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Screwworm Parasite 'No Longer Contained in Texas' as Trump USDA Doubles Down on Efforts to Blame Biden
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one could argue that the 'screwworm' has been alive and well inside the u.s. for going on 80 years, spotted in various places over the last decade, including washington d.c. and south florida's atlantic coast.
In those times were the government actively defunding the program and many many others whilst doing blatant corruption such as awarding themselves millions of dollars by leveraging courts? All whilst screaming "rigged elections"?
If not, then why the fuck you stepping in for Trump. You know, just let the bad news for him be bad news. You don't gotta stand up and be like "Don't worry MAGA dumbies and people who worry a lot - this happens all the time. What Trump is doing here has happened before and we pulled through" - which is the effect of your comment, whether intended or not.
So now some conservative news junkie monitoring Lemmy will go to r/conservative having written an article "top ten times screw worm made it this far" and no one will care about the issue or why it's happening THIS TIME. You don't devil's advocate when it's normalizing a bad faith actor. Save it for people who deserve it.
I think the comment was trying to be a dis about the GOP being the screwworms.
and one raging lunatic in particular.