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I Ate Fake Protein for Four Weeks Straight and Here's What Happened???
Can a diet stuffed with Beyond Burgers, Impossible Meats, and fake tuna actually help your health?
I remain an agnostic on this; haven't looked for it where I shop and I will only dip my grass fed beef consuming toe....clumsy metaphor but you get my drift.....into the water with a minimal purchase when it does present itself for my consideration.
That it is adjudged to taste better than sliders by the author represents a pretty low fucking bar, but the presentation herein is persuasive, and just firmly tongue in vegetarian cheek to be a fun read.
That said, I'm pretty certain that this article will be of little interest to one particular poster, as there is no mention of a tasty 'Pseudo Italian Beef'. But if they slap Chicago Style on the label it's got a, slim, chance. LOL!
By Richard Martin
Sep 6, 2019
https://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/a28830857/fake-meat-brands-taste-test/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_mnl&utm_medium=email&date=090719&utm_campaign=nl17986183&src=nl
How much longer do we have to keep all this fake meat in the fridge?” my wife yells from the kitchen.
Over the past few days, I have stockpiled a hunk of Impossible Foods ground beef the size of a mailbox, six packages of Beyond Meat burger patties, several towers of Beyond Sausage in various flavors, and four pouches of Good Catch tuna.
I wasn’t sure if she had peered into the freezer yet, but there she’d find stacks of Beyond Sausage breakfast patties lurking in a shady-looking unmarked plastic bag.
I’m a lifelong meat eater who dabbles in vegetarianism, tries not to screw up the environment, and is naturally curious about all these new plant-based packaged protein products aimed at conscientious carnivores.
My wife, however, is skeptical. A good grass-fed steak from our local butcher doesn’t need flashy packaging or buzzwords to sell itself, she argues. My daughter, seven, and son, five, are even more leery. Their usual diet consists of hot dogs, burgers (the meat kind), and buttered pasta.
I’ve taken all their points into consideration, but aren’t things different now? Impossible Burgers are meaty patties that “bleed”! Beyond Sausages are hearty enough to grill! Plus, there’s the whole issue of Big Beef, Big Chicken, and Big Pork gobbling up land, energy, and cheap labor to raise and process traditional meat.
With plant-based proteins now infiltrating everything from Whole Foods to White Castle, why shouldn’t we at least indulge our curiosity?
Okay, my curiosity.
Experiment #1: Impossible Beef and Beyond Burgers
The first thing I noticed was how, even in prep work, Impossible Foods’ beef resembled the real thing. To mimic the look and flavor of animal blood, Impossible uses soy leghemoglobin, a substance so viscous that it requires a thorough hand scrubbing to keep me from appearing like a horror-movie victim.
I cooked the patties as I would any other: hot cast-iron pan, a pour of olive oil, a few minutes on each side. I couldn’t believe the beef-like char. I slid the juicy patties onto rolls and served them. And then something amazing happened. My kids gobbled down their burgers.
Encouraged, I dressed my own burger with cheese, lettuce, tomato, and a mixture of mayo, ketchup, and relish. Impossible didn’t rival my all-time favorites, but it instantly replaced all my bad memories of veggie burgers.
Now, Beyond Burgers are a different story. You can find these patties at Target for about six dollars for a two-pack.
They’re pea-protein-based, not soy-based, and don’t contain soy leghemoglobin. Beyond does mimic the taste, texture, and juiciness of a beef burger effectively, but I found that it had an aftertaste that killed off the good vibes you get from saving a few cows.
Experiment #2: Beyond Sausages
For as much attention as soy-based burger patties have received, I’m surprised more people haven’t caught on to the world of pseudo sausage.
Beyond’s bratwurst and hot Italian sausage have been on the market less than two years, and I’m now sold on the fact that their flavor, texture, and versatility outperform those of any of the alt-burgers.
I’ve grilled Beyond hot sausage and eaten the snappy links with peppers and onions on Italian bread. I’ve cooked it, chopped it into quarter-sized bites, and mixed it with cavatelli, brown butter, and sage. Amazing.
And then there’s Beyond’s new breakfast sausage patty, which will soon be in your freezer aisle. Granted, much of the flavor of any sausage comes from the spices, but there’s also something satisfying about the texture.
The brats have a pop similar to those made with animal casings, even though Beyond’s offerings are made with algae. The breakfast sausage has that fork-cutting meatiness found in ground pork, which the company credits to a mixture of peas, fava beans, and rice.
I told none of this to my wife and kids, however, who went on to sample this faux sausage with pancakes, eggs, and French toast. I even watched them gleefully dip their patties into maple syrup.
Divulging the truth to them would only spoil the fun.
Experiment #3: Good Catch “Tuna”
At this point, a few weeks in, I had accepted plant-based burgers and sausage into my diet. My wife, perhaps buoyed by the dwindling supply of fauxtein in the fridge or maybe surprisingly delighted by the fake sausage after I told her what it was, seemed to be more open-minded.
My children no longer thought Daddy was “really weird” (at least not within the parameters of this research). Now it was time for me to go deep.
I was ready to try Good Catch’s approximation of albacore tuna. A good tuna melt is one of my top comfort foods, so I was eager to see if Good Catch’s six-legume blend could satisfy.
