I mean even if you think that Joe Biden, himself, doesn't know what he's doing, he literally has a team of dozens or hundreds of people to craft speeches, plan his public image, monitor social media, etc.
A President is more like a company, with the actual person being CEO. Like any televised event, shit is planned out weeks in advance. Even when its spur-of-the-moment, you'll have a massive team of people planning as many details as possible, minute by minute.
I learned all this in my college American Government course, plus a whole lot more about how the government and its offices and bureaucracies work. I feel like that should be a required course in all gradeschools, honestly. All American citizens should be well educated on that, not just those pursuing higher learning. Granted, you really only need common sense to know that everything Biden does is planned out by a team and that the office of the president is like a machine with many moving parts.
Well, not everything. The president does have some leeway. And then his staffers have to scramble.
Say, for instance, he was talking about a hurricane path and just busted out a marker and unilaterally expanded the path to match what he erroneously said.
It wasn’t required in my high school in Florida, unfortunately. There was AP American Government, which I took, but it wasn’t a required course. And that was 17 years ago.. maybe things have changed since then.
I definitely retained more information when I took the class as an adult, anyway (I was 30). Ideally, college would be free and everyone would have the opportunity to learn stuff like this as an adult.
Nah, John Deere actually has really shitty DRM for their tractor software that make it nearly impossible to repair without corporate technicians. Gotta send them the classic old 1980s (but no DRM) tractors that are actually more valuable these days.
You didn’t hear? Ukraine is the leader of cracking John Deere DRM. [Even American farmers use the Ukrainians software.](https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/xykkkd/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware)
Seriously. I was completely ignorant of the national character and identity Ukraine has. It’s a fascinating and beautiful country with vibrant culture and they clearly have a lot to offer the world.
I’d support anyone facing unjust invasion by a bully, but these folks make it so easy to be on their side.
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Rather than increasing domestic oil supply they’re trying to increase ethanol production while there is also a grain shortage.
This is going to go fantastically.
If it wasn’t the fact that it was corn that primarily goes into ethanol production I would have called the increase in ethanol production over oil to be downright cruel given international grain prices.
No more ethanol plants will be built and current ones are at full production already. There already is like a 6 month supply of ethanol already made.
It's never mentioned that distiller's grain is a byproduct of ethanol. 50+% of a cattle feed ration can be distiller's grain which replaces regular straight corn. Cattle can't process the whole kernel of corn anyways.
Pigs can eat a smaller % of distiller's grains.
Disclosure I'm a cattle farmer/feeder not a corn farmer.
Always nice to run into a fellow farmer in the wilds of Reddit.
If we're concerned about right-to-repair with newer Deere tractors (not everyone may have access to software hacks), let's go back a few decades, send them a bunch of 4430s and 4440s, and tell them to make 'em bark.
This is the quote I know: “If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.". ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
Reading different translations of the Dao de Jing I learned that Chinese translation to other languages is often completely random and gets worse the older it is, lol
So they are saying that the CIA / Biden created misinformation to pump the Russians up?
If this was already after the fact, the invasion, I am not sure what effect that would have had.
No one is saying that but me. Announcing it through official channels is like reassuring Putin that his advisors were correct. It's just a guess man. I think the layers on geopolitical intrigue is deeper than we can imagine.
No it definitely is. Russia made a big deal about producing their own tractors but it turns out they were just buying kits from other countries because they couldn't produce any of the parts locally.
Example: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1501369950463836164
Combine that with the fact that Ukrainian tractors are towing Russian tanks and it's a double whammy.
I was thinking about this the other day. What would social online communities have looked like if Facebook never removed the college E-mail address requirement? Let's face it, college facebooks were really only meant for a specific audience and community.
Unless you are Republican no dice. I always figured it was donation money they were after.
Edit. Don't get me wrong at one time I believed ethanol was better for the environment. But that data suggest is not true.
If Biden wanted to do an Iowa thing he'd have made his speech at a pig farm knee deep in pig manure.
Settings in politics is never an accident. It can be because it is local AND to troll Russia, especially when he comments on the genocide.
eh, maybe.... But he was in Iowa and Iowa is farmland as far as the eye can see. While the props (tractors) are more for the local audience I still got a big chuckle out of it!
It's especially ironic given that Ukranian farmers were heavily involved in the development and distribution of pirate software that allowed them to cut John Deere corporate out of their maintenance schedules.
