Essentially, for Republicans, it seems like avoiding raw milk is the new masking — and they’re just not going to do it in order to prove a point.
For instance, in April, Infowars host Owen Shroyer called the Food and Drug Administration a “gangster mafia” who wanted to “make raw milk illegal.”
“So, now that more people are going to local farms and farmers markets and consuming raw milk, this angers the FDA,” Shroyer said. “This angers Big Milk. Say, ‘No, you need to pasteurize milk, it’s a lot less healthy for you.’ See, eventually, they’ll just make it illegal. They’ll just make raw milk illegal. That’s what this is all about.”
During a bird flu outbreak that has crossed over to cattle. Weird thing to do to your supporters.
Not that different from attacking masks and vaccines, is it?
Cool,I can get behind more dead Republicans
While that sounds straight forward in theory, these same idiots will give their children this same milk and wind up killing them.
Still fits in the parameters of natural selection.
Wild that people choose to dance with Captain Trips.
Choosing to drink a product that contains a virus currently killing 50% of whatever it infects is absolutely detrimental to a long life.
Sucks that if it does make the jump to human to human spread we are fucked beyond belief and these ass hats will probably be the catalyst.
Democrats need to start attempts at banning more things for them to defend. For example:
- huffing glue,
- trepanning,
- russian roulette,
- Flavor Aid with Valium, chloral hydrate, cyanide, and Phenergan.
Also, “Big Milk”? LOL, these are probably some of the same dumbphucks that agitate against almond milk, oat milk, soy milk, etc…
Good god, these people are so stupid.
That’s the woke range of milks.
Indeed, but the fact that they appropriate certain bits of language like “Big Milk” (which is continuing their campaign against “woke milks”) while championing drinking raw milk has a lot of irony to it.
I don’t like youtube shorts much but I’m reminded of this https://youtube.com/shorts/VcYT1ZcB_5w?si=E1stp-oOBCE6GtPU
There is a lobby for sure, but you’d expect these folks to be on the side of the businesses.
I did not have “rickets” in my 2024 GOP bingo card.
Yeah because raw milk has two important factors: 1) it’s (kinda) illegal for health reasons “guv’ment not tell me what do!” And 2) it’s largely a white people thing.
Grown adults in most of the world can’t digest milk, because they are not children. Close to 80% of the world is lactose intolerant as an adult. Guess which demographic overwhelmingly ISN’T lactose intolerant? White people. From the same areas Hitler liked.
Fun fact. Hitler was lactose intolerant. But he loved milk.
Once upon a time this was called “virtue signalling” but I think “vice-signalling” is better. A historian named David Perry defined it as such:
a public display of immorality, intended to create a community based on cruelty and disregard for others, which is proud of it at the same time.
In other words, being an asshole just to prove you belong with the other assholes in the rectum. And then you realize that everything the right does (and has been doing for decades) to “Own TEh LiBz!” can be ascribed to this:
- Drinking raw milk
- Anti-masking
- Anti-vaxxing
- Destroying their Dixie Chicks CDs
- Not watching Disney
- Destroying their Yetis
- Tanning your Tucker Carlson
- Claiming the Battle Flag of Virginia as their heritage
- Etc.
That’s why right-wing boycotts are usually ineffective- on the surface they might be mad about something, but since they’re only performative said boycotts don’t last long.
On a deeper level, however, this is more disturbing as it’s another step on the road to fascism. Fascist groups are all about their purity and so members are driven to prove their inclusion in the in-group lest they be purged next. This creates a downward spiral of more and more extreme acts to maintain that facade of inclusion, which gets worse and worse for the people who have to exist with those assholes.
| Tanning your Tucker Carlson
This could also work as a euphemism for exposing yourself in public. As in, “Bobert’s husband went jail for tanning his Tucker Carlson in front of some teenage girls at bowling alley.”
Bobert was caught hand signing with Tucker Carlson at the Beetlejuice show.
Someone needs to tell them that the libs are extremely owned when they not just tan their undercarriage, but when it gets a nice, red hue in the entire area. To the point where there is later peeling.
The libs really, really, really hate this. Spread the word!
Doctors should say avian flu is transmitted via pegging
It’s gotta be something they aren’t secretly doing already.
Ah the new dying to own the libs
You know, I’m inclined to just let them fuck around and figure it out the hard way.
They pulled the same shit with coronavirus, and it killed a small - but electorally noticeable - fraction of the conservative population, over and above the rates that the general population saw. Given that this is a regressive segment of the population that generally tends to hurt the rest of our society, I’m not going to object too strongly if they want to thin their own herd out with Darwin awards. Please, continue “owning the libs” by harming your own political base.
I’ve been at this stage for a while. Popcorn out, schadenfreude mode ready, and remaining uninvolved.
Politics outside the US can get pretty goofy, but Americans just seem to be on another level… just a shame that we all end up having to deal with the consequences :(
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With these kind of articles, it’s a safe bet that almost nobody at all, Republicans or otherwise, cares or even knows about raw milk. It’s a non story.
I swear there has to be something in the water over there or something.
Please no one tell them and let them drink their raw milk and get avian flu and perish.
“Why did nobody tell me I would die from this?”
“Do your own research.”
nah, you need to tell them. it keeps them going. they crave that edgy feel
Apparently one of the conspiracies is that it will cause immunity to the bird flu. It’s like a chicken pox party, basically.
I hear the libtards also hate skydiving and jaywalking across busy highways wearing dark clothes in the middle of the night.
That’ll own 'em if you do those things, too.
Skydiving is OK, but only because it’s regulated. What really pisses the libs off is skydiving out of your buddy’s crop duster with a homemade wingsuit.
Gravity’s a woke scam anyway, just jump from a tall place and drink those lib tears.
At least this time they’ll just be owning the libs and themselves unlike with masking where they screwed everyone over.
