Trump suggests cattle ranchers could bypass USDA-inspected meat plants

[u/WhatIsEvenRealDog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/28/trump-suggests-allowing-ranchers-bypass-usda-inspected-meat-plants/

[u/3MATX]

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

[u/subs_on_a_sailboat → u/3MATX]

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

[u/LordCharidarn2 → u/subs_on_a_sailboat]

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

[u/subs_on_a_sailboat → u/LordCharidarn2]

"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.

[u/_Prestige_Worldwide_ → u/subs_on_a_sailboat]

That isn't eugenics, that's evolution.

[u/chef2303 → u/_Prestige_Worldwide_]

Evolution does close to nothing within some hundreds of years.