This Billionaire Family is Suffocating Rural America

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@frankjandl9613 6 ай бұрын

I have NEVER seen a business merger that lived up to the promise of lowering prices.

@drakekoefoed1642 6 ай бұрын

that doesn't happen. capitalism sucks

@edhuber3557 6 ай бұрын

You may see hype, but I've never seen a biz merger with main aim of lowering prices. Rather like I've never seen a couple marry with the main aim to improve the work performance of each. Companies and couples merge for their own reasons. This falls under 'duh'.

@pecan11 6 ай бұрын

And why I am so angry at maga bec Trump will accelerate the privatization of everything which will make all the rich POOR

@user-zu5do6ri6r 6 ай бұрын

Gotta become a shareholder if you want to matter.

@dominicfucinari1942 6 ай бұрын

It didn't used to *only* be about shareholders. I have no idea what legislation or which court ruling made it that way.

@austinlyles6152 6 ай бұрын

Corporate greed is killing this nation.

6 ай бұрын

And the Republicans are 💯 behind corporate control....but these farmers keep voting against their own interests. Voting matters.

@SCFLEUR 6 ай бұрын

All the time.

@Bradly-wk6py 6 ай бұрын

We can’t delve deeply into Koch Industries because they’re private. However, publicly traded companies are driven to maximize value for their shareholders, and if you have a 401(k), that includes you. The relentless push for increasing profit is an inherent feature of capitalism.

@ammitthedevourerofsouls 6 ай бұрын

This is happening globally. Basically everyone is being brought to their knees just like Jesus said. Awake yet? It's the great awakening. This is far bigger than you could possibly imagine. His name rhymes with Jesus the return. Covid co and vid meaning for all to see. Humans are doing really good at killing themselves they need to stop that and OBEY THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. This is biblical y'all. Happy Apocalypse Zeus's unknown brother Apocalypse they're twins. Quite the awakening process isn't it? There's this dude named God, heard of him? He's trying to get everyone's attention. The ones that used to laugh and not listen to they're starting to listen now. The KOCH brothers the TV series supernatural. That's what we're dealing with the supernatural. All four wars and the battle between Satan and Michael is about to come crashing down on earth. It'll be a massive tussle. There's a reason Jesus said every knee will bow. Good luck!!!!

@V511-x6p 6 ай бұрын

Tell the GOP and Trump to tax them heavy

@LavenderSkyla 6 ай бұрын

Koch had no business talking about poor people being poor when their greediness is costing everyone more

@MyWalk3296 6 ай бұрын

Agree

@GayLord-b7p 6 ай бұрын

They're Jews

@dylanpeterson3490 6 ай бұрын

Interesting that the introduction of (state sponsored) competition brought them out to say that the state is stifling competition.

@azjeep26 6 ай бұрын

which party receives the most cash from Koch? maybe that's 1 part of the problem! time to vote in people not funded by them!

@rosecapitalgroupinc 6 ай бұрын

@@azjeep26💯

@ChrisBrown-cl5zu 10 күн бұрын

It’s crazy to me this is these are the same parts of the country still voting Red consistently.

@rodanone4895 5 күн бұрын

they watch TV. it's that simple.

@LandSpecialistTX 4 күн бұрын

Yep

@carlosandrade7439 4 күн бұрын

We had 4 years of blue, and where did that get us?

@rodanone4895 4 күн бұрын

@carlosandrade7439 and four years of red before that that raised the deficit more than Obama did in 8... great job with groceries while talking nonsense about the Gulf of MEXICO and Greenland... guy's a regular brain trust.... and i can't stand Biden or Dems. they're just gop lite.

@ChrisBrown-cl5zu 3 күн бұрын

@ you say that like you’re not proving my point. It’s a historically red state and this is a state level issue. Democrats have their issue, lord fucking knows, but you focused on them is exactly why these people are in this predicament. Pull your head out your ass and stop voting by color.

@BrianMoore-uk6js 6 ай бұрын

This is what oligarchy in America looks like.

@Talleyhoooo 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, oligarchies are pretty bad, and will likely make America into a fuedal nation filled with serfs within the decade, but at least politicians are fighting wokeness and DEI. That’s the real priority threat

@tristenklein5940 6 ай бұрын

Yeah we are living under one right now who is destroying the Individuals wealth labor private property and liberty while simultaneously cashing in on selling out the US to our adversaries.

@google_is_a_criminal 6 ай бұрын

This is what learned stupidity does to the fat and lazy poisoned public. I stopped caring about this farmer the moment he started whining about nitrogen. If you can not manage your own nitrogen needs on the farm, you are NOT a farmer, I don't know with you are, but you're not a farmer. Nitrogen. something we all are immersed in every day, 70% of AIR is nitrogen. The dumbing down of people is the direct result of allowing corporations control every aspect of American life.

@SoloRenegade 6 ай бұрын

gov is supposed to step in and break up monopolies, but the corporations bribe the gov to look the other way.

@donedeal8385 6 ай бұрын

Na, it's just capitalism.

@satevo462 6 ай бұрын

Get the tax payer to pay for it to be built, then privatize it and keep the profits. This is happening literally everywhere in this country. Socialized cost, privatized gains.

@wakeup6759 6 ай бұрын

it's how religion operates as well. stealing congregants money to build (crowdfunding) and privatize the ownership and profit.

@JerryCalvert-x9u 6 ай бұрын

Actually they are doing it globally too.

@shannondavis5728 6 ай бұрын

#Bigfacts!!!!!!!

@redleader 6 ай бұрын

Every election cycle... The Dems fund it....Then the Repb give it away to thier Buddies, like KOCH. Dont forget we subsidize the OIL INDUSTRY also....Oil is KOCH'S BIGGEST slice of the pie. They owne the entire vertical chain. Oil is used for fertilizer.

@miriambeckstrom9425 6 ай бұрын

Should remain a publicly owned company since it was paid for with taxpayers money. Should NEVER be able to sell to the competition.

@GenerationX1984 6 ай бұрын

Most Americans defend billionaires the same way someone in an abusive relationship defends their abuser. It's ridiculous!

@petek2316 6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, most of us Americans are dumb AF and I am not trying to exaggerate by saying so. A lot of people were sold on the "trickle down" theory that Regan promoted. I know people that are going to vote for the Orange Jesus because he's going to "protect" their benefits, including social security, medicaid, medicare, etc. I mean, being any dumber and you'll be considered a vegetable.

@burchified 6 ай бұрын

they think if they kiss ass and pretend like they're rich that itll magically become true

@fortunatengubeni6410 6 ай бұрын

❤

@gregh4284 6 ай бұрын

Especially in Iowa.

@MikeMane-ex1vf 6 ай бұрын

But they create jobs. RepubliCUNTS should lower their tax rate to 0% so they won't get mad and we'll have no more jobs.

@raygallegos7505 2 ай бұрын

Why do the farmers vote for the people working against them and then want you to feel sorry for them?

@lannysix2569 2 ай бұрын

Look at the education rankings for the deep red farming states. You'll have your answer.

@AggressivesnowmaN 2 ай бұрын

Republicans are too good at pandering to religious and rural family values, when in reality the agenda is a financial rug pull

@joseph_wei Ай бұрын

Now this is a done deal, the acquisition has been completed, reported on Koch website 29 Aug 2024, about 2 months after this video. Under Biden administration, FTC did not block it. So it is not about who you vote, because they are all on the same side, not our side of course.

@nandisaand5287 Ай бұрын

Cuz they're brainwashed to think Culture War issues are paramount.

@davebryant8050 Ай бұрын

I haven't seen any difference in the political parties. They're all bought and paid for.

@TheSimba86 6 ай бұрын

it's not a free market when a couple people own it

@ritamariekelley4077 6 ай бұрын

Kochs' idea of the free market means free to screw you and have no pesky safety regulations.

@SoloRenegade 6 ай бұрын

gov is supposed to step in and break up monopolies, but the corporations bribe the gov to look the other way.

@williamryder5021 6 ай бұрын

100%

@venty20 6 ай бұрын

Explain..?

@SoloRenegade 6 ай бұрын

@@venty20 monopolies are anti-competitive, anti-capitalism. We have laws teh gov is supposed to enforce in order for the free market and capitalism to work properly. But they stopped enforcing such laws.

@gordonmills2748 6 ай бұрын

Anti-trust laws exist because we've been through this before. We've had monopolies and a few companies in charge of everything. It led to massive income inequality and a crashed economy a century ago. Corporate consolidation simply doesn't work. Yet here we are again. Making the same mistakes over and over. A hundred years ago it was Carnegie and J.P. Morgan. Now it's the Koch family. We learned it then, but we forgot.

@hegyak 6 ай бұрын

We did not forget. Those in Power, got Paid to look the other way and ignore this.

@kensolar69 6 ай бұрын

Reagan got rid of most of those laws and watered down the rest. Glass-Steagall is no more.

@mehralsSport 6 ай бұрын

Not with this Supreme Court and it will get worse under trump 2

@tygerchickchibi 6 ай бұрын

It's not taught in schools. I learned about it in college

@peterwein1716 6 ай бұрын

@@tygerchickchibi I learned about it in high school but that was back in the late 90s.

