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WhatTheBuck

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  1. Trump has never once talked about policy. Making empty promises is not policy. Saying he’s going to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something so much better and it won’t be difficult is not policy. It’s just talk. He never says how he’s going to do anything. Hillary stood there in the debate and talked policy. She obviously has a command of the issues involved with health care and she paid out her policy objectives. Did anyone care? Fuck no! Because the average voter doesn’t give a fuck about policy and if you actually talk about it they get bored. It shouldn’t be that way. I want to hear someone who knows what the fuck they’re talking about and what specific things they plan to do to address problems. Donald fucking Trump has never been that guy. “I’m going to build a wall and make Mexico pay for it!” “I’m going to bring back the steel industry!” “I’m going to bring back coal jobs!” Pie in the sky promises and he didn’t keep any of them because he’s in real estate and has no fucking clue how to run the government.
  2. Whenever I cook eggs on a skillet, the burner is off by the time I’m done and I’m finishing them with the heat retained by the pan. I’m late to comment on some earlier topics. This could go in the breakfast foods thread because I love eggs and beans for breakfast. I like my boiled eggs warm so I’m not going to leave them in an ice bath for long. I add vinegar to the boiling water and it’s been my observation that they’re easier to peel since I’ve been doing that. My process is to (gently) drop cold eggs into boiling water and let them boil for 7 minutes. Then I pour out the water and fill the pan with cold water from the sink, covering the eggs, about as much as I used to boil them. I don’t usually run into problems peeling them. When I do, it’s usually the first of the eggs which leads me to believe that letting them sit in the cooling bath a bit longer would help. But it’s never bad and doesn’t often happen so I’m not worried about it. Like I said, I don’t want them to cool down too much. This way I get eggs where the yolks are just starting to set and they’re sort of gelatinous. I soak my pinto beans but not for as long I used to. I’ve found that 2-4 hrs is sufficient. It takes 2 hrs of simmering to finish them. I can use pork products in them but often don’t. I don’t know if my take on these beans would be Texas-approved but I like them. I use the same spices I’d use for chili. It gives me a cheap, convenient way to experiment with different blends of peppers and spices. And I include the soaking liquid. After the beans have been thoroughly cleaned and rinsed, why not? Sometimes my beans have more broth, sometimes less. I generally try to make sure they’re just covered in the pot. I start off sautéing minced onions and garlic in oil or bacon grease, then add my spices, maybe a bouillon cube, then add the beans and liquid. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer til the beans are tender. Right around 2 hrs. It’s pretty quick and easy.
  3. Hell, they gave Obama a Nobel Prize for not being George W. Bush.
  4. When I told you to make my hands look bigger, that’s not what I meant!
  5. That article doesn’t mention any religious affiliation. I’ll bet there is one and I’ll bet they call themselves Christians. There was this one paragraph: They were in the process of creating "The Saint Encyclopedia" celebrating white supremacist attackers and urging Terrorgram users to commit attacks, the Justice Department said. Humber also allegedly shared a graphic of "Sainthood Criteria" and the "Path to Sainthood," according to the indictment, and shared at least one message that she said was designed to radicalize a Terrorgram user. The article also mentioned attacks at an LGBTQ bar and a mosque. I’ll bet if we could get a look at their “Saint Encyclopedia,” “Sainthood Criteria,” and “Path to Sainthood,” we’d find a lot of Christian language. Which would make them radical Christian terrorists but for some reason that term never gets used.
  6. And I’d wager good money that it’s going to happen.
  7. He’s a poor person’s idea of a rich man, a dumb person’s idea of a smart man, and a weak person’s idea of a strong man.
  8. Yep. No way he typed that.
  9. He’s not talking about them lining up voluntarily. They’re all candidates and he gets his pick. Like contestants in a dressing room. He can pick one that he likes and force himself on her and she’ll let him do it to her because he’s a star. That’s how he thinks it works so he thinks it’s a legitimate defense to say she wasn’t his type and that’s why he couldn’t have raped her. It’s also why mistaking her for his second wife was so damning.
  10. If you can’t punch him, ignore him and don’t spread his toxic message.
  11. Yep. He threw in the “Make America great again” applause line and they dutifully responded like Pavlovian dogs. Some of them probably barely paid attention to his answer and came away thinking his answer made perfect sense.
  12. Yeah, but it’s not like she just showed up at Penzey’s to everyone’s surprise. A competent campaign has an advance team that scouts locations and does the groundwork before the candidate shows up. Vance obviously doesn’t have that. But Kamala knew she was walking into a friendly room and they knew she was coming. The camera crew was already set up inside before she entered the store so she wasn’t sneaking up on anyone. I believe that woman’s tears were real but there is some planning to all of those kinds of appearances if they’re executed properly. Not scripting, per se, but not purely improvised either.
  13. The full Big Bang. Like Bob Newheart, James killed (though he was only in the one episode that I can recall).
  14. Oh no! Damn. What a monstrous talent and career. RIP to an all time great.
  15. When George Santos thinks your bullshit is too much.
  16. Yes. Did you hear the account from his classmate? She said he left the room and she was by the door when he came back. The door was locked and she said she saw the gun so didn’t open it for him. Then she said he turned and fired off 10-15 shots. The kids in the classroom all ran and hid in the corner.
  17. “I would have voted for him because, even though he was offensive, he seemed honest. Do you want straight or polite? Not that you shouldn’t be able to have both. If I were voting, I just don’t want bullshit,” She’s a fucking moron.
  18. No. It was billed as “New” in my guide but I’d seen it before. Maybe Scott Pelley shot a new intro for it but all the documentary footage including the firemen’s kids I saw last year. You just can’t get over the crashing sound of falling bodies landing on the metal roof over the firefighters at street level. Watching events unfold live we saw that there were some people jumping from the towers and were horrified. But we didn’t know how many people were jumping. There are see a lot more than we realized and during a portion of that video you can hear them one after another. Here’s the doc minus the part at the end about the children of fallen firefighters who joined the FDNY afterward.
  19. Never heard of her. Looks a little like RNC Matt Gaetz.
  20. Yeah, plus Trump has been good for his legacy. They forget what an overall crapfest his two terms were and all of the many ways he foreshadowed Trump. If he starts making public statements about Trump, people might start taking a look back at his presidency again and he probably doesn’t want that. Like what if people start connecting him to the expanded militarization of police forces all around the country and the resulting increase in civilian deaths, or the rise of military grade weaponry in the hands of the citizenry and the concomitant explosion in mass shooting deaths?
  21. “The spasm of gun violence erupted just days after a mass shooting left four people dead and nine others hospitalized at a high school in Winder, Georgia — and less than a week after a half-dozen people driving on an interstate in the Seattle area were injured by a spree shooter.” First I’m hearing about the shootings in the Seattle area. Mass shootings happen all the time in this country. Most of them we never hear about. A stat I saw on Thursday said there have been 385 mass shootings so far this year. It’s at least 386 now. Probably more since they happen more than once a day.
  22. I’ll take some Tellicherry, some turmeric, some cardamom…whatever makes sense.
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