“It was heartbreaking.” A federal program offering Utah farmers free therapy was so successful that it ran out of money in four months. But lawmakers have chosen not to continue funding it. @jessicamiller.bsky.social @sltrib.com
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apr 30, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1 0 • view
I"m sorry. These people voted for TRUMPF. I'm sorry that they are committing suicide in these numbers, but...
apr 30, 2025, 10:45 pm • 6 0 • view
The Darwin theory in action reducing Trump supporters. Sad, but that's what they voted for and that's what they got. It's called karma. I'm all out of shits to give, I'm sorry to say.
may 1, 2025, 3:01 pm • 10 0 • view
Why isn't the state of Utah stepping up and funding the program?
may 1, 2025, 2:58 am • 4 0 • view
BooHoo. Almost every county in Utah voted for trump. Fuck around find out. Anyways why would they want that funding? Isn't that communism?
may 1, 2025, 3:27 pm • 15 0 • view
No. It's socialism which they hate, except when *they* need it.
may 1, 2025, 4:51 pm • 10 0 • view
But Utah residents and other state farmers will still keep voting for maga GOP. At least they are all enjoying the vibes.
apr 30, 2025, 10:18 pm • 11 1 • view
I suppose they all voted for the Orange Clown as well so they get NO sympathy from me!!!
may 1, 2025, 1:47 pm • 4 0 • view
This fits the modus operandi. Remember “stop the testing”? This is the same. Can’t be any mental health issues if you don’t acknowledge them, right? You just need to “believe” everything is fine.
may 1, 2025, 3:27 pm • 5 0 • view
Elections have consequences. Utah overwhelmingly voted for this.
apr 30, 2025, 8:15 pm • 27 1 • view
You’re 100 percent correct.
may 1, 2025, 2:35 pm • 3 0 • view
💯 agree with you.
apr 30, 2025, 8:37 pm • 5 0 • view
So Mormon of them
apr 30, 2025, 8:11 pm • 3 0 • view
more than half of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have negative views of Trump.
may 1, 2025, 7:27 am • 2 0 • view
Really? Wow thats good to know!
may 1, 2025, 12:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Two-thirds of white evangelicals still view him positively today, Slightly more than 8 in 10 Trump voters in this election were white, roughly in line with 2020, cops, firefighters and construction workers, were among his most ardent supporters
may 1, 2025, 7:36 am • 2 0 • view
Its crazy But in my own fam? My middle son 38 Married et a democrat like me We campaigned together But my Youngest son 26 Married trump voter and grad unc! So not typical But his dad my ex has brain washed him w tea party crap since a child
may 1, 2025, 12:50 pm • 1 0 • view
So are veterans, trans, and many in our society. Here is what I know farmers are not above every citizen. They overwhelmingly voted for a tyrant.
may 1, 2025, 4:22 pm • 6 0 • view
They voted for this.
apr 30, 2025, 4:16 pm • 21 0 • view
“Lawmakers”.
may 1, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
They have mental health issues because the watch Fox "news" and listen to right wing AM talk radio. The solution is free: Turn the channel.
may 1, 2025, 4:45 pm • 0 0 • view
REPUBLICANS chose to cancel. Why do people keep voting for these monsters?
apr 30, 2025, 11:47 pm • 1 0 • view
"Own the libs"
may 1, 2025, 4:52 pm • 1 0 • view
They wouldn't have that problem if they didn't vote for him what sow you shall not get
may 1, 2025, 2:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Utah has voted Republican in every Presidential Election in my lifetime: www.270towin.com/states/utah You get the government you vote for....
may 1, 2025, 1:49 pm • 10 1 • view
Well said
may 1, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans speak for "socialism" is "aid" or "assistance" and now "therapy"
may 1, 2025, 1:51 pm • 2 1 • view
Getting screwed every way possible.
may 1, 2025, 2:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Gotta pay for those billionaire’s tax cuts somehow.
apr 30, 2025, 4:39 pm • 5 0 • view
Mental health is so important. It is how we learn to love ourselves and follow our true life path. And learn to encourage others to so as well. For a state that claims to be founded and run by a christian religion they fail miserably when it comes to the teaches of their savior.
may 1, 2025, 4:51 pm • 2 0 • view
My mother and I just started watching “Big Love.” (me again, heard for the first time.) We aren’t even finished with the first full episode and she is gob smacked. “These places really exist?” She asks about the compound. I refrain from sending her all the news stories.
may 1, 2025, 5:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I have many relatives that live in Utah and they talk about the Polygamy families that live nearby. It isn't uncommon. Very strange to me.
may 2, 2025, 7:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Sixty percent of Utah voters voted for Trump.
