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Just now, 956 Worldwide said:

The goal is to completely fuck up the National Parks then hand them over to private industry to “manage.” 

The goal is to privatize everything.

They aren't even trying to hide it.

Thanks a lot, Reagan.

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I don't know how he manages to be a putz and a schmuck at the same time, since that's usually not possible, but he's just breaking rules all over the place. 

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1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

y'all understand the end goal here, right? make the national parks inefficient and get people to care less about them so they can privatize the land. same with all these institutions. the goal is to ruin them to "prove" government doesn't work so they can roll everything into the private sector. if you look at what is going on right now through that lens, I guarantee things will start making more sense

 

49 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

The goal is to completely fuck up the National Parks then hand them over to private industry to “manage.” 

Fuck around assholes. 

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17 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

I don't know how he manages to be a putz and a schmuck at the same time, since that's usually not possible, but he's just breaking rules all over the place. 

The man stretches the bounds of insulting yiddish.  That...is an impressive feat.  I mean, he's also a zorch (did I get that right?  Been a long time since I learned all the dirty yiddish terms).

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2 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

Brain worms antivax bullshit disgruntles me, but he may have a positive effect on keeping straight processed garbage off the market.

 

2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Party of small govt telling the food industry to voluntarily remove food dyes from their product or RFK Jr. will force them to remove it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/12/rfk-jr-pressures-pepsico-kraft-heinz-to-remove-artificial-dyes.html

Remember the outrage from the right when Michelle Obama recommended most fresh foods for kids, or NYC wanted to limit the sizes of cokes. Funny how quiet they are now.

 

Spoiler

Swapping Red Dye 40 for a natural alternative like carmine or beet juice in something like Hi-C or Skittles may seem like an improvement, but it doesn’t change the fact that these products remain ultra-processed, high in sugar, and devoid of meaningful nutrition. The real issue isn’t the dyes. It’s the overwhelming presence of highly processed, sugar-laden foods in our food system, making them cheap and accessible while healthier options remain out of reach for many.

If the goal is truly to improve health outcomes, then West Virginia’s leaders should be focusing on meaningful policy changes - expanding access to affordable healthcare, addressing economic disparities, improving food accessibility, and investing in public health programs that tackle the root causes of chronic disease. Instead, they’re choosing to pass performative bans that fail to address the real crisis at hand.

The Need for Smarter Public Health Priorities

 

This isn’t about being “pro” or “anti” food dye bans. It’s about not letting these performative gestures distract from the systemic changes we actually need. If lawmakers and public health advocates truly want to make a difference, the focus shouldn’t be on banning random ingredients that have been deemed safe by our regulatory agencies, as well as regulatory agencies around the world. It should be on comprehensive policies that tackle the root causes of poor nutrition and health disparities.

West Virginia, and every other state following this trend, has the opportunity to do something far more meaningful. But that would require challenging the industries and power structures that profit from keeping people unhealthy. And unfortunately, it’s much easier to sell the public on green juice.

https://drjessicaknurick.substack.com/i/158775716/the-need-for-smarter-public-health-priorities

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10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The man stretches the bounds of insulting yiddish.  That...is an impressive feat.  I mean, he's also a zorch (did I get that right?  Been a long time since I learned all the dirty yiddish terms).

Like Zores? or Tsores? Trouble? 

He's definitely a paskudnyak.  

To be fair, I picked up most of my Yiddish from my friends who were from Brookline when I was at Bates.  And that was a looooooong time ago, so it's pretty rusty. 

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4 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

 

 

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Swapping Red Dye 40 for a natural alternative like carmine or beet juice in something like Hi-C or Skittles may seem like an improvement, but it doesn’t change the fact that these products remain ultra-processed, high in sugar, and devoid of meaningful nutrition. The real issue isn’t the dyes. It’s the overwhelming presence of highly processed, sugar-laden foods in our food system, making them cheap and accessible while healthier options remain out of reach for many.

If the goal is truly to improve health outcomes, then West Virginia’s leaders should be focusing on meaningful policy changes - expanding access to affordable healthcare, addressing economic disparities, improving food accessibility, and investing in public health programs that tackle the root causes of chronic disease. Instead, they’re choosing to pass performative bans that fail to address the real crisis at hand.

The Need for Smarter Public Health Priorities

 

This isn’t about being “pro” or “anti” food dye bans. It’s about not letting these performative gestures distract from the systemic changes we actually need. If lawmakers and public health advocates truly want to make a difference, the focus shouldn’t be on banning random ingredients that have been deemed safe by our regulatory agencies, as well as regulatory agencies around the world. It should be on comprehensive policies that tackle the root causes of poor nutrition and health disparities.

West Virginia, and every other state following this trend, has the opportunity to do something far more meaningful. But that would require challenging the industries and power structures that profit from keeping people unhealthy. And unfortunately, it’s much easier to sell the public on green juice.

https://drjessicaknurick.substack.com/i/158775716/the-need-for-smarter-public-health-priorities

1) Nobody rational would argue against the concept that we need to take a much more vigorous approach to the garbage that is processed foods.

