US US Politics General 2 - Discussion of President Trump and other politicians

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Should be a wild four years.

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Current members of the House of Representatives
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Current members of the US Supreme Court
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Members of the Trump Administration
https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/

 

[FBI-chan]

Own the libs by sucking corporate cock.

 

[InteracialBowelSyndrome]

Even convenience stores have good options hidden in corners. Like Milk and Bananas. Also, if there was actually a demand for things like Salads and wat not, they would absolutely sell it.

I'm not entirely sure if it's true or not, but I heard someone say that when it comes to grocery store layouts, the healthier foods are on the outer ring and corners of the store.

Fruit and vegetables, meats, dairy, breads and bakery items tend to be on the outer rims, while isles have things like processed cereals, kraft dinner, high-sodium condiments, soda and chips, and so on.

 

[ZipDisk]

Your layout is pretty spot on IBS, Where I lived the veggies tended to be in the back and poor areas, and on the right side of the store in moneyed areas.

 

[AnitaSarsleezian]

I have a long-standing joke/theory that Americanized Chinese food is as unhealthy as it is to make Americans fat and lazy.
What they actually eat looks nothing like the stuff we have.

Yeah, but as a person who eats at actual legitimate chinese food places, in heavily chinese areas, for nothing but FOBs as customers (there are places on the side streets in flushing, queens that don't even have english menus), I'd go so far to say that the normal Chinese diet isn't something that Americans are gonna go for.

Unless Chicken feet, jellied duck's blood, and crispy jellyfish suddenly become comfort food for some crazy reason.

 

[Hantavirus]

Cigar patricians to cigarette plebeians: "if only you knew how bad things really are."

Mate I am a snuff and snus man, things are truly dire in our corner of the tobacco fandom

 

[Gog & Magog]

Actual question, if inmigration causes crime, why are current studies skewed to say otherwise? Is it faulty methodology, or the statistics themselves are cooked?

Immigration? Which immigrants? They're not all the same.

If you are fat or you do feel like shit all the time, whatever you're doing wrong is probably so patently obvious that a child could work it out.

. . .

 

[Pimp C]

I used to process WIC customers when I worked at the supermarket. They actually did have to fuck around with a stamp book. The restrictions were utterly RETARDED because everyone and there molester uncle had their hand in the program. You can't buy REGULAR cheerios; you have to buy the WIC cheerios that are one ounce smaller and look almost identical.

It got to the point my manager had me close a register and walk the WIC women through the store, showing them what they could and could not buy.

Everyone thinks "restricting luxuries" will reform EBT. It won't. It will only cause more fucking problems.

WIC isn't like that anymore. It's on a card and you have x amount of ounces of 'healthy' cereals you're allotted a month. Kroger, haven't seen it at Wal-Mart, even has a tag on the shelves showing you what's allowed on WIC. If you're not going to send out big blocks of government cheese and shit like that, reforming SNAP along the lines of WIC would be a better model.

 

[ZipDisk]

Easy solution, a very quick whitelist

That whitelist will be a battleground every fucking election, even among the same party. I had to force myself to eat more beans and less red meat, and I can honestly say, while healthy, beans are one of the least fucking satisfying things in the world you can eat.

And sure, let's break it down. What kind of beans are on the program? Uncooked? You think the people on EBT are going to learn to rinse their beans for 24 hours? No they're going to buy the bullshit Bush's "no sugar added" garbage that's pumped full of fucking sucralose. And if you ban the diet coke beans, they're going to be screaming.

 

[Netizennameless]

Most of them aren't really taxpayers though, they work the most bullshit minimum wage minimum hours job they can to meet the minimum standards for more gibs, with how much gibs they get and how little income tax they actually pay on their low wages (plus things like earned income credit lowering their tax burden even more) these people get far more money from the government than they give. The only way the government can hope to recoup any losses is through sales tax and shit like the lottery.

I disagree with this premise. I support welfare for the working poor. Having a job motivates people to stay out of trouble. It reduces violence and crime overall, and that money goes back into the local economy.

One change I would like to see is the requirement that you have less than $1000 in savings. It punishes people from practicing responsible habits. If you're able to work and get welfare and save $100 per month, you would be ineligible for welfare the next year and would burn it all up and be unable to support yourself. It promotes permanent helplessness.

