William Pitt the Younger

Free Iran🦁 Elite counter-revolutionary against populism. One-Nation Tory, Monarchist. Stand for balanced budgets and realism. Republican Renaissance in a wig.

[William Pitt the Younger @RepRenaissance]

The powdered wig and knee breeches are comfortably worn.
The pragmatic politics of Nelson Rockefeller are forlorn.
When the nation yearns for a Republican Renaissance, I'll be reborn.
William Pitt the Younger still lives, there is no need to mourn.
The Tories shall not be torn.

[Hey, Dave! @davegreenidge57]

In less than 18 months, MAGA has managed to bring back measles. They defunded the Ebola monitoring program that likely resulted in an what is an emergent pandemic. Now, they’ve allowed the food supply to be contaminated by a deadly parasite not seen in the U.S. since 1966.

[Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker⚔️ @Nomads4Pritzker]

So, I've worked in the beef industry. I have a fairly detailed knowledge of beef markets, the supply chain, parasites and parasiticides, etc. Suffice it to say, this is a nightmare scenario, but one we've known was coming since at least 2022.

New World Screwworm was eradicated from North and Central America in the mid-90's. The US gov't (APHIS) funded a program of screwworm drops, where they bred sterile males so that extant populations couldn't reproduce and move northwards. But in 2022 NWS jumped the Darien gap and started moving northwards once again. It's most likely that they came undetected on livestock brought alongside migrants fleeing political instability in South and Central America. Elon Musk/DOGE, of course, cut several monitoring programs that would have detected this exact scenario. The screwworm drops are still funded, but the monitoring programs are what have been cut - a stupid move if there ever was one.

A serious Central/South America policy would have worked hand-in-hand with CA/SA governments to help contain this, but we've never had a serious policy towards South America, not during the Biden years, and especially not under Trump. The USDA broke ground on a sterile screwworm facility in Texas... last month. I worry it's too little, too late.

Screwworm is so dangerous because, unlike other fly larvae, they lay eggs and feed on living flesh. So something like a small scratch (or even bug bite) can quickly becomes infested, and the larvae will burrow into the flesh, growing the wound and attracting more screwworm. They don't only parasitize cattle, but will also feed on wildlife, domestic pets, even humans. Since they have detected screwworms in domesticated cattle right now, it's likely that there is a wild reservoir as well. We can quarantine herds and pets, but we can't quarantine deer and armadillos. They will move, and so will the NWS.

Under normal circumstances, cattle are moved around - a lot. Calves will be sent to stockers through their adolescence, then shipped to feedlots for finishing. A lot of calving operations (like 70%) are small, and small-time producers don't always catch parasite infestations. Cattle moved in-state don't require a certificate of veterinary inspection, so it's easy for an infested animal to be moved without being noticed. Animals crossing state lines do need a CVI, but Texas has such an enormous cattle population (something like 13 million head) that as goes Texas, so goes the nation.

Fortunately, we have a lot of drugs that treat NWS. The FDA has issued several emergency use authorizations in the last year or so. But every input raises the price of beef, and treatment only makes a difference if producers catch an infestation early. If an infestation spreads unnoticed on a large feedlot, it can hit hard, both in terms of cattle that have to be killed, and treatments that then have to be deployed. Producers will spend days at a time running cattle through the chute, inspecting them and applying parasiticides. It costs a lot of money, which is then passed on to the consumer.

What does that mean for you? Beef is a commodity, and just because there's no NWS up here in Illinois doesn't mean that prices won't skyrocket - and they will skyrocket. US herd size is already at record lows, and this will result in culls. Consumer prices also run 18-24 months behind, which means that shocks to the supply chain now are still going to be felt by consumers in 2028.

It's hard to say if our government will be able to muster an effective response - though I don't trust our current administration, which can't even throw a 250th anniversary party, to be able to deal with an ecological issue of this magnitude. It doesn't help that our current USDA secretary is a lawyer and think-tank creature. I don't much trust the state government of Texas either. The industry has also taken the workforce of large animal veterinarians for granted - a monopoly/market power issue that I just can't get in to here.

