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[–] 146 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I think you may have just solved both mysteries with one sentence.

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  • [–] 123 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    While I absolutely agree we deserve the truth about McConnel, didease-ridden mystery meat is far more likely to have an immediate impact on the lives of everyday Americans

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  • [–] 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    I think conning voters is just as relevant and likely to cause problems as dodgy meat. I can avoid meat products. I can’t stop politicians doing shady stuff if we don’t all pay attention together.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago

    I completely agree. I'm just saying the insidious follow on effects to conning voters (while more serious and dangerous) are less tangible to average Americans than knowing whether to avoid meat or not, from where, and what the consequences of getting it wrong are. I'm slightly more concerned over whether my lasagna for dinner tonight is going to put me in the hospital than the GOP continuing to lie to the American people. The real answer is the 24hr media cycle absolutely has time to cover both topics in depth, and they should be doing so. The role of the media is to help hold those in power accountable, and we're seeing a historic failure of that right now.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago

    I'm beginning to think there is no meat issue and all this is to spread FUD and what not, smoke and mirrors for something else. Plus it can drive prices up further. Who am I kidding it's probably all of the above.

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  • [–] 29 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Upton Sinclair: "First time?"

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  • [–] 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Argentina? This is an article from last March, validating the Chinese beef rejection due to antibiotic contamination..

    https://en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/china-rejected-an-entire-shipment-of-beef-from-argentina-after-detecting-an-antibiotic-so-dangerous-that-it-has-been-banned-for-human-consum-btl96/

    Now it's not a large shipment by any standard, but Argentina may be the source of Trump's mystery meat.

    If the producers there have more rejected shipments to move, Trump is exactly the kind of amoral son of a whore who'd make a deal to buy it and fob it off onto his idiot followers. Just so "Mr. Popularity" can get his numbers up before the mid-terms.

    Yeah, he'd risk the health of others for a cheap political boost..

    Not a problem.

    Not at all.

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  • [–] 20 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    The media is complicit. If they're questioning him at all it's to distract from something else.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 days ago

    100%.

    They're the ones determining what topics people should feel outraged about each day and it's never the right ones. They also set the tone for how each topic should be covered and what lens the sheep are supposed to view it through.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    It is working. I completely forgot about McConnell.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    I thought the meat was all of those wild horses they have been rounding up and selling

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

    Maybe a few more people will realize they don't need to eat meat now.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    Or trying to get the Epstein files released

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    The US media is exclusively lying about the Canada tariffs by trying to both-sides the Shite House’s insane talking points.

    US media is dead.

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  • I can't say I've ever thought of Trump's meat or Mitch McConnell in the shower.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago

    Because we know the answer to the latter already.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago

    ... or where the bodies are buried at Zorro ranch

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Please don't say 'Trump's mystery meat' ever again.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago

    Maybe they both have the same answer...

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    If anyone wants any inspiration for recipes to avoid the mystery meat !veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works and !veganhomecooks@lemmy.world

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Though... even the vegans are getting fucked hard with the deregulation of food industries. (Local/homegrown veggies aren't an option for everyone)

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    ...or probably the Epstein files. Not US-ian, so cannot confirm, but given the state of things my assumption makes sense.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    I know where the meat comes from. I know this guy called Mitch, and he doesn't need it anymore...

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    Little did they know that these were parallel investigations.

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