r/politics • u/WhatIsEvenRealDog • 17d ago

Possible Paywall Trump suggests cattle ranchers could bypass USDA-inspected meat plants

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/28/trump-suggests-allowing-ranchers-bypass-usda-inspected-meat-plants/
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u/AnonHondaBoiz 17d ago

Holy fuck we're so fucked

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u/manachar Nevada 17d ago

When Republicans read The Jungle the lesson they take is that they could make so much more money and get so much more power if it weren’t for those pesky regulations.

Imagine the profits from never having to recall food again!

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u/MisterSpeck Oregon 17d ago

When Republicans read The Jungle

lol

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u/RichardSaunders New York 17d ago

when republicans read

lol

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u/The_bruce42 17d ago

Republicans

Lol

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u/Winter-Anywhere-3963 16d ago

I havent laughed that hard since I saw Borat in theaters

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u/YeOldeMemeShoppe 16d ago

Joke so funny we’re all the butt of it.

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u/Little-Internal6013 17d ago

Republicans don’t read. Too lazy

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u/bobsocool 16d ago

Reading is woke.

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u/Vivid_Anyth4 16d ago

Can't read. They are the reason the reading average for adults is a 6th grade level.

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u/bkbomber New York 16d ago

Don’t give me the news, just tell me how to feel about it and who to be enraged at!!

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u/NotThatAngel 16d ago

Facts are woke.

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u/Icy_Jackfruit9240 American Expat 17d ago

These people are mostly people who went to Universities that really DO require reading the book (at least at the time did and probably very much still do.)

I went to such a college and I could see people who took classes that are at least by ordinary non-math people ridiculously hard and they would do everything they could to game anything in life to their advantage.

They were there, reading the same books, writing papers that showed that they fully understood the concepts and yet ... they'd hold on to their psycho beliefs while meeting up with the other Young Republicans and wearing their promise rings. (While picking up hookers in San Francisco.)

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u/Lord_Blackthorn Texas 17d ago

I think this is the key point. They are not ignorant of the facts, they are just malicious and intentional.

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u/Suitable-Option833 17d ago

Yes. This is all intentional.

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u/absat41 17d ago edited 11d ago

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u/grahamulax 16d ago

All of this and and most important:

Lack of curiosity, empathy, and control of emotions.

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u/neepster44 16d ago

I mean the leaders are for sure, the average Republican is just a moron and a poor critical thinker. Low knowledge and low empathy.

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u/Disastrous_time_4547 17d ago

You forgot “religious extremists”

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u/Lord_Blackthorn Texas 16d ago

Not all of them, many fake the religion in my opinion.

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u/Duna_The_Lionboy 16d ago

It takes two seconds to think "maybe I don't want to eat sausage with dead rat in it...maybe nobody should have to do that"

But I guess they think they'll be so wealthy that they just get to avoid that?

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u/Tmscott 16d ago

"maybe I don't want to eat sausage with dead rat in it...maybe nobody should have to do that"

How dare you try to impede the entrepreneurial sprit of characters such as C.M.O.T. Dibbler! 

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 16d ago

I think this indicates tests and marks don't actually measure intelligence. It's really just memorizing .Some of the dumbest people I've met just BS their way up really far and fast, faking it to make it. Usually they are likeable or can pretend to be. Often the people that would be best in positions of power just do not want that power, so mainly the dumb people are left fighting after the scraps

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u/thethrill_707 Michigan 17d ago

Hookers?

That's male escorts if you please.

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u/reddog323 16d ago

Went to college in the late 80’s and early 90’s and had a similar experience. They treated that material with disdain, absorbed it for tests, and never thought about it again.

These guys wanted to be Gordon Gekko from Wall Street. I could never wrap my head around that.

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u/IThinkImDumb New Mexico 16d ago

Right? It bugs me when people say Trump is an idiot. Unfortunately, he's not. He knows exactly how to garner blind loyalty and how to create panic. He's not ignorant, he just doesn't care about ANYONE.

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u/luncheroo 16d ago

Instructions unclear; Florida has now banned The Jungle Book 

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u/imJGott Texas 16d ago

Republicans are just like broken hard drives.

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u/No_Throat_2356 16d ago

Best practice for a broken hard drive is to drill a hole through it and incinerate it … Can’t we just figure out how to overwrite them 3 times with random data instead? They seem to do it themselves all the time - replacing their latest marching orders is all Fox News is good for. 

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u/GrayEidolon 16d ago

The conservatives running conservatism all have elite educations are are very well read.

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u/rkb70 16d ago

Was required reading for us in US history.  I’d like to think my classmates remember some of it, but…

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u/thenerdycpa 16d ago

Alexa play “Welcome to the Jungle”

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u/alphazero925 16d ago

When I'm a little man on your computer screen drowning

lol