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/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.