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Biden wasn't the one who defunded efforts to prevent the spread of the screwworm.
Fucker.
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.
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?
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".
Hey how about you stop blaming people and actually try and fix the problem jackass.
I was just thinking in a sane world, that headline would have ended "and the governmental organizations are working with local groups and leading experts on preventing the spread"
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.
This is all Trump and Elon and doge. Good job fuck nuts for axing USAID you dumb pedophiles.
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.
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.
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.
lol, Biden.
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?
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
The administration is just repeating the party line: "The buck stops somewhere else"
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.
ok. Biden did it. you're so right. glad he's gone.
NOW FUCKING FIX IT
As everyone knows, if Biden broke it only Biden can fix it. You have to elect Biden again.
It's a stupidity test.
"Blaming Biden" .... Is the worm still there?? ... Fuck! "Blaming Biden HARDER!!!"
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.
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.
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.
"If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will abandon democracy."
"The more likely explanation is that an administration with an antipathy to government ignored government’s purpose until it was too late."
Watching the US collapse from the outside while enjoying bottomless margaritas & nachos is def the way to go
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.
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?
Fuck those goddamn fucks.
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.
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.
The year is 2367 and the economy collapses.
It is Obama and Joe Bidens fault.