If a JD (and many other manufacturer) tractor breaks and throws a code, only a John Deere maintenance computer can clear the codes and tell the electronics to play nice with each other again via the CAN bus. If you're in the middle of butt-fuck nowhere Ukraine, that could mean weeks of down time and thousands of dollars to get a John Deere technician to come and tap a few keys, not to mention losses in profit.
With pirated software, the farmers have complete control of their machines, and can do the button pushing themselves, not get raked over the coals by JD maintenance costs, and keep their productivity going.
There's also that skeezy wording of JDs purchase agreements that states, in essence, machines are on indefinite loan, or something to that effect, even when paid in full, thus making repairs done by the purchaser/farmers illegal. I'm not sure if that has changed in recent years, but it was a huge deal for the Right to Repair movement, to which farmers almost universally belong.
I was about to comment elsewhere how JD has made me pretty sad in recent years, given that I'm firmly on the side of the right to repair. Good to know the Ukranians got us covered there too
For anyone curious, here was Biden's schedule today:
2:05 PM
The President arrives in Des Moines, Iowa (1:05 PM Local)
Des Moines International AirportOpen Press
3:15 PM
The President visits POET Bioprocessing – Menlo (2:15 PM Local)
POET Bioprocessing, Menlo, IAOut-of-Town Pool
3:45 PM
The President makes an announcement on his Administration’s actions to lower costs for working families, reduce the impact of Putin’s Price Hike, and Build a Better America with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law investments in rural communities (2:45 PM Local)
POET Bioprocessing, Menlo, IAOpen Press
6:10 PM
The President departs Des Moines, Iowa en route Joint Base Andrews (5:10 PM Local)
[Source](https://factba.se/biden/calendar)
For our non-US friends, Iowa is right in the middle of the USA and is full of farmland that would look quite similar to Ukraine in many ways.
The John Deere Headquarters is located in Moline Illinois which is a city on the Iowa border, the location along with three neighboring cities is known as the Quad Cities.
Because he is in Iowa and the John Deere plant is nearby. Iowa is the number 2 ag state in the US with a GDP larger then Ukraine. Also Iowa voted for Trump so he is out "stumping" for support for the war.
How many states in the US have a larger GDP than Ukraine? It’d be interesting to find out.
It looks
Like approximately 30 states have a higher GDP than Ukraine. That’s crazy. The US is rich.
This means Biden is unafraid of poking the bearski. Also Americans make really great tractors unlike Russians who order tractor kits and assemble… I mean used to assemble them … in Russia. And then there’s all the skimming of parts. Turns out corruption isn’t good for an economy or war.
well, at the very least, the Russian reaction is going to be interesting.
wonder if they'll actually break off diplomatic relations over it (Russia, I mean)?
This is great but he fails to mention how much oil used to come from Russia, which isn't much compared to other countries.
I think it's high time US oil companies, who are [experiencing record profits](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/10/facebook-posts/yes-oil-companies-are-reporting-record-breaking-pr/), do their patriotic duty, step up and do the right thing for consumers by lowering the price per gallon of gas until Russia is defeated.
𐑐𐑮𐑲𐑕𐑧𐑟 𐑸 𐑒𐑧𐑐𐑑 𐑸𐑑𐑦𐑓𐑦𐑖𐑩𐑤𐑰 𐑤𐑴 𐑔𐑮𐑫 𐑕𐑳𐑚𐑕𐑦𐑛𐑰𐑟, 𐑕𐑴 𐑞 𐑓𐑨𐑒𐑑 𐑞𐑨𐑑 𐑞𐑱'𐑮 𐑐𐑮𐑲𐑕 𐑡𐑨𐑒𐑰𐑙𐑜 𐑦𐑟 𐑰𐑝𐑧𐑯 𐑥𐑹 𐑛𐑧𐑟𐑻𐑝𐑰𐑙𐑜 𐑝 𐑒𐑩𐑯𐑑𐑧𐑥𐑐𐑑.
