Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.

[Kidds]

Sorry for your loss. Sad times for a lot of folk made more so by current situation

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Life and death goes on.......

 

[Kidds]

Life and death goes on.......

Life goes on.
Slips off the tongue without a thought more often than not.
It wasn’t until a time of loss that it sunk in just how much it means.
Life does go on, it has to. I’m not suggesting you shrug things off and just carry on but nor does the world stop forever while you wallow in self pity.

 

[Deerefarmer]

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Trump Shitshow Summary

I'm going to start here by saying: I honestly won't be surprised if this thing kills us all.

I don't know how it is where you are, but here in the rural redneck Florida Panhandle where I am, this thing is going be like sh!t through a goose.

This is Matt Gaetz territory. A Southern Baptist church on every corner and country music blaring from every radio. These are hardcore Trump supporters. Trump could spit a virus laden booger in their faces and they'd call it freedom and raise up a cheer.

It's bad here in Florida and it's going to get worse.

We've been bunkered up for 18 days now. We've gone through all the fresh produce, the eggs, the milk, the bread, the snacks, the chocolate. We could probably live on canned goods and the freezer for the next month, but it's going to get worse. Even our idiot president and my idiot governor agree with that. Now. Finally.

So, I reasoned, best to go NOW, before it gets worse and stock up while I can before the risk gets any higher.

Of the people in the house, I'm probably the most ... expendable.

Thus, we decided that I would go, by myself, so as to minimize exposure. I called friends to find out if they needed supplies and got a list. No point in anybody else risking it.

I went to the local military base first.

It's a small training base in the middle of nowhere. They had full security and screening stations set up. Which I was damned glad to see. I didn't have any problem, given that -- as I mentioned -- I've been isolated for the last 18 days. The base commissary was also screening people before being allowed into the store, and provided sanitizing wipes and plastic gloves. The commissary wasn't crowded and I got most of what I needed there.

Most of what I needed. Not all.

So, I had to go to the public grocery store out in town.

And, goddamn, if this actually was The Walking Dead, these booger eating morons would be biting each other in the parking lot just to see how it tastes.

The store was massively crowed. Because NOW, suddenly Trump is talking about 200,000 dead and the Florida governor is suddenly threatening to shut down the state.

I can't get this thing. It'll probably kill me. My health isn't great these days, thank 20 years of military service coming back to haunt me. So, I wore a mask. And long sleeves. And surgical gloves. And I was damned glad I did, because the store was packed shoulder to shoulder. And nobody gave a sh!t about social distancing. Despite repeated announcements over the store speakers, people crowded into each other, let their kids run wild as usual, coughed with their mouths open, touching their faces, rubbing their eyes, picking their noses. People touching stuff, handling it, putting it back on the shelf. I saw one woman laying over the cart handle, like people suddenly do nowadays, ass sticking out in the aisle. I watched her rest her bottom lip on the handle while she considered her phone.

Because they don't really believe.

I mean, they do, but they don't. Not enough to actually protect themselves and others, to follow the guidelines, to pay attention, to change their habits. Their leaders didn't take it seriously, called it a hoax, and so that's how they regard it.

And thus when this thing comes, these people are going to get sick. Some of them, they're going to die.

And with my luck, they'll probably take me with them.

I got enough supplies to last for a while, hopefully long enough that I don't have to go out again for a few weeks.

Came home and took a shower.

And here we are at the Trump Presser and what's he talking about?

The war on ... drugs?

What?

I mean, he started out this morning threatening war with Iran, again, and here we are tonight and he's announcing that he's deploying the Navy to the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific to hunt down drug smugglers.

There he is, at the podium, with all the generals and the admirals around him in dress uniforms like a fudgeing salad bar. War! War, he says. War. Yeah. That's it. We're gonna do some war. It's like the second coming of Zombie Reagan and these people are nothing if not predictable.

You know what's going on here, right?

