in 2020, where the big Wall Street companies were essential? | |
| Walmart was okay, but you shut down your main street business. | |
| I don't want you even cutting hair. | |
| You can't have a living. | |
| You're going to go in universal basic income. | |
| Isn't it interesting that Trump, the so-called anti-globalist, is implementing the globalist plan to take everything from everybody and to put us on universal basic income. | |
| It's welfare. | |
| He says he's against the globalist, even as he is doing their bidding and everything that they want. | |
| They're battling irrational tariffs, rising costs, high interest rates, farm bankruptcies, and abiding dread. | |
| How they will move crops without buyers, or the market trade deals that Trump promised to fix what he broke. | |
| The biggest crop losses to China are American soybeans. | |
| Last year, China bought 12.5 billion dollars of soybean. | |
| This year they have bought zero. | |
| Zero. | |
| It was a twelve and a half billion dollar business that just disappeared because of Trump's tariff fantasies. | |
| Well, I don't like what you did. | |
| I don't like China, so 50% tariffs. | |
| And I like what you did yesterday, the way you talked to me. | |
| So now, you know, another 45% tariffs or whatever. | |
| This this guy is insane. | |
| Unfit for office. | |
| As a matter of fact, um, uh it gets even worse. | |
| Because he doesn't like China, but he likes Argentina because he likes Javier Malai. | |
| Because Javier Malai has now just become Jewish, I guess, or whatever. | |
| But uh he's now given Argentina twenty billion dollar bailout package to help their economy. | |
| What about the farmers in the Midwest? | |
| You don't care about them, but you care about your pal, Javier Malai. | |
| So you give him twenty billion dollars. | |
| Argentina then immediately removed their own tariffs to China and sold them several shiploads of soybeans. | |
| So Trump gives money to Argentina, not to the farmers. | |
| Argentina then drops their tariffs and takes the business that used to be the American farmers. | |
| With the crisis looming for hundreds of thousands of American soybean farmers, a text message to a cabinet secretary appears to show concern within the Trump administration. | |
| China is not bought a single export cargo of beans so far this year, which is not very typical. | |
| Soybeans are the largest American export to China in terms of value, the country purchasing twelve point six billion dollars worth last year. | |
| But in retaliation for new tariffs, China has now stopped buying, dropping those sales to zero. | |
| American farmers feeling the pain. | |
| Now, this photo taken by the associated press at the UN last week is amplifying concern. | |
| It appears to show a text message to Treasury Secretary Scott Besson from BR, widely considered to be agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins. | |
| The message reads, We bailed out Argentina yesterday, and in return, the Argentines removed their export tariffs on grains, reducing their price, and sold a bunch of soybeans to China at a time when we would normally be selling to China. | |
| The message refers to a potential 20 billion dollar aid package from the Trump administration to help stabilize Argentina's economy. | |
| But after that it's 4D chess, right? | |
| Argentina suspended its soybean export tax and immediately sold shiploads of soybeans to China. | |
| Another blow to U.S. farmers. | |
| In the message sent to Besson, BR says, this gives China more Leverage on us. | |
| So we're going to make sure that our farmers are in great shape. | |
| President Trump has suggested some money raised by tariffs could be used to help struggling farmers. | |
| And the agriculture secretary says the administration is working on a farmer aid package. | |
| Rowland has not confirmed whether those text messages were indeed from her. | |
| Morgan Norwood, ABC News, New York. | |
| Well, again, this is a guy who they won't tell you he's playing 4D chess. | |
| He doesn't he doesn't know how to play checkers. | |
| This is ridiculous. | |
| These policies are being set up not to protect key industries. | |
| They're being set up to reward or punish his friends in other countries or his enemies. | |
| And so that this is the basis for why all this stuff is being done. | |
| In Arkansas, one out of every three farmers is going out of business. | |
| Oh, by the way, before we get to that, you know, why is China not buying anything? | |
| Well, it's not going to change anytime soon because what is kicking in now is uh a new fee that Trump has put on. | |
| If somebody, let's say that it is a uh country, let's say that it is um, you know, not China, but some other country wants to buy agricultural products. | |
| And they come to a port using a ship that was built in China. | |
| So it's not a Chinese customer, it's not China itself, but it's another country that wants to buy agricultural products, but they happen to be uh using a Chinese ship. | |
| Well, you get massive amounts of taxes now on these ships, each of these ships that come to the ports just because the ship was made in China. | |
| This is the foolish obsession of this petty dictator. | |
| I've had enough of this guy. | |
| And the people who excuse this, now here's what's happening in Arkansas. | |
| Well, across Arkansas, farmers say they are facing an agricultural crisis. | |
| Rising costs, market pressures have left many growers in dire need of support. | |
| And THP 11's Maya Ellison relays their calls for help. | |
| We're beyond ripple, we're beyond crisis, we're to tsunami. | |
| Row crop farmers across Arkansas are sounding the alarm, pushing for help before it's too late. | |
| We're looking at one to three farms. | |
| One out of every three farms going out of business right now. | |
| Representative and farmer herself, Deanne Vaught explains the message her and other agriculture leaders discussed during Tuesday's public meeting in Stuttgart. | |
| They say it's a tough situation for farms, many of which have been around for decades. | |
| The heartache of having to decide if I can carry on with the fifth generation farm or the fourth generation farm, and knowing that it lands on me if I don't move forward. | |
| That is a lot for a farmer to carry on their shoulders. | |
| Now, despite a recent report from the U of A Systems Division of Agriculture showing net farm income expected to rise 22% this year. | |
| Experts like Jeremy Ross say the math on the ground tells a different story. | |
| You get $10 and you harvest a 55-bushel crop, that's $550, and it costs you $580 to put that in, then you're $30 in the hole. | |
