Rep. Kristi Noem managed to get back to Washington long enough to join the landslide House vote for the 2018 Farm Bill yesterday.
The first Farm Bill policy Rep. Noem mentions in her press release is her husband’s income stream, federally subsidized crop insurance:
In her Twitter video on passage, Noem has the good sense to mention her family’s revenue source third:
Great news>> The #FarmBill just passed. The next stop? @realDonaldTrump! It’s a great bill for South Dakota’s farmers and ranchers. pic.twitter.com/C1KDpXwPNC
— Rep. Kristi Noem (@RepKristiNoem) December 12, 2018
“There’s things that I would have added if I could have,” says Noem, who left the House Agriculture committee in 2016. Like her Senate counterparts, Noem apparently wants even bigger government.
Oddly, Noem missed an important 206–203 procedural vote in which five Democrats helped the outgoing GOP leadership block any consideration this month of the Senate’s resolution to pull U.S. troops out of Yemen. Noem thus missed her chance to resist the notion that Congress can use the Farm Bill to declare the War Power Resolution null and void for Christmas. Kurt Evans provides the screen cap of that absurdity:
More than 80,000 children in Yemen have died from cholera and starvation, and @SpeakerRyan just used the *FARM BILL* to trick Congress out of debating America’s role in the war. If Ryan were Satan in the flesh, what would he be doing differently? pic.twitter.com/fD3yeUubOd
— Kurt Evans (@KurtEvans2018) December 12, 2018
So the Farm Bill protects both Donald Trump’s war machine and Kristi Noem’s family money machine. Yay.
NOem has always been a toady and will continue the job in wherever the hell will be her roosting place. Giving herself a boost in her income by using taxpayer funds is nothing new for trumpians, that is how they roll.
Wonder why she does not mention HEMP? Neither NOem, Number 2 or Short Rounds, mentions HEMP and the legalization of it. This will be a great cash crop to replace soybeans and it will also help to make more grassland for habitat. Bah zing! A cash crop and better hunting, where the hell is NOem promoting that right along with the lining of her jeans? Maybe she could then buy a new prop hat.
China agrees to buy 41 million bushels of soybeans from US which leaves them about 95% short of normal sales in a year.
Watch Drumpf, OS, the Troll pull down their pants and do the Hula as a victory dance.
Those sales went to corporate farms would be my guess. Anyway,
“That shift away from U.S. beans by China, which takes more than 60 percent of the commodity traded worldwide, will pile further pressure on benchmark Chicago Board of Trade prices Sv1 after they plumbed 10-year lows last week.
China in July imposed a retaliatory 25-percent import duty on U.S. soybeans as part of the tit-for-tat trade dispute between the world’s top two economies, conflict that gathered steam this week with the introduction of fresh tariffs on other products.
“Chinese buyers are snatching soybeans from Brazil’s domestic oilseed market,” said a Singapore-based trader at an international trading company that runs oilseed processing plants in China.
“They are willing to pay a higher prices for Brazilian beans than what domestic crushers are paying,” he added, declining to be identified as he was not authorized to speak with media.” https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-soybeans/crop-chop-china-shuns-u-s-soybeans-amid-trade-war-turns-to-brazil-idUSKCN1M60UT
Boys and girls, better get a sack of those HEMP seeds and make some plans. Beans ain’t coming back so there is that.
mfi, that purchase may be it for some time. China just announced this.
“”China will try to develop “a powerful home market” to help offset external uncertainties next year, the country’s top leadership agreed on Thursday, roughly two weeks into a 90-day truce in the trade war with the United States.
The Politburo, the country’s highest decision-making body, said China still had a “strategic window of opportunity” and “must firmly focus on getting its own goals accomplished”, state-run Xinhua reported, signalling Beijing’s determination to limit the fallout from the trade tensions on its domestic agenda.
In a meeting that will set the direction for economic policy next year, the Politburo, headed by President Xi Jinping, said China should view the “latest changes in the international environment and domestic conditions” – a veiled reference to the trade war with the US and its drag on the domestic economy – in a “dialectic” manner of looking at the opposing forces at work. It also stressed the need to “keep our strategic focus and proceed in a steady manner”.”
So don’t look for any good news for sometime regarding tariffs and trade wars as trump weaponizes the dollar at our great peril. When we restort to kidnapping and extortion to gain leverage on a trade deal, you have to ask yourself long before this mafia brings us all down.
Drumpf’s failures won’t be seen as his problem. Drumpf’s Russian buds at DFP will accuse you and me and Cory for wanting Drumpf to fail. It is our fault.
We are too powerfully aligned, I guess.
So true, men. Trump doesn’t understand Chinese mindset. Xi will put every last Chinese citizen into starvation before he loses face to Trump’s bullying. They waited us out in Vietnam and nothing’s changed with their inner dragon.
And, for those who claim, “Something must be done about China’s theft of our intellectual property!” I’ll say this, “When USA industry sends our polluting factories and processes to their country (and makes no effort to modernize and mitigate the filth we pump into China’s air and water) China believes they have a right to use our innovation skills as payment for USA’s dumping of contamination into their country.” I agree with their thinking.
Number 6 should make anyone with a brain rethink his or her aversion to using the lord’s name in vain. Good Holy Christ Almighty!
The hemp provision in the bill will put Noem in an uncomfortable position, I hope. She’ll rise above it, however, and continue her idiotic persecution of the most useful vegetable on Earth.
