Beth Shapiro
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Even the New York Times was completely behind it.
They published an editorial talking about they called the hippos Lake Cow Bacon.
Yeah, everybody was like, this is it.
Yeah, Teddy Roosevelt was behind it.
Yeah, well, it didn't go up for a vote.
I mean, this is such a, it's so funny.
But it's not fair to call it failed because it didn't fail.
It never came up for a vote.
So they had testified in front of Congress too late for it to come up to a vote that year.
And then just other shit happened and people stopped paying attention.
So near miss on the hippos.
Well, and now we know that they're good at becoming invasive.