@willm5814 6 ай бұрын

The name Koch has become synonymous with greed

@willm5814 6 ай бұрын

@@porkyfedwellcan’t imagine living life that way

@catherinewilson1079 6 ай бұрын

I think about Germany and WWII

@willm5814 6 ай бұрын

Gross

@emilyfeagin2673 6 ай бұрын

And project 2025

@shesh4896 6 ай бұрын

Koch is a major backer of Project 2025 and the take over of the government by billionaires

@reginar.131 Ай бұрын

Repeal Citizens United!!!

@charlescourtney4412 Ай бұрын

Yes!!! This is the root of most of the evil in U.S. politics.

@Wes-x9p 24 күн бұрын

Put Trump in jail

@andrewhansen4179 15 күн бұрын

Great idea. What a sham legislation Citizens United was and is. The name of the law exposes the con of those that created it.

@dorthymcbride3384 6 ай бұрын

THE KOCHS MONOPOLY NEEDS TO BE DISBANDED!

@tesmith47 6 ай бұрын

Capitalism needs to go!!!

@jaybryant5691 6 ай бұрын

@tesmith47 replace it with what. Your utopia? You want the government to run things? What have they ever run efficiently? When the government gets involved, there are two classes. Very rich and very poor. It's a free market. Why hasn't someone come in with a product that can be sold cheaper? Co-op? There are no monopolies unless government forbids competition.

@scottjohnston5008 6 ай бұрын

@@jaybryant5691 Have you not been paying attention the last 30-40 years? The middle class is disappearing in the “free market”. Poor people are getting poorer and rich people are getting massively richer. You ask what the government has ever managed to run efficiently, but what government-run services have ever been improved by being privatized and subjected to the free market? Corporations will do anything, say anything and step on as many necks as they need to to make their next dollar. Private citizens like the people in this video can’t stand up to that. Why in blue fuck should a factory be sold to a private corporation to further enrich them, at the expense of the people the factory was supposed to help and who paid for it with their tax dollars? It’s not about government taking over. It’s about government preventing shitty fucking corporations from breaking laws and sacrificing powerless citizens on the altar of their greed.

@kumarnarayana5105 6 ай бұрын

crony capitalism at its best !

@BetaBuxDelux 6 ай бұрын

@@jaybryant5691They’ve been pretty good about giving our tax dollars to Ukraine. :(

@ForeverYoung-fc3eo 6 ай бұрын

The world is such a sad place filled with greedy people and corporations.

@DobyDuke 6 ай бұрын

These farmers have the option to get rid of their reliance on fertilizer! Fertilizer is ruining the soil! Put animals back on the land!

@jimcoulter5877 6 ай бұрын

This is the One World Government the Democrat Party is bringing to the United States, a Dictatorship. Oh if Only Americans would Wake up out of their Stupor! Americans are all wearing Blinders following the Democrat Judas Goat to a New Roman Empire on Planet Earth. Dang Americans Wake up and Smell the Rotten Democrat Global Government smell. Wake up, you are being priced into Bankrupt, They control your Food, It is a Global Government Americans.

@watamatafoyu 6 ай бұрын

It's almost like people in power forget the point of civilization. It's not to make yourself as wealthy as possible, it's to make sure humans have good lives and have to fight against the wilds of nature less. These greedy corporate execs think the free market is just wild nature, so they become predators against everyone else.

@SoloRenegade 6 ай бұрын

For Capitalism to function, gov is supposed to step in and break up monopolies, cartels, etc. But the corporations bribe the gov to look the other way. Both sides are bought.

@UnkyJosh420 6 ай бұрын

All prophesied. People aren’t going to change because money blocks the changes for good because those who are evil want it for themselves. That’s why it will never change without a PROPER revolution.

@ervinmiracle 6 ай бұрын

How many times did these farmers elect Koch-supported candidates???

@Hated_Sien 6 ай бұрын

Every election for the past 60 years. About time they stop voting for republicans.

@thierry1026 6 ай бұрын

Hard to tell, You have pacts that pretend to represent farmers when they actually represent investors that might own farms. Also theres a part of responsibility in the medias in the US that never speak about money in politics. Farmers work a crap ton too, they probably don't have the time to fix our politics, especially not by themselves, I don't think its fair to blame them. ALl that being said, yes you are right, some of them vote for GOP without knowing the influence Koch has on that party. Only thing to do is try and inform them.

@KerryGlaman 6 ай бұрын

How many times did the farmers know the candidate was Koch supported???

@realhusky 5 ай бұрын

@you don't get a pass for not knowing it's illegal. Why should they for voting against their own interests?

@NO--BS. 5 ай бұрын

How many times did they vote for obamas and bidens candidates? That cost us way more. Stupid argument. Not well thought out.

@commonsense8334 28 күн бұрын

That koch brother doesn’t lie very good. You could see the cold lying in his eyes and hear it in his voice

@Cometcast12 14 күн бұрын

I almost fainted with rage when Koch blamed the government for poor people. This demon goes _out of his way_ to make people poor

@jennifermarkens1882 14 күн бұрын

They all have reptilian eyes that are cold and cruel and greedy.

@QuentinBaggett-z1t 12 күн бұрын

White supremacy for suckers

@Imjustacatlady 6 ай бұрын

Greed has ruined our country, our society, our planet. Greed is the root of all evil, it really is. 😢

@kayallen7603 6 ай бұрын

YES! Make corporate a dirty name by supporting Biden/Harris and the FTC, et al.

@TinnyDee 6 ай бұрын

@@kayallen7603 they've had 4 years. They haven't done it yet because they are apart of it. Look at Kennedy. Hear him out.

@footletuce1376 6 ай бұрын

No, Israeli subversion did this. 😊😊😊😊😊

@Youdontknowyetbutuwill 6 ай бұрын

We live in Technofuedalism

@magmasunburst9331 6 ай бұрын

Jesus addressed generosity often (see the Sermon on the Mount) but American churches don't preach about as much anymore.

@darrtrubb 6 ай бұрын

This video touches on a glaring, yet little-known, problem in today’s America - the lack of anti-trust enforcement by government. It doesn’t just affect the agricultural industry, but each and every aspect of American life, yet almost no one talks about it.

@michellewalters4484 5 ай бұрын

It's time we do talk about it.

@jjjoy7887 5 ай бұрын

And thank you to the Biden Administration and Lina Khan for trying to change it. These are the REAL issues facing America from farms to the Supreme Court. People are greedy and once they have enough, they hop on the oligarchic bandwagon.

@sjsomething4936 5 ай бұрын

I’m not usually a person to gripe about mainstream media, but in this case they definitely seem beholden to their other megacorp advertisers, or are actually owned by the very companies and corporations they should be targeting with exposes. The decreasing competition in any of the capital intensive industries is slowly choking America.

@michellewalters4484 5 ай бұрын

@@darrtrubb Because the media doesn't talk about it...

@ajbaby93 5 ай бұрын

This is why Lina Khan is public enemy #1

@phyllisgenetti9970 6 ай бұрын

Never satisfied with their billions. Really disgusting this stuff goes on in our country.

@HeartAwakeningLove 6 ай бұрын

This is a Corporation not a country - literally. The United States Inc. Look into it if you haven’t.

@Steven-kl6lh 6 ай бұрын

Sir or ma'am.. greed happens on every continent, in every country, state, city, town, and village, ON EARTH...AND, IT'S NOT A NEW PHENOMENON...IT BEGAN, FOR US HUMANS, IN THE GARDEN...IN THE BEGINNING...🙏😁✌️

@mountainmancaraway6431 6 ай бұрын

Money isn't enough for them, now they want power over people's daily lives

@muzza230 6 ай бұрын

It goes on everywhere its not limited to America ffs

@tesmith47 6 ай бұрын

That's how capitalism works

@cruzan8183 20 күн бұрын

Many people think that it’s ok if other groups suffer. They don’t understand that greed has no limits.

@sebmorrell 4 ай бұрын

They will all complain and then vote for the people that will rubber stamp the take over. Very painful cognitive dissonance

@williammoreno2378 3 ай бұрын

They certainly do.

@alchilds3710 3 ай бұрын

we dont have a choice in the uniparty system America has

@jobhiojkp 3 ай бұрын

Koch brothers ALWAYS support Right Wing candidates and the farmers ALWAYS vote for them.

@JJ-nu8qi 3 ай бұрын

I hate to break it to you, but both sides are already bought and sold.

@paulae9579 3 ай бұрын

Exactly☹️

@sudasummers9111 6 ай бұрын

What happened to not being able to have a monopoly in USA. Remember breaking up Bell company?

@andrewjames4783 6 ай бұрын

monopolies are legal. just not illegally obtained. Im all for hating these guys buts important to understand monopolies are legal

@sudasummers9111 6 ай бұрын

@@andrewjames4783 I will have to research it, I thought they were banned from doing it. Guess that explains a lot.

@amzarnacht6710 6 ай бұрын

Simple answer: Ronald Reagan pretty much gutting enforcement of antitrust regulations. And every administration since doing NOTHING to curb the rampant consolidation leading to huge monopolies (or, at best, powerful Duopolies).

@kayallen7603 6 ай бұрын

@@andrewjames4783 Not quite. See FTC and Anti-Trust laws.