For me, it comes back to our federal government having an incoherent policy on Central and South America. We knew what was coming, we know what's going to happen, but we cut the program meant to prevent this scenario. Instead of taking those countries seriously as partners, the government has been stupid and domineering.

Here's the kicker: this is what the industry voted for. They might scream, they might get bailed out, but all that means is that you, the consumer, are going to be paying more for beef, plus whatever bailout gets shoveled their way. Until the industry accepts that they are part of a larger system; that they cannot eternally privatize the gains and publicize the losses of beef production; that they need to consider sustainability and stewardship in the management of their operations, this is only going to keep happening. Eventually, they may find that there is very little goodwill for them among the public, and people will decide that a Brazilian ribeye tastes just as good as one from Texas.

[Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63]

Yeah, a "normal person from 1995" totally argued that 1/3 of the US population should be deported and foreign-born Americans shouldn't be able to hold public office

[Empire Aesthetics @Empireaesth]

If we’re removing Churchill from banknotes at least replace him with Nelson or Wellington and not some random animals.

[William Pitt the Younger @RepRenaissance]

I really just don't think Supreme Court reform is important. I'd like to limit judicial review, but that's it.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Mary Trump: “Don’t waste our time running as a Democrat if you are not running on Supreme Court reform. And I don’t mean reform around the edges. I mean you’re gonna add 4-6 seats immediately. You’re going to implement term limits. You’re going to put in an ethics criteria and you’re going to make sure many of these most egregious decisions are undone”

[📜Echoes of Empire📜 @EchoesofEmpire_]

"Socialism: Throttling the Country" - British Conservative Party poster, 1909

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Nearly 60 people in Idaho have contracted bacterial infections after drinking raw milk.

[Alex @_alex_joshua]

In 2017, my teacher brought in a former student who was running for Congress. 20-something who was inspired by Bernie etc.

Everyone was asking him softball questions about gay rights, "tax the rich" etc. so I asked him a basic foreign policy question. He couldn't give an answer.

[William Pitt the Younger @RepRenaissance]

This is an important point to consider.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

You say that post-Floyd DEI training created the policing culture that killed Henry Nowak. This is testable. If you're right, the pattern should begin after 2020. It doesn't.

Christopher Alder, 1998. Falklands veteran. Dragged handcuffed and unconscious into a Hull custody suite. Left face down on the floor. Officers stood around while he choked to death. Ten minutes before anyone helped. Inquest: unlawful killing. Five officers charged. All acquitted.

Sean Rigg, 2008. Schizophrenic man, died at Brixton police station after restraint. Inquest found "unsuitable and unnecessary force" and police failings "more than minimally" contributed to his death.

Robert Edwards, 2011. Died in a Suffolk cell. The IPCC found police "failed to take appropriate care" and didn't carry out proper welfare checks. The coroner said he should never have been deemed fit for detention.

Wayne Couzens, 2015–2021. Reported for indecent exposure in 2015. Kent Police had his name, address, and plate number. The investigating sergeant knew his brother, also a police officer. No action. Failed vetting twice, still became a Met officer. Exposed himself days before murdering Sarah Everard. The investigating officer lied about CCTV. Three forces had twenty years of red flags. Nothing to do with DEI

Post-Floyd, still no DEI involvement: Stephen Reardon, 2023, had seizures in a police van while the officer said he was "playing games". Died. Jerome Cowan, 2022, found unresponsive in a library, officers failed to provide first aid. Died. A man at St Erth, 2022, left drunk and vulnerable outside a railway station on a cold night, officers drove past without stopping. Died. All officers dismissed or facing gross misconduct.

Same pattern every time. A person in distress needs help, officers dismiss it or walk away. It happened in 1998, 2008, 2011, 2022, 2023, and 2025. DEI didn't create it. It predates it by a generation.

You also claim "determined, institutional silence". The Speaker acknowledged the case on 1 June. The Home Secretary called it "a horrifying act" and Digwa's false accusation "an evil act" in an oral statement to the Commons on 2 June. Debated in both Houses. Starmer and Baddenoch clashed over it. Front-page news for a week. There is no silence. You invented it because your baseless argument needs it.

You ask pretentiously what you call a system where a dying teenager's word counts for less than his killer's.

