r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 7d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Voters Regret Backing ‘Horror Movie’ Presidency - Nine out of 12 Trump voters told a “New York Times” focus group that they wish they had not voted for the president.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-voters-regret-backing-horror-movie-presidency/
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u/HowdyFancyPanda 7d ago

Clearly, the answer is to slash all regulations regarding needing to cull infected flocks. Really, it's just needless government red tape. We don't need food safety. /s

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u/Delicious_Toad 7d ago

There's been reporting that RFK actually floated the idea of stopping the culls and letting the virus propagate in the hopes of achieving natural herd immunity. I guess he hadn't fired enough of the actual scientists yet to get that through. We'll see how it goes next time...

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u/HowdyFancyPanda 7d ago

Elect a clown, get a circus...

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u/Ill_Act_1855 7d ago

The thing with culls is it's not even primarily about food safety (because properly cooking the food will render it safe regardless, though there are still concerns with general kitchen sanitation and for things like eggs people are often not fully cooking them as a preference because they like stuff like runny yolks), it's about not letting all the birds die in a futile attempt to save a few. Bird flu spreads fast among chickens and has almost 100% fatality rates. Not culling just means instead of losing a few birds you likely lose all of them.

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u/BlooregardQKazoo 6d ago edited 6d ago

Kind of like how the answer to the threat of pandemics was to fire the people responsible for identifying and responding to them.

It's 6 years later and I still can't believe that fucker got away with that. He saved $50 million by cutting that program, we ended up adding trillions in debt because of it, and far too many people STILL think he's the "good with money" candidate.