A big problem for trust in government is that high-quality governance is usually invisible. When the various agencies designed to protect the American people from all manner of threats are working perfectly, most potential disasters are detected and prevented before they happen. A lot of highly trained government workers do diligent and difficult work for little pay and less recognition, heading off crisis after crisis, and the ignorant swing-voting layman assumes that all his tax dollars are being squandered.
So one hopes that the voting public is learning a hard—or I should say watery—lesson about how important good government is, by way of the manifold consequences of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Robert Kennedy hacking away at American state capacity. The latest consequence can be heard in the groaning emanating from thousands of bathrooms across the country: the worst cyclosporiasis outbreak in American history. It deserves a name, so I’m calling it the MAHA Trots.
trumporrhea
Trumporrhea, or “a case of the Trumps” or “Trump dumps.”
Trump Trots?
Yeah, but gEnoCiDejoE and Kamala had that cackle (and didn’t have a peener!), so…this was the only proper outcome.
This will…checks notes…Send A Message To The Democrats To Do Better Next Time ™ or some such bullshit.
Not actively working against this specific genocide in this specific country is bad, very bad, disqualifying. Unless you also make everyone shit their pants forever, then it’s OK to do whatever genocide you want, it doesn’t matter actually.
The Gaza genocide is horrific. But it also wasn’t on the ballot.
Anyone who didn’t vote Harris was saying that they saw absolutely no difference between the 2 candidates and are okay with everything else that’s been happening since last January that wouldn’t have under Harris.
If you listen to a lot of the perpetually online folks, even now, you’d think Gaza genocide is the only thing on the ballot, on any ballot, ever. You’re not allowed to vote even for a school board member if they dare to talk about anything but how they personally gonna stop a genocide.
Diarrhea cuz no peena?
Getting explosive diarrhea to own the libs.
The worst so far. Maga republicans have only been leading the USA for about 18 months, it’s definitely going to get worse in the next few years. Thoughts and prayers is the best policy for letting things turn to shit, literally in this example.
Wait until the US breeds the basics for the next pandemic…
So one hopes that the voting public is learning a hard—or I should say watery—lesson about how important good government is
Most of them won’t learn anything. If they were capable of learning, they’ve had ample time to do so.
Some of the undecided may learn. Most conservatives are probably a lost cause and always will be. These are the people that were claiming “it’s just like the flu!” and “PLANDEMIC!” even as they lay dying of Covid, FFS.
And a whole lot of them were gobbling stuff like horse dewormer and calling for Fauci’s head for endorsing life-saving vaccines.
Cons are not likely to learn a fucking thing from a round of this, even if they have the worst version of it.
All they will do is complain to taco bell employees that their tacos are missing lettuce.
The best president of diarrhea and logorrhea.
Kinda sad this article doesn’t talk much about the outbreak. How many people have had it?
In 2025 the U.S. had ~800 cases including those associated with travel but diagnosed domestically. At the moment, while it’s not exactly easy to determine while things are still ongoing, there’s somewhere between 5,100 and 7,000 active cases.
From the article:
Some state health departments are doing what they can. Michigan, notably, has counted 3,762 cases at time of writing, as compared to the CDC’s 1,645, and identified salad greens as a possible—not confirmed!—culprit. But as Katrine Wallace points out at Stat News, most state health departments are not really equipped to collect and compare case information across multiple states.
Less than 10000 cases does NOT sound like the “worst outbreak this century”.
CBS says:
Comprehensive data on cyclospora outbreaks is lacking. But available information shows only a small number of documented outbreaks in the last 20 years have surpassed 1,000 cases. That short list includes a 1997 outbreak tied to Guatemalan raspberries that sickened more than 1,000 in the U.S. and Canada, and a 2019 outbreak linked to Mexican basil that sickened more than 2,400.
So, yeah, this one is the most serious outbreak we’ve had in a long time by quite a bit.
Of this one specific parasite, not diarrhea
I always knew the one thing Trump would be remembered for would be the diahreea outbreak of '26. Very fitting
I have to admit that this outbreak was not on my bingo card.
This makes me want Adam Conover and Obama to make a sequel to The G Word showing how much damage the Federal government has taken in the last couple of years.
It was such a good show
Amen to that. The doofs that vote Republican will likely never watch it, but a whole lot of fence-sitters/“centrists” may.
MAGA is quite capable of spraying liquid shit everywhere. The shitstains are on their way to create the next pandemic.
…so far
That outbreak is basically his brand! He is creating shit everywhere!
Hard to trust anything today, but word is that this is potentially linked to Taylor farms lettuce (in part linked to taco bell, likely among other yet to be named places as they are a huge supplier). They attempt to blame farms in Mexico, may be true, but their main facilities are in Salinas, CA.
BE AWARE that Taylor Farms has several sub-brands, including Earthbound Farm (Costco carries) and Eat Smart. Would not be surprised if they also white labeled for places like trader joes.
Oh crap Costco. Guess I got lucky.
He opened his mouth?
just saw a headline that said it was lettuce from Taco Bell. (I saw last week that TB had pulled lettuce and some other vegetable from its stores out of an abundance of caution.)
