Farmers at the Iowa State Fair Say They’re Backing Trump’s Trade War

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  1. MolonLabe2009

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    Farmers are a tough lot.
     
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    Lol...Only the most poorly educated people still support trump, and they also seem to suffer from a lack of self-worth and self-respect. Note the obese masochist who gushed pathetically after trump insulted him at a rally.
    Now we hear he has to threaten workers' pay to force them to attend his self-serving rants.


    https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/17/politics/workers-trump-speech-attend-pto-no-pay/index.html
     
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    Your attendance is not mandatory. This will be considered an excused absence. However, those who are NOT in attendance will not receive overtime pay on Friday," read part of the memo.

    "It was understood some would choose not to attend the presidential visit and were given the option to take paid time off (PTO) instead. As with any workweek, if someone chooses to take PTO, they are not eligible to receive maximum overtime," Smith, the spokesman for Shell, told CNN.

    Not quite what you spun it to now is it..
     
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    so tough it only cost the taxpayers 16 billion this year alone to keep their eyes dry.
     
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    No, likely they know that hard times sometimes come, and what is best for our nation, and reasonable, is worth fighting through.

    Your colorful hyperbolic description of the supporter, is straight out of Hitlery's deplorable handbook.
     
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    Less than the ass ****ing China was making in Profit.
     
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    More fake news from fake news CNN.

    Here's what the memo actually said...

    "Your attendance is not mandatory. This will be considered an excused absence. However, those who are NOT in attendance will not receive overtime pay on Friday"​

    Why doesn't the title of CNN's article match what the memo says?

    Inquiring minds want to know.
     
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    Like trump said. He loves the uneducated...
    They support him no matter what
     
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    Lol...You don't have enough polish for this one.
    The fact is that they could either sit through one of trump's self-serving rants or lose money.
     
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    Uneducated? Poorly educated?

    When I was getting my engineering degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in the 80's, there were a lot of agricultural students getting their degrees.

    The number of farmers with college degrees continues to rise every year.

    And if you two think you are so smart, then let's see you run a entire farm.
     
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    Do you know what PTO stands for and why did you cut out most of my post which was quoting the same source you did?

    We all know why.. Polishing a turd indeed.
     
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    I’m sorry you you don’t like trumps words.
    Neither do most Americans
     
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    Obama's RCP approval rating on 8/17/2011 was only 43% which is slightly lower than what Trump's RCP approval rating is now and Obama went on to win reelection.
     
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    What?
     
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    Lefties are just butt hurt.

    Farmers from an early age learn up close and personal how things work.

    Crop rotations/cycling, mitigating the effects of bad weather, learning how ag markets work, animal husbandry, construction, complex vehicle maintenance, etc.

    They are more informed than the average "college educated" leftist.
     
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    Said the education supremacist.

    Which state dumbed down exit exams and then eliminated because they were racist and too many students couldn't pass them? That would be California.
     
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    The farmers literally put food on our tables, what has a degree in gender or African studies ever done for anyone? The people with those worthless degrees are being fed by those uneducated farmers the elitist left looks down their collective noses at.
     
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    And they appear to think its effective.
     
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    trump was the one that said he loves the uneducated
     
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    I think it was California that did a study that showed 75% of the graduating seniors can't read past a 8th grade level.
     
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    I don't even read them anymore. Half of my ignore list is libs who can't debate.
     

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