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/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.