Seth Meyers: Trump Lashes Out After Pelosi Accuses Him of a “Cover-Up”
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Seth takes a closer look at President Trump’s impromptu press conference in which he lashed out at Democrats calling for his impeachment.
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CLed:
Just checked in with the fever swamp at Free Republic. Today’s rants center on Ihlan Omar, AOC, and Pelosi, with Jussie Smollett making a strong comeback. Mayor Pete also rates a couple of attacks that make up in venom and hysteria what they lack in numbers. There are a number of things I like about Buttigieg, but the main one is that he sends the Deplorables into frothing, bug-eyed, carpet-biting fits of rage just by existing.
Congratulations to Prime Minister @NarendraModi and his BJP party on their BIG election victory! Great things are in store for the US-India partnership with the return of PM Modi at the helm. I look forward to continuing our important work together!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 23, 2019
no big surprise that the moron is impressed
You guys - her wardrobe consultant is my DAD!
(PS the 55 years-married lovebirds still smooch all the time 🥰) https://t.co/0aRYYG636j— Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) May 23, 2019
Got CL’d on last thread.
RE: Star Trek Picard
I’m a HUGE Trekker/Picard Fan and I’m also stoked to get something that is NOT a prequel.
I’m hoping for some other TNG characters to make an appearance but I don’t want them to go overboard. Riker and Dr. Crusher would be at the top of my list to appear because of their past history with Picard. Data couldn’t because Spiner is too old now (though I suppose they could de-age him).
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
Got CL’d on last thread.
RE: Star Trek Picard
I’m a HUGE Trekker/Picard Fan and I’m also stoked to get something that is NOT a prequel.
I’m hoping for some other TNG characters to make an appearance but I don’t want them to go overboard…. Data couldn’t because Spiner is too old now (though I suppose they could de-age him).
Planned obsolescence
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
Got CL’d on last thread.
RE: Star Trek Picard
I’m a HUGE Trekker/Picard Fan and I’m also stoked to get something that is NOT a prequel.
I’m hoping for some other TNG characters to make an appearance but I don’t want them to go overboard. Riker and Dr. Crusher would be at the top of my list to appear because of their past history with Picard. Data couldn’t because Spiner is too old now (though I suppose they could de-age him).
I thought Data is effectively dead.
Trump is doing what we rather suspected he was going to do: desperately trying to bribe farmers into sticking with the GOP, despite the long-term damage to their ability to export what they grow:
Another ‘Bale Out’: Trump To Pay ‘Patriot Farmers’ Hurting From His Trade War
When the Trump administration announced last year that it was giving farmers hurt by the President’s multi-front trade war a $12 billion “bale out,” the government insisted it would be a one-time event.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced the news in an interview Thursday morning with Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo.
“We’re having another market facilitation program in 2019, once these [trade] talks [with China] broke down,” he said.
“China’s going to pay for this $16 billion through tariffs coming in,” Perdue asserted, before confirming that the money would really be coming from his department’s Commodity Credit Corporation program.
The question now is: are farmers dumb enough to buy into all this?
re: #7 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Trump is doing what we rather suspected he was going to do: desperately trying to bribe farmers into sticking with the GOP, despite the long-term damage to their ability to export what they grow:
Another ‘Bale Out’: Trump To Pay ‘Patriot Farmers’ Hurting From His Trade War
The question now is: are farmers dumb enough to buy into all this?
Yes. Yes they are.
They aren’t going to care about where the money comes from so long as they’re made whole. They wont care that Trump caused them the harm in the first place. They think that this will make them whole now (it wont, since they’re likely losing that business going forward).
re: #7 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
The question now is: are farmers dumb enough to buy into all this?
Of course they are. They’re Magats after all. That species is not known for having deep intellectual capacity.
re: #8 lawhawk
Yes. Yes they are.
They aren’t going to care about where the money comes from so long as they’re made whole. They wont care that Trump caused them the harm in the first place. They think that this will make them whole now (it wont, since they’re likely losing that business going forward).
And they really think it is the Chinese who are paying those import tariffs…
In Kansas, some of the farmers are waking up:
“My biggest frustration is there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. There’s nothing out there giving me a glimmer of hope that commodity prices will increase substantially,” Giessel said. “The Chinese have zero reason to come to the table on this on commodities. Why would they want to do anything different? It’s lowered the price of grains.”
