Posted on 02/17/2020 5:34:50 AM PST by richardtavor
Democratic president candidate Michael Bloomberg drew mockery from both sides of the ideological spectrum after a viral clip of him showed the billionaire media tycoon belittling farming at a 2016 business school talk and contrasting it with the “gray matter” necessary to work in the modern information economy.
Bloomberg’s 2016 comments during a sit-down discussion at Oxford’s Said Business School gained attention after a Twitter account with the handle, Pete Mentes, posted a one-minute snippet of the former New York City mayor — who has never farmed — claiming “I could teach anybody in this room” to be a farmer.
“It’s a process,” he went on to say, referring to the agrarian economy 300 years ago, “you dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on to, add water, up comes the corn.” He then said working in the modern information economy is “fundamentally different, because it’s built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets you need to learn are how to think and analyze and that is a whole degree level different, you need to have different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter.”
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Where’s this guy been? Under a rock?
For the past hundred years, there’s been new technology and ideas arriving for the American farmer every single year.
If anything here....this idiot needs a new skillset, and maybe he needs to talk to an American farmer about how to think and analyze as a politician.
The fool has probably never been on a real farmer, where the owner makes his entire living from the dirt....
Mini-Mike wouldn’t last one day on a real farm, he would need a booster seat to drive a tractor or combine
Any sizable farm, especially one over 1000 acres is going to require a bunch of very expensive equipment to include tractors, plows, planters, etc....
His comments are incredibly ignorant and condescending
What else is different with the way Obama, Sanders and all treated coal mine workers?
This is just a program of guilting and demeaning the American people and their work and jobs.
Military, law enforcement and farmers are my top picks for most respected people. Bloomers doesn't know squat.
You KNOW this turd thinks all of us in flyover country are Neanderthalic mouth breathers. The real geniuses are packed together in NYC.
When Spain’s urban elites set about “fundamentally transforming” the country in 1936, the reaction from those who “grew their food and fought their wars” (to paraphrase Sarah Palin) eventually starved and bombed them into submission. Academics make poor soldiers, and they’d purged the actual industrial workers (the anarchists) on their own side a year after the war started.
He probably won’t get the nomination, but will throw a couple billion behind whoever does. He’ll be the power behind the throne, which is more dangerous, and less accountable.
Last fall, I traveled through Greene County Tennessee, the Nolichucky river valley.
The fields were covered with acres and acres of soy beans. Hmmm....
What I learned was that the graymatterless farmers all leased their soil to a mega farmer that planted thousands of acres of soy beans in the very rich river valley soil
You’re right; I don’t see how the Dem activists ever accept him as the nominee. He’s far richer than Trump, and much more disconnected from the average person (Trump actually relates very well; his support among DEMOCRATS is a testament to that).
Mini Mike probably wants a cabinet post, and will pay dearly to get it. Frightening...maybe we’ll have smaller Big Gulp cups, and remove salt from restaurant tables, across the whole country!
Explains why he skipped Iowa
Study his face.
He is one of the lizards.....
Mike Bloomberg is a total a-hole.
He’s really perfect for the Demonrat party.
They should make Mike Bloomberg their god.
The lack of "gray matter" must explain how Hopi Indians and other Native Americans from the southwest developed "dry farming" in an area of the country that gets less than 10" of rain per year. /s
He mocks the very ones who have kept him so well (over)fed.
That’s going to end well.
When the apocalypse comes, the Bloombergs of the world will end up eating their money. Food will be the currency, and it won’t be bought for gold. If you aren’t the hunter or farmer you will be the inner city food.
Talk about making friends and influencing people! How could anyone NOT vote for this master statesman? Maybe someday I’ll be good enough to sniff his ass! Oh wait...returning to sanity....
Does he even know what a bar scanner looks like? Can you imagine him ever changing his own oil, just because?
They should have a field day on RFDTV with this.
Sonny Perdue and (my favorite) Zippy Duval will have something to say I’m sure
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