Just in time for Vice President Trump to try and get another high score on the Assholes Who Killed Millions of Their Own People list. Hitler, Mao and Stalin would be so proud.
Vance is VP. We need a new term for Trump now that Musk is the real President. Maybe Junior President?
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Three men in a car, the front holds JD Vance in the passenger’s seat and Elon Musk in the driver’s seat. A strap around the front seat secures a child’s toy steering wheel, which faces into the back. Trump sits in back seat, clutching the wheel.
Text on image: “So cute! He thinks he’s steering!..”
Credit given to: Michael E Luckovich; The Atlanta Journal- Constitution
Oh yeah. I had completely forgotten about JD Vance. I don’t have a couch in my house so he’s usually out of context.
How do you not have a couch?
Opted for comfy chairs instead, since they fit the limited space better than a couch.
Fair enough, there’s nothing like a nice comfy chair
Well.
Maybe we need to rethink the whole structure.
Putin is Pres. Musk is VP…? Turmp is Co-Chief of Staff, along with Vance?
President-consort.
You do realize that Biden just oversaw 4 years of conditions that led to explosion of bird flu, right?
Bird flu has been brewing for years. Biden has been president.
Experts say they have lost faith in the government’s ability to contain the outbreak.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/24/health/america-bird-flu-next-pandemic-kff-health-news/index.html
Stop trying to slyly pin this upcoming pandemic on Donald Trump. The upcoming pandemic is a result of decades of regulatory capture and a for-profit Healthcare system that both Democrats and Republicans oversaw at the behest of their billionaire handlers. The issue is not Donald Trump; it is liberal capitalism.
Dude, stop trying to pin this worldwide avian flu outbreak on the United States. There have been animal to human transmitted cases in the US, Australia, Canada, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Egypt, Iraq, Indonesia, and more, and widespread infections are occuring in mammal and bird populations worldwide. New diseases decimating eukaryotic biota predates capitalism by billions of years and viruses have been coevolving with animals that entire time. The US healthcare system has absolutely nothing to do with even the 60ish cases of avian flu that have been detected in the US in humans, though with 60ish cases and zero deaths, all sign point to this not being a very serious illness for humans with access to western medicine.
Did you even read the article?
To understand how the bird flu got out of hand, KFF Health News interviewed nearly 70 government officials, farmers and farmworkers, and researchers with expertise in virology, pandemics, veterinary medicine, and more.
Together with emails obtained from local health departments through public records requests, this investigation revealed key problems, including deference to the farm industry, eroded public health budgets, neglect for the safety of agriculture workers, and the sluggish pace of federal interventions.
I have provided you with a plethora of experts who explain that this avian fku outbreak is directly linked to American officials dropping the ball, but those silly scientists and experts must have forgotten that viruses predate capitalism… what does that even mean?
You’ve provided nothing that indicates this avian flu outbreak is directly linked to American officials directly dropping the ball, only that the situation within the United States is worse than it otherwise might be due to the factors identified in the article. This outbreak has been ongoing worldwide for four years and has hit other countries much harder than the US, such as China, Egypt, Thailand, and Indonesia. This has shit all to do with capitalism my dude
So everyone guzzle down that raw milk! HHS Secretary Kennedy says have at it, and no one will bother you about any pesky masks or social distancing and definitely not vaccines.
Keep that apple-flavoured horse paste on hand though.
It’s the worm talking. He controls Kennedy now.
Do they call him Dr. Worm?
They really should. All hail Taenia solium!
Mr. Mind
Still annoyed that he barely had any presence in the Shazam movies.
I’m pretty sure it’s just Plankton.
Wow, I love it.
The worm died in his brain. I assume because his thoughts are poison.
That’s what they want you to think. Maybe it took over!!! ;)
Ugg, I am not looking forward to the cost to deworm our horses tripling again.
God, I thought it was from exposure from being outdoors. It’s from raw milk?! Adult cats aren’t actually supposed to drink cow’s milk in the first place.
It’s from birds they kill.
Read the article: they were indoor only cats
Ah, so idiot owners feeding their cats raw milk is the only other option.
This isn’t the first time cats have been susceptible to death after being infected with bird flu. Last year, over half of a cluster of cats that sporadically died in Poland were infected with the H5N1 bird flu.
It’s bridging species across the globe even. This shit is inevitable. All it will take is one blind spot.
Kinda wild that this is happening just prior to a Trump presidency again. I can’t imagine the response is going to get stronger after Jan 20.
Raw milk recall? Shit, raw milk shouldn’t even be legal in the first place.
cheesemaker turns around
Cheese making uses pasteurized milk here in USA , even imported cheese are pasteurized
Feeding dangerous food to cats, and they die. That’s animal cruelty.
They’d eat raw meat in the wild.
I mean, they’re gonna be better off with processed food, sure, but I’d have a hard time setting the bar for cruelty below what they’d normally get.
EDIT: Oh, there are two cases, one with raw meat, the other raw milk:
The agency is also investigating a separate case, also in LA County, concerning a cat that has “tested presumptive positive for H5 bird flu after consuming two different brands of raw pet food composed of raw poultry and raw beef.”
I would LOVE to see this prosecuted, not because I want people who are hurting from the loss of a pet to be hurt more, but because not enough people consider raw milk dangerous and they really should. Even if the punishment was super small (because these people obviously didn’t understand what they were doing) it would hopefully help prevent future incidents.
Feeding a human baby raw milk would land someone in jail. (Or, I hope…)
IIRC cats cant digest milk well anyway as they are lactose intolerant but just fuckin love it
Am I the only person here who remembers when Hong Kong killed all its chickens because a few people died of H5N1 flu? https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-dec-29-mn-3171-story.html
Seems like the birds are getting their revenge.
It’s a good thing we have historically unprecedented numbers of livestock held in confinement so tight they can barely breath, that really helps to contain and prevent the proliferation of mutated strains of viruses
Wait until you hear what they do when they find a single sick bird in one of those buildings!
Probably not a pandemic and it doesn’t spread via mail packages and definetly not airborne because that’s impossible if you just stay 6’ apart.