may 1, 2025, 5:12 pm • 4 0 • view
Only to be outdone by 5% more by active AmFash military, so I don’t know why people have fantasies they would “disobey illegal orders.“ They fucking ***voted for the illegal orders.***
may 1, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Bye red ticket voting farmer! I wish nothing but the best for your families, you…not so much. Bye!
may 1, 2025, 3:27 pm • 6 0 • view
Are these farmers able to connect the dots that their vote directly affected and cut the programs they utilized?
may 3, 2025, 5:18 pm • 0 0 • view
So much for solving problems at the root. Lawmakers are always quick to squash reforms like gun control in the name of a mental health problem, then refuse programs meant to address the crisis. I hate it here.
may 1, 2025, 2:37 pm • 4 0 • view
This is the price, this is the cost. Downloaded and payed by average, every day people. A giant never ending cloud of nervous depression that seeps into and permeates entire lives and a nation. Selfishness and greed is destroying us, slowly, day by day, minute by minute.
apr 30, 2025, 4:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe they should wear more magic underwear.
may 1, 2025, 1:22 am • 0 0 • view
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may 1, 2025, 3:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Well. Guess Utah shouldn't have voted for the people that wanted to cut services...
apr 30, 2025, 7:21 pm • 12 0 • view
They should have thought of this before they voted for the orange shitstain.
may 1, 2025, 5:35 pm • 0 0 • view
youtu.be/k4vkUTwVTwM?...
apr 30, 2025, 9:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Elon needs it to sue the people who's Tesla tried to kill them
may 1, 2025, 3:26 pm • 0 0 • view
But”Republican” lawmakers” decide to halt this helpful therapy!
may 1, 2025, 2:02 am • 1 0 • view
And the farmers thought the orange Nazi cared about them. They voted for him, they FAFO
may 1, 2025, 3:12 am • 3 1 • view
Farmers are Trump supporters. They got what they voted for.
may 1, 2025, 1:48 pm • 13 1 • view
Weird how you hate socialism, till ya need it.
may 1, 2025, 7:54 am • 9 2 • view
🥹🤬
may 1, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s getting harder to feel sorry for these people who are fine when other people suffer but now give a shit when it’s them
may 1, 2025, 2:01 pm • 20 1 • view
I'm sure they all voted for the orange blob.
may 1, 2025, 4:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Who did they vote for? Not just for traitor in chief but spineless cowards for their representatives and senators.
may 1, 2025, 5:16 pm • 6 0 • view
MAGA
apr 30, 2025, 4:37 pm • 2 0 • view
They voted tRump, they can cry a river now
apr 30, 2025, 6:41 pm • 10 0 • view
All fine and well for you, but what about those of us who live here who didn't vote for the orange turd? We are all equally affected by these decisions. I live in a small farming community in Utah, and it's going to hurt everyone I know. That's not easy.
apr 30, 2025, 8:55 pm • 4 0 • view
The majority of white people voted for him. The majority of white people who didnt, still maintain close relationships with those who did. Its anger at the hateful people who voted and enabled this is. No one is cheering for collateral damage, but there's no sympathy for those who chose it
may 1, 2025, 6:50 am • 7 0 • view
Then you are on the front lines of convincing your neighbors that they are worshiping a false God. Trump is not their savior or messiah. When they cheer on his hurting other people they are hurting themselves too. Please use this opportunity to help wake up your neighbors to what they have done.
may 1, 2025, 4:57 pm • 1 0 • view
I agree your are a victim, sorry for you
apr 30, 2025, 11:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, 562,000 voters from Utah voted against trump, nearly 4 out of 10. But the GOP is deeply rooted in rural areas. And in one of the deepest red states in the West, Wyoming, fewer people voter for trump in 2024 than in 2016. You must return to 1964 to see a dem win that state for President.
may 1, 2025, 7:25 am • 1 0 • view
Utah farming communities went a minimum of 65% for Trump. Yeah, it’s not everyone. But this is what happens when we don’t shame people for supporting the GQP. We made our bed, guess where we get to sleep.
apr 30, 2025, 11:09 pm • 5 0 • view
I’m sorry so many on here glee about others’ misery, just like those we complain about. Suicide is no joke! Sending my thoughts of peace for all of us.
may 1, 2025, 2:24 am • 1 0 • view
Have you though about how many deaths in 100 days of tRump have been caused by their stupidity ? Once is enough ! They can go, I will sleep well
may 1, 2025, 3:11 am • 3 0 • view
Krazy Kriminal Klown and the Khristian Konservative Kult overthrowing the government by crashing the economy
may 1, 2025, 2:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Hey Farmers, when are you going to realize that the GOP doesn’t care about you! They destroy your markets, and you vote for them again. You really do need therapy.
