Lone Skum 🇺🇸

Libertarian/Constitutionalist. I hope to leave a legacy of love and liberty. Dad, husband, wire twister, hunter gatherer. White pilled, trained, mags topped off

[Lone Skum 🇺🇸 @IntrepidZef]

I’m going to assume from this point forward that absent overwhelming evidence to the contrary all elected officials are pathological narcissistic satanic anti human demons.

[Lone Skum 🇺🇸 @IntrepidZef]

Dinner

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@RepHageman
@SenLummis
@SenJohnBarrasso

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

There are fewer cattle in America today than at any point since 1951, and four companies you have probably never thought about decide what nearly all of them are worth.

The USDA's January count put the national herd at 86.2 million head, the smallest in seventy-five years. Beef cows have not been this scarce since 1961, and the 2025 calf crop was the smallest since 1941. Ground beef hit $6.69 a pound in December, up seventy-two per cent in five years, with beef prices now climbing at roughly six times the rate of overall food inflation. A cow takes years to raise, so no real recovery is possible before 2028.

Now the part that should bother anyone who eats. Four firms, JBS, Cargill, Tyson and National Beef, process around eighty-five per cent of America's grain-fed cattle, up from thirty-six per cent in 1980. That is not an accident of the market. It is the deliberate result of decades of consolidation, of feedlot deals and packer mergers waved through while the people who actually raise cattle were told this was simply efficiency.

Look at where that leaves the family farm. The rancher takes whatever the packer offers for the live animal, because there is no one else to sell to. The shopper pays whatever the same packer decides at the till. And the gap between those two numbers, vast and growing, is harvested in the middle by a cartel so brazen the government has now opened an antitrust investigation into possible price-fixing. The man with the muddy boots and the family at the checkout both lose. The four firms in between have never had a better year.

This is the quiet theft at the heart of modern food. The fourth-generation rancher selling at a loss is not failing because he is bad at his job. He is being squeezed off his own land by a system engineered to capture his margin and call it progress, drought by drought, sale by sale, until the cattle and the knowledge and the families are gone and only the processors remain. The beef on the shelf looks abundant. Underneath it is a countryside being hollowed out so that four boardrooms can set the price of dinner.

A market with four buyers and no exit is not a free market. It is a tollgate. And the people paying the toll, at both ends, are the ones who feed the country.

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@SenLummis

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

There is now a serious, well-funded plan to vaccinate every cow on earth, twice a year, so it burps less politely. Bill Gates is behind it. So is the New Zealand government. Somewhere a marketing department is very proud.

The company furthest along calls its methane vaccine the holy grail of livestock emissions, a phrase that should make you reach for your wallet and check it is still there.

The pitch is gloriously simple. Train the cow's own immune system to turn on the microbes in her gut, so she belches less methane, with a single jab lasting months. Early results suggest a cut of ten to fifteen per cent. Trials run through 2027, launch around 2030, by which point the dream is a needle in the neck of every cow they can corner.

Pause on that. Not a feed tweak. A plan to medicate an entire species, forever, across the whole planet, to fix a problem with how we count its burps.

Because methane from a steady herd cycles out of the air within about a decade. It does not pile up like fossil carbon. A stable national herd adds no new warming whatsoever, whatever the headlines shriek. The cow was convicted by an accounting method, and the sentence is a lifetime of injections.

And follow the money, because it does the confessing for you. The cash floods in from billionaire climate funds and the food giants chasing their own supply-chain targets, the very people who need the cow to look guilty so their spreadsheets come out green. Not a penny from the farmer, who just inherits the syringe and the bill.

So the grass-fed cow, quietly turning rain and sunshine into food on land that grows nothing else, is now a wellness patient with a biannual appointment. Marvellous. The cow was never the emergency. The people insisting she is just happen to have a vaccine to sell.

[Lone Skum 🇺🇸 @IntrepidZef]

@SamaHoole “Train the child's own immune system to turn on the microbes in their gut”

Would a parent do this to their child, or to themselves? No

[Lone Skum 🇺🇸 @IntrepidZef]

@_Slanger_ @SamaHoole I came here to say this exact thing

[Slanger @_Slanger_]

"Train the cow's own immune system to turn on the microbes in her gut"
the prevalence of crippling auto-immunity in humans shows the immune system isn't an obedient clockwork soldier which can be regulated like clockwork
this looks likely to induce auto-immune diseases in cows, causing suffering and - i won't claim motive - causing mass culling of animals due to illness, in ways which keep them out of the food chain, and not producing milk , or calves

[Cowboy State Daily @daily_cowboy]

“A huge tanker plowed into what I thought was about 6 cars,” is how one witness described the scene of a devastating double-fatal crash Friday on Highway 20/26 in Natrona County. “It was one of the worst accidents I’ve witnessed in person,” said another.
https://t.co/zbFfrzM1TT

[Lone Skum 🇺🇸 @IntrepidZef]

@frozenaesthetic You. Are. A. Genius.

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@robprogressive @WeAreKirk2 Why? Because you’re a racist and don’t deserve gains resulting from the risks you take. Obviously you’re a cold hearted cretin entirely insensitive to income inequality and the suffering of the generationally downtrodden. Side note- if you risk your capital and lose that’s on you

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@BernieSanders

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@mapleveewesem @InfragilisTee 😭

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@mapleveewesem @InfragilisTee I would if I could

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@LizzyStarrrdust Geraniums and roses were my Grandma’s favorites and thus mine

[Samurai Apocalypse @HeatherIsUnsane]

“You are the sunlight in my growing
So little warmth I've felt before…”

[Lone Skum 🇺🇸 @IntrepidZef]

@SenLummis

[Rae ❤️‍🔥 @FiatLuxGenesis]

Widespread contraception (the pill) turned procreative sex into recreational sex that fractured the relationship between men and women that led to promiscuity that led to no fault divorce that led to abortion that led to the destruction of the family that led to societal chaos and our current moment.

[Lone Skum 🇺🇸 @IntrepidZef]

@AFpost @chiproytx Do not come to Wyoming. There’s no jobs, housing, water, food, roads, schools, or hospitals. It’s cold and windy 40 weeks of the year. The air tries to kill you. Political disagreements are settled by fisticuffs. The natives are armed to the teeth. Did I mention it doesn’t exist?

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@SenWarren @TomHugh91304415

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@BasedMikeLee Now if we could also just repeal 17A