Califan007 The Constipated

54 minutes ago, @DCGoldPants said:

 

Not saying anything in public would have been viewed as strong.... For her. Doing this, her spine has been removed and she has kissed the ring. Hopefully when he's dead and gone, and she thinks people will very her as someone who stood for anything, she's fully rejected forever for public office or any sense of being a leader. 

I may be the only one who thinks this is a sign that the GOP knows Trump will most likely lose, and they knew getting her support would be about the only thing that would save them. If so, there were backroom meetings, the transcripts of which will be leaked around August lol...

4 hours ago, ixcuincle said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

She probably wouldn't censor herself about Biden if his opponent wasn't a vile Authoritarian who literally tried stealing the last election, who brags about taking women's rights away from them, and who quotes Adolph Hitler every chance he gets...and if the "people on the fence" gave a single flying **** about any of that.

Anyone know Cage's agent?...

10 hours ago, Llevron said:

 

 Nothing could speak more loudly then turning this joke of a franchise back into one of the best.

Sorry, but I had to fix that.

2 hours ago, Die Hard said:

Except not really though. If you listen to any interview of a MAGAt, they’re already under the impression that the USA is ruled by/under an authoritarian (Biden) regime.

 

The persecution of political opponents is one of the bedrocks of their argument.

 

They’re fine with an authoritarian regime though, as long as it’s theirs.

Yeah, that falls under the " ****-ton of avoidance, rationalization, intellectual laziness, and industrial-strength blinders" part of my post lol...

Just now, LadySkinsFan said:

It's right out there in public now. Trump's an unrepentant Nazi, he learned at the knee of his Nazi father. He's never changed, he's hidden it from the public for a long time. He's going for broke now. 

I'm actually surprised the video was deleted...he and every single ****ing Republican voter and GOP politician seem to be embracing the rhetoric and an Authoritarian government with them in control.

"...and people are still acting like this is a normal election."  ^^^

Exactly. Said loooooong ago that this upcoming election is NOT a choice between Biden and Trump. It's not a choice between Democrat or Republican. It's a choice between Democracy and Authoritarianism. And I didn't mean it figuratively. There's no "negative" with Democracy that makes Authoritarianism a better option. None. That's why "But Biden's old/But the polls" is such an asinine argument to be making or having. I wish people would stop rationalizing why it's ok to support Trump. There is not one single valid argument to make to support Trump that doesn't involve just a ****-ton of avoidance, rationalization, intellectual laziness, and industrial-strength blinders. Because the only other logical and rational explanation is that they truly do want the United States to become an Authoritarian country and are cheering on that possibility.

5 minutes ago, PeterMP said:

 

This got lost in the shuffle the other day.  Great your down to four poptarts for your meal and still easily putting on weight. Cut it to 2 poptarts.  You've now gone from 6 poptarts to 2 poptarts which means you're saving money that you can use to buy healthier food.  Even cut it to 1 poptart and use the saved money to add in some healthier food.

 

You're still gaining weight.  Great.  Eat 1/2 a poptart.

Sounds like you forgot--or missed--the point of the post.

I think my "smacked him with a rolled up newspaper" description was way too tame lol...

43 minutes ago, Larry said:

 

Eh.  I thought that lawyers, and cops, were excluded.  

 

I'd assumed it was because so much of a courtroom consists of arguing over "which parts of the truth do we need to hide from the jury?"  (I assume that my phrasing reveals how I feel about it, in general).  And that people like lawyers know the system well enough that they can tell (or at least speculate) about the things that weren't in the courtroom.  

 

Can't remember which former prosecutor said this, but they said they liked having an attorney on the jury because they tend to make sure the jurors follow the judge's instructions and can step in if the jurors are going off on a tangent much like we do on threads here lol...

In case anyone missed it, one of the witnesses for the defense (Costello) was smacked down hard by the judge today. Had to excuse the jury first before doing so. Basically Costello was making insulting verbal reactions to the judge's rulings on objections, rolled his eyes at the judge, and even said that something should be stricken from the record--which only the judge can do--all while the jury looked on. Merchan smacked him with a rolled-up newspaper and he sat the rest of the way with his tail tucked between his legs, and behaved.

Trump ****ed about it afterwards, of course. And MAGA Twitter is making the absolute asinine claim that the judge only dismissed the jury because Costello was "exposing" Cohen so he paused the trial to keep Costello from doing any further damage to the prosecution's case lol. the part that MAGA overlooks is that the jury has 2 lawyers on it, and they KNOW what Costello was doing was disrespectful and should never be allowed in any courtroom. There's no way this defense witness' time on the stand helped Trump.

