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"And I want to stress that fertilizer thing."

Failing farms are good for J.D. Vance investment portfolio.
Dots aren't hard to connect:

www.farmlandgrab.org

JD Vance funded AcreTrader. Here's why that matters.

Vance invested up to $65,000 in private investments in AcreTrader during his stint as a venture capitalist, according to his 2022 financial disclosure to the Senate ethics committee. The investment firm Narya Capital"which Vance launched in 2020 with backing from PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel"was a vehicle for these investments, and a key backer in early funding rounds of the farmland startup. And while Vance is no longer listed as a partner at Narya Capital, according to his 2023 financial disclosure, he appears to still be an investor in the firm"or more technically, multiple legal entities with names including Narya.

The fuel price shock due to disruptions in the supply chain are the obvious immediate signs people can see and react to. In America those shocks are relatively light compared to other countries where basic services had to be curtailed due to a lack of fuel. (Typ. American policy that harms other people and we only care when we are harmed).

but the fertilizer issue is a problem that will play out for years

Loss of fertilizer will result in lower crop yield resulting in less food going to vulnerable areas of the world.

That will inevitably lead to local conflicts that push people to migrate to where food is available-that is inevitable and unavoidable.

And when those people show up on our shore, the zero tolerance immigration policy will be useless. Desperate people will take desperate measures.

And magat scum will accept no responsibility or culpability for this mass migration. They will say go back to where you came from even though OUR actions have made those areas unlivable.

Haiiti is an example of this dynamic. Imperialist countries exploited the nation for centuries and then when they pulled out the left the Haitians with a debt that prevents investment. That leads to sustained poverty and violence. Regular meddling in their affairs leads to constant instability. Combine that to a number of natural disasters results in Haitians wanting to flee, need to flee because people need and want to actually live. Then you get assholes like Piggy and Vance screaming their eating cats and dogs, never acknowledging these people are here, in part, because we fucked up their country

www.justice.gov

Mark Houck

Ballsucker's example of Biden "lawfare"

Serial harasser of women seeking reproductive care verbally abuses and curses and elderly man and then shoves him to the ground in front of his 11-year old son.

Is charged with felony obstruction of a reproductive care facility

This is what that asshole compares to Piggy ordering the DoJ to file charges against political enemies.

" Ever hear of Mark Houck?"

No."

Here is a link:

www.ncregister.com

He got into a minor altercation with an abortion clinic volunteer. The volunteer yelled at his 12 year old son and Houck shoved the man who t then tried to press charges against Houck. Local authorities declined any prosecution. So, the Feds conducted a pre-dawn, guns drawn raid and arrested him and charged him with violating the FACE Act. He was acquitted and then successfully sued the DOJ for civil damages. Lemme guess, you don't view that as lawfare.

" Ever hear of Mark Houck?"

No."

Here is a link:

www.ncregister.com

He got into a minor altercation with an abortion clinic volunteer. The volunteer yelled at his 12 year old son and Houck shoved the man who t then tried to press charges against Houck. Local authorities declined any prosecution. So, the Feds conducted a pre-dawn, guns drawn raid and arrested him and charged him with violating the FACE Act. He was acquitted and then successfully sued the DOJ for civil damages. Lemme guess, you don't view that as lawfare.

Texas city charges $2 million for Flock records as agencies make it harder to see how cameras are used
www.texastribune.org

... In the Fort Worth-area suburb of North Richland Hills, getting answers about how police use their Flock Safety cameras could cost $2.3 million.

Or at least, that's how much the city is charging a Flock watchdog -- requiring it all be paid up-front -- after he filed a public records request for information about the city's AI-powered cameras. The invoice said it was accounting for labor costs of $15 an hour -- equivalent to more than 14 years of work -- to search about a terabyte worth of communications about errors, misuse and effectiveness of the Flock system.

The North Richland Hills price tag is just the latest example of how local and state governments have increasingly made it more difficult to access information about Flock cameras as scrutiny over the surveillance system has intensified in recent months. ...


Search: "trump obama xo orders" www.google.com

The cognitive disconnect of some is disconcerting.

@#4

Ahh.. you remember that?

:)


John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant
en.wikipedia.org

... The John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant is a sewage treatment plant in Danbury, Connecticut, named after the English-American comedian and political satirist John Oliver.

The plant was completely renovated in response to a 2008 order from state and federal agencies to address the inability of the existing sewage system to curtail phosphorus concentrations in wastewater, as well as other environmental issues.

After Oliver made fun of Danbury on his show, Last Week Tonight, Danbury mayor Mark Boughton responded by offering to rename their $100-million sewage plant for Oliver.

Boughton later told reporters that it was a joke, but after Oliver offered $55,000 to local charities in exchange for the plant's renaming, the city agreed to officially rename the site in his honor.

Construction began in 2019, and was finished in October 2020, with Oliver personally attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony. ...




A fun time was had by all ...

" Remember when you claimed censorship under Biden, or grift, or weaponization, and couldn't find any?"

Clear examples of all of those things. You just claim that things that happened didn't actually happen.

More specifically, from the article, this is what I was referring to:

" France's third problem is a government expected to provide for and handle practically everything. French government spending as a percent of GDP is a whopping 57% (versus only 37% in the U.S.).

All that government has bought abysmal growth and stagnant incomes. In the 1980s, France's per capita GDP was roughly 93% of America's. Today it is only 72%, and the median American has about 50% more disposable income than the median Frenchman, after taxes, cash benefits, and differences in purchasing power.

When the government is the largest allocator of resources, people focus their productive energy on persuading it to allocate in their favor. The wealthy and connected do their persuading with lobbyists (or bribes). Everyone else does it in the street. Hence the French pattern: farmers, rail workers, and students always seem to be protesting something.

In a freer economy, people get ahead by focusing their productive energy on providing goods and services that others want. When the state allocates less, there is less to gain by setting buses on fire.

Want to be like France? You know how to vote

Three policies are driving France's slow-motion collapse:

Punitive minimum wage laws that price the young out of work.
Unchecked immigration that ignores cultural compatibility and assimilation.
An overgrown, suffocating state that crushes economic dynamism.
Curiously, these happen to be the crown jewels of the American progressive left. Roughly 90% of all Democrats support doubling the minimum wage. More than 70% of "strong liberals" support removing ALL immigration restrictions. And 79% of Democrats want bigger government, a share that has climbed steeply for 30 years."

Hey, have you heard this tune from over a half-century ago?

Ten Years After - I'd Love To Change the World (1971)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

www.azlyrics.com

...
Everywhere is freaks and hairies, dykes and fairies
Tell me where is sanity?

Tax the rich, feed the poor, 'til there are no rich no more
I'd love to change the world - but I don't know what to do

So I'll leave it up to you

Population - keeps on breeding, nation bleeding,
Still more feeding economy

Life is funny, skies are sunny, bees make honey
Who needs money? Monopoly!

I'd love to change the world - but I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you... Oh yeah

World pollution, there's no solution, institution, electrocution
Just black and white, rich or poor, them and us

We'll stop the war!

I'd love to change the world - but I don't know what to do
So I'll leave it up to you...

...



Prescient? ...

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