Bloomberg implied farming doesn't take intelligence

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  1. Josephwalker

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    Little Mike lost the black vote with his "racist" remarks and now he's lost the farm and industrial worker vote. Please democrats please let Mike buy the democrat nominee position.

    "The agrarian society lasted 3,000 years and we could teach processes. I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer," Bloomberg said. "It's a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that. Then we had 300 years of the industrial society. You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow and you can have a job."

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bloomberg-implied-farming-is-easy-in-2016-comments
     
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    Sounds like it’s you underestimating the farmers ability to understand his statement. Why do you think farmers are unintelligent?
     
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    HIs statement is very clear. He thinks farming is no different than a backyard garden and you obviously agree. This is the kind of elitist attitude that guarantees Mike will lose if he's the democrats nominee.
     
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    Democrats keep crapping on farmers and heartland folks. I guess they forget these folks vote too. Bloomberg might as well call them "deplorables" too, or mock them for their guns and Bibles. Arrogant, ignorant, pompous ass.

    Also, ROFL at his simpleton's view of farming. Yep, just dig a hole and drop in a seed, easy peasy :roll: Is that really how city folks view things from their bubbles? He probably thinks it's harder to be a Starbucks barista. God help us all.
     
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    Completely over your head. But self-made billionaires think differently than others.

    I think he's throwing a ton of cash away for nothing anyhow.

    It's extremely physical and demanding. But you don't need to be a Rhodes Scholar.
     
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    He honestly believes farming is just that simple and he also must believe he could step up to a lathe and whip out a part for a jet engine that has to be within microscopic tolerances.
     
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    Mikes a man that never held a working class job and has nothing but disdain for those that do.
     
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    What's working class to you? He did hold a job.
     
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    He sounds as dumb as Biden.
     
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    The fact that you think farming is nothing more than hard work shows just how clueless you are on the profession.
     
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    It's the same attitude communists had, same exact attitude, anyine can be a farmer so lets take all the farm land, put it all under the control of a party official and grow food for everyone. Remind me again, how many people starved to death?
     
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    If you consider turning 10 million into a 10 billion dollar annual revenue dumb.
     
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    Exactly what Mao thought and did..
     
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    Except I was raised by a farmer in rural Indiana. Dad still plants the fields to this day.
     
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    Your claim doesn't match your rhetoric so I doubt your claim.
     
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    That kind things happen when you rise people in concreteland, they don't understand how nature works.
     
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    That's the easy way out for you.

    He also raises cattle. Don't get it wrong, Pop’s a smart man. He always there for good advice, but he does benefit from a son with an MBA.
     
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    Russia did it, china did it, Vietnam did it, Venezuela did it. Now we get to watch south Africa do it.
    Starving people to death with arrogance and incompetence is a socialist staple.
     
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    If your story was true he'd benefit much more if you had a degree in agriculture and if your story was true you'd roll your eyes and LOL at Mike's absurd statement. Here's a simple question for you.

    So when "pop" is out in his field on a cool spring morning picking the tops off his winter wheat or whatever crop he's growing and rolling it around crushing it in his fingers what is he doing?
     
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    Amount of wealth is a poor measure of intelligence. I’m judging him on his words and actions. They are dumb. Of course most people worship the wealthy...just look at sports and entertainment figures. Dumb as posts, wealthy, and adored.
     
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    I saw that this morning, what an arrogant elitist.
     
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    You don't need to be a Rhodes Scholar to write code to which he was comparing it too and farming is highly technical these days and requires a very business sense. What does Bloomberg think he has above farmers?
     
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    So he's just a dirt-dumb farmer who can't use intellectual skills?
     
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    Hates African Americans, hates the disabled, assaults women, is it any surprise he also looks down on the working man? He really is the front runner of the DNC
     
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    I hope Bloomberg is the nominee and takes Hillary as his VP. He's so stupid he thinks that would be a good idea.
     

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