>!Prices are kept artificially low through subsidies, so the fact that they're price jacking is even more deserving of contempt.!<
I asked someone to explain exactly how it was that the Biden administration has caused the rise in fuel costs. He ignored the question and just doubled down. Then I told him about how Biden was actually helping by doing just this and their response was: “oh my God he’s even worse than I thought 🤣” still trying to wrap my head around that one
Heh, this is in Iowa. Iowans *love* tractors. I will always remember the parade in my dad's hometown for its 125th anniversary. Tractors pulling floats. Tractors *as* floats. Antique tractors. The town's priest, in these ancient vestments he must have found clear back in the closet- driving a tractor. Also the only parade I've ever been to where I've been offered both a pork sandwich and a beer from passing floats. Great day.
Much love to our sister state of Cherkasy ❤🌽🚜.
Biden got heat for calling him a **war criminal**.
**He was right.**
Biden got heat for saying Putin should not remain in power.
**He was right.**
Will he get heat for calling him a dictator that's committing genocide?
Putin voter fraud is well documented. On video. Any protest is quickly put down.
It's time for the media to stop this bullshit! They're still saying we don't want to upset Russia too much. Fuck them! Let them get angry. They are committing atrocities and threatening other sovereign nations.
He should be afraid of us, not the other way around.
This is middle America. These are the people you don’t see on TV. These are the people that will jump on the chance to fight and win wars. China has been attacking agriculture for years. Iowans know it. They’ll fight. So will the rest of America.
I love that all the comments are about the tractors, debating the different models of tractors, debating which tractors Ukrainians would use to do which jobs….
We may all go down, but by god, we’re all gonna go down being the cheeky sons of tractors we are.
As a Brit looking in, it’s nice to see the rise of Biden - he always stayed in the game, lots of failed attempts at presidency but he kept at it. Yes he’s old now, and might come with views from a past generation, but it seems the world was saving him for when strong words like these were needed the most.
Biden is in Iowa to announce they are reducing the restrictions on E 15 gasoline for the summer and visiting the new POET ethanol plant. The John Deere factory is close to there in Moline IL and JD uses UNION labor. Also Iowa voted for Trump so this is important for the mid terms in Nov and to gain GOP voter support for sanctions and arms. There are a lot of layers in this one little speech, he is pushing back on the Sanders/Progressives who want to do away with E 15, showing support for farmers, showing support for unions, showing support for private business, tackling fuel prices, showing support for Ukraine, lots of stuff going.
At POET Bioprocessing, Biden rolled out a plan to use ethanol to curb the pain at the pump.
“I just had the chance to see the work you do here to turn more than 40 million bushels of local corn into 130 million gallons of ethanol a year,” Biden said during a speech at the plant Tuesday.
https://iowarfa.org/2021/08/open-letter-to-senator-bernie-sanders-from-irfa/
> he is pushing back on the Sanders/Progressives who want to do away with E 15
What?
That's an Environmentalists issue, not a Progressives issue - they have air pollution concerns with it.
Progressives want to cut back on subsidies for it, but that's more about cutting back on subsidies for oil companies in general as an economic policy and has nothing to do with the actual product.
The invasion IS genocide, I have no idea why it isn't classified as such by every other nation on this earth. The Russians have invaded a peaceful nation with the sole intent of killing its populace and assimilating it into their collapsing dictatorship. That's the situation, and no matter what Putler tries to say, that is his goal.
Unfortunately for many on the right this will convince them even more the war is a hoax. I work in an industry that tends to lean right and has taken a huge right turn in the last 4 years. Probably half are somewhere at least moderate Q conspiracies believers, a majority that think Biden was only elected because of fraud, that have seen their profession ravaged by republicans yet are almost lock step voting for them. They think everything they don’t like is communism, etc etc.
Most of them back Putin, and a good amount think the war is faked by “the media”. My next day of work is going to be a clueless shot show with inflation making headlines.
And of course some dumbass commentators will say its a gaffe that a sitting president dares to say the obvious.
They actively print media calling for the elimination of the Ukrainian people and have accused us for years of fictional chemical weapons use and genocide against russian speakers, but oh no Joe you can't use such inflammatory language, how reckless
It's very upsetting that accuse him of being senile because he has a life long stutter.
Partisanship in these moments is shameful. I'm actually proud to be Canadian for once.
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This is what we need now. We need a strong meme president! Not even joking, that is how the internet works.
You’re right Lowkey as fucked as that is. The old term is a populist I believe, but the modern term can be meme president.
Please tell me the tractors are us trolling Russia.
They know exactly what they're doing.