I mixed the faux tuna with my usual recipe of mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, capers, and celery. I tasted it for seasoning. Not bad. Then I loaded two scoops onto wheat toast followed by slices of sharp cheddar. Under the broiler, the melting cheese blanketed the “tuna” and bubbled.
The results: Though it had a slightly mushier, looser consistency than real tuna, it tasted cleaner and less fishy. Even under the heat of the broiler, the “seafood” held up.
This particular experiment had a sample size of one. Try as I might, I couldn’t convince my family to partake in a Good Catch tuna melt.
I also couldn’t sell them on a nutrition angle, because I wasn’t even sure if any of this plant-based protein was, in fact, actually good for us.
Analysis: Is Fake Meat Even Healthy?
Ryan D. Andrews, R.D., a Connecticut plant-based-nutrition expert and author of A Guide to Plant Based Eating, is reluctant to champion meat alternatives.
“These kinds of meat analogs are recent inventions,” he says. “We don’t know the long-term health repercussions of regularly consuming them.”
The category of fauxteins is still too new to have a body of dietary intervention research reflecting a positive or negative effect on health.
“The average American is eating about seven ounces of meat per day. If this American were to do a straight swap and start eating seven ounces of meat analogs per day, with everything else in the diet being held constant, it’s hard to say for sure if this would offer much of a health benefit,” Andrews says.
Others in the nutrition world see an expanded definition of “protein” as beneficial. “Ten years ago, if someone wanted to be vegan, they didn’t have a lot of choices,” says Abby Langer, a Toronto-based dietitian.
“They had tofu, maybe they had tempeh. It’s allowing people to eat more plant-based diets than ever before by giving people a choice and increasing access. That’s a good thing.”
Conclusion: More Research Is Needed
I’m not really into fast food, but I tried White Castle’s Impossible Sliders and they’re actually better with fake meat—less greasy and a bit cleaner tasting.
Even though meatless patties are also selling well at Burger King and Red Robin, and other national chains may follow suit, I believe that the success of fauxteins resides within the world of home cooking.
For the first time in what seems like a long time, people like me are not only curious about eating more plants, they’re excited. What I didn’t expect from all this experimental “meat” was that I’d actually relish the experimentation.
Don’t tell my wife, but there are a few more plant-based proteins on the way to our home. I just have to find some more room in the fridge.
And of course the righties, Constitutional illiterates that most are, will continue to miss-frame a legitimate election security issue as a free speech issue.
Now if the doc said gov shall make no laws, and companies shall implement no policies, that abridge freedom of speech......they'd have a case.
It doesn't and they don't.
Won't stop 'em though.
Forget Mexico: Trump Asks Military Families to Pay for Border Wall
The president’s new directive siphons millions from elementary school projects and hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico.
Another brick on the border wall.
By
Eric Lutz
September 5, 2019
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/09/forget-mexico-trump-asks-military-families-to-pay-for-border-wall
On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Mark Esper notified lawmakers of a change in the budget: 127 military projects would be delayed or suspended, he wrote, with some $3.6 billion in funds instead going toward Donald Trump’s border wall.
The changeup was a direct result of Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border. And Democratic lawmakers were quick to point out the irony.
“My view of it is that stealing money from military construction, at home and abroad, will undermine our national security, quality of life and morale of our troops, and that indeed makes America less safe,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on a call with her caucus, according to the New York Times.
Now, however, the details of where exactly that money will come from have been released, and the primary sources of the siphoning have infuriated lawmakers still further.
Per Department of Defense documents, Trump’s wall will wipe out $13 million for a “child development center” at Joint Base Andrews; almost $95 million for an elementary school at Camp McTureous in Japan; almost $80 million for an elementary school project in Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany; and $62 million for a middle school in Kentucky, among other things. New York, Chuck Schumer’s home state, will take a $160 million hit.
Even deeper gouging will occur in US territories, including in Puerto Rico, where more than $400 million in funding will be rerouted. Notably, a senior defense official told CNN that “most of the projects in Puerto Rico were a result of Hurricane Maria.” Trump, of course, has complained loudly that too many resources are being poured into the island.
Criticism over the funding reallocation has come from all sides. “In April, Senator [Mike] Lee and I expressed our significant concerns to the Secretary of Defense regarding the potential diversion of funds for critical military construction projects in Utah,” Senator Mitt Romney said in a statement, speaking for himself and for his fellow Republican.
“I’m disappointed that despite those concerns, two key military construction projects totaling $54 million will be delayed as a result of the February 2019 emergency declaration.” Democrat Tim Kaine, whose state will lose some $77 million in projects to the border wall, said he is “deeply concerned about President Trump’s plan to pull funding from critical national security projects...The well-being of American troops is the core responsibility of every commander in the military, yet the Commander-in-Chief is shirking that duty so he can advance his own political agenda.”
And then there’s the president, who inhabits a totally separate reality. “The Secretary of Defense spoke with members of Congress and explained it to them,” Trump said, “and I think he felt very good about it.” Defense officials, meanwhile, pointed squarely back at the president. “All these projects are important to us,” a DoD official told reporters.
“But we also have to respond to the emergency that we’ve been directed to respond to on the southwest border.” Of course, what the reshuffling ultimately proves is that Trump‘s campaign promise—to get Mexico to pony up the cash for the wall—is completely bunk.
In redirecting Pentagon funds meant for schools and daycares, as well as recovery efforts for Puerto Rico, he finally seems to be doing away with the pretense. Still, his core constituency seems determined to overcome the whiplash.