This week soybean prices dropped to a ten-year low of less than $8 a bushel in anticipation of Chinese retaliation to U.S. tariffs next month. Wheat, corn and other Midwest staple crops have also experienced drops in price over the last two years.
“If the stock market took that kind of a blip, there’d be people jumping out of buildings,” said Giessel, vice president of the Kansas Farmers Union.
Trump won both Kansas and Missouri by double digits in 2016 with overwhelming support from farm country, but as the president’s trade war drags on farmers have grown increasingly frustrated.
“Does the Kansas City Star allow you to use the word ‘pissed’?” said Blake Hurst, the president of the Missouri Farm Bureau, when asked how farmers were feeling about the hit to soybeans, the state’s biggest crop.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
Got CL’d on last thread.
RE: Star Trek Picard
I’m a HUGE Trekker/Picard Fan and I’m also stoked to get something that is NOT a prequel.
I’m hoping for some other TNG characters to make an appearance but I don’t want them to go overboard. Riker and Dr. Crusher would be at the top of my list to appear because of their past history with Picard. Data couldn’t because Spiner is too old now (though I suppose they could de-age him).
Data was destroyed in the last movie. They could use the “twin”, but it wouldn’t be the same, so hopefully not.
The key grafs come later in the story:
Trump has floated a $15 billion bailout to help farmers hurt by the tariffs. It’s the second straight year the federal government will have to provide billions in assistance to farmers to help them cope with the trade.
Hurst called the prospect of another bailout financially inadequate and psychologically repulsive for farmers in Missouri.
“If they send us a check, we’ll cash it. But no, we’re not going to be happy about it,” Hurst said. “Whatever program they come up with, no way does it cover our losses.”
Giessel said many farmers weren’t made whole by the administration’s previous $12 billion bailout from last year. “They don’t just need to be swinging a bucket of money out here. It better be targeted and it better be a bigger bucket,” Giessel said.
Jenny Burgess, a first generation farmer who grows soybeans, wheat and corn on her farm near Sterling, Kansas, said she and her husband “don’t want to be government-paid farmers” but they’ll have little choice unless the trade dispute resolves.
“We want to stand on our own two feet,” she said.
The crowd that loved to bellow “GOVERNMENT MOTORS!!!” thinks Trump is awesome because he’s bailed out farmers two years in a row.
I grew up on a farm. Both sides of the family were farmers. Went to a school where during recess, we’d wander over to the barbed-wire fence on the north side, next to the swings, and pet the cows who would gather there to stare at us and moo.
Rural farmers have spent the last 50 years being indoctrinated that the “damn gummint!” is the problem. That people who take gummint checks are the worst sort of scum. Freeloaders. Takers, not makers.
It is deeply humiliating for them to take handouts.
re: #16 Targetpractice
The crowd that loved to bellow “GOVERNMENT MOTORS!!!” thinks Trump is awesome because he’s bailed out farmers two years in a row.
IOKIYAR
re: #15 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Well, had they voted for Clinton, that wouldn’t be a problem. Trump started an idiotic trade war that is costing these farmers dearly.
Clinton wouldn’t have started bulkshit trade wars because she knows how to negotiate without throwing temper tantrums.
Trump’s negotiation style is: extortion, and when that fails, walk out blaming the other side, all while trying to suck up to get them to save face for him.
re: #19 lawhawk
Well, had they voted for Clinton, that wouldn’t be a problem. Trump started an idiotic trade war that is costing these farmers dearly.
Clinton wouldn’t have started bulkshit trade wars because she knows how to negotiate without throwing temper tantrums.
Trump’s negotiation style is: extortion, and when that fails, walk out blaming the other side, all while trying to suck up to get them to save face for him.
and then arranging a bailout on someone else’s nickel
Modi was just re-elected. He’s not a “new” Prime Minister. Maybe if you bothered to educate yourself with current international events you’d already know this. Another ignorant Republican. An embarrassment to America.
— News View (@NewsView100) May 23, 2019
Severe t-storm watch in effect for Southern/Central NJ and Eastern PA and down into the greater DC region through 8pm tonight. Special weather statement issued for Sullivan County in upstate NY.
And within the next hour or so, expect more watches and warnings to come into effect around the NYC metro area (and from Philly all the way through to New Haven and up to Albany and Binghamton).
re: #19 lawhawk
Trump’s negotiation style is: extortion, and when that fails, walk out blaming the other side, all while trying to suck up to get them to save face for him.
