Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[wonko the sane?]

And he's going to find that chief among reasons is that the meat packing industry is largely owned by a small number of players, enforcing monopolies and owned by the people giving him money.

So it will quietly die... assuming he actually did anything at all.

 

[Pocket]

Between rising meat prices and China cutting back on their imports of soy, forcing us to find other uses for it, Trump might actually end up turning more Americans into vegetarians than any number of animal rights activists could ever dream of.

Work in a reference to the "soyboy" thing and there's a good comic in there somewhere.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

And he's going to find that chief among reasons is that the meat packing industry is largely owned by a small number of players, enforcing monopolies

He actually did mention monopolies.

The White House also put out some bullet points.

• For too long, a handful of giant meat packers have squeezed America’s cattle producers, shrunk herds, and jacked up prices at the grocery store. By examining whether these companies have violated antitrust laws through coordinated pricing or capacity restrictions, this investigation will root out any illegal collusion, restore fair competition, and protect our food security.
• The “Big Four” meat packers — JBS (Brazil), Cargill, Tyson Foods, and National Beef — currently dominate 85% of the U.S. beef processing market, up from just 36% in 1980. Two of these companies, including the largest meat packer in the world, are either foreign-owned or have significant foreign ownership and control.
• Industry consolidation has crushed competition and hammered cattle producers. In the 1980s, the top four packers purchased one-third of all fed cattle; by the mid-1990s, that share exploded to over 80% and has only grown more concentrated since.
• This has led to the exploitation of American consumers, farmers, and ranchers. In fact, mounting evidence shows this monopoly power has slashed payments to ranchers, reduced herd sizes, driven up consumer prices, and threatened America’s food supply chain.

I did a project on this in college. All these numbers sound familiar.

 

[KidTDragon]

"It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

 

[Pale Rider]

He deported the workers, plants closed, supply crashed, prices spiked, ranchers got rich and now he's mad at…the companies he protected?

 

[Ironbite4]

Ranchers didn't get rich and he's importing foreign beef to offset the prices from domestic.

Ironbite-CAN'T WAIT FOR MY A5 WAGUY TO BE 5.99 A POUND!

 

[Pale Rider]

I should have said ranchers are getting rich, not got rich.

Prices for fed cattle are around $240 per hundredweight, the highest ever, so cow-calf producers are finally making money after years of drought and packer pressure. Imports only increased because US processing capacity was short, not because domestic ranchers were being undercut.

 

[RichardT519]

Pharma exec passes out during Trump’s drug price announcement

Pharmaceutical representative was part of a ‘major announcement’ to make weight loss drugs more affordable

www.the-independent.com

Right after this guy collapses, RFK Jr. hoofs it out of the room as fast as his worm-piloted legs will let him, while Donnie stands around annoyed that this unconscious jerk had the nerve to pull all the attention away from him.

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I can't look at this without hearing the theme from Curb your Enthusiasm in my head...

 

[KidTDragon]

Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and over 75 others involved in fake elector scheme

Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s disbarred and disgraced former attorney, joins other Trumpworld loyalists in receiving an unconditional pardon

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Steevy Maximus]

Pomp and noise signifying nothing. None of those individuals were ever federally charged with anything, and a Presidential pardon does not apply to state or civil matters.

But after his widespread pardon of people charged in the January 6 event, this just continues to fuel the optics of how overtly corrupt he and much of the Republican party are to those outside the cult.

 

[The Mighty Mollusk]

The message is that he'll take care of loyalists. Eventually. That's all it takes to keep them loyal.

 

[Anonymous X]

Trump threatens BBC with $1bn legal action over edit of speech in documentary

Leaked BBC report said film had ‘completely misled’ viewers by splicing two parts of January 6 speech together

www.theguardian.com

So he’s going after our public broadcaster now. Which of course will delight all the right-wingers in the British media.

 

[Dekafox]

Apparently 50 year mortgages cause more blowback among Trump supporters than the Epstein stuff did?

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/10/trumps-50-year-mortgage-plan-is-getting-panned-allies-blame-this-man-00645654

 

[wonko the sane?]

I mean... if the average age of a first time home buyer is 40, you're expected to be paying a mortgage until you're 90... when the average age of death for americans is like 78?

This is the exact opposite of generational wealth. It's generational debt.

 

[Rhinox]

It's a dumb plan from a dumb man who caters to dummies. Even those with half a brain are realizing that he's got nothing.
The cult remains but it is simply not enough.

 

[NovaSaber]

Bluesky

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emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)

One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it.

bsky.app

This is where we are as a country:

Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social)

The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

bsky.app

 

[wonko the sane?]

Conversely: if your grand scheme hangs on the likes of bobo... Your scheme is foiled like it's saturday morning in the 80's.

 

[KidTDragon]

That's a lot of work to put into a Democrat hoax.

 

[Pocket]

Meanwhile I'm curious what's going on with those right-wing voters who broke with Trump on this issue specifically and started demanding he release the files. Did they get bored and go back to bashing Democrats, or are they still on board with this? Y'all are my only source of evidence that such people ever existed so I don't know where else I can ask.

 

[wonko the sane?]

Don't forget: republicans are hypocrites. They might have only been claiming to be on board with releasing the epstein files cause they were bored what with the shutdown they caused. Or they might be genuinely interested because they know trump is ******* cooked no matter what, and can't count on his coat tails anymore.

Don't count on anything until it happens.