A Facebook post my son made, there is definitely some of the younger generations that still think for themselves.

"I spent yesterday afternoon taking bred ewes to the livestock hauler. I drove from North Reno to Red Bluff CA and with 8 hours on the road, I decided it was the perfect time for some JRE.

I really enjoyed 3 uninterrupted hours listening to Joe talk with President Trump. The openness of the conversation truly allowed me to think critically about the topics they were discussing and forget about the propaganda and hateful rhetoric that is often used by all sides of mainstream media.

The route took me through just a few of the multi-hundred-thousand acre wildfire burn scars in our region. To my surprise, Joe and Donald actually discussed the mismanagement of our forests, public lands, and water recourses. Though “raking” our forests is not feasible grazing definitely is…

Donald and Joe also discussed the benefits of tariffs and why so many American industries have died or are well on their way. While, listening to another podcast on the way home I was reminded of the Wool/mohair Incentive. For those of you that don’t know there used to be a tariff on wool that was brought into the United States, the money was then used to subsidize the wool producers in America grew. It was simply a way to make American natural fibers competitive in the market place against the growing number of foreign synthetic fibers, that now many are questioning the safety of. As the tariff and incentive faded away, so did the American sheep industry.

As the sheep faded from places like the Sierra Nevada mountains, West Texas, And the Great Basin the number and size of wildfires in these places began to increase leading us to where we are about 40 years later. In 2022 over 7.5 MILLION acers burned in wild fires. The sheep used to mimic large herds of herbivores who “raked” or grazed these harsh landscapes before urban sprawl and the human population made it impossible for these large herds of deer, elk and bison to exist.

If you’ve ever taken this route, you know there’s plenty of downtime in cell phone service. I got to thinking about how tariffs benefitted an industry before I was even a part of it, what our public lands and open spaces would look like if it had continued, and how many ways a similar philosophy could be applied to so many industries like Joe and Donald discussed. What if? Could a tariff on wool/ lamb help to ensure that our garments, food and fiber are produced as fair trade, humanely, safely, and ethically? Could it be a piece of a solution for our desperate public lands? Could it help revitalize the remnants of a once thriving industry?

My big take away was Donald Trump is the only candidate with a holistic view, common sense, and the tenacious fortitude to successfully make positive change for American families.

These are just some of my driving thoughts. Let’s make America Healthy again, Go vote."

Pretty proud dad here

I voted by mail in our only choice, still who will step up and be a true leader of this country talk is cheap.