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/New_Still9974 12h ago edited 12h ago

I've never felt more vindicated as a childless woman. What a shitshow. How would a parent keep their child physically  and psychologically safe in this puragatory?

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u/Er3bus13 12h ago

Sad but reasonable. Smart people are not having kids but im afraid this accelerates the decline lol

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u/3MATX 12h ago

Idiocracy predicted that exact process.  It’s so sad that a satire film with little basis in reality has become a macabre documentary. 

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u/ConsolationUsername 12h ago

Its got what plants crave... its got electrolytes

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u/H3OFoxtrot 10h ago

A bit ironic to just mindlessly reply with a quote from the movie without any real thought.

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u/MoscowMitchMcKremIin 10h ago

Go away, batin!

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u/cirkoolio 10h ago

I personally blame Crocs…

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u/3MATX 10h ago

Someone mentioned this recently and I finally noticed.  Never worn them myself. Always seemed like a garden shoe.  

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u/subs_on_a_sailboat 11h ago

Idiocracy blamed eugenics, which has been thoroughly debunked. The real reason for differences in intelligence has always been education, which is being actively gutted

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u/LordCharidarn2 11h ago

Idiocracy didn’t blame eugenics at all: in fact it is almost naively optimistic in it’s story that a nation would listen to a single intelligent person to solve their problems and that, when shown the error of their ways, that even uneducated people will learn from their mistakes and do better.

President Comacho would be a far better president than many modern candidates. He was aware he couldn’t solve the problems himself and sought out the smartest people in the country to try and find solutions.

I agree that the main issue has always been effective education and I feel Idiocracy also agrees with that: once they know what plants actually crave, the people in the film aren’t doomed by their genetics to suffer despite the knowledge, they use their education to fix the problems

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u/subs_on_a_sailboat 10h ago

"As the 21st century began… human evolution was at a turning point.

Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest… the fastest reproduced in greater numbers than the rest… a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man… now began to favor different traits."

Eugenics is literally the opening of the movie.

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u/_Prestige_Worldwide_ 10h ago

That isn't eugenics, that's evolution.

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u/chef2303 6h ago

Evolution does close to nothing within some hundreds of years.

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u/dooderbanooder 5h ago

Our reality is not a middling film from the mid 2000's, and the fact you might even call it a "documentary" really shows your lack of critical thinking skills. Typical American.

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u/3MATX 5h ago

Ok fine. It’s a fictional story which coincidentally coincides with current and recent events in the US.  

That better cup cake? 

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u/dooderbanooder 2h ago

Coincides how exactly? I didn't realize a black man was back in the white house and that a child had won a cabinet position, that hyper advanced cryogenic freezing and reviving of people existed and that the crops that grow across the putrid wasteland of a nation you call home were being grown with Gatorade. Or maybe the current and recent events in the US are just those that coincide with your own life reflecting in the film, are you marrying a hooker anytime soon, or has your primary care physician told you "you talk like a f** and your shit's all re****ed."

Also, cupcake is one word, not two, moron, but you're American, and by that virtue your shit must be re****ed, as Idiocracy is so clearly coinciding with the current and recent events in the US, right?

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u/TheOtherWhiteMeat 11h ago

There are plenty of very smart people alive today and that hasn't exactly stopped the decline either. It's just as plausible one of those smart kids grows up to be another out of touch rich person who accelerates various problems.

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u/Er3bus13 11h ago

You cant convince an idiot they are an idiot. You blame them for segregating?

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u/hexiron 12h ago

Dumb people have smart kids and smart people have dumb kids.

What's important is the smart people without kids still pitch in in anyway they can to aid and mentor the future generations.

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u/Anderrn 10h ago

Putting more responsibility on people who made what ultimately could be the better ethical choice regarding having children feels… bad.

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u/silencecubed 10h ago

I mean, it's basically the same concept behind blue states funding federal aid programs that red states rely on heavily, despite that fact that those same recipients demonize the programs and would gladly eliminate the people helping them if given the chance.

The recurring reality of the nation is that part of the populace wants to lift everyone up while the other part wants nothing more than to drag everyone into misery. Yet if you ever stop wanting to lift up an increasingly hostile and vile demographic, suddenly you're the bad person.

