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DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S (mander.xyz)

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[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago

Yeah none of this is a surprise. Trump has done what he promised. I told many conservatives this, and they just refused to believe it. Or some even dismissed some of the things Trump said "as just politics" claiming he had no intent to keep his crazier campaign promises.

[-] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's just the standard conservative play-by-play of

It's not going to happen -> it's not happening-> maybe it is happening but it's not our fault -> it is happening but it's too late to do anything about it. Alternatively replace step 3 with "but the dems do it too!!"

[-] nullspace@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Anything else they just slap on a thought-terminating TDS label and move on.

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