There’s a clue in the Kansas story that points to how impeachment happens - the farm states need a 67-vote majority to override Trump’s veto on tariffs. The pressure on the GOP senators in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Dakotas, etc. is ramping up. These are states with tiny populations. Even a few thousand vote swing is enough to cost a senator his seat - the one thing that they actually pay attention to.
So: there is an opportunity there for Senate Dems to do some horsetrading; votes for overriding the tariffs in exchange for impeaching Trump, who by then will have completely destroyed the economies of their home states.
This thread from GOP congressman Justin Amash is freaking brutal.
Mueller’s report describes a consistent effort by the president to use his office to obstruct or otherwise corruptly impede the Russian election interference investigation because it put his interests at risk.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) May 23, 2019
I guess I’m the only one who’s on his last nerve with Democrats who answer questions about Trump’s OBVIOUS, BLATANT racism with waffling like this.
Oh for Pete’s sake. Just freaking say yes. https://t.co/DHCUZWyhsH
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) May 23, 2019
re: #6 Scottish Dragon
I thought Data is effectively dead.
/Trekker Hat on
Yes, Data died at the end of Nemesis.
HOWEVER, there was an extended universe comic book series released in 2009 that depicted events between Nemesis and the 2009 reboot film. I do not know for sure if it’s considered canon but, in that reboot Data was re-integrated by way of B-4 (the android found in Nemesis who he had transferred his memories to) and eventually became Captain of the Enterprise-E. The Picard show will acknowledge the alternate timeline established in the Abrams films, but personally I do feel a Data return is a bit of a stretch in any circumstance.
/Trekker hat off
Somebody just accused me of being a Russian agent because I tweeted that about Buttigieg. WTF.
re: #25 Charles Johnson
I guess I’m the only one who’s on his last nerve with Democrats who answer questions about Trump’s OBVIOUS, BLATANT racism with waffling like this.
Call Trump a racist, and all you get in response is “Democrats are the real racists!” or the like
He just formulated it in a manner that they are too obtuse to counter in any sort of five-word sound byte. I find it a good move.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
In defense of Pete, he’s pretty young and I’m sure he has all kinds of advisers and consultants telling him how to handle these questions. I agree with you, he should have just come right out and said it.
re: #28 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Call Trump a racist, and all you get in response is “Democrats are the real racists!” or the like
He just formulated it in a manner that they are too obtuse to counter in any sort of five-word sound byte. I find it a good move.
The people he was trying to reach by waffling like this don’t understand and could not possibly care less about that distinction.
re: #27 Charles Johnson
Somebody just accused me of being a Russian agent because I tweeted that about Buttigieg. WTF.
Беги, товарищ! они обнаружили вас!
re: #26 Eclectic Cyborg
/Trekker Hat on
Yes, Data died at the end of Nemesis.
HOWEVER, there was an extended universe comic book series released in 2009 that depicted events between Nemesis and the 2009 reboot film. I do not know for sure if it’s considered canon but, in that reboot Data was re-integrated by way of B-4 (the android found in Nemesis who he had transferred his memories to) and eventually became Captain of the Enterprise-E. The Picard show will acknowledge the alternate timeline established in the Abrams films, but personally I do feel a Data return is a bit of a stretch in any circumstances.
/Trekker hat off
Yeah, I could see a guest appearance by Riker, or Dr. Crusher or (hopefully!) Worf.
But that’s it, really.
Call Trump a racist and his supporters will deny it while smiling contentedly in the knowledge that he truly is.
That is the sick part of it all.
re: #33 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Call Trump a racist and his supporters will deny it while smiling contentedly in the knowledge that he is.
Being called a racist is always worse than being a racist in conservaworld.
re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg
I really want to watch it!! We may have to get that channel just for Picard.
re: #34 Scottish Dragon
Being called a racist is always worse than being a racist in conservaworld.
They don’t mind it, they just get to respond with “Your a racist!” and get on with whatever they are doing.
The FBI has seen a significant rise in the number of white supremacist domestic terrorism cases in recent months, a senior counterterrorism official sayshttps://t.co/JZrzm81oqT pic.twitter.com/x4oN9XJ3Lw
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) May 23, 2019
This Nazi shit’s gang gets White House press credentials.