apr 30, 2025, 8:18 pm • 24 2 • view
‘You really DO need therapy’ but like ‘No really it’s HELPFUL and you should fight for it’ and not in a ‘Fuck you, you fucking fucks’ kind of way.
apr 30, 2025, 8:46 pm • 3 1 • view
Nah! They not only fucked themselves, they knowingly and willingly fucked others with their votes! So….karma!
may 1, 2025, 3:31 pm • 2 1 • view
‘So… karma!’ is actually a good point. Dead farmers means less crops coming out of Utah, resources slowly dwindling, etc. Nothing’s magically fixed, gloating doesn’t solve anything, people are still mad. It never ends. Yikes.
may 2, 2025, 11:38 am • 1 1 • view
Farmers in the US have benefited from socialism for longer, and in more ways, than any other American grp. And yet…🍊🧀🐡 keeps getting their vote.
apr 30, 2025, 4:22 pm • 18 1 • view
This is one of the many, many forms of destruction this regime is carrying out. Who will they rule over?
apr 30, 2025, 5:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Not lawmakers Republican lawmakers
may 1, 2025, 2:17 pm • 6 0 • view
Thank you! The media covers for Republicans constantly.
may 1, 2025, 4:48 pm • 2 0 • view
It really is heartbreaking how many programs are getting cut that were actually helping people…
may 1, 2025, 12:54 am • 4 0 • view
Rough year for farmers, starting with freezing USAID. Then Trump released the summer water reserve from 2 dams, and now they are taking away their therapy.
may 1, 2025, 1:53 pm • 9 1 • view
Heartless.
may 1, 2025, 12:45 am • 0 0 • view
Not everyone voted for this crap. The LDS church and Romney both pussyfooted around denouncing a Nazi backed by masses of evangelicals who hate them. Can't make this shit up. 🙄
apr 30, 2025, 8:36 pm • 8 0 • view
A Democrat reached out to help these reliably Republican voters. Their own dear leader has shunned them. Sounds about right.
apr 30, 2025, 4:52 pm • 10 0 • view
They wanted to “own the socialist libs”, and “Crooked Hillary”, “Muslim Obama”, and “Sleepy Joe“. 🤷🏻♀️ Meh. Good luck to them, we’re all going to need it.
may 1, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Karma is a bitch for that state. Karma is a bitch for that profession. Karma is a bitch for those white males.
apr 30, 2025, 4:51 pm • 12 0 • view
This is what is so aggravating! Successful programs for our citizens that were successful- are cut: Utah Farmers, Suicude VA hotline- award winning, HEADSTART. These were targeted by FELON47 and Nazi-Musk. Without looking at the program, cost, success. They were indiscriminately cut.
may 1, 2025, 3:56 pm • 1 0 • view
That's just a hand out
may 1, 2025, 3:47 am • 1 0 • view
Sad
apr 30, 2025, 11:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Sounds like the socialism they voted against. Pay for you own therapy welfare queens
apr 30, 2025, 4:35 pm • 7 0 • view
This is what they wanted. We should be congratulating them.
apr 30, 2025, 9:18 pm • 4 0 • view
Oh the leopard ate your face?
may 1, 2025, 1:36 am • 5 0 • view
And how hard it is for anyone to decide they need help.
apr 30, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
This happens when you vote for the wrong guy to realize you screwed your whole family.
apr 30, 2025, 7:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Disgusting and shameful.
apr 30, 2025, 11:53 pm • 1 0 • view
As usual, this country is filled with compassion for those who are suffering🙄. Dead family farmers won’t feed this country. Neither political party has done anything to fix the situation that is causing this despair. Every life counts. Farmers need support, not ridicule, as they face climate change.
may 1, 2025, 2:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Farmers should have thought of that before they voted for the guy who cut the program. FAFO
may 1, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
They voted every step of the way for those who put them in the position. Over & over for decades. They got bailed out by taxpayers because Repugs wanted their continued votes. It worked. So they can suffer the consequences because they learned nothing. Now Monsanto is killing us & earth chemically.
may 1, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
It's hard to feel bad. They got what they voted for. I feel bad for those in my part of a blue state that no longer have access to programs that help asthma sufferers, especially the children.
may 1, 2025, 4:49 pm • 3 0 • view
It is very sad but they did this to themselves - I have been voting for farmers for decades but they voted against me so we all suffer. What a great country.
may 1, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
It is heartbreaking! There’s more than farmers hurt. Yes, Republicans don’t care. Vote them out!
may 1, 2025, 1:27 am • 4 0 • view
Gee when is his farm for auction
may 1, 2025, 8:45 am • 0 0 • view
Oh well
may 1, 2025, 8:45 am • 1 0 • view
See doctor Trump !
may 1, 2025, 8:44 am • 0 0 • view
Republicans only betray, they betray themselves, their heritage, their history and always their country.
