Its Time
By Mitch Berg
To: MN Democrat Something Something Labor Party
From: Mitch Berg, Stochastic Moderate
Re: Truth In Advertising
All,
Many of us have been talking with you for years about removing the “farmer“ from your official party name.
With this speech by Rep. Lucy Rehm?
“Solar panels are the new corn?”
Its time. Lose it.
That is all.
April 18th, 2023 at 7:14 am
I think the technical term for Rep. Lucy Rehm is: yet another ditzy broad.
April 18th, 2023 at 7:19 am
Climate change is a cult. Simple as that.
April 18th, 2023 at 7:46 am
Green = poverty.
Don’t believe me? Go to any website that measures your carbon footprint.
The way you lower your carbon footprint is to drive less, own fewer (or no) automobiles. Fly less. Live in a smaller home. Keep your home colder in the winter and warmer in the summer. Have fewer children. Eat less, especially eat less meat. keep your lights dim. Buy new clothes less frequently. get rid of your pets.
Green politicians are selling poverty.
April 18th, 2023 at 7:47 am
2022 farm profits were the second highest among the historical records in Minnesota
https://www.agweek.com/business/2022-farm-profits-were-the-second-highest-among-the-historical-records-in-minnesota
Hang on, you mean the sky isn’t exactly falling with the current president and current governor, like the predominant rural narrative has been suggesting?
April 18th, 2023 at 7:52 am
Emery (Bill Gleason’s protégé)
You’re not an expert if you don’t have the credentials!
You love to brag about your indicia of wealth and privilege, why not brag about your CV?
What colleges count you among their alum?
What bachelor degrees do you hold?
Where did you get your Masters?
Where did you get your JD?
Where did you get your PhD(s)? What was it like to work with Bill Gleason?
Where did you get your MD, what internships did you complete?
April 18th, 2023 at 8:49 am
Certainly a lot of factors go into a profitable season but all 4 years under Trump resulted in low profits. Guess that tariff strategy with China was another Trump winner…
April 18th, 2023 at 8:59 am
^^The blather just gets worse, doesn’t it? It’s like an open sewer today.
Maybe if Trump had encouraged a war between Russia and Ukraine Like Biden did, he could have raised corn prices?
https://www.macrotrends.net/2532/corn-prices-historical-chart-data
April 18th, 2023 at 9:00 am
It really is just blather. There is no thought, no power of reason behind Emery’s comments. He is a troll, his task is to fill the SITD comment section with Democrat talking points.
April 18th, 2023 at 9:04 am
^ SiTD’s house fluffer
April 18th, 2023 at 9:07 am
First of all, I’d like to know what the predominant rural narrative actually is if Wally and the Clown have saved us.
Guess that tariff strategy with China was another Trump winner…
Tell me more about that tariff strategy, please.
Weird. Why Biden is keeping Trump’s China tariffs in place
April 18th, 2023 at 9:11 am
See what I mean, JDM? He’s like the magic 8 ball of D talking points. “Trump . . . book banners . . . Elon Musk . . . guns . . . DFL is moderate . . . more abortions make a healthier society . . . .”
April 18th, 2023 at 9:21 am
So, I’m curious. Is there a job description for a fluffer on a blog? What do blog fluffers do? Is there a career path?
April 18th, 2023 at 9:23 am
… oh, yeah, how is it that one of the Emerys is the only one who knows about blog fluffers?
April 18th, 2023 at 9:31 am
Ethanol is bad policy and bad politics.
The US directs ~30 million acres of prime farmland and ~5 billion bushels/year of corn to motor fuel. The energy cost in diesel and natural gas to farm the corn and convert it to ethanol is higher than the energy of the ethanol itself. Thus, there is no benefit in terms of energy independence (the original justification) or CO2 emissions. The ethanol mandate serves no purpose other than to enrich a few thousand large farmers and a small number of ethanol producers.
April 18th, 2023 at 9:31 am
Am I the only one who looks at these vast fields of solar arrays & wonders what will happen to them when wear out (they do wear out & become less efficient over time).
