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During a CNN town hall with Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, a small business owner and 2016 Trump voter asks Biden about decreasing regulatory burdens for farmers and small business owners.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/09/17/joe-biden-pennsylvania-cnn-town-hall-interrupt-trump-voter-sot-3-vpx.cnn?fbclid=IwAR21ibYCLK6I86J-oKymhY55vRZaZDPlfxX6eFc-D5k-U4uUU00J0e53vqs
She was a plant. She was just appointed to a USDA committee (the Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee) by Trump Administration on July 20, 2020.
I've learned: Julies farm - from 1995 to 2019 - received $1,169,107 in farm subsidies from US taxpayers.
Thats an average of $48,712 a year, or $4,059 a month. From taxpayers.
Julie - you took a million dollars from us and bitch about clean water and energy proposals that have zero impact.
So, can we have our money back?
He did OK, given the circumstances, imo.
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)He did fine. She had no further response from what I remember.
Joe was masterful in detail and compassion. I was totally impressed at his command of the facts and laws.
sweetloukillbot
(10,814 posts)She looked PISSED when he said that and didn't answer. I knew she was a plant at that moment.
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)But I guess watching it gave a totally different perspective. Substantively and in every other way, he handled it well.
onetexan
(12,994 posts)and figured most likely she's a trumper.
vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)After he answered her question. It looked like her tiny brain imploded
samnsara
(17,570 posts)...that was great. When trump was taking questions and had that same thing happen to him he just glared like a little kid who got caught
aeromanKC
(3,307 posts)It didn't matter what Biden answered for her, she was a MAGAt. You could tell from her little smirk. But yet Biden then went on to give specifics on chickens and methane gas. No way Trump could give her a specific fact filled answer. But she doesn't care about that. She gets #Fail
SunSeeker
(51,377 posts)Once Trump stops doing that, he'll be dead to his base, and he knows it.
Caliman73
(11,694 posts)I think Biden handled that pretty damn well. First, he apologized for interrupting, which is what a polite human being would do. Second, he had a real, clear, tangible answer about how to BOTH protect the environment, possibly grow industry, and help farmers deal with increased costs that MAYBE are associated with those environmental protection needs.
I might have asked...What specific regulations do you feel are burdening you? and tried to boil down her motives for asking.
OneBro
(1,159 posts)Kali
(54,990 posts)but subsidies, grants, and other programs are public info available on the USDA website among other places.
OneBro
(1,159 posts)Thus, my original question.
they introduce her at the beginning of the video but it is a little hard to understand her last name. Mosserbali or something like that, and they say she is a new appointee to the Fruit and Veg Industry Advisory Committee, looking that up I see her name is actually Julie Masser Ballay and her farm/company is Sterman Masser Inc.
https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/NEW_FVIAC_2020thru2022_Member_Roster.pdf
googling the name + farm subsidies I get this - https://farm.ewg.org/top_recips.php?fips=42043&progcode=totalfarm #6 which gives about half what the OP says so a little more looking might be in order, sometimes farms put different entities in different names, or family members own different parts etc
Ohioboy
(3,222 posts)What you found was interesting.
Kali
(54,990 posts)I'm even in it (as were my parents) for a couple of payments back in the 90s for cost share on infrastructure that was linked to better managing rangelands to control erosion and water quality. but it was running slow for me today (or maybe it was my computer) so I didn't search further.
OneBro
(1,159 posts)underpants
(182,279 posts)hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)I would have known without a word coming out of her smug mouth.
Thanks for the additional info. Do you happen to have a link for that so I can share it?
yaesu
(8,020 posts)conglomerate mega farms, driving down prices.
czarjak
(11,194 posts)Another racket for Whites to enrich themselves. I can name names.
Raven123
(4,716 posts)Specifically, which regulations concern you?
How have they impacted you?
mtngirl47
(985 posts)When people bring up regulations to me.....I say well I'm happy the state regulates my water system, that way you have clean water when you're visiting me. I think the state regulating my swimming pool is reasonable and it protects me from possible lawsuits. I'm glad the state has regulations about signage on the highway, I'd rather look at mountains than signs any day!
Most of them start blubbering--shocked that a business owner isn't complaining about government regulations!
aggiesal
(8,864 posts)My RW ex-friend works in the mortgage industry and constantly complains about
the REGULATIONS they have to abide by after the mortgage meltdown.
I always reply, "you mean the PROTECTIONS that were implemented so that we don't get taken advantage of?"
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.
MyOwnPeace
(16,888 posts)Ask the people of Flint how they feel about water regulations..............
Backseat Driver
(4,339 posts)when they don't quality check the cleanliness of their processing machinery. It's a trait of the lazy and cheap labor personhoods and monopolies of the food processing giant corporations that don't want to find solutions. Then our farmers and the public pay the price of tariffs so impulsively installed in policy without a thought about the waste that creates painful choices on the farm.
Farmers continue, for convenience and profit's sake, to use insecticides and herbicides that impact the quality of their own soil, the nutritional potential of their soil and actually plan via the fudge factors involved in cruelty and waste concerning the natural lives of what becomes of their animal products and their labor force that is just beginning their American experience.
I'm not vegan or vegetarian, but the benefits of unadulterated whole food plant-food-based diets are becoming more widely accepted. It's why I've tried as my budget allows, to support my smaller, local farmers and growers that support best organic and cruelty-free practices for great wholesome and tasty products that may be still be impacted by changes in EPA disinterest in climate change as far as being pro-fossil-fuel permissive by EOs and legislation under the current LUNATIC leadership is concerned; therefore, farmers deserve more governmental support in protections from both pollution and many of the "better life through chemistry megacorporations" visions that are solely for profit. Unfortunately, that can be a tangled web of deceits without oversight.
Done right, this will also create new jobs also growing at the agricultural level and with price support for farmers willing to take the plunge during what must necessarily be a hard transition away from dependence on fossil fuels and chemical feed additives like antibiotics and hormones and chemicals used in and on the field for control of weeds and bugs. We have to start listening to enlightened economists and the public who can create demand for better practices that produce excellent products at the right price as well as creative programs that build better health for those at lower incomes, the poor, and the needy. We waste so much potential in our country, and our children's nutrition, health, and education depend on solutions we can create!
Art is beautiful in its creation and should not just gain expensive dollar value when it has provenance; science can also be celebrated for its revelations that improve living conditions on this planet; however, corporate science that is merely concerned with uber-wealth and profit is ugly and threatens purposeful American lives in endless bias and crime.
We absolutely need to BUILD BACK BETTER in every respect.
bullwinkle428
(20,627 posts)Emperor" got completely humiliated by the AA lady that essentially told him to STFU until she finished her question a couple of nights ago.
jorgevlorgan
(8,232 posts)As always! Go Joe!!!
AllaN01Bear
(17,383 posts)Ziggysmom
(3,374 posts)They sell under these brands:
Penns Own
Heartland
Side Delights
Blue Denim
Basin Gold and Sun Supreme Onions
marieo1
(1,402 posts)She was a Troll..........anyone could tell she was one of 'those'. President Biden was more than kind to her.
Mick Travis
(106 posts)Why can't I find videos of the complete town hall? Every word Trump utters is on Youtube in full versions.
Ohioboy
(3,222 posts)I was thinking that also.
Ohioboy
(3,222 posts)Did anyone notice her body language, how she made a nervous swallow as soon as Joe said "Two ways"? He immediately responded with sensible, well thought out plans. He used facts she wasn't expecting him to have. If her plan was to make him look bad, she did the opposite.
peacebuzzard
(5,124 posts)Thanks for the background info on this infiltrator.
Biden was respectful confronting this planned q&a.