It's more than just the tail wagging the dog.

There is nothing a white conservative is more positive about than if black people aren't hoeing the fields and picking the cotton all the livelong day, they'll just sit around doing drugs.

They haven't been shy about it either.

That was Congressional Republicans' biggest complaint about the stimulus package they just passed. What if we give poor people money to help get them through this thing and then they just don't want to go back to work?

Pick any Republican politician's social media feed at random and go look for yourself. Socialism! Socialism!

And then this.

Drugs.

With the pandemic, we gotta worry about the drugs. If "those people" aren't working, they'll be doing the drugs. The cartels will be trying to get into America. You betcha. Oh, it's true. Trust us.

Same old sh!t.

And so, we gotta ramp up the War on Drugs. Deploy the Navy, send out the Coast Guard. Gotta be seen doing SOMETHING, send out the fleet to fight something. Get that on the news. You see a warship heading out, you know the government must be doing some sh!t to protect you.

But it's a joke.

A horrible, horrible joke.

I've done this mission. Goddamn, have I. And it's worse than useless. You could deploy every navy ship and you wouldn't put a dent in the drug trade.

But the real kicker is that nobody wants you to.

Nobody. Not the DEA, not the BATF, not the FBI, or the CIA, or the cops, the Coast Guard, the Department of Homeland Security and sure as hell not Americans -- who fudgeing love all the drugs.

Americans don't need a pandemic to do drugs.

Americans don't need to stay home to do drugs.

Honestly? Bluntly? The worst thing for The War on Drugs would be if Americans STOPPED using drugs.

This so-called war? There's so much money, so much corruption, it's the wild west. There's NO accountability. Nobody knows what anybody else is doing. It's all bullpoo, ALL of it, everybody's hand in everybody's pocket.

I'll prove it to you: drugs are a supply and demand market with just in time delivery. There aren't warehouses stocked with illegal drugs, put away for some interruption in the supply chain. Illegal drugs are made, shipped, sold, and ingested, and they make more. They don't sit around. So, if that supply is cut, or restricted in any fashion, the cost on the street goes up immediately.

So, what that means in military terms is this: The only true measure of effectiveness is the price of illicit drugs on the street.

And that's the thing, right there.

No matter how many warships you deploy, no matter how many smugglers you catch, no matter how many tons of drugs you intercept, the price doesn't change.

And THAT means, we're having NO effect at all.

The whole thing is a fudgeing joke.

For professional military, for US Navy Sailors and US Coast Guardsmen, counter narcotics deployments are the worse, most demoralizing, bullpoo mission you can be sent to do. It's all corrupt, it can hardly NOT be. And the people running the operation back in the states, the various 3-letter agencies and the myriad incomprehensible mishmash of law enforcement in the chain of command? They undercut you at EVERY turn. And no matter how much you intercept, there are hundred more smugglers you never even see.

It's worse than bullpoo, because you're out there, risking your life and the lives of your people and it DOESN'T MAKE ONE GODDAMNED IOTA OF DIFFERENCE.

The simple truth of the matter is that Americans love drugs and they're going to get them. No matter what.

And the people allegedly running the War on Drugs love the money and the power and the prestige and the military hardware and busting heads and the glory of it all.

Nobody wants it to end. Nobody.

The War on Drugs has always been about racism and false assumptions and MONEY. Bales and bales and bales of money.

All this surge does is put our people into harm's way AND increases their risk of contracting the virus, for some bullpoo republican idea that if poor people get a check, instead of paying the rent they'll buy drugs.

It's what conservatives do when they don't know what else to do, declare war on something.

But we can't bomb our way out of this pandemic.

We have a $5 billion aircraft carrier and her strike group, one of the most powerful weapons ever sent to sea, sitting in Guam right now, disabled not by enemy action, but by a virus.

And USS Theodore Roosevelt won't be the last military unit this happens to.

We can't bomb our way out of this crisis.

