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Should be a wild four years.

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Nobody has time. You basically need someone with an extra four hours a day to plan and cook anything that's not super basic and nobody can afford that.
What, it’s hard to throw some chicken or something in the oven along with microwaving some frozen vegetables? It’s not that difficult. You can get other shit done while your food cooks. Sometimes you gotta go for basic meals. And it’s really not that expensive as long as you aren’t buying more expensive food like steak, seafood, and eggs.
People buy into the myth that they don't have any time while they sit on the sofa for that same four hours and melt their brains on TikTok.
Yup. Exactly. I work a full time job, can go to the gym, and even have free time while also cooking my own meals. No one has an excuse. It really just means waking up earlier in the morning to fit breakfast in.
 
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China is no one's friend.
FFS, the CCP subsidizes drug manufacturing to make synthetic drugs, mostly opioids, to sell to the west to kill us.
The drug Chris talks about in the second video is Kush. No relation to Mary Jane, et. al. Apparently, part of the ingredients for Kush is human fucking remains. Bone meal or whatever.
China remembered what Great Britain did to it and thought, "You know? That isn't such a bad idea right about now. Ret's try that! How courd it possibry go wrong?" And here we are now, with a modern version of the Opiate War.
 
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Nobody has time. You basically need someone with an extra four hours a day to plan and cook anything that's not super basic and nobody can afford that.
The food system in the US is unfortunately tilted against home meals. Sourcing affordable acceptable quality ingredients can be a challenge; especially starting out. Home cooking also brings along a lot of pride and shame, regrettably.

Looking at the problem from a different angel can help. More effort to make doesn't mean better or more deserving of praise. Cooking is a skill you can use all of your life. Very small cooking skill improvements "lock-in" and stay with you (yes, successfully boiling water is a skill). Only knowing how to make "one thing" well is a level of success above "can't cook".

I know an old man who only knows how to do basic pan frying and grilling and it serves him very well.

If Asmongold can make a home cooked meal, anyone can.
 
If the USA annexed all of Canada somehow maybe it would perhaps be best to make them all of their provinces into territories in the American legal sense and let them decide if they want to fully become states or not at some point in the future.
No. Not a chance. This would not be taking over one of Spain's Sugar Colonies or a howling wilderness of Buffalo and Native savages. It would be a marriage between, if not equals, definitely social peers. One that would require mutual respect and some compromise to work.

Ironically, something very similar to how Canada was founded now that I think about it.
 
The FBI defines domestic terrorism as: violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature

We know these people are doing it because they hate Elon and by proxy Trump so it's largely a political objective, violence and vandalism for intimidation. It's no "Days of Rage" but could escalate as things progress since Trump's first year isn't even done yet
Well, if the stupid anti-Elon tankie protesters are setting fire to Teslas/stealing & crashing Teslas/setting dealerships on fire, than they're probably domestic terrorists by virtue of Teslas having a tendency to blow up 🤔
 
Each province needs to get it's shit together before it can become a state. Alberta will do it quickly but Ontario will be a humanitarian disaster if it doesn't get it's gibs
One of the big issues in such a scenario would definitely be the fate of Canadian social program funding. Problems with the differences in legal exist as well since apparently in Canada criminal law is under federal jurisdiction, the death penalty is abolished, the courts are bilingual, little to no civil jury courts and the judges are appointed by the government in many places.
 
If it becomes a State? Yes.

Making all of Canada one State is a mistake. It would create a new California with the exact same problems. Half of California absolutely hates the other half. For the exact same reason half of Canada hates the other half. If Canada becomes one state, that would be two Democratic party Senators and 50 members of the House, along with a California tier weight in the Presidential electoral college.

Fuck no. The Prairies would get two Senators each to counter balance the inevitability of Ontario and BC's Senators while the House caucus will be more uniform and respondant to regional concerns. People forget that for as liberal as California is, a good chunk of its House delegation is Republican. Same goes for shit holes like Oregon, Washington and New York.

