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 I've been contacted by the Trump transition team to hold some sort of position within the USDA

  
Via:  John Russell  •  2 weeks ago  •  23 comments


 I've been contacted by the Trump transition team to hold some sort of position within the USDA
 Perhaps we'll eliminate federal involvement in education, from kindergarten to college.  Make every teacher accountable to performance.  Eliminate ALL federal intervention in the food system, in farming, in energy.  The Constitution (read it) doesn't allow for any of this and it's time to examine all of it.  Shut down foreign military bases; bring them all home.  Stop ALL foreign aid, from USAID to military aid.  Sell stuff is fine; giving it isn't. 

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The deplorables and garbage people won again.  Can you believe it? 

                  I've been contacted by the Trump transition team to hold some sort of position within the USDA and have accepted one of the six "Advisor to the Secretary" spots.  My favorite congressman, Thomas Massie from Kentucky, has agreed to go in as Secretary of Agriculture.

                  He's been the sponsor of the PRIME ACT, which, if pushed through, would be the biggest shot across the bow of the entrenched industrial meat processing system we've seen in a century.  Let liberty ring.  Wouldn't that be a change of fortune for Big Ag? 

                  If RFK Jr. goes in as Sec. of Health and Human Services, everything will be inverted.  Talk about the coolest turn about.  He'd be the boss of the Faucis and Francis Collins--the whole covid anti-science crowd.  Wouldn't that be a change of fortune for Big Pharma?

                  And if Elon Musk goes in as a Government Waste Czar, do you think he could possibly find something?   

                  Here's an interesting tidbit.  All the income taxes in the U.S. are $2 trillion a year.  Government spending and borrowing are so out of control that if we eliminated $2 trillion from the budget, it would only set us back to 2020.  Does anyone think returning to government spending in 2020 would destroy things?  Of course not.  So all we have to do is cut federal spending to 2020 levels and we can eliminate income tax.  Period.  Done.  How would that make you feel?

                  Most people don't know enough history to know that the federal government was to be financed entirely from tariffs and excise taxes.  In fact, as a nation we operated just fine for nearly 150 years without an income tax.  The only president who eliminated the national debt was Andrew Jackson, and he did it by eliminating the second bank of the U.S.  Nearly 100 years later we got the third bank, known as the Federal Reserve, plus the income tax. 

                  During that time, tariffs averaged 40-50 percent.  After the income tax, tariffs dropped to an average of about 7 percent, where they remain today.  If we went back to 40 percent, like we had for nearly 150 years, we would bring production home and free our citizens from impoverishing taxes. 

                  Dear folks, this is a watershed moment to take a creative and serious look at the sacred cows in our nation and fry some serious burgers. We don't know history.  We don't know liberty.  We don't know earthworms or aquifers or immune systems.  I'm hoping this election is an opening to discovery.  Perhaps we could even figure out how to put negative occurrences like jails, pollution, and cancer on the nation's balance sheet, as a liability rather than an asset (Gross Domestic Product--more jails?  wonderful, pour more concrete and make more jobs).  

                  Perhaps we'll eliminate federal involvement in education, from kindergarten to college.  Make every teacher accountable to performance.  Eliminate ALL federal intervention in the food system, in farming, in energy.  The Constitution (read it) doesn't allow for any of this and it's time to examine all of it.  Shut down foreign military bases; bring them all home.  Stop ALL foreign aid, from USAID to military aid.  Sell stuff is fine; giving it isn't. 

                  I think whatever taxes we pay should be able to be designated to certain departments.  That way we the people could support or defund departments directly.  The reason we have K street is because all our freedoms are for sale.  Eliminate government manipulation and the lobbyists all go home.  These are simple things.  Let's do it.







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JohnRussell
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1  seeder  JohnRussell    2 weeks ago

This person has previously made disparaging remarks about black farmers and Native Americans.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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2  seeder  JohnRussell    2 weeks ago
Celebrity farmer Joel Salatin, known to many from Michael Pollan’s best-selling book  The Omnivore’s Dilemma , was one of the most influential figures in the local food movement. So it was a blow to many of his fans when his history of appallingly racist remarks and bigotry toward people of color became public knowledge. After an ongoing social media dispute,  Mother Earth News,  the go-to publication for devotees of the local and sustainable, cut all ties with Salatin in 2020. When localism becomes nationalism | The Christian Century
 
 
 
JohnRussell
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3  seeder  JohnRussell    2 weeks ago
 Stop ALL foreign aid, from USAID   (food)  to military aid.  Sell stuff is fine; giving it isn't. 

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( In fiscal year 2018, USAID provided over $3.7 billion in emergency and development food assistance to the poorest corners of the world 3 .
 
 
 
JohnRussell
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3.1  seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  JohnRussell @3    2 weeks ago
Sell stuff is fine; giving it isn't. 

Do the MAGAs here object to giving food to poor people ? 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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4  seeder  JohnRussell    2 weeks ago
“I stand ready and willing to help the President with any part of his bold agenda to focus on the health and well being of Americans, but I have received no commitments or offers from President Trump’s team, and any discussion of the transition are premature,” Massie said.

