It Stinks: Dems Use Fertilizer Crisis as Opportunity to Do More Harm

BUCK: I told you we’d talk a little bit about the situation of fertilizer, which I know, you are sitting there saying, “Wah-wah, we’re talking fertilizer?” But, no, it’s really important, actually. It means a lot as certainly anybody who listens to any of the folks who work in agriculture in the farming communities listening across this country know, fertilizer is a big deal. The cost of fertilizer can make or break the ability of a farm to actually keep farming, right?

It’s a big part of the cost of planting and producing crops. So, when the cost goes up, I’ve seen estimates as high as 70% globally, which is what is either happening or expected to happen soon. It’s gonna have a big impact. Now, this should be a moment where the Biden administration, you’d say, is trying to get ahead of things and prepare. But notice this is a recurring theme.

Whether it’s about the price of gas, the price of food, the price of anything, and the way that people are feeling economic anxiety, they’re struggling to pay bills, they’re seeing the rise in the bills that they’re already paying — all of that going on — you have a moment in time here where you say to yourself, “Are they really trying to use this as a pivot point into more Green New Deal, anti-carbon emission, cold…?”

Instead of looking at the oncoming crisis in food production and the price of it and food shortages that’s gonna globally happen — and here in America, it probably means you’re just gonna have to pay a lot more for food. Here’s what Samantha Power — remember, she was I think U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under the Obama administration. Very connected in Democrat circles. She, you know, wants people to figure out, you know, composting. That’s gonna make the big change.

Biden official Samantha Power celebrates fertilizer shortages that will force farmers to “hasten transitions” to “natural solutions, like manure and compost.”

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BUCK: Transition. Really? Does she think…? Now, I know anybody listening to this… I know we’ve got farmers listening right now. The notion that you would transition to all natural, as in no fertilizer only, what, manure and composting, I don’t think that’s gonna do it in terms of being able to have the same crop yields of the same quality and speed that you would. Now, I’m not a farmer, but I read about this stuff.

But notice that it’s always an opportunity. She even says in that interview it’s a crisis that’s an opportunity. So, the suffering that happens — and this is something that I want you to always have in mind. The suffering that occurs from bad Democrat policies is not a moment for self-honesty and self-reflection for the left. “Wow, we did something dumb. We should do less of that dumb thing so that people won’t have to suffer as a result of our decisions.”

They do things that make you suffer, make you poorer, make you less free. Then they say, “Wow. Given that you have less money now and things are harder for you, let’s really push something else. Now you’re more pliable. Now you’re a more malleable subject for whatever else they’re trying.” Now the crisis allows for the pushing of policies that, if you were feeling more secure…

Again, destabilized because of some of the very decision-making that they push. But if you were feeling more secure about things, you’d say, “I don’t want to do that.” Obviously, they want to shake things up. I mean, the best example of this was what we saw with covid. All of a sudden covid wasn’t just about a virus. It was about political fealty and it was about reshaping society.

It was about achieving something of a reset, an ability of the government to have more of a bureaucratic control over your day-to-day life than anybody had anticipated before that. Think about all the things we were told to do and if you didn’t obey the force of the state was behind it. Remember they were arresting paddleboarders out in the ocean, shutting down playgrounds, closing them off with chains and locks. They want to be able to do that again.