It's not a war, it's a pandemic.

It's not a hoax, it's a pandemic.

It's not about Wall Street. It's not about profit. It's not about politics or political ideology. It's a fudgeing pandemic.

And unless we start acting like this is a pandemic and not something else, we'll never beat it.

Sounds like a bitter individual who has had to much handed to him....and government should fix all his problems and everyone else's... I'm not a fan of trump's pr's either but what is he supposed to do.... if the dems weren't trying to create a shyteshow impeachment circus coronavirus would have made headlines here a lot sooner than it did imo... maybe it is not a political issue but one can't help but notice how the virginia gov. declared the state under lockdown until the day after the Republican primaries
Personally I'd be surprised if drug patrol were the sole reason those ships were sent out but who knows.... government tells its citizens what they want them to believe imho.
Funny in a sad way how that humans are ok with death when they can control it, ie murder, war, abortion.... but when the table is turned.....
Discuss

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

I guess it's ok when you are controlling the right side of it....I'm not sure those on death row are too fine with it.....

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Finally made a start today going in well

 

[Deerefarmer]

Finally made a start today going in wellView attachment 867971View attachment 867972

Can't possibly grow, you haven't "made" a seed bed yet
I'm envious of your 750 .... wish they were available in the states

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Why aren't they?? Roundup and Gramoxone made a seed bed.....

 

[Deerefarmer]

We can only get them like this... your version would be more user friendly for our area, easier to transport, and so on,

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Bottom one is a 1590 here....Theres quite a few of them floating around my area.. Never seen the top one? I'm guessing since it's a single row on a fair spacing that it's a bean planter?

 

[Deerefarmer]

Top one is a 1990 available with different row spacing, other option is the 1890, not sure off hand what the differences are between the two.. 1590 is popular here too

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

1890 here is a 2 or 3 rank bar with trailed cart.

 

[Farmer Roy]

I’ve seen em all here, 1590, 1890, 1895, 1860 - I think every version of the single disc JD planter available ( was it the 1860 ? First showed up maybe 20 yrs ago here ? )

But - I have never seen or even heard of a 750 till joining TFF. Still haven’t seen a live one

 

[Farmer Roy]

Trailed cart
Towed between cart
CCS box on the bar
Box drill
seen em all in the flesh

but not a 750 . . .

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Other than mine, I know of a bloke in tassie that had one, and theres one (or was) South of Shepparton. I like being different 1590s used to be known as 750 once....

 

[Farmer Roy]

It does look very “Euro” compared to the rest of the JD line . . .

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Uses kvernaland drives....So yes. Eur rope ian

Turning circle on this is awesome. ........just dont have coulters in ground ......especially when wet.....block the crap out of the boots otherwise.....Put some Silverchair on when its damp and drive in "straight lines"

 

[CaliMo]

I love it when you arable people start talking shop. Absolutely no idea what it means, but it's entertaining!
Edit. Read the post aloud to my son, 17 and learning to be a tractor mechanic, and he explained, line by line. Learn something new every day...

 

[Farmer Roy]

Other than mine, I know of a bloke in tassie that had one, and theres one (or was) South of Shepparton. I like being different 1590s used to be known as 750 once....

ok
The 1860 ( ? ) was the first machine we saw around here with the original JD single disc unit on it. Were either 30’ or 40’, with 7 1/2” spacings on 2 bars. Didn’t see many JD air carts back then though, most people just hooked up their existing Gyral / Gason / Simplicity / Flexicoil etc air cart to them.
Then the locals started modifying them with open spoked gauge wheels, steel scraper rings etc etc
Now there are a heap of different imported & domestic versions of a single disc planter

didn’t see a 1590 / Box Drill version until a number of years after the 1860s came out

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

It does look very “Euro” compared to the rest of the JD line . . .

European spec.

To cope with our conditions. 'cos Aussie kit can't cope with our volume of ground cover