You need more tea bags is likely the thing.

I think you’re establishing a burden of proof there you’re not actually prepared to meet, so you can just go ahead and stop replying.

You ever sweeten a bit of iced tea you brewed yourself? I can nearly guarantee you didn’t stuff it full of the type of shit you find regularly in, for instance, a canned lipton tea.

You’d really have to try extra hard to make regular food as unhealthy as junk food regularly is.

Why are those the only two choices?

Also, even stuff that is processed a bit unhealthily as it’s being freshly cooked is better than bullshit that’s stuffed full of preservatives so it can be consumed non-refrigerated a decade after the apocalypse.

I don’t actually have a need for terrible food sometimes and neither does anyone else. Personally, I reach for it at times because it’s the only thing that isn’t spoiled, or it’s the thing that takes the least amount of time to prepare, both of which aren’t problems when someone else should be making sure that the food isn’t spoiled and preparing it for the kids.

The government should not be paying Lay’s (for example). Again, the food is free…so if they want some specific type of cheesy poof trash they can get their parents to cough up the $5 for the bag.

you gotta meet some of these kids where they are, not where you want them to be.

The government uses its funding to buy these meals. So, I do not think that the government should be adding revenue to some of the worst players in the food industry.

If the kids want to go get junk food using their parents’ money and bring it into school, they can do that.

Or the kid that died due to a school shooting that happened on the same day.

I just want this shit to end

As fascists advance their program, they always need a new “them” to throw under the bus. It’s, by its nature, a politics defined by who isn’t part of “us”.

In other words, it’ll never end with fascists in charge.

I’m going to go the opposite way and say that their books should be more open than they currently are.

Quarterly reporting itself does not force this.

Relatedly, people compensated mostly through stock options will continue to think short term with an emphasis on the stock price of the company for the duration of their particular vesting period.

He also owns a large portion of a publicly traded company and is seeking to be able to obscure his finances there more than they already are.

Seems like a laughably unconstitutional law but this supreme court will probably let it fly if passed.

Lol, this headline was basically unreadable because of the sheer volume of idiot clickbait in it.

Can you imagine if anyone else suggested that you could “solve wars” via some huggy pies between the involved country’s leaders?

Taken from another perspective, of course most media outlets are going to say he was doing politics “the right way”, you know why? They’re in the fucking media business.

The idea of endless political debate about various settled issues and a general emphasis on controversy gets them more traffic to their shitty cable news networks, their terrible fucking substacks, their quippy little microblog, their shitty little YouTube channel, and their dumb ass little streaming service. It also gets more people to buy their books.

Charlie Kirk and those like him aid this entire media ecosystem by driving traffic to his affiliated media properties for his flock of the converted as well as driving traffic to liberal media properties that seek to debunk his every specious argument.

Almost nobody that is in the media business ever seems to ask the obvious questions: did what he do with his life improve the country at all? Did it improve policies? Did it improve governance? Did it do anything besides “increase engagement” and win elections?

Anyone who looks at the current problems in the US and comes away with the conclusion that the primary problem is over-regulation is a fucking idiot, has an agenda, or both.

So based upon the principles of them always projecting, I guess this means Tucker Carlson is fake straight.

Just based on results alone – nevermind Schumer’s advanced age – this one is fucking obvious.

The big con the real estate industry pulled off over the years is conning people into believing that your property value as a single owner occupant is something that you want going up drastically.

In reality, housing inflation largely hurts you unless you’re a landlord or a real estate agent (but I repeat myself).

Most owner occupants get punished yearly by large property tax increases for their property value going up.

That’s not a good thing, and single homeowner occupants are not in alignment with real estate people and landlords – who largely want rising property values for leverage, larger commissions, or to justify rent increases.

The only potential benefits to single homeowner occupants are a bigger paper net worth, and access to credit. There’s also the hypothetical benefit of selling your house in an expensive area and moving somewhere cheaper, but in reality everywhere is going up in price anyway, and if something’s that much cheaper it’s usually because it’s terrible, there are no jobs, or both.

Yep it’s wilhout over and over again. It’s the heirarchy that they crave. They don’t care about the means as long as it’s “my people on top, your people squashed face down into the mud”.

It’s, at its core, all the same. From reaganism to the ku klux klan.

People that want freedoms, rights, and dignity for all people regardless of sex, age, disability, or skin tone are their enemies, and will remain their enemies no matter which form the “conservatives” occupy.

State socialism is supposed to be this in between thing where you have to have one party for a bit and then the state “naturally erodes” to nothing and you have full gay space communism.

In other words, the theory relies on people giving up amassed power that they had to “temporarily” wield over other folks.

It’s funny because the natural erosion never occurs and it predictably winds up becoming an authoritarian shit state. Just like what predictably occurs under unchecked capitalism is fascism.

All that said, even dictators have to care about public opinion a bit, because otherwise they might end up with their head in a guillotine in act 3.