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A big problem for trust in government is that high-quality governance is usually invisible. When the various agencies designed to protect the American people from all manner of threats are working perfectly, most potential disasters are detected and prevented before they happen. A lot of highly trained government workers do diligent and difficult work for little pay and less recognition, heading off crisis after crisis, and the ignorant swing-voting layman assumes that all his tax dollars are being squandered.

So one hopes that the voting public is learning a hard—or I should say watery—lesson about how important good government is, by way of the manifold consequences of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Robert Kennedy hacking away at American state capacity. The latest consequence can be heard in the groaning emanating from thousands of bathrooms across the country: the worst cyclosporiasis outbreak in American history. It deserves a name, so I’m calling it the MAHA Trots.

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[-] NekoKoneko@lemmy.world 141 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm sure people are suffering, but I think we all have to agree that as long as Donald Trump continues to speak, it will only be the second worst diarrhea outbreak this century.

[-] PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

America has literally gone to shit!

[-] Jordan117@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago
[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Yeah, but gEnoCiDejoE and Kamala had that cackle (and didn't have a peener!), so...this was the only proper outcome.

This will....checks notes....Send A Message To The Democrats To Do Better Next Time (TM) or some such bullshit.

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Not actively working against this specific genocide in this specific country is bad, very bad, disqualifying. Unless you also make everyone shit their pants forever, then it's OK to do whatever genocide you want, it doesn't matter actually.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Gaza genocide is horrific. But it also wasn't on the ballot.

Anyone who didn't vote Harris was saying that they saw absolutely no difference between the 2 candidates and are okay with everything else that's been happening since last January that wouldn't have under Harris.

[-] Nalivai@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

If you listen to a lot of the perpetually online folks, even now, you'd think Gaza genocide is the only thing on the ballot, on any ballot, ever. You're not allowed to vote even for a school board member if they dare to talk about anything but how they personally gonna stop a genocide.

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[-] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 41 points 1 week ago

Should be called the MAGA Trots.

[-] smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Feel like Trump Trots is good too.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Trump's dumps.

[-] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

That's better.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
[-] DrakeAlbrecht@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Donorrhea was just sitting there, waiting for you to pick it up.

[-] 13igTyme@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago

Please do not pick up the donorrhea.

[-] fartographer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Take only Fartographs. Leave only Donarrhea.

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[-] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[-] RaftDespairPoise@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

Trumporrhea, or “a case of the Trumps” or “Trump dumps.”

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[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He did post a video of him shiting all over Chicago. He just didn't use a fighter jet to do it.

[-] jtrek@startrek.website 28 points 1 week ago

So one hopes that the voting public is learning a hard—or I should say watery—lesson about how important good government is

Most of them won't learn anything. If they were capable of learning, they've had ample time to do so.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Some of the undecided may learn. Most conservatives are probably a lost cause and always will be. These are the people that were claiming "it's just like the flu!" and "PLANDEMIC!" even as they lay dying of Covid, FFS.

And a whole lot of them were gobbling stuff like horse dewormer and calling for Fauci's head for endorsing life-saving vaccines.

Cons are not likely to learn a fucking thing from a round of this, even if they have the worst version of it.

[-] SupraMario@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

All they will do is complain to taco bell employees that their tacos are missing lettuce.

[-] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Getting explosive diarrhea to own the libs.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago

Shart of the deal

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I read the title and thought "woah, that's a little private," but then I realized it wasn't about his adult diaper.

[-] tumblechinchilla@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

He was upset at being the only person to constantly shid pant. So he made it so everyone shid pant. Because thats how his voided cranial cavity works.

[-] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 week ago
[-] ickplant@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Shart of the seal

[-] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 13 points 1 week ago

Well at least on this, he leads by example

[-] newton@feddit.online 13 points 1 week ago

Its a hobby of him ,schitting in his pants and on people.

[-] tacoplease@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

The best president of diarrhea and logorrhea.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

This makes me want Adam Conover and Obama to make a sequel to The G Word showing how much damage the Federal government has taken in the last couple of years.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Amen to that. The doofs that vote Republican will likely never watch it, but a whole lot of fence-sitters/"centrists" may.

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[-] quick_snail@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago

Kinda sad this article doesn't talk much about the outbreak. How many people have had it?

[-] TidBit@mander.xyz 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In 2025 the U.S. had ~800 cases including those associated with travel but diagnosed domestically. At the moment, while it's not exactly easy to determine while things are still ongoing, there's somewhere between 5,100 and 7,000 active cases.

Sources: https://www.food-safety.com/articles/11627-cdc-reports-up-to-7-000-cyclosporiasis-cases-across-us-identifies-large-midwestern-outbreak-cluster

https://www.cdc.gov/han/php/notices/han00531.html

[-] jve@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

From the article:

Some state health departments are doing what they can. Michigan, notably, has counted 3,762 cases at time of writing, as compared to the CDC’s 1,645, and identified salad greens as a possible—not confirmed!—culprit. But as Katrine Wallace points out at Stat News, most state health departments are not really equipped to collect and compare case information across multiple states.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

now THIS is Legacy

[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I always knew the one thing Trump would be remembered for would be the diahreea outbreak of '26. Very fitting

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[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

He opened his mouth?

[-] Hayduke@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

They don’t call him King Mierdas for nothing.

[-] sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

So was the previous cilantro outbreak caused by someone pooping in a hole near crops or from contaminated irrigation water (likely from livestock)? It seems like a material difference to me because it changes how you prevent future outbreaks. The article makes it seem like the first, but I suspect the publication has a perspective it is pushing (not a bad one, but perhaps not related to the cilantro outbreak).

[-] RadicalRebel@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Since you posted your comment, there's been a large produce company tied to the Taco Bell cases (Taylor Farms). As someone in the field of microbiology, this isn't just bacteria that can be controlled with disinfectants and sanitizers. This is a protist with a structured life cycle that spends the majority of its life as an oocyst. This SUCKS as it's resistant to heat and pretty sticky in this stage. So the only options for eradication will involve stopping all manufacturing for weeks and creating an insanely dry environment so the pathogen eventually dies from desiccation. Nonetheless, the more concerning issue is the source of the pathogen, as at this scale, it must have involved a contaminated water supply that was used to grow the crops. So while Taylor Farms will have to destroy a ton of product and shut down production for weeks, there's a chance as soon as they're back at it they unknowingly source more contaminated water, unless we clearly identify and address the issue.

PS: Humans are the only known vector and host for this specific protist species!

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[-] Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

This is just republican policy in action. It isn't simply the dipshits responsibility but every republican and conservative dem that enabled them.

[-] Blibly@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

He opened his mouth

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

That outbreak is basically his brand! He is creating shit everywhere!

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago
[-] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 5 points 1 week ago

just saw a headline that said it was lettuce from Taco Bell. (I saw last week that TB had pulled lettuce and some other vegetable from its stores out of an abundance of caution.)

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

MAGA is quite capable of spraying liquid shit everywhere. The shitstains are on their way to create the next pandemic.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Can't wait until Ebola gets here.

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