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Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics 2026. Meat and Diesel.

Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or les...:

September 24, 2026

The Secretary of Agriculture reports that if you don't like beef prices, you can switch to chicken or pork.

That's frankly quite true, and it's a thing that producers need to worry about.  Pork was the primary meat for most Americans up until the post Civil War era.  Once people make a major shift in diet, they tend to stick with it.

September 21, 1946 advertisement from the American Meat Institute featuring a leg of lamb.

On this topic, the news relates that a top Texas BBQ joint will no longer offer beef brisket. Too expensive.  That isn't a good sign.

Also regarding meat, the USDA is recalling 167,000 lbs of uninspected beef, pork and goat meat.

On all of this, the meat prices would be easy to blame on Trump, as the Wharton School of Business seems to be economically incompetent.  This, however, is largely due to other factors, although I don't know how to explain the inspection glitch.

One thing that will impact the price of meat. . .and everything else, is the price of fuel.  Indeed, after a year that featured record cattle prices, for those who had cattle to sell, profits are now being lost to diesel fuel.

A common cry out there in the hinterlands right now is to impose an export ban on diesel fuel.  Such a ban was in place from 1975 to 2015.  It's really debated what lifting the ban would do.  Midwest GOP candidates started crying for it recently, but Wyoming's Congressional representation opposes it. That doesn't tell us much, however, as Wyoming's delegation probably wouldn't oppose a proposal to nuke the state.

Anyhow, Trump indicated support for a temporary ban, and then energy secretary Chris Wright walked it back, which is extremely interesting, particularly as farmers in the Midwest are now having real second thoughts about King Donald now that they realize he's fucking them with his policies, and not other people they didn't car about.

Lex Anteinternet: Mid Week at Work. Mid Week at Work. The guy who uses the Air Force to go on weekend golfing trips thinks you have too much time off.

Lex Anteinternet: Mid Week at Work. The guy who uses the Air Force ...: 

 

Mid Week at Work. The guy who uses the Air Force to go on weekend golfing trips thinks you have too much time off.

Eat Local, Help Farmers, Avoid Pathogens

Eat Local, Help Farmers, Avoid Pathogens: Consumers have the power to limit the impact of this and future outbreaks.

 

California dairy exodus will change crops, affecting southern Great Plains elevators

 

Aug21

Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics 2026. Agriculturalist and leopards won't eat my face. Cattle imports.

Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or les...: We weren't really ready to start a new one of these, but Chuck Gray has been in such rare form recently as it starts to look like he...

August 21, 2026

Why the US economy is ringing alarm bells

Bessent was sent out yesterday to try to calm fears, but ended up being ridiculed.  The US is buying back bonds which did help stabilize the bond market, at least for now.

And this:

First of all, beef prices have nothing to do with Joe Biden.  Secondly, the "thank you for our attention" line is stupid.

The real stupidity here is that American agriculturalist support the GOP, which routinely hurts them.  Ranchers and Farmers are solidly members of the Leopards Won't Eat My Face Party.

Hageman: California 'Failed All Of Us' And Made Colorado River Water Crisis Worse

You'd think somebody who has an agricultural background wouldn't say something this ignorant.

Hageman: California 'Failed All Of Us' And Made Colorado River Water Crisis Worse

Lex Anteinternet: The 2026 Election, 18th Edition. Primary Voting Co...

Lex Anteinternet: The 2026 Election, 18th Edition. Primary Voting Co...:   August 2, 2026 I wasn't going to do this, but the last thread just became too darned long and was creating havoc in the blog according...

August 6, 2026

Rep. Jayme Lien called WYDOT to complain about the placement of Rob Hendry sign.  Rob noted it with bemusement and posted a photo of a questionable Lien sign in terms of placement.

Chuck Gray was apparently his recently spastic self in a debate for the House.  He posted thereafter a peppy owning the libs post, but he's coming across as an ass, as he is one.  His interview by a Cowboy State Daily female reporter, which is on video, is really a prime example.  That alone would preclude his election in a decent society.

All indications are that Christensen is really moving up.

Bob Ide called Lisa Engebretsen's supporters "Camo Clad Leftists"

Ide runs around dressing like a cowboy, and apparently has some ranching background and some cattle, but he's landlord.  The Camo Clad Engebretsen supporters are local outdoorsmen who are awake to Ide's grab the Federal land stand.

Ide needs to leave the legislature.  Better yet, he can give up on being a landlord and head out into the sticks and punch cows full time.  He already has the clothes and everything.

This is the first time, by the way, I've seen a politician accuse sportsmen of being "leftists".  

