It's What's For Dinner

Well, folks, our Provocateur-In-Chief is at it again.  The objects of his wrath this time?  Why, AOC and the Radical Left, of course.  Well, I'll let His Orangeness tell you all about it:

"During this campaign season, the good people of Iowa have had a front-row seat to the lunacy and the madness of the totally sick left,"  Trump told a crowd in Des Moines.

"The Green New Deal, which would crush our farms, destroy our wonderful cows. They want to kill our cows. You know why, right? You know why?"

"Don't say it. They want to kill our cows. That means you're next," he said.

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/01/31/trump-makes-odd-claims-while-slamming-proposal-touted-by-aoc-they-want-to-kill-our-cows/23914306/

O-kayyy!  Wow, all over the map here. I mention in passing that his rhapsody over the "wonderful cows" almost makes him sound a bit lefty to my ears, but I digress.

Let's take his statements apart one by one, it's almost too much fun!

As far as The Green New Deal's specifics, this Wikipedia article maps it out for the edification of the individual.  It is well worth mentioning that the GND pre-dates the advent of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the political scene by at least ten years, so it is rather disingenuous for anyone to really attach her name to it.  As one can glean from the Wikipedia article, the GND also enjoys wide support globally.  For what it is worth, though, Your Crusading Blogger doesn't even favor all aspects of the GND, although as as a general thing, I do advocate most of it, and I am a very, very far-left lefty.

For the hell of it, let's digress a bit and see how far-left a lefty Your Crusading Blogger is!  This is a picture of where I fall on the political spectrum, courtesy of PoliticalCompass.org:

Yep, that big red dot is me.  Pretty far-left lefty, yes?  And for the further hell of it, here is my result from the 8 Values Test:

(Your Crusading Blogger includes all this information to provide tools for those new to the political scene to help them identify their political values so they will learn to vote those values, and not fall for sound bites and personality politics, and thereby vote in their best interests, whatever those might be.  As well as to illustrate how far-left this blogger is, which, as you can see, is pretty far-left, which being classified a social libertarian should prove.)

So, skimming the aforementioned Wikipedia article, we learned the the GND was about moving away from using petroleum and carbon-based energy sources, moving toward clean, renewable energy sources, and cutting greenhouse gas output.  What does this have to do with cows?  Yes, cows do produce a fair amount of greenhouse gases, but the vast majority of greenhouse gas output is man-made, and is therefore fixable by man, in ways that have nothing to do with cows.

Furthermore, I hate to break it to ya, Mr. Trump, but cows are raised for food and milk.  They are raised to be killed.  Otherwise how would you be able to enjoy your hamberders and milkshapes?  What would you put in your covfefe?

As this article and this article amply demonstrate, factory farms, not the GND, are the largest and most immediate threat to the the average American farmer, and by contributing to antibiotic resistance, are a huge danger to the average American citizen.

It is certainly true that many lefties are vegetarians and vegans because they love animals, hate factory farming, and for many other reasons.  And when I grow up, I want be just like them.  But in the meantime, this far-left lefty enjoys her beef -- it's what's for dinner!  And this blogger would like to take this opportunity to share a picture of her dinner plate this evening:

Yes, a steak and baked potato with butter and sour cream, and a few vegetables lost their lives today so I could have that baked potato, some grilled onions and mushrooms, and a salad, too.  I did this in honor of a very confused man who sounds like he needs a long rest.  Let's give him one in November!