NC Renegades

I know that video clip going around looks awful, but let me give some context here.

There has been extreme heat and humidity in Western Kansas and cattle have died. This is normal, and 10,000 head total statewide is not a “mass die-off that will cripple the beef supply.” Not even close.

There are roughly six million cattle in Kansas. Of those, over two million are “on feed” in confinement feedlots in the western half of the state.

In the former United States, something like 125,000 head of cattle are slaughtered per day, Monday through Friday, with a reduced kill on Saturday. So, as you can see, 10,000 deads in a heatwave is statistically insignificant.

The cattle shown in the video were not on pasture, they were in a confinement feedlot, as we can see by their size and the reportage says “fat cattle”. That means: in the feedlot approaching slaughter weight. They were not on ranches, grazing. They were in feedlots. Standing on dirt, in fenced pens, eating grain (corn) and drinking water from feed troughs all day every day. These cattle hadn’t seen a ranch, or eaten a blade of grass, in months.

The reported “epicenter” of this heat event was Ulysses, KS. That’s my old stomping grounds, and I would take a spitball guess that within a 100 mile radius of Ulysses, KS there are close to a million cattle on feed in confinement feedlots, maybe more.

So 10,000 dead, statewide, really isn’t a “massive die-off”.

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h/t from the comment section

The first video was published earlier. The second video gives a boots on the ground report.

• Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger had a threatening letter mailed to his home and addressed to his wife; it also mentioned the couple’s young baby 
• ‘That pimp you married not only broke his oath, he sold his soul. Yours and Christian’s too,’ the letter reads  
• His office said the threat had been reported
• ‘There’s violence in the future, I’m going to tell you. And until we get a grip on telling people the truth, we can’t expect any differently,’ Kinzinger told ABC

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Statues of History Keep Falling

The Democrats are going to cheat again in the mid-term elections.  We know this because they are beginning to brag about winning despite having the worst record in history. 

This weekend the Associated Press reported the following:

Democrats are going to hold onto the House after November’s midterm elections. They will pick up as many as four seats in the Senate, expanding their majority and overcoming internal dissent that has helped stifle their agenda.

As the challenges confronting President Joe Biden intensify, his predictions of a rosy political future for the Democratic Party are growing bolder. The assessments, delivered in speeches, fundraisers and conversations with friends and allies, seem at odds with a country that he acknowledged this week was “really, really down,” burdened by a pandemic, surging gas prices and spiking inflation.

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