President Trump @POTUS — if I were you, I’d fire at least two-thirds of your staff. You have a major personnel problem. Again.
And to the GOP: a large part of this mess is on you. You’re willing to lose the country and walk away from winnable states just to fund and run your preferred candidates… only to lose.
I pray this is a wake-up call for America. Some of us spent years trying to warn you. We were picked over, shunned, dragged, and deliberately ignored because they knew we were right and we could win. That’s not what they wanted. They want pre-Trump.
Well… you got it.
Hey so Republicans, just because we all aligned in 2024, doesn’t mean that you can become an out of touch party and still expect your voters to show up.
Issues important to voters are not just pandering points, they will inevitably hold you accountable.
Affordability is key. Republicans brushed those concerns under the rug and pretended like it didn’t matter.
America First lost its meaning over the last couple of years and it finally caught up with the GOP tonight.
Learn from this.
@JasminR68124424@Crazymoments01 We had a mini donkey and it would kill any animal that trespassed into it's pen. Raccoons, possums, cats. Tried to get a dog. Left the family animals alone that lived there
@nvolpewild Its man made disaster happens every year. They burn it so they can plant palm trees for palm oil. Your donations wont do much but put money into corrupt officials hands and do nothing
@phtevenstrong You have Christian pastors like Joel Webbon with large followings calling for the execution of Mike Huckabee. There is absolutely no Jew who is part of the Noahide laws advocating for the execution of Christians. None. It's pure sensationalism and fear-mongering.
@Megha_creates I dont understand if you are a parent you should book the seets together when you get your ticket. Its not that hard. I have traveled all over with my son and I always picked our seats in advance never any problem.
I was having dinner last night with a friend working in the chicken industry and I learned something that blew my mind.
Where do chicken farmers get their chickens? Most of us would say "from their existing chickens obviously, they breed and lay eggs."
That's what I thought too, but turns out I was dead wrong.
The reality is that the immense majority of meat chicken farmers in the world get their chickens from one of 2 companies: Cobb-Vantress, owned by Tyson Foods, or Aviagen, controlled by Germany's EW Group (the Wesjohann family).
They have a concept specific to the industry called grandparent stock: what you buy from these 2 companies is - essentially - a bunch of chickens with planned obsolescence.
The way it works is that each company keeps "pure" bloodlines on its own farms. Let's label them A, B, C and D. Those are the crown jewels - these companies' IP - and they never leave the building.
What they sell you are the "grandparents": chicks from those four lines, but each line in only one sex. You get A roosters but no A hens, B hens but no B roosters, C roosters but no C hens, D hens but no D roosters. Which means you can never breed more A, B, C or D birds yourself.
What you can do is cross them. A roosters with B hens give you the fathers, C roosters with D hens give you the mothers - these are the "parents". The parents then give you the chickens that actually end up on our plates, slaughtered at around 6 weeks.
And that's the end of the road. If you tried breeding those chickens, their chicks would be a complete genetic lottery: still chickens, sure, but without the genetic properties that make them commercially viable. They'd grow slower and less evenly, you'd have to sell them for way more than your competitors, and your business would be dead.
So you have to go back to Cobb or Aviagen for new grandparents. Forever.
Why buy grandparents at all, and raise 2 generations just to sell the third? The answer is scale. If you buy say 100 grandparents, each of them gives you around 50 parents, and each parent hen then gives you around 150 chicks: from those 100 grandparents, you have yourself some 600,000 chickens whose meat you can sell.
It makes no sense for these 2 companies to sell the final chickens directly. They'd have to hatch tens of billions of chicks a year and ship them all over the world. Much easier to simply sell the grandparents and let farmers do the multiplying and pay for the farms, the feed and the labor.
And, you knew this was coming, there is also a China angle here: as you can imagine, China isn't too pleased to be dependent on foreign companies for such a basic food item as chicken.
So China did what China does best: long-term planning. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs launched a plan for "national broiler genetic improvement" (2021-2035), which aims for domestically bred breeds to make up at least 60% of the domestic market by 2035 (https://t.co/INHrS7YUpD).
And, of course, they're ahead of the plan. As of 2025, homegrown breeds held more than 30% of the market: halfway to the 2035 goal in just four years (https://t.co/hF0HvB6Q5y).
Can you escape all this as a consumer? Sure, you can buy organic or Label Rouge chicken, from slower-growing breeds raised for at least 81 days instead of 6 weeks, for two to three times the price.
Except, plot twist: the genetics behind most of those slow-growing birds come from a French company called Hubbard... which has belonged to Aviagen since 2018 (https://t.co/URsRSI3gI0)😅
And even if you could truly escape, you wouldn't want everyone to: we'd need vast new swathes of farmland, both for the chickens and their feed. Ironically, advocating for organic free-range chicken for everyone is one of the worst positions one can take for the planet's resources.
If you want to minimize your environmental footprint, the counterintuitive answer is to buy the cheapest supermarket chicken - or eat less meat, of course.
As my friend was saying last night, you may not like the way this industry works but, at the end of the day, it's what puts affordable protein on the plates of billions of people, using proportionally fewer resources than any other way of raising chicken.
@luvgod@Tillamook This is for butter and cheese products. There is no sacrifice made or slaughter. No prayer said over the cow as it's milked. The halal cert means certain enzymes are used and plant based rennet are used.
@moonefish I had a grocery store refuse to take my us passport for id. Said only government issued ID. I said this is govenrment issued. They said but we cant take passports said anyone can get a passport. Then asked for my social security card saying it was a stronger id then passport.
@DrewHLive@Nero@IlhanMN Well since ilhan Omar is a us citizen and here legaly and milo is not a US citizen and her illegally not sure how your reasoning works.
@Jason He doesn't even qoute it correctly. Says nothing about the left foot. Its about Moses consecration the priests. Aaron his brother and sons were consecrated by dabbing blood on right ear, right thumb and right big toe.