@kayallen7603 6 ай бұрын

@@amzarnacht6710 except Biden/Harris.

@Ouchimoo 6 ай бұрын

Not to mention in my area we all had small farmers: 140 acre homesteads, 35 to 40 milk cows, a handfull of beef steers then in the 90s they all got pushed out by consolidation. I would have gone into farming if I hadn't watched everyone either give up on farming or have to get a full time job to support their full time farm. Then shortly after crop rotation seemed to die out in favor of just spray the daylights out of everything. Once that started happening, mutated frogs were everywhere, diversity of bugs fell off a cliff. I moved on and now every time I go back to visit family I don't see anything for birds, bugs, butterflies, bees, etc. Oh and everyone seems to be dying off to cancer.

@custosdesign1053 6 ай бұрын

That’s the heart of the issue right there👍

@Diesel4242 6 ай бұрын

My county had more dairy farms than any other county in the United States when I was a kid. I can’t think of a single one left today.😢

@TheMysteryDriver 6 ай бұрын

@@Diesel4242milk usage drops every year.

@harrysmith8338 6 ай бұрын

How, to "go on..."? Folks, they have CHOSEN. Do you understand, that if they had their way, you would NOT HAVE A CHOICE?? How can "co-existence" EVER APPLY when the "They", is bound to destroy your freedom, and eventually you?? Diplomacy?? Compromise?? Words for Defeat, my good People. It isn't that Potato-headed POTUS. It's the whole enchilada. The derelict, lawless and renegade FRANCHISE, known as THE UNITED STATES SERVICE CORPORATION(i.e., the "Federal Government"), must be served Writs, of Mandamus, and Quo Warranto. It is a standing testament, to the treasonous capacities of compromised men. Lawless Act, after Lawless Act, "passed" by past Traitorous iterations of "Congress", buttressed by the lawless "Executive Orders" of the Executive branch, and then blithely overlooked by a supposed "Supreme Court". The entire Franchise, has abused the Constitutional Contracts of the Franchise, and must be remanded to We, the People, through our State Attorney Generals, who have the standing to file these Writs. Period. We can then Vote new "leaders" into position, to begin repealing decades of despotic "legislation", that have seized control of the "free market", early, and often. YOU WILL NOT JUST "VOTE" YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS, "US CITIZENS". That you call yourselves "US CItizens", shows how much damage was done by the allowance of the formation of the Rockefeller-controlled "Department of Education". Clueless Nation, led by those who bear false witness. As Yahweh Elohim stated: "My people are destroyed, for lack of knowledge.." Democracy, is a garbage word. The closest thing, We have, to freedom, is a Representative Republic. Sadly, those who have been "selected" to serve, in far too many cases, were little more than shills for the Banksters. What needs done,is a return to COMMON LAW which is LAW OF THE LAND. The reason: These PIRATES, who use admiralty law(Ever notice the US Flag with the Gold Fringes), to commit FRAUD against We, the People, who were ONLY EVER TO BE RULED BY COMMON LAW. The Treasonous Tripe, aka the 14th Amendment, LAWLESSLY "created" a new class, the "US CITIZEN", in direct contradiction to what the Constitution had provided. So many "acts" and "amendments", that have GROSSLY INSUFFICIENT CONSTITUTIONAL BACKING, are now considered status quo, that the UNITED STATES SERVICE CORPORATION, IS DE FACTO. What is it called, when you tell half-truths, or deceptions, and it costs someone else their money?? FRAUD. What is it, when you tell half-truths, or deceptions, and it costs someone else their life? MURDER. Guess what? The UNITED STATES SERVICE CORPORATION(aka, "the Federal Government") is commiting both CRIMES, EVERY DAY. IF WE HAD LAWFUL, CONSTITUTIONAL OATH-BEARING SHERIFFS, WE COULD HAUL EACH AND EVERY OFFICER, OF THE UNITED STATES SERVICE CORPORATION, WHICH IS CHARTERLESS DUE TO ABUSE OF THE FRANCHISE, INTO COMMON LAW COURT, AND CONVICT THEM ALL, FOR BOTH FRAUD AND TRESPASS. TRESPASS. These "Officers", of the UNITED STATES SERVICE CORPORATION, need to be hauled into Common Law Courts, and held liable for the Fraud, and Trespass, they have performed, upon State Nationals, of the Geographic location, known as The United States of America. US CITIZENS, are RULED, by the USC, the UCC, and the CFR. Unless you are a physical RESIDENT of Washington, D.C., OR, are a Public Servant, YOU ARE NOT A US CITIZEN, and thank the Maker you aren't, because US CITIZENS, do NOT ENJOY, the Protection of Natural Law Rights, that the Constitution of the United States of America, was Crafted to give. Bread and Circus?? LEARN YOUR COMMON LAWS, PEOPLE. DEFENSE, IS NOT JUST FOR THOSE WITH MONEY, NEVER WAS. FIGHT FOR YOUR OWN RIGHTS, PRO SE. LEARN YOUR COMMON LAWS....THINK MAGNA CARTA, FOLKS. THINK THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BOTH WRITTEN, IN COMMON(NATURAL) LAW. Few even understand, that LAW, is an acronym, for the Three, Separate Areas of Jurisdiction and Jurisprudence. Land, Air, Water. Land is RULED, by Common Law. "Air", is RULED by Ecclesiastical(Think the Vatican) Law, and Water is RULED, by Admiralty Law. Think of THE OUTRIGHT PIRACY, THAT HAS BEEN COMMITED, EH??

@binderfan436 6 ай бұрын

The demise of the small family farm you wrote about was the start of the demise of the nation .

@patrickleigh1523 2 ай бұрын

Odds are the Supreme Court rules in favor of the Kochs.

@loviestlewis1103 2 ай бұрын

That's what happened in bush administration.

@heidecarroll5836 2 ай бұрын

Yes, because they are ruled by the same power: money.

@jerry7311 Ай бұрын

The Supreme Court is owned by the Kochs and others.

@AA-iy4gm Ай бұрын

This company is the parent company of Johnson and Johnson who is relentlessly trying to evade responsibility for dying babies from their baby powder products years ago and those that didn't die developed uterine cancer from it. The parent company owner, the name mentioned in this video, declared he's an atheist, his last name gives insight into the group of people he comes from...the same group that "coincidentally" own more than half of companies in the world...the same group you can't get in if you weren't born into it.

@animalfarm7467 29 күн бұрын

The Austrian-Libertarian Kochs own the Federalist Society; what do you think?

@timstein9779 6 ай бұрын

Socialism for the ultra rich and multi-national corporations; capitalism for everyone else.

@dannyfrog 6 ай бұрын

yet the Fox News viewers keep blaming the Democrats as socialists.

@MyWalk3296 6 ай бұрын

Yep fact

@robmir7056 6 ай бұрын

And the fact of the matter is at the ultra rich hates socialism, but they are the first ones in line to collect from their hatred.

@davefleming1117 6 ай бұрын

Spot on.. and it is so wrong and evil. Working class is being terminated

@theladdiesda8190 6 ай бұрын

Except no country truly practices capitalism. Governments bail out large companies instead of letting them fail so it's state subsidised corporate debt.

@hegyak 6 ай бұрын

Money is all that matters in the US. Nothing else matters. Not Ethics. Not Morals. Not Social Good. Just Money.

@RochelleLang 6 ай бұрын

Vote

@sarahhaley7458 6 ай бұрын

@@RochelleLang cuz voting is currently working out splendidly and has always been purely okay

@RochelleLang 6 ай бұрын

@@sarahhaley7458 you loose 100% of the shots you don’t take

@sarahhaley7458 6 ай бұрын

@@RochelleLang if you don’t like Republicans or Democrats , you lose 100% of the time and watch better men lose to popular opinion- that people actually voted for instead of that Brain surgeon or Sanders or...and not many swing states- even if they brought back Wang for Prez...and that’s what voting currently is good for ... McDonalds or Burger King ?.. doesn’t matter- back to frying burgers - they’re that popular

@OU81TWO 6 ай бұрын

@@RochelleLang Who can you vote for? Your only options are among greedy millionaires.

@lightknight876 6 ай бұрын

It's absolutely insane how these people are able to get away from such blatant piracy

@kayallen7603 6 ай бұрын

Vote for Biden/Harris then and stop the corporate takeovers.

@freshnorthwest6756 6 ай бұрын

most of it is turned into meth sadly....Iowa got pimped out sadly....Koch has helped destroy the US and they LOVE IT!!!! thats whats really pathetic...they hire people to make comments like this disappear just like they purposely did with mom and pops farms... KOCH HATES AMERICA!!!!

@shereeherubin8122 6 ай бұрын

Agreed! These hard working farmers have to contend with bad weather conditions, sick animals and their own health issues. They deserve to make a decent living.

@grimaffiliations3671 6 ай бұрын

@@TinnyDee lol

@SteveninTune 6 ай бұрын

They own the Supreme Cult Court 😮

@robertbenefiel2781 11 күн бұрын

Well, farmers supported the corporate oligarchs’ takeover of America, so live with it !

@10-4-q6i 10 күн бұрын

You took the words right out of my mouth

@StillAwakeAwareDiscerning 6 ай бұрын

This didn’t accidentally happen. This was planned and orchestrated for exactly this outcome. I am so glad you are shining the light into the very dark corners of our realm.