“The president never should have said Mexico is going to pay for the wall,” Trump sycophant Brian Kilmeade said Thursday on Fox & Friends before co-host Steve Doocey chimed in with, “I think he did think initially he would find a way for Mexico to pay for it, but as we know, that did not work.”
Well not really, 'oh crap'. You're still together so how bad can this be....."right-brained” people are more imaginative, thoughtful and even intuitive. They also tend to more creative and artistic by nature."?
And as I said, implied, very few are functional in only one or two modes.
Keep him.
What a relief. I've known forever that I'm an analytical mfr, so teal and grey for me.
But no one who reads my posts takes me for lacking in imagination, creative use of imagery, and enough intuition to know who needs support and who needs to be the mole in a game of whack-a-mole.
I worked for a time for a company named Competence Assurance Corp.
They created training programs for medical device and pharm industry sale people
'Whole Brain Analysis' was the methodology for designing the training and they tested all of us, even the salespeople like me, to identify our dominant and back up modes of thinking/behaving/learning
After all, we had to be able talk to the clients about how we would design the training for their sales people, what methods would tap their different learning modes most effectively.
Analytical/Amiable were, are, my dominant/backup modes. Driver and Expressive were the other two styles.
Functional in those two, but predominant in the first two.
On Maher tonight:
"500,000 people are without power in the Carolinas.
But enough about voter disenfranchisement."
Thanks for that, been awhile since I last read it.
I've posted it and this challenge on another board......
Enjoy this one, righties. Then compile a list of what you 'believe' that conservatives have contributed to this country.
I'll expect to hear this in response....it's what abstractions, empty platitudes and wishful thinking sound like.
A Portion of the Proceeds From Tonight’s Blog Will Go to Victims of Hurricane-Ravaged Alabama
Friday, September 6th, 2019
by Shower Cap | American Madness Journal |
http://showercapblog.com/a-portion-of-the-proceeds-from-tonights-blog-will-go-to-victims-of-hurricane-ravaged-alabama/
Hey hey, Shower Captives! Wouldja believe this humble Resistance With Poo Jokes blog celebrated its second birthday just yesterday? If you promise to stick around for my terrible twos, I promise to make them filthier than ever, starting with this week’s insanity round-up, whaddya say?
Mitch McConnell is surprisingly thin-skinned for a power-crazed monster whose life’s work has been devoted to manipulating arcane procedural rules in the name of enshrining political power with an increasingly unpopular minority, and he is still bitching and moaning about his increasingly popular 'Moscow Mitch' nickname.
If you wanted people to like you, you shouldn’t have stolen a Supreme Court seat and broken the Senate, dude. Anyway, Wrinkly Gamera obviously doesn’t hate the name enough to allow election security legislation on the floor, because he is a traitor, which is why we started calling him #MoscowMitch in the first place.
The Pentagon announced the 127 construction projects they’re raiding in order to pay for the Manchurian Manchild’s wall-shaped monument to his own crippling insecurity.
We’re talking about rebuilding hurricane-ravaged military bases. Rebuilding schools. Projects designed to protect our European allies from Russia. The funding is coming from a whole lotta places, not one of which is Mexico.
Numerous Republican Senators facing reelection in 2020, including Cory Gardner, Thom Tillis, and Martha McSally, proudly showed off their conditioning, standing silently by as their Turd Emperor pulled millions of dollars out of their states. That’ll be fun to explain on the campaign trail!
And now some of the scuzzier crotchwarts on Team Treasonweasel are raising millions to target the media, from outlets like CNN and WaPo down to individual journalists and editors, which I guess is the sort of thing you really have to do when the mere act of reporting the objective truth is so devastating to your candidate and your party. Still, it would be nice if these fucks stopped trying to burn the whole country down just so they can rule the ashes.
I don’t know what the fuck Boris Johnson is up to over in England, other than trying to cram all of Donald Trump’s bungling authoritarianism into what’s looking to be a roughly-equivalent-to-Hugh-Grant’s-screen-time-in-Love-Actually-length tenure at 10 Downing Street.
Near as I can tell, he released such a smelly, autocratic, fart in Parliament that he lost his majority on his very first vote, and now he wants to call a snap election, but the opposition won’t let him?
What’s the pitch, anyway? “Holy fuck I’m historically bad at this job, please reappoint me to it?” The ads will be like, Boris striking himself in the temple and groin with a hammer, and then, after about thirty seconds, he hands Jeremy Corbyn a second hammer and invites him to join in the fun.
Still, this shit where 21 Tory MPs stood up to Johnson’s dictatorial power grab, at the expense of their own political careers, gives me serious conservative envy. A right wing party that actually sticks to their principles, and fights to preserve democracy?
Wonder what that’s like. The Brits get Winston Churchill’s grandson, we’re stuck with Marco Rubio, fecklessly tweeting out Bible verses like a shitty page-a-day calendar while his boss fantasizes about proclaiming himself President for Life.
One of Mike Pompeo’s underlings tried to bribe a tanker captain into diverting his Iranian-owned ship to a Murica-friendly port, and because he is the stablest imaginable genius, he did it in an e-mail so the whole fucking world could learn about it after the fact. Yeah, if there’s a Trump Doctrine, it could be summarized as “Diplomacy by Mouth-Breathing Idiot.”