The thing is, if the ask is to bring Canada into the Union, it can't be "pick and choose". It needs to be all or nothing, otherwise what is the point. If America isn't willing to incorporate the Canadians, all of them, as fellow citizens, then its better for both that the entire idea be abandoned.
Canada consists of already established provinces that are allowed to leave per Canadian law. Large parts of Canada are incompatible with the US. Quebec quite literally so with the US laughing at French being a requirement.

Best path is to take Alberta which puts an expiration date. Let the rest of the country air itself out of its jeets. They will go home once the gibs run out. And they WILL run out if Alberta leaves. Then take the other provinces in 5 to 10 years later. Quebec needs multiple generations out in the cold to get their shit together and learn how the real world works.
 
One of the big issues in such a scenario would definitely be the fate of Canadian social program funding. Problems with the differences in legal exist as well since apparently in Canada criminal law is under federal jurisdiction, the death penalty is abolished, the courts are bilingual, little to no civil jury courts and the judges are appointed by the government in many places.
Not quite as big a problem as you think. Canada is a Common Law country. The Precedents would be allowed to stand until challenged under the new law. Things will shake out organically over time. Which may suck for the people being shaken, but that is the trade off we make to have a common law system as opposed to the Continental Law which is "I have 4 degrees and a funny hat so I get to decide what happens, and no you can't ask why".
 
Canada consists of already established provinces that are allowed to leave per Canadian law. Large parts of Canada are incompatible with the US. Quebec quite literally so with the US laughing at French being a requirement.

Best path is to take Alberta which puts an expiration date. Let the rest of the country air itself out of its jeets. They will go home once the gibs run out. And they WILL run out if Alberta leaves. Then take the other provinces in 5 to 10 years later. Quebec needs multiple generations out in the cold to get their shit together and learn how the real world works.
yeah, iirc it's sorta like the "the states can call a constitutional convention and sidestep DC" thing that, in theory there actually are most of the mechanisms for the providence->to->state to really happen fully established on both sides of the border back in the last ice age or whenever
 
Only knowing how to make "one thing" well is a level of success above "can't cook".
Also, what you learn from cooking that one thing is transferable to other meals.

This was my one meal I used to properly start practicing cooking with. It is simple, delicious, and basic enough that it is pretty easy to experiment with ingredients and still get something good with it.
 
China is no one's friend.
FFS, the CCP subsidizes drug manufacturing to make synthetic drugs, mostly opioids, to sell to the west to kill us.
The drug Chris talks about in the second video is Kush. No relation to Mary Jane, et. al. Apparently, part of the ingredients for Kush is human fucking remains. Bone meal or whatever.
What western liberals do not get is that it is how the chinese do things to present a face of absolute-holiness where they do nothing bad at all, especially what you accuse them of doing. If you back down, they consider you to have earned whatever bad fate awaits you and if you don't back down they still won't admit to things, but they will respect you as an opponent and you can deal with them in a manner that isn't entirely a ripoff.
 
One of the big issues in such a scenario would definitely be the fate of Canadian social program funding. Problems with the differences in legal exist as well since apparently in Canada criminal law is under federal jurisdiction, the death penalty is abolished, the courts are bilingual, little to no civil jury courts and the judges are appointed by the government in many places.
Trump does away with all of Canada's arduous environmental regulations, and permits Canada to mine it's resourses to fund said social programs?

...don't think Canada's vast reserve of rare Earth minerals (most of which, being minerals that are currently only available via Chinese run/controlled Asian & African mines) isn't the sole reason Trump wants to "seize" Canada.
 
It's embarrassing at this point. It's not much fun to compete when your opponents are incapable like this. I obviously don't advocate for letting them get away with these antics and I don't want Democrats to win, but it will start to feel unsportsmanlike if they keep doing this stuff on their own.
If they had the ability they'd have you killed or put in a work camp and your children put in an orphanage where they're raised as leftist foot troops, a-la Mao. They literally do this in BAMN now, encourage kids to run away and put them up in apartment complexes with other kids so they can be indoctrinated as leftist brownshirts.

