Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread

[Corvus]

I just saw the clip. Watching RFK Jr. nope right on out of the room like they'd just found a bomb was definitely something to behold.

EDIT: An online commenter said, "Anytime a person drops at a political event, it's a Kennedy instinct to leave immediately."

 

[Fullstrength Motleypuss]

Trump probably dropped an ol' Silent but Deadly.

 

[Pale Rider]

I just saw the clip. Watching RFK Jr. nope right on out of the room like they'd just found a bomb was definitely something to behold.

 

[Rhinox]

That picture is just . . like a perfect encapsulation of Trump.
The video, with RFK just doing an Usain Bolt impersonation is hilarious, but at the same time, just a new level of pathetic.

 

[Pale Rider]

FB friend:

Trump supporters will literally tell me to be afraid of a former housing counsellor and musician who became New York's first Muslim mayor, but at the same time, they'll tell me NOT to be afraid of a white man whose truck is festooned with hateful bumper stickers and who's walking around in public carrying an AR-15.

Oh no, Trump supporters think Mamdani can't be trusted because his loyalties are in question?

I guess he's not as trustworthy as a shady real-estate tycoon and known scam artist who parties with child molesters and money launderers and who counts Vladimir Putin, Kim Jung-Un, Jeffrey Epstein, and Mohammed bin Salman as his friends, right?

Islamophobes always insist that the term "Islamophobe" is a slander, and that they just "criticize" Islam rather than having a phobia of it. And then they FREAKED OUT when Zohran Mamdani won a mayoral election, and predicted economic collapse, loss of constitutional rights, anti-semitic racial policies, etc.

Just to be clear: irrational fears are phobias, and the nonsense they're spreading about Mamdani is a classic example of irrational fears. They are proving that the term "Islamophobia" was 100% correct after all.

It is beyond insane that the party which literally has supporters marching in public carrying swastika flags has the unmitigated gall to accuse their opponents of anti-semitism.

 

[Ironbite4]

So, Trump and the GOP got their asses handed to them Tuesday, got told to stop starving people, and had a disastrous press conference where some guy fainted and Trump probably shat himself badly due to being startled by it. So what can he do to make sure the American people are grateful to him? WHY INVESTIGATE WHY MEAT PRICES ARE SO HIGH!

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/07/trump-meatpackers-investigation-beef-prices-00643152

Ironbite-priorities, he's got them.

 

[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]

Official passes out in Oval Office while standing behind Trump during event

Pharmaceutical representative was part of a ‘major announcement’ to make GLP-1s 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...