THE NEXT CHAPTER: “DALLAS PACKED HIS SUITCASE” — Barack Obama, then a junior United States Senator from Illinois, announced his candidacy for President in February 2007. Barack Obama never lacked for charisma, polish, or charm — but his Achilles’ heel, so it seemed, on the national stage, was how he related to those outside of the Cities. But in the native South Dakotan Dallas Tonsager, Barack Obama found his ally.

Tonsager had grown up on a dairy farm in rural South Dakota but was a bit of an anomaly, as he was, steadfastly, a die-hard Democrat. He had emerged on the national political scene in 1993, named as USDA Director for Rural Development for his home-state of South Dakota by President Bill Clinton. But it was a Republican President, George W. Bush, who brought Mr. Tonsager to Washington; as an appointee to the U.S. Farm Credit Board in the year 2004. While that may sound odd, it is a part of the design of checks and balances within the U.S. Farm Credit System, that was put in place more than a century ago to STOP the wrongful taking of family farms that was occurring, at the time, within the private banking and lending industry. Farm Credit’s regulations state that the sitting U.S. President must appoint a three-member Farm Credit Board to manage and direct the Farm Credit System, with these specific protections: 1.The Board cannot be monopolized by the same political party (with Bush appointing Tonsager to create the requisite political balance on the Board); 2.The Board Members must serve in a fixed six-year term; 3.The Board Members may not succeed themselves, to effectively create one of the only true American Government systems with term limits; and 4.The President’s appointments must be confirmed by the United States Senate. ——

So let’s go back to 2004 and walk through the timing as to it all; given that Tonsager had been appointed by President Bush to serve on the Farm Credit System Board Term until the year 2010. But I guess Dallas — and no doubt others — had decided that, if he just walked in the locker room at halftime and switched jersey — no one would even notice when he ran back out on the field for the third quarter and lined up for the other team. In 2007, while continuing to serve on the U.S. Farm Credit Board, Dallas Tonsager took off his overalls and slipped on his suit and tie; As there was money to be made on the backs of American farmers who were at the Government’s mercy. While the accessibility of information was not so readily available then, today you can check my work on this just fine; to know that a man who was a Presidentially appointed Officer of a U.S. Government Sponsored Enterprise hit the campaign trail in support of Barack Obama. But he wasn’t just knocking on doors folks, it was Dallas Tonsager who founded the organization, RURAL AMERICANS FOR OBAMA, which would become the backbone of the Democratic Party’s reframing of Barack Obama’s candidacy. Dallas Tonsager’s allegiance to party and politics, at the expense of his duty to serve American farmers, would be well rewarded though, to be sure. Tonsager would become chair of Obama’s first rural campaign committee; and upon Barack Obama’s election in November 2008, it was Dallas Tonsager who was poised in a prime position to now cash in. And cash in he did. By 2009, Dallas Tonsager’s time on the U.S. Farm Credit Board was, thankfully for those American farmers in his wake, coming to an unceremonious endpoint; but there would be no need to sell that Beltway condo quite yet, as Barack Obama needed a man like Tonsager; to serve in the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

But, at least in the eyes of those in Washington, what would be the harm in pulling Tonsager from the Farm Credit Game, with just minutes left to play — could we possibly save that redshirt year to be used at a later date?? And the answer to that question is the answer to most of the questions in this story: You can do whatever you want to do in Washington DC — until somebody stands up and stops you. President Barack Obama removed a sitting Farm Credit Board Member in Tonsager in 2009, one year early; replacing him with the first African-American Member of the U.S. Farm Credit Board, Ken Spearman. As for Tonsager, he was moving on up to be the #2 man in the USDA, as the Undersecretary in charge of Rural Development for Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack — who just happens to have been rehired by Joe Biden in an effort to get the band back together. But while the subject of tomorrow’s Chapter in this sordid Farm Credit tale will focus on what happened in those years that Tonsager would team with Vilsack, allow me, for today, to blow your mind as to the possibilities that can happen in Politics; when no good guys are left watching. An unholy trinity of Obama, Vilsack, and Tonsager would rewrite the future of American agriculture as we once knew it, all the way back then, in 2009; while the farmers tilled their fields in the dark. And though labeled as an “independent” System owned by the farmer borrowers themselves (who were forced to buy stock as a part of their loans), the USDA saw a chance to capture Farm Credit. And they did. The plan was unfolding well as we approached the 2016 election; with the presumed President-elect to be a familiar name to Tonsager in Hillary Rodham Clinton, the wife of Dallas’s old boss. But something funny happened as voters walked past entry and exit polls predicting Hillary Clinton’s victory at marks as high as 90%; and elected Donald Trump. Oh shit. That’s what I’d just about bet was said in the halls of the USDA on or about November 9, 2016, as the world woke up to realize that Trump would be coming and, at least by his campaign commitments, he was poised to drain that swamp. What in the hell are we going to do? You can count on that being a question that came next in those closed-door meetings as a decade of plans were about to go up in smoke. So on November 22, 2016, I turned 36 years old. But also on that date, Mr. Dallas Tonsager became the first U.S. Farm Credit Board Chairman to be appointed and/or selected AFTER an election had been held with a NEW U.S. President set to be sworn in; in less than 60 days. But that’s not all, President Obama moved more mountains than you might think, as Tonsager became the ONLY Farm Credit Board Member in the history of the United States to skirt all rules and regulations and to be appointed for a SECOND FULL TERM on the Farm Credit Board. Damn the torpedoes and the term limits — and with no additional confirmation as Chairman, to allow a Senate review of how Tonsager intended to direct the System as its highest officer, a man was put in control of U.S. Farm Credit in violation of every check and balance that was put in place. The United States Farm Credit System had officially been HIJACKED — — and from that point, as the next two Chapters will reveal, NOTHING at all has ever been the same.

THE CONCLUSION AND WRAP TO CHAPTER ONE OF THIS FARM CREDIT SAGA: “Dallas Packed His Suitcase” — The facts are ultimately this in today’s Chapter: Dallas Tonsager was a human political blockade appointed to prevent Donald Trump from having an opportunity to appoint a Chairman to the U.S. Farm Credit System; as by the time Tonsager’s turn was done, there would be no time for Trump to nominate and appoint; not with all those political friends made on Senate Ag. But just like with Trump’s election, things always seemed to get in the way of their ultimate plans — and with my apologies to those who cared about the man as friend or family, it is my opinion that we still have a chance to save our farms today because Mr. Tonsager was unable to serve his full term as Chairman; passing away in 2019. For my part, his legacy as Farm Credit Chairman can be summarized best as this: Dallas Tonsager was able to hijack a farmer protection System so well that, since his appointment as Farm Credit Chairman, we can find no record of any farmer borrower in this country who has been afforded relief when pleading to the United States Farm Credit Administration for help. But what I can give are examples of farmers pleading for help to save their farms, and their homes, and their property (from what was a wrongful taking); as rather than help, the Farm Credit Administration had been completely redesigned, with its own set of policies implemented, to stand back away from that helpless farmer while a local farm credit lender burned them to the ground. I was one of them — Thank you for all of the support in this and I will give details of tomorrow’s Chapter later tonight; but be ready, as you might just find out it was a South Dakotan himself who helped dig that Summit Carbon trench.

That’s all for today, folks, but it gives you an excellent idea of what the Deep State, directed by the DemocRat Party, has been doing to America. Next chapter tomorrow. Thanks for reading, and be sure to follow Dustin if you are on X/Twitter.