2) Except we have to exclude from group 1) the entire Republican party, which flipped the fuck out when Michelle Obama suggested eating more vegetables as "COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT CONTROL!"

The GQP and anyone in it has NEGATIVE credibility or standing on this issue.  BELOW ZERO.  Fuck their hypocritical asses with a pitchfork coated in Red Dye No. 5.

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1 hour ago, 956 Worldwide said:

The goal is to completely fuck up the National Parks then hand them over to private industry to “manage.” 

Legitimately, over my cold, dead body. 

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The goal is to privatize everything.
They aren't even trying to hide it.
Thanks a lot, Reagan.

Yellowstone to host the 2025 Rednecks with Paychecks festival


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Posted
45 minutes ago, DaysOff said:


Have Chuck Schumer tell everyone to call their rep with his readers hanging off his nose.

WEEE

WILL 

WINNNN

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2 hours ago, Michael Knight said:

 

Well, he might be leaning on his studies from his time at Divinity School.

Donald Trump, the Bible, and White Supremacy | Harvard Divinity School

 

 

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Posted
4 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Nope. Too much of America “still supports” him. 

But Trump doesn't care about them.  He doesn't care about any American other than a couple of rich people.  It is truly "Trump VS America".

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3 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

There is a plausible argument that Ronald Reagan was the most destructive president in the history of the United States.

He made regular people hate the very government that guaranteed and protected their way of life.

Yes, which is why I booed and hissed Slotkin's stupid ass response to Trump's nutty speech before Congress. Stop praising failed Republican policies and the politicians that ushered them in.

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1 minute ago, Gourmand said:

Yes, which is why I booed and hissed Slotkin's stupid ass response to Trump's nutty speech before Congress. Stop praising failed Republican policies and the politicians that ushered them in.

"Ronald Reagan would be quite nonplussed with what we are seeing from Donald Trump. The ol' Gipper would be quite peeved, let me tell you." 

(I just remember rolling my eyes and turning it off)

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3 minutes ago, Red Five said:

"Ronald Reagan would be quite nonplussed with what we are seeing from Donald Trump. The ol' Gipper would be quite peeved, let me tell you." 

(I just remember rolling my eyes and turning it off)

Wait. She actually said that?

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1 hour ago, LTbear said:

I'm in Yellowstone 100 days a year. I might see a ranger once each day. Might. 

I go to PINS once a year. A ranger will swing by once a night to make sure I'm not burning shit or dead.

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3 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

y'all understand the end goal here, right? make the national parks inefficient and get people to care less about them so they can privatize the land. same with all these institutions. the goal is to ruin them to "prove" government doesn't work so they can roll everything into the private sector. if you look at what is going on right now through that lens, I guarantee things will start making more sense

Yep. If we were smart, we'd quit spending our time on Surly and found an NGO that replaces NOAA.  Call it Liberty Weather Services, work a flag into the logo and make the right contributions/donations.  We could hire all the fired government meteorologists and scientists for 50% of their previous salary, buy all the now surplus government equipment and infrastructure for a nickel on the dollar "to help pay off the national debt" and charge the government 150% of what NOAA used to cost for our superior services.

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5 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Yep. If we were smart, we'd quit spending our time on Surly and found an NGO that replaces NOAA.  Call it Liberty Weather Services, work a flag into the logo and make the right contributions/donations.  We could hire all the fired government meteorologists and scientists for 50% of their previous salary, buy all the now surplus government equipment and infrastructure for a nickel on the dollar "to help pay off the national debt" and charge the government 150% of what NOAA used to cost for our superior services.

Dude...the Accuweather guy already has that path locked up.  You think I'm kidding....he has actively worked towards this, and has made a shitload of political contributions towards it, for years.

We are completely and totally governed by oligarchs, in no small part because Trump is handing them the keys to different aspects of the country as fast as he possibly can.  That's how it's done.  He's just following the post-Soviet model, letter-for-letter.

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Just now, David Dennison said:

They still think there are moderate Republicans.

There are, but the naked truth is that for so many of these "moderate Republicans" who held their nose and voted for Trump, white supremacy and/or greed was a higher priority for them than voting their political conscience or just simply not voting affirmatively for either candidate. 

