Republicans are trying their best to push the blame for the resurgence of the flesh-eating New World screwworm on former President Joe Biden—even though it was their current boss who cut funding for the monitoring program.

“Under the last administration with the massive movement under the open borders policy that the cartels, etcetera, border security, that’s when it began to make its way back up toward America, hitting Mexico in early 2023, moving its way up through Mexico in 2024,” Agriculture Secretary Rollins said Monday morning on CNBC, claiming that Biden’s immigration policy was the direct cause of the screwworm reinfestation.

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[–] 7 points 5 months ago

And. Who. Currently. Is. The. Fucking. President???

Jesus h Christ, MAGAts are some of the stupidest people on earth. Faux Entertainment will tell them it's Bidens fault, and they'll parrot it obediently without even questioning that if it was Bidens fault then why isn't their fat and stupid god doing something about it???

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I think I know why Trump and his fascist posse almost always blame Biden and a lot more rarely Obama: the latter is still mentally sharp and would destroy all of them if he decided to speak up a bit more often and defend himself, while the former is fighting to keep his dribble in his mouth.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    It's simpler than that. Magats are so fucking stupid that if you tell them Trump harvested green cheese from the moon with his bare hands they'd line up at the grocery store with Trump crypto currency in one hand and Ivermectin in the other.

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    [–] 42 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    It’s illegal to talk about how easy it would be to kill Elon Musk. Don’t do it.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    if he was a Hitman cameo, though?

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  • [–] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    THE MAN WASN’T EVEN IN OFFICE AT THE TIME OF THEIR EXISTENCE!

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Those maga folk in southern states do like to BBQ steaks. I wonder how they’ll spin this one to support trump while they swallow the extra cost without admitting they’re wrong?

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago

    One minor quibble. Generally, you grill steaks. BBQ is a low and slow cooking method in a smoky environment to allow larger cuts of meat with lots of collagen time to get tender and delicious.

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  • [–] 26 points 5 months ago (16 children)

    Is this the bridge too far, or will his supporters power through and find a way to believe this?

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago (11 children)

    Take your pick:

    • "Not my problem. I live in {state}, not {state}"
    • "Less red meat a good thing. MAHA"
    • "We shouldn't have been paying to deworm Mexico in the first place"
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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago (6 children)

    The post already says theyre blaming it on Biden. I've heard magats say gas was $9/gal under Biden. These people has the memory of a gold fish, and just repeat whatever faux news says.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I looked it up, and supposedly gas peaked at $5 under Biden, but I don't know when that was, and it must not have lasted very long. I know for a fact that it was a point of pride that I had never paid over $3.99 per gallon until Trump came along.

    Besides, how does that Biden-blaming work? So if gas got to $9 under Biden, does that mean MAGAs are okay with it going to 8.99?

    I assume they were pissed at Biden when it got over $3-4, right? So how come if it was bad when Biden did it, it's okay for Trump to do it? This idea of: "So what if inflation/ unemployment/ etc is way up, it was worse under Biden!" is a really illogical argument. You hated it under Biden enough that you just had to allow a proven traitor and pedophile back into the job, but now it's all okay? It seems like everything bad is okay, as long as it isn't as bad as Biden, but if it gets worse than Biden, it's still okay, because that's Biden's fault, too.

    Haven't these people ever heard that two wrongs don't make a right?

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You've put way more thought i to this than they do. They are just delusional amd think things are great now and things are cheaper when they aren't.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    If you put it in context of a sports team it makes way more sense. What he's trying to do is say "dude look at your favorite team's averages, they're terrible." No one's gonna listen to that and they'll just find any cope they can because it's their favorite team and the other team is really boring and lame so they can't be right.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I was talking with someone yesterday that had a giant Trump sign in his yard well after the last election. Sign was taken down months ago and he was saying the he doesn't even want to vote anymore because he doesn't want to be responsible for who gets into office. That's not an insignificant change. I live in the south and I have only heard one person saying anything remotely positive about him out loud, and they had to state that it wasn't all good in the same sentence. Trump does not have the support he did when elected because these people sleep waling through life are waking up to at least a measure of reality.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's always so strange to me to hear "flesh-eating fly (that causes extreme pain to every warm-blooded mammal) has resurfaced. This will make beef more expensive."

    It's the same energy as "ah we just bombed Iran, now gas is more expensive."

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Well, i mean yeah, duh! If biden didnt do it, trump wouldnt have to cut the program!

