I miss Liam.
So how is RFK jnrâs plan to make America Healthy Again going?
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You really need to take a step back to reflect on the stupidity of a âhealth movementâ that celebrates wins over pressuring a fast food chain changing the sugar used to sweeten their soft drinks.
Even if there was scientific merit to this (there isnât, it based on a complete misunderstanding of nutrition and metabolism) this is such a dumb focus.
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Particularly amusing is the fact that right now Coca-Cola has no plans to produce that Coke in the US, so the fast food chain must be importing it - probably from Mexico.
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It is likely going to have to be made with Mexican sugar anyway (as opposed to US grown corn)
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The healthy move is to cut down on sugar - way too much of it in the average American diet, and not to drink coke or other soda.
I rarely drink soda, but on occasion if I go to a favorite Mexican burrito place - a little hole in the wall sort of shack, but the best burritos I know anywhere around here - I will sometimes get a bottle of coke made with cane sugar. I think itâs imported from Mexico. It tastes a bit âcleanerâ on the palate.
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A sign saying âtwinned with Epstein Islandâ has been put up at Donald Trumpâs golf course in Aberdeen ahead of his state visit to the UK in September.
Video posted on Instagram by the political campaign group Everyone Hates Elon, captioned âGetting ready to welcome Donald Trump to Scotland,â showed an unknown figure placing a placard at the course.
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I donât envy anyone living locally there. When they had the G20 at Gleneagles we were swamped with a combination of protesters and out of town police.
Then again, one of the Scottish police knocked George W Bush off his bike, which raised a smile.
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Prefer soft drinks made with Cane Sugar.
Rarely have them because of health reasons and when I do. Iâd rather have those stuff rather than what passes for Cola in USA which frankly sucks.
Havenât had Mexican coke before but I think thatâs with Cane Sugar as what Coke in India has.
Does he ride?
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The house is adjourning weeks early rather than having to vote on any Epstein related bills the GOP back benchers are trying to force the leaders to take.
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I think it is safe to say⌠D. Earl Stevens is not a fan :0)
This White House lie shows they know Trump is in trouble
Opinion by D. Earl Stephens
Type enough opinion and if yer lucky, you might hit on a premise that smells better and better the longer it bakes.
Lately (exactly four weeks ago), I decided there wasnât a chance in the world the most dangerous and grotesque man on the planet was going to make it another three-and-a-half years contaminating our White House, and the minds of the poor children growing up in all these MAGA households, who might never learn of things like manners, compassion, or the truth.
Donald Trump had just surrendered to the younger, wiser leaders at the G7 meetings in Canada so he could return to the safety of home, a pat on the head from adoring monsters like Stephen Miller, and some much-needed rest in the steel-reinforced bed he punishes each night with his hulking stink.
He had stalked off with his nuclear football, head down, fat, rounded shoulders tearing at his too-tight blue suit ⌠short arms hanging straight down in front of his beach ball belly ⌠that yellow, five-foot tie dangling in front of him like a broken leash.
He was weak, diminished ⌠pathetic.
At the time I posited this:
âInstead of wondering if our country will survive the next three-plus years, this question should be asked instead: Will the grotesque and failing Donald Trump survive that long?â
Since that time long ago in June, I have only been emboldened by my new-found hope and enlightenment. While he continues to inflict maximum damage on Americans every hour or so, the loathsome man who spurred an attack on our country and did nothing about it for three hours, is dying right in front of our eyes.
Last Sunday, in my piece End Date, I put about 1,000 words into making the case, that bare minimum, Trump was crashing:
âHe is literally abandoning the world and isolating himself in his safe, golden cocoon. Each day he is becoming tinier and cheaper as his old attention-grabbing schtick now dribbles off his chapped lips and onto his stained bib. He is the old man screaming at people he can no longer see to stay off his lawn. The world doesnât much care. They are moving on, forming new alliances, because they, too, know how to read an actuarial table.â
Each day he was making my case: Heâll never make it.
Of course had Joe Biden said and done as many stupid things as King Crud, and surrendered at the G7, the media would have carried him away on a stretcher all by themselves. But we know whatâs going on here, and CBS-TV only confirmed it this week, when they shot the messenger, Stephen Colbert, instead of the 300lb., orange, America-attacking thug that the brilliant entertainer has been endlessly warning us about.
Walter Cronkiteâs CBS, is now a mouthpiece for fascism. Who saw that coming 50 years ago when so many of us of a certain age were huddling around the TV each night watching âthe most trusted man in Americaâ?
While we were all busy digesting the news of CBSâ latest massacre this week, we learned that sure enough, Trump was diminishing physically almost as quickly as he was mentally. Turns out, there was a reason for his swelling ankles and dying skin.
