Update on farmers 10/3/19

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said today that there are no guarantees that smaller dairy farms will survive:

"In America, the big get bigger and the small go out." https://t.co/lnKA0tdcEb
— Axios (@axios) October 2, 2019

In Wisconsin, 1,200 dairy farms have gone out of business in the last 2 years. Here’s the sympathetic response from Trump’s Ag Secretary:

“In America, the big get bigger and the small go out.”https://t.co/5Scaieyv0h
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) October 2, 2019

It takes a rare fella to say so plainly that America is essentially a monopoly culture, and that the ultimate goal of a free market is to achieve the absolute minimal amount of actual competition. https://t.co/xVgIizVGMy
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) October 1, 2019

U.S. farmers receive $14.03 billion so far in government trade aid https://t.co/ZOO0AIU460 pic.twitter.com/Q7iRWjlLmy
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 2, 2019

NEW: In Iowa, farmers are turning on Trump. It's not just trade. Trump is undercutting ethanol

"I supported Trump in the last election. Today, if the election were held, I don’t think I could vote for him,” said Kelly Nieuwenhuis, a corn & soybean farmerhttps://t.co/tUhKxR5E3x
— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) October 1, 2019

This is a curious re-election message for farmers.

(551 Wisconsin dairy farms have disappeared so far this year, up from 465 the year Trump took office.)https://t.co/5rQpcCO3sR
— Alex Wayne (@aawayne) October 1, 2019

Trump's Ag secretary Sonny Perdue in visit to Wisconsin says dairy farms may need to get bigger to survive.

Wisconsin dairy farmer at Dem presser: "What I heard today from the secretary of agriculture was there's no place for me." https://t.co/5dabWBKSWj via @patrickdmarley
— Molly Beck (@MollyBeck) October 1, 2019

Farmers find another reason to get frustrated with President Trump https://t.co/Adnr1sNGVO pic.twitter.com/GKaxMk782k
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 29, 2019

Just so that you know where all this money is going: “More than 92% of the country’s 2.1 million farmers are non-Hispanic whites, and more than 86% of those farm operators are men.” https://t.co/X9s0vbfRwK
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) September 23, 2019

Update on Trump’s lie about the hurricane

"The Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at NOAA on Friday after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama," @NYTimes reports.https://t.co/nzHml32iJx
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 9, 2019

They would fire people for telling the truth!

A top NOAA scientist is probing why NOAA put out bad info to back up Trump.

Worse, he flatly stated that the public now has reason not to have confidence in the agency's info.

Here are numerous other examples of the suppression of good data under Trump:https://t.co/102nyz9Wkd
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) September 9, 2019

As I said yesterday, the Trump-installed NOAA leaders who threw integrity out the window, endangered public safety, and stabbed our scientists in the back—must be held accountable for betraying the public trust and undermining faith in our institutions. They should resign now. https://t.co/E7D9WoOpcF
— Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) September 9, 2019

NWS director Louis Uccellini praised the staff from @NWSBirmingham – who corrected Trump's false claim – and asked them to stand, prompting "a standing ovation from hundreds of forecasters." https://t.co/SwZdyOMvvI
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 9, 2019

Contradicting the president's lies is apparently a firing offense in this administration. Probably because if you start doing it, you won't have time to do anything else.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) September 9, 2019

The use of the word "However," here is also unfortunate, since it suggests this anonymous Trump aide's claim deserves equal weight as an equally likely or plausible explanation for what happened. https://t.co/HUe2wzupYi
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) September 9, 2019

Trump wants the Ukraine to interfere in our 2020 election

This is corrupt. It also helps Trump’s pal Putin.

I shouldn't be astonished, but this is astonishing: The Trump administration withholding military aid from an important ally–apparently for one reason only: to corruptly pressure it to interfere in the 2020 election @postopinions @jacksondiehl https://t.co/vpoUVh4izE
— Fred Hiatt (@hiattf) September 6, 2019

Wow. Exactly what Putin wants to hear. (Deleting my earlier tweet that is was better to have Pence than Trump in Warsaw) https://t.co/Sd8xc7yf2x
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) September 2, 2019

More of a preview of Trump’s ugly re-election tactics

He will lie about Democratic positions on guns. They are not trying to repeal the Second Amendment.

Trump says Democrats want criminals and open borders. Another lie.

Trump will try to make the ‘squad’ (four liberal Democratic freshmen congressional representatives who aren’t white) the face of the Democratic party. In fact, the Democratic base is more moderate than the extremely conservative Republican base.

