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Beto O'Rourke wants farmers to hand over their 'fair share' of crops to stop AGW (T)
americanthinker.com ^ | 4/9/2019 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 04/09/2019 3:45:03 PM PDT by rktman

Campaigning for president in Iowa, Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke thinks farmers need to do their "fair share" to combat global warming, handing over some of their crops to save the Earth.

Kid you not. According to Breitbart News:

Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Robert "Beto" O'Rourke proposed Friday in Iowa that the U.S. "allow" farmers to give up their "fair share" of crops to fight climate change.

O'Rourke stood aloft as he proclaimed his message at a rally in Marshalltown, Iowa Friday:

If we allow farmers to earn a profit in what they grow, if we allow them to contribute their fair share in combatting Climate Change by growing cover crops, allowing the technologies that invest in precision tilling and farming, capturing more of that carbon out of the air is another way in which they can make a profit. Keep those farms together, pass them on to the next generation, and allow them to provide us our food and national security, our independence from the rest of the world, our ability to provide for the rest of the world.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2020election; beto; betoorourke; dems; election2020; farmers; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; iowa; irishmexican; marshalltown; orourke; texas; totaltool; whitey; whiteyorourke
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To: RedMonqey

“Beta Male”

Try “Omega Male”


61 posted on 04/09/2019 4:35:48 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: rktman
Don't tell me. Let me guess.

He's the one who will decide what their "fair share" is?

Did I get it right?
62 posted on 04/09/2019 4:38:22 PM PDT by Savage Beast (The Trump Revolution is the Resistance to the Decadence of Western Civilization.)
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To: rktman

I’m guessing the fake Hispanic is also doing his fair share by not using fossil fuels on this campaign but skateboarding around the country.


63 posted on 04/09/2019 4:43:28 PM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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To: rktman

Everybody has to go on a diet?


64 posted on 04/09/2019 4:43:31 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: rktman

This guy is nuckin’ futz.


65 posted on 04/09/2019 4:49:33 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: bgill

Hemp shoes, all natural clothes and walks to every event. No?


66 posted on 04/09/2019 4:52:50 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Don Corleone
There you are...the left's platforms in a nutshell.

Exactly. This is what makes America so unique. Government was not established to 'allow' us to do things. Government protects freedom loving individuals to enjoy liberty.

67 posted on 04/09/2019 5:00:30 PM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: rktman

Gawd I hate Democrats. I’d love to see them utterly destroyed, humiliated, and dehumanized.


68 posted on 04/09/2019 5:00:43 PM PDT by MNDude (Don't be a "posted already Nazi" I am postin blind!)
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To: rktman

he’s been eating too much dirt.

The median wage for a small farmer is 66K, half below, half above. On that 66k they pay for equipment, seed, labor, taxes and raise a family. How much does he want to rob them of?

The corporate farmers have exported technology to feed the world for decades, including machinery, seeds and hand-holding. (and if the people it’s given to, are too busy finding reasons to declare war on this and that tribe and wrecking each other’s equipment and land, is it American farmers’ fault?) How much more does he want them to give?

We are not the world’s nanny. And we should be worried about our own grain stockpiles for our own rainy day.

The candidates that the Democrat party has put into the public eye lately-—it’s like walking into a bar of drunks that haven’t seen the sunlight in months


69 posted on 04/09/2019 5:21:21 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: rktman

Beto??? What a joke!


70 posted on 04/09/2019 5:30:52 PM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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To: SkyDancer

Eventually..


71 posted on 04/09/2019 5:31:26 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: rktman; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; campaignPete R-CT; NFHale; ...
If we allow farmers to earn a profit in what they grow,

Allow? So Beta is literally a Stalinist?

72 posted on 04/09/2019 5:33:50 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: CatOwner

VOTE FRAUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


73 posted on 04/09/2019 5:46:10 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: Drago
I seriously doubt he even knows what a cover crop is. It’s just a sound bite his handler wrote into his speech to make him sound competent.
74 posted on 04/09/2019 5:51:12 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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Didn’t they try this in fuedal england already?


75 posted on 04/09/2019 5:52:51 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: rktman

All your potatoes are belong to Whitey O’Rourke.


76 posted on 04/09/2019 6:00:47 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: rktman

Beto O’Stalin???


77 posted on 04/09/2019 6:16:26 PM PDT by Deepeasttx
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To: AndyJackson

True that! ;-) How about soybeans or sorghum or wheat then? I would think that most plants don’t vary THAT much percentage wise on CO2 absorption.


78 posted on 04/09/2019 6:43:05 PM PDT by Drago
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To: All

I got a five year plan for a four year term, and there’s twelve years left until there’s ten years left to when there’s fifty years left until (etc etc)


79 posted on 04/09/2019 6:57:18 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Take the next train to Marxville and I'll meet you at the camp)
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To: rktman
And if those Neo Kulaks in fly over country don’t get with the program, Beto already has a well established, provers working plan to get them in line.

A little extreme plan, perhaps, but this is the saving of a planet we are talking about so the end justifies the means. As one of Beto’s role models observed many years ago, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs

80 posted on 04/09/2019 7:13:06 PM PDT by rdcbn
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