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At a work function I recently had an M&M cookie off a large cub cookie platter. To my surprise it had amazingly rich buttery flavor and the perfect texture. I expected a generic cookie that would be “good enough” but this was so much more. Absolutely delicious and I’ve never had cookies from cub before.

So good I picked up a dozen for home. They were…not good. Texture was fine enough, but the cookie base was bland and almost chemically? Tasting. None of that rich buttery sugar cookie delightful base I had earlier. These weren’t on a platter but still $9 for a dozen and these aren’t even in the same neighborhood. Is it a different recipe? Does it vary by store? Someone has to know the mystery. 😩🙈

So Darline Graham won the runoff primary election. Even though the bitch just got here and admits “national security is not really my thing”. Yet, South Carolina republicants chose her anyway. That’s so strange. Doesn’t have experience, and doesn’t understand national security. That’s so strange, hmmm, what does she have? Oh, what’s that? Trumps endorsement? pikachu surprise face

You stupid bastards
You stupid syncophant sheep ass motha-fucking bastards

His response when asked about Mamdani was so cringe. Once again, the establishment democrats are in line only with the elite on their aisle, and continue to ignore middle class and working class voters. So tired of this guy and his nonsense and equally tired of establishment Dems like him who keep trying their absolute hardest to force the status quo. It got us here. We don’t want it. STFU Jeffries. To quote Jeff Daniels “if Liberals are so godamn smart how come they lose so all the fucking always?”

Usually, I like to enjoy the delights of the stupid stuff they say and how they like to puff each other up with how little they know about anything. It’s a pretty great source of comedy but now they’ve actually managed to tick me off. Suddenly so much shit talking about the service members aboard USS Lincoln.

-implying they are weak
-Implying they are entitled
-implying they thought they could just sit on their asses and collect a check
-implying things aren’t that bad they just are being dramatic to make the President look bad (🙄)

No acknowledgment at all of how unusual this deployment was because they went such a long time without a port call

Just so much dog piling from people sitting at home.

If anyone works there and happens to know… thanks! 🙏

Speaking with Katie Couric he talks about acknowledging that not all Americans do want to live in a democracy, and that Trump has uniquely tapped into two types of voters; those who believe authoritarianism is superior to democracy and those who would support mmm democracy OR authoritarianism depending which style of governance allows them to make the most money.

Where do you stand? Are you pro democracy or pro authoritarian government?

Are you faring better with your business under Trump’s rollback of regulations and loosening of laws and standards?

Does recognizing that there are people who actually want authoritarianism help you make sense of perceived apathy (aka those people aren’t giving up or unaware of what’s happening, they actively want to live under that type of government style)?

This week we have longtime strategist James Carville doing an interview and announcing (paraphrasing here) that if you don’t support Israel, you need to be out of the Democratic Party and they don’t want you. This is fairly similar to the message Fetterman put out this week as well when he spoke with John Stewart.

So this is what they’re doing eh? After all the pomp and circumstance about Trump and the threat of Trump their strategy is to go public and voice their disapproval for (let’s just say it) El-Sayed.

Pardon my French, but:
You dumbass motherfuckers. Why are you so woefully incapable of learning?

Also, I think the party essentially deciding we don’t care what voters want and what voter priorities are, we want to continue with our way and what we see fit.

You lost to Donald Trump. Twice.

Again;

You dumbass motherfuckers

I think we are either about to have our tea party moment in the Democratic Party or we don’t- but I’m over these fuckers.

/end rant

Several other countries had health leaders who made decisions and guidelines for COVID. This included things like vaccines, vaccine requirements for employment in certain industries, masking, lockdowns, social distancing, and travel restrictions and requirements. This was not exclusive to the U.S., nor was it in any relation to Dr. Fauci. So, why is the US Republican controlled senate behaving like victims? Why are they behaving as though Americans were somehow uniquely victimized by this man, as if the same thing wasn’t going on everywhere else? Why is it only in America is the government coming after its health leadership and its citizens believing they were uniquely fooled?

How is this a good use of taxpayer money?
How is this not a bad look for America.

This is the complaint forum so I’m going to complain.

It doesn’t make me right necessarily, it’s just my opinion, and I’m gong to complain.

Yes, everyone gets to vote. Yes this is how voting works and everyone’s voice gets to be represented because that’s how a democracy works.

And I’ve got feelings and I’m going to bitch because that’s how Reddit works. Watching the senate race results and so fuggin irritated by the people who throw their votes at the third party candidate. If we lose this opportunity to give AIPAC the finger because of someone’s self righteousness or racism I’m going ape. To the universe.

Towawanda!!!

Our fellow first world capitalist countries seem to by and large enjoy a quality of life that I could only dream of. Regardless of your political leanings now, would you support changes to a more social democracy style structure and guard rails on to the way capitalism operates so we could enjoy those things to?

-Universal healthcare model / virtually non-existent medical debt
-Universal tuition; low cost or no cost tuition
- Pro worker life balance; a month or more of paid vacation annually, a year or more (give or take) of paid parental leave or shared parental leave, a year or more of paid medical leave
-Expanded unemployment benefits program (compared to U.S.)

As a result those countries also get to enjoy:

-lower crime rates than the U.S., in many of those countries this is around 50% lower violent crime
-better overall general health and longer life expectancy
-after tax and fixed COL more take home pay compared to U.S.
-lower poverty and smaller wealth inequality gaps.

So, would you support changes?

ETA: There are tradeoffs and potential drawbacks, let’s discuss them in the comments

As of 3:00 p.m. yesterday, Todd Blanche missed the most recent deadline in the court order to release the un-redacted Epstein files.

We now know for absolute verified fact that the Trump administration has not followed any of the court orders to release the files. We do not know that Trump is in the files. We do not know for fact that he is involved. We do know that his administration has not followed the law and continues to not follow the law. We do know that whether he is in the files or not, he and his administration have opened 0 investigations and filed 0 charges towards any individuals in the files. We now know at present, they are covering for criminals and suppressing justice.

Do you believe the court will continue to turn up the heat in attempt to pressure the Trump administration to follow the law? Do you believe it is likely Blanche will never release the files and just receive a pardon from Trump instead?

How damaging do you believe suppressing justice could be for remaining members of the Republican Party?

Or, do you have some hope that since Trump did eventually pay the settlement he owed to E. Jean Carroll for defamation when he tried to discredit her for reporting his sexual assault, he will eventually abide by the courts and start following the law with these files?

What is going on with this pointless Fauci bullshit? Why despite repeatedly blocking and hitting “not interested” is the algorithm feeding me raging right wing person after raging right wing person talking about Fauci and Covid? Why am I reading text of people implying Fauci deserves prison for “what he did to us” what the actual fuck? This seems to of come out of nowhere and at what point does this Congress and this president do their fucking jobs, rather than go on side quests and ignore the pressing issues at hand? Also, when did it become a right wing belief that Fauci created covid? I mean holy hell people are really running with this.

Saudi Arabia is also an Islamist theocracy. Why the double standard? We have hundreds of injured soldiers and we have dead service members because we started a war with Iran because they can’t have a nuclear program. What is the move with this exactly?