“We’re going after Virginia, with your crazy governor, we’re going after Virginia. They want to take your Second Amendment. You know that, right? You’ll have nobody guarding your potatoes.”
—Donald Trump, to a group of farmers assembled at the White House on May 19. [Crazy governor? Uh,….well, never mind.]
“I grew up on a Virginia farm, Mr. President—our potatoes are fine. And as the only medical doctor among our nation’s governors, I suggest you stop taking hydroxychloroquine.”
—Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, in one of the less-derisive responses to Trump’s curious remarks, May 19.
“Are there armed people guarding potatoes in my state?”
—Tweet by Rania Khalek, May 19.
“GOP 2020: We will end the brutal Virginia potato wars.”
—Tweet by Adam Rifkin, May 19.
“If there is anything Virginia is known for in the 21st century, it’s our brutal potato wars.”
—Tweet by Gary Legum, May 19.
“Trump’s silly comments about armed Virginians guarding their potato fields is yet another sign that the administration’s communications team is spuddering.”
—Follow-up tweet by Gary Legum, May 19. [It’s hard to pass up an opportunity for a good pun.]
“My god, libs, you were just going to leave Virginia’s potato farms unguarded?!?”
—Worried tweet by David Roberts, May 19.
YOU CAN HAVE MY POTATO WHEN YOU PRY MY COLD, DEAD FINGERS FROM AROUND IT.
Louisiana Voice 
I am getting concerned about the White House visitors that are forced to act as if Trump is not “stark raving mad”….it must be very hard to stand around and pretend that he makes any sense. So very sad that trips to our White House have become exercises in “how not to show horror, amusement, disdain, etc.” for this TV Reality Show President.
At least this is almost as humorous as frightening. Of course, that allows the POTUS and his supporters to pass it off as “sarcasm.”
We can’t win the war of words because fiction is presented as truth by the opposition and our truths are ignored, or dismissed as lies. We can, however, win at the ballot box and we absolutely have to.
In a James Lee Burke novel written a few years ago, one of the characters described Louisiana as the country’s biggest outdoor insane asylum. I never dreamed that one day the United States, led by a man named Trump, would one day become the biggest outdoor insane asylum in relation to the rest of the world.
Meanwhile, Angela Merkel is emerging as the leader of the free world. By the way, her knowledge of science is bolstered by her doctoral degree in Quantum Chemistry, rather than magically inherited from one of her uncles.
So impressed that Impotus researched the value of Virginia potatoes and conflated that with the Second Amendment. Guess the Virginia militia will call in air cover from its Revolutionary War era airbases to augment their blunderbusses to protect the crops. Or at least kick the h*ll out of would-be marauders like a Virginia mule.
Facts: China is the world’s top potato producer, followed by India, Russia, and (gasp!) Ukraine. The US is the world’s fifth largest producer of potatoes.
In 2017 a total of 44 billion pounds of potatoes were harvested from 1.05 million acres in the US. Total value of the potato crop was $3.71 billion.
Idaho grows more potatoes than any other state, followed by Washington, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Oregon, North Dakota, Colorado, Minnesota, Michigan, California and Maine.
Idaho produces more than 100 million hundredweight of potatoes annually on over 300,000 acres. The USDA calculates the Idaho potato crop value at $1.2 billion.
Virginia production amounted to about 200,000 pounds, valued at $17 million, on 6,000 acres.
Conclusion: Virginia potatoes are scarce as hen’s teeth, as valuable as diamonds. And worth every bit of 2A protection the Commonwealth can muster, because everyone knows Virginia is for Lovers and they really love potatoes. Ranks 28th in obesity with 30.4 percent of adults being obese.
A must read:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/20/i-am-simple-potato-guardian-who-needs-my-second-amendment-rights/
earthmother, this is by far one of the best postings I may have ever read!