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Comment Re: Lo-carb: not panacea (Score 1) 64

I can't eat wheat, so no good bread for me. But a roasted sweet potato with dinner is nice after a long day in the yard (clearing brush).

I used to drink a lot of non-diet soda, but I quit, and a feel like crap whenever I try to pick the habit up again. My old organs aren't up for running on the high octane stuff the youths consume.

Comment Re: And they are what? (Score 2) 107

You just hate Conservativism, the philosophy of limited government, individual liberty, and constitutional law, among other distinctives

The only one of the things listed I hate is the first one, because it's always a bullshit front for people who don't actually believe in any of those other things.

Comment Look this is just dumb (Score 5, Insightful) 33

We can fight every fire individually, or we can institute UBI, or we can admit that we don't give a fuck about other humans and want them to die.

If your economic system says people must be productive to be able to survive, and also enshrines eliminating jobs so that people can't do that, it's an attack on other humans and their only rational response is to attack it with everything they have so that they can be permitted to live.

Comment Re:Idiocracy (Score 1) 123

I'm going to assume you're not aware of the incontrovertible evidence done by John Bray and others proving that the "ballistic tests were inconclusive" is hardly the tip of the iceberg. It's conclusive that the 'lone shooter' narrative is false, and almost certain that a rapidly expanding explosive like PETN was involved (lapel mic). There's nothing else which fits the mutually supportive analysis work that's been done.

Comment Re:Idiocracy (Score 1) 123

Nah, I just have a long horizon on my memory. "Wait a second, this contradicts what the media was just saying!" And then I look into it myself. It doesn't take speculation when there's readily available evidence to refute media claims, made by the media themselves.

The media narrative on both masking during covid, and subsequently the narrative shift over the Ukraine conflicts, are perfect examples.

Masking: masking isn't necessary; no wait, only doctors should mask; masks don't actually help; masking is good for you, actually.

Ukraine: Ukrainians are actual Nazis (2013); Ukraine overthrown by the US government; Ukraine is now, somehow, not Nazis; Ukrainians are the good guys, actually, and we have to support them against Russia

(You can do the same narrative progression to sway concensus for COVID lab genesis, the Epstein files, or any of the other things I mentioned. They'll deny it, then switch course slowly as it's acceptable and people grow fatigued. It's plain as day to anyone with the mental horizon of more than 2 weeks.

Comment Re:Listening to multiple biased media can help (Score 1) 123

I'd argue both major political parties (and then some), yes.

Those pamphlets are nice, my state does something similar. It's problematic, however, when both sides are lying outright and it's hard to split the difference without looking at the actual bills/amendments/provisions. That seems often to be the case. It's also common for "one side"s rebuttal is actually the other side's strawman rebuttal, which may or may not be due to either malice or intellectual deficiency.

Comment Re:The Biden admin (Score 4, Informative) 87

The President is the closest of all elected officials to the People

No, the president is elected by the states. Members of Congress are elected by the people.

Some have voiced an opinion that the president should be elected by the people, but so far, we have not yet amended the constitution to permit that.

Comment Re:corrupt (Score 4, Insightful) 87

Yes, it is the most corrupt administration in American history.

However, you do not have a full picture of the damage those tariffs caused. They totally screwed many small businesses that will never get back what they lost. A lot of businesses sourced their raw materials and other products from outside the U.S. The tariffs caused them to be unable to afford that stuff. So they had to reject the shipments which meant they had nothing to sell. Try accounting for the business you lost because you had nothing to sell. Also, many small companies went titsup because of those tariffs. The owners will never be made whole.

Now if you took the $166 Billion and divide by roughly 300 million Americans, then we all get about $553. However, you did not pay the tariffs, Companies did. Some were able to pass the tariff cost in their products. Most were not, especially the small companies and certainly not the small companies that went out of business.

Number 1 Rule of el Bunko: he destroys everything he touches. And the Maggots made that asshole president, at least they get to pay for higher gasoline for their stupidity.

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