Rick Wiles declares that Christians in America have been enslaved by the Jews: “You’re goyim slaves and I’m trying to provoke a goyim uprising.” https://t.co/I8zGWc4Uqh
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 23, 2019
re: #38 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
This Nazi shit’s gang gets White House press credentials.
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Sounded better in the original German.
In this tweet, the commander-in-chief’s golf course
-marketed itself to U.S. military members and veterans
-tagged verified accounts for the Marine Corps and Coast Guard to make sure they knew about the deal
5/
Via @1100Penn https://t.co/97Vlv6cxgz pic.twitter.com/VcrprAZKuh— Zach Everson (@Z_Everson) May 23, 2019
The $95 military rate is their standard deal.
For comparison, a NY resident can go to Bethpage Black and pay less. https://t.co/eJitja7BVd— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 23, 2019
Television viewers in Mississippi in the era of Massive Resistance (mid-1950s) grew accustomed to seeing screens go blank and fade to a visual—“Sorry, cable trouble”—whenever the local affiliates felt obliged to censure national programming that challenged Jim Crow. https://t.co/DMf2mt8WWy
— Joshua Zeitz (@JoshuaMZeitz) May 23, 2019
re: #15 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
Jenny Burgess, a first generation farmer who grows soybeans, wheat and corn on her farm near Sterling, Kansas, said she and her husband “don’t want to be government-paid farmers” but they’ll have little choice unless the trade dispute resolves.
Putin’s already announced that Russia will supply soybeans to China. So, a resolution of sorts.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 23, 2019
re: #40 lawhawk
Basic conservative business practice of preying on the troops.
NEW: How @TurboTax uses a “Military Discount” to trick troops Into paying to file their taxes — when it should be freehttps://t.co/Kvhqb5G10K
w/ @kengos pic.twitter.com/mIPA7T42Pz— Justin Elliott (@JustinElliott) May 23, 2019
.@kengos and I tested the (heavily promoted) TurboTax Military and (hard to find) TurboTax Free File side by side, using identical income info of a Navy family.
TurboTax Military charge: $159.98
TurboTax Free File charge: $0https://t.co/Kvhqb5G10K— Justin Elliott (@JustinElliott) May 23, 2019
Destroying the all-powerful American agricultural sector, invincible in two world wars and the Cold War, would be an ultimate triumph for Putin and the Russians, better than eliminating our submarine force or our airpower.
Andrew has been found wanting on teh twitters. Don’t be found wanting. pic.twitter.com/wsmdcIw6fV
— Deirdre (@Celticlassy10) May 23, 2019
Falcon 9 and 60 Starlink satellites are vertical on Pad 40. Launch window opens tonight at 10:30 p.m. EDT → https://t.co/gtC39uBC7z pic.twitter.com/166LTfD68M
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 23, 2019
John Lindh, a white man, fought for the Taliban, was part of an uprising that killed a CIA officer. He was released from prison this wk after 17 yrs.
Michael Thompson, a Black man, sold weed. He’s been in a MI prison for 25 yrs, won’t be eligible for parole for 15 more.
America pic.twitter.com/aTTwcObI1Z— Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) May 23, 2019
re: #47 Scottish Dragon
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re: #50 goddamnedfrank
I’d delete that. It could be interpreted as a death threat.
I was wondering. Its silly satire, but you never know.
re: #32 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, I could see a guest appearance by Riker, or Dr. Crusher or (hopefully!) Worf.
But that’s it, really.
The Holodeck brought us Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Leonardo Da Vinci, Sigmund Freud, Mahatma Gandhi, Lord Byron, Socrates. There’s no reason it couldn’t bring us any and all deceased Enterprise crew.
re: #51 Scottish Dragon
Better safe than sorry. :)
re: #52 sagehen
The Holodeck brought us Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Leonardo Da Vinci, Sigmund Freud, Mahatma Gandhi, Lord Byron, Socrates. There’s no reason it couldn’t bring us any and all deceased Enterprise crew.
You left out the Micky Spillane characters.
Trump will be in Tokyo on Memorial Day. (He’ll tour US naval base at Yokosuka that day there to talk with troops.) https://t.co/vMoZoHNhDw
— David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura) May 23, 2019
re: #46 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Destroying the all-powerful American agricultural sector, invincible in two world wars and the Cold War, would be an ultimate triumph for Putin and the Russians, better than eliminating our submarine force or our airpower.