apr 30, 2025, 10:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Humm. .Wonder why Farmers are dying from Suicide. I can think of only one reason... But I'd rather not speculate publically on it. other than to say "Buyer's Remorse"
may 1, 2025, 11:58 am • 4 0 • view
Some of the posters on this thread don’t realize that suicide rates among farmers is higher than veterans. Suicide rates for farmers started climbing in the 1970s after government policy changes ended New Deal agricultural programs and shifted to Big Ag corporate farming model.
may 1, 2025, 12:45 pm • 4 2 • view
I didn't hear one farmer complain when Trump shut down the trans suicide hotline. I have no compassion to give for people who have no empathy.
may 1, 2025, 4:51 pm • 0 0 • view
I realize it, I just don’t care about them! They’re family…yes! Them, not at all! Karma
may 1, 2025, 3:29 pm • 1 0 • view
I knew it. It's been reported on over the last 10 years or better. The problem is they vote for the Repugs who cut them out of family farming in place of BIG AG. I can't spare any concern for you if you get bailed out like banks when YOUR choices crash your bottom line. That's socialism & woke🤷🏼♀️ FAFO
may 1, 2025, 4:04 pm • 3 0 • view
I am not a farmer. I’m concerned about anyone who is driven to suicide. That’s all.
may 1, 2025, 6:37 pm • 1 0 • view
I am as well. However when you keep working against yourself repeatedly, even when it's obvious that your actions will take others down, it makes it hard to feel sorry for that. I'm tired of the realization of their mistakes only when it affects them. They didn't care about other groups suffering. 🤷🏼♀️
may 4, 2025, 1:09 am • 2 0 • view
Accurate assessment
may 4, 2025, 1:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I feel terrible for not even knowing that farmers were committing suicide like that. It's terrible! At a time when we need farmers more than ever, the government is letting them down?!? If you had these billionaires pay their fair share in taxes a number of these funding issues would be solved.
may 1, 2025, 3:29 pm • 3 0 • view
So the same folks who voted this dictator into power are now depressed and without a publicly funded safety net? Hmmmm.
may 1, 2025, 1:52 pm • 7 1 • view
Once again, the regime doesn’t care about us.
may 1, 2025, 1:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, yes. But that’s what you voted for! So excuse us if we move right along!
may 1, 2025, 3:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Big assumption to think I voted for this. Did not vote for any of this dictatorship. Did you? And who is the “us” that is moving right along?
may 1, 2025, 8:08 pm • 1 0 • view
When Trump talks about patriotic farmers, he doesn’t mean these rubes. He’s talking about ADM and Pilgrim’s Pride.
may 1, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Does Trump care? I think not.
may 1, 2025, 6:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Gee... sounds like the socialism they say they hate so much.
may 1, 2025, 12:14 am • 20 0 • view
Trump strikes again.
may 1, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
When a program is effective and in high demand, cutting it isn’t just negligent; it’s a choice with a body count. Supporting mental health shouldn't end when the headlines do.
may 1, 2025, 2:12 pm • 5 0 • view
If it’s a positive, this administration will kill it. If it helps, they stop it.
may 1, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
but they stopped dem pronouns
apr 30, 2025, 9:54 pm • 6 0 • view
Sorry but they got what they voted for
apr 30, 2025, 9:19 pm • 3 0 • view
They just want them shut up and work - could give a 🐀 ash about their mental health or life.
may 1, 2025, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
We all need therapy. Not enough money in the world right now to fix this destruction
may 1, 2025, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Will they ever realize Trump doesn’t care about them?
apr 30, 2025, 5:34 pm • 11 0 • view
apr 30, 2025, 8:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Nope!
apr 30, 2025, 8:05 pm • 2 0 • view
📌
may 1, 2025, 12:07 am • 0 0 • view
Thank you, Trump!
may 1, 2025, 2:58 pm • 2 0 • view
I feel sorry for the souls they kill not them.
may 1, 2025, 3:26 pm • 3 0 • view
Fuckem
may 1, 2025, 4:21 pm • 1 0 • view
I want free therapy, is it free in Georgia, for anything? Probably not Georgia rich going to stay that way because…..well we know why
may 1, 2025, 11:04 am • 0 0 • view
Maga voters,
apr 30, 2025, 8:40 pm • 3 0 • view
If it wasn’t also brainbreaking, few people are going to sympathize. Suicide is bad, no debate. But isn’t this mentally shooting yourself in the foot, if not head?
may 1, 2025, 9:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, these are the consequences for voting for a facist. They voted for him, and now they suffer his wrath. I'm more heartbroken by this administration cutting budget for pediatric cancer research fundings. Our babies will die. That's what is more heartbreaking.
may 1, 2025, 6:31 pm • 1 0 • view