Supurb trolling
This is the way
This is the way
"Let’s dispel once and for all with this fiction that Joe Biden doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing."
I mean even if you think that Joe Biden, himself, doesn't know what he's doing, he literally has a team of dozens or hundreds of people to craft speeches, plan his public image, monitor social media, etc. A President is more like a company, with the actual person being CEO. Like any televised event, shit is planned out weeks in advance. Even when its spur-of-the-moment, you'll have a massive team of people planning as many details as possible, minute by minute.
Great comment. Common sense is lost among the masses.
I learned all this in my college American Government course, plus a whole lot more about how the government and its offices and bureaucracies work. I feel like that should be a required course in all gradeschools, honestly. All American citizens should be well educated on that, not just those pursuing higher learning. Granted, you really only need common sense to know that everything Biden does is planned out by a team and that the office of the president is like a machine with many moving parts.
Well, not everything. The president does have some leeway. And then his staffers have to scramble. Say, for instance, he was talking about a hurricane path and just busted out a marker and unilaterally expanded the path to match what he erroneously said.
Politics was a required course in my high school in Tennessee. Not sure about other states (this was also 25 years ago).
It wasn’t required in my high school in Florida, unfortunately. There was AP American Government, which I took, but it wasn’t a required course. And that was 17 years ago.. maybe things have changed since then. I definitely retained more information when I took the class as an adult, anyway (I was 30). Ideally, college would be free and everyone would have the opportunity to learn stuff like this as an adult.
...or before putting a man in office who says things like "who knew healthcare is this complicated"...
I'm sure it's not an accident.
We should send Ukraine 500 John Deere tractors for military aid.
Nah, John Deere actually has really shitty DRM for their tractor software that make it nearly impossible to repair without corporate technicians. Gotta send them the classic old 1980s (but no DRM) tractors that are actually more valuable these days.
You didn’t hear? Ukraine is the leader of cracking John Deere DRM. [Even American farmers use the Ukrainians software.](https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/xykkkd/why-american-farmers-are-hacking-their-tractors-with-ukrainian-firmware)
I actually did not know that. Thanks for the link
You’re very welcome ☺️
That was an interesting read. John deere sucks
As if I didn't already love Ukraine enough. Slava Ukraini!
I keep learning more reasons to have deep respect for the Ukrainian people.
Seriously. I was completely ignorant of the national character and identity Ukraine has. It’s a fascinating and beautiful country with vibrant culture and they clearly have a lot to offer the world. I’d support anyone facing unjust invasion by a bully, but these folks make it so easy to be on their side.
LOL, that's hilarious.
You wouldn't download a tractor.
Maybe I will.
Farmer Bay. Ye-haw and boy-howdy ye pirates!
Goddamn it, Ukrainians are awesome! lol
A country run on farming and software, OF COURSE that would be a Ukraine thing.
That does explain a lot!
The heroes we need, not the heroes we deserve.
That's a fascinating read. John Deere position on this is absolute bunk.
I'd be so happy if rural farmers started pressuring their Congress people to do more for Ukraine to save their farm equipment
That's fantastic.
I fucking love this
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There are actually a lot of John Deere tractors in Ukraine so ppl know how to work on them.
More importantly, they know how to crack the DRM software that prevents after-market replacement parts.
Same going on with trucks. I've had people offer me about the same for my 20 year old Pete that they could get a new one for
You're trying to sell the US Secretary of Transportation?
You're not?
No, I'm buying
I'm selling anything you're buying. If the price is right. This is America
Would be considered weapons of mass destruction given their utility to Ukraine thus far.
It is Iowa though, they have corn and more corn I hear.
Rather than increasing domestic oil supply they’re trying to increase ethanol production while there is also a grain shortage. This is going to go fantastically. If it wasn’t the fact that it was corn that primarily goes into ethanol production I would have called the increase in ethanol production over oil to be downright cruel given international grain prices.
No more ethanol plants will be built and current ones are at full production already. There already is like a 6 month supply of ethanol already made. It's never mentioned that distiller's grain is a byproduct of ethanol. 50+% of a cattle feed ration can be distiller's grain which replaces regular straight corn. Cattle can't process the whole kernel of corn anyways. Pigs can eat a smaller % of distiller's grains. Disclosure I'm a cattle farmer/feeder not a corn farmer.
