You’re right that is demented in a way only he can achieve. Though he might just be asking what the spelling is as both his examples are homonyms.

He’s got this childish obsession with “what’s hot” and “what people are talking about” and he thinks we all do. He’ll offer some gen like this one with little bites of social proof like “everyone’s talking about it” like that should be enough to convince us of its veracity and importance. Just so dumb.

True. I was commenting on the comic, which isn’t Islam-specific necessarily.

It makes me feel very low to think about this but there is little doubt that he has completely changed and taken ownership of the Republican Party, and is likely define it for decades to come. Like Ronald Reagan did. Trump has done it all in the lowest, most despicable way, and his ego is boundless, but objectively, his brand has been extremely effective. Any one of us here would LOVE to go out and reshape the Democratic Party with as much success as Trump has with his.

I love this comic and very much agree with the spirit of it. I am also fully in favor of diversity and immigration into the US.

It is also interesting to know that “non-Hispanic whites” are in fact expected to become a minority in 2045 according to demographic projections by the US Census Bureau.

I hate white panic in all its forms but as a matter of factual accuracy, we can’t lampoon it as freaking out over 2 people in 10 not being white. It’s further along than that, at least nationally. Granted, in any particular room, some white people will still freak out over 2 in 10.

“Taking over” has to start somewhere LOL /s

It’s not just the oil, and this is kind of the key point. It’s also the defense contracts. SA is a huge buyer of American weapons. So the back door deal making has always been a thing. Selling them arms has always been a thing. There’s actually almost nothing that SA and the US agree on ideologically. Of course Trump inserted his own interests into the picture and found a way to enrich himself, and that is truly a new low, and utterly despicable. But let’s not knock him for giving arms to the Saudis as if that’s some new thing. Look, he’s arming a Chinese ally! I mean, come on.

Kind of ironic too because as evil as they are, SA are absolutely an American ally as well.

Hey this isn’t the YMCA

Yep folks. Filter out the bullshit. 🙄👆

The “French Paradox” also played into this. We love the idea that some group of special people have had all this figured out for centuries and if we just follow their traditional ways, we’ll live forever. But if they happen to exhibit longevity, it’s more often genetics or other factors besides something we desperately want to believe, like booze is healthy. I wonder if the French Paradox was amplified by the oldest person in the world being, for years, a French woman who smoked like a chimney.

If you ignore the fad diets, it’s not that bad. Science can change on specific points over time but it’s been pretty uncontroversial for many decades that a diet of fresh foods with plenty of fruits and vegetables and a moderate intake of meat and fish, with a minimum of sugar and junk food, is good for you.

It’s just that occasionally something comes along that we really want to be true, like wine is healthy or all-meat is actually good because the cavemen did it. When the finding is something we want to be true, we’ll blow a minor, flawed study all out of proportion and keep talking about it years after it’s debunked.

There was a little back and forth between different studies on that which is the way science is supposed to work, but every twist and turn was dragged out and amplified by the fact that we WANT to believe 2 glasses of wine a day is good for us. That kind of finding gets spread far and wide. And when other scientists try to replicate the studies and find they are exaggerated, we give them a hard time for flip flopping.

Also works for “person.” 👍

Yeah California “STATE SENATE”

It’s very easy to get confused about. But this is not a federal position it’s internal to California’s state government. I still think it’s a pretty big deal, not quite what I’d call a “local” position. But she’s not inheriting her mother’s job.

Ohhh sorry when you said “we’re not him” I thought you meant Zohran Mamdani, not Trump. The dem leadership are not thrilled about Mamdani and I though that was what you were referring to.

I’m not sure I follow. You mean if they win next year? Because right now they should only be thinking “he won by a landslide… maybe what he’s doing can work.”

He’s saying “good, let them enact their terrible policies and then everyone will see how bad they are, dooming them forever.”

This is a ballsy thing to say while Trump’s policies are currently lighting our future on fire, and when the Democratic platform consistently has more popular policies in it.

Now that you point out the distinction, it’s even more shocking that corporate employees don’t even have this guarantee. Even if you buy into all the puritan work ethic shit… okay… these people are working - and they STILL starve?

It would be amazing if all employment below a certain pay threshold included SNAP benefits automatically, listed right on the paystub along with everything else. The threshold could be set so as to encourage higher wages and longer term employment.

Good point. And this thread is not exactly helping her much either.