Rick Steele

GSU Alumni

[The Bulldawg Report @ReportBulldawg]

Once you sign an NFL contract, your college eligibility should automatically be gone. I don't care what school they come from.

[Joseph Brown @heresyfinancial]

$1 trillion is not that much

And then what happens when they need to refill the TGA? When the next government shutdown happens?

This is a temporary bandaid.

Only QE or bank deregulation will bring down long term yields meaningfully for the long term

[Political Polls @PpollingNumbers]

July grocery prices:

🔵 2024:
🥩 Ground beef: $5.55
🥛 Milk: $3.96

🔴 2026:
🥩 Ground beef: $6.85
🥛 Milk: $4.31

Beef is up 23%. Milk is up 9%.

[brian cochran @brianco45773651]

Pathetic

[Roscoe Smith IV @LoneStarLegendX]

There are 4 companies processing beef for 50 states.

There should be 4+ companies in each of the 50 states.

Ranchers need the PRIME Act passed to make a profit and protect their herds.

[Ann Vandersteel™️ @annvandersteel]

No wonder this beef is so cheap

[FarmerSam @IllinoisSamH]

Saw this on Facebook…

[Angie G @MomAngtrades]

Isn’t it illegal to feed wildlife because they get dependent on the handouts and forget to survive? Sound familiar?

[Alex Clark @Realalexclark]

New favorite congressman ⬇️

[Chip Roy @chiproytx]

The real issue on data centers, transmission lines, flock cameras, FISA, beef imports, Islam, immigration, “safety” regulations, healthcare, & pretty much everything… 

AMERICANS WANT TO STOP BEING TOLD WHAT TO DO BY GOVERNMENT & CORPORATE A$$HATS WHO SAY JUST “TRUST US.”  They don’t.  And shouldn’t. 

They cannot afford healthcare, they can’t afford a house, they can’t live in a safe & secure community of trust and shared values - while they see yet another strip mall or concrete box data center funded by private equity bros… who are working with the real estate bros who are in bed with local government to hike their local bonds for another mega school filled with teachers telling their kids that they are racist and should be gay or another sex…

All while they bulldoze 100 year old oak trees and suck up water and electricity - forcing prices up while we watch power come in on transmission lines from some ugly solar panel or wind farm covering up farmland… that only exist because corporate subsidies to cronies getting rich from those government subsidies….

To be told that we HAVE to do AI… because China and prosperity… to have our kids look at screens dotted with pornography, sports betting, and eye-crushing addiction… when no one can tell them that we can control AI to maintain a moral society and a Republican form of government, which as sh*tty as it is… is the worst form except for all the others… or that AI is not going to take their job… but just “trust us,” there the tech oligarchs will definitely “provide” for them as benevolent despots with universal wealth… because… you know, yeah - history is dotted with such experiences.

This rant is on behalf of all the Texans and Americans I know who are NOT idiots… who are fine with technology… fine with profits… and aren’t conspiracy theorists… but who are tired of all the society crushing, soul-crushing bullsh*t built in the back of corporate whores who don’t give a crap about them and while they want modern advancement…

…They simply want to recognize America again.  Whether they can articulate it or not… they want joy, time, family, conversation, a safe Christian-based western community without Islamic prayer calls…  and they would like predictability for more than 5 seconds - with the dignity of a job they can maintain and count on to go along with it…

So – the elites and the government officials can please stop lecturing the people on how “stupid” they are and instead… stop destroying America with debt, unlimited immigration, and empowerment of corporate board rooms over people… and then telling them you’re not doing just that…

[Paul Saladino, MD @paulsaladinomd]

The higher the quality of food you eat*, the less exercise you need to do to stay lean and in shape.

*single ingredient foods, foods with labels your great grandmother would recognize.

[Patrick Kerby @Patrickkerby58]

Fix the beef crisis by allowing America ranchers to sell direct to the public and cutting their taxes and regulations.

[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

OKLAHOMA CATTLEMEN’S ASSOCIATION SAYS PRESIDENT TRUMP’S DEAL ALLOWING ADDITIONAL FOREIGN GROUND BEEF IMPORTS IS BAD FOR OKLAHOMA RANCHERS AND SHOULD BE RESCINDED.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Trump's "mystery meat" foreign beef deal will HARM American ranchers and farmers. It will accelerate the collapse of the domestic beef supply chain!

