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Trump's Second Term

Knicks ask fans to arrive at the arena at least two hours before game 3 begins.
They can thank Donald for that.

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Knicks ask fans to arrive at the arena at least two hours before game 3 begins.
They can thank Donald for that.

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He'll fall asleep halfway through the first quarter, although, to be fair, many Knicks fans have been doing that for the last 50+ years.
 
So much winning.

Canada's food inspection agency has announced a temporary ban on livestock from the US state of Texas after flesh-eating screwworms were discovered in calves this week.
This really sucks for US agriculture and IMO shows a pretty serious dropping of the ball by those in control of the USDA.

The new world screwworm was eradicated all the way down to Panama in 2006 with sterile release programs, largely driven by the USDA beginning in the late 50s. It cost a lot but was well worth it in prevented agricultural losses.

People have been raising alarms about this deadly pest coming back into areas where it had previously been eliminated for years (here is a USDA bulletin from Feb 2025 about resuming Mexican livestock imports after they were stopped over screwworms) but it hasn't been taken very seriously yet. Hopefully that will change, but a lot of preventable and expensive damage has already been done.

It's a serious pest that can cause livestock losses of up to 20% by exacerbating wounds and getting into the navels of newborn calves.

The cost of eradication in the U.S. and Mexico (1960–1991) was 955 million dollars. Eradication provided annual benefits of 1.350 billion dollars in the U.S..
 
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This really sucks for US agriculture and IMO shows a pretty serious dropping of the ball by those in control of the USDA.

The new world screwworm was eradicated all the way down to Panama in 2006 with sterile release programs, largely driven by the USDA beginning in the late 50s. It cost a lot but was well worth it in prevented agricultural losses.

People have been raising alarms about this deadly pest coming back into areas where it had previously been eliminated for years but it hasn't been taken seriously yet. Hopefully that will change, but a lot of preventable and expensive damage has already been done.
Don't worry. The new Trumpy USDA person (after DOGE, there is only one left) will pray the screwworm away. God will save the USA.

Meanwhile, have another Texas steak!
 
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What is it? Tried to open it and it just spent an eternity verifying my browser (and doing god knows what else). Not doing that again, and don't want to add to their traffic anyway.
Alas, I fell for the temptation and it opened, and I found myself looking at it, stunned as one might be by a gory traffic accident. A parody would fall short of the lame stupidity here. Your brain will forgive you for skipping this.
 

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