In that spirit, the Dotard has turned the Middle East peace process over to one of Jar-Jar’s dead-eyed dipshit sidekicks, a 29-year old who graduated from law school in 2016. At the rate we’re going, Diamond and Silk will be named joint ambassadors to Israel and Palestine by Xmas.
A government watchdog found that migrant children separated from their families under the Trump/Miller/Nielsen reign of terror are suffering from PTSD and other mental disorders, which of course was the entire point.
You have to wonder, at what point in 2020 will Pumpkin Spice Pol Pot grow tired of spouting fake economic stats at his rube army, drop the flimsy veneer of basic human decency, and start bragging about his administration’s REAL accomplishments: children hurt, trauma inflicted, lives ruined? The cheers would be same, you know.
The gun lobby, so confident in their dominance they’ve apparently just been spending their money turning Wayne LaPierre’s every wish into reality, doesn’t seem to know how to cope with all the losing they’re experiencing now that Americans are finally fed the fuck up with their “look, it’s important to make things as easy as possible for murderers” agenda.
Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, Kroger and other chains finally banned open carry in their stores, in a devastating to blow to Men Who Want Everyone Nearby to Know Exactly How Small Their Wangs Are, but an overdue victory for People Who Do Not Want to Get Shot to Death by the Above-Mentioned Men.
And with Beto O’Rourke making the rounds talking about assault weapon buybacks, the gun nut crowd is screechier than ever, arguing that such steps would lead to violence. Somebody should tell Meghan McCain and co. that “we have to let slobbering psychopaths keep their weapons of war or they’ll slaughter a bunch of strangers” isn’t making the argument you think it is.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors went so far as to designate the NRA a domestic terrorist organization, and since those death merchants have racked up a body count that’s the envy of every murdering shitsack in ISIS, that seems reasonable to me.
So, I guess we have to talk about the Alabama thing.
I write this blog with one eye on the future alien archaeologists/anthropologists, unearthing the remnants of our bass-ackwards civilization, trying to make sense of just what the living fuck was going on in these Days of Bath Salts and Bat Guano.
So, Future Alien Friends, no need to go back to your Future Alien Rosetta Stone to double-check the translation, I assure you all this really did happen. Yes, it defies all reason. We’re getting a lot of that kind of thing these days.
The long and short of it is, the President of the United States, possessed of the single most fragile ego in all human (and likely inhuman) history in spite of his not insubstantial powers, erroneously told the American people that parts of the state of Alabama were threatened by an incoming hurricane, Dorian.
This was not true at the time he said it, and rather than simply admitting he was wrong, and this is probably the part you’re having trouble wrapping your multi-lobed alien brains around, he devoted every waking moment of the next several days of his life, at the expense of all his other duties, trying to “prove” he was right all along, and that Alabama, in all its child-molester-nominating glory, only dodged Dorian’s wrath at the last possible second.
The doddering old twit actually took a fucking marker (presumably because Mulvaney took away his crayons for crapping in Oval again) to a Dorian forecast map, doctoring it with his very own tiny, inadequate, fingers.
Called up his dutiful propagandists at Fux Nooz to whinge that he’d been right all along. Raged on Twitter literally for days. Finally forced some poor Homeland Security advisor to fall on his sword and issue a statement saying “Mister Trump was right all along and frankly he should be crowned King of Alabama now.”
Anyway, if you’re hoping he’ll back down on his dumbfuck, self-destructive, trade war before the entire American economy looks like a Nick Nolte mugshot, I hope this episode is instructive for you.
And know that he’ll be babbling about the damage Dorian did to Alabama, spittle dribbling down his chin, when they finally drag him away in chains.
If you’re like me, you probably liked, and continue to like, President Barack Obama. One of the underrated things about Obama was the way that nobody ever had any cause to write an entire motherfucking article about how, at a certain point in his presidency, he just flat out stopped doing any fucking work at all, in favor of incessant internet whining broken up by regular (taxpayer-funded) golf vacations.
And no, I am certainly not advocating for a certain Tangelo-Tinted Taint Tumor to spend his days actually exercising the powers of his office, but maybe at some point we should hire somebody to at least periodically check the inbox before Justin Trudeau annexes New England.
Steve King sure has gone stir-crazy since he lost his committee assignments over his “wait I thought this was okay now that we elected Trump” open white supremacy.
Now he’s drinking out of the toilet and telling everybody how much he loves it. Shitbag’s losing his mind, live, in front of the national media, and I’m not gonna lie, I’m kinda here for it. (For extra King fun, check out the Atlantic’s piece on Steve’s loyal voters! Spoilers: they’re super racist!)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/09/iowa-representative-steve-kings-voters-still-love-him/596932/
Actually the schadenfreude basket is overflowing with riches this week, since one of If the Dunning-Kruger Effect Was a Dude Jacob Wohl’s many scams finally caught up with him, and he’s now facing a felony charge, surely the first of many, in California. Young Jacob is like the stunted, subpar, version of the Wolf of Wall Street, and I think he’s gonna wind up with double the jail time and one less movie.
Look, you might want to take a break before reading further, I don’t want to be responsible for any ruptured diaphragms.