[Stray Saint @TheStraySaint]

Everyone debating beef prices should hear from someone who actually raises cattle.

I’m a small rancher. It can cost me ~$2,500 to raise an animal + ~$600 to process it. If I bring home ~500 lbs of beef, that’s $6.20/lb before I pay myself ONE DOLLAR for land, fencing, equipment, fuel, labor, losses or risk.

So no, American ranchers aren’t getting rich off expensive beef.

And importing cheaper beef isn’t the solution I want.

I’d rather see Americans cut out the mega-packers and buy directly from local ranchers. Buy a quarter, half or whole animal. Know the farm. Know how it was raised. Ask whether it was grass-fed, grass-finished, grain-finished, or something else. Know who processed it.

Quality and production standards vary, and “imported” doesn't automatically mean inferior—but cheaper commodity beef is not the same proposition as knowing exactly where your food came from.

Want to help American families AND American cattlemen?

Buy local. Buy direct. Shorten the supply chain.

Then you don’t have to wonder which multinational handled your dinner—or whether tomorrow’s “beef” came from a cow, a bioreactor or a 3D printer.

Food security starts with knowing your farmer.

#BeefPrices #BuyLocal #AmericanRancher #FarmToTable #FoodSecurity

[Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 @SBakerMD]

As some of you may be aware, we will likely be importing more cheap foreign beef in order to cut the cost at the grocery store for the consumers-this is likely a midterm election strategy as people don’t vote for incumbents when food is too expensive

The down stream effect of this is that it will likely cause many American ranchers to go out of business unless additional help is sent their way

In the mean time, if you can afford to do so, please buy directly from ranchers if you can-it might be the difference between them going out of business or surviving to keep on doing what they do the best in the world, producing high quality beef!

Share this if you’d be so kind!

[Alex Clark @Realalexclark]

We need to see fighting coming after big ag and chemical companies in this administration and not the farmers. This is what the voters want.

[Alex Clark @Realalexclark]

Top issues currently for MAHA voters-

Healthy food affordability

Pesticides

Data centers

Chemicals in clothing

Transparent labeling on food/understanding clearly what ultra processed food is

Religious exemptions for vaccines in schools

[Joseph Brown @heresyfinancial]

How to fix the US and watch prosperity explode for everyone more than anyone can imagine:

1. Force a balanced budget constitutional amendment through a convention of the states (don’t need Congress). Spending gets cut to equal tax revenue, no more deficit.

2. Refinance the national debt with the Fed to lower the interest rate and reduce the net interest cost (Fed sends profits back to treasury). This frees up $1 Trillion in spending so Step 1 isn’t as painful

3. Dissolve the Fed, allowing the free market to regulate banks and set interest rates again. If banks take too much risk they fail. The price of money will be set by supply and demand so no more long term inflation.

4. Replace the entire tax code with a flat 15% sales tax (collected and paid by businesses). This frees up brain drain of tax industry, is revenue neutral, stops punishing income/earning/investing/saving and taxes the top more than the bottom (top 1% does 50% of spending).

Results: Inflation disappears. Jobs and earnings explode. Housing, education, food, cars, all become affordable again. The financial situation of the government gets better over time, not worse. Our children have a brighter future ahead than we do, instead of a worse one. Wealth flows in, gets multiplied, and the unbearable tumor of the government on our economy’s shoulders shrinks into obscurity.

[Good Ranchers @GoodRanchers]

We understand why beef prices are a problem right now. Ground beef is averaging $6.89 a pound, up 57% since 2021, and that's real pressure on American families.

But flooding the market with 300,000 metric tons of imported ground beef with no tariff for 90 days is not a solution for American ranchers. It's a short-term price fix that puts more downward pressure on the cattle producers who are already struggling to stay viable. Trump has not said which countries this beef is coming from or who committed to the 25% price reduction he's promising.

American cattle ranchers have been dealing with years of drought, high feed costs, and a shrinking herd. The answer to that is not more cheap imported beef with lower standards competing against them on shelves with no country of origin label required to tell you the difference.

We will continue to source 100% American. That is not changing.