Maggie Haberman of the “failing New York Times” can just go fuck herself.

Okay, well I won’t argue a point you appear to be qualified to make.

A farm that requires 40-50 workers at harvest time is not what I would call “small.”

Um, first of all dude: anecdotal evidence doesn’t extrapolate to larger phenomena. Or, as my advisor used to say, “just because you feel it, or have experienced it, doesn’t mean it’s a thing.”

I’m a gay man who grew up in the rural Midwest in the late-80s and early-90s. On a farm. Going to church. I was an altar boy!

Don’t be a dick. I’m not being one. And my doctorate isn’t in economics, dorkus.

Exactly.

Yeah, I don’t look forward to what will happen with my student loans.

The Dems have offered “social progress” while pursuing the same policies that the GOP does.

You may have a hearing problem, can’t you hear that dog whistle? Might want to get that checked out.

lol!

See, this is the dirty secret that rural America doesn’t want to face:

Yeah, but a late-50s manual laborer is not becoming a programmer.

Oh, I know.

Utterly agreed.

I love love LOVE the idea these morons have that Trump will bring back small-scale, inefficient manufacturing to rural and exurban America!

Seems like this isn’t just par for the course with Trumpeteers, but conservatives generally.

True.

I was one of those people on the (wrong) track to federal employment.

Aren’t there less flattering—and doubtlessly more realistic—pictures of Pegs out there?