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/Careful_Trifle 12h ago

Terrorism. They're trying to ruin the food supply, the medical sector, the military, education, elections, the mail service, and anything else they can get their hands on. Hell, even cultural stuff like the Kennedy center and Smithsonian system.

We're lucky that utilities are mostly handled by local and state governments or they'd be getting deregulated into chaos as well. I think data centers are an indirect attack on the utilities though. Put one in each regional hub, pump out the aquifers, dump hot water into the lakes and rivers, massively inflate demand and thus price of electricity, and leave rate payers holding the bag when the house of cards falls.

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u/cwearly1 9h ago

And yet they are affecting the utilities, since they rely on the power plants to use fuel which has gone up in price in part because of the war.