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hubiestubert [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 10:19:55 PM  
Cali DOES produce a lot of food. Maybe some you seditious bastiches might want to think on that one too.
 
Bootleg [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 10:44:29 PM  
"All you had to do was find a picture of farmland in the Midwest and you somehow screwed that up. Amazing," historian and author Kevin Kruse said.

Given the GQP's track record, they're more likely to have grabbed a picture of somewhere in Volga.
 
fnordfocus [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 11:11:15 PM  

hubiestubert: Cali DOES produce a lot of food. Maybe some you seditious bastiches might want to think on that one too.


It's not just that California grows a farkload of food, it's also the only significant domestic source of a lot of crops like garlic, almonds and pistachios, olives. And the vast majority of melons, strawberries, lettuce, citrus that aren't juice oranges, etc.
 
Naido [TotalFark]
2023-02-07 11:49:17 PM  
Calif. Dem publicly embarrasses GOP

Awwww, it's adorable that you think they can be embarrassed.
 
Benevolent Misanthrope [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-07 11:58:03 PM  
Doesn't matter.  Republican voters are mostly too stupid to figure it out, that those who aren't don't give a shiat if they lie as long as they promise not to eat their faces and to hurt the "right people".
 
Scorpitron is reduced to a thin red paste
2023-02-08 12:02:24 AM  
GOP is getting lazy because they don't have to work hard.

I'm reminded of a story about one of those intelligent gorillas that researchers worked with over the years. The gorilla's handlers gave it some reward for this elaborate artwork it finger painted. After that, it stopped really bothering and just did scribbles, putting its hand out.
 
shpritz
2023-02-08 1:09:29 AM  
You'd be lazy too if your audience didn't demand anything from you except that you be as big of an asshole as you can.
 
SomeAmerican
2023-02-08 1:15:00 AM  
A screw-up is not a lie.

They chose the wrong image for their message.

That shows a lack of competency, not dishonesty.
 
saturn badger [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 1:15:40 AM  
Harder was my rep but his district went away. I hoped he would run and get McClintock out but since that is near impossible even with the new influx of blue he ran in a different district and won. I am glad he did as he is a good guy. Lots of phone-ins and virtual meetings along with personal appearances.

But damn! He replaced a extremely useless repug and now we have another one. That said I am very happy he won his district.
 
emtwo
2023-02-08 1:16:34 AM  
The "heartland" rural parts of America that want you to desperately believe they are growing your food because they're rustic farmers, are overwhelmingly growing crops for export or industrial purpose.  All the actual food comes from places they hate, like California and Central America.
 
Karma Chameleon
2023-02-08 1:16:39 AM  
The United States needs California more than California needs the United States
 
Etchy333 [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 1:17:06 AM  
Everyone who liked that tweet asked for guacomole at Chipotle this afternoon.
 
saturn badger [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 1:17:53 AM  

hubiestubert: Cali DOES produce a lot of food. Maybe some you seditious bastiches might want to think on that one too.


Yeah. That whole desert joke was actually kind of true until they put in the irrigation canals. You can drive for hours and still be in farm land out here.
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-08 1:18:35 AM  

emtwo: The "heartland" rural parts of America that want you to desperately believe they are growing your food because they're rustic farmers, are overwhelmingly growing crops for export or industrial purpose.  All the actual food comes from places they hate, like California and Central America.


They also don't realize that in their fever dreams that they need the cities in order to sell their food. Otherwise they'd be broke and a bunch of food would go to waste.

Rural areas need cities just as much as cities need rural areas.
 
emtwo
2023-02-08 1:19:08 AM  

shpritz: You'd be lazy too if your audience didn't demand anything from you except that you be as big of an asshole as you can.


Well I don't know why you had to bring Bill Maher into the conversation, but what's done is done.
 
shpritz
2023-02-08 1:22:10 AM  

emtwo: shpritz: You'd be lazy too if your audience didn't demand anything from you except that you be as big of an asshole as you can.

Well I don't know why you had to bring Bill Maher into the conversation, but what's done is done.


I was talking about Republican politicians but that's an understandable mistake.
 
jerryskid [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-08 1:32:08 AM  

Naido: Calif. Dem publicly embarrasses GOP

Awwww, it's adorable that you think they can be embarrassed.


I have to agree. They aren't embarrassed that their god shiats in a diaper. They aren't embarrassed that they are viewed by real Americans as pathologically lying, traitorous, dumbf*cking sacks of subhuman shiat. They aren't embarrassed that everyone know that every single republican rapes their children.

They are taught in the their madrasas that they are perfect.

