Bloomberg implied farming doesn't take intelligence

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  1. Dispondent

    Dispondent Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Beyond true, but judging by the way today's Liberals act, they can only handle so much truth before they go catatonic or have a woke moment...
     
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    He understands money. That doesn’t mean he can’t be completely clueless on other things, which would explain these moronic statements he made.
     
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    Giggles.
    Let Bloomy explain it to them.
     
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    I also doubt it. A successful farmer is highly intelligent, by far more intelligent than most.
     
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    Good visual with this one, but you forgot to add that Bloomberg can go out there with a knife instead of an AR15.

    And I would love to see Bloomberg try to scare off an 800 pound wild boar from a sweet potato field with his handkerchief...:truce:
     
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    I know for sure that if he had said what he did campaigning to Iowa farmers, which he conveniently skipped, his poll numbers would be zero by now.
     
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    But Nanny State Mike doesn't use fertilizer.

    You just shove a seed in the ground, water it and - PRESTO! - beautiful abundant crops as far as the eye can see...

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    Klobuchar is the only Dem with any experience with Ag issues but she did poorly in Iowa anyway.

    The Heartland belongs to Trump and Sonny Perdue and it ain't going to change in 2020.
     
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    It's easy, just stick a dead fish in the bottom of the hole, wait a few months until the corn is real tall, harvest and then eat popcorn and bonbons all winter.
     
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    mini-mike will force all of the A&M skules to becomes STEM skewls... after he bans Big Gulps nationwide.
     
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    https://nypost.com/2020/02/17/bloom...factory-work-doesnt-require-much-gray-matter/

    What’s really bizarre about Mike’s comments is the fact agriculture has been innovating in the areas he claims take more grey matter. Big data? Been using it for years layering data from yield monitors with variable rate seeding, variable rate fertilizer, and variable rate irrigation data as well as drone and satellite data. Autonomous vehicles? Yep, we’ve been using them for nearly twenty years. Automated grain handling facilities, feed mills, remote monitoring and control of irrigation systems using cellular technologies, audio and video surveillance in birthing of various species of food animals, electronic read/write RFID and microchips in food animals to collect and compile data, etc. etc. If a technology has been thought of farmers are using it. Usually before other industries.

    The man says 98% of people used to be farmers and now it’s only 2%. How in hell does he think that happened if farmers are just digging holes and throwing seed in? This guy makes Trump sound like a freaking genius. :)
     
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    [​IMG]

    It's magical!
     
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    Did he say farming isn’t difficult work? If so, could you show me the quote? Thank you in advance.
     
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    What Bloomberg said is not only bizarre, it's also baffling. As an active Wall Street trader who went on to build what was known as the "Bloomberg Terminal" for remote real-time trading and information, he was certainly aware of not only equities and bond trading but also commodities futures trading. Many farmers bought and still do buy grain and livestock futures as a hedge against the crops they have planted and the livestock they are raising. Bloomberg may have thought he was just expounding his genius to ignorant conference participants and media.

    His comments appear strikingly similar to what Jonathan Gruber told to a panel about getting Obamacare passed. He didn't think anyone would remember what he said either when he said, "And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to get for the thing to pass."

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katie...e-lied-to-the-stupid-american-people-n1916605
     
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    Next he’ll say he knows more about ISIS than the generals do and you’ll claim he hates the military and is unfit to be president.
    Oh, wait ...
     
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    I read your first sentence and assumed you were talking about dirty Donny.
     
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    Okay: "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."

    That sounds like he's saying farming is the opposite of difficult. It's a five-step process. See, anybody could do it. And it's so easy, Bloomberg could teach it even though I I would be genuinely surprised if he'd ever taken an Agricultural Studies course in college. I mean, I did. We actually had high schools that taught farming as an elective, and had animal pens out in the field. It's a bit more complicated than that.

    Even though I currently work in a place that might as well be the Barrio, not four miles away from my school are farms, and more than a few of them. Every year, I get some kids who work on these farms and they share with me what life is really like. I kind of believe them over some rich limousine liberal telling us how "easy" it is to learn. I'll say it again, I'd love to see Bloomy get off his soapbox and spend a week in the trenches with some of the farmers and day laborers there. That intellectual popinjay might actually learn something.
     
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    Nope Bull Conner Bloomberg the new star of the DNC
     
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    Excuse me but the courts have said the individual mandate is unconstitutional and the entire law should be nullified NOT the DOJ. The DOJ merely reviewed the comprehensive ruling by the court and said yes they are right according to the law and the Constitution. The Obama administration and the Democrat Congress was warned from the getgo of these problems and they have refused to address them.

    "In December, a Texas-based district court judge ruled that the individual mandate is in fact unconstitutional, nullifying the entire health care law. The case is now awaiting a decision by a federal appeals court in New Orleans."
    https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jus...ower-court-obamacare-struck/story?id=61946303
     
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    A machinist..............well anyone with that brain could learn coding.
     
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    He’s saying anyone can learn it. Which is true of farming and many other jobs...mine included. That doesn’t mean farming is not difficult work. It’s very hard work due to how physically demanding it is and the crazy long hours that need to be put in. In other words it’s not difficult to learn but it is a difficult job, due to reasons I have above. Welding isn’t hard to learn, but it’s difficult work. Being a firefighter isn’t hard to learn, but it’s difficult work.
     
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    so, you don't know how to research anything.
     
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    I looked at both you links and no such quotes.
     

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