 

[browserbowser]

Apparently, a fatwa has been issued to MAGA shill accounts on behalf of BIG SODA to post in favor of keeping soda in food stamps—for seemingly no reason. Some pretty big accounts are involved (and also Ian Miles Cheong, too), and allegedly, they're paying up to $1,000 per shill
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If you niggers here aren't stupid you'll see this is roundabout corporate welfare.

Fuck's sake the motive here isn't difficult to understand. What is difficult to understand is how people can see this and not immediately start thinking for themselves about multiple different means of distributing tax money into the pockets of heeb corporate executives.

And if you ban the diet coke beans, they're going to be screaming.

We have guns in this country. Nobody gives a shit retard.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Yeah, but as a person who eats at actual legitimate chinese food places, in heavily chinese areas, for nothing but FOBs as customers, I'd go so far to say that the normal Chinese diet isn't something that Americans are gonna go for.

Unless Chicken feet, jellied duck's blood, and crispy jellyfish suddenly become comfort food for some crazy reason.

I'm well aware of the more gonzo stuff they eat, but surely there's a middle ground.

We had a Chinese exchange student when I was a kid and she would make pretty good stuff I'd never seen before for us from time to time. The first time we brought her to a "Chinese restaurant" she was in hysterics about the food lol. "We don't eat this!".

Also, we sent her back home like 20lbs heavier lol.

 

[Penis Drager 2.0]

I'm not entirely sure if it's true or not, but I heard someone say that when it comes to grocery store layouts, the healthier foods are on the outer ring and corners of the store.

Fruit and vegetables, meats, dairy, breads and bakery items tend to be on the outer rims, while isles have things like processed cereals, kraft dinner, high-sodium condiments, soda and chips, and so on.

Your layout is pretty spot on IBS, Where I lived the veggies tended to be in the back and poor areas, and on the right side of the store in moneyed areas.

Well that's just because it's easier to put refrigerators and freezers against the wall. Not to mention you want your meats near the butcher and he needs his own out-of-sight space in the corner to do his job.

 

[browserbowser]

Well that's just because it's easier to put refrigerators and freezers against the wall. Not to mention you want your meats near the butcher and he needs his own out-of-sight space in the corner to do his job.

It speaks volumes that two presumably adult people couldn't infer that.

About our education system. And why the DOE being torn down is a good thing.

 

[Banana Hammock]

All this stuff about restricting food stamps and adding more barriers to getting them or what you can buy with them will INCREASE the costs of the program in question, not decrease them. The people arguing for such things forget that bureaucrats oversee these programs and the more complexity you add to something like SNAP, the more of those bureaucrats will be needed to oversee it.

What the fuck are you talking about? We already restrict food stamps. All they'll need to do is change a toggle from "SNAP eligible" to "not SNAP eligible."

 

[Jace on ice]

Food deserts are a myth. I've been in gas stations so ghetto they have their own pimps and even those had a small section with fresh tomatoes, potatoes, onions, bananas ect.

Granted it ain't Whole Foods but to suggest you have no choice but to subsist solely on Steel Reserve and hot chip is bullshit.

 

[Wemmy]

The pop on EBT thing is just a scam in the sense that people will buy 2 liters and then "sell" them to Indian run gas stations for 50 cents on the dollar. Or just sell their EBT cards or whatever for the same. It's why Walmart puts pallets of 2 liters up front on dole day. Taking pop off EBT probably cut out billion in sales. I support doing it less because it'll force the lumpenproles to health, it won't, and more because it'll fuck over streetshitter scammers and that's a worthwhile goal.

This is also why the milk isle is always cleared out and every emergency liter you get at 7/11 expired three days before you bought it
Fuck Indians, I needed that for my roux you curry bastard

 

[FunPosting101]

What the fuck are you talking about? We already restrict food stamps. All they'll need to do is change a toggle from "SNAP eligible" to "not SNAP eligible."

Yes, we do restrict SNAP, and that already pisses poor people off. Restricting SNAP even further will piss them off even more.

 

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It's the inspiration for a classic meme, too.

 

[Banana Hammock]

Yes, we do restrict SNAP, and that already pisses poor people off. Restricting SNAP even further will piss them off even more.

Black people get pissed off about something every week.

 

[Catch The Rainbow]

Trump doesn't like a portrait of himself