Musk is the living embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger effect, and his wealth represents the exact monetary value delta of confident ignorance over intelligence.

"What does this 400-room hotel need to employ a full-time plumber for? The pipes are all fine, and no one ever complains about a clogged toilet. Fire that lazy bum!"

Well it's pretty simple, one of these pictures shows a horrible disgusting blood-sucking parasite, and the other is a new world screwworm.

I'll help. One is the world screwworm (the demented pedo) and the other one has a fancy mustache.

The one causing damage to America that will take decades to repair, if it's even possible repair.

The right one, the left one is the New Worm Screw World.

2 species invaded, oen has been here 80 years, and the other is coming back after a long hiatus.

Right is just chilling. Left looks screw you, so i wager a guess that's the one.

P.s. about the picture, I see a screw worm and a worm that screwed us. Which one do we combat first?

GLAD ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT FIRE KILL DECIMATE TRILLIONS!

Ya know I'm really glad that your shtick has become so recognizable and accepted on lemmy that other people enjoy it too. I remember back when you'd be down voted like crazy. Sorry to break the kayfabe on you here but seeing this comment and the votes on it just warmed my cynical satire loving heart.

I was on Fox News today and they are already blaming immigrants for this. Something about a liberal conspiracy to let immigrant's cattle into the US to destroy our ranchers. It was really dumb.

And you can bet is made in most wasteful way possible trying to content the fly at Texas instead of Panama because they would not let that benefit central America for that even if it's cheaper that way.

1bn emergency to fund this, probably wont do much the screworm invasion anyways, its likely a slush fund.

It started while Biden was in office due to instability in the region of central America that functioned as a wall to the rest of North America, so there is some truth to it. Trump cutting funding was the wrong thing to do at the wrong time, but the problem was already well under way when he took office.

It's from the darkest timeline.

They must be Viltrimites!!

It's a good idea, I'll give you that...but most of that money is gone. Poof. Disappeared.

That money has been routed through numerous corrupt people and corrupt companies that even Satan himself couldn't find it without resorting to nefarious trickery.
(Not that Satan would have anything to do with something as disgusting as Donvict Drumpf.)

Fuck DOGE and trump though for real, I just cant get on this "its entirely their fault" train.

Ah yes, let them blame COVID instead. Because we all know in hindsight that Trump’s response to the pandemic was amazing \s

So trump is just the last in line whose failure was worst.

That still makes it his fault

That old lady was standing near the edge of the cliff. The fence was already broken. I pushed her off the edge. You can't say it's entirely my fault.

It's very refreshing to see something so nuanced actually getting upvoted here.

That success is part of what caused the problem. Complacency set in, and capacity eroded.

This part is sort of glossed over. There was a report in 2018 that the Panama facility was in dire need of updates. We were talking about a one time $50M investment and an extra $10-15M a year to hold screwworms at the Darien Gap as they had been for decades. Trump did nothing. It's easy to blame COVID, but there is a very, very avoidable problem and yes, the blame lies squarely with Trump.

I dunno, this just seems like the entire narrative that government ran things are bad. I mean sure everything was crumbling when Trump started actively breaking things with Doge. But the reason they were crumbling before that was Republican policy and Covid was absolutely Trump's fault from dismantling the programs that monitored pandemics.

Thank you for the context. Highly appreciated! I had gathered the gradual decline in funding and surveillance from this publication but they didn't really talk about the damages done by COVID or DOGE.

well if it wasnt cut, there would be a much faster response than it is now. 1bn likely wont stop the screworms in the long run anyways. since they are coming from the south unabated.

OMG, this is how they run government like a company!

We don’t need to spend money on security because our security is so good. Oopsie, massive data breach, not my fault. I’m moving to another company C suite with a 20 million bonus because I worked for the last company.

Literally how people fail up.

so this is another thing that can be traced back to Reagan? lol

Okay cool then use that same train of thought to make all those involved pay, not the taxpayers. Musk and Trump too.

Sadly, no. It probably will actually cost around $1B to drive screwworms back to the Darien Gap again and that's assuming the people in charge are planning that (they're probably not- why help poor countries?!) and capable of following a plan that already worked once (they're not). This number will balloon out of control and their nonsense plan to hold the line at Texas will be a disaster IF it ever even comes online as it's planned for late 2027. A preview of the planning genius.

That's more or less what we've been doing for decades - breeding, sterilizing and releasing screwworms by the million to curb the population. It works too - but Trump & Friends axed the program, and so now it'll cost $1bil (more than was spent over the entire lifetime of the program previously) to start it back up again (to make the subtext clear it's because that money will be stolen)

Turn off the phone and go for a walk?