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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: 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.

The left is not making any bones about their MARXIST designs are they?

41 posted on 04/09/2019 4:27:28 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: rktman

Commie cork soaker should live…but he shouldn’t make a habit of it.


42 posted on 04/09/2019 4:27:32 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: rktman
This guy is a complete idiot. The Democrat clown car has got to be getting pretty full at this point. I can't wait to see this moron skateboarding onto the stage to debate Trump.
43 posted on 04/09/2019 4:27:54 PM PDT by Desron13 (You may choose to ignore reality but you can't force reality to ignore you.)
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To: rktman

Poster boy for: “Dipshit”


44 posted on 04/09/2019 4:28:23 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Billthedrill
Clearly the Kulaks are hoarding the crops for their own ends.

Selling them for cash to turn into food that people will buy so they can eat. The Horror!

45 posted on 04/09/2019 4:28:26 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: rktman

Modern day Kulaks.

L


46 posted on 04/09/2019 4:28:59 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: rktman
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...

That's mighty big of him, allowing farmers to do what they want with their own private land. Mighty generous.

"Mighty nice farm you have there, Farmer Hayseed. Be a shame if you didn't do what we are allowing you to do with it." -- President O'Rourke.

47 posted on 04/09/2019 4:29:10 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: rktman

ALLOW!?

This arm flailing Commie is precisely what is needed for video material this election cycle. Great stuff for our side.


48 posted on 04/09/2019 4:29:19 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: FatherofFive
If we allow ....

There you are...the left's platforms in a nutshell.

49 posted on 04/09/2019 4:29:39 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Nothing makes the delusional more furious than truth.)
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To: rktman

Airdrop this guy into Zimbabwe using his skateboard as a parachute.


50 posted on 04/09/2019 4:29:48 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Bonemaker

Guess the Beta-male missed high school biology when they talked about how plants eat carbon dioxide. If I understand the bleating’s from the church of glowbull warming (which I do), carbon dioxide is the fuel of the coming inferno. So … growing fewer crops would in not only not fight global warming, it would exacerbate it.


51 posted on 04/09/2019 4:30:05 PM PDT by RainMan (rainman)
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To: dp0622
Read it again. Focus on what he is going to allow farmers to do.

The very use of the word "allow," even though it might be construed in a harmless sense, is very telling and disconcerting when spouted by a marxist / communist. He doesn't think "allow" means what you and I think it means. It means he will CONTROL what you do and you are "allowed" to do what he thinks you should be doing.

52 posted on 04/09/2019 4:31:12 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: big bad easter bunny

Not if he will funnel them more taxpayer dollars. Iowa is uber liberal, bought and paid for, by us.. and our children’s children


53 posted on 04/09/2019 4:31:25 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Do you know anyone who isnÂ’t a socialist after 65? Freedom exchanged for cash and control.)
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To: Drago
So “cover crops” absorb more CO2 than corn?

He's right here because you turn corn into alcohol and then burn it making CO2.

54 posted on 04/09/2019 4:31:35 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Leaning Right

almost like Stalin and the Ukraine


55 posted on 04/09/2019 4:32:54 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: rktman

I demand that every time Beto gets into a car he takes a breathalizer test, sound like a plan Beto?


56 posted on 04/09/2019 4:33:24 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: BBB333

Welcome to the new state of ignorance......


57 posted on 04/09/2019 4:33:52 PM PDT by Stayfree (Liberalism is a mental disease caused by stupidity and elitism!!)
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To: rktman

Pretty sure Beto would make a decent fertilizer.

All Democrat politicians are crap.


58 posted on 04/09/2019 4:34:14 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Fox Shadowbans People On Comments)
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To: Ken H
Or arugula. “Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.”
59 posted on 04/09/2019 4:34:47 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: rktman
capturing more of that carbon out of the air is another way in which they can make a profit.

Farmers grow plants... lots and lots of plants. Plants take in CO2 and emit O2. Is Beto not aware of this?

60 posted on 04/09/2019 4:35:46 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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