If you have any laughter left to spare, however, you’ll be pleased to learn that Squeezably Soft Telefascist Sebastian Gorka has fallen so far from his heady days as a Shart House adviser that he’s now shilling literal fish oil, which is something I had no idea people actually did in real life. Anyway, if the endorsement of that soft Nazi somehow makes you more likely to buy anything, you don’t deserve money.
Is Mike Pants out? Seems President Gas Station Urinal Cake has latched onto the desperate, misguided hope that the women of America will forgive every sin, insult, and fuck-up, from Kavanaughty to the concentration camps, if it’s just Nikki Haley instead of Hairshirt Mike who pinch hits on overseas diplomatic trips whenever he feels like getting a little more golf in.
I’m not a religious guy, but I am enjoying a fantasy of Pencey-Poo, standing before his maker, who angrily demands just why the fuck he pissed on every single sermon and commandment, only to walk away with nothing but a souvenir snow globe from Shart Garfunkel’s tacky-ass Irish golf resort.
Arizona Republithug Kelli Ward is as classy as ever, sending out a fundraising e-mail promising to stop Dem Senate candidate Mark Kelly “dead in his tracks.” Yes, that’s the same Mark Kelly who is married to Gabby Giffords.
Yes, that’s the same Gabby Giffords who was shot in the head by a would-be assassin. As if I wasn’t already looking forward to defeating Martha McSally again next year.
And I see Howard Schultz finally caught up to the rather obvious fact that nobody wants Howard Schultz to be president, so he’s dropping his candidacy to spend more time with his pencil-drawing-of-Ben-Stein-on-a-piece-of-plain-cardboard charisma. We miss you already, Howard*.
Disappointing August jobs numbers show the poor, abused, Obama economy may finally be ready for the glue factory, especially after all that rock-headed trade war whipping. Fat Q*Bert headed into re-election with a self-inflicted recession on his resume will be like Ryan Reynolds trying to secure financing for a Green Lantern sequel, only with more senseless human suffering.
As if on cue, various state-level Republican parties are trying to call off their 2020 primaries and caucuses, because canceling elections is just the sort of thing you do when you’re a popular incumbent in a healthy democracy.
WaPo reports Hairplug Himmler is withholding $250 million in military aid from Ukraine unless they launch a bullshit investigation into a phony Joe Biden conspiracy theory, and this one hits every square on Dotard Bingo in one fell swoop: corruption, crime, fake news, destroying America’s most important alliances, and even a little groveling before Vlad Putin.
The latest from North Carolina slides rather nicely into my traditional good-news-at-the-end-to-wash-the-taste-of-hippo-shit-out-of-your-mouth slot, as a three-judge panel overturned the state’s Seriously Bro Who Do You Think You’re Fooling Republican gerrymander, ordering new maps right this goddamn minute, and no dessert for six months. Nice to win one every now and then, ain’t it?
Things are moving fast these days. By the time you read this, even more Republican Congressturds may have retired. Sharty McFly may have defended his Alabama mistake (not campaigning for Roy Moore, the hurricane one) as many as six thousand more times.
And I know I missed some stuff, but I’m going to a ballgame tonight, cuz I need a fuckin’ BREAK, y’all. See you next week!
*Lie.
No, no conversations with robots. Worse, we're wired such that we are compelled to post replies to an unending supply of dumb-ass provocateur posters.
And we LIKE it!
Didn't that Schindler guy have that fabulous pots and pans factory in your county?
Great, great movie. Liam Neeson, tremendous, tremendous actor. Did you see what he did to those people who kidnapped his daughter?
How convenient, as opposed to pointing out an actual sign.
And seriously, what are YOU doing posting about derangement?
Manifesting it is not an indication that you know what it is.
This accurately depicts what you believe, right?
Trump is a complete asshole. Can't you see that, or are you surrounded by complete assholes such that you can't tell the diff?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212442340
Nothing whatsoever deranged about calling out a deranged mfr for his bat-shit crazy statements and actions.
I promise to try and restrain myself from posting Sharpie memes, but this one is just too funny
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212443120
Corporate America Is Finally Getting Sick of Your Guns
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Motherfuckers, this is Walmart. Walmart already ate the other stores. And you sure as shit ain't gettin' ol' Jesse to get on his old computer with the Confederate flag background and shop at Amazon, where Jeff Bezos makes up fake Russia news or whatever the fuck Trump is shoving in their ears. Nope, he's going back to Walmart because that's all he's got.
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Kroger, which is a multi-billion dollar supermarket chain based in Ohio, also put out a statement on open carry that said, in essence, "Jesus fuck, stop being such little pricks and leave your guns at home, you dumbass cowards." But they said it "respectfully." (Kroger is also being sued for negligence for allowing open carry in its stores, so it's got a bit of motivation there, too.)
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
How fucking pathetic is this: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his mass murder-enablers in the GOP caucus are refusing to do anything to tighten gun laws, including things that are supported by between 60 and 90% of Americans.
McConnell is taking the bitch way out by saying that he won't bring to the floor anything that Donald Trump won't sign. But the NRA keeps fisting McConnell with a clenched hand filled with cash, so as long as they hit that prostate just right, the saggy-faced motherfucker won't budge.
And to make things even more pathetic, Walmart and Kroger, both of which have a huge presence in red state America, have taken action today that politicians won't take.
After a couple of mass shootings in their stores, Walmart announced that, in addition to previous steps like halting the sale of handguns and massacre guns, it's gonna stop selling handgun ammunition and "discontinue sales of short-barrel rifle ammunition such as the .223 caliber and 5.56 caliber that, while commonly used in some hunting rifles, can also be used in large capacity clips on military-style weapons."
