US politics - have you no sense of decency, sir?

[Tywin et al.]

3 hours ago, Lord of Oop North said:

The difference is that the increase in gun related homicides in Canada recently has been driven by gang-related killings, the majority of which are committed using weapons smuggled from the USA. Domestic violence is also a big one. Mass shootings are relatively rare here.

Nice try to "what about Chicago?" your way out of this. Everyone knows Canada has become a lawless country of murderers, thieves, rapists and I suppose a few good people. A savage lot you wildlings are.

[JGP]

You just jelly of our freedumbs.

[A Horse Named Stranger]

8 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said:

Turkey at Thanksgiving is typically super bland unless you have someone who really knows what they're doing. Team spiral cut ham all day!!!

Reminds of your cooking classes in college. Or at least how I am imagining them.

Yeah, and then you do this. And when that happens, you take out your phone, this is list of restaurants I have on speed dial, who also do deliveries.

[Tywin et al.]

21 minutes ago, A Horse Named Stranger said:

Reminds of your cooking classes in college. Or at least how I am imagining them.

Yeah, and then you do this. And when that happens, you take out your phone, this is list of restaurants I have on speed dial, who also do deliveries.

If you can afford it I would suggest this unless you like to cook. People always talk about how stressed they get cooking for the holidays. If that's you, save yourself the headache. Cooking should be fun. And honestly it's hard to screw up a nice spiral cut ham. They prep themselves.

One day though I will finally try to make a cochinillo asado.

[Jace, Extat]

1 hour ago, Tywin et al. said:

Turkey at Thanksgiving is typically super bland unless you have someone who really knows what they're doing. Team spiral cut ham all day!!!

This is true. People cook the fuck out of EVERYTHING

Including yummy spiral ham

But turkey + injected cajun seasoning=happy 

Bonus points if you deep fry that shit.

You will know true bliss when you eat cajun deep fried ham 

 

I know you are all intimidated by my sophisticatory and put-agetheredness, but I come from farm people.

[DMC]

Thanksgiving is about gravy people.  Get a grip.

[Tywin et al.]

Don't be so basic. I think I had a BBQ chicken and bacon sandwich with fries for Turkeyday dinner last year at some fancy resort. The over the top dinner was around $75 a head. What I got was <$30 and over half the people at a fairly large table were jealous I could just order that instead. 

[LongRider]

34 minutes ago, DMC said:

Thanksgiving is about gravy people.  Get a grip.

True that!    

[Jace, Extat]

Also, not to get racial or nothin' but what the fuck is up with this ham eating Jew? Does your rabbi know that you partake of the flesh of a cloven hooved amimal? 

All Jews have rabbi(s?). And aren't allowed to eat meat after the sun goes to sleep. Kanye told me.

[JGP]

[pops cheeks]

[casts D20]

[Tywin et al.]

45 minutes ago, Fire and Jace said:

Also, not to get racial or nothin' but what the fuck is up with this ham eating Jew? Does your rabbi know that you partake of the flesh of a cloven hooved amimal? 

All Jews have rabbi(s?). And aren't allowed to eat meat after the sun goes to sleep. Kanye told me.

I had a bacon cheese burger for lunch today at a trendy French place back home home. Was with my family for the unveiling of my great-aunt's headstone. A few of my cousins and I, this being a ceremony and lunch to celebrate their beloved mother and grandmother, were debating between that or the steak sandwich. Nobody cared. I think they made the right choice to go with the steak sandwich. I'll have to go back sometime and give it a try.

Times change. In the 90's as a kid I ordered the same thing at a lunch with a Holocaust survivor who spoke with our Sunday school class. Safe to say I was reprimanded both at lunch and afterwards.

And my father nearly got into a real fistfight with my childhood rabbi at my Bar Mitzvah. That was the last day I was ever forced to do religious studies. Thank god.

[Jace, Extat]

34 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said:

I had a bacon cheese burger for lunch today at a trendy French place back home home. Was with my family for the unveiling of my great-aunt's headstone. A few of my cousins and I, this being a ceremony and lunch to celebrate their beloved mother and grandmother, were debating between that or the steak sandwich. Nobody cared. I think they made the right choice to go with the steak sandwich. I'll have to go back sometime and give it a try.

Times change. In the 90's as a kid I ordered the same thing at a lunch with a Holocaust survivor who spoke with our Sunday school class. Safe to say I was reprimanded both at lunch and afterwards.

And my father nearly got into a real fistfight with my childhood rabbi at my Bar Mitzvah. That was the last day I was ever forced to do religious studies. Thank god.

