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How soon will the Left eat their own?
Jon Rappoport ^ | January 18, 2021 | Jon Rappoport

Posted on 01/19/2021 4:38:22 AM PST by george76

Hey. I’m always here to offer advice to the Left, to make their road smoother, to point them in the direction of fellow travelers they should cancel for deficiencies of “wokeness.”

Let’s start with the issue of GMOs, poisonous Roundup, and Monsanto (now swallowed up by Bayer).

Joe Biden is going to appoint Mr. Monsanto, Tom Vilsack, as his Secretary of Agriculture. Tommy boy held that post under Obama.

The Organic Consumers Association writes [1] (see also [2], [3], [4]): “If, like us, you dream of an organic, regenerative food system led by independent family farmers, then news that Joe Biden has asked Tom Vilsack to return to his Obama Era post as Secretary of Agriculture should be a real cause for concern.”

“…when you look behind the curtains to see what Vilsack was really doing at USDA from 2009 through 2017, it’s not pretty.”

“He pushed through a corporate agribusiness agenda that began with his approval of more new genetically modified crops than any other Secretary, culminated in his shepherding of a bill to kill GMO labels through Congress, and included his racist firing of African American land trust hero Shirley Sherrod and his distortion of data to conceal decades of discrimination against black farmers. Between 2006 and 2016, the USDA [US Dept. of Agriculture] was six times more likely to foreclose on a black farmer than a white farmer.”

“But, Biden doesn’t care about any of this. Vilsack is Biden’s buddy and that’s all that matters to him. As the American Prospect reports, Vilsack has had ‘a decades-long relationship with Joe Biden, going back to when he endorsed him for president while mayor of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, in 1988’.”

“Vilsack has remained very loyal to Biden. In the last year, he gave Biden more than $8,000 in campaign contributions (excluding money from his wife or to Democratic Party committees).”

“This support didn’t just get him a job in the cabinet, he wrote Biden’s campaign platform on agriculture issues, stuffing it full of false solutions like corn ethanol and methane digesters run on factory farm dairy waste.”

“We need a USDA Secretary of Agriculture who will be a hero, steering our food and farming system toward a brighter, regenerative future—not a Secretary who will continue to be a pawn for the same corporate interests that are causing, and profiting from, the mess we are in.”

Good luck with that dream under Biden.

Let’s go further. Here’s a piece I wrote during the Obama years—you know, when we were all living in paradise—about the president’s GMO program.

Keep in mind that Biden’s new secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, was on board every step of the way, with Obama. Vilsack was enabler, expert, political operative, cheerleader—

MEET MONSANTO’S MAN IN WASHINGTON, BARACK OBAMA..

Obama? A warrior against corporations on behalf of the people? It’s long past the time for ripping that false mask away.

During his 2008 campaign for president, Barack Obama transmitted signals that he understood the GMO/Roundup issue. Several key anti-GMO activists were impressed. They thought Obama, once in the White House, would listen to their concerns and act on them.

These activists weren’t just reading tea leaves. On the campaign trail, Obama said: “Let folks know when their food is genetically modified, because Americans have a right to know what they’re buying.”

Making the distinction between GMO and non-GMO was certainly an indication that Obama, unlike the FDA and USDA, saw there was an important line to draw in the sand.

Beyond that, Obama was promising a new era of transparency in government. He was adamant in assuring that, if elected, his administration wouldn’t do business “the old way.” He would be “responsive to people’s needs.”

Then came the reality.

After the election, people who had been working to label GMO food and warn the public of its huge dangers were shocked to the core. They saw Obama had been pulling a bait and switch.

After the 2008 election, Obama filled key posts with Monsanto people, in federal agencies that wield tremendous force in food issues, the USDA and the FDA:

At the USDA, as the director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Roger Beachy, former director of the Monsanto Danforth Center.

As deputy commissioner of the FDA, the new food-safety-issues czar, the infamous Michael Taylor, former vice-president for public policy for Monsanto. Taylor had been instrumental in getting approval for Monsanto’s genetically engineered bovine growth hormone.

As commissioner of the USDA, Iowa governor, Tom Vilsack. Vilsack had set up a national group, the Governors’ Biotechnology Partnership, and had been given a Governor of the Year Award by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, whose members include Monsanto.

As the new Agriculture Trade Representative, who would push GMOs for export, Islam Siddiqui, a former Monsanto lobbyist.

As the new counsel for the USDA, Ramona Romero, who had been corporate counsel for another biotech giant, DuPont.

As the new head of the USAID, Rajiv Shah, who had previously worked in key positions for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a major funder of GMO agriculture research.

We should also remember that Obama’s secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, once worked for the Rose law firm. That firm was counsel to Monsanto.

Obama nominated Elena Kagan to the US Supreme Court. Kagan, as federal solicitor general, had previously argued for Monsanto in the Monsanto v. Geertson seed case before the Supreme Court.

The deck was stacked. Obama hadn’t simply made honest mistakes. Obama hadn’t just failed to exercise proper oversight in selecting appointees. He wasn’t just experiencing a failure of short-term memory. He was staking out territory on behalf of Monsanto and other GMO corporate giants.

And now let us look at what key Obama appointees have wrought for their true bosses. Let’s see what GMO crops have walked through the open door of the Obama presidency.

Monsanto GMO alfalfa.

Monsanto GMO sugar beets.

Monsanto GMO Bt soybean.

Coming soon: Monsanto’s GMO sweet corn.

Syngenta GMO corn for ethanol.

Syngenta GMO stacked corn.