I think the greenies who become “human extinctionists” are the ones who have looked at the numbers & can do math. Lots of wealthy, healthy == lots of CO2 emissions. Lots of poor starving people? smaller CO2 footprint, but lots of deforestation & polluted land and water.
April 18th, 2023 at 9:35 am
The drive to grow sugar palms to produce ethanol has profoundly distorted the agricultural economies of Central America. Small family plots have been converted to huge sugar palm plantations owned by a few. For some reason, in Latin America, agriculture always seems to return to the latifundia system.
April 18th, 2023 at 9:37 am
rAT gets a new Berkeley horse, the ER nurse squeals, and suddenly he’s an agriculture expert!
LMAO!!
April 18th, 2023 at 9:40 am
emery
Get your mind off the fluffer and muster the courage to answer this question
Among so many other things you present yourself as an expert on the ethics of abortion so it should not be difficult for you to answer this question…
At what point in your mother’s pregnancy with you would it have become unacceptable for her to abort you?
As a bonus question where can I find the text in the Constitution that supports this claim you made:
“The Constitution before amendment said Clarence Thomas should be counted as 3/5ths of a person.”
April 18th, 2023 at 9:40 am
He’s like the magic 8 ball of D talking points.
Bam! 💥👊🏻
April 18th, 2023 at 9:42 am
Fluffy,
green == poverty
aka
green == neofeudalism and the return to serfdom
April 18th, 2023 at 9:43 am
Sell-out farms with solar.
Sell-out farms with wind generators
Sell-out farms growing corn for ethanol.
Sell-out farms growing corn for biomass electricity.
Eating bugs for food.
WTF is wrong with these people?!
April 18th, 2023 at 9:46 am
Classic that SiTD farmers hate Biden & Walz. Also interesting how every year profits seem to be up but the forecast dim.
April 18th, 2023 at 9:48 am
Fluffy? (may I call you Fluffy?)
Friends who jumped on the “off the grid” solar power band wagon tell me the solar panels they bought in the late 90s all failed(lost viable efficiency) well before 2020 even though they were marketed as good for 25 years. On top of replacement costs they also had to pay for disposal of the old panels because they are considered Toxic Waste
April 18th, 2023 at 9:50 am
TKS
exactly!
When did burning our crops(ethanol, biomass fuel) become sustainable?
April 18th, 2023 at 9:54 am
really emery, “Fluffer” are you coming out as a Furry? Whats your Fursona™?
April 18th, 2023 at 10:01 am
watching Ms Rehm’s speech and the activity of the MN legislature in general I find myself wondering if there is a term that is the political equivalent of Brownian Motion?
April 18th, 2023 at 10:04 am
Classic that SiTD farmers hate Biden & Walz
There are farmers here amongst us?
Farmers and fluffers? Man, this blog has got it all.
April 18th, 2023 at 10:05 am
Macarthur Wheeler-
I kind of like “fluffy.”
When I lived on the Big Island I knew quite a few people who lived off the grid because they had to. Why? The power grid is junk. The Big Island is huge and its population is low, the terrain is rough, it is expensive to put in power lines. When I bought my house I had to pay HelCo $9000 to hook up to power.
Anyway, aside from a few old hippies, they all complained about the limits of their off the grid setup. It really affected their lifestyle. Smaller fridge, no dishwasher, no big screen TV, no air conditioning, lights dim when you run the vacuum cleaner . . .
When I left in 2020, electricity cost 44 cents/KwH. It is now 48 cents/KwH. Yet, everyone I knew that was off grid hooked up to HelCo power as soon as it became available.
April 18th, 2023 at 10:29 am
You know, Liberals are so kooky that I often have a hard time following their logic. For example Justin Jones said this today:
“We live in a state where it’s easier to get a gun than it is to get an adequate education. That is not of god.”
Nobody laughed, so I assume Jones was trying to state something understandable & serious. Can anyone translate what Jones said into normy-talk for me? Help a brother out, Emery!