You can’t eat rope, Bob. The demon weed is a hallucinogenic drug used to shore up the weak-minded and bolster their self-worth.
But you can eat feces, as you demonstrate regularly.
trump cannot keep America’s word on anything. Who would trust us to make any kind of deals in the future. They are not worth the hemp paper they are written on. Check this out to see how far we have fallen and remember how we used to chastise other countries for doing what we are now doing.
“”The Trump administration is resuming its efforts to deport certain protected Vietnamese immigrants who have lived in the United States for decades—many of them having fled the country during the Vietnam War.
This is the latest move in the president’s long record of prioritizing harsh immigration and asylum restrictions, and one that’s sure to raise eyebrows—the White House had hesitantly backed off the plan in August before reversing course. In essence, the administration has now decided that Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in the country before the establishment of diplomatic ties between the United States and Vietnam are subject to standard immigration law—meaning they are all eligible for deportation.” https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/12/donald-trump-deport-vietnam-war-refugees/577993/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_term=2018-12-12T19%3A26%3A40
Very disappointing to the people, who I as a soldier, went to fight for. We might as well bulldoze the Vietnam Memorial Wall along with the politico prop Short Rounds erected in Pierre. With trump and his republicans, they are meaningless
Grudzie sez weed is dangerous. Colorado said, “It’s pretty harmless. Safer than alcohol.” The entire country of Canada chose Colorado. Wonder where Grudzie got his facts? I bet he was a stoner in his younger days. Or had a boyfriend that was. Hmmmmm?
jerry “We have 5,000 convicted criminal aliens from Vietnam with final orders of removal—these are non-citizens who during previous administrations were arrested, convicted, and ultimately ordered removed by a federal immigration judge.”
Trump didn’t do this. A federal judge is doing this and it appears the criminals from Vietnam need to be kicked out, you big cry baby.
These are men you fought next to that are being deported, Jerry. Who ever thought the phrase “Deported War Veterans” would be part of America’s history? (There’s a regular poster on DFP who works for the Dept. of Defense. Maybe he’ll have an explanation. Hmmmm OS?)
http://www.vvaw.org/veteran/article/?id=1248
Porter,
Just thinking this through: 1) these men and women had 44 years to even apply to be US citizens but they chose not to do so, 2) They have all been convicted of numerous crimes against society, 3) should we continue to allow them to threaten our communities?
Decision: Put’em on a boat and ship them away.
Think about it this way: If they had become US citizens they could stay even with their criminal records. They made a poor decision.
Drumpf can’t get out of his own way. https://www.aol.com/article/finance/2018/12/13/trumps-trade-team-building-strategy-deal-with-huawei-cfo-arrest-trump-blew-it-up-in-interview/23617426/
Winning trade wars is easy if you clam up the loose cannon first.
What a freaking maroon!
Os … With little respect, “You’re so full of it, it’s comin’ out your ears. You just made that up.” They applied and were denied. These aren’t the refugees. These are soldiers. Read the story, OldMan.
“American combat veterans and cold war veterans who have served the nation, are being unceremoniously thrown out the back door and denied the US Citizenship that had been promised to them decades earlier.”
Trump could stop it. Trump likes to hurt people of color and foreigners. Trump is Nazi-esque. Lie some more, pilgrim!!
It looks like the GOP political trickery to use the Farm Bill to stymie the Yamen discussion has ultimately failed. The Senate voted anyway not to support the Saudis:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yemen-saudi-arabia-senate-war_us_5c115e46e4b0ac53717b8c7a
Soybeans have been sold directly to China. Cory’s been called.
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/usda-confirms-u-soybean-sales-155407964.html
Porter, the Vietnam boat escapes were in 1974. That was 44 years ago. You don’t know how many of the 9K are veterans, especially US vets. If they were US Vets they couldn’t have been for very long as you can’t reenlist if you are not a US citizen. Look, I work with some of the dumbest military in the world and some of them that are not citizens but all are working on obtaining their citizenship. There is no military advisor telling them how to do it. They figure it out every day.
If these dumb clucks from Vietnam being kicked out couldn’t figure it over 44 years and just kept committing crimes we don’t want them here. Why bring the IQ level any lower than it is now?
Many were dreamers who enlisted during the war in Iraq with promises of citizenship. USA was hurting for boots and absolutely promised citizenships. Trump hates Mexicans. Trump is a big fat liar.
I’d tread carefully when calling someone else a dumb cluck, OS. Good blog post, Cory.
RJ’s advice to OldSarg is sound:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+7%3A3-5&version=NIV
Wow. Kurt’s comment about WPA and speaker Ryan seem pretty profound. Thought provoking.
The farm bill does little to nothing supporting small to mid-sized producers or encouraging a sustainable agricultural system. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/opinion/farm-bill-agriculture.html
Attempts trying to sustain the rural economy are failing; even here. Soon SD will be an urban state – having more urban than rural population and with great economic impact from urban areas than from rural areas. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/14/opinion/rural-america-trump-decline.html
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/415988-interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-steps-down
Zinke is out! Anther one bites the ethics bullet.
Why is that, John? Why do Republicans choose to intervene in the marketplace on behalf of the biggest, best-funded players while ignoring the small players who would benefit more from less aid and who would benefit all producers and consumers by providing more competitive alternatives in the marketplace?