I put this this Reuters photo here for your inspection.
I apologize late for ruining your lunch. At least I didnât provide a picture of his face.
Turns out, Trump allegedly has a condition called chronic venous insufficiency.
Of course, nobody is ever going to know what is really going on with him, especially when he hauls out White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt in front of a podium to tell her Christo-fascist stories.
Leavitt wanted us to believe the flesh-eating scab on the back of King Crudâs hand was â are you ready for this? â âconsistent with minor-soft tissue irritation from frequent handshaking and the use of aspirin, which is taken as part of a standard cardiovascular prevention regimen.â
Seriously.
You can always tell how big the lie is going to be by the size of the cross Leavitt has slung around her neck at the time.
Whatever is going on with the failing Trump right now, I want to be among the first to suggest he try chugging some Lysol to help with it âŚ
The rare admission that Teflon Don had some serious scratches no doubt had to do with so far unsuccessful efforts to deflect from this developing Jeffrey Epstein story, that they just canât seem to make disappear.
This could all be settled in 19 seconds, of course, if Trump demanded his personal lawyers in DOJ just release everything they have on the case.
He wonât, though, because heâs guilty as hell. The rotten man who has never seen a woman he wouldnât gleefully abuse, is now the one being cornered.
Youâd think this would be the only thread our media would be pulling on right now, but again I digress expecting anything nudging up to real journalism from so many of these incompetent, bought-off phonies.
Even with the mediaâs ham-handed treatment of this story, it has had surprising staying power. It turns out some Mega-MAGA in the cult arenât happy King Turd wonât just show us this âdeep stateâ Epstein list they believe Democrats have suppressed for years.
I will suggest we all keep pushing for the release of this information and doing everything we can to keep this story alive, even if MAGA will eventually come around to their cult leaderâs side no matter what.
Look, roughly 95 percent of Trumpâs voters know all that âdeep stateâ stuff is complete bull----. Just like they know he is a lying bigot. Just like they know he lost the election in 2020.
By now, we should all understand that they stay with this grotesque a------ for one reason only: He takes great delight in hurting everybody they hate âŚ
This, more than anything, explains his staying power, and why people who tell me that a President JD Vance would be even worse have it completely wrong, and need only read some history to understand why.
Like Hitler, Trump is once-in-a-lifetime monster who isnât easily duplicated. His hate is genuine, and touches certain people deep inside their tiny, broken hearts.
Pure evil doesnât always have an easy definition, but we know it when we see it.
But all monsters have an expiration date, and the spiraling Trump is harrumphing toward his. There will be more health issues and steady decline in the months ahead, until one day, he decides heâs had enough, and would rather spend whatâs left of his miserable life pulling political strings from some golf cart, instead of being chained to the White House, and relentlessly fighting off the truth.
He always does the most selfish thing.
He better hurry, though, before the Grim Reaper shows up at the White House one day, and makes the decision for him.
D. Earl Stephens is the author of âToxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trumpâs Very Important Lettersâ and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes. You can find all his work here.
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Another day another assholish act by the douchebag-in-chief
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The administration that claims to prioritize addressing the horrors of human trafficking has made catastrophic cuts to the State Department office that focuses on the issue
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Itâs hard to believe, but they are indeed retiring themselves from most international organizations which were set up under their influence and impetus after WW2. By doing that, they relinquish the world leader status theyâve enjoyed over 70 years.
Canât these idiots not see that they are driving their country against a wall with this kind of daft decisions? 
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The fundamental problem is that a significant percentage of Americans do not understand the benefits and privileges that have accrued from their position, and have a wildly inflated sense of the costs they have borne. They see an entity like UNESCO as the US being taken advantage of, while even those who are aware of it donât stop to ponder why exactly the World Bank should always have an American CEO. Americans wildly overestimate the amount they have spent on foreign aid. Polls repeatedly found 25% of the Federal budget was the most common belief, while 10% was the most common level that voters thought should be spent - where the reality has generally been just under 1%, per capita the lowest in the G8.
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One of the guys from the recent Medhi Hassan Jubilee session has been fired and is now doing the meme
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Yeah, you see it in the response to the recent exits at the State Department. MAGA types jumped in with both feet completely misunderstanding the shock and sorrow people were expressing. To them they only saw it is an issue of the individual jobâŚâonly socialists think people in government deserve a job for life.â Most of these people who were forced to leave will be in a public sector job by the end of the week. What the MAGA types misunderstood as concern over people losing jobs was actually concern over the impact it will have on the USâ ability to shape the world in our interest and doing so at a fraction of the cost of military action.
They just out there dunking on some purple haired social studies graduate no longer living off the government tit and not understanding the impact to the US is orders of magnitude more.
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