hey everybody how's it going i hope
you're all having a great day so i want
to follow up on something i talked about
yesterday yesterday i went over how as
i'm going about my legislative efforts
and all these states to try to get right
to repair past whether for consumer
electronics or for agricultural
equipment i am running into roadblocks
from time to time and surprisingly some
of those roadblocks are the very groups
that are supposed to be representing
farmers and i think it's really cool
that less than one day later a large
mainstream media outlet bloomberg did a
really good piece on this so this is
again this is not just something that's
limited to vice this is not just
something you see on reddit you're
starting to get some mainstream media
attention so it says john deere is
facing a farmer revolts they're talking
about customers wanting the right to
repair their machines endangering a key
revenue stream it's a 16 minute video
and i'm not going to play it because i
don't want to get copyright struck but i
highly suggest that you watch it and
i'll link it down below in this video
they go over a number of different
things they go over the fact that part
sales for repair is becoming an
increasingly large revenue stream for
john deere while sales of certain new
products are going down so they're
making more money in many different ways
but selling you the product is not that
way it is via service which creates this
really perverse incentive structure to
make it more and more difficult to
repair what you own it goes over a lot
of the issues that farmers have and what
they're doing to address them i'm really
happy to see that senator tom brandt was
given a lot of time to speak and share
his thoughts in this piece with
bloomberg for those of you who don't
follow my channel regularly or
understand in 2017 i showed up to both
record and testify at a right to repair
hearing in nebraska alongside a bunch of
farmers and this politician over here
actually laughed at us and this person
was just and also this person did as
well ernie chambers
and her i forget her name and last name
i don't know how to pronounce i think
it's
uh anyway so there was a person who was
a farmer in nebraska who didn't really
like this and he ran against her and he
won that's senator tom brant right there
and what he did as a farmer he didn't
just get an office and then not do
anything he actually put his money where
his mouth was and decided to reintroduce
the very bill that she laughed at and he
co-sponsored him and he's been doing
everything that he can to try to get it
moved forward now i don't know where mr
brandt is on a number of different
issues i don't know if i would agree
with him politically on everything
because i haven't looked up all of his
views but what i can say is that i have
a high level of respect for him because
he was a farmer he was aggravated at the
way his local politicians we're again i
have this on video and i'm glad i do
literally laughing at their constituents
so he said i'm gonna run i'm gonna win
and when i win i'm gonna do the exact
thing that i said that i was going to do
when i ran as a private citizen which is
push right to repair forward and that's
exactly what he did this bill over here
n e
lb 543 i don't know why i said any
that's nebraska out loud that's kind of
stupid but it's the end of the day so
give me a break and he is the only
co-sponsor on this bill and he's doing
everything he can to push forward what
he believes in there's not a lot of
politicians nowadays that will say
something when they're running and then
when they actually get elected go about
doing that very specific thing that they
said that they were going to do but he
did and i'm really happy that he is
doing everything that he's doing and i
hope that he continues to do what he's
doing and i hope he's able to get more
co-sponsors as time goes along i hope
he's able to get them to vote on it and
i hope that he is able to push things
forward for farmers in that area but i
think this is really cool that again a
large mainstream media outlet is
starting to cover this it's no longer
just vise this reddit post that youtube
video it's starting to pick up a little
steam that farmers are pissed they are
sick and tired of getting an excuse or
the can getting kicked down the road
over and over again as i mentioned
yesterday i spoke to someone about the
language that they were using that you
know farmers are not as interested in
doing their own repairs or able to and
i'm just thinking
you represent farmers i'm i'm fairly
certain that that's not the way that
farmers would describe this i'm fairly
certain that the members of this
organization would not particularly be
happy with their interest being
expressed this way to lobbyists and
legislators when that's literally the
exact opposite of the way that they wish
to be represented
you know i've heard through the
grapevine that there were some
aggravated farmers this morning in
nebraska that were not particularly
happy with the way things were going at
the leadership of certain organizations
that's supposed to be representing them
that are starting to put up a fuss and
honestly uh
put up a fuss get started get get
aggravated again i'm not saying that you
should you know
not saying like scream and break windows
and you know all this other kind of crap
but i think that it's about time that
they say okay you're supposed to be
representing me
can you show me what you're doing can
you explain to me the timeline can you
explain why you're making the decisions
that you're making what it is you're
saying when you're representing us what
you're doing to move things forward and
if you're not moving things forward then
can you kindly allow us to try in our
own way to move things forward on our
own terms and i i'm happy for them and i
really do hope that they start moving
things forward i hope that this
continues to get more mainstream media
attention that's it for today as always
hope you learned something i will be
doing an interview tomorrow about the
about the john deere lawsuit that's
going on this anti-trust lawsuit with an
individual that i'm going to be doing
some work with in the future and i hope
that that it winds up being educational
and as always i hope you learned
something see you all in the next video
bye now