The Real Twinam

Iowa State Alumni, 7th Generation Iowa Farmer, Psalm 16-1 and John 3-16.

[Zach Lahn @ZachLahn]

The history of Iowa is defined by the courageous pioneers and crusaders who settled this land, tamed the soil, and put down roots.

It's the story of men like James Harlan - who fought to defend the land that Iowans built from the speculators who tried to take it.

I am running for Governor to carry on that legacy: Of Iowans who run for office to always put the people over the special interests.

[The Real Twinam @AustinTwinam]

@kannbwx @GoddessofGrain What’s more interesting to me since roughly 2005-2025 they’ve gotten significantly wider variances than they did from 1980-2004. One would think it be the opposite with better technology and more accessible information.

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

It's not because "people were offended." A teacher that praises political assassinations shouldn't be teaching kids.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

You know what? I don't think I'm going to give up my guns to people who want me dead.

[The Real Twinam @AustinTwinam]

@bwhitley86 @SusanNOBULL Same thought how you can you have a record yield with this acre distribution especially with issues in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Pulling down some of the best high yield acres on the map.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

Canada destroyed our lumber milling capacity by heavily subsidizing their own industry and dumping lumber into the U.S. below cost. We have more than enough trees, but free trade eliminated our capacity to mill them. So yes, what Trump did will result in us processing a lot more of our own lumber.

[Emma Morris @EmmaJoNYC]

To be clear— people furious about price increases of reshoring are furious about losing access to slavery.

[The Real Twinam @AustinTwinam]

@CBKimbrell Seems pretty short sighted not even counting the power to tariff being a key part of diplomacy from the executive. Do you really want to give that power to congress whose spent money we don’t have for decades now and expect them to use it in a way good for the country or diplomac

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

America has become addicted to cheap foreign baubles and easy money (i.e., fake fiat currency) at the expense of its long-term economic health. We allowed ourselves to be transformed from a cast iron economy which made things into a largely paper economy which depends on the good graces of foreign nations for its own survival. This is a recipe for civilizational suicide.

We don’t make our own weapons, food, machines, vehicles, plastics, medicines, or computers. The whole COVID insanity, with its shutdowns and shortages and supply-chain chaos, was a blaring alarm warning us that the economy we thought was so strong was shockingly fragile.

Imagine a prosperous farmer, now surrounded by enemies and competitors, who over time outsourced most farming activities to his neighbors because they could do the work and provide the materials more cheaply than he could. He sold off his equipment and laid off his farm-hands because it was just easier and less expensive for others to do the work and maintain the machinery. But one day, his neighbors said no more, and now he finds himself in the position of being unable to fertilize his land, or plow his fields, or harvest his crops. Even if he had kept his old tractors and implements, he sold off all his welding equipment and spare parts and raw materials, so repairing anything would be impossible. On top of that, he doesn’t remember all that much about repairing the equipment anyway because he hasn’t done it for years.

So now he finds himself in control of once-fertile and productive land that he can’t utilize, and the people he used to rely on for help now refuse to lift a finger, because they see an opportunity to bankrupt their old neighbor and business partner, allowing them to buy up all that land for themselves at fire sale prices.

That’s where America now is as a country. We stripped our economy down and sold it for parts, happy to have the cash in our pockets and ignorant of the possibility the good times could ever end.

Trump has understood these dynamics for decades, and is trying to reset our priorities to give us an economy that isn’t built on a foundation of paper. That requires resetting all of our trade relationships and recreating the conditions that built an economy and civilization that together were the envy of the world.

There will of course be some short-term pain as part of that process. Muscles must ache before they grow stronger. And addicts have to go through withdrawal before they can come out clean on the other side. In fact, the angry reactions from self-styled “free traders” who have gotten rich off of our leaders mortgaging our country’s long-term economic health for short-term cash resemble the drug dealer enraged that one of his best customers is about to go clean. “You’ll never survive the withdrawal symptoms,” he says. “You want what I’m selling. You need it. You can’t live without it.”

The reality is we cannot survive if we continue to remain addicted to cheap foreign crap. We cannot survive if we are unable to make our own food and medicine and vehicles and weapons and computers. A farmer who is wholly dependent upon his enemies to plow and seed and fertilize and harvest his land is a farmer who will starve. Likewise, a nation that depends entirely on its enemies to power its economy is a nation destined to become history rather than shape it.

[The Real Twinam @AustinTwinam]

@TonyLimaPOL @MisterCommodity @EmilyVBurns Not about revenge, about trade fairness and national security. Covid should have taught some serious lessons about the dangers of offshoring entire industries to foreign adversaries or lukewarm allies.

[The Real Twinam @AustinTwinam]

@bonchieredstate Key point you’re missing is cheap inherently good? For example rural America and the rust belt have been absolutely ravaged by the fact they can’t compete with foreign imports because they don’t have to meet U.S. labor/environmental standards or getting subsidized by foreign gov.

[The Real Twinam @AustinTwinam]

@MaxIke29 @phibacka31 @DavidEickholt Biggest thing is $ for NIL and facilities with an athletic department still deep in the red from 2020 and a smaller donar pool than most conference piers. With trying to field Four other sports at champ level. Very easy to see men’s basketball reverting to Lickliter era quality.

[The Real Twinam @AustinTwinam]

@MaxIke29 @phibacka31 @DavidEickholt One other thought they might be in 4th or even 5th place in terms of resources their own campus in the future. Behind Football, Wrestling men and women and Women’s Basketball.

[The Real Twinam @AustinTwinam]

@MaxIke29 @phibacka31 @DavidEickholt Yep every media personality says Iowa’s bottom 3 for money and resources in conference and your firing a coach whose established, known as a developer of lower rated recruits with a young but talented team. This move could easily put Iowa in the cellar for a decade or more.

[The Real Twinam @AustinTwinam]

@Dusty42402999 There must be a lot of money in dairy because they seem to be the winning bid in a lot of these high rent and auction prices lol.

[The Real Twinam @AustinTwinam]

@jhansman The inter-state system, the internet and the mechanization of farming is what killed those not the increased productivity of corn yields per acre.

[The Real Twinam @AustinTwinam]

@JasonHanson2028 @VanMansheim Yep just think there’s no way some guys will switch without either a substantial payment to do so or a law and penalties to compel them to.

[The Real Twinam @AustinTwinam]

@VanMansheim @JasonHanson2028 May be regional but 25 years ago dad and grandpa would still have been doing conventional tillage over most of our ground. For the most part I’ve only seen improvements in soil conservation over that time period There are definitely a handful that remain doing heavy tillagethough

[The Real Twinam @AustinTwinam]

@JasonHanson2028 @VanMansheim It’s probably going to take a law or laws to get mass compliance unfortunately especially with something as cheap and simple as no till/ vertical till it’s especially frustrating there isn’t 90% adoption yet. Though I’d argue top $ cash rent culture has a lot to with it.

[The Real Twinam @AustinTwinam]

@VanMansheim @JasonHanson2028 There was this thing called the dust bowl and an entire decade called the dirty thirties for a reason. We need to be honest while there is room for improvement and bad actors do exist especially among some of the largest producers. Things have improved dramatically over time.