| Meaning many farmers are operating at a loss with debts that carry over year to year. | |
| The truth is it doesn't really matter what you grow. | |
| Uh you are um protected to lose money on um an acre, uh, really no matter what you've planted on it. | |
| Brandy Carroll with the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation says inflation, tariffs, and global conflicts have all driven up cost while crop prices remain depressed. | |
| And while experts say the Big Beautiful Bill Act will provide $66 billion in new farm investment starting in 2026, Carroll says by then it's too late. | |
| Uh, you know, and so they're facing a really hard choice right now. | |
| Um, how to keep their families on their farm and how to maintain their way of life. | |
| And so uh there will be a lot of people making really hard choices. | |
| For THV 11 News, I think. | |
| Yeah, they want everybody on welfare. | |
| You know, one of the issues on look at this, I think, you know, what they're trying to do in terms of this industrial approach is something that works for the big guys, and they can produce uh pesticide laden food and um uh other things that we don't want, GMO crops and all the rest of this stuff. | |
| But uh, you know, the the small farmers need to take a different path, right? | |
| It needs to be asymmetric uh agriculture, I guess we should say. | |
| Because it's a war, it's a competition. | |
| And their strength should be clean, better quality food. | |
| And uh there's ways that they need to move to that. | |
| I'm I'm thinking of the guy, uh Travis remember that I can't remember his name. | |
| Um we talked to him, he's here in America, but he picked up this from a farmer in Zimbabwe. | |
| And uh when the Marxists came in there and took over everything, he said some of the farmers fled, some of them fought, but he said neither of those things worked. | |
| He said, as a Christian, he decided that he would stay, and he had already changed his farm from using this fertilizer-intensive, chemical-intensive, agricultural way of doing business that the government has taught farmers how to farm that way. | |
| They want them to farm that way. | |
| And that works for the big farms, and they make uh food that we don't necessarily want to eat. | |
| But this guy said it wasn't working for him. | |
| He was losing money just like these farmers. | |
| Every year he was losing money. | |
| As a Christian, he just prayed and said, God, show me how to do this. | |
| He said, he looked around and he thought, you know, all of this stuff. | |
| Here we are in uh Africa, and he said, this is just this verdant territory. | |
| Everything is growing. | |
| He said, why can't I grow the stuff that I want to grow? | |
| And so he started looking at it, and he came up with natural techniques where he did minimally invasive stuff. | |
| He wasn't ripping everything down and then trying to build it back each time. | |
| And uh it was very profitable for him. | |
| And he decided that he would not fight or flee, that he would just stay there and farm, and that he would tell the people, even if they took his farm, he would show them how to farm it because he could share the gospel with them. | |
| And it worked out very well for him and for them. | |
| And uh this farmer who is in America learned that technique, and he has a uh uh a program where he shows farmers how to do that, and um how to uh work with people and how to share the gospel with them as neighbors. | |
| Meanwhile, in the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, President Austin Goolsby sounded the alarm on Trump's tariffs. | |
| Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago present his most recent round of tariffs, maybe causing businesses in his district to again pause decisions, making in order to see where the levies settle. | |
| In other words, this is rapidly massively changing landscape. | |
| Nobody can make a rational business decision. | |
| Trump has turned the entire business world in America into a casino. | |
| Are you feeling lucky? | |
| You know, this is the guy who bankrupted six different casinos, and now you're just gonna roll the dice and see what's going to happen to the tariff prices and see whether you're going to be left holding the bag or making money off of this. | |
| He says, now it seems like we're going to go into a new wave of tariff announcements, said the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president. | |
| He said, When I'm out talking to people, it feels like they're just wary. | |
| They're uncertain. | |
| And we might be going back to that. | |
| Everybody just put your pencils down kind of moment, where you just wait until you figure out what it's going to be. | |
| Why? | |
| Because we have a an economy that is increasingly run by a president who doesn't know what he's doing, but he's arrogant enough to think that he does. | |
| He just bought 10% in mining companies, several more of them, because he's going around everywhere, taking 10% cut of any business that he would like to have, like Intel. | |
| Well, he's doing the same thing now with a massive lithium mining company, as well as an intimity company, just going around corporately taking over these companies, and Rand Paul has fortunately called him out on this. | |
| Somebody needs to stop him. | |
| He doesn't have the authority to do this in the Constitution. | |
| And it makes absolutely no economic sense. | |
| This guy is at heart a New York City Democrat socialist. | |
| And that's exactly what Rand Paul said. | |
| He said, at Hardy's really no different than Mom Danny, who wants to take over the grocery stores in New York and hand out food to people. | |
| That's what Trump is doing, except he wants to take over the farms and hand out welfare to the farmers, which is even worse. | |
| Music The common man. | |
| They created common core to dumb down our children. | |
| They created common Past to track and control us, their Commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing and the communist future. | |
| They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary. | |
| But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God. | |
| That is what we have in common. | |
| That is what they want to take away. | |
| Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation. | |
| They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us. | |
| It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hide.com. | |
| Thank you for listening. |
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