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"You can't complain if you're dead!" - musk probably
https://www.wired.com/story/usda-food-supply-chains/#:~:text=Copeland%20estimates%20the%20NDDTC%20lost,of%20Government%20Efficiency%20(DOGE).
testzero
"We have finally investigated the food we seized 8 months ago and discovered an unacceptable level of rot and decay. We have now shut down the farms responsible."
AMercer
Trump will just declare that no inspections are necessary. Then we will get an outbreak of invasive pests that harm our food supply and Trump will declare that a liberal plot to deceive you. It will get worse and he will tell you it will magically go away overnight. It will get worse and he will come up with goofball ideas that he thinks would fix it but they won't. It will get worse and his cult will claim that nothing is happening and everything is fine.
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
There's no "may" about it, people are already dying.
KamikazeGerbil101
Thanks Trump !
OperatorWay
They'll just eliminate more safety regulations, grant legal protections to companies selling unsafe goods (as quid pro quo for companies that publicly show their support for this administration), and blame all problems on foreigners, minorities, liberals, vaccines, socialism, "wOkE," conspiracy theories, etc.
fractalsphere
Salmonella, botulism, rat droppings, why worry about those silly things?
muliphen
Personally I'm super stoked for the next massive e.coli outbreak!
Dannyalcatraz
Department Of Gutting Efficacy
MrRandom314159
The idea will then come that we should either get rid of the department.... OR as a "compromise"hire this new Musk food inspection business.
veronicablood
EndlingGer
Yeah, because they totally have moral integrity too high to sell their products uninspected.
DrFab
I've got this nagging suspicion that hungry masses are actually a goal. I've started wondering this after the administration opened the Cali. water reserves which are relied upon by farmers.
MortimerMango
don't worry, ai will handle it all now
TheAmazingBlahaj
JackingMeHoff
Trump wants another pandemic.
yeahhedugit
But bleach
HowMuchWoodCouldAWoodDuckDuckIfAWoodDuckCouldDuckWood
Never use the acronym; always call it the department of government efficiency. Using the acronym elides the ostensible purpose of the department
akafluffy
no, you have it backwards. Saying efficiency tied to that pile of bs is propaganda for their side, it's just leon's doge.
BackToTheOriginalUsername
Bah, they'll just achieve a industrialist wetdream, a inspectionless food supply. They'll cram so much junk, it's barely going to be food again.
Mumalot
How much sawdust can you put in bread before you notice... also a taste test challenge https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HJxWYbP_9hs
JackHL01
spartanatreyu
They'll replace half the wheat in bread with sawdust for profit if they think they can get away with it.
thisismysociallife
Meanwhile RFK JR wants to do away with all food dyes……
Raecracy123abc
hmm it's almost like government is a model unique to government and each position was created for a reason.
yeahhedugit
RickO3611
Stinky, the Vile, sez, so what if 8 or 9 hundred million die. They already gave me everything, fuck em
YeOlRazzleDazzle
Oh. You sweet summer child. They're not gonna rot while they wait for inspection, they're going to get sent out without inspection. -- Which is worse.
Herperchick
Maybe his comments about 3rd world countries were more in line with him wishing to make the US into one, permanently.
FlyingButtPliers
Project 2025 is clear, the goal is profit for corporations and control for a failing religion. It's a recurring theme. Hopefully everyone has read it by now. https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
SnowpersonHitInTheFaceWithALackOfCreativity
I thought food in the US was bad enough as it is 🤢
DJOldguy
That's the plan, create as much chaos as they can to distract so many people so that Putin can make his next moves on Ukraine, Moldova, Poland, starting WW3... fucking moron, and the dumbshits... that voted for this.
yeahhedugit
Oh, when I'm sure when the nuclear bombs go off after he invades Poland, we'll hear about it.
LutraLazuli
Bet the world will look right out of the 1910's in 50 years time
KAPTKipper
NO one should now trust US food exports
Hurch
This is what happens when someone with the intellect of a 2 year old is put in charge.
yeahhedugit
Andersen81
Hanta virus enters the chat.
