Michael Staton

Go Big Blue

[Michael Staton @mstaton3]

@TheReal18_UK I need to k ow which Nana, before I insult cousin Jimmy for not helping!

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@AdamLuckettKSR Look at all that money we’re saving by not having one!

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@PolacheckKSR @KySportsRadio He kin to Billy?

[Dr. Jay Morgan @MSU_President]

Thank you to Andrew Sexton, Kennedy Little, Nathania Bush, and Amy Staton for their leadership in MSU’s Carnegie ‘Community Engagement University’ Designation!

[Michael Staton @mstaton3]

UK not playing in March is a lot like youth sports, when my kid is done playing, I really couldn’t care less how it ends up. I’m going home.

[Michael Staton @mstaton3]

Who the hell are Matthew and Jimmy?

[Michael Staton @mstaton3]

@JerodMcDaniel I look forward to seeing that green grass as much as the babies running around

[Michael Staton @mstaton3]

@JerodMcDaniel Not a great pic, but been my header on twitter forever

[Michael Staton @mstaton3]

Me watching UK sports

[Morehead State @moreheadstate]

We proudly marked two major milestones today with a special ribbon-cutting ceremony: unveiling the newly improved Vet Tech Facilities at the Derrickson Agricultural Complex and formally dedicating the Prater Equine Center in honor of Professor Emeritus Dr. Phil Prater. 💙💛

[Michael Staton @mstaton3]

@sf28430 The only work they do is to get re-elected

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@TheReal18_UK Kid from Florida, if anybody in Florida is offering, I’m gonna stay home dog.

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@RoushKSR We should get 2 of them!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1930: Soviet Union, height of collectivization.

Stalin's plan: Eliminate private farming. All agriculture becomes state-controlled.

The stated goal: Efficiency and equality.
The actual goal: Total food control.

Private livestock ownership is banned first. Owning a cow makes you a kulak. Kulaks are class enemies. Class enemies are executed or sent to gulags.

Within 3 years:
- Cattle population drops 60%
- Pig population drops 55%
- Sheep/goat population drops 65%

Peasants who'd been feeding themselves with household livestock are now dependent on state grain rations.

The famine follows immediately. Not from crop failure. From deliberate grain confiscation and livestock elimination.

4-7 million dead in Ukraine alone. Millions more across the Soviet Union.

But here's the part they don't teach: The Communist Party elite never stopped eating meat.

Special stores called "Beryozka" served party members only. Stocked with beef, pork, chicken, dairy, fresh vegetables.

The peasants starved on grain rations while watching party officials eat better than they'd ever eaten.

This created the perfect population control mechanism:

- Eliminate independent food production
- Create dependency on state rations
- Control who gets adequate food based on compliance
- Use hunger as a weapon against dissent

Compliant workers got better rations. Critics got less.

The threat of starvation was more effective than secret police.

The same pattern repeated in every communist state:

China: Great Leap Forward kills 45 million. Party elite dines on duck and pork in Beijing while peasants eat tree bark.

Cambodia: Khmer Rouge executes anyone owning livestock. Grain rations for workers. Meat for party members.

North Korea: Ongoing starvation for citizens. Kim family eats imported Japanese beef and Swiss cheese.

Venezuela: Cattle ranches nationalized. Production collapses. Government officials eat meat. Citizens get rice rations.

The collectivization is never about equality. It's about control.

Independent protein production makes you ungovernable. You can feed yourself without state permission.

Grain dependency makes you compliant. You eat what they give you. You work to earn food access. You don't rebel because hungry people don't fight.

"Seize the means of production" always starts by seizing independent food production.

And independent food production has always meant livestock.

The 20th century proved it: Control the meat supply, control the population. Starve dissenters. Feed loyalists.

The same formula the Pharaohs used 5,000 years ago.

Just more efficient with modern agriculture and state control.

[Michael Staton @mstaton3]

I’m starting to hate Wisconsin on a Louisville, Tennessee level

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Hey @espn , I can hear Dick and Charles fine. I don’t need to see them every other play. Thanks

[Michael Staton @mstaton3]

@Kentuckyweather Is there a dance we can do to make it 70 and sunny?

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Purdue must really suck at basketball

[Michael Staton @mstaton3]

Proud to serve our veterans a steak lunch today. We had a great turnout in spite of the weather. Thanks to Bath County Farm Bureau for sponsoring the event. God bless all of our veterans!!

[Michael Staton @mstaton3]

@Chadsu42 I watched Spurrier hang 73 on us in person, so I’ll take it!!