His statement comes after Joel Salatin, a self-described “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer” who runs Polyface Farms in western Virginia,  wrote on his blog  that Massie would be Agriculture secretary in the Trump administration.

“I’ve been contacted by the Trump transition team to hold some sort of position within the USDA and have accepted one of the six ‘Advisor to the Secretary’ spots. My favorite congressman, Thomas Massie from Kentucky, has agreed to go in as Secretary of Agriculture,” Salatin said.

Massie signals he is open to agriculture role in Trump administration
 
 
 
JohnRussell
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5  seeder  JohnRussell    2 weeks ago

and so it begins

 
 
 
GregTx
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5.1  GregTx  replied to  JohnRussell @5    2 weeks ago

Hmmmm...

 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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5.2  Right Down the Center  replied to  JohnRussell @5    2 weeks ago

Who was it that said  "elections have consequences "?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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5.2.1  seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Right Down the Center @5.2    2 weeks ago
Joel Salatin, a self-described “Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer”

I can think of better consequences. When a Christian publication says you're racist you're probably racist. 

 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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5.2.2  Right Down the Center  replied to  JohnRussell @5.2.1    2 weeks ago

What makes the publication an expert on racism?

 
 
 
Tacos!
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5.2.3  Tacos!  replied to  Right Down the Center @5.2.2    2 weeks ago

Do you really need to be an expert?

 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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5.2.4  Right Down the Center  replied to  Tacos! @5.2.3    2 weeks ago

Seems that way since so many call people racist, Nazi, fascist and lots of other things incorrectly 

 
 
 
Tacos!
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5.2.5  Tacos!  replied to  Right Down the Center @5.2.4    2 weeks ago
Seems that way since so many call people racist, Nazi, fascist and lots of other things incorrectly 

So you’re an expert then?

 
 
 
goose is back
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5.2.6  goose is back  replied to  Tacos! @5.2.5    2 weeks ago
So you’re an expert then?

Did he say he was? He asked a simple question, if the publication is an expert.  

 
 
 
Tacos!
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5.2.7  Tacos!  replied to  goose is back @5.2.6    2 weeks ago
Did he say he was?

Did I say he said he was? No, but his comments indicate he may think he is. So, I asked for clarification.

He has declared that people are called “racist, Nazi, fascist and lots of other things incorrectly.” He also says there is perhaps a need for expertise. 

So, expertise is asked for, and yet judgment is also made - by the same person. Ergo, he may consider himself to be an expert.

He asked a simple question

So did I. Still waiting for an answer. For some reason, you think that’s ok for him, but not for me. Maybe instead of white-knighting, you’d like to opine on the necessity of expertise when accusing someone of racism. That is the topic, after all.

 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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5.2.8  Right Down the Center  replied to  Tacos! @5.2.5    2 weeks ago

Are you suggesting the use of those names in the last several months have been used correctly? 

 
 
 
Tacos!
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5.2.9  Tacos!  replied to  Right Down the Center @5.2.8    2 weeks ago
Are you suggesting the use of those names in the last several months have been used correctly? 

I made no such assessment either way. But you did. Then you suggested one should maybe be an expert to make such a judgment. So I ask again. Are you an expert?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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6  seeder  JohnRussell    2 weeks ago
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Trump gave Kennedy two yrs for measurable results in American health, and Kennedy is going to Deliver. No more vaccine immunity, GMOs, Pesticides, Fluoridation banned, FDA, CDC and FTC Gone. Adding Joel Salatin
 
 
 
Right Down the Center
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6.1  Right Down the Center  replied to  JohnRussell @6    2 weeks ago

Gee that is not what Kennedy said on an interview today.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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6.2  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  JohnRussell @6    2 weeks ago

I suggest that people start flossing and brushing their teeth 5 times a day, when they get up and wash, after breakfast, after lunch, after dinner and before going to bed, because dentistry may become the most lucrative profession, even beating personal injury lawyers.  And be careful not to slip and fall on the freshly washed floors of the hospital when you visit your grandson who's in an iron lung, and your granddaughter, who was born with no arms.  

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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7  seeder  JohnRussell    2 weeks ago
 Perhaps we'll eliminate federal involvement in education, from kindergarten to college.  Make every teacher accountable to performance.  Eliminate ALL federal intervention in the food system, in farming, in energy.  The Constitution (read it) doesn't allow for any of this and it's time to examine all of it.  Shut down foreign military bases; bring them all home.  Stop ALL foreign aid, from USAID to military aid.  Sell stuff is fine; giving it isn't. 
I guess anachro capitalists  (aka far right libertarians) think the time is ripe to make their move. I know they can outsmart Trump. 
 
 
 
Hal A. Lujah
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8  Hal A. Lujah    2 weeks ago

384 384

 
 
 
Trout Giggles
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9  Trout Giggles    2 weeks ago

Nicholas Fuentes can go fuck himself. There! That's a choice he can make with his own body. Not mine

 
 

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