The vast majority of cattle ranchers voted for the MAGA shitheads. I have sympathy for the cattle suffering from the screwworm and wish they could stampede the shit out of the ranchers.
even getting screwed over they stll believed he will bail them out.
If you’re in the states and you’re worth less than 50 million, we will all be living in third world poverty, too soon.
I think Trump will create the worlds best third world country. They’ll all be talking about how good a job he did. It’ll be the thirdliest third world country ever.
Well it might reach unprecedented levels of income equality, I can totally see it
You know all those feral hogs Cody at Some More News has been freaking out over for like a decade now?
They’re the vector.
That… they’re almost certainly how the worm is popping up in multiple places that are too far away for direct connections to previous specific locations to make sense.
… I feel bad for Cody’s blood pressure and hairline.
Anyway, beef ain’t gonna be on the menu much longer, boys.
also feral pigs are vicious animals, very hard to take down if you dont kill them outright. besides screworms, they spread other disease through thier poop, they are pretty aggressive invasive animals. this is not to confused with the wild boar, which is a different species of pig that is native to eurasia.
Well, I actually like the way the beyond burger patties taste. Maybe now they’ll actually have a shot when they don’t cost more than the actual meat.
When grilled and smothered with bacon and cheese they’re not bad at all.
I mean, I think I tried one once, thought it was ok, definitely didn’t hate it… but yeah, yep. Going to be an interesting shock to the American diet.
I’ve been saying unironically need to figure out how to do the bug pizzas from CyberPunk 77 for a while now… because … meat just is going to get more and more expensive…
I’ll stop short of eating ze bugs, haha. Despite how min-maxed grubs are nutritionally, I’m too squeamish for that.
It feels like it’s been the last decade or so that alternative products like the plant patty and things like hard seltzers have been formulated to taste significantly less awful than they used to. Or my tastebuds are changing, both can be true to some degree.
Funny how none of this was a problem until he started blaming Biden.
It’s totally Bidens fault, yes. Since he didn’t put Trump behind prison bars.
The year is 2367 and the economy collapses.
It is Obama and Joe Bidens fault.
It’s more likely than you’d think. I’m old enough to remember when John McCain and Mitch McConnell blamed the 2008 collapse on Jimmy Carter’s FHA reforms. Also remember getting an earful about how FDR turned a minor recession into a Great Depression by abandoning the good governance principles of Calvin Coolidge, and that we were still paying the economic price to this day.
mitch is the one that spearheaded the gop direction for the last 20 years.
This is all Trump and Elon and doge. Good job fuck nuts for axing USAID you dumb pedophiles.
“Why did Joe Biden shit in my pants?”
Wakes up long enough to holler “SLEEPY JOE!” and goes back to snoozing.
doubles down to blame Biden.
Ok, sure. Maybe. But Biden isn’t president now. Don’t point fingers. Do something productive. Don’t cut the parts of government that are supposed to help with this kind of stuff.
If it wasn’t for Biden, they’d still be blaming Obama, mate.
thats the only thing conservatives do, blame everyone else but yourself.
It’ll still be Biden’s fault in 2029, they have no shame and they’ll never stop.
Don’t point fingers
Trouble is, that’s the only thing republicans know how to do
No, this is a direct result of Musk cutting USAID. It’s not even a first term consequence, this is fully on this current Trump administration, within this electoral cycle.
Ok, sure. Maybe.
No. Wrong. Not at all. Trump did this 100%
You expect rationality and sanity where there’s none. But, one begs the question, didn’t you pay attention at all previous year and half? Nothing has changed, nothing will change, it’s the Biden’s fault for literally anything bad… And ofc “crazy far left lunatics”. Zero accountability, zero responsibility. President is not well, even if we forget about him being a pedophile and a criminal and a crook, he has a dementia and can barely keep eyes open… Sleepy Donny… It’s hard to fucking watch.
Here’s my take as a military person.
Okay, fine, it’s Biden’s fault you have screw worm in the States.
He’s not in power anymore. How will YOU solve it?
AI will fix plz invest all ur moneys in AI. Its not a scam.
The administration is just repeating the party line: “The buck stops somewhere else”
He’s not in power anymore. How will YOU solve it?
That’s the thing, they won’t solve it. All they know how to do is blame blame blame blame blame
This has been the republican strategy my whole life. Its wild to think this is as consistent as the rise and fall of the tides, the sunrise and sunset, etc. And it still works on people.