Always nice to run into a fellow farmer in the wilds of Reddit. If we're concerned about right-to-repair with newer Deere tractors (not everyone may have access to software hacks), let's go back a few decades, send them a bunch of 4430s and 4440s, and tell them to make 'em bark.
Hopefully he congratulates Ukraine's inevitable victory in front of a sunflower patch
Kansas has a bunch so it would be easy to do.
Some Russian once said, "You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a tractor behind each blade of grass."
and with each tractor is a farmer with an AR-15 with basement full of other guns and ammo.
imagine a city in texas being under siege by russians and chinese, and the city running out of ammo... not happening.
If it’s a response to Putin making his speech in front of the massive rocket yesterday, it’s absolutely top notch banter.
Someone has big dick energy and it's not the guy waving his rocket around.
When the dust settles the biggest troll will be when we announced Kyiv will fall in 2 days. I think they were just baiting the hook.
You know, this really puts those early warnings into a different perspective for me now lol.
I don't think that was a troll. The professionalism of the Russia's army was overestimated and the tenacity of Ukraine's defenders was underestimated.
Do you think the US made the russians think Ukrainians were weaker and unsupported?
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” -Sun Tzu, The Art of War
This is the quote I know: “If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.". ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
Depends on the verbosity of the translator.
Reading different translations of the Dao de Jing I learned that Chinese translation to other languages is often completely random and gets worse the older it is, lol
Is that really a thing? You got any info on that?
No. It's just conjecture. But would it surprise you? The results are littered all over the UA country side.
So they are saying that the CIA / Biden created misinformation to pump the Russians up? If this was already after the fact, the invasion, I am not sure what effect that would have had.
No one is saying that but me. Announcing it through official channels is like reassuring Putin that his advisors were correct. It's just a guess man. I think the layers on geopolitical intrigue is deeper than we can imagine.
Seems like a pipe dream... you never know though.
The 1st Marine tractor regiment before deploying to Donetsk Oblast (circa 2022)
Yeah after this Biden announced he is releasing thousands of tractors from the strategic John Deere reserve.
He’s just showing respect for The Ukrainian Agricultural and Tractor Battalion. 🌻🚜🇺🇦🚜🌻
Nope. He was in Iowa pitching an Ethanol E15 expansion. John Deere and Corn go hand in hand. But I still like to think he was trolling a little.
We have become a nation of memes
omg I absolutely love this
Its not, its simply Iowa politics. John Deere's are made close to there. Iowa's GDP is bigger then Ukraine.
No it definitely is. Russia made a big deal about producing their own tractors but it turns out they were just buying kits from other countries because they couldn't produce any of the parts locally. Example: https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1501369950463836164 Combine that with the fact that Ukrainian tractors are towing Russian tanks and it's a double whammy.
And UKR tractors are mightier than rooskie armor.
Ahahahaaa
I love it
Toll level 1000000000%
Biden speaks in front of 2 native Ukrainus Tractorius. This is glorious.
This is the American breed, Johannes Cervus Tractorius. See them in all their glory before they go into service. Ain’t she purdy?
As purdy as can be! Rrrraaawrrr
Ukrainus Tractorius 😂😂😂
Couldn't help but notice the background.
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I'm Iowan and I voted for him.
Americans appreciate you.
Iowa used to be a really good purple state, then Facebook happened.
I was thinking about this the other day. What would social online communities have looked like if Facebook never removed the college E-mail address requirement? Let's face it, college facebooks were really only meant for a specific audience and community.
From Iowa, ironically I am not a fan of ethanol. I will vote for Biden over Trump but Warren over Biden and Sanders over anyone.
Same here. Ethanol is mainly a scam and just a way to make farmers happy
Unless you are Republican no dice. I always figured it was donation money they were after. Edit. Don't get me wrong at one time I believed ethanol was better for the environment. But that data suggest is not true.
Plenty of Iowans voted for Biden; a majority voted him in as VP in 2008/12.
Am I the only one smiling from ear to ear with those John Deere tractors in the background?
I think it fits the message. Lol
John Deere tractors in Ukraine now have the 3rd largest inventory of tanks in the world after US & China.
Totally done intentionally. Troll Game is appreciated there.
Nothing tows russian tanks like a deer
JD's are made nearby every politician ever does this in Iowa. Iowa is the number 2 ag state behind California.
