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Who cares what little stump says?

For what purpose?

Republican politicians first.

Of all the people I want to see the legal system directed at, Noem definitely ranks way up there. The amount of cosplay and trolling from that bitch, JFC.

It's weird to describe what has always an ideological mess - and I'm talking about the state of conservatives and the Republican Party long, long, long before Taco was even a glimmer in their eye - as a "collapse".

https://archive.is/s6Xa7

The dumbasses that think that solar is "woke" are just insufferable. Same goes for the asshats that think things like windmills are just for effete latte-sipping liberals. Did they think the windmills that farmers have been using for quite some time were put up there by "soy boys"?

Both of these things can help add to our energy independence. Both of these things add to us being more resilient in our infrastructure. You'd think nearly everyone could see that, from the left all the way to the most hard-core right wing doomsday prepper types...but in this day and age, the Confederate Party has to weaponize and politicize everything. No matter how much of a self-own it is.

I would agree. You could probably designate a chimp as CEO, make sure they are hidden away, and let the rest of the company operate as needed.

And he’s not doing Tesla as a full-time job. He’s also CEO, chairman, and CTO of SpaceX.

Isn't he supposedly operating six companies? Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, The Boring Company, Neuralink, and X?

Every time I hear some apologist for the extremist position of executive pay that we are operating under, I now think of this guy. In at least his case, it's clearly a part-time job for one or more of these companies.

Oddly, most companies frown on the average worker doing any moonlighting. They want you exclusively working for one company, at least for white-collar jobs. Doesn't seem to apply to executives, since it's fairly common for them to also sit on the boards of other companies, even if it's not common for them to be operating six companies...

Thanks for the book recommends. I think I've heard Thom mention his book(s) before, including that one, when listening to his podcast, but I never heard of the other. Just tracked down the audiobook and started listening...

It annoys me, too, and probably because it's been going on for 70+ years (multi-generational at this point) and gets zero push back. From people that sure as hell know better and are in a position to ask why Republicans cannot use the right name. Just question it. Embarrass them. Keep asking why adult leaders in their party are being so childish - do they even know the right name?

It's one thing if it's people online goofing or people on the street, whatever. I do it quite frequently and come up with nicknames for the opposition. But I'm not a politician and I'm not a talking head. I have no platform and no power and no prominence.

How an entire party can get away with it and have zero commentary on it in any meaningful way is really wild.

I'd rather most stops were more like his, if I'm to be honest. Meaning, treating the person as if they are a human (even if the guy does come off like an entitled douche). I have a feeling if it was him pulling over someone brown, it might look like some of the clips I've seen Meidas posting, where ICE is ripping open a car door and pulling people out of a car, getting them on the ground, etc. I have a feeling these guys were being more than deferential because of what his job was.

This guy was actually doing something dangerous in his case - driving under the influence. Granted, I don't know the full context of those ICE videos I've seen short clips of, but it sure seems they are escalating things rather quickly and only because they are brown. Do these people really need to be hauled out of their car, wrestled to the ground, etc.?

H = healthy. Because the same ding-a-lings that think taking us back to the 1950s - or 1850s - will make us "great" also think Bobby Brainworm + Taco are going to take the country on a path to being healthy (again).

I wonder what time period they think we were the healthiest? When doctors were endorsing cigarette smoking? When we had lead in our gasoline and in our paint chips? How about when we had asbestos nearly everywhere? How about radium on our glow in the dark watches? When cars were unsafe at any speed?

I know Brainworm would rather we didn't have vaccines and swims in sewage, so I'm not sure if he would rather take us back to the time when access to clean water was rather difficult, shall we say, and children died of diseases we have mostly confined to the history books except in rare cases, thanks to vaccines.

So, this guy gets arrested. The people that were talking about throwing people into gas chambers?

I think it's just marketing to people that are sort of half-tuned in, but know that protein is something your body does need. And they aren't wrong. But unless you are eating a very bizarre or restricted diet, it's not likely you have to count grams of protein. One of the ways you see this kind of thing slip into menus is to have someone select "a protein" as an option to be added to your meal. Typically, it's a protein from a dead animal, thus reinforcing the false notion that "protein" = meat. It's extra amusing when the portion already includes egg and/or cheese...and the "protein" is actually a "fat".

The author of The Protein Myth has a funny anecdote where he has to dig deeper into people's proclaimed dietary habits. He asks them what they eat for breakfast, and they'll say something like "a protein". He digs deeper and finds out it sausage or the like. It'd be more accurate to describe that as "a fat", if we are only thinking of foods as what macronutrient they have the most of...

If you pay attention, you'll notice the marketing in any case - I'm pretty sure I've seen it on fast casual dining boards.

Look, I have zero problems with the notion of giving a good breakdown of what's in your food, including protein. But it's weird to see it as some kind of marketing gimmick, if you ask me. It's not as if nutrition and health works like that - take one value, dial it way up, and we're good, LOL. I bet most Americans have little to no idea how much sodium (or even sugar) they consume in a given day, but I am quite sure a few of the "bro science" types could definitely tell you how many grams of protein they ingest...

Amazon reviews say the book doesn’t debunk our need for protein.

I don't think I've ever seen anyone make that claim. I sure hope no one is out there making that claim. I surely am not. I'm talking about the way it gets treated in society as if it's somehow "healthy" to be eating massive amounts of protein, especially animal protein. Just pay attention to how it's marketed for everyday foods, including at restaurants.

And yes, in some cases, there are people that may need more protein if they are trying to build/maintain muscle mass. I've seen the documentary w/ Patrik in it. This is hardly typical kinds of intake, though, and I'd wager a lot of people that are eating lots of protein are just overworking their kidneys and pissing most of it out a few hours later. Even athletes.

If I had the ability, I'd actually be curious to measure my own intake vs. waste, much like the author of that Bowflex book I mentioned. This guy was also a body builder...

I was a baby during Watergate, and I know that.

LOL, "work"? What work?

"We need to dig out of the horrible state that Biden left us all in."

-redhatters, probably

I like how Meidas pointed out that little Mikey couldn't even say the actual name of the rallies, since being against kings is kinda America's brand identity.

This is the party that cannot even say the fucking name of the Democratic Party though, so....shrug. They've been saying it incorrectly for 70+ years because they are fucking children. Again, Murc's Law - they are expected, to a one, even at the top of their party, to behave like brats, but the Democratic Party is expected to be the adults at all times. Just imagine if the Democratic Party started to say "Publican Party" at every opportunity, from the President all the way down to liberal talking heads, and no one were to question them about it?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/democrat-party-republican-insult.html