    /s for the serial dumbfucks

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    I guess I'll just keep reposting this until journalism catches up: The screwworm coverage so far is terrible.

    First off, everyone is acting like this is a problem for beef prices (end of list). No, this is a problem for any mammal living in the southern US. FFS, some of the cases already are dogs- how are people not putting this together?

    Second, Biden did whiff on the screwworm response in Central America. They should have pulled a Gandalf as screwworms spread north, but instead were modern Democrats and assumed the situation would fix itself until it was really bad.

    Third, the real blame lies with whoever was POTUS before Biden (I can’t recall) for ignoring that the Panama facility holding the Darien Gap needed updates, more funding. We’re talking tens of millions of dollars to fix in 2018 what will now be a billions and billions problem. Trump- oh right it was Trump. Yeah, then when Covid hit they lost the Gap. To come back in 2025 and cut funding to to the program, pull out of partnerships with nations dealing with screwworms, and re-open the border to animal disease vectors is insanity. Are we sure these people aren’t literal demons feeding on human misery?

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago

    Don’t worry , Bill Gates has some 3d printed cancer meat to sell you! And butter made from petroleum distillates!

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Nobody cares guys.

    Why do you guys keep hanging out here just to read a daily article and move on.

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    [–] 43 points 5 months ago (2 children)
    • Tank international shipping

    • Curtail O&G out of the Middle East

    • Create enormous pent-up demand for Chinese EVs

    • Flood the market with electricity-hungry data centers when the cheapest form of electricity is wind/solar

    • Kill the budget airlines and make flying a bourgeois pursuit

    • Obliterate the cattle ranching industry by spreading disease and sucking up all the potable water

    • Demoralizing a generation until we drop below replacement rate in new births

    Donald Trump may single-handedly be responsible for turning the corner on Climate Change.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Curtail O&G out of the Middle East

    That's got O&G producers outside the Middle East looking to up production

    Flood the market with electricity-hungry data centers when the cheapest form of electricity is wind/solar

    A lot of data centers are using methane and diesel generators, plus they suck up huge amounts of water

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    That’s got O&G producers outside the Middle East looking to up production

    In areas where production is more expensive, infrastructure doesn't exist, and the professional class doesn't want to live. We're not going to turn Caracas into Kuwait, no matter how many deals Jared Kusher says he's made with the Venezuelan government.

    What the US destroyed in the Persian Gulf took decades to build up and interlink. Just like when the Brits blew up the Nordstream II to spite Russia (and the Ukrainians knocked out who even knows how many refineries inside Russian territory), the American/Israeli War on Iran isn't something we can magically undo the moment the political winds shift.

    A lot of data centers are using methane and diesel generators, plus they suck up huge amounts of water

    They're using these generators because they've exhausted the pipeline for larger and more efficient alternatives. And the water they're sucking up is a big reason why the cattle industry is suffering. These companies are devouring their own seed corn, often at a loss. The long term consequences of this malinvestment will be recessionary. We are trading some short term rapid consumption today for a long tail of consumption capacity into the next generation.

    Degrowth, baby! It's happening.

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    In case you haven't been paying attention for the past 40+ years, seems like they've done it basically all my life, probably longer. Ruin shit, blame Dems, repeat.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    And the Dems will happily sell out to corporate donors to act in their interest while unashamedly lying to voters, and when caught out rely on the tried and true "what are you gonna do, vote Republican?"

    This is not "both sides same," this is controlled opposition while the elite siphon everything they can from all of us.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I certainly agree with you now, that nothing is being done while all this is going on. I do believe before that they did a decent amount of good, there were some good laws made, there was some progress, we can't be totally blind to that. It's all gone to hell now yes of course. At any rate, it's clear these people aren't going to legislate against themselves such as making rules about insider trading, lavish gifts, term limits, election reform, revoking citizens united, and so on.. some sweeping changes have to be made sometime, they can either lead or get out of the way.

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    It doesn’t matter what they say anymore. They don’t have the credibly to convince people water is wet.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    This claims doge did not cut funding to this particular USAID program, practically, and blames stuck negotiations between the US and Mexico on relations strained recently. The program manager(s) did decide to move the protection to Mexico instead of the narrower passage (in Panama I believe)

    https://www.salon.com/2025/04/28/we-once-rid-the-us-of-this-nasty-parasite-now-it-could-be-coming-back/

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This is pretty shameless

    lol

    lmao, even

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (2 children)

    But on the "bright side" corn will be cheaper, and gas will be more....ethanol ee?

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