Apparently, it’s “National Agriculture Day“, and when it comes to people who know all about what it’s like to work from sunup to sundown doing hard manual, farm labor, you’d be hard-pressed to find someone more experienced than former reality TV show host and current historical accident, Donald Trump.
Farmer Dennison took a few minutes away from obstructing justice on Tuesday to recognize the nation’s farmers on Twitter and here’s what he came up with:
Our Nation was founded by farmers. Our independence was won by farmers. And our continent was tamed by farmers. Our farmers always lead the way — we are PROUD of them, and we are DELIVERING for them! #NationalAgricultureDay
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 20, 2018
Literally none of that is true, unless he’s talking about Native Americans which you can rest assured he isn’t.
As a quick reminder, America’s founders were so bad at farming that they literally almost starved to death and would have likely died were it not for the indigenous population which mercifully taught their new “neighbors” how to grow food.
That would turn out to be one of the most egregious mistakes in recorded history, because had the Native Americans just let the ignorant settlers starve/freeze to death, those same settlers wouldn’t have ended up murdering them and forcing them to live on reservations after years of subjecting them to unspeakable atrocities.
But that’s not a story that anyone wants to tell, so instead, we’ll hear for the thousandth time that our ancestors built this nation using their own hands and their own ingenuity so that overprivileged white men could continue to lord it over the “browns” and the “reds” (as Roy Moore famously put it) for all eternity.
So thanks, Farmer Trump! For perpetuating one of the worst myths in history on Tuesday.
Now let’s go to the Trump video archive just to underscore how little Trump cares about Native Americans…
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/935238706302210048
A new take on the old parable. Give a man some corn and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to farm and he will take your farm and slaughter your family.
Can you say moron or is it “you mo-ronnnnnn”. Our national nightmare continues………..
The narrative you spin up top about the Native American population seeding their own fate by assisting early European settlers in America with agricultural techniques seems to directly conflict with Jared Diamond’s Pulitzer Prize winning book – Guns, Germs, And Steel – detailing “…why peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples.”
Diamond argues that European settlers had an immunological, technological, agricultural and socio-structural advantage over their North American counterparts – most of which stems from the geographical advantage of the European culture having developed on the Eurasian super-continent where exposure to varied cultures and peoples from China to the UK (i.e. China could have done just as well in the 17th thru 20th centuries as Western Europe had a few idiosyncrasies of their culture not stifled them) provided hormetic strengthening over centuries of repeated exposure.
The pack, slaughter and feed animals (cows, sheep, pigs, horses, chickens, etc.) and steel and germs the Europeans brought with them would have all but ensured their conquering of the continent, even if their crop techniques and crop selection were crude at first. So taken as a whole, the Europeans brought FAR SUPERIOR agricultural technology with them to North America, a point which is not seriously debatable, it is an established fact.
In other words, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
lol. oh really? My father taught Guns, Germs, & Steel at the university level for years.
how about them apples, homie?
also, it’s “ceding”.. not “seeding.”
and now I’m going to put your dumb ass on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/heisenbergrpt/status/976149173753040898
Seeding. As in planting the seeds of their own fate. As in you reap what you sow. As in sowing the seeds of your own destruction. You know, an allusion to your own freaking article.
Not cede as in I cede my power to you.
Jesus, if you’re going to mock someone take the time to carefully read their statement. Enjoy Twitter, bro.
LOL.
yeah, you know you fucked it up homie.
and the best thing is, you have no way to delete it.