@jimstultz3345 2 ай бұрын

Everything is planned, no catastrophe is by chance. We are ruled over by parasites.

@lindatullos9430 Ай бұрын

Even Reagan helped bring this mess about with his war on farmers back in the day (while appearing like he was trying to help, his regime brought about huge numbers of small farms collapsing and big farms buying up their foreclosed properties (caused by Reagan's governmental policy of getting farmers to overextend themselves by expanding too rapidly with the governmental loans).

@hochhaul Ай бұрын

This youtube channel only tells a partial story. They omit a lot of facts because they have a partisan agenda. Funny how they don't mention that Koch was a massive donor to Joe Biden's 2020 campaign. Which is why beginning in 2020, the left began talking about Peter Thiel exactly like they used to talk about the "Koch Brothers". Which was always hilarious considering the massive roster of billionaires that have been lifelong donors to the Democrat party. You don't rake in 1.5+ billion dollars without the help of dark money (Arabella Advisors) and a big roster of billionaire friends (Pierre Omidyar, Sergey Brin, Reid Hoffman, George and Alex Soros, Mike Bloomberg, Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and a variety of European billionaires.)

@nitwitt50 6 ай бұрын

ALL OF THE CORPORATIONS in America are doing this.

@bubbasanches4591 5 ай бұрын

Because you keep supporting the politicians who enable this

@animalfarm7467 29 күн бұрын

@@bubbasanches4591 Did your parents vote for Reagan?

@bluezhawg2104 2 ай бұрын

Koch and Cargill families need to be held accountable and their monopolies broken

@celiagraham5920 12 күн бұрын

And foolishly many farmers voted for the guy who is now putting these kinds of people in office. Oligarchy is only good for Koch, not for farmers.

@douglasthompson9482 6 ай бұрын

If we don’t support the family farmer, we will die. Our farmers should be praised rather than being beaten up by corporate companies. Corporate America is out of country.

@George-dy3pt 6 ай бұрын

FARMERS ARE A INDUSTRIAL BUSINESS NOW! 87% OF ALL CORN IS USED FOR COMMERCIAL USE AND 90% OF SOYBEANS IS THE SAME WAY!

@tesmith47 6 ай бұрын

But the farmers keep voting the capitalist into power!!!!!

@SusCalvin 6 ай бұрын

The end users and distribution want cheap stuff.

@jsvalina3503 6 ай бұрын

This is both True and false while the farmer has few friends between the Elevator, the bank, the seed man, fertilizer, equipment sales man, water rights/ (if this applies), increasing taxes. but, in many cases the farmers inability or unwillingness to adapt, or there very poor management of finances is often there biggest enemy. I Have been in agriculture for the majority of my life, with the exception of 6 years I spent in construction.

@dankirk6452 14 күн бұрын

The farmers vote for a billionaire who explicitly tells them he doesn't care about them he jist wants their vote. Then he hand corporations the farmers cry about permanent tax breaks....then the farmers voted for him again.

@adopequeenatyrantkingaboss8057 6 ай бұрын

There has been a steady shakedown of the American public going on since at least the 1980s.

@tomcampbell6384 6 ай бұрын

Started with Reagan and his tax cuts for the wealthy and embrace of Falwell...

@anthonyrowland9072 6 ай бұрын

Most things can be traced by to Reagan...

@rocketpod1 6 ай бұрын

@@anthonyrowland9072this country diesels long before Reagan took office

@Jesse-ri5ud 6 ай бұрын

@@anthonyrowland9072 my thoughts exactly! i cant believe that so many people fell for that scumbag scammer 😢

@joesutherland225 6 ай бұрын

Yup somehow tweedle dee and tweedle dumb managed to fool the majority and the under classes have gone backwards in living standards AND saddled with more of the costs !!!!

@darrellepickering8433 6 ай бұрын

In '88-'89 I worked for this company. Our terminal put out news letters of the owners on vacation, etc. I quit when my boss asked me if the company came 1st or my family. When I said my family came 1st I was told I wouldn't last long there. I took that to heart!

@mikegruber3888 18 күн бұрын

I interviewed with that company in the late 90s. I'm glad I didn't go to work for them assholes!

@Diane-s5g 20 күн бұрын

If the Koch Bros. want the U.S. government to stay out of business then the Koch Bros. should stay out of government.

@kathleenscarborough5481 6 күн бұрын

They have finally taken it over with Project 2025

@southend26 6 ай бұрын

"Government is picking winners and losers. It's not fair!" 😂 This man has all the money and bought half of Congress, but, yeah, government's picking on him.

@balsalmalberto8086 6 ай бұрын

Projection. Doublespeak.

@mantaszmenskis5619 6 ай бұрын

@@kelliott7864 Scripted responses. It's like they practiced for every question.

@fairywingsonroses 6 ай бұрын

I feel like gaslighting is a major keystone to making modern capitalism work. Make people believe that it's their fault that the system isn't working for them instead of placing blame on the people who broke the system on purpose for their own benefit.

@1-eye-willy 6 ай бұрын

i do not feel bad for these people, they have the resources to make their own damn fertilizer, they just want to throw weight around on capital hill rather than do something progressive.

@Ghandacity 6 ай бұрын

Accuse the other of that which you are guilty.

@robertcervantes9843 5 ай бұрын

When is the government going to bust up these destructive monopolies? This is insane.

@BaytownMan45 5 ай бұрын

The government is not gonna bust of anyone. Corrupt politicians take bribes. To protect corporate profits.

@bthyme 5 ай бұрын

The catch is that corporations have hedged their bets by convincing half the people in the country to put their retirement funds in the hands of the stock market. Anti-trust enforcement will adversely affect those funds, so there will be a backlash. The sinister loop will be closed and locked if the pressure to privatize Social Security is also successful. It has taken us so long to wake up to how lopsided our markets have become, so be prepared for a tough and painful fight.

@tracysample6942 5 ай бұрын

@@bthyme 🎯

@chrisstromberg6527 5 ай бұрын

@@bthyme B.S. markets fluctuate, financial planners adjust accordingly. There will always be noise from investors to make more money. Anti-trust enforcement is the medicine this economy needs to avoid escalating prices at the supermarket. You are taking money out of the hands of the bottom 98% and putting into the coffers of the top 2%. This is not a sustainable model for our economy, eventually you are going to have those funds adversely affected when no one can afford goods or services being offered!

@alexandrezadrozny3595 4 ай бұрын

Because we actually live in communism

@johnchedsey1306 6 ай бұрын

The Koch brothers are among the worst people this country has ever seen and we're going to be dealing with the damages they've caused for years. Greed is destructive.

@victorstillwell9893 6 ай бұрын

Only one left...

@johnwright9372 6 ай бұрын

The Kochs want no income tax, no public education, almost no regulations at all.

@ELDTAdventures-tp9jy 6 ай бұрын

Almost half of corn is used for ethanol production. Stop government subsidies of ethanol and fertilizer prices will fall to historic lows . . .

@murdelabop 6 ай бұрын

We'll be dealing with their aftermath for generations.

@mchonkler7225 6 ай бұрын

As bad as they are, they don't even crack the top 100.

@Dirtcheapdeals Ай бұрын

These billionaires won't be satisfied until they end up like the united healthcare guy.

@judytruitt6703 6 ай бұрын

I live in Georgia I think this a big deal. I stand with the farmers!

@RBzee112 6 ай бұрын

Who do you vote for?

@MerkleAkrunphleuphle 6 ай бұрын

THESE FERTILIZERS HAVE ALSO DESTROYED OUR SOIL..... EVERY YEAR WE USE MORE AND MORE BECAUSE WE HAVE DECIMATED THE MICROBIAL LIFE.... ETC.

@CRneu 6 ай бұрын

Vote Democrat. They're the only ones going after corporations for these things. Republicans want deregulation. Biden has been pretty aggressive when it comes to going after corporations in ways that really benefit everyday americans.

@atlantic_love 6 ай бұрын

@@RBzee112 He's Wight Ring, so you know who he's voting for.

@donchristie420 6 ай бұрын

@@RBzee112exactly,I can hear them TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP

@christinathorpe2849 6 ай бұрын

The common “american” is dispensable ask congress and the supreme courts. You have to be a corporation to be human to them.

@Sentientdreamer 5 ай бұрын

Ms. Lina Kahn, you are a righteous warrior! Thank you 🎉❤🎉

@Logistics_Sandar 3 ай бұрын

Ay I hear ya…. They need to make a series after her… The only person I know of recent history to get praise from both parties .

@dilmeral 2 ай бұрын

It is over . Trump will fire Kahn as soon as he comes back. Say bye to all regulations Biden was trying to place. I hope these people who heavily voted for him see what they did. They will cry more than I did for two days and I don’t care about them at all

@flexmasterson4297 16 күн бұрын

Peter Thiel has said many times that competition is for suckers. Stockholders want monopolies.

@jeffcramer2463 6 ай бұрын

Let’s see rural America votes for the party that the koch family supports. When are people going to wake up?

@amandastjohn4735 6 ай бұрын

Let's see...urban America taxes rural America into poverty to pay for urban America's stupidity, votes for the uniparty that is ruining the prosperity that was handed down to it, and thinks it's rural America that needs to change. When is *urban* America going to pull its head out of its ass?

