We can’t sell corn to India. We can’t sell rice to Asia.
This part is hilariously stupid because there isn’t a block of those exports. It’s a block on genetically modified foods. These countries have a lot of common sense policies concerning the sale of GMOs because they do not want to get stuck in the monoculture death spiral that the US agricultural sector is stuck in.
Why in the world do we let these people sell their cars? 94% of cars in Japan are made in Japan.
This is another stupid one. The Japanese don’t like idiotically massive cars. Which is 90% of what American carmakers sell.
I love how GMO foods pose one of the greatest dangers to our species’ continued well-being and survival, but not in way because of the genetic modification, but because of the ability for corporations to patent life itself and control who gets to grow it or not.
Meanwhile, you ask most average grocery shoppers if they would eat GMO vegetables and they will shriek in horror like it’s going to make them grow dicks out of their elbows.
I lived in Japan for several years and wholeheartedly second this. I had a later model Nissan Skyline that was roughly the size of a Camry and that thing was too big for the cities.
From “they hate us for our freedom” to “they hate us for our beef”.
And I believed the Bush era was rock bottom.Remember “freedom fries?” Republicans are fucking idiots.
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The rest of the world doesn’t not see Democrats like that either. Red or blue, both right wing, pro-war, genocidal, anti-people parties.
Just look at the rampant russo- and sinophobia.
And there’s this beauty which captures the American mindset perfectly:
I think they are not a actual Democrat my guy the right loves to pretend to be us the stir shit
They are all warmongers, always have been.
And ‘independent even more left’ Bernie just the same
I don’t exclude the Dems from that statement.
Whenever the Americans have their wars they all rally around the flag.
me too 😵💫
“They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak.”
Logic’s not so strong with this one, eh?
Sounds like Trump personally wrote the taking points in crayon.
That’s not true. He ate all the crayons before he wrote anything.
Has this man seen the state animals are in? Factory farming? What an idiot.
Every American thing I’ve tasted has been absolutely vile compared to even the cheapest things in Europe. I really feel bad for US citizens who have lived their whole lives with shit like that.
It’s unbelievable how much better it is overseas compared to US.
The wild thing is that we do have access to it here, there are small farms growing quality produce and heirloom varieties not available in Europe. But that’s not what gets sold in supermarkets in population centers. The problem is in the middlemen and marketing, all unregulated for profit from crap.
Our food is garbage. It’s all engineered to be fast growing, so it has no time to develop flavor and take up natural nutrients. The result is flavorless, empty food.
Man, you’d think itd be cheap, with the quantity over quality game were running
The good news is, for us prepper types, is that proteins are looking to have a good, if short, crash in prices in the coming weeks or couple months as export orders dry up. They’ll drop just to break even on the immediate costs, then go back up again as farms scale back their operations to accommodate the decreased demand, raising costs back up again, except at that point, it’ll likely be higher as there’s no real “buffer” of producing more for exports and there’s an overall smaller count of source animals.
Now’s a good time to get a chest freezer (or a second one) and get it ready to stock up.
You are for getting about the corporate greed aspect of it. It will never be cheap if they think they can charge more for it.
Gee, it’s almost like he’s intentionally being an asshole to achieve a specific reaction he wants
The thing that gets me about the Trump Admin is how all his spokesgremlins sound like they stepped off a Middle School playground. We’ve gone from “Newspapers are written at a 6th grade reading level” to “Public policy is implemented by 6th graders who just discovered what a bully is”.
Spokesgremlins… I like that!
spokesgremlins, spokesgoblins, spokesorcs, spokesgelitaniouscubes
Honestly asking, what reaction do you think he is looking for?
I can understand (and believe) these assholes are all evil and greedy at a cartoon villain level, but I simply cannot understand what is the goal here. All I see is stupidity running rampant
Absolute isolationism with nationalistic delusions of grandeur
Basically, North Korea
But don’t they realize that North Korea is a broken dump? why would they want to be kings of that when they are already Oligarchs of an actual rich nation?
Not asking you to make them make sense… I am just at a lost for logic here
Because even oligarchs aren’t kings.
There’s always another goalpost.
They do realize that, they don’t see what they want as that tho. This guy is too stupid for that, and he himself is not a oligarch
They probably think that couldn’t possibly happen to their country because they think they’re better than North Koreans
im convinced this guy has actual brain damage.
that’s my occam’s razor
Pffff haha Hahaha haha ha…
Oh wait, he’s serious.
HAHA HAHAHAHA HAHA HAHA!!
America has the food standards of a third world country. That place literally allows cancer giving chemicals in their food simply because people aren’t dying fast enough from them.
The US is several third-world countries in a trenchcoat, supported by a few first-world countries within it so it doesn’t collapse, cosplaying as a single first-world country.
If the US broke up into multiple countries many states would be poorer than really poor countries. I won’t tell you which…
And one single state would be 4th in the GDP rank (it is 5th right now)
If anything the US is now second world given the tenancy to bend the knee to Putin.
“What do you mean this chicken is rotting??”
pours bleach everywhere
“What did I tell you, see? Zero bacteria!”
Please keep their foodstuffs away… 🤢
Hey, common… my third world country has much higher standards!
We need a new category unique to America. They can feel exceptional in their mediocrity.
A negative world country?
A turd world cuntry.
What’s unbelievable is that a grown man, forget someone in the Presidential line of succession, talks like this.
They hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak.
Which wave of feminism is this /s
You know, that’s exactly what I’ve said, every single time I’ve eaten beef, anywhere in Europe…“What weak beef! I bet that cow couldn’t have done more than 20 push-ups. I can actually taste that a 2-hour run would have taken that cow the better part of an hour.”
🙄
I kinda like that he is doing this because while this won’t reach a large number of MAGAts, at least a few will pause and realize, “Wait, other countries have higher standards for their citizens than the food that myself and my family eat daily? Is that… a good or a bad thing?”
And some small number will learn something they would’ve never been exposed to if the orange-moron didn’t say it.
I don’t imagine it will reach many of them, they wouldn’t be MAGAts if they thought about things very deeply after all, but some of them will get it.
Thank you Mr. President for starting this awareness campaign (in the stupidest way possible).
Nope, that would require them to think/know we don’t want their food because it’s a lower standard. They will instead believe we don’t want their food because we are jealous of them, or because we want to unjustly mess with them as competition.
That is an abstract thought. Something tells me a Trump voter really struggles with abstract thought.
they aren’t that willing to think about it,
they will just think(be told) that Europe hates freedom and therefore American meat/poultry
at least a few will pause and realize, “Wait, other countries have higher standards…”
Nice thought, but too generous. If you’re not England, France, or maybe Germany, then we consider you a third world country. (Incorrectly!)
If anything, this will piss them off more: “How dare these third world countries reject the world’s best food?!”
I try my best to buy as locally as possible.
It doesn’t matter how beautiful that beef is, I won’t let that sweet sexy attractive beef blind me from buying local when possible.
European beef is very sophisticated.
The cows go “Meaux”
Or maybe because they have standards and we don’t
I try to go by the book “Food Rules” by Michael Pollan. The book basically tells Americans to eat like the rest of the world does, which isn’t easy here with all of the oversized portions of “edible food-like substances” as the book describes.
Beef is a lot more expensive in Europe in my experience, but is also of a much higher quality. You can get an equivalent quality in the US but you’ll have to go to a specialty butcher or a farmers market and it will be more expensive than an equivalent cut in Europe.
And frankly the cheap stuff in the US is still too expensive for me to make it a regular part of my diet. So, if I’m going to have it, it’ll be a treat, and I may as well buy the better stuff in that case.
