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.
HAHAHAHAHHAA VERY OPTIMISTIC!
No but seriously we’re fucked.
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.
“I wonder who put that dick up my ass” -Conservatives/republicans after getting fucked by their own administration
Pretty sure its just family and local ranchers getting fucked. Isnt this just the same as Walmart taking advantage of every economic downturn to kill competition or buy them out?
Those family and local ranchers shouldn’t have voted for trump if they didn’t want leopards to eat their face.
They voted for this and are reaping what they sow, a principle they understand well.
Zero sympathy.
They voted for the only party that reached out to them. What did you expect? Another huge failure for the democrat party.
The only party that “reached out” to me was MAGA. I didn’t vote for trump because I used my brain to determine who to vote for.
Why didn’t they?
Did you not vote at all, or did you vote for the democrats who ignored you?
The Republicans are selling everything that’s not nailed down and crashing the US Economy. They could care less about worms and land or whatever.
“Why did Joe Biden shit in my pants?”
Wakes up long enough to holler “SLEEPY JOE!” and goes back to snoozing.
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.
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.
I mean… I feel like a somewhat sane policy at this point would be to put the US’s massive collective armory of privately owned firearms to use:
Declare feral hogs to be something approximating a national emergency, adjust hunting laws so that outside of major urban and suburban areas, and far enough away from roadways, you get a small stipend from the government for every feral hog you down and bring in to a local butcher.
Everybody has already been upgunning themselves into like 6.5 creedmoor and 300 blackout and shit for the ‘zombie apocalypse’ or ‘the boogaloo’… aim them at hogs instead of fantasies of being some kind ‘me and buddies’ militia.
Like, we already have states that adjust the number of other species you can take down per season, per how much the estimated population in the area is or is not overshooting ecological carrying capacity.
Just … every area with hogs? Dramatically reduce the legal ability to shoot anything other than a hog.
Require that a hog has to be literally placed into a body bag before you haul it away, require a picture from a phone with exif data including timestamp and geolocation be taken before and after you bagging it on site.
Maybe a farmer or rancher or someone with more hunting experience than myself could chime in with a critique of this general concept.
Just… spin it, market it as doing your patriotic duty to take out a hog instead of buck, or something.
Dramatically reduce the legal ability to shoot anything other than a hog.
Chronic wasting disease in deer is bad enough as it is. We did in their natural predators.
market it as doing your patriotic duty to take out a hog instead of buck, or something.
Already been done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsn9BrNsVPo It’s a scale problem.
https://wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wsb.787 tl;dr: there were more, healthier hogs when a bounty was paid out for them.
The government could just set up to buy tails or something and the rest would sort itself out.
I think there’s already people shooting these things with night vision and automatic weapons from helicopters though.
Unfortunately, if you put a bounty on something some asshole is bound to start a breeding program.
Probably true.
… put a bounty on them as well lol, demoted to hog.
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.
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.
eating ze bugs
You better be a wonk or I’m coming at you with my slappin’ hand.
The way I see it, a bunch of crickets or ants or something, ground up into a paste and then sifted to get the crunchier parts of the carapace out…
How is that really different from the pink slime chicken nuggets?
Other than it probably requires less chemical treatment?
Just press those into the shape of a pepperoni slice, figure out how to cook em.
When grilled and smothered with bacon and cheese they’re not bad at all.
I mean, a burger made mostly out of beans and flavoring, with bacon and cheese, that does at least have less meat in it than the same with a full chuck patty.
And probably most people that have cooked with fatty meat before can tell you that if you fry up some meat in a pan first, and then cook various other foods in the same pan, small amounts of that oil/grease cooked into various other kinds of food can enhance their flavor.
And its almost certainly much better to use basically bean burger… than using ground up newspaper or flour or breadcrumbs as extra mass for the burger… that was not uncommon during the Great Depression.
Call it the ‘hybrid’ between a standard burger and a fully vegan one, sorta like the hybrid as the intermediary between ICE and EV cars.
It is not gonna be easy to fully snap transition the burger consumption capital of the planet into not using any meat… baby steps, baby steps.
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
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!
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.
AI will fix plz invest all ur moneys in AI. Its not a scam.
Hungarian here, Fidesz blamed previous prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány for all of its incompetence, up until the Russo-Ukrainian war started.
they will use mental gymanstics, by saying “biden shouldve had measures in place to stop TRUMP” or whatever bs they come up with.
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.
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.
“And trust me, I know third world countries! I have a cousin who’s an expert in third world countries and let me tell you, he says no one knows third world countries better than me.”
Well it might reach unprecedented levels of income equality, I can totally see it
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.
Ketamine Musk and his merry band of DOGE misfits eliminated the department tasked with tracking and stopping screwworm flies. And now we have screwworm flies. Yet it’s Biden’s fault?
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.
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?
The obvious solution is we need to build an enormous mosquito net around the entire country.
crowd chanting BUILD. THE. NET. BUILD. THE. NET.
Not sure how they’ll work airplanes into the giant net system but reality has never stopped dumbasses spending trillions of dollars on stupid ideas.
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.
George Orwell’s work might be overrated
Is it?
“If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will abandon democracy.”
-Ben Franklin
I’m sorry but can you please explain to me how exactly an RBMK reactor can explode? No? I didn’t think so!
Hold up. “Communism doesn’t work because republicans do things” is an overlappping belief between communists and republicans, also. Which 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.
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.
Thanks, Obama!
*Obamna!
Oh so it was Biden who axed the programs that monitor the spread of the screw worm fly got it got it got it
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.
If it wasn’t for Biden, they’d still be blaming Obama, mate.
Ok, sure. Maybe.
No. Wrong. Not at all. Trump did this 100%
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
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.
Watching the US collapse from the outside while enjoying bottomless margaritas & nachos is def the way to go
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?