They even recognize that they're gonna lose a big chunk of sales, but, well, when you're a company worth hundreds of billions of dollars, you can afford to do something that might stop your customers from being killed.
Walmart also goes even further, though. Because idiots walking around with their big fucking rifles freak people out, Walmart is "respectfully requesting that customers no longer openly carry firearms into our stores or Sam’s Clubs in states where 'open carry' is permitted" unless you're a cop.
Kroger, which is a multi-billion dollar supermarket chain based in Ohio, also put out a statement on open carry that said, in essence, "Jesus fuck, stop being such little pricks and leave your guns at home, you dumbass cowards." But they said it "respectfully." (Kroger is also being sued for negligence for allowing open carry in its stores, so it's got a bit of motivation there, too.)
The part that takes this to the next level of how deranged and out of touch Republicans have gotten is that both corporations are calling for gun control legislation. Walmart's CEO said, "We encourage our nation’s leaders to move forward and strengthen background checks and to remove weapons from those who have been determined to pose an imminent danger."
Damn. He heavily suggested renewing the assault weapons ban and added that "We must also do more, as a country, to understand the root causes that lead to this type of violent behavior," which is a fuck of a lot stronger than just saying the words "mental illness" over and over.
In Kroger's statement, the company said much the same, as well as "Kroger has demonstrated with our actions that we recognize the growing chorus of Americans who are no longer comfortable with the status quo and who are advocating for concrete and common sense gun reforms."
You get it, you whores of the NRA in Congress? Two of the biggest retail corporations in the United States know that so many Americans support gun control that they don't give a shit if a few hyper-armed yahoos decide to buy their scratchy toilet paper over at the Piggly-Wiggly on the other side of town.
They know that the country is shifting, and instead of being scared of not being armed, we're finally getting fucking scared of those who are armed. And we don't think the solution is more guns. In fact, we think the solution is to get rid of some of those guns.
Oh, sure, the NRA is pissing out its usual blustery bullshit, declaring that "Lines at Walmart will soon be replaced by lines at other retailers who are more supportive of America’s fundamental freedom." Really?
Motherfuckers, this is Walmart. Walmart already ate the other stores. And you sure as shit ain't gettin' ol' Jesse to get on his old computer with the Confederate flag background and shop at Amazon, where Jeff Bezos makes up fake Russia news or whatever the fuck Trump is shoving in their ears. Nope, he's going back to Walmart because that's all he's got.
Walmart won't suffer any real backlash because the vast majority of the country supports the same thing, and that'll prompt more and more companies to follow suit. Supply and demand, motherfuckers, supply and demand.
Maybe some of those corporations will even put their donation money where their mouth is and get GOP asses sent out to pasture (or to lobbying gigs). Republicans are essentially accessories to murder now. No company wants to be associated with that.
Goddamn, its fucked that we have to hope that capitalism will save our asses from Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump.
(Note: Gun nuts are gonna say, "What's a massacre gun? I've never heard of that." Fuck you. You know exactly what guns I'm talking about, assholes.)
Maybe you'd prefer to be on the wrong end one of the many assault weapons RW morons are opening fire with every two weeks or so?
Trump verbally assaults the half of the country you don't give a shit about every damned day. Start condemning that before losing your shit over some choice words.
And WTF WERE you wearing?
Why? Why are the left for the most part
doing this. It’s wrong and eliminates any
chance at civil discourse.
Several States Plan to Cancel Republican Primaries in Favor of Donald Trump's Re-Election
Republicans desperately need to heal their party—but it seems less possible by the day.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a28939609/republicans-plan-cancel-2020-primaries-donald-trump/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_esq&utm_medium=email&date=090619&utm_campaign=nl17975272&src=nl
By Charles P. Pierce
Sep 6, 2019
The Republican party, as we know, is deeply (and perhaps terminally) ill with the prion disease that has been slowly devouring the party's higher functions ever since Ronald Reagan first fed it the monkey-brains of "movement" conservatism in 1980.
Small wonder, then, that it no longer had the intellectual energy to resist its current assimilation into the deranged cult of a mad king. In fact, the party may be so far gone into Bedlam that it cannot find its way out again. Politico presents more compelling evidence of that fact.
Republican parties in South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona and Kansas are expected to finalize the cancellations in meetings this weekend, according to three GOP officials who are familiar with the plans...The cancellations stem in part from months of behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the Trump campaign.
Aides have worked to ensure total control of the party machinery, installing staunch loyalists at state parties while eliminating potential detractors. The aim, Trump officials have long said, is to smooth the path to the president’s renomination and ensure he doesn’t face the kind of internal opposition that hampered former President George H.W. Bush in his failed 1992 reelection campaign.
And, yes, states have done this before, particularly when a president is running for re-election. However, when Bill Clinton was running in 1996, he had no opposition at all within the Democratic Party and his approval rating was fluctuating between 56 and 58 percent. And, frankly, he wasn't publicly nuts. (Privately, we later learned, he was reckless as hell.)
The first step for Republicans to redeem themselves and to heal their party, if that's even possible any more, and assuming they even want to do so, would have been to unite behind a vigorous primary challenge in 2020.