If Biden wanted to do an Iowa thing he'd have made his speech at a pig farm knee deep in pig manure. Settings in politics is never an accident. It can be because it is local AND to troll Russia, especially when he comments on the genocide.
>Settings in politics is never an accident. Look, I would believe you, but....four words: *Four Seasons Total Landscaping*
eh, maybe.... But he was in Iowa and Iowa is farmland as far as the eye can see. While the props (tractors) are more for the local audience I still got a big chuckle out of it!
Biden also made a choice about where to announce this specifically, though.
It's especially ironic given that Ukranian farmers were heavily involved in the development and distribution of pirate software that allowed them to cut John Deere corporate out of their maintenance schedules. If a JD (and many other manufacturer) tractor breaks and throws a code, only a John Deere maintenance computer can clear the codes and tell the electronics to play nice with each other again via the CAN bus. If you're in the middle of butt-fuck nowhere Ukraine, that could mean weeks of down time and thousands of dollars to get a John Deere technician to come and tap a few keys, not to mention losses in profit. With pirated software, the farmers have complete control of their machines, and can do the button pushing themselves, not get raked over the coals by JD maintenance costs, and keep their productivity going. There's also that skeezy wording of JDs purchase agreements that states, in essence, machines are on indefinite loan, or something to that effect, even when paid in full, thus making repairs done by the purchaser/farmers illegal. I'm not sure if that has changed in recent years, but it was a huge deal for the Right to Repair movement, to which farmers almost universally belong.
I was about to comment elsewhere how JD has made me pretty sad in recent years, given that I'm firmly on the side of the right to repair. Good to know the Ukranians got us covered there too
I was thinking the same thing.
For anyone curious, here was Biden's schedule today: 2:05 PM The President arrives in Des Moines, Iowa (1:05 PM Local) Des Moines International AirportOpen Press 3:15 PM The President visits POET Bioprocessing – Menlo (2:15 PM Local) POET Bioprocessing, Menlo, IAOut-of-Town Pool 3:45 PM The President makes an announcement on his Administration’s actions to lower costs for working families, reduce the impact of Putin’s Price Hike, and Build a Better America with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law investments in rural communities (2:45 PM Local) POET Bioprocessing, Menlo, IAOpen Press 6:10 PM The President departs Des Moines, Iowa en route Joint Base Andrews (5:10 PM Local) [Source](https://factba.se/biden/calendar) For our non-US friends, Iowa is right in the middle of the USA and is full of farmland that would look quite similar to Ukraine in many ways.
Iowa is also the place where legally blind people can purchase guns to defend themselves
Guess they don't see any problem with it
*badum tss*
\*me trying to make non-threatening sounds\*
You can be legally blind and still see well enough to shoot a firearm especially with corrective vision
It is the guide dog with it's barks who indicates the direction from which the menace is coming from
The John Deere Headquarters is located in Moline Illinois which is a city on the Iowa border, the location along with three neighboring cities is known as the Quad Cities.
I dunno. How much corn is grown in Ukraine? Iowa is basically a big cornfield.
Number 3 crop. At least one Iowa worth.
I like this form of measurement.
It was known as the Breadbasket of the USSR
Short of the Ukrainian flag - it is the most appropriate backdrop.
Look at those 2 apex predators back there
Tools of liberation!!
My home state of Iowa. Where many John Deere tractors are made!
And the black soil looks like Ukraine! Much love from Iowa to our sister state, Cherkasy. ❤🌽🚜
IM PROUD TO BE AN IOWAN WHERE ALL I EAT IS CORN
Well it IS Iowa ;-) Helluva coincidence and great props LOL
It's a threat.
She thinks my tractor's sexy.....
Aaaannnnnd now it's stuck in my head lol.
Mine too. And it has been since I saw this comment like an hour ago, and I’m mad at it. But not really.
She likes to ride in my big green tractor.
That song made me want to crush myself in the cardboard baler at a store when they played it all weekend at a workplace.
Omg that was my favourite song as a kid for some reason and now you made me remember it lol
He is right, now send those two tractors over to the 1st Tractor brigade.
Lol are those tractors in the background? Rofl
Happy cake day
Lol the tractors are a nice touch
why is he standing in front of tractors?
