Here is an article on why the cattle inventory is so low and how congress could address it.

BTW, there are 2 separate packing plants operating down the road....I suspect some of these workers will get hired pretty quick.

-Harris would not have attacked the agricultural sector with deportations and tariffs.

That's not why Tyson is closing this plant. It's the reason for a ton of turmoil in the ag sector but this was going to happen regardless.

Trump was a bad decision. Please don't take the lazy route and accuse me of defending Trump.

But what was Harris going to do to prevent this from happening?

You'll have to display your expertise in the cattle markets and beef production....and how it led to the closure of this facility.

those are surveys....not actual data, which I presume we don't have yet.

-Half of Americans say it is harder than usual to afford holiday gifts and half are cutting back on nonessential purchases

We don't need a poll to tell us this.....we get actual data from the retailers on how that's going.

84

That's exactly correct.

Pretty much everyone here gets it except for a few like Snoofy....which I presume does this because he can't actually debate an issue with me.

Making it about what party I'm a member of is a way to change the subject because he literally can't handle the issue.

-And so I'm sure you can figure out why we think that's horseshit.

there is no "we" unless you want to include pussies like angrydad or morons like that.

You're entirely alone on that.

I have plenty of arguments with others here.........over issues.

You just grab pom poms and start fingering yourself to some imaginary political scoreboard.

-What you're doing, it's saying you're a Cowboys fan, but you also hope the Cowboys never make the playoffs.

dumb dumb dumb

Likely you're an actual Cowboys fan.

-It ought to mean, at bare minimum, you support the broad strokes of the party agenda. That's what "Being a Democrat" means to me. It means I am generally going to support the Democrat way of doing things, over the Republican way of doing things.

when I move to an area where my vote in a democratic party primary counts for something, I'll immediately register as a democrat.

It's pointless to do it now where I currently live.

You're too dumb to get this.

Trump hasn't been a friend of this industry but this is Tyson being the greedy beef packer they are. They are dealing with a 75 year low inventory of cattle but this trend was headed here for a while.

Are any of you crying for Tyson? Really?

-GW was an easily manipulated goof.... that's nothing like a pathological liar, convicted fraud and sex abuser,

You didn't accuse you GWB of being a pathological liar and traitor who was banging a male white house reporter who didn't care about anybody except Texas oilmen? That he didn't care one bit about the constitution, wouldn't leave office if he lost, etc...

You sure you didn't make those accusations?

"You might at least take an interest in what the leader of your party and the country is doing, no?
Why else would you participate on a political blog site..."

I come to have disagreements on issues.

Issues.

Issues

Issues

NOT defend politicians with no cause nor to attack politicians with no cause.

Issues

And if I find no disagreement with the direction of a thread and I have no reason to take the other side (even as devils advocate) then I leave it alone.

That is why I choose not to jump into a thread.

You, Snoofy, have a completely different set of motives here. You don't care about issues. You care about partisanship, blame, personalities, etc. You want me to jump into those threads so you can assign a position to me....based entirely on what party I belong to.

You're still stuck on the notion that being a registered _________ means they subscribe to the party's agenda.

I can't keep explaining it to you. You just want attention. You don't really want to discuss a goddam thing.

You want attention.

-When Republicans go along with trash like Trump in the WH, it's not funny anymore.

You sure you didn't say the same thing when GWB was in the WH?

"Nobody really engages Anymore.

This site used to be Fun.

There were actual threads that read like a dialogue over time.

Now its just throwing mud at each other."

It's not permitted.

Watch ... .ill prove it

-Yer reading comprehension sucks.

Maybe. But anyone here can read you like the instructions on an ice cube tray box.

You're gutless and borderline illiterate

-Which sites has our host banned here?

Sites that have been known to misrepresent Covid or global warming facts.

Sorry ... ..I don't know them by name.

-None of you Republicans can even lift a finger to type any kind of defense for your Republican President

If you need somebody to defend Trump then just ------- do it yourself?

Do you think being a registered Republican requires that person to defend Donald Trump?

I've never voted for him nor supported him in any way.

I don't think you realize that I don't come here for your entertainment

It's the other way around ... ... .

Oh, and we can insert "race" in place of "gay" wherever you'd like as well.

I bet you think being gay is a mental illness.
#91 | Posted by snoofy

It mostly is
#92 | Posted by lfthndthrds

Unfortunately, most people steer their diagnosis of "mental illness " towards the subjects political affiliation.

Lft might believe gay liberals are mentally ill.

Snoofy believes gay conservatives are mentally ill.

It's really about the strong bias of those folks towards others who have different political leanings.

It's not really that they think someone's truly mentally ill

"What people are missing is not the dearth of right or left posters here.

What's missing in the Retort today is a dearth of posters, of any stripe."

Exactly.

A Friend reminds me of Hans.

Anyway, this has always been a left leaning site.

There have been at least two occurrences in the past where a fair number of right leaning posters left the site and never really came back.

As a result, today there are less right leaning posters than ever before. That's not a complaint, but rather just a reality.

But I wouldn't call it a left-wing echo chamber either

Angrydad is crying that people he disagrees with are allowed to post here and that's not fair because he's too big a ----- to post on a site that doesn't protect him and his thin skin?

What a little bitch.

Angrydad doesn't even really engage anyone here. He just tosses spitwads from as far away as possible.

IMO, he has no business even asking such a question.

He probably deserves a vacation for this.