▪️The average person seeing this meme would assume the Trump Administration is removing safety regulations at the behest of big chicken, but that’s not at all what happened.
▪️There is no change in any rule, the poultry industry is still under the same regulations as they’ve been for decades. This was a proposed rule that has been withdrawn. There were over 7,000 public comments on the proposal, and the agency said:
🔹“the comments have raised several important issues that warrant further consideration. Therefore, FSIS is withdrawing the “Salmonella Framework for Raw Poultry Products” proposed rule and proposed determination to allow the Agency to further assess its approach for addressing Salmonella illnesses associated with poultry products.”
▪️Indeed, Pilgrim’s Pride was among one of the comments, but they agreed with the rule proposal! They were a little more nuanced, saying certain aspects should be modified and the implementation dates changed. But they were overall in support.
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FSIS-2023-0028-6982
▪️It was actually the small farm poultry producers that were most opposed to this change. As with most regulations, larger companies can more easily absorb the costs and are less affected.
▪️For example, one small (“women owned”) producer, called Towering Oaks Farms posted a comment opposed to the rule. She pointed out that this proposal would require small producers to test a much higher percentage of their chickens than large producers.
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FSIS-2023-0028-7070
▪️She noted increased costs to comply could result in 40% of slaughter facilities closing, which would mean many small farms might not have access to compliant facilities. This would cause many small producers to discontinue poultry production, even make it so farmers can’t get their birds back for their own consumption!
▪️Other small producers posted similar comments. If anything, it appears this proposal was withdrawn more after listening to concerns of small farmers than large ones.
Here’s the Fox LA article referenced:
https://www.livenowfox.com/news/usda-salmonella-levels-raw-poultry-usda-withdraws-plan
Because gang affiliation is not illegal, only criminal actions associated with gang activity are. For US citizens, police can’t just arrest someone because they think they’re a Blood or Crip, they need some other crime to charge them with.
With illegal immigrants, the govt can legally deport someone for any rationale they wish, as the person has no legal right to be here. In this case, gang affiliation is just a pretext, and not the legal reason for deportation (thus not required to prove it in trial).
Although I would argue this is limited to deportation only, and the US govt should not send illegal immigrants to foreign prisons without a standard of proof of real criminal activity. Sending people to prison with no due process is contrary to our founding principles, even if non-citizens.
But ironically, gang affiliation is illegal in El Salvador…
▪️It’s been an amazing week for the tariff defenders. They started off by backing the “reciprocal tariffs” which turned out not to be reciprocal at all but based on a nonsensical trade deficit formula, causing substantial tariffs to be put on many countries who had zero or extremely small tariffs on the US.
▪️Then, when the markets tanked we were told not to be “panicans.” The stock market wasn’t actually the economy, this time it’s Main St. over Wall St. The same people who wanted Covid lockdowns hate tariffs so screw them. It was time to finally stop the world from ripping us off, and tariffs were essential to bring back industry to the gutted US economy (even though US workers currently have the highest real wages in history).
▪️Then, Trump decided he didn’t like the markets tanking, backtracked and simply suspended most of the tariffs. Except for China, which he dramatically increased. This was the plan all along! It was 4D chess to play hardball with China.
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This kind of (non)thinking is so ridiculous. Equating Covidians with anti-tariff ignores a whole subset (Thomas Sowell, Rand Paul, Peter Schiff, Alex Berenson, etc.) who were against both. It also ignores that the Trump Administration was pro-lockdown!
This page was adamantly against lockdowns and mandates during Covid. What was so frustrating back then was that it was obvious the mandates and lockdowns would not stop the spread. So it was not a dilemma of shutting down the economy vs. stopping the spread, it was a decision between no lockdowns and everyone gets Covid, or shutting down the economy and everyone still gets Covid.
With tariffs, the trade off is equally dumb. They won’t hurt Wall Street but help Main Street, they’ll make things more expensive for the avg worker and potentially cost them their jobs. It’s lose lose. Like with Covid it’s maddening that people can’t just decide not to torpedo the economy, they have this idiotic inertia they just can’t stop. We’ll ...
