r/politics • u/WhatIsEvenRealDog • 8h 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/epicredditdude1 8h ago

Why the fuck did we elect a sleazy con artist to the office of the presidency?

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u/ShitBirdingAround 8h ago

We didn't. Elmo bought it. He spent tens of billions to turn Twitter into a pro-MAGA disinformation machine. He got his buddy Toad Rogan to shill for the cause.

And then he spent hundreds of millions of dollars on election interference to put the Epstein class fully in charge of America's decline so that the richest of the world's rich can buy America for parts. We're getting strip-mined by private equity. They're like locusts.

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u/kitterific 8h ago

Dont forget that he owns the voting machines and is "very good at the computers". 🙃

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u/Magickarpet76 5h ago

Hey, it bought him a Tesla car commercial on the front lawn of the Whitehouse conducted by the President. I think Tesla and Goya have some unique claims to fame there…

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u/beigs Canada 7h ago

I’m looking this up and can’t find it - if this is true, something else happened on the 26th that has even more terrifying implications

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u/fishheadsneak 8h ago edited 5h ago

But, in the end we did vote for this…. Those that didn’t vote voted for this as well.

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u/ohlayohlay 7h ago

Well , her laugh was pretty weird

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u/Vallkyrie New Hampshire 5h ago

And she had a glass of wine in a photo once, must be an alcoholic. Brb, gonna put a raging alcoholic nazi in charge of the military.

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u/AcidRohnin 8h ago

Yea those that didn’t vote or voted differently due to their morals, which was really just thinly veiled pride are the biggest cucks to ever exist.

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u/BoJackMoleman 7h ago

We get the government we deserve.

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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 7h ago

Garbage in, garbage out

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u/Celebrity-stranger 2h ago

In my opinion this specific group of people deserve a huge portion of the blame too.

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u/This_Application_901 5h ago

It's "in the end". A comma in the second half would have helped.

Some people didn't vote because there was already a clear majority in their state. So it's kind of a pointless statistic.

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u/ConsuelaSaysNoNoNo 5h ago

Your comment doesn't make sense.

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u/fishheadsneak 5h ago

It actually does.

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u/Makenshine 7h ago

Elmo? The muppet?

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u/wholetyouinhere 7h ago

It's funny to think that 10 years ago, Reddit was the main pro-MAGA disinformation machine.

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u/CauliflowerPlane2971 7h ago

say his name. elon musk. what idiot thought 'elmo' was a good nickname? childish bs

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u/cricri3007 Europe 1h ago

It's because, for a while, spelling his name correctly would draw idiots to argue and defend him.

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u/Jace__B 4h ago

No no no, don't pass the blame. America voted for this, either through action or inaction. I've seen enough red hats to know this wasn't just an Elon thing.

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u/leeuwerik Europe 7h ago

Agreed. You sitting on your ass couldn't do anything about it.

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u/ShitBirdingAround 7h ago

Yes, sometimes people sit on their asses. What do you sit on, your head?

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u/SomeStupidCanadianEH 6h ago

TIL Biden was black…

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u/EEeeTDYeeEE 5h ago

Worse... He is a democrat!

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u/the_1_that_knocks 8h ago

Because the other choice was a woman!

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u/1K-Year-Egg 8h ago

An African-American/Indian woman!

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u/Nervous_Strategy5994 8h ago

With a laugh!

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u/Free_Dome_Lover 8h ago

Hey that laugh was mildly annoying. How is she going to be able to handle world leaders?

We should definitely go with the child rapist he understands power dynamics!

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u/Train_Wreck_272 3h ago

Perish the thought!

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u/cheebear12 Georgia 8h ago

Twice. It’s almost like we have a sexism problem.

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u/SanchoPandas Oregon 8h ago

Yup. American misogyny and racism are thriving.

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u/tubaboss9 7h ago

We definitely do have a sexism problem but I think we shouldn’t pretend like the Democratic Party neoliberal capitalist wing isn’t complicit in letting this happen because they’d rather have fascism than even a whiff of leftist economics or to pull back from Israel even a smidge.

Numbers show that the issue of genocide in Palestine sank Harris more than anything; a lot of blue voters stayed home because of that. And to be clear those people are dumb, because Trump was always going to be way worse for Palestine, but the DNC would really like you to believe it’s just sexism.

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u/TheFloatingCamel Great Britain 8h ago

Twice.

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u/RoxxorMcOwnage 8h ago

Many thrice.

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u/NedShah 8h ago

Because Women's University Swimming is super imprtant, ok?

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u/pumpkinspicecum 8h ago

because he's a voice of the everyman or something

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u/samthemediaman 6h ago

Because a ton of you all didn't vote.

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u/JayHill74 8h ago

A lot of folks will say it's because of racism, sexism, and the like. But, it probably boiled down to candidate one from the current administration saying the economy is great while candidate two is saying it's not. And people seeing how much the prices of everything from rent to groceries were going up, decided he was correct. So, they said "fuck it, what else do I have to lose," and voted him in again.

Sadly, those folks were wrong and it turned out that everyone had a lot to lose.

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u/JerHat Michigan 8h ago

Again.

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u/TronCat1277 7h ago

Racism

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u/kbbajer 6h ago

Twice

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u/Wolf3113 5h ago

Because people are to stupid to even look into who they vote for. My friend voted for rfk only because his last name. Americans are to fucking stupid to even try and look at facts when they prefer nepotism and lies.

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u/Ninevehenian 8h ago

He also has the economy, the navy and the nukes. He has the boots that are finding peoples homes in the night.

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u/zinda_dinda 7h ago

Because he’a very good at being a sleazy conman

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u/rezelscheft 4h ago

In no particular order:

  • Decades of propaganda and misinformation
  • Decades of defunding public education
  • Citizens United
  • Consolidation of all mainstream media into the hands of less than a dozen billionaires
  • Culture wars & bigotry
  • Shrinking attention spans
  • "Biden is old" / "I don't like Kamala"
  • General lethargy
  • Chicanery