Trump is already making personal attacks on leading Democratic contenders Biden and Warren. He will try to do what he did in 2016. He will never be popular so he will try to destroy his opponent and make them more unpopular than him. He will not run on the issues.

He’s making phony fraud claims about the 2016 election to set his cult up to believe the results are wrong if he loses.

GOP attacks on the ‘squad’.

This Trump Facebook ad is absolutely false but it must be working because the campaign keeps running it

No Democratic prez candidate supports repealing the 2nd Amendment, no Dem in Congress supports it, it is not part of the Democratic platform

In other words, it's a lie pic.twitter.com/8wizfpgJVI
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) August 30, 2019

The NRA is going to accuse the Democratic nominee of wanting to take people's guns no matter what policy they support. They did this in 2000, 2004, 2008, 20012, and 2016.

There is zero reason to shy away from the right policy when it comes to weapons of war on our streets. https://t.co/Nk16iSJ6Hf
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) September 1, 2019

Did Trump want to nuke a hurricane?

I think he asked about it and is lying now when he denies it. I believe Axios, not a proven liar. Sad!

SCOOP: President Trump has suggested multiple times to senior Homeland Security and national security officials that they explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the United States. https://t.co/4vidIuiijA
— Axios (@axios) August 25, 2019

The original article

Curiosity about nuking a hurricane isn't limited to Trump's alleged queries, writes scientist Adam Sobel, who says he gets asked about it all the time. The persistence of this idea tells an important story about human nature, Sobel writes via @CNNOpinion https://t.co/095EXzy82N
— CNN (@CNN) August 26, 2019

Trump’s tweet about the nuking hurricane story ends a difficult period for Trumpists, who were unsure whether to call the story fake news or insist that nuking hurricanes is brilliant
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) August 26, 2019

I stand by every word in the story. He said this in at least two meetings during the first year and a bit of the presidency, and one of the conversations was memorialized. https://t.co/5qs8o1k4QS
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) August 26, 2019

We stand by our reporting https://t.co/hH991XRRlm
— Margaret Talev (@margarettalev) August 26, 2019

Not that @jonathanvswan or @margarettalev need any backup on this, but for whatever little it’s worth, two sources with knowledge confirmed the Trump-nuke-bomb-hurricanes story to me today. Didn’t tweet or write anything yet cuz still making calls to try to advance it, but fwiw https://t.co/0HPUaDYTG0
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) August 26, 2019

Amazing that you live in a world where everyone lies except you, @realDonaldTrump. https://t.co/X8mr4Qifmd
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) August 26, 2019

The President as everyman crank/conspiracy theorist. Has sole launch authority for our nuclear arsenal. https://t.co/SIg7dN8Q43
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) August 26, 2019

Trump’s attitude on Jews is meant to appeal to Christian evangelicals

This is the best column I have seen on Trump’s comments on Jews. He’s not doing this for Jews or to get Jewish votes (which he won’t get many of). He’s doing this to appeal to the evangelicals which are a large part of his base. They don’t care about Jews either except how we would help them get to the Rapture.

Also, American Jews are Americans, not Israelis. We are not blindly loyal to Israel. Trump doesn’t understand this at all. Trump’s real big on blind loyalty.

Perspective: Trump sees all U.S. Jews as Israelis because his Christian Zionist allies do, too https://t.co/KLmHUDc9Xa
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 22, 2019

Here are more tweets:

While President Trump calls most Jews disloyal, some American Christians are following pastors who blame Jews for a long list of the nation’s ills https://t.co/LDCRvV7ZqX
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 22, 2019

To Republicans, the only good Jew is a pro-Israel Jew. https://t.co/AAiRaqHhZg
— Slate (@Slate) August 22, 2019

U.S. Jews are more likely than Christians to say Trump favors the Israelis too much: https://t.co/r0LoRD97ey pic.twitter.com/SmMgKA2wlm
— Pew Research Religion (@PewReligion) July 21, 2019

Trump acts like all American Jews are Israelis too but it’s not true. This is my country.

1. I finally wrote my unified theory of Trump's anti-Semitism. Why does someone w/ Jewish family & friends regularly say anti-Semitic things? The short version: Trump believes all the anti-Semitic stereotypes about Jews, but sees those traits as admirable. https://t.co/8GUfYrRhjj
— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) August 21, 2019

"Why do these stiff-necked Jews refuse to accept the Second Coming of God" is probably not a great outreach message https://t.co/OGBdvLRDgE
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) August 21, 2019

Let's be crystal clear. When Pres. Trump says that Jews who vote for Democrats show "either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty," he is summoning the forces of bigotry and anti-Semitism with all of its blood-stained history.
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) August 20, 2019

This 20 seconds is almost the entirety of Fox News' coverage of Trump's Jewish loyalty comments … and they're denying he even said it

Guest: Trump said to Jews in America if you vote for Dems, your loyalty is in question

Ingraham: Nice try!