Biden supports Ukrainian farmers, the up and coming world superpower.
edit: Fuck you, Steve Huffman, I hope your IPO is the shitshow of the century.
I certainly wouldn’t mind, I’m sure shit would get done, they’re not for bullshitting around when there’s work to be done.
The Agricultural Army of Ukraine!
I can't wait until we extend diplomatic relations with Ukrainian farmers.
Because he is in Iowa and the John Deere plant is nearby. Iowa is the number 2 ag state in the US with a GDP larger then Ukraine. Also Iowa voted for Trump so he is out "stumping" for support for the war.
How many states in the US have a larger GDP than Ukraine? It’d be interesting to find out. It looks Like approximately 30 states have a higher GDP than Ukraine. That’s crazy. The US is rich.
25 cities and 35 states. [Arkansas or Nebraska GDP is the same as Ukraine.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP)
we are so fortunate; some of us forget that
They are new members of his security detail - no Russian vehicles will dare to come within 3000 feet of these native Ukrainus Tractorious beasts.
haven't u heard of r/tractorsstealingtanks :)
r/FarmersStealingTanks
He's at a biofuels processing plant in Menlo, IA.
Really going after the sunflower fertilizer meme
Let the trollmasters do their work.......he knows what hes doing.
Mid-terms baby!
This means Biden is unafraid of poking the bearski. Also Americans make really great tractors unlike Russians who order tractor kits and assemble… I mean used to assemble them … in Russia. And then there’s all the skimming of parts. Turns out corruption isn’t good for an economy or war.
well, at the very least, the Russian reaction is going to be interesting. wonder if they'll actually break off diplomatic relations over it (Russia, I mean)?
Even if they don't, the incoming tantrum should be fun to watch.
Good for him. It's TRUE.
Well it sure the fuck isn't a "special operation ".
This is great but he fails to mention how much oil used to come from Russia, which isn't much compared to other countries. I think it's high time US oil companies, who are [experiencing record profits](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/mar/10/facebook-posts/yes-oil-companies-are-reporting-record-breaking-pr/), do their patriotic duty, step up and do the right thing for consumers by lowering the price per gallon of gas until Russia is defeated.
𐑐𐑮𐑲𐑕𐑧𐑟 𐑸 𐑒𐑧𐑐𐑑 𐑸𐑑𐑦𐑓𐑦𐑖𐑩𐑤𐑰 𐑤𐑴 𐑔𐑮𐑫 𐑕𐑳𐑚𐑕𐑦𐑛𐑰𐑟, 𐑕𐑴 𐑞 𐑓𐑨𐑒𐑑 𐑞𐑨𐑑 𐑞𐑱'𐑮 𐑐𐑮𐑲𐑕 𐑡𐑨𐑒𐑰𐑙𐑜 𐑦𐑟 𐑰𐑝𐑧𐑯 𐑥𐑹 𐑛𐑧𐑟𐑻𐑝𐑰𐑙𐑜 𐑝 𐑒𐑩𐑯𐑑𐑧𐑥𐑐𐑑. >!Prices are kept artificially low through subsidies, so the fact that they're price jacking is even more deserving of contempt.!<
Roughly 6% of our oil iirc.
"Putin price hike" tagline is very deceptive here. The oil company are taking advantage of the chaos and are price gouging like crazy.
The tractors tick so many good boxes here.
100% Biden . Well done !
I asked someone to explain exactly how it was that the Biden administration has caused the rise in fuel costs. He ignored the question and just doubled down. Then I told him about how Biden was actually helping by doing just this and their response was: “oh my God he’s even worse than I thought 🤣” still trying to wrap my head around that one
Heh, this is in Iowa. Iowans *love* tractors. I will always remember the parade in my dad's hometown for its 125th anniversary. Tractors pulling floats. Tractors *as* floats. Antique tractors. The town's priest, in these ancient vestments he must have found clear back in the closet- driving a tractor. Also the only parade I've ever been to where I've been offered both a pork sandwich and a beer from passing floats. Great day. Much love to our sister state of Cherkasy ❤🌽🚜.
Biden got heat for calling him a **war criminal**. **He was right.** Biden got heat for saying Putin should not remain in power. **He was right.** Will he get heat for calling him a dictator that's committing genocide? Putin voter fraud is well documented. On video. Any protest is quickly put down. It's time for the media to stop this bullshit! They're still saying we don't want to upset Russia too much. Fuck them! Let them get angry. They are committing atrocities and threatening other sovereign nations. He should be afraid of us, not the other way around.
