The media is spending more effort trying to find where Trump's mystery meat is coming from than they spent trying to figure out if Mitch McConnell is still alive, or not.
While I absolutely agree we deserve the truth about McConnel, didease-ridden mystery meat is far more likely to have an immediate impact on the lives of everyday Americans
I think conning voters is just as relevant and likely to cause problems as dodgy meat. I can avoid meat products. I can’t stop politicians doing shady stuff if we don’t all pay attention together.
I completely agree. I'm just saying the insidious follow on effects to conning voters (while more serious and dangerous) are less tangible to average Americans than knowing whether to avoid meat or not, from where, and what the consequences of getting it wrong are. I'm slightly more concerned over whether my lasagna for dinner tonight is going to put me in the hospital than the GOP continuing to lie to the American people. The real answer is the 24hr media cycle absolutely has time to cover both topics in depth, and they should be doing so. The role of the media is to help hold those in power accountable, and we're seeing a historic failure of that right now.
I'm beginning to think there is no meat issue and all this is to spread FUD and what not, smoke and mirrors for something else. Plus it can drive prices up further. Who am I kidding it's probably all of the above.
Now it's not a large shipment by any standard, but Argentina may be the source of Trump's mystery meat.
If the producers there have more rejected shipments to move, Trump is exactly the kind of amoral son of a whore who'd make a deal to buy it and fob it off onto his idiot followers. Just so "Mr. Popularity" can get his numbers up before the mid-terms.
Yeah, he'd risk the health of others for a cheap political boost..
They're the ones determining what topics people should feel outraged about each day and it's never the right ones. They also set the tone for how each topic should be covered and what lens the sheep are supposed to view it through.
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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 144 pts · 2d
I think you may have just solved both mysteries with one sentence.
Vandals_handle@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 2d
Mmmmm turtle meat
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 2d
Wait, that's illegal
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 2d
The only thing that’s illegal to the child rapist is a sick bird.
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 2d
Soylent Green
Pat_Riot@lemmy.today · 19 pts · 2d
Nah, Mitch ain't people
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d
You're right, people are alive. As meat they're referred to as long pork.
BuckFutter@timeyak.com · 3 pts · 2d
Ahhh disgusting! Yet hilarious…and back to being revolted.
ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world · 122 pts · 2d
While I absolutely agree we deserve the truth about McConnel, didease-ridden mystery meat is far more likely to have an immediate impact on the lives of everyday Americans
hitmyspot@aussie.zone · 22 pts · 2d
I think conning voters is just as relevant and likely to cause problems as dodgy meat. I can avoid meat products. I can’t stop politicians doing shady stuff if we don’t all pay attention together.
ZapBeebz_@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2d
I completely agree. I'm just saying the insidious follow on effects to conning voters (while more serious and dangerous) are less tangible to average Americans than knowing whether to avoid meat or not, from where, and what the consequences of getting it wrong are. I'm slightly more concerned over whether my lasagna for dinner tonight is going to put me in the hospital than the GOP continuing to lie to the American people. The real answer is the 24hr media cycle absolutely has time to cover both topics in depth, and they should be doing so. The role of the media is to help hold those in power accountable, and we're seeing a historic failure of that right now.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 2d
It's not just meat
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2d
Unless the disease-riddled mystery meat is Mitch "Big Mac" McConnell
innermachine@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I'm beginning to think there is no meat issue and all this is to spread FUD and what not, smoke and mirrors for something else. Plus it can drive prices up further. Who am I kidding it's probably all of the above.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 4 pts · 1d
Unfortunately there is no way around eating the mystery meat.
SolacefromSilence@fedia.io · 28 pts · 2d
Upton Sinclair: "First time?"
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2d
It's a Jungle out there!
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 2d
Poison in the very air we breathe.
You know what’s in the water that you drink?
Well I do, and it’s a-ma-zing!
foodandart@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 2d
Argentina? This is an article from last March, validating the Chinese beef rejection due to antibiotic contamination..
https://en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br/china-rejected-an-entire-shipment-of-beef-from-argentina-after-detecting-an-antibiotic-so-dangerous-that-it-has-been-banned-for-human-consum-btl96/
Now it's not a large shipment by any standard, but Argentina may be the source of Trump's mystery meat.
If the producers there have more rejected shipments to move, Trump is exactly the kind of amoral son of a whore who'd make a deal to buy it and fob it off onto his idiot followers. Just so "Mr. Popularity" can get his numbers up before the mid-terms.
Yeah, he'd risk the health of others for a cheap political boost..
Not a problem.
Not at all.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 2d
I agree here is another article
https://www.btimesonline.com/articles/178274/20260825/trump-opens-u-s-to-300-000-tons-of-foreign-beef-as-china-rejects-22-ton-argentine-shipment-over-banned-antibiotic.htm
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Argentine cows that probably speak german.
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 2d
The media is complicit. If they're questioning him at all it's to distract from something else.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2d
100%.
They're the ones determining what topics people should feel outraged about each day and it's never the right ones. They also set the tone for how each topic should be covered and what lens the sheep are supposed to view it through.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 16 pts · 2d
It is working. I completely forgot about McConnell.
Joeffect@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
Yeah so you completely forgot about the Epstein files then.
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2d
I didn’t. The poor guy is in Limbo.
the_q@piefed.social · 14 pts · 2d
Maybe a few more people will realize they don't need to eat meat now.
h0rnman@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 36 pts · 2d
This would be a perfectly valid point if the vegetables weren't also making people shit themselves to death. I miss having safe food.
the_q@piefed.social · 5 pts · 2d
Dry. Beans.
remon@ani.social · 1 pts · 1d
usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2d
If anyone wants any inspiration !veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works and !veganhomecooks@lemmy.world
Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 2d
If it's any consolation, the last restaurant I went to had impossible meat cheaper than the real thing.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 9 pts · 2d
Because we know the answer to the latter already.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 2d
The US media is exclusively lying about the Canada tariffs by trying to both-sides the Shite House’s insane talking points.
US media is dead.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
US media would rather have given an empty podium air time then give Bernie Sanders airtime. It's been dead for a long time.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1d
I thought the meat was all of those wild horses they have been rounding up and selling
leadore@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I put nothing past them. Not one thing.
remon@ani.social · 3 pts · 1d
Well, that wouldn't be so bad. But wasn't the meat imported?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 8 pts · 2d
I can't say I've ever thought of Trump's meat or Mitch McConnell in the shower.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 7 pts · 2d
... or where the bodies are buried at Zorro ranch
StillAlive@piefed.world · 5 pts · 2d
Please don't say 'Trump's mystery meat' ever again.
bobzrkr@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2d
This. I came in here to say this.
Naz@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2d
Argentina.
usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 2d
If anyone wants any inspiration for recipes to avoid the mystery meat !veganrecipes@sh.itjust.works and !veganhomecooks@lemmy.world
Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2d
Though... even the vegans are getting fucked hard with the deregulation of food industries. (Local/homegrown veggies aren't an option for everyone)
usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2d
Annoyingly those recalls are still mostly because of animal agriculture. Mostly diseases from manure and/or leaked manure from nearby animal farms
Tattorack@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
Maybe they both have the same answer...
cuboc@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
...or probably the Epstein files. Not US-ian, so cannot confirm, but given the state of things my assumption makes sense.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1d
Or trying to get the Epstein files released
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1d
I know where the meat comes from. I know this guy called Mitch, and he doesn't need it anymore...
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Its Epstein Beef
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2d
Little did they know that these were parallel investigations.
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2d
It's wild horse meat, right? The government rounds up wild horses and then they just ~disappear~