Lol reminded me of
“All I hear is criticize criticize criticize”
I can’t see, you can’t see, all that matter is, can the fuckin horse see!
thats the problem. they dont know how to fix it so they blame others who are powerless to fix it and that gets them off the hook in their view
He’s not in power anymore. How will YOU solve it?
Gotta vote Republican harder this time. There’s still too many Democrats in government. Once we’ve gotten rid of all the Democrats, then we can implement the magical policies that will solve all our problems.
That is, of course, assuming there aren’t any fifth columnist liberal voters who try to obstruct us. We might need to get rid of them, too.
Hungarian here, Fidesz blamed previous prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány for all of its incompetence, up until the Russo-Ukrainian war started.
He’s not in power anymore. How will YOU solve it?
Simple. He’ll wish it away the same way he did Covid. When that fails he’ll have RFK start telling the world that Ivermectin kills them.
I mean, as a military person, aren’t you currently involved in a war with Iran that’s Obama’s fault? Conservatism is fueled by personal greed at every level, from the most powerful to the poorest voter empowering the people they think they share a tribe with in the expectation prosperity will trickle down. They all lack personal accountability and share a consensus that any negative outcome from an action that was clearly their’s, it will be blamed on whoever is currently a convenient target for their disappointment. Run out of real people to blame? Oh, it was the devil.
You’ll get no solutions because they don’t care about the hubris as long as it’s not directly affecting them. Flesh eating maggots have no impact on Trump’s day to day life, he doesn’t give a fuck if they infect his constituents or destroy their herd, he knows they’ll still vote for him next time he runs.
I’m not in the American military. They don’t want my kind there.
Well when the US attacks whichever nation you’re serving, remember, it was Biden, or Obama, or maybe your leader’s fault for forcing Trump to have to do that. /s
Are you saying, are you implying Stalin’s glorious and perfect leadership caused this, failed to forsee this?
I’ll be reporting you to the company political officer.
… uh that’d be approximately the MAGA ‘military’ response.
Fortunately I am not in a MAGA military.
Fortunately indeed… I keep trying to tell people that you really do not want to fuck with the Canadian military, they consistently punch above their weight, and have a bit of a historical track record of that to boot.
Any time the Dow ticks up, regardless of the reason - that’s the result of Pumpkinhead’s financial genius, ability to make great “deals”, and probably because of his 16 inch girthy schlong.
Anything bad - that’s Biden. Also probably Obama. And Bill. And Hillary. Maybe even Carter.
Nothing can ever fail because a Republican was in charge or because conservative ideology was in play. If things fail under Republicans, it’s because they were RINOs and/or they didn’t go hard enough on the conservatism.
It works just like Communism that way.
“If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will abandon democracy.”
George Orwell’s work might be overrated, but his depiction in 1984 of how The Inner Party blames everything bad on either the military enemy of the week or Emanuel Goldstein is a prime example of pop-cult leadership.
George Orwell’s work might be overrated
Is it?
Hold up. “Communism doesn’t work because republicans do things” is an overlappping belief between communists and republicans, also. Whicj I would argue is somewhat of an admission of something.
But yeah its definitely “Republicans can’t fail, they can only be failed.” Which is a great accountability system.
I mention the Communism thing because that’s almost exactly the same way the Communists tend to talk about Communism. Or tended to.
What’s the definition of communism?
My overlap between the two has always been “the reason authoritarianism isn’t working is because its not authoritarian enough”.
This is also something capitalism does with ‘privatized/corporate authoritarianism’. “The reason the economy isn’t working is because the plutocrats are not given enough free reign over society”
Like at the end of the day there’s two groups of thought: “the public is good at decision making” or “the public is bad at decision making” and pretty much everything falls out of that core asumption.
I’m sorry but can you please explain to me how exactly an RBMK reactor can explode? No? I didn’t think so!
Watching the US collapse from the outside while enjoying bottomless margaritas & nachos is def the way to go
As a farmer, dairyman, and rancher with way too many cattle in Texas. I have this to say:
I was on the front lines of the bird flu cross species fiasco. Literally ground zero. Me and my cohorts were the boots on the ground and knew what was going on weeks before the state and fed acknowledged it. The acknowledgement of the problem was purely political and self serving. The government as a whole (state and fed) were refusing to test and confirm what we already knew. I have evidence and correspondence with officials and veterinarians to back it up.
My take away: it’s a god damn miracle we survived Covid as well as we did. That should have been so much worse.
