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Yeah, they’ve all done a bang-up job over the last four years.

That's a bit like saying because you found a hair in your soup - which you found bland and overpriced - that you want a shit sandwich instead.

Perhaps social media isn't for you.

1a. How: The law. Literally Trump "can't" just say "I'm going to run again". The constitution forbids it. Now I'm not saying that will stop all the states from putting him on the ballot, but it will stop many, and that's enough to get any sane Republican screaming for an alternative. 1b. Why: The law. Republicans know perfectly well Trump is a shit-show, but they lacked the courage to say no to a 2nd term. A third term puts them into not-needing-a-spine-to-say-no territory. Many desperately want to get rid of him and that is their safe opportunity. 2. Of course I do. I also remember the attempted coup failed miserably. And anyway that is quite different from running in the primary.

What's funny - beyond your self-righteous arrogance - is that you seem to think you being an asshole helps you make your point.

Ha ha ha.

What ideas?

That's an incredibly stupid thing to say on so many levels.

89% by number of farms or by acreage?

You couldn't be bothered to look it up, eh? These are commercial farms - it's the number.

And do you know what? The second someone asks about acreage in this context I have them pegged as someone who does not understand a damned thing about farming. Why? Because you the median net return for an acre of conventionally-grown corn is less than $130. The median net return for organic speciality crops can easily be $25-30k per acre or more. And yes, you can use that as a proxy for actual people fed.

Acreage means nothing in terms of feeding people. So tl;dr, do some research on what the USDA means by small family farm and learn about how those small family farms are feeding you. Why the fuck would you dismiss them like that?

Go on, go to a farmer's market and ask any farmer to estimate how many people they feed relative to the size of their farm.

but I spend a lot of time in Central CA and didn’t see any Harris signs anywhere

LOL. You know why? Because we're not stupid and don't want our tires slashed. If you are a liberal in a red county you keep that to yourself.

Definitely insulting people will help. You should do it more.

Completely agree. It's extremely viable and should be pursued more. There's enough vacant land, especially city-owned land, for it to totally work. And you are right about yields, but with a caveat. The issue is the lack of people with the skills and experience in actual production farming - where high yields and high quality are the focus. What happens all to often is that people get enthusiastic, make a big investment, then there's nobody to carry it through multiple years and through the inevitable trial and error that occurs in any new growing situation. It doesn't help when people massively undervalue the skill required and essentially call farmers morons, as we've seen here. That means often (a) they are not willing to invest in people with the skills and pay them adequately; (b) they assume high production farming is easy and they can do it but then bail when the fail. I personally have been involved in or know of probably a dozen urban farming projects that have failed. It's sad to see.

Who’s gonna stop him?

1. All the states who are blue and/or prefer to not have a bumbling 82 year old wannabe dictator as president for a 3rd term.
2. All the congress critters not living in MAGA-stan who value getting re-elected.

I’m saying calling both these categories ‘laws’ is misleading.

Undergrad?

Laws are not magic spells, and all the people who enforce them are his creatures.

Demonstrably not.

Just because we use the same rules for our violently enforced traditions of hierarchy and the physical constants of reality does not mean they’re actually the same thing.

You are either 14 and very profound or a newly-minted graduate student. 'Cause I have no idea what you are trying to say.

Will you shake your fists angrily and exclaim that "someone ought to do something" ?

And then finally, I have worked on a farm.

Really? I couldn't tell. What I can tell is that you've never owned and run one.

All functions of a farm should be done by a farmer on the day to day

In theory I don't disagree. In practice, you need to hire people. That's just the basic economic reality when margins sit at 10%.

Maintenance of resources, I dont care if its more cash efficient since thats irrelevant.

Are you kidding? How long do you think any given farm will survive if they only invest in things that pay dividends 100 years form now? It's a balance.

I will stab folks who flood water.

You don't even know that sometimes it's more environmentally friendly, do you? That's how ignorant you are.

Construction of equipment, the over reliance of shitty companies like john deer is pathetic.

