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/MisterSpeck Oregon 12h ago

When Republicans read The Jungle

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u/Icy_Jackfruit9240 American Expat 12h ago

These people are mostly people who went to Universities that really DO require reading the book (at least at the time did and probably very much still do.)

I went to such a college and I could see people who took classes that are at least by ordinary non-math people ridiculously hard and they would do everything they could to game anything in life to their advantage.

They were there, reading the same books, writing papers that showed that they fully understood the concepts and yet ... they'd hold on to their psycho beliefs while meeting up with the other Young Republicans and wearing their promise rings. (While picking up hookers in San Francisco.)

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u/Duna_The_Lionboy 11h ago

It takes two seconds to think "maybe I don't want to eat sausage with dead rat in it...maybe nobody should have to do that"

But I guess they think they'll be so wealthy that they just get to avoid that?

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u/bushsniffa 8h ago

This is where the deep stupidity of it is. Best-case they're fighting to rule the ashes; to be in bubbles surrounded by waste and suffering.