They are getting ahead of the possible/inevitable consequences of their maliciously negligent policy. Hello, hoof and mouth disease!

The most inconspicuous way to cross the border is riding on a cow because no one is looking for that. You needn't worry about their fence climbing ability. Just rely on the Hey diddle diddle factor.

A little dog laughing and a dish and spoon running! Proof!!

And I have to admit, driving the 5 freeway in this area has become a task. Stray livestock running down the middle. Many of us are mounting brush guards on our EVs, damn thing doubles the weight of a Prius.

Mountain Lions and coyotes running through or neighborhood due to free range livestock.

I’m telling you it is crazy!

brought them into the state. Usually means that some farm has a downed fence.

morning, traffic reports frequently included warnings of cattle or other livestock on roads.

hilly. Have frequently stopped traffic going in the opposite direction to warn of loose cattle in the road over the next hill. Striking large livestock or deer can kill drivers when they slide up the hood of a vehicle and into the front windshield.

I paid that last week, at a locally owned grocer. Yes, I could have driven a mile up the road and paid $7 a lb. That mile is under construction and always backed up. I figure I would have used close to a gallon of gas just to drive the extra mile and back.

They tried to fix things. These lazy asses just have blame. No leadership.

But wouldn't more cows bring beef prices...down?

Assuming it was even possible. People die crossing the border and trying to get to a city. Now imagine it while towing an entire goddamn cow, let alone several. And transporting a diseased cow, you definitely wouldn't get far enough to feed anybody but the local carrion birds. The first symptom of anthrax, for example is usually a 'downer' cow, aka a large meat paperweight.

suspect that there are others elsewhere, folks estranged from their farming and ranching ancestors for at least five generations.

soybean farm, but doubt he's done much more than keep the books.

But sure, I guess you could consider it herding.

Link to tweet

“And there’s also, because of the mass immigration, a disease that had been — we’ve been rid of in North America made its way up through South America, you know, as these migrants brought some of their cattle with them. So part of the problem is we’ve had to shut the border to Mexican beef because of this disease called the screw worm. So we’re not going to let that get into our supply chain. And, again, I don’t want to focus on one product. It’s a very important product. And if we are laser-focused on this product —“

As is standard practice in the administration, sometimes a bit of information is taken and and garbled beyond recognition by people who don't understand it. Most of the time, though, they completely make stuff up.

In the US. I also side with supplementing Argentina beef until we can get our beef inventories up and prices stabilized.

when arriving from Oregon and we had to discard an apple to eliminate the risk of contaminating CA crops. How the hell does one get a cow over the border?

because I can't figure out if he is just so out of touch that he doesn't know that cattle are large animals or if he's just making random statements, assuming people will believe any lie he tells because he's a rich dude.

farms and there are "farmers" who own farms and never do a day's work in their lives.

I suspect he's the second kind.

Tiny Dick Head after Scott Bessent.

These are the stupidest people on the face of the planet.

I totally believe he could be that stupid.

Not to mention, from many accounts illegally entering the country is arduous and dangerous. Doing so, with cattle, is pretty ludicrous and I have never heard any accusation of that.

Legal entry into the country with cattle by an immigrant seems even less likely.

with hoards of diseased cattle.

Remember when Lindsey Graham complained that the annual pre-election caravan participants were dressed too well. I suspect they paid for the crowd.

he really thinks America is that naive, well maybe the ones that vote for them.

And this thread is gold!

Running herd through Mexico undetected, then fordng the Rio Grande in massive quantities. Inflationary cows one and all. A leaky border indeed!

Maybe he has never even seen a cow or steer. That's how clueless he is.

zero critical skills among that blight

MAGAts think migrant workers are bringing cattle across the border? Cows be jumping over the wall and crossing rivers and mountains and desert?

This is astonishingly stupid, even from Bessent.
And I'm ignoring the idiocy of migrants bringing their cattle all the way from Central & South America.

if they pay.

My flight back home from LHR had many cattle on it.

Let’s just name them all: Baghdad Mike, Baghdad Bessert, Baghdad Pam, etc. etc. etc.

the aisle. While the flight attendants were trying to find a place with a big enough seatbelt for it, a passenger tried to milk it. Udderly ridiculous!

The buck stops nowhere near this fucking cabal.

Have to park almost over by the Waffle House.

"Ask NOT what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for my boss!"

"The only thing we have to fear is those Mexican farmers sneaking herds of cattle into our country..."

"January 6, 2021, a date that will live in celebration for ever..."

"These are 'alternative' facts..."

"Mr Gorbachev, tear down that ball room..."

"I regret that I have but one life to exploit my country..."

Some people are saying that these are maybe the greatest statements, maybe ever..."

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One day this will END, but the shame of those who stay silent with stick to them like rotting milk, and it will NOT ever wash off.

You can’t make up this shit.

Nothing like a guy with hundreds of millions of dollars opining about affordability. He's another one who wouldn't know how to grocery shop if the maid quit.

They ride those poor cows a thousand miles with not much to eat through the deserts, then run for miles to escape ICE, (oh wait, ICE can’t outrun a person on an old one speed bike) they will be all bones. And damnit, a cow does all that for an ungrateful “illegal Alien” then they give the boney old cow to a slaughter house, for undocumented slave labor to butcher working 24 hours a day for a few dollars? Then the grocery (that’s a new word, google it) store will charge $50 a pound for that tough as leather steak and unregulated diseased beef?
That all makes sense Mr Secretary.
And if you eat that Latino Beef, you will turn brown and speak Spanish. Then be vanished by ICE for looking Latino.
Thank you Joe Biden. Look what you have done.

to quit meat for a month the price would radically drop .
It would mean cattle would cost more to feed as they're not being slaughtered for profit.
When the cost of perishables gets too high I leave them on the shelf to rot. A little discipline goes a long way.

Those pocket bovines have to eat something.

Gads! Maybe they’re cownivores!

It's pretty impressive that these migrants from South America can get themselves through the Darien Gap, not to mention themselves and their cattle. Sounds like the kind of people we need in the U.S.A.!

According bullshit dot com, illegal immigrants are bringing their cattle when crossing the border.