awesome! for a moment i was worried famine wouldn’t be one of the things this administration would bring about.
Everything you would want to know about the history of the screw worm is here: https://youtu.be/lL8GnFtKliU
And with climate change, it could possibly spread further north than it used to, before it was eradicated in the US.
The shidas touch, touches everything.
Mierdas touch
that is so good
Big brain billionaire syndrome
Yeah well what’s the profits this quattwr? I don’t have time to think about next quarter!
They will always be protected from the consequences of their actions. Always.
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Working as intended.
‘Murica got exactly what’ Murica deserved
There are awful, powerful people in the background pulling the levers of power, but this isn’t new
It has always been fucked. It wasn’t founded on the ideals of freedom or anything noble
It was stolen, then built with slavery, and that slavery was just rebranded as capitalism so white people would buy into it, so long as they still felt superior to everyone else
The cruelty and greed have always been the defining characteristics
Trump embodies the USA and is the direct result we could only get from our two party system.
That’s why I don’t necessarily blame one person here. George Carlin said it best. Selfish ignorant people vite for selfish ignorant leaders. If it wasn’t him it’d be someone else. The problem isn’t one person, it’s that such a massive amount of voters are selfish and willfully ignorant.
You mean rich white guys who didn’t want to pay taxes. I’m shocked America turned out the way it did.
One of your own poets articulated nicely:
Sold, stolen, arriving on the nightmare Praying for a dream.
Daily reminder that the US government is a doomsday cult. This is is by design.
Still not sure if Genestealer cultist or chaos gods
Once trump dies they’re going to hoist his corpse on a golden throne and sacrifice Kid Rock fans daily just to keep him going.
This is so much more horrifying than I realized. Humans can get it too. Here’s a CDC article on it if you dare. https://www.cdc.gov/new-world-screwworm/about/index.html
Symptoms can include
Feeling maggots (larvae) move or seeing maggots within a skin wound or sore, or in the ears, nose, eyes, or mouth. Painful skin wounds or sores that worsen within a few days. A foul-smelling odor from the site of the infestation. Bleeding from open sores.Yeah, that doesn’t sound fun.
Seeing maggots move within the eyes. Yeah, I think I can go without meat in that case.
You are the meat, in that case.
Yeaaaaah, was just reading about screwworms. I didn’t realize it was the parasite that embeds itself into your wounds and eats your flesh. Oh boy oh boy!
Same with your dogs and cats. Nearly all mammals.
Which mammals can’t get it?
Republic…. Actually they are reptiles
If you don’t know about the parasite, I really like this Kurzgesagt video explaining it (YouTube link)
In fairness they’ve been spreading Northward yearly for several years, we knew they were coming and eradication efforts have been underway for a while to try to blunt it. But, with the idiots currently in charge, just assume those efforts have been botched until proven otherwise.
the eradication program ended in 22-23, they were making headway ever since. likely it wouldve been restored under harris, A GOP wh will never restore something like this. they always end using budget cuts to fund TAX CUTS.
At no point did the eradication program end. In 23-24 Biden’s USDA quadrupled funding to the Panama facility producing sterile flies. The facility had been underfunded for years (/wave Trump1) and at some point during Covid lost contain of the Darian Gap, officially reaching “we fucked up” thresholds in 2022.
It’s the now classic answer to “Why is this happening now?” Trump fucked it up, Biden tried to fix it without any sense of urgency because he just assumed he’d get eight years, and then Trump came back and fucked it up again.
Biden tried to fix it without any sense of urgency
I would say funding it at 4x is pretty urgent
Sadly, no. That response in 2018-2021 would have been urgent, appropriate. By waiting until 2023 when reports were coming out in '21 that the Darian Gap was failing and '22 that it had failed, Biden did in fact drop the ball. The administration chose to try to work with/through Central American governments who, frankly, hadn’t dealt with screwworms in over a generation and were poorly equipped or completely clueless. Also, it’s worth noting, this facility was relatively inexpensive to operate at less than $20M/year. We had a beautiful system in place but Republican ignorance and Democrat pussyfooting has put us in a terrible position. The sunbelt population boom of the last 50 years was not just about AC.
I’d assume at least 10x was asked, and it took years for the funding to arrive
Biden was inaugurated in '21. Why did it take multiple years for that funding to be budgeted?
Maybe you don’t remember, but before Trump, we didn’t accept presidential rule by decree
Also incorrect. USDA has a great deal of discretionary funding. The new $750M facility being build in Texas (several thousand km from the Darian Gap = great plan!) was approved internally at USDA. There was nothing stopping the funding in '21 other than not recognizing how dire the problem could become in just a few years.
Well, except for small, unimportant things like sending people to another country to go kill people.
So did the dems use presidential decree to get the funding in 2023?
Bullshit. Republicans always believed in it.
Australia once again vindicated for banning beef from the USA years ago.
We do a fair job at banning some of their people too
I like seeing local losers pay for tickets to the speaking event of some utter cunt who will be refused a visa, and then the pathetic losers whine about losing their money
Yeah, I hear you. Sky and the cookers have done a number on people out there.
I live in what is considered “regional” Australia
The inbred hicks who think that sharing a name with a coloniser who died a hundred years ago is a flex resent it when they’re shown up as simple, unworldly people
They resent the stereotypes, but they go out of their way to reinforce all of the worst of them
Luckily, they’re not Queenslanders, or Territorians, so it could be worse
I still have say that I live in paradise, but I choose my company
I feel sorry for the cows, they did not vote for the MAGA shitheads.
They never voted to be tortured and killed either.
COWS, any kind of livestocks, it also include pets and most warm blooded mammals.
Shit, I’m a worm blooded mammal!
i read that with fry’s voice from futurama
oh, lol, i read warm blooded mammal at first
heh, it was a typo but now I’m leaving it like that.
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They voted for MOOGA.
Well don’t worry, this administration has a tried and true solution. If you stop checking for screwworm, it’s not there.