I'd ask you: what do you call a system where Christopher Alder choked to death on a custody floor in 1998 while officers stood around, and twenty-seven years later Henry Nowak bled to death saying the same words?

That is an ideology. But not the one you're describing. It's an institutional ideology of indifference to people in police custody, and it has been killing people for decades.

Blaming a training course that's existed for five years for a rot that's existed for hundreds of years isn't analysis. It's a deflection that protects the actual dangerous ideology.

[William Pitt the Younger @RepRenaissance]

This is the worst administration ever.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

An extremely dangerous maggot that eats human flesh called Screwworm has just been found for the first time since it was eradicated in 1966.

This comes after Trump cut funding for Screwworm monitoring programs.

[William Pitt the Younger @RepRenaissance]

Even the Canadian republican agrees!

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

Why exactly is Graham Platner even considered qualified to be a United States senator in the first place, exactly? I keep feeling like I'm missing something here. Is he literally just some random guy left-wing people like?

[William Pitt the Younger @RepRenaissance]

7. Require simple majority for all votes besides constitutional amendments.
8. Remove state ratification from the amendment process.
9. Give the President an unlimited veto.
10. Curtail judicial review.

Not as good as rejoining Britain, but maybe easier to get done.

[William Pitt the Younger @RepRenaissance]

Unlike Britain, America is doomed. I see now way out of the mire. When the economy crashes in 2032-3, maybe we can change the Constitution and some other laws:
1. End the primary system. It's too late to save the GOP since the corrupt rot is completely embedded, but...

[William Pitt the Younger @RepRenaissance]

4. Repeal Amend. 17 to restore the old way of electing senators.
5. Increase the Senators terms to 10 years.
6. Make elections for all federal offices on the same day so the terms align. This will increase the chance that Congress and President party match, which is good.

[William Pitt the Younger @RepRenaissance]

3. Hereditary peers must return to the House of Lords.
4. End devolution in Scotland and Wales.
5. Strip local authorities of their powers.

This will return Britain to the glory days.

[William Pitt the Younger @RepRenaissance]

Britain is still salvageable. A few policy changes would fix everything.
But to ensure the policy changes are carried out, a few reforms are needed:
1. All party leaders should be chosen by MPs only.
2. Constituency primaries (which are rare) should be completely done away with.

[BBC Question Time @bbcquestiontime]

“People go to point scoring before they go to problem solving, it’s party first rather than place first”

Labour’s Andy Burnham says Westminster requires “fundamental change” and a “more long-term approach” to “restore the public’s trust”

#bbcqt

[William Pitt the Younger @RepRenaissance]

😥
Seeing it visualised literally made me cry.
What a terrible decision.
Ugly, pointless currency.
Just switch to the Euro now.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The Bank of England is removing historical figures from banknotes and replacing with wildlife. They are currently running a public consultation on the wildlife shortlist. So on its next issue of banknotes, Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, JMW Turner will be replaced with the likes of an owl, hedgehog, badger or common frog. We are not a serious country anymore.

[William Pitt the Younger @RepRenaissance]

Are 14,000 jobs worth $700,000,000?
I really don't think so.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

The White House says this will support or create more than 14,000 jobs in coal, construction, rail, and maritime industries.

[William Pitt the Younger @RepRenaissance]

The last point about bloodlines I disagree with. Even though I'm monarchist and elitist, I think everyone's bloodlines matter, because all of us and our ancestors contributed to building a civilisation that went from building the pyramids to landing on the Moon in 4,000 yrs.

[Kamikaze Cash @kamikazecash]

As a dad weighing in, have kids if you want to. Don’t have kids if you don’t want to.

Children will change 100% of your life’s activities. I can’t think of any aspect of life that is not drastically changed by having kids.

It is the most consequential decision you’ll make. It is a lifelong labor of love. It’s not trivial.

“Jesus wants you to have kids.”
- Jesus didn’t even have kids

“Social security will go insolvent”
- Govt’s problem, not yours

“Your ancestors are counting on you”
- No they’re not. They’re dead.

“Bloodlines!”
- Only relevant if you are a monarch

All of these arguments are fake and dumb. Have kids if you want them, and don’t have kids if you don’t. You owe no one an explanation.