Deoxyribonucleicacidwashedgenes
VaultGirl69
And no vaccine unless you're in S Korea or China. Luckily the mortality rate isn't super high. It's still high enough to be a concern. Anyone who isn't concerned when death is avoidable do not think death will ever find them, which is arrogant and foolish. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7002362/
MyRespectableAlterEgo
The other day Trump was bitching about how Europe doesnt import any American meat, crops and produce... the reason is that it already isn't up to EU standards due to pesticides and steroids.
So now, genius businessman that he is, out comes his next gambit: "Everyone will be lining up to buy our food If we make it all a little more expensive, and also stop inspecting and regulating it! Everyone wants unregulated food, right?"
Masterful.
JackHL01
more like Hunter virus, because it WILL find you
MiHaleEsSuHale
And show you the meaty hog that has Republicans so upset.
CptSpencer
They'd spin it as Biden's son fault somehow
MyGreatestFearBoner
Hentai, you say?
nobly670
AbeFromanSausageKingOfChicago
MyGreatestFearBoner
I don't need this kind of back talk from the Sausage King of Chicago
AbeFromanSausageKingOfChicago
artie500
The numbers of departmental government employees I've seen are shocking, but while I realize that the government is huge, I also instinctively realize that there's got to be a lot of trimmable fat. The problem with what's going on, though, is that DOGE is looking at the numbers, not the reasons behind the numbers, and as a result, people are losing their jobs simply because they've got them, NOT because their jobs are unnecessary.
akafluffy
your instincts are wrong, people are responsible for making sure work gets done, putting all that work on less people will always be less efficient. Think about having twice as much work at your job, you will never be more efficient if your workload doubles for no reason, especially if it you have to hunt down the pieces of the other job because nobody left knows what it was.
yeahhedugit
People always say there has to be fat. Well, that's why you inspect things to see if you're right or not. You can't just assume there's fat and start cutting.
For instance, the social security system is the most efficient government agency on the planet, or thereabouts. It's administered by a minimum amount of employees and hasn't missed sending out a check since inception. That's about to change.
artie500
You're correct, but only up to a point. The way the budget process works is you've got to spend all of what you're budgeted, i.e., justify what you've asked for, or they'll cut your budget next year. Accordingly, SOME money is spent because it's there, rather than because it's for a necessary expenditure. I can't begin to guess how much fat there is or where it is, but it's literally impossible for there to be none.
akafluffy
The fat as you call it isn't people. Budgeting a salary to hit your cap isn't a thing, you buy a printer or an espresso machine, or a fleet of bearcats, you don't hire a bunch of folks to sit around doing nothing.
artie500
No, you don't hire a bunch of folks to sit around doing nothing, you spread the workload to justify having hired the people you've hired. If you seriously believe that not a single one of the hundreds of thousands of government employees is redundant, I've got a bridge to sell you.
akafluffy
if you think all of the thousands Leon has fired are redundant, I've renovated your bridge for easy sale, you now owe me $50k.
meganical
This was inevitable after they did away with the Clean Water Act. They are actively trying to make us sick so private healthcare makes more money “trying to cure” us of what wouldn’t exist if he hadn’t made these decisions. They want us weak so we cannot fight them
rintaro82
Manufacturing circumstances for declaring martial law
ElbowDeepInAJedi
And then the GOP voters will say something about autism and food coloring and cheer while selling out their children's future .
Shybastard
They did away with what??? When?
yeahhedugit
DOGE. Ongoing.
yeahhedugit
https://www.wired.com/story/usda-food-supply-chains/#:~:text=Copeland%20estimates%20the%20NDDTC%20lost,of%20Government%20Efficiency%20(DOGE).
Shybastard
Hold the Frick up.. What??? I work in this field and haven't heard this. Half my job and rules would be gone and contractors would go all willy nilly with shit. Please sir, may I have some soup? *sauce?
yeahhedugit
https://www.wired.com/story/usda-food-supply-chains/#:~:text=Copeland%20estimates%20the%20NDDTC%20lost,of%20Government%20Efficiency%20(DOGE).
ScottNapalm
They didn't get rid of it, it was just sent back to the restricted jurisdiction put in place by rapanos vs us in 2006