Never forget that these people are ontologically evil and any response to them is justified. The only limiting factor is optics.

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50% cut in the Department of Education
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You're 50% there....

RE Massie, we'll see come next budget and see if he's right or not.
What are the vegas odds that some Magistrate Judge in Hawaii declares the President can't do this and issues a "restraining" order forcing them to hire them all back with raises and apologies and comfy new chairs for them to sit on as an apology?

Sometimes I truly wonder what goes on in the predditor mind to have a basic, common sense, america first 90's democrat be the second coming of Putler-Voldemort
The tactic is Repressive Tolerance. It's how the radical left indoctrinates their foot soldiers. It's why they can refuse to stand for a 13 year old with cancer and still consider themselves morally just.

Tl;dr: "Anything our side does is good, by definition. If we did it and it wasn't good, then we really didn't do it, we had a good reason, or the other side REALLY did it and is blaming us. Anything the other side is bad, by definition. If they did it and it wasn't bad, then they only did it because we forced them to, they're doing it for a subversive reason, or it's actually something we did that they are taking credit for."

This allows them to program their culture warriors with a very simple logic loop. Us good, Not us bad. Trump is bad, by definition. So by definition, anything he does or believes in HAS to be bad.

This is one of the reasons they desperately keep people from talking to "the other side" via algorithms, block bots, screaming fits whenever they try speak in public, et cetera. Because if you're in this bubble and listen to the other side, it threatens the conditioning. Culture Warriors are useless if they don't think they're intrinsically good and the other side intrinsically evil.
 
In the spirit of @Slav Power being an asshurt wigger and backseat moderating, here's an extremely autistic rant I wrote about Elol. Negrate it, ignore it, I don't care, I'm working on my sneedposting.
he just had a great Aspergers idea of his, threw money at his company, told them to make this thing because he thinks it's cool, and now they had to do it at all costs, even if it's near impossible to do.
And you know what? That's perfect for private industry. Elol takes his family's emerald wealth and spends it on designing dopey ass cars that everyone thinks are fucking ugly as sin.
Nevermind that those same trucks are having sudden (archive), severe combustion events , (archive) or that Tesla cars are killing their passengers because of designs that Elon himself mandated (archive)- all that is silly big gubbmin' nonsense.

But the federal government isn't supposed to be run like a business. The purest form of government (and those who know, know it isn't run like that, but bear with me for a second) is to take a portion of everyone's income into a pool of resources to provide services that private companies will not fulfill market demand for. They will refuse to fulfill market demand for it because there's no money to be made providing services like Social Security or Medicaid.

Social Security? It ain't much these days, but at least its keeping Grammy and Grandpa fed in their West Virginia holler. Grandpa got that black lung from mining coal, and he can't do much of anything these days.
Medicaid? Also not great, but at least the single mom with a learning-disabled kid can get dental work done for her and her son at little to no cost to her. She can buy groceries for a good, filling dinner tonight and doesn't need to worry about medical bills.

Was there waste going on in the government? Yes, without a doubt. Could things be cut out of the annual line item budget that Congress proposes? Sure, take it to the committee, don't renew funding for the gay transbian esoteric dancing clinic in India. That shit was gay and retarded anyway, cut it from spending.

The issue is this fucking empty-headed, mush-mouthed autistic deadbeat father is taking my fucking tax dollars and threatening to cut benefits that I had my income deducted for by law on the promise that I would at least get a meager payout when I'm 75 years old, if I'm not dead by then.
On top of this, Elol is an unelected bureaucrat fucking with my taxpayer dollars and my duly elected representatives are not doing anything to stop this mouthbreather from breaking shit that I paid for with my tax dollars. That's what I'm fucking MATI about.

If you want to ballwash this sperg, go for it, but don't backseat moderate while you're doing it.
 
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