After a baseball break last week, Patrick Lalley opened his KSOO mic to me again yesterday afternoon to spend twenty minutes talking about tariffs and Senator John Thune’s visit to Russia. Our conversation focused first on the complaints we’re hearing from both the Farm Bureau and the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce about the economic drag and uncertainty the Trump tariffs are creating. Then I surprise Lalley with my knowledge of Russian as I translate Thune’s appearance on Russian state TV’s Saturday night news program. (But hey, why be surprised? This far north, we can see Russia from our back steps.)
Lalley’s conversation with me begins after 34:00 in the Soundcloud audio.
Future Senator Heidelberger imparts even more knowledge and more serviceable suggestions verbally than through his highly informative and forward thinking blog posts. His use of voice inflection, humor and tempo make for compelling audio.
Attention Soybean and Dairy producers. Here is the new republican slogan “Better Off Now” So there ya go folks, you may have taken a severe haircut, but NOem and the rest of the house republicans think you are the better for it.
In case you need more convincing- https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/russian-bots-back-now-theyre-fueling-walkaway-propaganda-attack-democrats/
The Crack in the Wall?
July 11, 2018 By: El Jefe
I just watched a breathtaking exchange on Meet the Press Daily where Mike Rounds, conservative Republican Senator from South Dakota cried uncle to Trump’s trade war. He said that farmers and ranchers in his state are getting killed by backing out of the TPP and the escalating trade war with China and (former) friends of the US. US Soybean prices have plummeted and Russia has stepped into US farmers’ shoes exporting to China. That’s right, kids…the winner so far of the trade war with China is RUSSIA. What a coinkydink! Oh, BTW, we’ve designed a new MAGA hat for South Dakota farmers:
Anyway, I digress. Rounds roundly (no pun intended) condemned Trump’s trade war, saying his constituents are loudly complaining. Is this finally a crack in Trump’s wall? Are the GOP invertebrates in congress finally growing spines? We’re a long way from that, but at least we know that Repubs are not all in a coma.
The new MAGAT hat says Make AG Go Away
el jefe writes for Juanita Jeans
Thanks again, Porter. I had a friend once who knew me from face-to-face interaction first say that she could hear all that inflection and tempo in my writing.
Funny: the immediately preceding comment I wrote was to Debbo under today’s Bjorkman post, affirming what she said about the importance of slowing down to write to achieve clearer thoughts and expression.
I would suggest that writing 15,730 blog posts since August 2005 has improved my ability to speak extemporaneously on current affairs and public policy.
Jerry, how about we bring back “Had enough?!” on the bumper stickers?
Mike, I would love to co-opt MAGA for the Dems’ slogan, but I think we need to completely repudiate the GOP narrative with completely distinct words that still make a similar, compelling appeal to one simple, unchallengeable action. What’s the line that will work?
Had Enough? Indeed Cory, how true it is. Funny thing about Rounds though is that he was praising trump for doing the trade war. Funny…
Mr. Lalley took a break from blogging on the radio to go play baseball? How did he pitch?
So Rounds couldn’t figure out beforehand his constituents would pay the price for an unnecessary trade war?
I guess this is what one gets when you vote for the party and not the country.
Cory,
DId you say on the radio you were against the farmers getting a 20% tax deduction like you have on your website?
Or Jerry, how about “Back to Life—Back to Reality!”
Silly Grudz. Twins broadcast, not try-out for Lalley.
Silly Jason—I said no such thing. Any assertion or evidence to the contrary say nothing to refute the main thesis that Thune, Rounds, and Noem now explicitly support, that Trump tariffs are hurting South Dakota farmers and ranchers. Nothing you say can refute or divert us from that ugly fact, or from the fact that you think it’s more important to run interference for Donald Trump than to stand up for South Dakota interests the way Thune, Rounds, and Noem are finally joining me in doing.
Cory, I didn’t realize you changed your mind and are for the tax cut now.
Jason, when did you stop beating your wife?
Just admit what the Farm Bureau, the Chamber, Thune, Rounds, and Noem admit: Trump’s tariffs are bad for South Dakota. Then we can go to a different post to introduce different topics… which you’ll still lose on anyway, because you’re wrong, and you’re not trying to defend a specific policy, you’re just trying to confuse the conversation and discredit me personally. Unproductive, Jason, and boring.
@Cory … I like “HAD ENOUGH?” and have used it elsewhere, today. Good One.