And this is the farmer's problem how? And it's Deere.

Use of illegal labor has no excuse, its exploitation clean and simple.

Even when that labor is paid fairly? Even if not using it puts you out of business completely? Even if you ARE lobbying but getting nowwhere?

Waste of resources, shit shouldnt be left to rot.

Who says it is?

I mean basically it's super easy for someone such as yourself who has never had their livelihood and everything they've worked for for many years on the line to have very strong opinions and spout off these simplicities. Frankly I find your attitude and much of what you write laughable.

You are speculating that SCOTUS will let some challenge slide. But it's the constitution and SCOTUS doesn't get to change what it says just because they are corrupt.

"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice"

Seems pretty crystal clear.

Only way to fix the dems is to toss them in the trash at this point.

Right because when something's broken you don't fix it, you just throw it away.

Good luck with the alternative.

How very brave of you.

I have nothing against the competent ones, but most arent.

No offense, but unless you are an experienced and successful commercial farmer, you are simply not qualified to make that assessment. And it really shows. Oh don't worry, I hear this sort of horse shit all the time from people with exactly zero farming experience.

As I noted they treat drip feed watering as some massive breakthrough

Do you know anything about irrigation at all? I suspect not. There are several issues here, but mainly it boils down to basic cost-benefit. I have a friend who's family has senior water rights for their farm in the central valley. Rest assured, they are perfectly well aware of drip irrigation and have been for probably longer than you've been alive. But they flood irrigate, and why? It's the most cost effective method for them in their situation. You can complain all you want about whether that's the "best" method for other reasons, but's the most sensible approach for their farm.

It's notable that this is the only example you can give.

Also their intelligence states nothing on their ability to produce food, 90 percent of the time they arent building the actual hardware or equipment.

This sentence is completely nonsensical. Are you saying that you are judging they are not competent because ability to produce food aside, they aren't spending their time programing embedded C**? That they don't build equipment?

I really don't even know what you mean, but some basic facts are completely untrue.

1. Take ANY farm and you will find that farmers make their own equipment constantly. Farmers as a whole are constantly innovating in order to gain efficiency. That you don't know this is a basic fact of life for farmers everywhere is perplexing.
2. Farming is all about gaining efficiencies at ever step in the process but a the same time you don't get a lot of seasons in your life to test out new methods, meaning you have to balance innovation with risk constantly.
3. 90% of a farmer's time is spent on the basics. Planting, harvesting, marketing, business management. What else would you expect?

The ones reliant on illegal labor are a fine example of folks who could be removed and nothing would be lost.

Completely FALSE. Early on in my farming life I worked on a farm that made use of undocumented workers. These same workers came back to this farm year after year where they had a welcome home and were paid well. The owner of the farm relied on their labor because he could not find their skills anywhere else, and I believe it - I worked side by side with them and they were amazing. Nobody local could compete even if they wanted to do that work. I earned less than half of their wage and totally respected that.

The ones who do their actual fucking job and arent reliant on others running things I have nothing against as a group.

You really have no idea what you are talking about.

** In the winter I build various Arduino devices for controlling irrigation, greenhouse temperature controls, etc. I'm hardly unique in that.

I've occasionally looked this up over the years and calculated it all manually. Not too hard to access federal budget numbers...

I just found this tool where you can put in your tax $ and it will break it down for you: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/interactive-data/taxday/

I really hope that’s the case

It is. It's in the constitution and barring civil war and a military take over of the government that amendment is not going away.

But if there’s one thing I’ve learnt, it’s that Trump can seemingly do whatever the fuck he wants.

Actually he can't. He most definitely can bloviate and spew whatever the fuck he wants, but when it comes to actually doing I think his track record is quite poor. For the most part he counts on toadies to fall in line and do his bidding, mainly so they can take the blame if it goes south. That he will be term limited is, IMO, the saving grace for those useful idiots - they know they can get rid of him and they only need to kiss his ass another 4 years.