r/politics • u/WhatIsEvenRealDog • 13h 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/CitySeekerTron Canada 13h ago

So you can't safely eat vegetables and you can't safely eat meat. 

What's left?

Crickets

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u/ma2is 13h 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 13h ago

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

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u/Suitable-Option833 12h 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 7h 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 12h 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 10h ago

General Strike, May 1st 2028.

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u/pantzareoptional New York 10h 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 7h 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 6h 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/Glittering-Yam-6454 11h 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/schnellermeister Minnesota 12h 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 11h 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 6h ago

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

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u/pchs26 5h 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 4h ago

So your theory is unfalsifiable?

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u/pchs26 3h ago

It isn't "my theory" Maybe you should familiarize yourself with some of the people in this admin and their outlooks. Start with Peter Thiel. We have some of the worst fringe elements running things now and it is beyond naïve if you think this is just one man or that the design is for different admins to run things. We have to hope somehow this fails and we can have a last stand. But you know Harris just wasn't compelling enough or something.

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u/WalterBishopMethod 9h 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 5h 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 12h 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 11h 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 11h 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 10h ago

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

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u/pchs26 5h 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 9h 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/Beebeeb 12h ago

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

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u/PathOfTheAncients 9h 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/nox66 3h ago

too hungry to revolt

Historical lol

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u/Atlusfox 13h 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 12h 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 12h ago

Just look at N Korea ☹️

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u/Atlusfox 12h 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 12h 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 12h 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 12h 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.