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In reply to the discussion: Do you know who's utimately responsible for our current situation? [View all]keep_left
(1,783 posts)11. Well, to make the point with a bit of humor, Ford did employ Earl Butz...
Last edited Sat Jun 11, 2022, 04:21 PM - Edit history (1)
...(as Sec of Ag) who could be called a mini-Trump inasmuch as he was known to shoot off his mouth all the time. Butz was basically the Republican id with no brakes going off the side of a cliff. You can read at the link about some of his spectacular gaffes.
Butz was also known for some really bad ag policies that led pretty directly to the disastrous farm economy of the '80s (collective-farm-sized company farms) and a lot of America's health problems as well (over-reliance on corn products, especially corn sweeteners).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz
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that was the sig of killing the FD. fox is the visual icing on the lie turd pie of talk radio
certainot
Jun 2022
#22
limbaugh caused more death and destruction than hitler and stalin combined, counting
certainot
Jun 2022
#43
Constitutional scholars have slept since 1880, and surely Gerry Ford couldn't spell Constitution
bucolic_frolic
Jun 2022
#17
Then there's F.D.R., replacing Henry Wallace with Truman. The Dulles brothers suckered Truman
3Hotdogs
Jun 2022
#25