Kirk: That's not what he said! pic.twitter.com/3RD36cEjVu
— Lis Power (@LisPower1) August 21, 2019

Trump’s new attack on American Jews as disloyal to Israel if they vote Democratic is no better than his old attack on us as disloyal to America. Where does he get off telling me I need to be loyal to Israel just because I’m Jewish? The guy is a fascist and a fool.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 21, 2019

Trump, frustrated by unpopularity with Jews, thrusts Israel into his culture war @PhilipRucker https://t.co/qaD6XMUffW
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) August 22, 2019

"We need to deal with this very dangerous idea that says being pro-Jewish means you have to be pro-Israeli or being pro-Israeli means you're automatically pro-Jewish & you're immunized from the charge of anti-Semitsm. Lots of anti-Semites support Israel & Netanyahu." -me on @CNN: pic.twitter.com/I9vJCwS8gB
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 22, 2019

Trump saying essentially “If you don’t support me you are a bad Jew”…is not in the Bible. I just checked.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) August 22, 2019

Trump failed to notice that Obama, supposedly the worst president ever for Israel, still got 7 out of 10 Jewish votes in 2012. Most Jews aren't single-issue voters. https://t.co/BNkYviikpC
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) August 22, 2019

"Evil Jews."

"When I think of al-Qaida, I can hold my chest out.”

They "call our country and our people garbage.”

"Anti-Semitic chants that they push forward"

Every one of these quotes, attributed to @AOC and @IlhanMN by Republicans, is a fabrication. https://t.co/Q6hF06qy4z
— Will Saletan (@saletan) July 25, 2019

I don’t agree with everything the congresswomen have said but Republicans lie about it to appease Trump.

"What if the old community of interest between American Jews and other minorities is dissolving, leaving only the weaker tie of a community of values?" @davidfrum on the test Trump poses to the Jewish community: https://t.co/3cAVCACldw
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) July 25, 2019

NOTE: Xenophobe Stephen Miller does not represent American Jews.

Just 16% of American Jews identify as Republican. https://t.co/ZUuaTyTTsv
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) July 22, 2019

Katie Hopkins, who the President quote tweets here, has said Jews were to blame for the Pittsburgh massacre because they supported immigration and called for a “final solution” for Muslims in the UK.

See this: https://t.co/9s66qv8vmq and https://t.co/0s4FepsqqK https://t.co/szlqIvp3jK
— Todd Schulte (@TheToddSchulte) July 20, 2019

This is as disgusting as anything Trump has ever done. And that’s saying a lot. He’s an antiSemite using Jews as human shields. https://t.co/fXLYo94j6e
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 20, 2019

It’s almost like the vocal minority of right-wing jews who dominate public discourse are not reflective of the vast majority of American Jews and do not speak for us https://t.co/eMRdyG5IZa
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) July 8, 2019

Rep. Schiff on Pres. Trump’s Jewish loyalty remarks: "I think you're going to find Jews rejecting this president and all he stands for in record numbers."https://t.co/RmEYJrHIOu
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 25, 2019

American Jews, Politics and Israel (@Frank_Newport) https://t.co/GYbjesQens
— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) August 27, 2019

What would you call O. J. Simpson’s fantasy team?

The comments on this tweet are great. My favorite suggested team names are “Donovan McStab” and “The White Broncos”.

I believe Simpson is guilty of murder but I also am willing to believe that the prosecutors didn’t prove it. You get what you pay for. The government lawyers made a lot less money than Simpson’s “dream team”.

What does OJ name his fantasy team? https://t.co/AzSXfSPECZ
— Dan Wetzel (@DanWetzel) August 20, 2019

And now for some tasteless Simpson jokes:

Q: Did you know the Bills are going to re-sign O. J. A: He can still cut and run.
Q: Did you know that O. J. is going to take up hockey? A: You only get two minutes for slashing.
Q: What’s the difference between O. J. Simpson and Jeffrey Dahmer? A: O. J. only ate one of his victims.
Q: Did you know O. J. is moving to West Virginia? A: All the DNA is the same there.

Andrew Luck you couldn’t have shared that news before I drafted you an hour ago? #andrewluck @Colts pic.twitter.com/szGO2Dik2i
— O.J. Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) August 25, 2019