@raminrouchi202 6 ай бұрын

Libertarian?

@StephenZ827 6 ай бұрын

As Gates buys up the farmland, as China buys up the beef industry.....when will people wake up that Hunter Biden is the bag man....and the Big Guy with 22 shell companies is not looking out for the US farmer....Wake Up..The left is trying to destroy Trump for a reason...wake up to that fact.

@janvandermeer6159 6 ай бұрын

Never

@keithwiebe1787 6 ай бұрын

@@raminrouchi202 They may be libertarian in their ideology but GOP in their application.

@amycantwell8715 6 ай бұрын

Stop the wellfare for the rich. Wealth tax! Pay your fair share.

@SoloRenegade 6 ай бұрын

yes! Subsidies are anti-capitalism. For Capitalism to function, gov is supposed to step in and break up monopolies, cartels, etc. But the corporations bribe the gov to look the other way. Both sides are bought.

@stevehicks8944 6 ай бұрын

Wealth taxes were tried in Europe; they failed. WHY? Because digital assets can be moved from nation to nation. The top1% of Anerican taxpayers are responsible for 39% of ALL federal income taxes paid each year; the top 20% of American taxpayers are responsible for 80% of ALL federal income taxes paid each year. The bottom 50%? 2.8%. Sweden places the bulk of their taxes on those who use the most government services: the working poor and lower class. Question: WHY are you so greedy? How much in federal income tax did you pay last year? I know what we paid: over $90,000. We are NOT in the top 1%.

@amycantwell8715 6 ай бұрын

@@stevehicks8944 Trump paid $750.00 in 2016 & same in 17. ZERO 15 yrs. Straight before that. How bout you? Sound fair to you ?

@ATMR34 6 ай бұрын

@@amycantwell8715They why dont you go to the Bidens, the Obamas, the Clinton's, Soros, Bill Gates, and only focus on Trump? He created Jobs with his businesses, but Obama? Bidens? They dont give their salary to the veterans, they slurp it all, and keep slurping the american tax payers money like soup, so they can give drug and prosti to their sons and then use tax payer money to protect them.

@pattygreen8064 6 ай бұрын

@@amycantwell8715 considering the amount of jobs created yes

@MikeyLikesIt89 6 ай бұрын

It ceases to amaze me how every time we discuss corporate greed, every statement begins with “starting in the 1980s”, and the kicker is that most farmers worshipped and voted for the man who ushered in their own demise, Reagan. It always go back to him. He truly destroyed the prospect of prosperity for the average American with his “reaganomics”.

@CRneu 6 ай бұрын

it's because conservatives have positioned themselves as the defenders of "Freedom". Even though we lose more freedoms under republican leadership than we do democratic leadership. The entities that enjoy "freedom" under republican leadership are corporations. Deregulation = freedom for corporations. That freedom comes at the expense of the population and environment. If you "love america" you must vote republican. It's a constant talking point in conservative media in the united states. Liberals and democrats "hate america" and want to change "the american way of life". It's all nonsense to scare you into voting against your own best interests.

@zanebartlett8004 6 ай бұрын

I always have such a hard time watching when they do these kinds of more rural videos. It always looks like it's full of the type of people who voted for the exact people who are making their lives hell, will probably continue to vote that way, and then blame the government during the swings. How many people in that listening room are going to vote for Trump....

@MeRiaNevaMynd 6 ай бұрын

Reagan was a turncoat, a traitor. A puppet for the shadow group.

@katieking8830 6 ай бұрын

@@zanebartlett8004 amen to that!

@joshk.6246 6 ай бұрын

@@zanebartlett8004 remember they call a county, district, state on who wins and color it redor blue. In reality red areas are covering up blue votes and vice versa. There are places of high concentration for one party or another, doesn't mean they have everyone swindled.

@fvr12345 2 ай бұрын

Ironic that these small time farmers who are the self proclaimed hardest works in America. They all inherit their business/farms, they're heavily subsidized by the government, and rely on illegal immigrant labor. Yet they complain the most and are so slow that they vote against themselves.

@blue-vu1ek 6 ай бұрын

Whine whine whine. They VOTED for the gop which supports and protects corporations. Those small farmers VOTED AGAINST THEIR OWN BEST INTERESTS. so now they whine whine whine.

@215thuglord 5 ай бұрын

They won't like your comment because it's the truth

@Freeyourmind-y4g 5 ай бұрын

Koch blanketed the campaigns - bought Ernst, Reynolds, Grassley.

@md4088 5 ай бұрын

WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD!!!!!

@DanielPodlovics 4 ай бұрын

Propaganda and/or borderline propaganda is far too legal. You can't entirely blame people for this happening, especially when you have only two parties with a first-past-the-post system. I tried to find some stats. The reddest year (relative to blue) in the past 50 years was 51.3% red in 1976, 38.6% blue (i.e. 10% other). That means at worst 38.6% of people have voted blue. A large number of voters are susceptible to information manipulation. It's everyone's responsibility to stay informed, but it's the government's responsibility to prosecute lies and misinformation, and it's a corporate prerogative to drive information that furthers their cause (profit). If we can improve all 3 areas: people being more engaged in well informed voting, government being stronger in enforcing its anti-evil policies, and corporations being less incentivized to seek profits over anything else (impossible when the other factors allow greedy people to take the wheel and stay in control), then things will improve. This is a long comment, but it's all to say that Lina Khan is clearly doing well to address this. By being stronger in representing antitrust legislation, AND doing community outreach, she will help drive the first two factors. Democracy and capitalism NEED these checks and balances to keep greed and profit in check. The capitalist creed of "the free market drives innovation" is worthless when the innovation stops serving the people. The free market maximizes it's most numerically impactful parameter, and for too long that's been shareholder earnings instead of lifespan, quality of life, poverty rates, and education. The FTC is doing a great job to re-balance the incentives by dismantling anti-people companies.

@JosephSkilling-sb6do 3 ай бұрын

You act as if democrats aren’t funded by globalist billionaires as well. Both parties hate the American people. Stop pushing one or the other.

@Skycouncil_Sentinel_777 6 ай бұрын

Tax the billionaire class significantly, they only got there by climbing on the backs of humanity.

@sheepwshotguns42 6 ай бұрын

better yet, get rid of the idea that a person can make money simply by owning things or inheriting those things.

@AL-lh2ht 6 ай бұрын

@@sheepwshotguns42ok commie.

@quantumtechcrypto7080 6 ай бұрын

Government help. Globalist funding. Free market can create and destroy anyone unless protected by government

@7996hobguy 6 ай бұрын

@@sheepwshotguns42So, I shouldnt be able to work hard and pay for a home, and then pass that on to my daughter? The only people that would sign up for that are the ones who don't work, or are already given free housing and welfare.

@KaiWatson 6 ай бұрын

If we aggressively taxed the wealthy it wouldn't even begin to cover the cost of our hyper expansive military and it would lead to further de-dollarization which would make the average American poorer in the world-scheme. Fix the educational system and get rid of the Mansfield Amendment so that Americans can innovate again and look forward to better outcomes again. Reform universities so they can exist as centers for the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom for its own sake again. It's the illiterate deplorables that contribute nothing and expect to live a wealthy lifestyle that destroys the American social economy. The billionaires might be evil but they feed us albeit it's Taco Bell and Buffalo Wild Wings.

@TabithaTexasgirl 6 ай бұрын

Everyone needs to start supporting their local farmers in every way possible. I rather buy my food from a farmer than the store. This is horrible

@tesmith47 6 ай бұрын

Farmers stop voting for REPUBLICANS!!!

@Budlife182 Ай бұрын

Politicians are loyal to corporations not people who elect them.

@KushPatel 6 ай бұрын

I'm curious of who the farmers voted for in the most recent elections...

@user-zu5do6ri6r 6 ай бұрын

Why would that matter. Our elections are rigged.

@Lisa-welder1 6 ай бұрын

Same.

@indivisibleman8596 6 ай бұрын

The Koch brothers

@ctgottapee9020 6 ай бұрын

and they'll vote that way again in the upcoming one

@TheDrjehr 6 ай бұрын

If there’s any chance of undoing the control the super rich have on our country, everyone must vote Dem up and down the ballot. One person here wrote, “Jews,” as if he thinks they are the problem ( think Hitler much?). Well, Koch isn’t Jewish and most Jews do not vote republican. Some do, like the billionaire Adelson, but most Jews know better and still remember Hitler and the Holocaust. Trump is leading us into another crisis and we will lose our democracy if we don’t vote Blue. Farmer typically vote republican and republicans have given us this mess.

@TheNashEquil 2 ай бұрын

Koch spent $61 million in support of Republican candidates in 2024 and not a single penny towards Democrats. Yet Iowa voted Republican. I guess you get what you vote for.

@detyelram2819 Ай бұрын

You know it's not that simple. Plenty of crooks with both Rs and Ds after their names.

@garybeaver5951 Ай бұрын

@@detyelram2819republicans are the worse. Look what Trump is doing to this country. He is surrounding himself with billionaires and they gonna decimate this country

@richardthomas1566 Ай бұрын

Love it your EXACTLEy right screw these farmers.