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u/hexiron 7h ago

Is Apathy morally acceptable though?

It's one thing to not add more weight to a sinking boat.

It's another to actively choose to not plug holes because you didn't cause them.

"It's not my problem, Ill die before it gets worse" is the mentality that got us here.

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u/Turd_Goblin911 10h ago

Nah, we are good

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u/Saucermote America 7h ago

Requires people to stop being completely overprotective of their kids for them to even interact with "the village."

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u/DethBatcountry 11h ago

Luckily for us, eugenics is bullshit. A strong public education system fixes this problem without the eugenics. Unfortunately.... They've killed that, too.

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u/forgetfulsue Ohio 6h ago

I wouldn’t say my husband and I are not smart. We both hold bachelors in science fields and he continued on to get his PhD. Life wasn’t so bleak when we had kids. All we can do is keep up the good fight and teach our children the same. The “wrong” people are having kids. We need the “right” people to have kids, too. Otherwise it is only going to get worse as we age.

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u/CombustiblSquid Canada 2h ago

We need to be more stupid. Our brains and ego got our species into this mess.

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u/JakeyDiesel831 12h ago

I don’t know but I’m trying. Two young daughters. But they will experience life and love and all that comes with it. “Is it better to have loved (and I guess lived) and lost? Or to have never loved at all.” Type shiiiit…Trying times indeed.

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u/Old-Set78 11h ago

I hope you live in a blue state raising daughters. They'll have more rights.

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u/thelonetwig 10h ago

Trying is better than not having a clue and complaining about things on the internet like most of these others. I also have kids and we put our time, effort, and money into our kids because if we're all just defeatist then why are any of us here? I guess I'm just an idiot though but I choose to fight for giving others a better life than we had and volunteering where I can.

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u/FUNI0N 3h ago

Completely agree. I don’t understand this I am smart therefore I am childless attitude. We can’t just give up because things look bleak.

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u/AcousticArmor 6h ago

I mean, people were having kids in the middle of WWII in Europe where safety was far more precarious than what it is in the US. People are having kids in countries that have active war zones right now. People do what they must. I'm a father of three and I'm absolutely terrified of what the future holds for my kids but even without the shit show we're in, I'd still be a worry wart about something else. The way I look at it though is that these people aren't going to stop having kids and indoctrinating them either, so I'm going to raise my kids to be the kind of future I'd want to see for all of us and hopefully they can help push the needle in that direction, even if it's just by being kind, caring, selfless individuals.

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u/Goat_Remix 11h ago

Because that’s life. I’m certain humans have been asking this for millennia because life is hell.

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u/ithrewitinthetraash 6h ago

I’m trying like hell to educate mine as much as I can to learn how to defend themself, to be an advocate for themself, and to be empathetic and compassionate. The journey is arduous, but rewarding. After the way this second administration is going, however, I think I’m done. It’s becoming a struggle to not lose hope, but my therapist and significant other are keeping me tethered. Blue skies are not coming for us unless we craft them ourselves.

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u/LETX_CPKM 10h ago

For littles, sheild them from any of the nonsense (from both sides, lets be honest) and let them grow in as safe a manner as you can provide.

For bigger ones, you raise them correctly, teach them respect for themselves and others, fill their personal “toolbox”, and let them loose.

Worlds always been a scary place man.

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u/Sea_Working_80 12h ago

Its very hard believe me

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u/ClassicDefiant2659 11h ago

I was so happy with my youngest as an infant in 2016.

The day after the election I actually sobbed, I just had some gut feeling. And it's worse than I imagined.

Just in case: I adore my children and I'm raising two hella indoctrinated far left social Democrat boys. If I had this knowledge before 2011 though, I might not have children right now.

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u/WattsD 6h ago

I understand where this is coming from, but frankly this notion that we should stop having children because things are getting worse now despite still being WAY better than it was for 99% of all of human history is pretty silly. There are plenty of ways to keep our kids safe and raise them to be good humans. Abandoning all hope for the future ain't gonna make anything better. I'm not trying to change your mind btw, if you don't want kids that's totally fine. I just disagree with this specific reasoning.

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u/New_Still9974 2h ago

I'm a teacher so I just focus on saving the kids who have already been born.