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[–] 219 points 3 months ago (27 children)

Biden wasn't the one who defunded efforts to prevent the spread of the screwworm.

Fucker.

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    [–] 83 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    The year is 2367 and the economy collapses.

    It is Obama and Joe Bidens fault.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 82 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    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 until it was really bad.

    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?

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    [–] 58 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    "Why did Joe Biden shit in my pants?"

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    [–] 55 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Hey how about you stop blaming people and actually try and fix the problem jackass.

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    [–] 52 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    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".

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    [–] 50 points 3 months ago

    This is all Trump and Elon and doge. Good job fuck nuts for axing USAID you dumb pedophiles.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    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.

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    [–] 36 points 2 months ago* (7 children)

    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.

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    [–] 34 points 3 months ago (14 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago*

    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.

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    [–] 33 points 3 months ago*

    Biden blame is a stupidity test.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    ok. Biden did it. you're so right. glad he's gone.

    NOW FUCKING FIX IT

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    [–] 30 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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    [–] 27 points 3 months ago

    "Blaming Biden" .... Is the worm still there?? ... Fuck! "Blaming Biden HARDER!!!"

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago

    lol, Biden.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Brooke Rollins doubled down on claims that an “open border policy” under the Biden administration was to blame.

    Nevermind, that Trump's ICE is not checking the flies documentation any more than Biden's ICE was, Trump also lifted a ban on cattle imports from Mexico, and so they're the ones with the open border to fly larva policy.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    they’re the ones with the open border to fly larva

    The thing about those damned larval flies is that they keep crossing the border regardless of what laws you put in place.

    Ultimately, you need a regulatory regime that actually polices for them. And you need an agricultural, medical, and research system capable of detecting and culling the flies as they're found.

    The idea that you can just throw up a Big Beautiful Wall and end the risk of cross-border disease spread is - aside from being nakedly fascist bordering on genocidal - totally bullshit pseudoscience.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    You have to take care of screwworms far from the US border. This was all part of the gutting of USAID. DOGE saw it was a foreign aid program operating through the UN, didn't bother understanding it, and just cut it along with the rest of USAID. But hey, something happening in Central America could never affect the US, right?

    This outcome was predicted for at least the past year, since the program was cut. Will ranchers who lose cattle finally punish Trump and Republicans at the ballot box for doing something monumentally stupid? Or is Elon just going to be used as a convenient (if somewhat deserving) scapegoat?

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    [–] 23 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago

    "The more likely explanation is that an administration with an antipathy to government ignored government’s purpose until it was too late."

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Funny how none of this was a problem until he started blaming Biden.

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    [–] 10 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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    [–] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Stuffing industry bribes into a bag Damn bro, I can't believe Biden is doing this.

    Edit: have you tried Nature Supplement Corporation's all natural cattle health crystals?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Watching the US collapse from the outside while enjoying bottomless margaritas & nachos is def the way to go

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Fuck those goddamn fucks.

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