I have a cousin who was a hot-shot Travis Co prosecutor for 20+ years and was let go in the Margaret Moore purge of DA's office. She was always a Republican, grew up with a hardcore Republican father and never really wanted for anything in her life. Whip-smart, graduated high school early and got her degree in like two years or so from UT back in the 80's and went on to law school, eventually pursuing a career as a law enforcement officer where she sent many, many people to prison for child sex crimes, family violence, and murder. She prosecuted  high profile crimes in Travis County, a few of which have been discussed in this forum and the old site, a couple that resulted in death penalty verdicts, and one high-profile case that resulted in an innocent person spending twenty years in prison on bullshit "scientific evidence" only to be exonerated and released a couple of years ago. By all accounts she had a successful career and was a powerful, connected lawyer who could have parlayed her time at the DA's office into a lucrative private practice. She was the quintessential Liz Cheney-ish Republican, someone who staunchly believed in law-and-order to the point where she took less money to be a public servant because she truly believed in her role as an advocate for victims of violent crime. This motivation was always something she spoke of and believed in, to the point where I think it blinded her to inequities in the justice system, but she was also someone who I  saw as a fair-minded, objective lawyer who believed in the Constitution and law and order.

I found out recently through family that she voted for Trump and it absolutely blew my mind to the point where she has become the embodiment in my mind of every white woman Trump voter. She is not stupid or uninformed, especially on matters of law, and I assumed that even though she was  lifelong Republican voter, she saw Trump as a complete moron and embarrassment to the Republican party and a threat to the law-and-order system she swore an oath to defend. I assumed that Trump's actions on Jan 6h were a bridge too far for even her Republican brain to validate in the voting booth. I was way wrong apparently and she's pretty much dead to me now. I've thought a lot about her since the inauguration and what her reasons could be for voting for Trump and my only explanation is she's lived her entire life as a privileged white woman who has never faced the class/racial hurdles so many others face on a regular basis and she's okay with compromising her law-and-order values to further her class and racial biases.

 

 

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46 minutes ago, MissingInAction said:

I go to PINS once a year. A ranger will swing by once a night to make sure I'm not burning shit or dead.

jedi return GIF

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3 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

There are, but the naked truth is that for so many of these "moderate Republicans" who held their nose and voted for Trump, white supremacy and/or greed was a higher priority for them than voting their political conscience or just simply not voting affirmatively for either candidate. 

I have a cousin who was a hot-shot Travis Co prosecutor for 20+ years and was let go in the Margaret Moore purge of DA's office. She was always a Republican, grew up with a hardcore Republican father and never really wanted for anything in her life. Whip-smart, graduated high school early and got her degree in like two years or so from UT back in the 80's and went on to law school, eventually pursuing a career as a law enforcement officer where she sent many, many people to prison for child sex crimes, family violence, and murder. She prosecuted  high profile crimes in Travis County, a few of which have been discussed in this forum and the old site, a couple that resulted in death penalty verdicts, and one high-profile case that resulted in an innocent person spending twenty years in prison on bullshit "scientific evidence" only to be exonerated and released a couple of years ago. By all accounts she had a successful career and was a powerful, connected lawyer who could have parlayed her time at the DA's office into a lucrative private practice. She was the quintessential Liz Cheney-ish Republican, someone who staunchly believed in law-and-order to the point where she took less money to be a public servant because she truly believed in her role as an advocate for victims of violent crime. This motivation was always something she spoke of and believed in, to the point where I think it blinded her to inequities in the justice system, but she was also someone who I  saw as a fair-minded, objective lawyer who believed in the Constitution and law and order.

I found out recently through family that she voted for Trump and it absolutely blew my mind to the point where she has become the embodiment in my mind of every white woman Trump voter. She is not stupid or uninformed, especially on matters of law, and I assumed that even though she was  lifelong Republican voter, she saw Trump as a complete moron and embarrassment to the Republican party and a threat to the law-and-order system she swore an oath to defend. I assumed that Trump's actions on Jan 6h were a bridge too far for even her Republican brain to validate in the voting booth. I was way wrong apparently and she's pretty much dead to me now. I've thought a lot about her since the inauguration and what her reasons could be for voting for Trump and my only explanation is she's lived her entire life as a privileged white woman who has never faced the class/racial hurdles so many others face on a regular basis and she's okay with compromising her law-and-order values to further her class and racial biases.

 

 

You're thinking too hard, mate. 

At what point did you ever think, "She will vote for Harris"? 

You weren't surprised. 

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3 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

I just wanted to remind everybody that this is what JD Vance looks like after he shaves.

 

JD vance with no beard.jpg

I'm pretty sure Emilio Estevez's character in "The Breakfast Club" was in detention for taping this dude's butt cheeks together.

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46 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

I just wanted to remind everybody that this is what JD Vance looks like after he shaves.

 

JD vance with no beard.jpg

A lot of, “buttttttttttttttttttttt mommmmmmmmmmmmmmmm” in that stupid fucking face. Fuck him. 

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50 minutes ago, Slacks said:

You're thinking too hard, mate. 

At what point did you ever think, "She will vote for Harris"? 

You weren't surprised. 

No I was very surprised because i thought Jan 6th (and Trump's lawlessness) was a bridge too far for her. I thought she just wouldn't vote for president. Or even Kamala. Her 90 year old Republican mother and sister did (who happens to be married to an Indian immigrant with two mixed-race kids).....

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