nedboy7

You people are ignorant. Moving on from Covid, the conspiratorial wing of the populist Right has a new cause célèbre on which to hang its fears of global governance and the Great Reset purportedly being plotted by Klaus Schwab from his Alpine lair. This time, it’s Dutch farmers, whose protests against their government’s plans to force them to curb their use of nitrogen-based fertilisers and lower the polluted runoff from their farms has seen them lauded by Right-wing commentators across the Anglosphere as some form of modern peasants’ revolt. As a recent UnHerd explainer made clear, the Dutch government may have handled the process badly, but the problems are clear enough: the Netherlands’ hyper-intensive form of agriculture is ecologically untenable, severely harming the tiny country’s biodiversity and locking the country’s agricultural sector into a system of overproduction of livestock for export. This entails dangerously low profit margins for farmers themselves, and a system reliant on imports of chemical fertilisers. Partly as a result of the country’s painful experience of famine during the Second World War, Dutch agriculture has long pursued maximum efficiency, making the Netherlands a food exporting powerhouse second only to the vastly larger United States, but locking farmers into a cycle of dependency on globalised agribusinesses. All of the UK’s problems with intensive farming practices that have lowered farmers’ incomes while harming animal welfare and polluting Britain’s landscape are displayed to a significantly heightened degree in the Netherlands. The country’s food production system relies on what are essentially green factories or giant warehouses for livestock, packing animals together four times more densely than in the UK, rather than the small family farms many outside supporters seem to imagine. The current system in the Netherlands is simply unsustainable, but the Dutch government’s abrupt approach to solving the problem has turned it into a political crisis. As the Dutch spokesperson for the World Wildlife Fund, Natasja Oerlemans observes, the problems now are “the result of 30 years of inaction, despite all of the scientific reports and warnings”. “We as a society have allowed this broken food system to happen,” she added, “and we are responsible for providing farmers alternatives”. As the Guardian noted last year, while the Dutch government’s proposals include paying off farmers to reduce production or leave the industry, it also includes billions of Euros of aid designed towards “helping others transition to more extensive (as opposed to intensive) methods of farming, with fewer animals and a bigger area of land”. The goal of the Dutch government’s proposals is aimed to bring Dutch farming closer in line to British farming, where herds of cows roam freely on wide pastures, and away from the American agribusiness model, where cattle live on feedlots eating imported grain. However badly the transition has been handled — and Dutch farmers should be better supported in their shift to a more sustainable model — this goal is, in itself, a welcome shift towards a better functioning food model. Excitable conservatives of a conspiratorial bent should think carefully about which they prefer: a world of small farms producing high-quality food while shepherding the natural environment, or the continuation of a fragile, globalised food system in hock to giant corporations.

I thought the Turmper idiots were supposed to be preparing for a civil war. I just wonder who they are supposed to be in a war with?

Some folks here need to educate themselves. https://www.thebalance.com/democrats-vs-republicans-which-is-better-for-the-economy-4771839 https://www.thebalance.com/what-recession-economy-added-528-000-jobs-in-july-6373981

45th potus is clearly going down. Finally a maga moment.

yeah. He is a liberal. Probably the most respected investor in America is a democrat.

https://www.predictwise.com/blog/republicans-hate-the-constitution

"help the people who broke into his house" that's like a cool Tucker spin. I bet they were Antifa.

I think they planned everything the Trumptards need to define as "fake" for their reality to function.

The stock market goes up and down. Don't panic.

I mean they planned the "raid" of the moron. Who knows?

Pretty sure the cult is mentally unstable since Biden took over. So you are doing better. Good for you.

Word is Trumpers want a civil war now. Over some files.

He owns your brain. That senile old man. LOL.

If he is doing everything you cry about he is definitely a stable genius. Fake raid done by Trump's hand picked man. Come on. Everyone can see this.

