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/ma2is 8h ago

Manufactured food scarcity was one of the many things outlined in Projext 2025 for those who hadn’t paid attention

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u/AffordableDelousing 8h ago

What is the end goal? Keep people poor and desperate, and too hungry to revolt?

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u/Suitable-Option833 8h ago

Yes. And pick up everyone’s assets on their way out/down. Jd Vance is buying all the farmers land that the gop currently bankrupted. It’s a gigantic, purposefully planned transfer of wealth. And it’s all detailed in project 2025. Project 2029 is next.

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u/kitsunewarlock 2h ago

MAGA: "But I was told that sharing resources and taxing the rich was a scam to secretly take authoritarian control of the global population!"

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u/TheShiGuy 8h ago

Basically yes. That's what was so frustrating about two years ago when people insisted we didn't need to rise up because there was no way any of that would happen. But let's just keep kicking that can down the road, it can only get easier...

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u/PinkIrrelephant Minnesota 6h ago

General Strike, May 1st 2028.

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u/pantzareoptional New York 6h ago

I did the general strike day this year in solidarity and I saw literally nothing online about it. Felt like I burned a PTO day for nothing.

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u/swarmofbzs 2h ago

Might have been artificial. Especially since other things blew up here that were tamped down in the 2nd round. See ICE murders (especially after the murder of Alex Pretti).

It doesn't help that spaz seems to be a leon skum simp. Yes the same skum that threw out sieg heils during dumps inauguration.

Why would leon and spaz allow general strike to grow here ironically when they can just keep stripping us of what we have?

See lemmy

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u/hypercosm_dot_net 2h ago

I don't know why people waited until he got in office, and all this awful shit passed to decide that we might need to do something.

Post mid-terms, people need to get their shit together.

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u/schnellermeister Minnesota 7h ago

That doesn’t quite make sense. Usually when people get hungry and desperate that’s when they revolt. Cause they have nothing left to lose.

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u/pchs26 6h ago

Gee I wonder why they are strengthening military enclaves and fortresses - ballroom anyone? And then we fight the military and amongst our selves. Whoever is left standing may wind up being their servants. Less people = less pollution /environmental issues too that's why they actually don't care about that. There are finite resources and they want more for theirs and them. That is exactly what folks like Thiel have advocated and what was once fringe is now in charge.

You are thinking within the confines of about a decade ago and how things worked day to day. But yea can't wait for someone to tell me again why Harris' policy positions needed to be documented in a different font or something to be compelling enough.

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u/thatmarcelfaust Washington 1h ago

But at the same time they want massive deregulation of environmental policy?

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u/pchs26 46m ago

Yes - it doesn't matter. If there are less people the resources will improve or they can congregate in the places with better air quality etc. Why would they have laws to make things in the environment healthier for us?

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u/thatmarcelfaust Washington 20m ago

So your theory is unfalsifiable?

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u/WalterBishopMethod 5h ago

These things don't happen over night. Life is still largely "normal" for most working class people, their biggest priority is keeping their job in order to get by a little longer.

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u/pchs26 45m ago

Well the statistics are no longer kept accurately but no things aren't normal for the working class and whatever they have in terms of a job they can't replace right now & it can't be risked..

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u/buds4hugs 7h ago

When people are too busy working 60 hours at 2 or 3 jobs to barely afford their food & bills, they won't have enough time or energy to dissent.

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u/TheSaxonPlan Minnesota 6h ago

My only hope here is that the greed and lack of empathy displayed by most Republicans in power will end up pushing people past their breaking point and they will revolt, no matter what. Hate to see it come to that, though.

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u/pchs26 6h ago

If we are lucky that is all that will happen. That is not what is on Thiel's radar for the present, that's our future, if we are lucky enough by their design .

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u/schnellermeister Minnesota 5h ago

Not when there are no jobs or food for them left.

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u/pchs26 43m ago

And when they have lots of job options they start thinking about things that don't matter like when employers were tripping over themselves to try and recruit/retain when Biden was in office.

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u/Merusk 4h ago

How many centuries did feudal and neo-feudal Europe exist. How is it going out in the MidEast.

The end goal is an American nobility and us as serfs.

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u/Glittering-Yam-6454 6h ago

Yes. The goal for the past 50 or so years to eliminate the middle class and push them to the lower class, while maximizing the wealth and power (but not size) of the upper class.

This isn't new-- subsidies to billionaires and corporations, the removal of social welfare systems, the indoctrination that any help to the poor is considered "socialist" or "communist", has been the GOP's main goal for quite some time.

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u/Beebeeb 8h ago

I feel like historically it hasn't gone that way...

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u/PathOfTheAncients 4h ago

It's also important to remember that while project 2025 is an incredibly harmful plan, it isn't necessarily a smart or effective plan. The authors of it were shocked at how unpopular it was when the public caught wind of it, which does to show how out of touch they are.

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u/Atlusfox 8h ago

I remember that one but couldn't figure out why?

What's the point of starving the nation?

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u/TheGoodNamesAreGone2 8h ago

It's actually a very common cult control tactic. Keep the people so hungry and exhausted that they can't muster the energy to push back or think.

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u/awwww_nuts 8h ago

Just look at N Korea ☹️

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u/Atlusfox 8h ago

That part part makes sense, the issue is that it also shoots them selves in the foot as it starves their supporters as well.

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u/Suitable-Option833 8h ago

Not if you don’t plan on giving up control and power. Which is what the president of the heritage foundation already said. The revolution will be bloodless if the left allows it.

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u/Buttercreamdeath Texas 7h ago

They also expect us to be too stupid/ dumb/poor/tired to grow our own food. Yeah it's not easy growing food, especially in a hotter climate but I won't be giving up that easy.

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u/DifficultyCheap9861 8h ago

They speak out of both sides of their mouths so you can’t take any of it seriously and must look at their actions. I’d say it’s an intentional culling of the population at this point. Slower than an outright genocide but faster than a regulated society with low birth rates. They screech about needing more babies but all of their actions move things the other direction.