Day: June 4, 2025

Farming Ain’t Easy

Americans farmers are looking at dismal time….tariffs and loss of business is straining their very existence….and the government is really not stepping up to help protect our struggling farmers.

Times are tough for many Americans and even worse for the farmers that we depend on for our food supply.

A quick look at recent ‘deals’…..

“I thought it would be easier by now.” So says Jacob Thomas of the 10 years he and wife Jennifer have spent farming land in northeast Kansas. Their 70-year-old family farm—spanning 15 acres of vegetables and over 500 acres for hay and livestock—relies in part on farmers markets and federal programs to stay afloat. This year, the couple absorbed an $8,000 loss—a 10% hit to them—after the Trump administration cut $1 billion from a pair of federal programs that routed locally grown and raised produce and meat to schools and food banks. A separate $750,000 federal agriculture grant they planned to use to build a warehouse that would allow them to expand their business was paused.

Though the grant was later reinstated, construction costs have since gone up and the building timeline has changed, putting the project “in limbo,” writes Annie Gowen for the Washington Post. Gowen touches on the underlying political tension: Many in this Republican-leaning area voted for Trump and are feeling frustrated by the administration’s moves and, in the case of Thomas, let down by their own local congressmen.

“Historically, if you got a government contract, we’re golden, because the government always pays,” Jacob said. “For the first time in my life, I don’t trust the government is going to follow through on their word.” The family’s woes are spilling out of the financial realm: Gowen notes Jacob started treatment for depression and anxiety last fall; “financial insecurity makes my depression worse,” he says. Jennifer now avoids discussing finances in front of their two young daughters.

I recall back in the day when Donny pledged to help the American farmer…..so fare I have not seen any help on the horizon…..

Donald Trump may have won the votes of the US’s most farming-dependent counties by an average of 78% in the 2024 election. But the moves made by his administration in the past few months – imposing steep tariffs, immigration policies that target the migrant labor farmers rely on, and canceling a wide range of USDA programs – have left many farmers reeling.

“The policies of the Trump administration are wreaking havoc on family farmers. It’s been terrible,” said John Bartman, a row crop farmer in Illinois. Bartman is owed thousands of dollars for sustainable practices he implemented on his row crop operation as part of the USDA’s Climate-Smart program.

And he’s not the only one. Other farmers across the country are reporting that the Trump administration’s policies have destroyed their markets by ending programs that help farmers sell their produce to local schools and food banks; implementing draconian immigration policies that destabilize the farm labor pool; and generally creating volatility that makes it hard for farmers to plan ahead.

(check it out…..)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/23/trump-farmers-policy

Tariffs and loss of agriculture is just what some greedy Fat Cats are counting on….

Do we turn our backs on American farmers?

The administration has.

How can any farmer still support this lying scumbag?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Is Elmo Crapping In His Moccasins?

By now we all know what a douche bag Musk is….even the allegations of drug use….but while in DC he snuggled up to Donny’s crotch and did all the stuff that was needed to make sure that all his enterprises would be very profitable and then he split while the going was good.

Now that Elmo was left the world of Donny he has started bad mouthing the “One Big Beautiful Bill”, tax tax cut bill that is being sold as something good for us all (a steaming pile of horse manure is the best way to describe it)…..

Elmo is rubbing the cobra’s butt with irritant about this bill….

Last week, as he prepared to exit his DC role, Elon Musk told CBS News that he was “disappointed” in the Big Beautiful Bill that passed the House to pay for President Trump’s domestic agenda. That comment was restrained compared to the criticism he leveled on Tuesday:

  • “I’m sorry, but I just can’t stand it anymore,” he wrote on his X platform, reports CNBC. “This massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill is a disgusting abomination. Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”
  • Musk’s big complaint is that the bill would add to the budget deficit, and he cited a figure of $2.5 trillion. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the spending package—now under consideration in the Senate—would add $2.3 trillion to federal budget deficits over the next decade, reports Fox Business. GOP Sen. Rand Paul, meanwhile, puts the figure at closer to $5 trillion. It’s why he’s promising to vote against the measure in the Senate, per Fox News.

 

Why the change in heart from this tool?

Greenland Once Again

Here we go again!

It all began with Donny thumping his chest like a sex craved primate about the US need to take Greenland from Denmark…..and since the election the moves have been something to watch….

The newest move is to switch Greenland control from European Command to Northern Command….

The Pentagon is expected to soon shift responsibility for Greenland from US European Command to US Northern Command, according to officials familiar with the plan. Sources tell Politico that the change could happen as soon as this week. While the move is mostly symbolic, Northern Command oversees North American security and could integrate Greenland more closely into US missile defense plans, including the Golden Dome radar network. Politico describes the shift as “the most concrete step yet” in President Trump’s efforts to take control of the autonomous Danish territory.

The transfer has not been formally communicated to the Danish government, according to Politico’s sources, potentially generating friction with Denmark and raising concerns among NATO allies about US intentions in the Arctic. The shift would separate Greenland operationally from Denmark and the Faroe Islands, both of which remain under European Command. It follows a broader review of the Pentagon’s command structure and comes as US leaders cite Greenland’s geographic location as critical for monitoring Russia and China and enhancing missile defense coverage.

The US already maintains a military presence at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, which Vice President JD Vance visited in March. Earlier this year, Danish officials committed $2 billion to Greenland security projects to address US concerns, but skepticism remains in Europe over Trump’s Arctic ambitions. Trump has said he would not rule out military action to secure Greenland. “I don’t rule it out. I don’t say I’m going to do it, but I don’t rule out anything,” he said last month, per the Hill. “We need Greenland very badly.”

What is the intentions of Donny and his little group of idiots?

Why the need?

We have about a gazillion satellites that could be used for many of the ‘needs’ that this administration says it needs….

Denmark should stand up to this flippin’ bully and just say Hell NO!

Is the US expanding its desire for imperial expansion?

This is a pathetic waste of energy in my book.

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”