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Hardworking farmers everywhere can take heart that the masses readily see that most Democrat politicians are full of what they fertilize their land with: MANURE!

Farmers Feed Cities, Democrats Feed Hatred

By Judi McLeod ——--February 21, 2020

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Farmers Feed Cities, Democrats Feed HatredWhen 2020 presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg was a little boy, as opposed to the little man he grew up to be, he was sustained by the same milk millions of little boys the world over drank and by other fresh farm products raised and nurtured by the same farmers he tried to ridicule circa 2016.
Money doesn’t just talk, it shouts and screams as loud as Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Bloomberg, who has enough of it to buy his way into the presidency, is hinting that he will bring Hillary Clinton onto his ticket as vice president. While Bloomberg can say what he wants about the agriculture industry, it’s still a fact of life that “Farms Feed Cities”—including the one he served as mayor for three terms. But not all of Bloomberg’s mega billions can possibly bury the elitist words he used to describe agriculture at the University of Oxford” A “viral 58-second clip, seen more than 3.5 million times on Twitter alone since Friday, was lifted from a 2016 appearance at the University of Oxford in England in which Bloomberg, speaking to a group at the Said Business School, offered this succinct description of agriculture: "I could teach anybody—even people in this room so no offense intended—to be a farmer. It's a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.” (Newsweek, Feb. 19, 2020 )
Speaking about holes, what Bloomberg did in 2016 was digging a hole of his own and jumping right into it. ‘Mike Bloomberg's "elitist" farming comments could be the Hillary Clinton "deplorables" moment that poses the biggest threat to his campaign’. (Newsweek)
“Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg takes the stage tonight in Las Vegas for his first nationally televised debate with fellow Democratic presidential candidates amid new controversy over a one-minute video in which the billionaire describes farming in overly simplistic and, some say, insulting terms. The development, many pundits believe, could pose the biggest threat to Bloomberg's nascent campaign yet, on par with Hillary Clinton's 2016 comments dismissing some Trump supporters as "deplorables"—remarks that have been described as a "political gift" to her opponent. “Even more than a recent stampede of negative headlines about Bloomberg—which include tales of sexual harassment lawsuits, insults about black people and women and criticism about allegedly racist stop-and-frisk police policies during his three terms in office—the farming remarks could prove devastating, observers say. The reason: They provide a powerful visual Trump can use to paint Bloomberg as a condescending coastal elitist to working-class swing voters in the heartland who might otherwise reject the incumbent. "This is very damning because it'll fit neatly into a commercial where Bloomberg will look uninformed and patronizing compared to Trump, who says he's the man of the people—the people who do the real work in the country," says Kent Redfield, political science professor emeritus at University of Illinois at Springfield, who has long studied the politics of agriculture.”

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“Bloomberg's camp is complaining that the remarks were taken out of context and exploited by his rivals, specifically Democratic presidential front-runner Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. In a statement, campaign manager Kevin Sheekey pointed out that the clip leaves off "Mike's first sentence where he is referring to agrarian society that lasted 3,000 years, not farmers today.” “Yet the full version of the video does not do much to clarify what Bloomberg is trying to say about the place of farming in the modern economy or demonstrate he understands how highly technological and data-driven agriculture is today. “After his synopsis of how to grow corn, Bloomberg went on to say: "At one point, 98 percent of the world worked in agriculture; today it's 2 percent in the United States. Now comes the information economy, and the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing people with technology...You have to have a lot more gray matter.”
Even “gray matter” cannot stop technology’s surge of Fake News. But Bloomberg didn’t just give leeway to Sanders, he gave television viewers an opportunity to see duelling Dems doing what they do best during last night’s televised televised debate— a screech fest that didn’t cost Daddy Warbucks a dime. Elizabeth Warren’s leeway, which sent her in for the kill to hammer Bloomberg for his alleged sealing off of nondisclosure agreements from people surrounding him, was her most opportune moment to date to try to salvage her failing presidential campaign.
If anything last night’s raucous debate proved that all Democrat presidential hopefuls are “tone deaf” candidates. “Redfield and others say Bloomfield's remarks are of a piece with the way other presidential contenders' comments have become emblematic of alleged disdain for average voters. (Newsweek)
“In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama spent months fending off attacks first from rival Clinton and then from GOP nominee John McCain for describing some out-of-work Midwesterners as "bitter" people who "cling to guns and religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them." Four years later, the Obama campaign exploited a remark from GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in which Romney said he'd written off 47 percent of American voters as Obama supporters who "pay no income tax.” “And then, of course, perhaps the most famous (or infamous) comment of them all: In 2016, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton struggled to recover after suggesting that half of Trump supporters belong in a "basket of deplorables," who are "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic.”
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Democrats are hoping that the masses won’t realize that they’re ALL SAYING THE SAME THING. Unlike political Democrat demagogues, farmers make their living from the sweat of their brows. Their days are on average from sunrise to sunset, plagued by sometimes trigger-happy Bureau of Land Management and other pencil-pushing bureaucrats; having their cows and other livestock blamed for global warming/climate change. We would all be lost without farmers and far better off— in every way—from the political crop of our day. Meanwhile, hardworking farmers everywhere can take heart that the masses readily see that most Democrat politicians are full of what they fertilize their land with: MANURE!

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Judi McLeod—— -- Judi McLeod, Founder, Owner and Editor of Canada Free Press, is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years’ experience in the print and online media. A former Toronto Sun columnist, she also worked for the Kingston Whig Standard. Her work has appeared throughout the ‘Net, including on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.

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