@richardthomas1566 Ай бұрын

@@detyelram2819it is that simple trump ruined the soy been market when he was president .

@loswilson5331 Ай бұрын

Yep and a "representative" came to town to blame Biden .

@jcsrst 6 ай бұрын

Corporations own the government, federal and state. Government MUST be cleaned up.

@Novastar.SaberCombat 6 ай бұрын

That'll never happen, but at least you're aware of who owns everything. The WEALTHIEST are always the healthiest. They call all of the shots, and anyone who stands in their way will be CRUSHED. Not only financially, but socially, emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, etc. They will *OWN* any resistance. That's what power is all about, baby! ;) He who has the most ",000"s at the end of their checks always, always, ALWAYS wins. No exceptions.

@angelcitystudio 6 ай бұрын

We have to stop being afraid of REGULATIONS AND TAXING THE RICH!! It works everywhere else in the world!

@Aeroldoth3 6 ай бұрын

...which can ONLY happen with a revolution.

@volkerengels5298 6 ай бұрын

Why not 'clean' the main cause? Too shy..?

@robertgray6631 6 ай бұрын

1% of the population can’t win elections. It’s that people are stupid and hateful. Keep voting for conservatives and tax breaks. Conservatives have the poorest people voting for tax cuts and giving the 1% the right to do anything they want. It’s only going to get impossible. Stop saying it’s the government!! It’s the people you elected in the government. This is a democracy!! The rich can’t get rich or do anything without everyone else.

@amousanon. 14 күн бұрын

If your crop requires so much nitrogen, work on the soil, grow less demanding veggies. Modern farmers rely far to much on fertilizers and monocropping

@MickeyStone-h1y 6 ай бұрын

Keep voting GOP because they set the conditions that have allowed monopolies to exist.

@jhackett9482 6 ай бұрын

Joe’s in power. He could change things but won’t. These guys own both parties.

@harrysmith8338 6 ай бұрын

@titoslounge1946 6 ай бұрын

Both parties are crooked. There is no “good team”. Republican’s and Democrats will pass laws and turn blind eyes when it benefits them and hurts the American people.

@rmand5181 6 ай бұрын

@@jhackett9482 Comrade this is America,

@user-zu5do6ri6r 6 ай бұрын

Are we still pretending that voting has an effect? I feel like it's the same as trying to pretend Santa Clause is real.

@nancycole-auguste6614 6 ай бұрын

What happened to laws on monopolies, public poisoning, crimes against humanity?

@SoloRenegade 6 ай бұрын

For Capitalism to function, gov is supposed to step in and break up monopolies, cartels, etc. But the corporations bribe the gov to look the other way. Both sides are bought.

@skullmaister 6 ай бұрын

Ronald Reagan happened and overturned or repealed most of them

@FossatiDan 6 ай бұрын

They're there... there just not enforced. And when they are enforced, the paid-off courts just reverse it anyway. Truly shameful...

@charleswalters5284 2 ай бұрын

"conservatives" destroyed them

@marydupree27 6 ай бұрын

I wonder how many of these farmers realize kock brothers donate to republicans, that allow them to do this.

@randywatts6969 6 ай бұрын

It’s common knowledge

@BeagleBob-zw7wg 6 ай бұрын

Republicans, democrats, there’s no difference. They donate to the republicans because they are the ones elected. They donate to the democrats where they are elected. It’s about bribing absolutely everyone. The bribery is the problem, not the packaging.

@petersulewski 5 ай бұрын

@@randywatts6969 it should be common knowledge but their ignorance is willful

@catherinewilliams9680 14 күн бұрын

Why didn't this company stay government owned? Why was this fertilizer manufacturer ever in a situation where it could be bought?

@vicpetrishak7705 6 ай бұрын

Monsanto has taught corporations very well and they listened !

@bobsmith8124 6 ай бұрын

These old farmers need to just pull themselves up their bootstraps and work harder!

@redoneal23 6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@captainsouth4460 6 ай бұрын

That’s the Republican way!!! How much do they receive in farm aid to not grow certain crops!!!

@thomaswood3805 29 күн бұрын

Farmers are the most hardest working people on the planet. Our goverments should work harder to stop the GREED.

@tammieschaffer6169 4 ай бұрын

No farms, No food! Thank you to all our farmers. Such a thankless job for many. There is still many of us out there that support you and understand❤

@virginiamoss7045 2 ай бұрын

I do not support them when they vote Republican/conservative repeatedly, decade after decade. They are blind sheep and their supposed "values" are hurting themselves and damaging the entire country. I blame them for being stupid go-alongs.

@catdooley4616 14 күн бұрын

The same thing is happening in the farm industry, so I think we need to be very clear as to the type of farmer we should support.

@bobkull Ай бұрын

I don't understand why the state government who subsidized building the plant didn't include a clause in the contract forbidding the owners from selling it for an extended period of time.

@TheDrokon Ай бұрын

I wouldn't be surprised if they were in on the plan from the start.

@revvyhevvy 6 ай бұрын

My take on this: A lot of these farmers probably loved Ronald Reagan and his presidency. Yet Reagan began the process of gutting the power of the FTC and many other govt bodies that have regulatory authority. We all know as stated in the post that there is a problem, and that problem started when RR ran roughshod through many govt agencies, stripping the teeth from their ability to 'regulate'. The free market is easily manipulated by large corporations with powerful legal teams that twist things up making people think one thing is happening, when it is actually the opposite! Think about the Air Traffic Controllers Union, and how to this day our airports are understaffed for both controllers and pilots. Have their been any near misses lately? Also, Reagan's 'trickle down' theory has directly caused the concentration of wealth to shift from the many(i.e. the middle class) to the few! RR was the original union buster! Ask yourself How the Koch Bros got so rich? Ronald Reagan began the process that put us where we are today!

@dantesinfernopurgatory7826 6 ай бұрын

And the current administration continues to maintain the status quo - despite giving lip service, platitudes and empty promises to their constituents. News bulletin - neither party gives a 🐀's behind about you or me. In the words of the late, great George Carlin - "They're all part of the same club - and we ain't in it!"

@nancywhitaker5096 6 ай бұрын

Very true.

@rhondahopkins4366 5 ай бұрын

Ronald Reagan was horrible for the working people. The whole Republican party is just horrible for working people.

@animalfarm7467 29 күн бұрын

There are no "Individuals" or "Free Markets" except in the minds of those who still mentally reside in the old west. There were never any "Individuals" or "Free Markets"; this was all an Austrian-Libertarian scam perpetrated by professional actors like Reagan and confidence tricksters like Milton Friedman to transform the country into what you see today. Always remember, Ludwig von Mises and Austrian economics was introduced into the US by the Rockefeller Foundation (~1940); and this wasn't for your benefit. Never forget, Charles Koch is the ultimate Austrian-Libertarian; his brother David (now deceased) even ran for VP in 1980 for the Libertarian Party. Read the 1980 (not later as it was changed) libertarian ticket under which the Kochs ran for office. It’s a real eye-opener. Now there are only corporations; they own you and they rule you; by Design.

@andrewhansen4179 15 күн бұрын

You are absolutely correct.

@WetSlushpup 6 ай бұрын

Corporate consolidation is harmful to American farmers for this exact reason, but the agricultural practices that we have been employing are harming them as well. High reliance on costly inputs such as farming equipment, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, to make a subsidized cash crop that gets sent over seas or wasted, all while expending our nutrient soils and polluting our waterways. Coupled with mass urban development and destruction of farm lands that will never be productive again. While corporations profit at every level of the supply chain, leaving regular taxpayers and farmers with the bill. It is insanity, we need a fundamental change in our agrarian practices.

@drakekoefoed1642 6 ай бұрын

we need to get rid of capitalism

@JB-pd3ir 6 ай бұрын

@@drakekoefoed1642 I would not call what is going on capitalism.

@Anotherhumanexisting 3 ай бұрын

We need regenerative farming that is actually sustainable.

@MichaelPersson-d5h 5 ай бұрын

I'm a cattle farmer in Mozambique. We are not producing sustainably. Between the cost of fuel and animal medicines, tractor spares and everything else; we do not get enough for our product. This seems to be a global problem. Without the farmers: society collapses. This is a historical fact. Why are we allowing this to happen.

@reitairue2073 4 ай бұрын

@@stevemcgowenwhile in Mozambique 😂Jesus fuxking christ man

@aliceputt3133 4 ай бұрын

@@stevemcgowen He's in Mozambique. Duh.

@randalsaladbar 4 ай бұрын

The big eats the small until it's a monopoly

@Hankyjane 4 ай бұрын

Many ranchers in USA are attempt to market directly to the people. Trouble is there are criminals taking advantage of this by selling high and selling bad product. They fool the unsuspecting new purchasers of direct food sourcing. I have bought bad products at farmers markets. Very bad. It's hard for an average person to know who is a criminal and who is a legitimate sellers of healthy good food products.

@agreetodisagree4751 4 ай бұрын

When people quit taking the low road, WORKING FOR, as well as doing business WITH these scum bags, including communications and all the rest, we may finally make some headway. Incidentally, it was Reagan who allowed many mergers to occur, brushing aside anti-trust laws.