April 18th, 2023 at 10:40 am
Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans blamed green energy for Texas’ power woes. But the state runs on fossil fuels
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/17/abbott-republicans-green-energy/
It is true that Texas Republicans blame renewables for the blackouts. Nobody else does, for the simple reason that it is not true. The cause of the failure was natural gas wellheads and pipelines and compressor stations and generators that were simply not winterized and froze up and were unable to operate in the low temperatures in Texas during that storm. Wind power generation was only lightly affected.
Sounds like the gas companies are angry they can’t compete on the open market with the wind and the sun and are demanding subsidies/legal barriers. Everyone is a socialist in the end!
April 18th, 2023 at 10:40 am
Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans blamed green energy for Texas’ power woes. But the state runs on fossil fuels
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/17/abbott-republicans-green-energy/
It is true that Texas Republicans blame renewables for the blackouts. Nobody else does, for the simple reason that it is not true. The cause of the failure was natural gas wellheads and pipelines and compressor stations and generators that were simply not winterized and froze up and were unable to operate in the low temperatures in Texas during that storm. Wind power generation was only lightly affected.
Sounds like the gas companies are angry they can’t compete on the open market with the wind and the sun and are demanding subsidies/legal barriers. Everyone is a soci@list in the end!
April 18th, 2023 at 11:09 am
Emery
Are you actually asserting that propane pipelines froze?
What is the F freezing point of Propane?
What is the boiling point F of propane?
Are you saying Texas reached those temperatures?
April 18th, 2023 at 11:15 am
Emery squeaked “Wind power generation was only lightly affected.”
and totally inadequate
April 18th, 2023 at 11:17 am
Emery
you’re the one who pretends to a Chemical Engineering Phd; how did a propane pipeline freeze?
April 18th, 2023 at 11:22 am
Typical unresponsive Emery. Ask him a simple question any progressive should be able to answer: “what did Justin Jones mean when he said ‘We live in a state where it’s easier to get a gun than it is to get an adequate education. That is not of god,'” and Emery opens his blather to complain about something something in TX.
Tennessee is closer to MN than Texas is.
I am guessing that Emery has no more frikkin’ idea how to make sense out of what Jones said than I do. What does Jones want? Twelve years of instruction to buy a firearm? Some kind of graduation ceremony or maybe a diploma to get a gun? And what the heck does “That is not of God” mean in this context? Does God want us to make a quality education take no longer to achieve than a firearms safety course? I am really trying to puzzle this out, to put it in some context where Jones doesn’t sound like a complete idiot, but so far I am out of luck.
April 18th, 2023 at 11:25 am
So fluffy has decided to move on from farm profits and Trump’s tariffs?
April 18th, 2023 at 11:41 am
Emery
Way to go, some religious conservatives followed your specific instructions
https://nypost.com/2023/04/17/couple-behead-themselves-with-homemade-guillotine-in-india/?dicbo=v2-0TPKVBy
maybe your suggestion will catch on among Green Nude Eel followers!
April 18th, 2023 at 11:42 am
Since 2011, ERCOT has known it should winterize its grid for a situation exactly like this. They had a detailed report about it. More extreme winters have been recurring since 1989. Each time the damage that results has increased.
El Paso Heeded the Warnings and Avoided a Winter Catastrophe
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/el-paso-electric-winter-storm-2021/
Apparently experts were right. And folks like Rick Perry who wanted Texans to freeze to death in their homes, rather than meet Federal standards are wrong.
El Paso, Which is on a different grid, winterized according to the recommendations, and kept the lights on.
April 18th, 2023 at 11:45 am
Emery
so you’re standing by your assertion that propane pipelines in Texas froze?
April 18th, 2023 at 11:59 am
Emery pops his head up and demands that other commenters reply to his blather streams that have a question mark at the end. Just thought I would point out that while Emery demands that you respond to his blather stream, he refuses to respond to clearly stated questions about the actions of people on his side of the line.
April 18th, 2023 at 12:03 pm
Rick Perry who wanted Texans to freeze to death in their homes
I assume there’s documentation for this assertion? Seems libelous.
