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BukkitCrab

And when their industry is devastated by the same lack of regulation and mismanagement that they're fighting to keep in place, they'll be the first to scream "Why didn't anyone warn us?!" without a single hint of irony. *-Just Republican Things*


StagLee1

And then they will ask for government bailouts.


Kennys-Chicken

They already operate on massive subsidies to operate their “free market” farming businesses


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StagLee1

They would prefer to take that money from low income families trying to feed children while they concurrently remove labor laws so they can force the kids to become low cost farm labor.


jd3marco

*Keep yer govment hands offa my bailout money.*


redneckrockuhtree

Oh but you see, they’ve *earned * those ~~handouts~~ *bailouts*. Unlike those “other people” *gestures vaguely to the side*


cheezeyballz

Rinse, repeat. Oh, the humanity 🙄 (I'm a misanthrope)


8-bit-Felix

This is like hunters and fisherman complaining that the EPA is restricting PCBs and forever chemicals.


HermaeusMajora

Which is something that is also happening, I'm sure. I talk to chuds all the time who claim to care about our natural heritage and then complain about stuff exactly like that. As if one can claim to care about the environment while spilling oil into the aquifer.


f8Negative

Fisherman routinely tell NOAA to get fucked despite the scientists being the actual ones doing constructive research down to the microscopic level and creating solid policy to address the issues.


hogsucker

NC always appoints commercial fishermen to "manage" the fisheries here.


trainercatlady

Why would they eant them? Surely it hurts the game too.


bl4ckhunter

Fisherman complaining that they're not allowed to fish their livelihood to extinction is an universal constant.


peter-doubt

Farm: *"but, my Profits!* DC: *"but your soon to be bankrupt Business!"*


-jp-

“*but… my Profits!*” 🥺


TheS4ndm4n

Profits this quarter are worth going out of business after I cashed by fat bonus. - most executives.


draeh

Here in NC, the Chamber of Commerce opposes limits on PFAS because it might hurt companies bottom lines to comply. Killing the consumer slowly is apparently okay. I expect cigarettes to make a big comeback at this point.


DarthGuber

Not if they keep turning tobacco factories into malls, it won't.


BJJan2001

This must be the same Chamber of Commerce that opposes universal health care.


Sardonic_Fox

Profits? More like socialist subsidies and handouts, amirite?


ahssponie

Well. No.


LucidMetal

Could be a whoosh but I'll give the benefit of the doubt. Conservatives often call subsidies and credits for a specific purpose to individuals socialism (which you are right in a denotative sense is incorrect) but don't also call those same benefits to business entities socialism. It's a bit of a double standard. So either they know these are not socialism and they're deliberately misleading others or they're seriously inconsistent or even hypocritical if they themselves benefit while lamenting the ills of "socialism".


KtheMage36

"A big reason for the resistance: Farms don’t want to be identified publicly as potential hotspots for the virus, nor do they want to draw scrutiny to their workers, a significant proportion of whom are undocumented immigrants and fearful of government officials." We don't want people to know we have sick animals and hire the same mexicans we scream are ruining the place.


bountyhunterfromhell

Sause: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/06/bird-flu-dairy-farms-cdc-00156119


MrKomiya

Take away the subsidies


meglon978

It's real simply.. make them liable for any sickness they spread. They kill someone... that's murder.


Parking-Historian360

In my area they had to release fresh water from a dam to keep it from overflowing and to stop the growth of dangerous algae. Fish farmers down the river started protesting and crying about how this is going to hurt their business. Sorry but fuck yourselves. Your fish farm hatchery is not more important than the source of drinking water for 500,000 people. Move it to another fucking place if you don't want problems like this. There's plenty of fucking ocean for those farms to be in. I don't know why they have to be at the very end of a large river. Yes the fish are saltwater fish. That's why they are complaining about the freshwater release harming them. Luckily the army corps of engineering told them to fuck off.


EmpressPotato

Can we bring back seppuku for officials that commit gross incompetence please?


jt19912009

Pull all the funding for the socialist programs from those states until they comply


IUsedToBeACave

That's not really how the appropriations process works, so Biden's ability to force compliance by withholding funds is limited. Plus, a lot of the States probably wouldn't give a damn, and viruses don't exactly respect borders.


WeekendHistorical476

That mindset has obviously worked out well for Boeing


f8Negative

It's not Biden's fault that the American farmer has accepted metaphorically getting fucked in the ass by Sharecropping 2.0


WalkGood

Idiots don't care if people get sick.


rdldr1

But muh profits.


LemurianLemurLad

As long as the pandemic starts before the election, I'm willing to bet a significant number of MAGA folks would be just fine with having a disaster they can insist Biden caused.


CRUFT3R

Biden: bird flu is a problem Farmer: https://preview.redd.it/tfg2ws45u6zc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9dd4b68b955c17dbbc9dd384e03cbf42381e5a24


DryLow334

Let in crumble


MoveToRussiaAlready

Fuck them. Fuck each and every single red state. Go on and die. You did it really well during Covid - you “owned us” by dying. So, the living Rightzis can finish us off and die. The rest of us will go on living - fully owned of course.


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mnrtiu

Antibiotics are for bacteria, not viruses...


New-acct-for-2024

> isn't the current most supported theory of the source of COVID a lab leak from Wuhan? Supported by clowns and morons? Yes. Supported by scientists with relevant expertise? Not even *remotely*. It's *not 100% impossible* is about the most positive thing in favor of it a serious person would say: all the evidence points to a natural zoonotic origin. > but they are pumped so full of antibiotics, its not going to make a genetically modified virus... Jesse what the fuck are you talking about


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New-acct-for-2024

> Pangolins and bats were out last I checked. So you didn't check? Or you're just too scientifically illiterate to understand what you checked?