When it comes to the screwfly situation: I had little faith under previous administrations this would be handled properly. In Texas, sid miller was talking about woke agendas and playing partisan hack instead of prioritizing resources. We’ve had almost two god damn years! They all figured the people they were firing and defunding would handle it properly. With what resources?. Systematically dismantling our safety nets caused this.
This problem is one hundred percent political incompetence. Any IT professional that has been laid off because " your department doesn’t do anything" will tell you that a successful job done is literally twiddling your thumbs because you did it right. Y2k was a victory lap that the general public and politicians laugh at because it wasn’t a problem. It wasn’t a problem because we fixed it before the world ended. This screw fly trainwreck is what happens when you don’t listen to IT and fire them all for being lazy.
Detection in mexico was non existent. The screw fly hits the states and what is left of our protection finds it. Great job. Too late.
Tldr, your hamburger and steak prices will continue to be more expensive, but not from this. But the suffering of both domestic animals and wildlife will be greatly increased because these dipshits wanted to play politics instead of giving a shit about the bigger picture.
Y2k was a victory lap that the general public and politicians laugh at because it wasn’t a problem. It wasn’t a problem because we fixed it before the world ended.
This is something people should well remember about IT for certain and while I don’t have much authority outside of that field, I bet it extrapolates.
In IT, though, the people that get rewarded and noticed the most are often the people that metaphorically set their own fires and then play the superhero in putting them out. All because they tend not to listen to others or take the initiative themselves to prepare. People that are not running around like their hair on fire are seen as “lazy”.
You’ll get noticed as well if you come into a shit show and can properly address it over time.
In IT, though, the people that get rewarded and noticed the most are often the people that metaphorically set their own fires and then play the superhero in putting them out.
You know, this is so true that I’m a bit ashamed to admit that my best moments at my current job have been when I correct mistakes I made. Example: I gave someone the wrong laptop when they started. I handled the comms like an expert. I made sure the exchange was smooth. The masterful handling of the mistake came from years of experience smoothing over things that weren’t my fault. It was a real opportunity to shine and it wouldn’t have happened if I didn’t fail to set a calendar reminder.
When I do everything right, there’s no need for customer service skills.
I remember reading a book years ago that was probably self-published, or maybe needed an editor? Anyway, I seem to recall him making some rather good points about how IT needs to do a better job of self-marketing what they do, because when they do it well, they are often punished for not being noticed, and boy did that ring true.
He was also taking aim at M$ use at the time but was definitely swimming upstream at the time. IT definitely has hivemind/groupthink problems and at the time it was “no one gets fired for buying Microsoft”.
It was the The Unix Guide to Defenestration
And yeah, on a personal level, I’ve noticed the same and have to admit that I’ve often was noticed for something that was probably something I could have planned for/spotted earlier.
pfff nah, overpaid leadership needs to actually do it’s job
COVID likely killed over 1,000,000 Americans.
Not sure I’d say we did well.
But… it could have been worse. Losing only 0.25% of a population during a world wide pandemic is, by all accounts in the scientific/medical field, considered a success.
The year is 2367 and the economy collapses.
It is Obama and Joe Bidens fault.
and hillary and clinton.
It’s not my fault that I didn’t complete my work by the clearly labeled deadline. Tom, at my old job, was a lazy dick and made me less productive because he wrote bad notes that didn’t tell me what was needed next. That’s why I didn’t finish this thing that you asked for last week.
Its like this but then the guy that says this is made CEO.
The screwworm coverage so far is terrible. First off, everyone is acting like this is a problem for beef prices (end of list). No, this is a problem for any mammal living in the southern US. FFS, some of the cases already are dogs- how are people not putting this together? Second, Biden did whiff on the screwworm response in Central America. They should have pulled a Gandalf as screwworms spread north, but instead were modern Democrats and assumed the situation would fix itself. Third, the real blame lies with whoever was POTUS before Biden (I can’t recall) for ignoring that the Panama facility holding the Darien Gap needed updates, more funding. We’re talking tens of millions of dollars to fix in 2018 what will now be a billions and billions problem. Trump- oh right it was Trump. Yeah, then when Covid hit they lost the Gap. To come back in 2025 and cut funding to to the program and re-open the border to animal disease vectors is insanity. Are we sure these people aren’t literal demons feeding on human misery?
DOGE-demons, destroying things they don’t understand, because ‘woke’ and ‘DEI’.
How have they been getting by in Mexico and central America?