At the level that republicans exist, someone saying that they are lower than vomit is a a step up for them.
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 1:42:53 AM  
"Find a picture of farmland."
"Okay, boss!"

A quickie Google reverse image search reveals it's a stock photo of "farmland" which could be the San Joaquin valley and probably is...but it's hard to know for sure without more research than I care to put in it. It appears in both a Canadian site and a Colorado site as "farmland" so who knows.

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Here's some real California elite city land.
 
saturn badger [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 1:53:56 AM  

Gyrfalcon: "Find a picture of farmland."
"Okay, boss!"

A quickie Google reverse image search reveals it's a stock photo of "farmland" which could be the San Joaquin valley and probably is...but it's hard to know for sure without more research than I care to put in it. It appears in both a Canadian site and a Colorado site as "farmland" so who knows.

[Fark user image 276x183]
Here's some real California elite city land.


It's not all flat like that. Up north the grapes are in the foothills. Salinas near the ocean is kinda hilly. We have all kinds of land with all manner of crops best suited for the climate and soil conditions. Castroville is the artichoke capitol of the world. Watsonville is strawberries.

This is the Salins Valley.

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Grapes up north. Our geography is really varied and they grow stuff nearly everywhere.

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saturn badger [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 1:56:22 AM  

saturn badger: Gyrfalcon: "Find a picture of farmland."
"Okay, boss!"

A quickie Google reverse image search reveals it's a stock photo of "farmland" which could be the San Joaquin valley and probably is...but it's hard to know for sure without more research than I care to put in it. It appears in both a Canadian site and a Colorado site as "farmland" so who knows.

[Fark user image 276x183]
Here's some real California elite city land.

It's not all flat like that. Up north the grapes are in the foothills. Salinas near the ocean is kinda hilly. We have all kinds of land with all manner of crops best suited for the climate and soil conditions. Castroville is the artichoke capitol of the world. Watsonville is strawberries.

This is the Salins Valley.

[shutterstock.com image 389x280]

Grapes up north. Our geography is really varied and they grow stuff nearly everywhere.

[eadn-wc01-4177395.nxedge.io image 750x500]


*Salinis
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-08 1:57:09 AM  

saturn badger: This is the Salins Valley.

[shutterstock.com image 389x280]


How old is that pic?

No way its that green today right?
 
Olthoi
2023-02-08 1:57:22 AM  
I wouldn't be surprised if this screw up was intentional just to provoke these "you're so dumb" retorts. The GOP base isn't informed or embarrassed by assertion of facts, they just get angrier.
 
kkinnison [OhFark]
2023-02-08 1:58:30 AM  
And this is how rage farming works.  They get people pointing out their error to spread their message far and wide.

Meanwhile the GOP  supporters don't care, and know the true enemy are the Triggered "Coastal Elites" and the fact that those same "Coastal elites" feed them and help them with funding for subsidies is ignored
 
saturn badger [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 1:58:57 AM  

Mrtraveler01: saturn badger: This is the Salins Valley.

[shutterstock.com image 389x280]

How old is that pic?

No way its that green today right?


I don't know but the last time I was in the area it was just like that. This was maybe a year ago.
 
Mrtraveler01
2023-02-08 2:01:05 AM  

saturn badger: Mrtraveler01: saturn badger: This is the Salins Valley.

[shutterstock.com image 389x280]

How old is that pic?

No way its that green today right?

I don't know but the last time I was in the area it was just like that. This was maybe a year ago.


Fair enough, I figured the drought made those hills a little more "golden".
 
saturn badger [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 2:02:29 AM  

Mrtraveler01: saturn badger: This is the Salins Valley.

[shutterstock.com image 389x280]

How old is that pic?

No way its that green today right?


I know we have people here from Monterey. They might better be able to answer this question as to how it is right now. The green hills tells me this pic most likely from the spring. Once the rain stops the hills go golden, hence the golden state and long with the gold rocks.
 
dericwater
2023-02-08 2:51:48 AM  

saturn badger: Gyrfalcon: "Find a picture of farmland."
"Okay, boss!"

A quickie Google reverse image search reveals it's a stock photo of "farmland" which could be the San Joaquin valley and probably is...but it's hard to know for sure without more research than I care to put in it. It appears in both a Canadian site and a Colorado site as "farmland" so who knows.

[Fark user image 276x183]
Here's some real California elite city land.

It's not all flat like that. Up north the grapes are in the foothills. Salinas near the ocean is kinda hilly. We have all kinds of land with all manner of crops best suited for the climate and soil conditions. Castroville is the artichoke capitol of the world. Watsonville is strawberries.