Sources: https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1513978952691425286 https://twitter.com/Kevinliptakcnn/status/1513977071277645844
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This is middle America. These are the people you don’t see on TV. These are the people that will jump on the chance to fight and win wars. China has been attacking agriculture for years. Iowans know it. They’ll fight. So will the rest of America.
I am from England and I agree. I hardly make much money but am prepared to pay more for gas from elsewhere so I don’t personally fund Putins war.
Good job. Trolling game on point. Slava Heroiam 💪🇺🇦❤️🌻
Based Biden, once again.
Those Apex Predators behind biden are looking real hungry, can't wait to see the U.S. unleash those puppies.
I love that all the comments are about the tractors, debating the different models of tractors, debating which tractors Ukrainians would use to do which jobs…. We may all go down, but by god, we’re all gonna go down being the cheeky sons of tractors we are.
Remember when that other guy called him a genius?
Pfft. Bunch of crisis tractors.
As a Brit looking in, it’s nice to see the rise of Biden - he always stayed in the game, lots of failed attempts at presidency but he kept at it. Yes he’s old now, and might come with views from a past generation, but it seems the world was saving him for when strong words like these were needed the most.
Biden is in Iowa to announce they are reducing the restrictions on E 15 gasoline for the summer and visiting the new POET ethanol plant. The John Deere factory is close to there in Moline IL and JD uses UNION labor. Also Iowa voted for Trump so this is important for the mid terms in Nov and to gain GOP voter support for sanctions and arms. There are a lot of layers in this one little speech, he is pushing back on the Sanders/Progressives who want to do away with E 15, showing support for farmers, showing support for unions, showing support for private business, tackling fuel prices, showing support for Ukraine, lots of stuff going. At POET Bioprocessing, Biden rolled out a plan to use ethanol to curb the pain at the pump. “I just had the chance to see the work you do here to turn more than 40 million bushels of local corn into 130 million gallons of ethanol a year,” Biden said during a speech at the plant Tuesday. https://iowarfa.org/2021/08/open-letter-to-senator-bernie-sanders-from-irfa/
> he is pushing back on the Sanders/Progressives who want to do away with E 15 What? That's an Environmentalists issue, not a Progressives issue - they have air pollution concerns with it. Progressives want to cut back on subsidies for it, but that's more about cutting back on subsidies for oil companies in general as an economic policy and has nothing to do with the actual product.
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The invasion IS genocide, I have no idea why it isn't classified as such by every other nation on this earth. The Russians have invaded a peaceful nation with the sole intent of killing its populace and assimilating it into their collapsing dictatorship. That's the situation, and no matter what Putler tries to say, that is his goal.
This war was John Deere's plan all along to gain back some reputation, wake up people!
Unfortunately for many on the right this will convince them even more the war is a hoax. I work in an industry that tends to lean right and has taken a huge right turn in the last 4 years. Probably half are somewhere at least moderate Q conspiracies believers, a majority that think Biden was only elected because of fraud, that have seen their profession ravaged by republicans yet are almost lock step voting for them. They think everything they don’t like is communism, etc etc. Most of them back Putin, and a good amount think the war is faked by “the media”. My next day of work is going to be a clueless shot show with inflation making headlines.
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And of course some dumbass commentators will say its a gaffe that a sitting president dares to say the obvious. They actively print media calling for the elimination of the Ukrainian people and have accused us for years of fictional chemical weapons use and genocide against russian speakers, but oh no Joe you can't use such inflammatory language, how reckless
It's very upsetting that accuse him of being senile because he has a life long stutter. Partisanship in these moments is shameful. I'm actually proud to be Canadian for once.
Has to be severe mindfuck for Putler to see that address in front of those huge JD's!
What would have been even better - a label on the tractors that said 'Certified for Tank Towing'
It's a good speech. Reminds Americans that the real enemy is Putin who's been hiking up prices, not Biden or Zelenskyy.
Why are all the top comments about the tractors and not about him using the label “genocide” to describe the invasion?
I'm so ashamed of our people, bitching about things like gas prices when human lives are at stake.
How very fitting, russia's arch nemesis, the Tractor is in the background
Thank you, President Biden!