He is senile yet brilliantly evil! bwaahahahahahhahahahaha Maybe Antifa did it? No! Qanon! Or was the caravan of immigrants from Honduras. A banana republic is when you cry about every election being rigged before they take place. And if you win they were not rigged!! haha take your bs out of here.

https://www.businessinsider.com/congress-stock-act-violations-senate-house-trading-2021-9#sen-sheldon-whitehouse-a-democrat-from-rhode-island-6 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/gop-senator-called-his-brother-in-law-minutes-later-they-both-dumped-stocks-ahead-of-covid-crash-1249567/ 2,596 Trades in One Term: Inside Senator Perdue’s Stock Portfolio The Georgia Republican’s stock trades have far outpaced those of his Senate colleagues and have included a range of companies within his Senate committees’ oversight, an analysis shows.

I wonder what they will do for water? It's not a raid. My god. Calm down with your BS takes. “I don’t know,” Mr. Trump said. “I haven’t really been following it too much. I just wish her well, frankly.” “I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they lived in Palm Beach,” the president continued, referring to the Florida town where his Mar-a-Lago resort is and where Mr. Epstein had a home. “But I wish her well, whatever it is.” It was 1992, and Mr. Houraney had flown two dozen or so women in for what was supposed to be a “calendar girl” competition at Mar-a-Lago. The only guests, it turned out, were Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein. Mr. Houraney, who at the time had just teamed up with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, was taken aback. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s,’” he recalled. “‘You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”

Early reports that the F.B.I. search of former President Donald J. Trump’s residence in Florida related to an investigation into whether he had unlawfully taken government files when he left the White House focused attention on an obscure criminal law barring removal of official records. The penalties for breaking that law include disqualification from holding any federal office. Specifically, the law in question — Section 2071 of Title 18 of the United States Code — makes it a crime if someone who has custody of government documents or records “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies or destroys” them. If convicted, defendants can be fined or sentenced to prison for up to three years. In addition, the statute says, if they are currently in a federal office, they “shall forfeit” that office, and they shall “be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.”

Your cult leader is going down. Even Republicans have had enough of this clown. Try blaming Antifa maybe? Typical Trumper thinking. Biden is so dumb and old he is basically useless, yet he is clearly running every department in the entire world! bwahahahahahaha.

I suspect this is a fake raid that Trump approved who still secretly runs the government to boost his image. Little bit of fox spice.

Unfortunately I think you are very close to the truth here. Hurts me to say. I think the order is here. The idea that the order is coming is the illusion. It has been established. But recently the right is starting to act like a cult. Try to get a Trumper to tell you something they didn't like about him. "oh I wish he would tweet less". Trumpers are a new breed, not really Republicans.

He is now. This is beyond dumb. Yeah sorry you can't try to overturn an election without consequences. It's gonna be a entertaining day on here pretty soon when Garland drops the hammer. Too bad they did not approve him to the Supreme Joke.

You are a classy man Irv. You are a mental patient.

So why didn't Trump lock up Hillary. Let's ask ######ed questions.

The Senate Intelligence Committee should be applauded for releasing the fifth and final volume of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. With over 200 witness interviews and roughly 1 million documents reviewed, the nearly 1,000-page report documents in detail the comprehensive campaign conducted by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his proxies to seek influence within President Donald Trump's campaign, help Trump win the 2016 presidential election and amplify polarization and division within American society. Far from a hoax, as the president so often claimed, the report reveals how the Trump campaign willingly engaged with Russian operatives implementing the influence effort. For instance, the report exposes interactions and information exchanged between Russian intelligence officer Konstantin Kilimnik and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. According to the report, campaign figures “presented attractive targets for foreign influence, creating notable counterintelligence vulnerabilities.” (Manafort was later convicted of tax and bank fraud.) The bipartisan tone of the majority of the report, released by a committee chaired by Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, should be welcomed by all Americans who want our elected leaders to protect American sovereignty. National security should never be a partisan issue. But that is not my point. Anyone who starts to suggest any election they lose is rigged is aiming towards a dictatorship.