Comments on: Why Hasn’t Trump Nominated a Secretary of Agriculture?

By: Badgerite

Badgerite — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:21:00 +0000

Sony Perdue. Good God.
Comment by Dr. Scott Lemieux of Lawyers, Guns and Money.
“trump could nominate a barrel of cow shit with a confederate flag stuck into it to a cabinet post and get 52 yea votes.”
Pretty much. The death of standards. Government of the party, by the party, for the party.

By: muselet

muselet — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:17:00 +0000

“Agriculture is too important to use as a dumping ground for political correctness.”

I’d have thought familiarity with agricultural issues would be more important than the (lack of) color of the nominee’s skin, but apparently not. (Yes, yes, Sonny Perdue has been involved in ag for years, but he runs a huge corporation. It’s not like he’s up at oh-dark-thirty to milk the cows and collect the eggs on the family farm.)

And nutritional assistance programs are the only thing keeping a lot of small farmers from going under. I wonder if anyone out there in RealMurca realizes that.

–alopecia

By: Draxiar

Draxiar — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:45:00 +0000

I read an article in Vox about a woman who, much to her credit, is remorseful of her vote for trump. She went into the reasons she did vote for him and it was mostly due to the cost of the ACA for her and her belief that trump could do better. I don’t dismiss her claims of cost as being anything other than genuine and it was very likely one of those things that could have been improved upon in the law if given a chance. Her remorse stemmed from the fact that trump was dismissing his campaign promises so easily. It wasn’t that she agreed with those promises- by her own account she was a swing voter- it was his use of them as a clever tool to get what he wanted…the manipulation game. She’s now vowed to do everything she can to make up for her breach in critical judgment.

I’m glad she’s come around and I hope to see more like her. I’m also baffled at how she fell for such horseshit to begin with. In this age of information, media, long election cycles, and the cascade of trumpoids (like factoids but concerning trump), ignorance was and remains a choice.

By: Aynwrong

Aynwrong — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:33:00 +0000

So what this story really says is old White farmers spend so much time around farm animals, they couldn’t smell the mountains of horse manure that was selling them. Sounds like a brief synopsis of the last fifty years of Republican voting patterns.

Tragic. For the rest of us I mean.

By: swift_4

swift_4 — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 18:39:00 +0000

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By: Ipecac

Ipecac — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 18:17:00 +0000

Holy frak. The ONLY reason to these horrible people a non-white guy would be nominated is for political correctness. Jebus H. Christ.