Meanwhile, the administration is planning to import 661,000,000 lbs of beef to try to reduce record high prices but refuses to say where it will come from.

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inigyou 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Would those be the high prices he created by importing millions of invasive foreign screw worm flies?

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testdelacc1 an hour ago | parent [-]

Of all the many things he did, I argue that this is the stupidest, most pointless and damaging thing he did. There was no upside to doing it. He went out of his way to destroy a program that had been running successfully out of sheer stupidity. He mainly hurt his voters (cattle farmers in rural areas), not democrats. It hurt him on the biggest issue he ran on - inflation.

It was a massive unforced error that he’s been scrambling for months to fix.

He could literally have done nothing and it would have been better.

Almost all of his other missteps and mistakes can be rationalised - there was some benefit to himself or someone who bribed him or voted for him. But this screwworm thing just perfectly encapsulates him as a person and his presidency as a whole - something works well for 70 years to protect Americans and he destroys it through malicious incompetence.

More info about how the program worked - America’s never ending battle against flesh eating worms (2020) - https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-ea...

	▲	atmavatar 29 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's almost like disbanding the CDC's pandemic response team mere months before a once in a lifetime global pandemic. And then he was re-elected. Unfortunately, it would seem that stupid, unnecessary, self-own changes are not a red line for a significant fraction of the voting public.
	▲	Loudergood an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Doge was full of these, just in areas that you don't understand.

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goshx 19 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

On an unrelated note, the government is rounding up protected wild horses and sending them to slaughterhouses.

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ButlerianJihad 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cows, hopefully

	▲	mech422 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		green cows ?

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TranquilMarmot 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No better time to consider going vegetarian or cutting out red meat, even one day a week can make a huge difference.