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Beto O'Rourke wants farmers to hand over their 'fair share' of crops to stop AGW (T)
americanthinker.com ^ | 4/9/2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 04/09/2019 3:45:03 PM PDT by rktman

Campaigning for president in Iowa, Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke thinks farmers need to do their "fair share" to combat global warming, handing over some of their crops to save the Earth.

Kid you not. According to Breitbart News:

Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Robert "Beto" O'Rourke proposed Friday in Iowa that the U.S. "allow" farmers to give up their "fair share" of crops to fight climate change.

O'Rourke stood aloft as he proclaimed his message at a rally in Marshalltown, Iowa Friday:

If we allow farmers to earn a profit in what they grow, if we allow them to contribute their fair share in combatting Climate Change by growing cover crops, allowing the technologies that invest in precision tilling and farming, capturing more of that carbon out of the air is another way in which they can make a profit. Keep those farms together, pass them on to the next generation, and allow them to provide us our food and national security, our independence from the rest of the world, our ability to provide for the rest of the world.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2020election; beto; betoorourke; dems; election2020; farmers; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; iowa; irishmexican; marshalltown; orourke; texas; totaltool; whitey; whiteyorourke
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To: rktman

What was that Russian dude’s name... Lysenko or some such thing...


21 posted on 04/09/2019 3:57:59 PM PDT by OKSooner ("...cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war..." - Marcus Antonius, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I)
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To: rktman

If we allow farmers to (stay in business),...….. (we will) allow them to provide us our food...……………


connect the dots.


22 posted on 04/09/2019 3:58:04 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: rktman

If “Beat Down” O’Rourke really wants to combat AGW, maybe he and all the other Demo-rat “candidates” should just STFU! With all the CO2 they expend while blathering on and on (and on and on) about their “we’re progressives, not Marxists” ideas, it’s a wonder that the permafrost at the North Pole hasn’t melted!


23 posted on 04/09/2019 4:00:25 PM PDT by ssaftler (The opinions expressed here have not been peer reviewed, fact checked or focus group tested.)
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To: rktman

Communist philosophy: “We will take things away from you for the common good”


24 posted on 04/09/2019 4:02:01 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: rktman

Kermit does the beto.

25 posted on 04/09/2019 4:03:09 PM PDT by JPG (MAGA!)
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To: dp0622

One thinks that the problem might have to do with his use of the word “allow”.

Plus, those farmers in Iowa will recognize his talk as a modern iteration of Lysenkoism - a fake, fraudulent agricultural method promoted by a quack named Lysenko in the old USSR...


26 posted on 04/09/2019 4:03:35 PM PDT by OKSooner ("...cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war..." - Marcus Antonius, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I)
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To: OKSooner

Lysenko sounds like a Soviet disinfectant.


27 posted on 04/09/2019 4:06:38 PM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: rktman

They should grow Belgian endives.


28 posted on 04/09/2019 4:10:13 PM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: rktman

I may change my political party affiliation.

Beto (Bobby) O’Rouke is the man!


29 posted on 04/09/2019 4:10:38 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: rktman

I think it’s time to start prosecuting the fearmongers.

Fraud!


30 posted on 04/09/2019 4:13:16 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: rktman

That’s funny, so the farms become collective farms like the Soviet Union had, and failed


31 posted on 04/09/2019 4:14:00 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: rktman
If we allow farmers to earn a profit in what they grow, if we allow them to contribute their fair share in combatting Climate Change by growing cover crops

Mighty white of him to allow farmers to keep their profits.

Maybe this Beta male will think about farmers are ALREADY are fighting "Global Warming" by keeping their land in agricultural use and not converted into asphalt and concrete.

Maybe we should be paid for not turning it into another "asphalt jungle" and liberals only can paid this tax.

I like this idewal better.
32 posted on 04/09/2019 4:15:18 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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So “cover crops” absorb more CO2 than corn? What a dope.


33 posted on 04/09/2019 4:16:33 PM PDT by Drago
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To: rktman

This guy takes the “dumb barrel” goes to the bottom of it, knocks the bottom out, digs a 6 foot hole to set the new “dumb standard”!


34 posted on 04/09/2019 4:17:39 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Doogle

With him between the tractors.


35 posted on 04/09/2019 4:17:54 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: dp0622
allowing the technologies that invest in precision tilling and farming, capturing more of that carbon out of the air is another way in which they can make a profit.

What this Beta Male is suggesting farmers are already doing. (precision tilling and farming)

But what he and AOC really want is cattlemen to put taxes on heads of cows to account for all that "free range methane" from cow belches. And feeding them seaweed ain't going to be feasible for cattlemen in Wyoming or Tennessee to ship in from the coasts.
36 posted on 04/09/2019 4:22:26 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: rktman

Why don’t we all just eat shit in a bowl instead of food? No need for farmers then.


37 posted on 04/09/2019 4:23:54 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Disambiguator
"Lysenko sounds like a Soviet disinfectant.”

Well his policies certainly help (ethnically)cleanse a whole lot of the Soviet Union of Kulaks.
38 posted on 04/09/2019 4:27:02 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: rktman
"If we allow farmers to earn a profit in what they grow, if we allow them to contribute their fair share in combatting Climate Change by growing cover crops, allowing the technologies that invest in precision tilling and farming, capturing more of that carbon out of the air is another way in which they can make a profit."

Allow farmers to make a profit on what they grow??

He said this in IOWA?? LOL!!

39 posted on 04/09/2019 4:27:05 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: rktman

I live in Bozeman, MT.

15 years ago I was at a cocktail party...I met a ‘lawyer’ from Louisiana who had reciently moved here (careful — my family has a history of lawyers/judges in Montana for multiple generations, defendant attorneys) who told me that: “We are going to take down the ‘extractive industries’ and make them PAY for their abuse of the earth.”

I did mention that Montana is an oil/COAL state, and he responded immediately with: “IM NOT talking about fossil fuels! Farmers and ranchers are destroying the earth and they must be STOPPED!”

I mentioned, in passing: land ownership...property taxes...property rights...

His response was: “We’re going to TAKE this land and return it to it’s natural state!”

I declined to speak with him any longer.

Beto-butt-wadd seems to be of this nature.


40 posted on 04/09/2019 4:27:09 PM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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