U.S. beef prices have been stubbornly high for a variety of reasons, including drought and reduced imports from Mexico due to a flesh-eating pest in cattle herds there.
Jesus they are super fucking desperate to make Argentina work
If only Brazilian beef wasn’t tariffed due to them prosecuting fascism
When being smart is just too hard.
That’s when you throw on a red hat and start fucking your relatives.
We gave them 40 billion and then purchase their beef? Feels like a trade deficit
They’re desperate to save Argentina from collapsing because Argentina voted in their own Authoritarian and Trump, Elon and Theil used it as a test run for what they are trying to do to America.
Argentina screwworm attack!
Lmao. This goes against his tariffs.
But it does further the goal of market manipulation. When prices swing rapidly, there’s lots of cash to be made
Soy bean market given, 40 billion given, and now we’re giving them the American beef market too? Damn, talk about being America first.
The whole point of tariffs is to make the price high so that American farmers can sell their beef while hiring in the American economy… High prices are the whole goal.
trump beef™, now with free included prions!
Sorry I’m dumb, can someone tell me how it’s Trump that decides this? I thought wholesalers and retailers decided where to source meat from, not the federal government?
Ah, you are thinking logically. This is a mistake when it’s got anything to do with the orange rapist.
What happened is something along the lines of this…
“Sir. The poors are complaining about beef prices again”
{Obese orange imbecile flies in to a narcissistic rage, then shits himself}
“Sir. Why don’t we import beef from Argentina?”
{Shits himself again} “Press conference, now.”
…
“I’ve called you all here today because I myself have had a tremendous, bigly, perfect idea” {performs that stupid fucking grin of his, puts his thumb up, shits himself} “My, and my alone, idea is to import beef from Australgentina to bring prices down. You know my uncle was a cow, the best cow, yuge big udders he had. Everyone said it. Anyways, if prices go down this was all my idea” {Puts thumb up. Stupid grin. Shits his pants again}
There you go. Basically if he hears something that seems like a good idea, or if he thinks there’s a good soundbite from it, then it’s now his idea.
If it fails then it was a federal thing to blame. Or Obama. Or Biden. Or both.Tarrifs really. His favourite toy. When he ‘decides to import Argentinian beef’, i presume this means he means he will remove or reduce tarrifs on beef from Argentina, and potentially lower or streamline any bureacracratic hurdles - you know silly things like quality and disease control - stuff like that which Republicans hate. That’ll thereby make Argentinian beef much cheaper for US wholsalers.
As usual, this is a disaster of his own making, as he imposed an additional 50% tarrif on Brazilian beef - which was a large source of US supermarket beef, on top of their pre-existing 23.6% tarrif… Taking it to nearly 75% tarrif, and this was during an (ongoing) parasite outbreak in Mexico that was already lowering beef availability to the US and causing price rises. So, shock… supermarket beef prices shot up rapidly in response and have stayed there.
Don’t forget that the parasite outbreak in Mexico was caused by Trump’s administration cutting funding for a program that prevented the parasite from crossing the Panama Canal.
I hope the world learns to never be so dependent on one country ever again.
Rather than breaking up the meatpacking under antitrust (an actual solutiom) we’re, uh, importing more beef to bailout rich americans who over-invested in argentina?
Oh shit! I can’t believe it took me this long to figure out that MAGA means: Make Argentina Great Again