Pioneer GMO soybean.

Syngenta GMO Bt cotton.

Bayer GMO cotton.

ATryn, an anti-clotting agent from the milk of transgenic goats.

A GMO papaya strain.

And perhaps, soon, genetically engineered salmon and apples.

This is an extraordinary parade. It, in fact, makes Barack Obama the most GMO-dedicated politician in America.

You don’t attain that position through errors or oversights. Obama was, all along, a stealth operative on behalf of Monsanto, biotech, GMOs, and corporate control of the future of agriculture.

From this perspective, Michelle Obama’s campaign for gardens and clean, organic, nutritious food is nothing more than a diversion, a cover story floated to obscure what her husband has actually been doing.

Nor is it coincidental that two of the Obama’s biggest supporters, Bill Gates and George Soros, purchased 900,000 and 500,000 shares of Monsanto, respectively, in 2010.

We are talking about a president who presented himself, and was believed by many to be, an extraordinary departure from politics as usual.

Not only was that a wrong assessment, Obama was lying all along. He was, and he still is, Monsanto’s man in Washington.

To those people who fight for GMO labeling and the outlawing of GMO crops, and against the decimation of the food supply and the destruction of human health, but still believe Obama is a beacon in bleak times:

Wake up.

—end of 2014 article—

Well, well. Tom Vilsack is back. Biden is about to betray the Left on a key issue.

Dear Lefties: Are you going to sit still for this?

Start tweeting and FBing.

I wonder whether you’ll get censored by your comrades in Big Tech…


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biden; fda; gmo; monsanto; roundup; tomvilsack; usda; vilsack
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1 posted on 01/19/2021 4:38:22 AM PST by george76
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President “Stealer” Joe will be the first course. Pelosi is already eating his gonads, or whats left of him.


2 posted on 01/19/2021 4:39:55 AM PST by Candor7 (Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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How soon will the Left eat their own?


Not too far away considering that it is now legal in the Blue state of Washington to compost the dead ...


3 posted on 01/19/2021 4:40:06 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Not soon enough.


4 posted on 01/19/2021 4:41:18 AM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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Probly within 1 year. They will start with biden. They can not hide him forever as he will be expected to meet foreign politicians and make speeches and appearances. The gaffs will go from being funny to sad really fast. No way they can hide it. He will step down or they will use the 25th amendment. They have been setting up for it.


5 posted on 01/19/2021 4:51:08 AM PST by glimmerman70
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Give it till the summer before their complaining about Joe...I’d say around Labor Day when they talk about how much of a disappointment he is


6 posted on 01/19/2021 4:51:52 AM PST by Lod881019
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To: george76

“How soon will the Left eat their own?”

Unfortunately...we’re on the menu too.


7 posted on 01/19/2021 4:52:58 AM PST by moovova
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Less than a year, IMHO.

For example: Next month, who will Cuomo blame for his own incompetence ?

You could say “Trump” but that won’t hold up to explain away events that will be strictly contemporary.

He will be FORCED to cast blame on his own minions.

We’ll see.


8 posted on 01/19/2021 5:21:32 AM PST by Ken Regis
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To: george76
How soon will the Left eat their own?

As always, the terror will begin once the realization sets in that utopian promises won't be kept.

9 posted on 01/19/2021 5:28:15 AM PST by fso301
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To: george76
How soon will the Left eat their own?

How soon? Easy. After they’ve eaten us
10 posted on 01/19/2021 5:28:28 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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A: After they’ve finished off all the conservatives.


11 posted on 01/19/2021 5:55:08 AM PST by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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How soon will the Left eat their own?

The question is: How long will they allow "His Fraudulency" China Joe Potato Head Biden remain as the nominal figurehead?

12 posted on 01/19/2021 6:00:58 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction". It is dying on Our Watch.)
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To: george76

I’m waiting for a Nebuchanezeer moment when God will turn the DemonicRat politicians into grass eaters.


13 posted on 01/19/2021 6:06:59 AM PST by Old Yeller (Nana Pelosi is a manure salesman with a mouthful of samples. Thus the slurred speaking.)
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How soon will the Left eat their own?

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People on the political Right like to say things like this because it makes them feel better, but the reality is that the Left will never “eat itself” to the degree that it will matter.


14 posted on 01/19/2021 6:13:07 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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bookmark


15 posted on 01/19/2021 6:27:06 AM PST by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: george76

They’ll all get food poisoning.


16 posted on 01/19/2021 6:29:06 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Bishop_Malachi
People on the political Right like to say things like this because it makes them feel better, but the reality is that the Left will never “eat itself” to the degree that it will matter.

You would have a better read of future events if you would use history as your guide.

17 posted on 01/19/2021 7:06:26 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (If your home doesn't reek of Hoppe's, you ain't paying attention.)
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To: Bishop_Malachi

Note what happened to the leftist Jacobin leaders Georges Danton, Marat, Robespierre, Saint-Just, and ..

-2- Leftist Trotsky ( and millions of others ) killed by Stalin..

-3- Leftist Ernst Röhm and his Brown shirts organized Antifa-style riots, murdering innocent bystanders, and .. killed during the Night of the Long Knives..

-4- Chairman Mao ...


18 posted on 01/19/2021 7:20:26 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: 1Old Pro

Wonder if Biden will hire a food taster ?


19 posted on 01/19/2021 7:27:59 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Wonder if Biden will hire a food taster ?

Baby food is hermetically sealed at the factory, he'd probably be good.

20 posted on 01/19/2021 7:48:20 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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