THIS.
Having spent a lot of time in Russia and Eastern Europe, the one thing that they really, really envy, is the sheer amount of food available in US supermarkets. They can’t quite make that work for themselves.
Disrupting America’s food supply would be a dream come true for Vlad and the rest of the KGB gang that control Russia.
A great majority of Indians, forced to inhabit the vast gap between a glossy democratic ideal and a squalid undemocratic reality, have long stored up deep feelings of injury, weakness, inferiority, degradation, inadequacy and envy; these stem from defeats or humiliation suffered at the hands of those of higher status than themselves in a rigid hierarchy.
Jesus wept. There are even parallels to the RWNJ bot-armies that ceaselessly patrol Twitter:
Modi, backed by some of India’s richest people, managed to return to the political mainstream, and, ahead of the 2014 election, he mesmerized aspiring Indians with a flamboyant narrative about his hardscrabble past, and their glorious future. From the beginning, he was careful to present himself to his primary audience of stragglers as one of them: a self-made individual who had to overcome hurdles thrown in his way by an arrogant and venal elite that indulged treasonous Muslims while pouring contempt on salt-of-the-earth Hindus like himself. Boasting of his 56-inch chest, he promised to transform India into an international superpower and to reinsert Hindus into the grand march of history.
Since 2014, Mr. Modi’s near-novelistic ability to create irresistible fictions has been steadily enhanced by India’s troll-dominated social media as well as cravenly sycophantic newspapers and television channels. India’s online population doubled in the five years of Mr. Modi’s rule.
😁😆🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/WsMsOaN5E4
— Anna C Alves🎨 (@AnnaCAAlves17) May 23, 2019
re: #15 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
The key grafs come later in the story:
Trump has floated a $15 billion bailout to help farmers hurt by the tariffs. It’s the second straight year the federal government will have to provide billions in assistance to farmers to help them cope with the trade.
Hurst called the prospect of another bailout financially inadequate and psychologically repulsive for farmers in Missouri.
“If they send us a check, we’ll cash it. But no, we’re not going to be happy about it,” Hurst said. “Whatever program they come up with, no way does it cover our losses.”Giessel said many farmers weren’t made whole by the administration’s previous $12 billion bailout from last year. “They don’t just need to be swinging a bucket of money out here. It better be targeted and it better be a bigger bucket,” Giessel said.
Jenny Burgess, a first generation farmer who grows soybeans, wheat and corn on her farm near Sterling, Kansas, said she and her husband “don’t want to be government-paid farmers” but they’ll have little choice unless the trade dispute resolves.
“We want to stand on our own two feet,” she said.
ive seen some of the interviews “i’ve gotta feed my family”, “our livelihood is being threatened; patriotism is taking care of my own”, etc.
they were fine ‘standing on their own two feet’ and voting R as long as it was other people getting the royal screwing
so while i am sensitive to their individual plights, it’s really more of the same old same old, ‘what about mine’
re: #20 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and then arranging a socialist bailout on someone else’s nickel
just helpin out
— Andrea Chalupa (@AndreaChalupa) May 23, 2019
re: #62 DangerMan
ive seen some of the interviews “i’ve gotta feed my family”, “our livelihood is being threatened; patriotism is taking care of my own”, etc.
they were fine ‘standing on their own two feet’ and voting R as long as it was other people getting the royal screwing
so while i am sensitive to their individual plights, it’s really more of the same old same old, ‘what about mine’
Isn’t about individuals or their plights. The bulk of the pelf will go to LLCs on the stock markets, not Old McDonald and his cow.
For two years, Mike Pompeo has tried to fabricate a close alliance between Iran and AQ, going so far as to weaponize intel, as I wrote in @TheAtlantic. It doesn’t exist. And the lie that it does could be the pretext for war that he has long sought. https://t.co/FFIOHLUfuJ
— Ned Price (@nedprice) May 22, 2019
This shows just how much this administration has already muddied the waters. Al-Qaeda and Iran are ADVERSARIES.
And that’s not just useless trivial. It’s what could help keep this administration from rushing us into war based on irrelevant authorities. https://t.co/rMMJlvifVO— Ned Price (@nedprice) May 21, 2019
re: #24 Scottish Dragon
This thread from GOP congressman Justin Amash is freaking brutal.