This is the song at the end of the movie...

That's it, I'm in lol...

16 minutes ago, Bang said:

I'm kind of with Ren on this,, no good can come out of any of it. 
Best thing will be if it just popped and did nothing. Maybe Newsmax can run it on a loop.

 

~Bang

I hate saying it, but yeah...kinda got me thinking along those lines, too.

By the way...

24 minutes ago, tshile said:

my son on the other hand will only eat a cheeseburger when we’re out, doesn’t matter what type of restaurant it is.

 

Is this your son?

2 minutes ago, tshile said:

This is literally my 5 year old daughter. She eats like her mom. We got to a restaurant and she orders a salad with a hard boiled egg. 
 

again, she’s 5. 
 

but she loves tacos, we have them every week

 

my son on the other hand will only eat a cheeseburger when we’re out, doesn’t matter what type of restaurant it is. 🤦🏼‍♂️
 

Are we related? lol...😐

Surprisingly, by the time my daughter was a teen she HATED hamburgers, french fries, pizza...and absolutely LOVED salads. She often refused to eat chicken (she eats it now).

But she has always loved, still loves, and always will love Mexican food lol...

I'm so proud.

4 hours ago, Dan T. said:

Least surprising tidbit in history:

 

Horrible person Daniel Snyder is friends with horrible person Donald Trump.

 

 

Wrong.

Least surprising tidbit in history:

Dan Snyder is still meddling in stuff he doesn't know anything about instead of leaving it up to the people hired to make those decisions lol...

19 minutes ago, PeterMP said:

There is some evidence that drug ads are actually in totality beneficial.

 

https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/the-hidden-benefits-of-tv-drug-ads1

My eyes glossed over while reading that lol 😐...what's the tl:dr version?

21 minutes ago, PeterMP said:

 

I'm not seeing it now.  Pulled if off a web page.  Though it does seem like I must have messed it up.  But groceries aren't getting the whole picture either, because it excludes people eating out.  Even basic fastfood isn't going to be included in that.  In a society where many people eat out often and that's partly a contributor to obesity, the grocery bill isn't capturing the full picture.  I did also mess up the math before.  You'd already taken into account a family of 3 so I've got an extra multiplication in there so (and certainly $7.74 to feed a family of 3 is better than you are getting eating out today even eating out at fastfood).

 

Though I don't understand why that's an awful comparison.  What people could spend on something that is relatively healthy vs. their actual total spending seems like a reasonable comparison.

 

Why don't you tell me what you think we should compare things to and we'll go from there?

 

What would be a reasonable costs or a relatively cheap costs for most Americans to eat healthy and why that number?

I think a term like "relatively cheap" should be applied to like items...bananas are relatively cheap compared to apples, apples are relatively cheap compared to strawberries. French Press coffee urns are relatively cheap compared to Keurig machines...etc, etc.

When we talk about it the way you were doing it, it's more appropriate to talk in terms of "small" not "cheap." For instance, "$11 on fruit is a relatively small amount compared to the $200 you spent total at the grocery store." THAT would be a good argument if I started ****ing about the price of fruit after throwing down $200 bucks on everything else.

23 minutes ago, tshile said:

I think the 6000/month is just total expenses not just food. 

Ah, ok... 👍 I was about to say lol...

7 minutes ago, DCSaints_fan said:

A can of tuna or a few eggs also cost $1.25 and people are still going to choose the Pop-Tarts.

That's a problem of our convenience culture as well. Eggs aren't quite as convenient unless you eat them raw. A can of tuna definitely is convenient if you're eating it right out of the can and not as part of a sammich or salad or something. It's like french fries and broccoli, though...fries cost more than broccoli but people (at least in the U.S.) will spend more to eat the fries than eat broccoli. I used to be one of those people lol...now I almost never eat fries and stock up on all sorts of broccoli, even eat it as a meal.

4 minutes ago, PeterMP said:

 

Actually he didn't.  He talked about adults doing things that they don't like and eating things they didn't like as kids.  Adults do things they don't like.

Actually he did.

Me: "And if you try and make it mandatory that they eat their apples/bananas/whatever, they are more likely to grow up hating those foods."

Him: "lol what? you realize your taste buds change as you grow? This seems like an incredible hand waving leap you’ve made here"

(emphasis added)