@maryfries2147 Ай бұрын

We need anti trust laws to be followed and no lobbying because if not he who has the gold rules

@ts109 6 ай бұрын

Voting against your self interest for 50 years will do that, this is conservative politics for the .0001 percent not farmers.

@dodgechance4564 6 ай бұрын

it was the conservative state government that passed the bill to fund the new fertilizer plant. Conservative doesn't have to equal billionaire-loving; not to mention that not everyone is a single-issue voter. Furthermore, you don't even know how the people in this video voted.

@ts109 6 ай бұрын

@@dodgechance4564 first, it's Iowa pretty safe to say it's solid red. Second what makes you think their Republican reps didn't get it built knowing it was going to be sucked into the Koch orbit of industries.

@johnc3525 6 ай бұрын

@@dodgechance4564 So conservatives went against their own beliefs of small govt, no regulations, free market because it was the only fix they could find? Interesting...

@geemcgraff8281 6 ай бұрын

@@dodgechance4564they vote republican

@Rottingboards 6 ай бұрын

Trump tax relief: 1.2 Trillion to the richest and it is still going on. And Trump wants to give more to the top....VOTE Blue.

@TaterFarm 6 ай бұрын

Mr Koch, you bought all the competition… the American people have seen this type of company growth for a really long time now.

@Novastar.SaberCombat 6 ай бұрын

You cannot defeat someone or something which has more coin, connections, crews, clout, computer code, control, corporate communities, and opulent opportunities than you. It's just a statistical fact. Health is wealth; might is right. No exceptions.

@csnide6702 6 ай бұрын

yet ... these RUBES will probably still vote RED.

@richardevans3084 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely!

@puttervids472 6 ай бұрын

@@Novastar.SaberCombatwrong. Theres still one way to 😅. Being bullet proof isn’t possible.

@edhuber3557 6 ай бұрын

'Bought all the competition' with 13% market, 4% market for target company. Come on, man.

@Subasically 6 ай бұрын

The problem is that we subsidize farmers instead of fixing prices. Tax payer money is being funneled into corporate welfare.

@christopho3255 6 ай бұрын

Indeed. We have to help farmers switch to small scale regenerative farming for local and regional consumption and away from input heavy monocrops destined for industrial processed food products.

@Zero01k 6 ай бұрын

Once again, the subsidies is to help you the non-farmer, not me the farmer.

@Zero01k 6 ай бұрын

@@christopho3255 what you need to do is leave farming to those that actually farm, I'm too tired of non-farmers trying to tell me how to run my life to better fit their ideology, leave us alone. We tell the government the same thing too.

@bradsanders6954 6 ай бұрын

@@Zero01k Rice farmers around here, can get 100K for a certain amount of land they dont grow rice on. They split their farm up amongst family so each gets that subsidy to go along with rice they do grow. It seems to work out great. Granted 100K isnt even money anymore, but its better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

@randallturner8048 6 ай бұрын

@@Zero01k Why the bad attitude?

@Im-ahthegreat Ай бұрын

Khan is now gone. I hope these farmers did not vote against themselves. 🤷

@skipmartin3469 6 ай бұрын

Yet, rural America keeps electing people that make this happen.

@watamatafoyu 6 ай бұрын

Well, they understand why they need their government when they're screwed by corporations. Thankfully they're fighting back and for their government to represent them instead of just bitching about government and chaining its hands. One way or another rural Americans will wake up.

@dieselphiend 6 ай бұрын

It's more complicated than that. Both of the legacy parties are compromised.

@kentallard8852 6 ай бұрын

god and flag and hate are powerful

@dieselphiend 6 ай бұрын

@@kentallard8852 you've never been to the country, have you? 99% nice people.

@skipmartin3469 6 ай бұрын

@@dieselphiend nice, yes. Probably too nice for their own good. That is why they are getting effed over in situations like this.

@Dreyno 2 ай бұрын

People voted for who the billionaires told them to. Enjoy what’s coming.

@hochhaul Ай бұрын

"The Billionaires" funded both candidates you smooth brained dunce. Are you seriously that disconnected from reality? The Democrats took in nearly double the amount of money that the Republicans did.

@windsorcorbin1005 Ай бұрын

The irony 😂

@jamesm8965 Ай бұрын

Koch brothers were against Trump they spent hundreds of millions trying to stop him. Trump is going to fuck them right back

@bd12544 Ай бұрын

Maybe don’t participate in making us vs them even worse?

@Dreyno Ай бұрын

@@bd12544 Don’t participate? They’ve just been handed all three branches of government. They don’t need any assistance. People’s only involvement is to be subjected to whatever insanity they inflict on them.

@ChristopherLee08 5 ай бұрын

They voted for this, let them enjoy the "free market".

@timothyjoshua1587 2 ай бұрын

I agree 💯

@marc8h726 2 ай бұрын

Very that

@piglord3.05 11 күн бұрын

The Kochs support Trump and vice Versa. Who'd the farmers vote for?

@justindavis7928 6 ай бұрын

I thank you for these videos, my home state is Iowa and seeing your videos on this, Tyson, and family farms. I pray that more Iowans and midwesterners see this and feel empowered to organize and create a better state, for all of us.

@reneebeaumier5505 2 ай бұрын

We’re democrats In Minnesota. Help yourselves.

@mikeryan8412 2 ай бұрын

The farmers complain Koch is exploiting them. Koch is one of the largest and most influential Republican donors (according to OpenSecrets, the #16 largest contributor in the 2024 cycle). Then the rural counties and farming communities overwhelmingly vote Republican. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. They literally facilitate their own exploitation. For folks who are used to rising early, they sure don't seem to know how to wake up or smell the coffee.

@jjk2one 2 ай бұрын

Coal tar is in coffee. Acrylamide. That's what billionaires do.

@SD-fs2zq 2 ай бұрын

Koch donates republican because Republicans are pro farmers and which would be better for the farmers, which in turn benefits Koch.

@seththomas9105 2 ай бұрын

I've lived in rural central Iowa my whole life (55). Iowa has moved farther to the Right every year. Used to be a pretty centrist state before the 80's. Then everyone bought into Ronnie RayGun's bullshit, elected Terry Branstad for life, and.. Welp, here we are.

@topsecretmx5142 24 күн бұрын

Ban lobbyists

@topsecretmx5142 24 күн бұрын

Ban lobbyists

@NonEuclideanTacoCannon 6 ай бұрын

Also 5:39 Mr. Koch, that's not the government, that's you. You do that. Literally all of that. Pick yourself as winner, kill competition and innovation, and keep the poor, poor. Are you kidding me? He couldn't even keep a straight face when he said it.

@Praisethesunson 6 ай бұрын

Every accusation is a confession.

@vvvvxxxx9999 6 ай бұрын

I was hoping that someone else caught that.

@mybackyardparrots9198 6 ай бұрын

😂Right???? I thought I was the only one who picked up on it.

@07wrxtr1 6 ай бұрын

He is mad cuz he struggled with the ladies in high school

@harrysmith8338 6 ай бұрын

@nitemoves3157 11 күн бұрын

And the outgoing administration blocked Albertsons and Kroger. This is more upstream.

@eno.5796 6 ай бұрын

Im a Brit but find this legalised price gouging for US citizens horrendous, this is the result of lobbyist pressure for deregulation,very sad,unfortunately our political system was going the same way.i.e. twisted by the power of lobbying and untraceable money behind it. With any luck our new govt wil push back on corperate greed,you only need to look at our river polution problems since the privatisation of water companys that were origionaly paid for by local govt tax funding.Criminal how much money has been taken out of these now privatowned companies via dividends and obscene bonuses and remunerations for management while the victorian infrastructures are left woefully neglected.

@mantaszmenskis5619 6 ай бұрын

This is what happens after fifty years of tax breaks for corporations and individuals who didn't need them. This is what happens when capital is allowed its way and every time it becomes so full of itself it attempts to take over the very government that allowed it to flourish.

@iamspartacus7756 6 ай бұрын

No, this is what happens when politicians are bought off, are able to stay in office for a lifetime, doling out a few freebies to make people that don’t want to read for information, happy and compliant. This is what happens when people listen to the nonsense that the mainstream media puts out . They brainwashed people into believing that taxes are a good thing. Taxes hurt everyone, not just the rich. If everyone read for information, how to invest, how to save, how money works, the values and beliefs of the poor that keep them poor. Information informs you how corrupt our government is. By the way, you do not want a democracy, you will loose your rights under the administration state. We are a constitutional republic.

@ctgottapee9020 6 ай бұрын

You mean 50 years of tax breaks and ethanol mandates for corn farmers causing huge consolidation, eliminating other crops that don't need all that anhydrous??

@mantaszmenskis5619 6 ай бұрын

Anhydrus what?

@powerlifter2132 3 ай бұрын

@@mantaszmenskis5619look it up!

@j2b348 3 ай бұрын

The funny thing is these same guys will vote for the same politicians who advance the interests of the same corporations opressing them. What a circus, they deserve each other. 😊

@marcw674 2 ай бұрын

When you vote against YOUR pocket book you deserve what you get and you show you are uneducated to what's going on around you and Chump and his cronies love the uneducated because they can screw all of you over and your dumb enough to think they didn't 😅 but all the good people suffer for your stupidity so that makes you a P. O. S.

