The Origin Story Of GOP Outrage Over Totally Imaginary Biden Red Meat Ban

[Nevilledog]

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By Sunday afternoon, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had dubbed President Joe Biden the “Hamburglar.” Pictures of steaks and hamburgers were rocketing around the rightwing media ecosystem, escorted by captions screaming that Biden’s climate plan would force Americans to cut 90 percent of red meat from their diets. We had entered the era of baseless meat fear-mongering.

But let’s rewind.

It all started on Thursday, when Biden delivered remarks during the “Virtual Leaders Summit on Climate.” During his speech, Biden sketched out his vision that the United States will cut its greenhouse emissions in half by 2030. His comments were short on specifics as his plan has not yet been released, more of a practice in goal-setting than a detailed outline of how to get there.

Enter: the Daily Mail. The British tabloid, known to compensate for its paltry fact-checking with all-caps sensationalism, shouldered the responsibility of filling in the blanks of Biden’s plan with shoot-from-the-hip speculation.

“How Biden’s climate plan could limit you to eat just one burger a MONTH, cost $3.5K a year per person in taxes, force you to spend $55K on an electric car and ‘crush’ American jobs,” the pithy headline exclaimed, published the same evening Biden made his remarks.

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[onecaliberal]

1. They can roll out lies on twitter that destroy democracy and nothing is done.

Call them on it, you get suspended. Fuck twitter.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. To really do this right probably would take all that they're saying and even worse ...

Doesn't make up for the fact that they're full of shit because there's little actual chance of really doing this thing right.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. It has nothing to w/Biden at all.

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[struggle4progress]

4. .

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Fox News admits that it lied about Biden's plans and cutting back on red meat

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[11 Bravo]

7. Yeah, in one 25 second statement at midday after flogging the bullshit relentlessly ...

for hours on multiple shows over the weekend.

Fuck Fox!

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[tclambert]

8. He may also wear a tan suit!

I don't think he has yet, but HE MIGHT!

[eppur_se_muova]

9. Well, those Uglicans do love their meat treats ...