Did you know because of our smart and caring Republican leadership you can now hide your primary residence from snoops and all the jerks that call you to try to buy your lot for pennies?
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The rarest thing on Clarkson's Farm is not the Lamborghini tractor. It is Kaleb Cooper.
A young man, genuinely young, who wanted to farm and does. Who runs the place, knows the ground, drives the machinery he was raised around, and has built an entire working life on a farm before the age most people have chosen a career. On screen he is comic relief, the exasperated professional rolling his eyes at Clarkson. Step back and he is the single most valuable and most endangered thing in British agriculture, and the show never quite says so.
Because here is what Kaleb actually represents.
The average British farmer is past sixty. In America it is 58 and climbing, with the over-65s now the largest group by far. Right across the developed world the story is identical: the people who grow the food are ageing out, and almost nobody young is coming in behind them. Not because the young do not want to. Because the door has been bricked up.
Work out what it takes for a young person to farm today. You need land, and farmland costs a fortune precisely because it is a tax shelter rather than a business, so it is priced out of reach of anyone who actually intends to earn from it. You need capital for machinery that runs to six figures a unit. You need to survive years of thin or negative margins with no cushion. And you need to accept that the reward for clearing all three hurdles is the £144 profit the whole country watched Clarkson find.
So the miracle is not that farming is short of young people. The miracle is that Kaleb exists at all.
He came into it, stuck at it, and made it work, and the reason a few million people know his name is that a television programme happened to point a camera at him. For every Kaleb on screen there are a thousand villages that no longer have one, where the young left because the maths told them to, and the farm went to the retiring neighbour who was already too big, and the land got a little more consolidated, and the countryside got a little older.
Kaleb barely wants to leave the county, let alone the country. When the show finally took him abroad it was an event. And that rootedness, the sheer unfashionable determination to stay put and do one hard thing well, is precisely the trait the entire food system depends on and has spent fifty years making financially irrational.
The old farmers are retiring. The young ones were priced out before they started.
We are down to hoping enough Kalebs turn up by accident, because we built a country where choosing to feed people on purpose is the wrong financial decision.
We love watching Freddy’s journey on his road trip across the U.S.
There is no better way to learn about America’s story than from the open road, in our towns, and with the people! 🇺🇸
To Love America is to See America. Can’t wait to see where you are headed next @FreddyLA7
11,000 retweets in 45 minutes - the sham trial has awakened a sleeping giant. We’re fed up. Stay peaceful but fight harder than you’ve ever get fought.
I hope each of you who are true followers of Jesus take time every day at some point to unplug from the noise and get as quiet as you can, and ask the Lord to give you discernment about His intentions concerning our country, our world, and what He wants us to do in our own lives. It's very important (and difficult) to not be consumed with the daily insanity we are being subjected to right now. It is impossible to stay adherent to the will of God, and simultaneously be completely preoccupied by the devilish circus sideshow that is the world we live in. Be vigilant and proactive, but not overcome with worry! Remember, He's got the whole word in His hands.
Turdstock is about to kickoff - they’ll be lots of pics. Took my first and last selfie here. lol. Dressing country because it’s Nashville and John freaking Rich … say hi to me.
Victor Davis Hanson: "We are in the middle of a cultural revolution."
If I said 10 years ago that in the future... nobody would believe it:
• Biological men compete in women's sports.
• Saying there are only two genders can get you fired.
• 2.3 million people illegally enter the country each year.
• Month-long elections are 70% mail-in ballots.
• BLM and Antifa destroyed neighborhoods for 120 days, causing $2 billion in damage, mostly going unpunished.
• The FBI, DOJ, and the corporate media framed Donald Trump as a Russian agent to rig the 2016 election.
• The CIA and the corporate media claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop was "Russian disinformation" to rig the 2020 election.
• The FBI and DOJ hid Hunter Biden's laptop, containing evidence of FARA violations, money laundering, and foreign bribes, to help Joe Biden become POTUS.
• The DHS, CISA, and the White House work with Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to censor American citizens.
• The political establishment indicted their chief political rival during an election for a document dispute with NARA, a non-disclosure agreement with Stormy Daniels, and for asking Georgia's elected officials to investigate election fraud.
A decade ago, nobody would believe any of this would be possible. Yet, this is all happening as we live through a nation-destroying cultural revolution. Those who see these truths must denounce what is happening.
@VDHanson
Imagine playing monopoly and you’re clearly winning. You decide to pause and take a bathroom break. When you come back your opponent claims they won and the game is over. If you try to question it they yell at you and throw away the pieces.
That’s the 2020 election.