@marksmits1911 2 ай бұрын

When a clown enters a palace. He doesnt be come a king. The palace becomes a circus

@jackrabbit4383 2 ай бұрын

Exactly

@RoyVowels 2 ай бұрын

The libtards did this to themselves...

@Dbb277-2 2 ай бұрын

It’s very hard to feel sorry for them.

@deidremarr8143 2 ай бұрын

keep voting red and this will keep happening.............

@Obamaistoast2012 6 ай бұрын

I'm a farmer and we don't use fertilizer, we use compost and are never going back to chemical farming.

@Kusagrass 6 ай бұрын

More people got to find alternatives when crooked middle men try to monopolize the market.

@janearcher3834 6 ай бұрын

I'm glad you are not using fertilizer, but that is not the point of this article. And farming without fertilizer doesn't yield the same crop load as farming with fertilizer.

@johnwright9372 6 ай бұрын

Most farmers can't avoid fertilizer, otherwise they get poor harvests of poor quality.

@serafinacosta7118 6 ай бұрын

Compost requires more work, but it provides tangible results in terms of yelds. And rotating crops too. All takes an extra amount of work. The featured farmer does not seem the type person who is inclined to do the extra amount of work. This is how soil structure and nutrient makeup becomes poorer.

@erikih706 6 ай бұрын

Is there enough compost for the millions of acres around me in South Dakota? No, so we have to rely on fertilizer. I wish we didn’t have to. I will probably be out business after this harvest. I can’t hang on any longer. There is nothing left after everyone takes their bite of me (inputs).

@toddmiller7876 6 ай бұрын

The question is, why do they keep voting against themselves

@SpenceCurry 6 ай бұрын

Cuz they fear anyone not like themselves. They also buy into the Horatio alger myth

@operavin 5 ай бұрын

Voting against billionaires means you’re a failed billionaire yourself. Weird psychology

@tommcnally3646 5 ай бұрын

Perplexed

@georgevan2589 5 ай бұрын

@@operavin Absolutely true; it's hard to come to the realization that (at least for the vast majority of us) we are not going to get rich with the current system no matter how hard we work. We need antitrust enforcement to change how things work to have that chance.

@benitogarcia1121 5 ай бұрын

Because their papa's told the too

@sanforddennis9793 2 ай бұрын

Based on the election results, people in Iowa voted for the person that is in favor of deregulation and favors big business.

@alwayslearning8365 2 ай бұрын

You're right these people vote republican constantly and can't understand why the GOP keeps making their lives harder. The republican politicians are owned by Koch and other billionaires. They have to stop voting republican if they want their lives to improve.

@Tman76 2 ай бұрын

The majority of those voters are not farmers. They are people that have no idea what is happening and the results.

@joedouche3818 2 ай бұрын

@@Tman76 uhhhhm , I'm more then positive farmers are Republicans, so they did vote for this. They are literally reaping what they've sown.

@jamesw5836 2 ай бұрын

@@Tman76 The majority of farmers voted for the party that won. Drive through any portion of merica's farm country and those signs are everywhere. The party that is appointing billionaires to the top spots in government.

@davidcarp5935 2 ай бұрын

Yeah yeah u lost get over it

@Slowhand871 6 күн бұрын

Farmers need to figure out their messed up ways. They got themselves into this go figure it out. And they keep voting republican. Regenerative farming…DUH!!!

@controlfreak1963 2 ай бұрын

Meanwhile, the rural people keep voting for billionaires to run the country. Cause and effect, folks.

@ggjohnson5754 Ай бұрын

Seriously!!

@WesNorton-xd1ln Ай бұрын

@@controlfreak1963 the poor are easily corrupted too what’s your point?

@controlfreak1963 Ай бұрын

@@WesNorton-xd1ln Cause and Effect. I'll make to underline it for you next time.

@WesNorton-xd1ln Ай бұрын

@ 🤣🤣🤣why i agree some billionaires are the problem but are only the front men for much worse evil. To cry about trump tho makes you just a leftist loon.

@pmurt_kcuf Ай бұрын

@@WesNorton-xd1ln in Iowa, the cities have their "development" welfare games, and in the rural they have the ag welfare games, all which have exponentially diminishing returns for the tax payers funding it all. And democrats are more than willing to play the same dirty games as republicans to get what they want.

@Kevin-ne3tl 6 ай бұрын

Charles Koch is such a f'n liar.

@Praisethesunson 6 ай бұрын

He has over 100 Billion reasons to always lie right to our faces

@mantaszmenskis5619 6 ай бұрын

He doesn't think anything should stand in his way.

@NotMikeok 6 ай бұрын

They keep voting for the painted clowns put in-front of them. I have zero sympathy.

@castironanalytics9630 5 ай бұрын

Exactly....the flyover states should be use to getting hosed....not different now!

@itstiminhere1 4 ай бұрын

Very well put! The famers in my area are all far right. I blame the church and the endless, relentless propaganda that is designed to make them believe the Democrats are their problem, all the while the right is helping these corporations. It makes no sense to me. Now we have a republican party bent on stealing the election while accusing the Dems of same. Their own members have said they have been captured by blackmail. 45's own people have said he is dangerous and even a Russian asset. Still these people bury their heads in the sand. Irrational behavior and perceptions. It keeps our country broken. Irrational, uninformed, cult following voters who thrive on hatred and have no desire to educate themselves or become a better human. I think the fact that Bobert and MGT got reelected says volumes about where the real problem lies.

@MrJockoDundee 4 ай бұрын

EXACTLY!!!!!

@lynnblossom5297 15 күн бұрын

It's complete BS that we don't allow our farmers to make a decent living. They deserve better everyday that they go to work they're saving lives.

@makshima8545 6 ай бұрын

MAGA and the GOP at work. This is what unrestricted capitalism brings.

@eric_eagle 6 ай бұрын

@@makshima8545 Actually there’s a growing antipathy in the MAGA camp towards big business and the billionaire class. It’s definitely distinct from the GOP. The GOP is attempting to make it go away by faking the funk during fundraising time, but I’ve been blown away by the number of folks in the MAGA side who eat organic, raise their own food, homestead, and live with a relatively small waste footprint. Not everyone sure, but it’s a real trend. (I’m not Republican or MAGA or Democrat, I kind of carry a weird grab bag of views and generally get along with almost anyone)

@russellhayes407 6 ай бұрын

100 Percent

@mchonkler7225 6 ай бұрын

Hmm, shall we check which party the overwhelming majority of Fortune 100 CEO's are donating to. Nah, facts would be too inconvenient.

@bartroberts1514 6 ай бұрын

How is Kochmunism capitalism? No family in American history has received more US taxpayer dollars in subsidies, tax deferrals and favors. No, fossil corporate socialism built this oligopoly, and the Iowa plan short-sightedly keeps cheaper, better alternatives off the Market, throwing an obstacle into the path of biochar and biofertilizers.

@nancywhitaker5096 6 ай бұрын

Just wait til the republicons institute project 2025!

@moofamo8768 6 ай бұрын

The sad thing is that they mostly still vote republican.....

@ezzybig 6 ай бұрын

Where did the evil greed come from? This corporate shareholder greed. And how do these monopolies keep buying up the competition? It starts with the greed in politics.

@bubbasanches4591 5 ай бұрын

Politicians are to blame as they'll sell you out for their own gain

@mgpunya1 10 күн бұрын

We voted; they gave money. Who do you think those in power will listen to???

@kevinsullivan4156 6 ай бұрын

I'm betting all these farmers are supporting the party of less government.

@AAA-0 6 ай бұрын

Less government. More monopolies.😂

@chazaqs9109 6 ай бұрын

Which party is that? Last I saw the 2 main parties just keep growing government, even if they claim they don’t want to.

@ts109 6 ай бұрын

@@chazaqs9109 It is not both sides, republicans ushered in the era of corporate grifting and changed the game and the rules both sides have to play by. Democrat's didn't create the push for deregulation.

@1lostmuffin 6 ай бұрын

@@ts109we just going to pretend Carter didn't exist?

@rmand5181 6 ай бұрын

@@1lostmuffin We just going to pretend Reagan didn't exist?

@RuthK-b5i 6 ай бұрын

Capitalism at its finest!

@JA51711 6 ай бұрын

No clearly fixed socialism is what this is.

6 ай бұрын

*Сrony capitalism

@maryfries2147 6 ай бұрын

This isnt capitalism this is corprate fascism.We need to have antitrust laws that are enforced and no lobbying otherwise its he who has the gold rules

@kasahadragon9499 6 ай бұрын

Capitalism is fine but an oligarchy (paid for by the people) is not !

@victorstillwell9893 6 ай бұрын

Not capitalism. The fundamental concept of capitalism is competition, which Koch hates.

@ferretapocalypse Ай бұрын

The prey is starting to fight back. Time these corps learn where there riches come from….the hard way.

@racingbeats1493 6 ай бұрын

But this is what they vote for?

@vart7767 4 ай бұрын

Liberals at work LOOK AT THE MONEY THE CLINTON MOB AND PELOSI MOB AND THE OBAMA MOB AND THE BIDEN MOB HAVE MADE OFF HARD WORKING AMERICAN FARMERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!