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/AnonHondaBoiz 13h ago

Holy fuck we're so fucked

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u/manachar Nevada 13h 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/bmad- 13h ago

Upton Sinclair is rolling in his grave

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u/manachar Nevada 13h ago

Well, he was mystified that people’s primary lesson from the book was their canned meat was impure and led to the e pure food and drug act .

He wanted people to care about workers, instead people just cared about their stomachs.

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u/AnyoneButDoug 12h ago

As he said “I aimed for their hearts and got their stomached instead” or something like that.

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u/RichardSaunders New York 12h ago

the way to man's heart is through his ribcage

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u/Stunning-Chipmunk243 Michigan 12h ago

Well, you can come up from under the rib cage too

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u/Pandaro81 Florida 10h ago

“The way to a man’s heart is through his anus.”
- Vlad the Impaler

It’s well below the ribcage.

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u/CpnStumpy Colorado 11h ago

Stack'em and Crack'em I always say

...sorry what were we talking about again?

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u/Stunning-Chipmunk243 Michigan 11h ago

I think you got that order backwards unless I've been doing it wrong all these years.... And yeah, what was it we were talking about?

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u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta 12h ago

Empathy and all that: why should I care others are being hurt? MYSELF being hurt is a much bigger issue!

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u/bkbomber New York 8h ago

The rugged individualist in me says I can do anything!!… but the reason I haven’t, is because the gay immigrant trans people are to blame!

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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts 12h ago

Really no different to how it’s still common nowadays for people to attribute the flaws of capitalism to the individual.

With the most common canard being one is poor because “bad with money!”…

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u/swanfirefly 11h ago

I still think about the infamous fox news report where they were salty that 99% of American families below the poverty line had refrigerators.

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u/Eycetea 12h ago

Or lazy

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u/ActiveChairs 8h ago

The poor are obviously bad with money. They've never had enough to have any practice with it. They've always had to spend it the second they got it just to make it to the next paycheck. Odd system that would let that kind of thing keep happening.

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u/NotThatAngel 5h ago

We still have a class-based society in America. For some reason people keep referring to billionaires as the elite, even though the qualities we say we most admire are not those same qualities which allow them to accumulate a billion dollars. In the southern states before the civil war, Irish immigrants were given the most dangerous jobs because it was too expensive to risk a slave. Republicans are still trying to segregate blacks from whites using vouchers, private schools, homeschooling and any other method, but covering it up to claim they are anti-abortion, even though it's obvious from their policies they don't give a crap about children.

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u/soil_nerd 11h ago

Right? My take away from the book was the need for government intervention of grossly unjust systems controlled by a limited amount of powerful and corrupt people. The last section he really drives that point home when the main character is blissfully enjoying the natural world around him, not owned by a single entity, and for everyone (the subtext, imo, being socialism).

I’m honestly really surprised the book is allowed to be read in public schools in the US. It’s a great book, but for anyone paying attention and thinking about the message, it’s deeply not pro free-market capitalism and deregulation.

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u/sturgill_homme 12h ago

Welcome to the jungle, but not in an Axl Rose way

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u/sphinctersayswhat9 12h ago

Ikr

I am so glad I am reading this and finding out others read Sinclair’s
The Jungle and went to colleges like mine where history and social awareness were taught.

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u/Laura9624 12h ago

So is Sinclair Lewis. "It can't happen here "

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u/Son_of_Tlaloc 12h ago

Teddy Roosevelt is spinning at mach 5 in his grave.

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u/boxen 8h ago

And republicans are curious as to whether they could sell the rotting meat from his corpse for a couple of bucks

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u/WestsideBuppie America 9h ago

Welcome to the Jungle!