April 18th, 2023 at 12:15 pm
The “Texas Tribune” is a liberal “news” source that publishes editorials from a left of center point of view. It is not a newspaper, it is a non-profit web-only organization, based in Austin, and its staff is whiter by far than the population of Texas.
It is funded by the usual liberal foundations:
$5,409,695 Arnold Ventures/Laura and John Arnold
$2,771,286 Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
$2,750,000 Paul L. Foster
$2,637,000 Houston Endowment Inc.
$2,508,750 Facebook Journalism Project
$2,478,205 John Thornton
$2,248,500 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
$2,227,000 Emerson Collective
$1,990,000 The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation
$1,851,790 Ford Foundation
$1,808,660 The Meadows Foundation
$1,401,000 Ross Perot, Jr./Hillwood Development Company, LLC
$1,397,500 Still Water Foundation
$1,237,500 Charles Butt
https://www.texastribune.org/support-us/donors-and-members/
April 18th, 2023 at 12:22 pm
Hey rAT! We have questions:
Where did you get your PhD in ChemE?
How about your MBA, MD & JD?
How’s the ER nurse liking the new Berkeley horse? Really diggin’ it, right?
tia rAT!
April 18th, 2023 at 1:23 pm
Regarding the DFL, as they’ve decided to rule by judicial fiat, they are no longer “Democratic” in any sense of the word. They are no longer “farmers” because their policies favor solar panels over food, and they are no longer for labor, because they’re taxing and regulating business out of existence.
Not quite sure what they’re going to call themselves now, but there ya go. Maybe the “know-nothings”?
Regarding the life cycle of solar panels, the rule of thumb that occurs to me is that when an environmentalist tells me how long one of their favored technologies will last, I divide by three, and that’s a lot closer to the truth. Looks like UMMP has found the same thing.
April 18th, 2023 at 1:50 pm
So Emery is now a farm expert, who knew?
Yes corn and bean prices were good this year.
This year…
Tell us about the last five years.
Emery is the kind of guy who walks into a restaurant at 6:00 pm on a Friday night and complains that he can’t get a table. “This place must be killing it,” he tells all who know better than to listen, but being the genius that he is, he doesn’t realize that full tables on Fridays and weekends make up for empty tables on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights.
April 18th, 2023 at 1:56 pm
‘We live in a state where it’s easier to get a gun than it is to get an adequate education.’
I wonder what he means by “adequate”. If he means “quality”, he need look no further than the last 60-70 years of leftist takeover of the academia.
I think most every state has laws that REQUIRE education of all minor residents of that state. No state requires guns. Hell, half the states still only grudgingly allow you to purchase and own a gun, and then only because SCOTUS smacked them upside the head about it.
It’s also easier to go to McDonald’s than it is to become a master chef.
It’s also easier to buy a computer than it is to learn programming sufficient to design your own operating system.
Freaking dipshit.
April 18th, 2023 at 3:58 pm
Not only does the DFL need to lose the “Farmer” label, but I’d question their support of Labor (other than the Teacher’s Union) given the negative effect their policies have on working people. No worries, though, they can keep the “L” in their acronym, just change it to stand for “Layabouts”.
April 18th, 2023 at 4:15 pm
The “Texas Tribune” article doesn’t really say what Emery thinks that it says.
The parallels between the types comments Emery makes, and the types of comments made by the long-gone Dog Gone are remarkable. You can’t just say “You’re wrong, and here’s a link that shows that you are wrong,” you have to work your way through a mares nest of improper understanding of the topic, unreliable sources, and then improper conclusions drawn from the unreliable sources.
April 18th, 2023 at 4:24 pm
Carwf, Mr. Bubble. You don’t want to insult your fellow defender’s of buttsex, child trafficking and money laundering.
Take it up with the through channels, off line
April 18th, 2023 at 4:41 pm
Say rAT?
All kidding aside. Before she took her trade “in house”, was your ER nurse daughter’s street name ” Wendy O’Wow? Seems like I may have seen her around Northside back in the day.
Tia rAT