Instead, a lot of the party's most respected Never Trump voices seem to be more concerned that the Democrats nominate someone palatable to them. No president ever has deserved "internal opposition" more than this one does.
Watch this unfold, and watch the baying of the Never Trumpers get drowned out again by the bleating of millions of sheep
What does it say about a presidential candidate who puts forward a plan he knows will be impossible to achieve, the Wall paid for by Mexico, a trade war and a tax cut that would cause an economic catastrophe if it were attempted, and that would do nothing to resolve the trade imbalances the country faces, much less address the serious infrastructure challenges?
A one term president.
Local Moron Doesn’t Understand Difference Between Climate and Weather
by James Schlarmann
https://www.politicalgarbagechute.com/local-moron-climate-weather/
FARTKNOCKER FALLS, IDAHO — 52 year old Matt Ricci does not believe that climate change poses “all that much a threat” to human existence, that it’s “prolly a Chinese hoax,” and that he’s “sick to death of libtards ramming it down everyone’s throats.” Ricci also has a reputation in his small Idaho town for being a complete and total moron, and he was even officially elected Town Moron in a landslide vote during last year’s midterm elections.
The campaign to have him named Town Moron stems from his climate denialism, and the fact that every year, several times throughout the year, Matt shows up to city council meetings on climate change’s impact and what officials should do about it, and makes jokes about global warming.
“I like to show up on particularly cold days in winter and ask them if they’d like any of that global warming now,” Matt told us via Skype, “which is, if you ask me, some of my best material. Pretty much every joke I tell is a version of that joke. I’ll even reverse it and if it’s been cold and rainy one spring or summer day, I’ll ask them where all the global warming is. I’m pretty fucking hilarious for a conservative, anyway.”
Sharon Tomjoyavich, a local resident who helped spearhead the effort to officially name Ricci as the Town Moron, said it was a simple choice for the city, and that Matt himself “did all the campaigning he needed with his stupid fucking corny-ass jokes.” Another time, Sharon says she saw a woman at a city council meeting get right in Matt’s face and scream at him to “shut all the fucks all the way up” and the woman called him a “bargain basement fuckwit” to boot.
Tennessee Man Sues El Pollo Loco To Change Name To “Crazy Chicken”
https://www.politicalgarbagechute.com/tn-republican-sues-el-pollo-loco-to-change-name-to-crazy-chicken/
“He kept making the idiotic jokes when was cold,” Sharon told us, “so I can’t blame the lady who screamed in his face to shut up.”
Another resident, Shad Stone, told us that what really irks him is that Ricci’s jokes rely on ignoring science “we all learned in third grade.”
“Jesus Christ, man, we all learn the difference between temporary weather patterns and sustained climate conditions in third grade,” Stone told us, “and he just won’t stop making the jokes! They’re so dumb. So very, very, very, very dumb. Weather and climate aren’t the same things, you hacky douche horn.”
Ricci was pleasantly surprised to find out that the title of Town Moron opened up some new career opportunities for him. Though he says he’s never really considered making a living in comedy, he’s been approached by “true luminaries of conservative comedy” and he’s going to go tour with a few of them this fall.
“They offered me a tour with other hilarious conservative comedians like Steven Crowder, Will Chamberlain, and a literal burning cross,” Matt said, “so I’m pretty stoked to be taking my hacky and corny jokes that have no basis in actual reality on the road!”
Nicely stated: former ethics chief Richard Painter on impeachment
Richard W. Painter @RWPUSA
We’re tired of the argument that impeachment is useless because the senate will acquit.
Acquittal of @realDonaldTrump in 2020 by Moscow Mitch et al. may happen, but will have the same credibility as an all white jury acquitting a Mississippi Klansman in 1965. Voters know that.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212440183
Helicon double-layer thruster
I can hear it now, "engage helicon double-layer thrusters and deploy deflector shield".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicon_double-layer_thruster
Applications[edit]
The primary application for this thruster design is intended for satellite station-keeping, long term LEO to GEO orbit transfers and deep space applications. While a typical design could provide a 50-year life span,[citation needed] or a saving of 1000 lb (˜454 kg) of launch weight for large satellites, this type of thruster could also significantly reduce the length of interplanetary space trips.[4]
For example, a trip to Mars could be shortened to 3 months instead of the 8 to 9 months with conventional chemical rockets.[5]
Stephen Colbert - Monologue and Opening - 9/5/19
Corporate America Is Finally Getting Sick of Your Guns
Motherfuckers, this is Walmart. Walmart already ate the other stores. And you sure as shit ain't gettin' ol' Jesse to get on his old computer with the Confederate flag background and shop at Amazon, where Jeff Bezos makes up fake Russia news or whatever the fuck Trump is shoving in their ears. Nope, he's going back to Walmart because that's all he's got.
Did you hack into the family album pictures of Rooster and Harley?
Well after all that time off you decide to lead with an ignorant rant that mostly projects what you pathetic Trumpanzees own.
Pay attention, shithead:
"..racist, anti Semitic, basement dwelling collection of losers.."
Perfect description of the racist pricks that Trump described as being some of the many 'fine people' in Charleston.
You recall, the ones chanting 'the Jews will not replace us'? You righty jackasses own those dickheads, as well as the KKK and white supremacists who have openly expressed their support for Trump.