This is the Salins Valley.

[shutterstock.com image 389x280]

Grapes up north. Our geography is really varied and they grow stuff nearly everywhere.

[eadn-wc01-4177395.nxedge.io image 750x500]


There's this movie, Bottle Shock,starring Chris Pine, Bill Pullman, and Alan Rickman. It's a historical comedy(-ish) telling of the blind-tasting competition of American (Napa Valley, in particular) wines versus French Wines that occurred in 1976. The filming was done in Napa and Sonoma areas and the landscape they captured on film was just gorgeous, lush, and delicious. You want to just jump into that area. Without a parachute. Just jump into there and have your dead carcass become one with the land and the grapes.
 
saturn badger [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 3:03:37 AM  

dericwater: saturn badger: Gyrfalcon: "Find a picture of farmland."
"Okay, boss!"

A quickie Google reverse image search reveals it's a stock photo of "farmland" which could be the San Joaquin valley and probably is...but it's hard to know for sure without more research than I care to put in it. It appears in both a Canadian site and a Colorado site as "farmland" so who knows.

[Fark user image 276x183]
Here's some real California elite city land.

It's not all flat like that. Up north the grapes are in the foothills. Salinas near the ocean is kinda hilly. We have all kinds of land with all manner of crops best suited for the climate and soil conditions. Castroville is the artichoke capitol of the world. Watsonville is strawberries.

This is the Salins Valley.

[shutterstock.com image 389x280]

Grapes up north. Our geography is really varied and they grow stuff nearly everywhere.

[eadn-wc01-4177395.nxedge.io image 750x500]

There's this movie, Bottle Shock,starring Chris Pine, Bill Pullman, and Alan Rickman. It's a historical comedy(-ish) telling of the blind-tasting competition of American (Napa Valley, in particular) wines versus French Wines that occurred in 1976. The filming was done in Napa and Sonoma areas and the landscape they captured on film was just gorgeous, lush, and delicious. You want to just jump into that area. Without a parachute. Just jump into there and have your dead carcass become one with the land and the grapes.


Yeah. That area is great for grapes because of the volcanic soil and they are farking dead serious up there. Their grapes up there go to the fine wines. The Gallo grapes are in the central valley. I'll check out the movie. Pine and Rickman sounds like fun.

As to your other post I think all the oil escaped through the fault lines. That's why we have so many quakes.
 
ansius
2023-02-08 3:11:02 AM  
It's no longer lying. It's outright bullshiat.

"On Bullshiat is a 2005 book (originally a 1986 essay) by American philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt which presents a theory of bullshiat that defines the concept and analyzes the applications of bullshiat in the context of communication. Frankfurt determines that bullshiat is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth. The liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it; the bullshiatter doesn't care if what they say is true or false, but cares only whether the listener is persuaded.[1] Frankfurt's philosophical analysis of bullshiat has been analyzed, criticized and adopted by academics since its publication.[2]"

source
 
dericwater
2023-02-08 3:16:00 AM  

saturn badger: Yeah. That area is great for grapes because of the volcanic soil and they are farking dead serious up there. Their grapes up there go to the fine wines. The Gallo grapes are in the central valley. I'll check out the movie. Pine and Rickman sounds like fun.

As to your other post I think all the oil escaped through the fault lines. That's why we have so many quakes.


I have't noticed any more quakes over the past 2 or 3 decades living within the Bay Area.
 
saturn badger [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 3:29:24 AM  

dericwater: saturn badger: Yeah. That area is great for grapes because of the volcanic soil and they are farking dead serious up there. Their grapes up there go to the fine wines. The Gallo grapes are in the central valley. I'll check out the movie. Pine and Rickman sounds like fun.

As to your other post I think all the oil escaped through the fault lines. That's why we have so many quakes.

I have't noticed any more quakes over the past 2 or 3 decades living within the Bay Area.


That was my tongue in my cheek and spoof kind of with the fraking (lubricant) but now I'm curious if it actually has something to do with our lack of oil in general. No fault lines in Bakersfield. Time to call my geologist daughter.

I grew up in the BA and we had some nice ones growing up. The fun one was watching the ground roll in waves. The aftershock was not as much fun at all.

I have felt a few out here in the valley. Loma Prieta was very noticeable and just recently one from up north. We don't really have any faults but shake mildly sometimes.
 
Mr. Shabooboo
2023-02-08 4:43:04 AM  

fnordfocus: hubiestubert: Cali DOES produce a lot of food. Maybe some you seditious bastiches might want to think on that one too.

