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“In the clip, Bloomberg can be heard saying: “I could teach anybody — even people in this room, no offense intended — to be a farmer. It’s a [process]: you dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.”


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bloomberg-farmers-gray-matter/

No offense intended to IT guys because obviously there is high level stuff. But broad brush statement like bloomberg? I’d have wagered the opposite. Successful farming isn’t for dummies or wussies.

“Did you re-boot it?” comes to mind.

Snopes can’t lie about this one.

We’ve all heard him say this on the conservative media.

Except that the farmer is really the original self-trained engineer. Some were good at it some not, but Darwin generally takes care of that.

A good farmer can fix just about anything, except a John Deere which he can't get the software to interface with....

So in less your IT guy is actually a hacker I don't think he is going to survive the farm or out do the farmer..

A friend is a veterinarian........she said every Harvard Business major should try to keep a dairy farm working well for a week........THAT would be an education.

Success Farming ain’t easy.

Bloomberg is a poster child for the Dunn Kruger effect. No talent ass clown.

If that arrogant little rat faced man bitch gets the Dem nomination I'm gonna get a F*CK Bloomberg bumper sticker for the ol F350.

Bloomberg obviously has not done a lot of farming or he would realize how stupid that comment was. I bet he could not change a flat tire on his limousine if his life depended on it. Guys like that should be ignored.

Welp, he has ticked the farmers off. And the black people. And the gun owners. Even if he screws Bernie out of the nomination Trump will wipe the floor with Mini Mike. He is toast.

OK, the jackasses are in bad sad shape, that short stack is the best they have. Honestly, did anyone in NY actually like the guy? He served how many terms there?

When you find one let me know cuz I want one too.


He's gonna get the nod.

I figure I'd better get to planting, I got 13.5m holes to dig this spring.

Fixt

I think he should wear a big Stetson when he climbs up on that box.

Politics is easy and requires little gray-matter. You just spend billion$, bribe the right party officials, drop some money into hands, and fertilize with BS.

This is for all you Goyim here, you stupid Gentiles.

Did anybody else notice that the snotty little troll didn't say HE could do it- - - - -"I can TEACH anybody- - - - - -" Too lazy and trifling to get his damyankee hands in the dirt!
Jerry

He’s a real piece of work. I don’t think he has a chance myself, he’s wasting his money and everyone else’s time

Ever noticed how much the terms "politician" and "prostitution" sound like each other? Actually, I have a little more respect for a streetwalking hooker- - - - -she's honest enough to admit she's for sale to the highest bidder! Midget Mike can buy all the politicians he wants and they'll all hide behind their self-righteous lies.
Jerry

First off, let me say that Bloomers is dead wrong about farmers. I've been an IT Professional since 1982. He doesn't know what he's talking about. He had kernel of a good idea, but he said it all wrong. The way he said it, tells me he doesn't grasp the subtleties of the situation.

RE Farming: I'm not a farmer. Nor will I probably ever be. When I retire, I'll live on a farm, but never hope to turn a profit on it. I know better than to think I can. The farm is there to keep me active. I've tried what Bloomberg suggests, and it just doesn't work. Just getting a foodplot to work takes some doing. I'm better at it now, after owning a farm for 20 years, but that's 2 stinking decades of experience!

RE IT: I've worked many sides of the IT business. I spent the first 20 years programming and the last 20 in Infrastructure. Bloomberg is right in saying IT is a different set of problems and not everyone is cut out for it, but he's an ignorant ass to class one over the other in complexity or subtlety. I will freely admit, I have skills in areas that a farmer wouldn't know the names for. However, if I were to sit down with a farmer and line out what they were, he'd know them in an instant.

For instance, a big part of my last 20 years has been life-cycle management. You're trying to put equipment out there that does the best job for the buck, but how long do you keep it in service? How many times do you upgrade a piece of equipment before it is no longer profitable? How long do you keep a PC on a desk before the user can't do her job?

As an IT guy, I have to be able to provide answers to those questions. The farmer does too, but the questions are framed differently. How long do I keep my cattle in a pasture? When do I move them to the feed lot? Do I buy bottle-fed calves or breed my own? When do I slaughter my chickens? When do I harvest my crop? I see this playing out in my own back yard with the guy who does my hay. He's trying to maximize the yield of the hay, but there are a bazillion factors that enter into when they come and mow and when they rake and bail. I've watched him go leisurely over 2 weeks, and I've seen him get it all done in 2 days. I've seen him bring in a team and work all night. Sometimes he shows up in August. Sometimes it's October. I'm glad I don't have his problems.

Bottom line: Bloomberg is an arrogant ignorant ass.

Let him grow his own food, then he will see how easy it is!