"Meat Out" Madness Goes National, Flops Big Time

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by: Colorado Pols

Meat.

While Coloradans experience deja vu, the Washington Post debunks the latest silly-season attack on President Joe Biden making its way around the more excitable conservative intertubes:

This past weekend, a cadre of Republican critics raised the alarm that President Biden would take hamburgers and steaks off the menu as part of his new plan to combat climate change.

“To meet the Biden Green New Deal targets, America has to, get this, America has to stop eating meat,” Larry Kudlow, a former White House economic adviser to Donald Trump, said on Fox Business on Friday. “No burger on July 4. No steaks on the barbecue.”

But Biden’s plan doesn’t include any call to limit meat-eating. Instead, conservative ire was sparked by a Daily Mail article that baselessly speculated about measures that could accomplish Biden’s goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030…

Unsurprisingly, Colorado’s most stridently fact-averse member of Congress Rep. Lauren Boebert doesn’t want to hear your reality-based protestations:

Joe Biden’s climate plan includes cutting 90% of red meat from our diets by 2030. They want to limit us to about four pounds a year. Why doesn’t Joe stay out of my kitchen?

— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) April 24, 2021

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R).

Being sufficiently ridiculous as to not be taken all that seriously by national media covering the oleaginous back and forth, Democrats turned this story back on Republicans pretty quickly on account of it being very, very stupid:

Some Democrats struck back at the Republicans by pointing out that their claims have no basis.

Others joined in with their own jokes — particularly mocking another part of Kudlow’s interview on Friday when he claimed the deal would force Americans to “throw back a plant-based beer with your grilled Brussels sprouts.”

Your mileage may vary, but we don’t want to live in a world with meat-based beer.

The only other point to Coloradans to take away from this failed attempt to turn Joe Biden into some kind of tofu-eating nanny state tyrant forcing lefty lifestyle choices on red-meat America is this: while it was laughed off overwhelmingly by the major national media, Colorado press spent weeks taking a similarly false attack on Gov. Jared Polis seriously. Polis’ declaration of “MeatOut Day” in March calling on residents to eat less meat on one day out of the year, one of hundreds signed by the governor every year, was hyped out of all earthly recognition by downtrodden Colorado Republicans–and the local press obligingly helped process their nothingburger into a full-on political sausagefest.

We’ll say it one more time for both audiences: no one is coming for your meat.

Here’s hoping we never have an occasion to write those words again.

13 thoughts on ““Meat Out” Madness Goes National, Flops Big Time”

unnamed says:

April 26, 2021 at 8:33 am

Is she mad because she thinks this imaginary problem prevents her from giving food poisoning to customers?

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1. NOV GOP meltdown says:
  
  April 26, 2021 at 8:46 am
  
  A REQUEST that we all try to eat a little less meat due to environmental considerations turns into a heavy handed nanny state MANDATE that bans red meat forever in about two minutes.
  
  The commies are coming for your steaks !!! Send me money !!!
  
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  1. MichaelBowman says:
    
    April 26, 2021 at 8:55 am
    
    So you got that email, too?!?!
    
    What will we come for next, your Twinkies??
    
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    1. NOV GOP meltdown says:
      
      April 26, 2021 at 9:25 am
      
      That, and our freedumbs !
      
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    2. JohnInDenver says:
      
      April 26, 2021 at 8:19 pm
      
      Anyone else remember the novelty song admission of being a Junk Food Junky?
      
      Ah, but when that clock strikes midnight
      And I'm all by myself
      I work that combination
      On my secret hideaway shelf
      
      And I pull out some Fritos corn chips
      Dr. Pepper and an Ole Moon Pie
      Then I sit back in glorious expectation
      Of a genuine junk food high
      
      Oh yeah, in the daytime I'm Mr. Natural
      Just as healthy as I can be
      But at night I'm a junk food junkie
      Good Lord have pity on me
      
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MichaelBowman says:

April 26, 2021 at 8:38 am

What a bunch of nonsense. It’s not ‘the cow’, it’s ‘the how’. Even JBS (with a significant eastern Colorado presence – looking at you Jerry) sees shifting consumer demand and wants in on the plant-based diet market sector. Cow ~~farts~~ belches have consequences but we’ve discovered ways to fix that with red algae supplements to their diets and/or biochar. One of the best ways to build soil carbon (thus mitigating climate change) is through managed grazing with bovines.

As for PewPew’s query as to why ~~Joe~~ POTUS won’t stay out of her kitchen, perhaps she can explain why her caucus wants to be in every woman’s uterus?

What a carnival of clowns.

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MattC says:

April 26, 2021 at 10:06 am

"meat-based beer"

Well, bacon based beer sounds ok to me. Or chitlins, rinds, ear. Really, any part of the pig made into a light summer ale.

But I get your point.

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1. MichaelBowman says:
  
  April 26, 2021 at 10:18 am
  
  There are already meat-borne products in beer! Who knew??
  
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  1. bullshit! says:
    
    April 26, 2021 at 10:23 am
    
    A little bit of dried fish swim bladder does not make beer "meat-based." That's more like the ground worms McDonald's puts in their 100% beef. It's just a tiny amount.
    
    With that said, I don't think I wanted to know there is dried swim bladder in my beer in any quantity.
    
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Gilpin Guy says:

April 26, 2021 at 10:44 am

Ranchers are the coal miners of the future. The planet can't sustain animal based diets for 8 billion people. Qberts tweets are merely an attempt to distract from her lack of legislative activity. Grievance hides incompetence.

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Meiner49er says:

April 26, 2021 at 12:12 pm

Haven't we seen this before?

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Conserv. Head Banger says:

April 26, 2021 at 5:48 pm

I remember watching Kudlow and Cramer on CNBC. Jim Cramer always seemed to be the brains behind the show.

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davebarnes says:

April 26, 2021 at 7:57 pm

MEATHEADS

Well, Biden foes finally found something they could attack him over. The only problem is that it's based on make believe (which, at this point, is more of a feature than a bug). "'Joe Biden's climate plan includes cutting 90% of red meat from our diets by 2030,' Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) tweeted on Saturday. 'They want to limit us to about four pounds a year. Why doesn't Joe stay out of my kitchen?'" That is bullshit. And no one really wants to hang out in Lauren Boebert's kitchen, because she's crazy and usually packing heat. Politico: Biden isn't banning meat. But that won't stop these craven jackholes from spreading the same falsehoods until the cows come home.

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