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Jeff McFadden Profile picture
@JeffAndDonkeys
Dec 20, 2017 • 26 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Before I go, let me talk a little bit about campaigning into red states.
I am not a Berniecrat. I'm not sure what they say, because mostly I ignore them.
Please read my words before you decide what I'm saying. 1/X
2. I live in rural NW Missouri. We're a red state. Back before political parties got color coded we were, for most of my life, a Democratic state.

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Jeff McFadden Profile picture
Oct 9, 2018
It makes me wonder:
You take a young guy like Don McGahn, working full blast in public to make the coup permanent -
Doesn't he understand that when his usefulness is over they'll kill him?
These guys all seem to think that the refined, permanent plutarchic states of America only really needs a few people to run it.
I mean: Putin's got his dozens of pet snakes, but he used to have hundreds.
Most of them fell out of windows.
Or had other tragic accidents.
Look at China. Look all over Africa. Eastern Europe.
It only takes a few dozen thugs to own a country. Everybody else is dispensable.
The people at the bottom, like as not, are too busy trying to keep a roof over their head to worry about the details of government.
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Oct 5, 2018
I have found the Kavanaugh theater program monumentally depressing.
Both sides. All of it. What it said. What it didn't say.
The bad faith, the gullible media, the
Whole
Fucking
Circus
pisses me off.
What pisses me off the worst is that it is so much built into our current system of economy, politics, and technology.
I can't express how depressing I have found the whole program. Discussion. Interaction. Whatever it was.
I believe the women. Every word.
But if putting all our energy into the sex scandal worked, he whose name would soil my thumbs would not be President.
I like righteous as well as the next guy but I'd like a few righteous wins.
He had worse weaknesses, by law and tradition.
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Oct 3, 2018
I'd suggest everybody stop, catch a breath, put Kavanaugh on the back burner, and think long term.
They wrote a plan in 1974 and have been executing it ever since. It started out all legal, selling a message and winning local elections, and the legal part worked.
--more
I've written about it extensively, but if you Google "Powell Memo" and read it, it's simple and it worked.
Before then there was no Heritage Foundation or anything like it. There was no Rush Limbaugh.
He invented them.
The objective, clearly stated, was to save "our way of life"
3. Defining unfettered, unregulated capitalism as our way of life.
His plan was simple:
👉Define a message
🕳️You know the Conservative™ party line: freedom, low taxes, limited government - actually it's a pack of lies, as I explain here (Quick read 350) nopackagedeals.com/2017/09/12/the…
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Oct 1, 2018
Leaving aside for a moment the natural sense of annoyance that goes with watching Grassley suck up farm aid from the government, think instead about the clip below.
A thread. washingtonpost.com/amphtml/busine…
2. 150,000 "farmers" produce about 90% of the nation's soybeans.
The same number applies to almost any agricultural commodity.
Oh, and they only call themselves farmers when there's a reporter around.
The rest of the time they're "producers."
3. The business they are in is "production agriculture."
Years ago - I don't know how many years, but many - there were about 300,000 "producers" in American agribusiness. Those 300,000 people produce virtually our entire agricultural commodity products.
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Sep 29, 2018
I spent today out piddling around on the farm.
I'm going to train Abe, the middle aged resident donkey, to pull a cart and light farm equipment.
Donkeys aren't like horses. Donkeys are the number one, still working, beast of burden and transportation in the world.
--more
2. Donkeys were the first beast of burden ever domesticated. Humans offered them a deal: pull and carry stuff for me, and I'll keep you safe, and feed and water you.
Work stock are no more abused than work humans are, and no less. Some get treated fair, and they're happy.
3. Abe is tame, he's just never been taught anything. We tie him up every six weeks and have a professional keep his feet trimmed and healthy. I failed to do that for him for a while, which is borderline animal abuse. G keeps track of it now.
So we go out, pet him, talk to him.
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Sep 25, 2018
You in the mood for some pond story, with pics?
Pics upload slow from here, so it's a slower paced story.
I've never shown you this pond before.
This is the "civilization" side of the property. As you can see. Neighbors. Houses. Roads.
This is "the home place" or "the farmstead." Our houses, buildings, chickens and gardens are here. This is the part G originally bought, buying the wild side later when the opportunity arose.
This side had its pond already.
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