Ranchers are being ordered to euthanize harvest ready cattle, while at the same time, meat is being shipped in to the US. Milk is being poured out by the truck load. And then there’s this:
1-27-20, 34K chickens die in Virginia/N Carolina fires.
4-24-20, 280K chickens die in California fire.
https://www.wthr.com/article/280000-chickens-killed-barn-fire-california-owner-says
2-27-20, 400K chickens die in Nebraska fire.
https://www.1011now.com/content/news/Massive-fire-at-northeast-Nebraska-food-plant-568266441.html
1-4-20, 300K chickens die in Michigan fire.
4-21-20, number of dead chickens still undetermined, but this egg farm housed a total of roughly 7 million chickens, and at one point there were 47 fire trucks from 30 different departments fighting the blaze.
Keep eyes on our food sources, patriots. See something; say something
Scene of burning piles of oranges with gasoline from The Grapes of Wrath come to mind.
Was John Steinbeck based?
I never read the book, but I can't stand the movie. Toward the end when they wax poetic about how wonderful FDR's new deal facilities were in California while everything else is terrible really came off as propaganda.
I always took Grapes of Wrath as a love song to leftism, so I told it to fuck off.
Yes, it is propaganda.
upvote, for your reply, and for your handle.
I've read a couple of his short stories. Haven't finished my first cup of coffee so I may be wrong, but no. He was a pro-union lefty.
In fact, as someone who used to take pride in reading "the classics" I've found many almost unreadable for their far left tendencies.
Then you realize that leftist shit is pushed in culture today and wonder why we would expect it to have been any different in the past.
Macho man Hemingway, dirty commie. Stephen King, obviously. Tolstoy, commie (one of the main characters in W&P turned his land to a commune of sorts and it was portrayed as fair and good).
Maybe we can only rely on the based Russians who lived through shit. Doctor Zhivago, A Day in the Life. Or the first known case study of a neckbeard, A Confederacy of Dunces, where the neckbeard main character tried to organize a workers strike and gets humiliated. Hard to fine good literature at this point.
Even my personal favorite, local author Pat Conroy is a flaming leftist.
Would not surprise me if part of that is due to lack of ability or motivation to do actual work on the part of the author.
That, and the fact that the left has controlled the culture for a longer time that most realize.
I distrust everything that is "well known fact"
The left glorifies art over work.
The Left politicizes art.
That's probably why they're pushed as classics.
80: MFW 1984 was intended to be a guide, not a warning.
Lots of questions about Orwell and the crowd he kept.
Read Solzhenitsyn. Read Orwell.
As the facts of life are conservative, so is most literature, throughout history. Lefties and other malcontents tend to be the exception. The "literary establishment" tends to push the exceptions, obviously.
He actually goes out of his way to mock either conservatives or Republicans in one of his books. It's the most recent one I read, I'll see if I can find it. Also, mocks religion in multiple stories. And I read South of Broad a long time ago, but looking back at the plot, pretty damn big on identity politics and social justice.
I've also read most of his books. I'm from SC, live in Charleston.
And out of curiosity, I searched "pat Conroy obama"
Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/51058779-a-lowcountry-heart-reflections-on-a-writing-life
Sorry dude. Longtime author and teacher, its gonna be a leftist 90% of the time. We got Crichton.
Conroy was obsessed with the "southern racism" shit. As a South Carolinian, forget him.
Edit - note, I was unaware of these quotes until today. I was randomly reading one of his books about a year ago and he either called conservatives or Republicans heartless or dumb. Believe it was talking about muh healthcare or something. I put down the book and haven't read anything else since then. I've read about 4 or 5 of his books and watched some of the movies. But I'm tired of leftist agendas in culture.