[Beave Meister]

Here's how you lose rural America and factory line worker's votes in one fell swoop. I'm guessing he doesn't really give a rats ass.

[LukeL]

All farmers need to know is planning for the weather, seed rotation, sampling soil, what chemicals to add to the ground, small engine repair, knowledge of commodities, basic accounting, veterinary skills, resource management, among other things.

[Cheeks]

OK, Bloomer.

[Freedom56v2]

City boy doesn’t no squat about farming!

[Jane Austen]

Will we see Bloomberg milking a cow in his next ad? It would be better than the silly gingerbread man.

[Jane Austen]

Will we see Bloomberg milking a cow in his next ad? It would be better than the silly gingerbread man.

[Freedom56v2]

Yes, all those H-1B Tech Visa holders getting diplomas from online mills in India have sooo much more grey matter than farmers who have worked the land for generations ...SHEESH...

Not to mention all the tech and plant breeding innovations in farming... SHEESH again!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I just started working last year in the agriculture industry in IT. I have developed a deep respect for farmers. They are true entrepreneurs. Every year they have to borrow a bunch of money for machines, fuel, fertilizer, crop insurance, etc. They roll the dice every year. Nothing is guaranteed. The last couple of years of flooding have been devastating for them here in the Midwest. One more year of flooding would be really, really, really bad, and it looks like it’s coming.

[NRx]

[nwrep]

[Balding_Eagle]

I’ll use this thread to link to one of my favorite YouTube channels, bigtractorpower.

Disclaimer, I am only a fan, nothing more.

https://youtu.be/ouMJCDwK7FE

[Billthedrill]

Done both. Nobody who has ever tried it will tell you farming is easy. Or rather, farming successfully is easy.

[fhayek]

I grew up in a rural area. Farmers can be simple. But they are usually, tough, resourseful, and hard working. They know how to fix a broken axle on a tractor. They know what they have to do in February. And April. And July. They shovel shit. They apply balm to chapped udders. They understand markets, banks, lines of credit, government regulations. They get up at 4:00 am. They respect the land. They worship on Sundays. They understand nature, city slickers, politicians and con artists.

Sure, they are no nonsense, but I guarantee you that there life is more involved than just sticking seeds in the ground.

[cgbg]

Bloomberg and Biden are competing for the Don Rickles award!

[trisham]

He’s an idiot.

[Texan5]

What a f’ing idiot-he is not going to influence anyone by insulting all of us in rural America as well as factory workers-and I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have the intelligence or ability to do any of the work we do out here in BFE-or in an auto factory, furniture factory, etc...

[ealgeone]

Hey mickey....how much food does that techy stuff get to your table in the big city?

[GregH]

what a jerk, he can just eat computers and network cables.

[Political Junkie Too]

Paul Harvey - God Made A Farmer

-PJ

[eartick]

I guess ol Minnie Mouth Mike has never set foot in a 20 row planter that is all computer controlled and GPS positioned.

[duckbutt]

Made this post on another thread —

The way Bloomie speaks is typical of a rich, isolationist upper crust city boy who would get run over by a cow in the country.

In the early ‘80s I worked for the American Soybean Association and we worked with thousands of farmers all across the country. We also advocated for them in DC. I can tell you from first hand experience, the farmers were the FIRST to adopt computer technology. During this time a personal computer ran about $3K; the farmers used them for animal breeding programs, their crop oversight and of course, they were all LLCs, so it was used for bookkeeping and tax purposes. Most Farmers I know (in and outside my family) are college graduates.

Mini-Mike is such a fool —and if he were stranded on a desert island, pick the farmer and he’d get a computer geek as a bonus....