The Empire Strikes Back: 1998 Obama Video: ZOMG REDISTRIBUTION!!!1111onesy

[Razgovory]

Farmers are 2% of the population. How do they have so much political pull?

I think that a disproportionate number of people in Congress own a farm.

[derspiess]

They wield disproportionate influence in underpopulated farm states and hence the Senate.

There are also a lot of people (I'd say they even outnumber farmers) who aren't farmers but whose livelihoods are tied to the farming sector.

[MadImmortalMan]

Farmers are 2% of the population. How do they have so much political pull?

I think that a disproportionate number of people in Congress own a farm.

Damn you, Nancy Pelosi.   

[Admiral Yi]

There are also a lot of people (I'd say they even outnumber farmers) who aren't farmers but whose livelihoods are tied to the farming sector.

No doubt.  But that's still a relatively small number (you don't need that many seed salesmen and John Deere salesmen).

[derspiess]

There are also a lot of people (I'd say they even outnumber farmers) who aren't farmers but whose livelihoods are tied to the farming sector.

No doubt.  But that's still a relatively small number (you don't need that many seed salesmen and John Deere salesmen).

Add to that banks, real estate agencies, veterinarians, and entire towns.

[dps]

There are also a lot of people (I'd say they even outnumber farmers) who aren't farmers but whose livelihoods are tied to the farming sector.

No doubt.  But that's still a relatively small number (you don't need that many seed salesmen and John Deere salesmen).

Add to that banks, real estate agencies, veterinarians, and entire towns.

Yeah, though outside of major cities there are lots of smaller cities and towns that are dependent on one industry, not always agriculture.  For example, there really aren't that many working coal miners in West Virginia anymore, but there are still plenty of localities there where the only reason the town exists is because of the nearby mines.  Or look at a lot of college towns--they wouldn't be there if not for the school.  Here where I live, I suspect that if the Air Force base were shut down, within 20 years the population of Goldsboro would drop by at least 50%.  Heck, DC might revert to swamp if we ever moved the nation's capital to another city.

[Ed Anger]

It was Guller who went ballistic over "whore pills" too. Maybe he's just easily trolled. 

I didn't go ballistic, I just don't see the humor in saying something incredibly offensive without in any way coupling it with something amusing (like Seedy always does, for example).  If those are trolls, then they don't strike me as very clever. 

I'm tired.

[The Brain]

How is it incredibly offensive? I don't see race.