Last edition:

The 2026 Election, 17th Edition. Primary Voting Commences Edition. Vote like your future and that of your state depends on it, because it does.*

2026 Election, Carpetbaggers, Cynthia Lummis, Donald Trump, Enemies of Public Lands, Liz Cheney, Politics, Public Land, Republican Party, Richard Dodson, Wyoming, Wyoming Freedom Caucus, Doug Burgum, Elon Musk, Frank Chapman, J. R. Riggins, Jim Geringer, Kevin Christensen, National Conservatism, Neil Jeske, Reid Rasner, Tom Lubnau,Bo Biteman, Brent BienChuck Gray, Eric Barlow, Francoism, Harriet Hageman, James Byrd, Jillian Balow, Megan Degenfelder, Predictions, Samuel Mead, Steve Friess, Steve Harshman, Yeoman's Thirty-first law of behavior 

Lex Anteinternet: Masculinity isn’t the problem. The absence of it is

Lex Anteinternet: Masculinity isn’t the problem. The absence of it is:  

Masculinity isn’t the problem. The absence of it is

 

Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or les...

Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or les...: Exports of petroleum products and capital goods jumped to record highs reducing the U.S. trade deficit.  The capital goods item is interesti...

July 30, 2026

Coal and the Wyoming Congressional Delegation. They always have your back:

Wyoming Congressional Delegation Silent On Peabody's Move To Cut Retirement Benefit

The Rural Blog: A rising cancer rate blamed on water quality in ru...

The Rural Blog: A rising cancer rate blamed on water quality in ru...: A series of issues affecting rural America is giving hope to Democrats as the midterm elections approach, including data centers that are su...

Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Saddle Room

Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Saddle Room: There's one building on the place that we haven't done much with. It was built as a grain bin, but for the last 30+ years it has bee...

 

Who carries heavy loads into Great Smoky Mountains backcountry? Mules

Going Feral: Sunscreen advice.

Going Feral: Sunscreen advice.: From our favorite Galwegian. Is she right?  No idea, but I did read the other day a new super sunscreen is coming out which is supposed to v...

Sunscreen advice.

From our favorite Galwegian.

Is she right?  No idea, but I did read the other day a new super sunscreen is coming out which is supposed to virtually guarantee that you can't get skin cancer while wearing it.

I won't be wearing it.

Perhaps that's stupid, but I have a problem with slathering myself with goop and I rely on the oldest method of sun protect, clothing.

How I will note that the producer of this vlog is always fairly heavily dressed, so I'm not throwing rocks at her, but a lot of people I see in the sticks, particularly along rivers, are dressed stupidly in this regard.  In contrast, the last couple of years, some people on fishing boats on the rivers are practically dressed in hazmat suits.

It's as if, we've forgotten how to dress.

Ditch the shorts.  Put on a broad brimmed hat.  And, yes, wear some sunscreen.

Rancher Claims Outhouse Dispute The Reason Amish Community Leaving Hulett

 

Rancher Claims Outhouse Dispute The Reason Amish Community Leaving Hulett

The Rural Blog: Trump loses support among rural voters; farm troub...

About time:

The Rural Blog: Trump loses support among rural voters; farm troub...: North Carolina farmer Michael McPherson says diesel-fuel and fertilizer costs, and drought that halved his wheat yield, "are really put...

Churches of the East: Magnifica Humanitas

Churches of the East: Magnifica Humanitas: Just out, it's notably already being hailed as a great work, and notably already criticized by the United States Secretary of the Interi...

Magnifica Humanitas

Just out, it's notably already being hailed as a great work, and notably already criticized by the United States Secretary of the Interior.

 MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS

OF HIS HOLINESS
POPE LEO XIV
ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON
IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Foster Branding

Wyoming Catholic Cowboys - raw and real: Foster Branding: Awhile back, Paul and Laura Foster invited me to their branding in the Sheridan County. Fun to look forward to and even funner to partake in...

The Aerodrome: Who REALLY Killed Spirit Airlines?

The Aerodrome: Who REALLY Killed Spirit Airlines?:  

Who REALLY Killed Spirit Airlines?

Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 4. Economics in the Dementia Ward.

Lex Anteinternet: Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or les...: May 1, 2026 We're constantly told that tariffs are good for everyone.  But then monarchs come and they're lifted. He's lost his ...

Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 4. Economics in the Dementia Ward.

May 1, 2026

We're constantly told that tariffs are good for everyone.  But then monarchs come and they're lifted.

He's lost his mind.

Last edition:

Subsidiarity Economics 2026. The Times more or less locally, Part 3. The Wharton Way.

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