You know, now that I think back on it... I'm pretty sure that Yeeze was telling me all Jews have Rabies 

Shit, that's my bad dawg

[DMC]

2 hours ago, Tywin et al. said:

Don't be so basic. I think I had a BBQ chicken and bacon sandwich with fries for Turkeyday dinner last year at some fancy resort. The over the top dinner was around $75 a head. What I got was <$30 and over half the people at a fairly large table were jealous I could just order that instead. 

Don't be so lame.

[Tywin et al.]

11 minutes ago, DMC said:

Don't be so lame.

I didn't pick gravy...

[DMC]

4 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said:

I didn't pick gravy...

I don't need an explanation for why you're so lame.

[LongRider]

never mind 

[DireWolfSpirit]

Vague rememberances of faint, nicely buried, sorried headline of Kari Lake desperately seeking some, any, relevance and now seeking a lawsuit to keep her losing off our lips.

Obvious strategy to latch her star with the recently fired up Orange hobo train.

CHOO-CHOOOOO

CHOO-CHOOOOOO

WOOHOOOO!!!!!!!

 

 

[Zorral]

This is sad, tragic reading. Nothing we here don't know, aren't aware of, but seeing it described in such detail by someone who was born there, lived there, in very different times.

NOVEMBER 25, 2022
The Retail Carrion Feeders of Rural America

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/11/25/the-retail-carrion-feeders-of-rural-america/

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.... Still people are starting to refuse the slops that are offered them. The Covid lockdowns–hated here in the hollows and hills as intensely as anywhere–have taught people there are other ways to get by, modes of life that don’t require you to submit to the least that’s offered, to work crap jobs for crap wages in dangerous conditions with no health care. It may be a silent resistance, but its building.

People don’t trust their bosses, their banks, or their government. They don’t trust that the insurance they pay out the ass for will really cover them if they have a stroke or get cancer or contract COVID on the job. Yet, the people most in need of national health care are among the least likely to support it. If you don’t trust the government–if it’s never done much of anything for you, except demean your existence, humiliate you for asking for help, and make life harder than it already is–why would you want them tending to your failing body or injecting a vaccine (no matter its efficacy) into your bloodstream? The fear isn’t irrational. It’s been learned over generations.

The Dollar General Theory is as cruel as it is simple. They want you to work cheap, live cheap and die cheap. They don’t want to pay you what you’re worth or pay for you when you’re ill, even if they caused your sickness. Where are you going to go? Who are you going to turn to? The town you’ve known all your life is boarded up. The grocery store and hardware store are gone. The coffee shop is closed. The gas stations no longer have mechanics. Most don’t even have attendants. Just insert a card and go. You need a credit card for everything now, even if your credit is in the toilet.

It’s not just the supply chains that are broken. The threads that have bound these small communities together since the Great Depression are fraying. No one knows their banker any more. Many of the local banks have been replaced by ATM machines, racking up hidden fees for every impersonal service rendered. There hasn’t been a town doctor here in five years. People have to drive 20 miles west to Bloomington or 30 miles east to Columbus and then they are often treated by a nurse or physician’s assistant for the diseases that are ravaging these small towns: diabetes, congestive heart failure, emphysema, opioid addiction. The diseases of the passed over and forgotten. The diseases that don’t pay.

For some reason, I was struck by the recent proliferation of MIA flags, which I’d rarely, if ever, noticed down here before. There are now more of them than Trump flags, of which there are still many. These black flags fly from houses and schools, Post Offices and fire stations, city parks and some of the few remaining local businesses. It’s been nearly fifty years since the fall of Saigon and the end of that savage war seems more immediate than ever. I asked a few people if they knew any MIAs. No one could name a single one. No surprise, there were hardly any. Few people even knew anyone that served in Vietnam. It seemed clear that what had really gone missing was an idea of America itself, a void in the national identity, that remains dark and inexplicable, and, as the scenes of planes ferrying desperate people out of Afghanistan play endlessly on cable TV, it’s a hole that continues to grow, consuming what we thought we knew about ourselves. ....

 

 

[Castellan]

On 11/24/2022 at 8:55 AM, Tywin et al. said:

But when are we going to talk about those violent, gun crazed Canadians? 

the number of killings per population would be interesting

[DMC]

So this isn't really news but this thread is pretty dead of late.  Patty Murray is going to become the first female Senate pro tem ever due to Leahy's retirement and Feinstein declining the position.  This is the first time the pro tem will be younger than POTUS since Styles Bridges in 1953-5 under Ike.  Murray is "only" 72, which is pretty damn young for a pro tem, at least in our lifetimes.  Of more substantive note, she'll also be taking over Leahy's role as Appropriations Chair, arguably still the most powerful position in the Senate.