It's not just that California grows a farkload of food, it's also the only significant domestic source of a lot of crops like garlic, almonds and pistachios, olives. And the vast majority of melons, strawberries, lettuce, citrus that aren't juice oranges, etc.


Pistachio's grow really well in New Mexico, and the borderland area near Brownsville grows a TON of melons
ESPECIALLY cantaloupes and watermelons, and also a lot of onions.. But generally, yes, you are correct...
(The best kind too)...
 
Harlee [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 5:14:54 AM  
The whole theory is simply stupid. Red (food-producing) States seceding?  Well, news flash! Producers of food (no matter where they are) SELL their food to customers, no matter where they are. EVEN INTERNATIONALLY. So Red States are simply going to allow their excess food to rot in the fields? Are they gonna give it to poor nations? No, dumb-asses, they are going to sell it to California and other blue states... JUST LIKE THEY ARE DOING NOW.

The people who buy into this "starve the libs" idea have zero ability to contextualize or do cause-and-effect thinking.
 
Harlee [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 5:16:02 AM  

SomeAmerican: A screw-up is not a lie.

They chose the wrong image for their message.

That shows a lack of competency, not dishonesty.


The whole idea is based on a lie. See my post directly above for why.
 
Harlee [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 5:18:39 AM  

saturn badger: hubiestubert: Cali DOES produce a lot of food. Maybe some you seditious bastiches might want to think on that one too.

Yeah. That whole desert joke was actually kind of true until they put in the irrigation canals. You can drive for hours and still be in farm land out here.


Ah, but those irrigation canals feed from Red State water sources... and it is running out. So... water wars!
 
FatherChaos [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 6:10:06 AM  
Almost all of their military tributes are pictures of Russian vehicles and soldiers.

Besides, those "coastal elites" include a LOT of Republican voters. President Stupid would be considered one of them.
 
Nana's Vibrator
2023-02-08 6:53:34 AM  
Idiots, GOP wons again.  this is the land where, after a planned mass suicide, all GOP dead bodies will be buried there.  The food made from the disgusting unhealthy Republicans will be terrible, so the joke's on you. How's that corn?  You hate it, don't you.  Totally pwned again, libs.
 
centrifugal bumblepuppy
2023-02-08 7:33:17 AM  
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/stolen from Mastodon
 
Mr. Tweedy
2023-02-08 8:04:33 AM  

Harlee: The whole theory is simply stupid. Red (food-producing) States seceding?  Well, news flash! Producers of food (no matter where they are) SELL their food to customers, no matter where they are. EVEN INTERNATIONALLY. So Red States are simply going to allow their excess food to rot in the fields? Are they gonna give it to poor nations? No, dumb-asses, they are going to sell it to California and other blue states... JUST LIKE THEY ARE DOING NOW.

The people who buy into this "starve the libs" idea have zero ability to contextualize or do cause-and-effect thinking.


It's probably a side-effect of all that asbestos in their mom's basement.
 
hubiestubert [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 8:41:22 AM  

Harlee: The whole theory is simply stupid. Red (food-producing) States seceding?  Well, news flash! Producers of food (no matter where they are) SELL their food to customers, no matter where they are. EVEN INTERNATIONALLY. So Red States are simply going to allow their excess food to rot in the fields? Are they gonna give it to poor nations? No, dumb-asses, they are going to sell it to California and other blue states... JUST LIKE THEY ARE DOING NOW.

The people who buy into this "starve the libs" idea have zero ability to contextualize or do cause-and-effect thinking.


Imagine if Cali turned off the porn to Red states. The chaos that would ensue...
 
NewportBarGuy [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 8:50:12 AM  
The biggest problem with these lazy lies, it that it works for them.
 
Arkanaut
2023-02-08 10:16:20 AM  
Rep. Josh Harder sure lives up to his name.
 
estrange666
2023-02-08 12:06:50 PM  
It's unlikely that the responses of Harder and others will result in the firing or reprimand of whichever staffer made the post, but unless the farmland in the photo is discovered to not actually be in California, one could certainly argue that it should.

Firing people over mistakes is pretty poor leader material, which got me thinking: what kind of toxic hellscape must working for the GOP or any GOP candidate be?
 
HighOnCraic
2023-02-08 12:37:38 PM  
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"Oh wait, you're serious!  Let me Josh even Harder!"
 
phaseolus
2023-02-08 1:04:19 PM  
(She did, however, identify the land in the photo as Fairfield, California, though it's actually Manteca, about 70 miles southeast.)

Manteca, you say?

Manteca - Dizzy Gillespie
Youtube A5tRGMHfKrE
 
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