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so he apparently read the mostly unredacted (all unredacted?) report in detail
and he’s talking about it (which i thought was a no no if you agreed to read it)
ALL the dems should be lining up asking, begging, demanding to read it no differently than amash did
(yes i know ted lieu sent a letter doing exactly that)
let barr say “no”
re: #56 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
THIS.
Having spent a lot of time in Russia and Eastern Europe, the one thing that they really, really envy, is the sheer amount of food available in US supermarkets. They can’t quite make that work for themselves.
Disrupting America’s food supply would be a dream come true for Vlad and the rest of the KGB gang that control Russia.
While we’re considering the effect of Trump’s policies, it is worth remembering that American agriculture is completely dependent on immigrant labor. I am seeing a pattern here.
re: #62 DangerMan
ive seen some of the interviews “i’ve gotta feed my family”, “our livelihood is being threatened; patriotism is taking care of my own”, etc.
they were fine ‘standing on their own two feet’ and voting R as long as it was other people getting the royal screwing
so while i am sensitive to their individual plights, it’s really more of the same old same old, ‘what about mine’
I think taking gummint money (directly) bothers the shit out of many of those farmers. But Trump has forced them to be what they hated. Sort of poetic justice, really.
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
The White House
✔
@WhiteHouse
“The Mueller Report was conclusive. It said there was no collusion.”
point to where it says that
Pennsylvania special election the other night. Can you see the problem?
Even though the percentage is pathetic the Democrats do worse time after time. The TV and radio around here along with the print is and has been GOP partisan since I moved here. The problems that begat the urban areas, job loss, loss of home value, expenses, have come here slowly.
And this is who voted.
For Rick Santorum in a cheaper suit with the same bullshit.
Proudly. Have to admit, they get it done.
Mobile can’t turn it.
re: #65 Decatur Deb
Isn’t about individuals or their plights. The bulk of the pelf will go to LLCs on the stock markets, not Old McDonald and his cow.
oh i know that; just like the ‘regular’ the subsidies have been for years
my point is that they are interviewing old mcdonald - the (apparently) small, individual, about to fail farmers. and their reaction (ones i saw) was:
- i figured to give him a chance (one said deserved). i never thought this would happen
- i’ll never vote for him again because he’s screwing me
(they wont vote dem. my guess is they dont vote)
- my obligation is to my family
(they still dont give a whit for the country or the rest of the people in it)
re: #11 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
I feel the same concern for farmers that they show for refugees and minorities. Absolutely fucking none.
re: #17 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)
I grew up on a farm. Both sides of the family were farmers. Went to a school where during recess, we’d wander over to the barbed-wire fence on the north side, next to the swings, and pet the cows who would gather there to stare at us and moo.
Rural farmers have spent the last 50 years being indoctrinated that the “damn gummint!” is the problem. That people who take gummint checks are the worst sort of scum. Freeloaders. Takers, not makers.
It is deeply humiliating for them to take handouts.
And they’ll cover that humiliation by doubling down on “the other”. They can’t stand to look in the mirror.
re: #37 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀
The FBI has seen a significant rise in the number of white supremacist domestic terrorism cases in recent months, a senior counterterrorism official says
FBI are the real racists!
re: #46 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel
Destroying the all-powerful American agricultural sector, invincible in two world wars and the Cold War, would be an ultimate triumph for Putin and the Russians, better than eliminating our submarine force or our airpower.
They aren’t destroyed just stripped foreclosed and and sold to rich people who will control price from start to finish.
“Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism.”
— Edwin Mix (@TheEdMix) May 23, 2019
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They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
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Views: 370 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1- Pictures From Today’s Exhibition of Paintings Done by Jane LilienthalPROPS TO MICHELE AND SAGEHEN FOR CATCHING THE SPELLING ERROR IN THE TITLE THAT MY DIABETIC EYES COULDN'T CATCH I wanted to share pictures of the art show I visited today. The portraits were created by the mother of my ...
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... Cheechako
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Views: 559 • Comments: 1 • Rating: 5- A Closer Look at the Eastman State Bar DecisionTaking a few minutes away from work things to read through the Eastman decision. As I'm sure many of you know, Eastman was my law school con law professor. I knew him pretty well because I was also running in ...KGxvi
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Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
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The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
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