As for learning how to beat Trump? The '18 Congressional and gubernatorial elections and a wave of GOPER retirements are a lesson and a precursor for what is in store for Trumpisatnians.
In case you haven't noticed he is polling behind in every swing state he won against whichever Dem he's matched up against.
Lastly, you've got the wrong partnership. It's Putin and his ball washer Trump who will be crying in their Borscht come Jan of '21.
I remember it well, first because I was a week away from boarding a train to travel to Camp Lejeune for my first summer camp. A train because there was an airline strike.
https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/today-in-labor-history-airline-workers-strike-in-196/
And then again, 21 years later, when it was
immortalized/satirized, darkly, in Full Metal Jacket.
"Before you ladies leave my island you will all be able to do the same thing."
Close up on the face of the increasingly deranged private Pyle. A visage that could serve for all of the crazed mfr's who would follow him, and actually do the same thing.
All 3 links are still live on the site I originally posted them.
Luckily I posted enough of the content, particularly the 'death rates by state'.
Let's see how these work. Yep, they worked in the preview so here you go:
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-by-gun-top-20-states-with-highest-rates/4/
http://vpc.org/press/states-with-weak-gun-laws-and-higher-gun-ownership-lead-nation-in-gun-deaths-new-data-for-2017-confirms/
http://vpc.org/state-firearm-death-rates-ranked-by-rate-2017/
This fact based vent of mine to a Trumpanzee nutter on another board was taken down because I forgot to remove the URL for the site.
It's too good not to live on, here. LOL!
Nobody is passing the buck. The absence of uniform background checks insures the flow of illegal guns from weaker gun control States to States and cities with stronger gun control, and it increases availability of guns for people who shouldn't have them within States with weaker controls, like IN.
Prove that is inaccurate or stop posting to me on this subject, and spare me your math illiteracy RE gun death rates.
State gun death rates are calculated by dividing the number of gun deaths by the total state population and multiplying the result by 100,000 to obtain the rate per 100,000, which is the standard and accepted method for comparing fatal levels of gun violence.
That's why it's called influence. Glad your leg's OK though.
I pull my share, but it's usually pretty obvious when I do.
Donald Trump's Hurricane Dorian Map Appears to Be Doctored With a Sharpie to Include Alabama
This is just insane.
President Trump Receives Briefing On Hurricane Dorian At White House
Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
By Charles P. Pierce
Sep 4, 2019
This is beyond belief. Even by this guy's standards for cheap lying, this is off the charts, across the floor, down the storm drain, into the river, and long gone off up the gulfstream.
Remember the other day when the president* said that Hurricane Dorian posed a threat to Alabama, and then the National Weather Service told all the people in Alabama to relax because the president* didn't know what he was talking about, so they all shouldn't run off to the Piggly Wiggly to buy 250 loaves of bread?
Whereupon, the president* expressed his annoyance at his own National Weather Service for its role in helping him look foolish? Again. (Maybe it was just their turn.) This resulted in a couple of days of social-media snark directed at the president*s Very Great Brain.
Cut to Wednesday morning in the Oval Office. From NBC News:
The map Trump displayed was the same as a model produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last week showing the hurricane's projected path cutting through central Florida— with one key difference. Where the original projection ended, a smaller, black circle that appeared to be drawn in sharpie was produced to include Alabama in the model.
Sharpie? He either doctored—or had doctored—the map with a freaking Sharpie? I wonder if he did it himself or contracted out the work to the Department Of Embarrassingly Clumsy Fakes, led by Secretary Of Embarrasingly Clumsy Fakes Epstein's Mother.
"I know that Alabama was in the original forecast," Trump told reporters later on Wednesday. "We have a better map... in all cases Alabama was hit... they gave it a 95% chance." Asked about the discrepancies with the original map, Trump said: "I don't know. I don't know."
A Sharpie.
This is just insane.
It's also possibly a federal crime.
Completely insane.
Pic Of The Moment: That NRA Logic
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama/pastors' wives
Take me home, country roads and quick reloads
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212436815
Argument Between West Viriginia Pastors' Wives Ends With Gunfire in Church Parking Lot
Melinda Frye Toney, 44, is accused of pulling out a pistol that accidentally discharged during an argument with another pastor's wife at New Life Apostolic Church in Oak Hill on May 11.
Toney is the wife of New Life pastor Earl Toney while the other woman, Lori Haywood, is married to New Life's youth pastor, David Haywood,
Fayette Sheriff's Detective Kevin Willis told the Beckley Register-Herald the animosity between the two women had been simmering for some time. Their husbands had thought the women should publicly bury the hatchet to avoid additional strife.
"The pastor and the youth pastor had thought, 'Maybe we could get them together, we can hash this out and fix this before it escalates,' " Willis said Wednesday. "Of course, it just made it worse, I think."
https://www.newsweek.com/pastors-wife-gun-parking-lot-1457652
All in a day's work for Cadet Bone Spur.
It's the Astoria, OR underneath the name on the boat that he was having trouble with.
I don't know what the ad looks like on a phone or on a screen without script size enhancement, zoom level, above 100%.
But wait, there's more! Bonus #Sharpiegate images
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212439142
Well yeah, proximity to reservations probably merited more air time.
I don't remember hearing a single one of these in Chicago.
"We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee", "The Witch Queen of New Orleans", "Wovoka", and "Maggie"
Can you dance to "We Were All Wounded...."?