Howdy Doody Dusty wants to kill family members with cyanide bombs

Want to help Congress advance a farm bill? Urge your congressional delegation to defund the US Department of Agriculture's Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service or APHIS. 

While failed red states like South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho celebrate the extermination of apex predators for unsustainable short-term gain the USDA's division of death, so-called "Wildlife Services," is to blame for the widespread use of lethal poisons like M-44 cyanide bombs that maim and kill family members. 

In 2022 We, the People killed 216 feral cattle through APHIS but we also shot, trapped or poisoned over 56,000 coyotes or about 153 every day. Funded by the 2018 farm bill and reported for 2022 the rogue agency killed 26,371 beavers, over 14,000 red winged blackbirds, 478 armadillos, 244 badgers, 450 black bears, 515 bobcats, 820 red-crested cardinals, 204 cougars, nearly 20,000 brown-headed cowbirds, 4,300 American crows, nearly 11,000 white-tailed deer, over 19,000 mourning doves, some 4,000 ducks including those that feed on invasive zebra mussels, over 6,000 egrets, 540 American kestrels, over 3,000 foxes, some 20,000 gulls, 1,200 jackrabbits, over 2,000 hawks, 600 herons, 3,000 iguanas, 74 javelinas, 1,182 yellow-bellied marmots, 1,700 muskrats, over 8,500 black-tailed and Gunnison prairie dogs, nearly 8,300 raccoons, almost 11,000 common ravens, 4,400 striped skunks, 1.2 million European starlings, 1,600 mute swans, 137,000 feral swine, 440 wild turkeys, 380 snapping turtles, over 14,000 vultures, 220 wolves and 2,300 woodchucks.

Use of the bombs by third parties is prohibited in the USDA’s Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations Package after the US Bureau of Land Management stopped deploying them on public property that they oversee in 2023. The National Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service also prohibit the devices. 

But to spite preservationists like the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Center for Biological Diversity Representative Howdy Doody Dusty Johnson (Earth hater-SD) has signed a letter to Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack urging APHIS to roll back a ban on purchasing or utilizing M-44 ejector devices on public lands. 

Preservation is a weak spot in the Republican agenda and if enough people believe forest and rangeland resilience is a bankable position the South Dakota Democratic Party needs to exploit it by fielding candidates who can convince voters to reject politicians like John Thune, Kristi Noem, Mike Rounds and Dusty Johnson who work for the grazing, mining and logging profiteers at the expense of public lands.

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