Melkath

Aw, shucks.

Vote for evil or more evil and next time you get super evil or mega evil.

Don't vote for either and good may end up back on the menu.

Here, let's try another aptly American food metaphor.

Last month, the High School cafeteria was offering chicken nuggets and tacos. The tacos were FIRE.

The chicken nuggets are lumps of disgusting pink slime kind of rolled around in flour and dunked for way too long in old unchanged hot oil, not even dried. Just tossed into an immediately soggy paper tray.

The tacos are tortilla, admittedly low quality beef that is browned in a giant frying pan then thoroughly drained, lettuce, tomato, shredded cheese, and a squirt of sour cream.

Half the cafeteria (somehow) prefers the pink slime Grease balls, the other love the tacos.

Half line up to pay 2.50 each for the slime balls, Half line up to pay for the tacos.

This month, the offerings are chicken nuggets and pork nuggets.

The pink slimeball food workers had a much easier time of it.

Pink slime ball. Flour. Unchanged Grease. Paper tray.

So the other line said "why should I wait for the beef to drain? Why should I prep the lettuce. Why should I prep the tomato? Why should I prep the cheese? Why should I learn to ration the sour cream?

That's so much more effort and the Principal is on our asses because the pink slime Grease balls were cheaper.

The Principal took $50k for the school lunch program then made another 2.5k off the students. the pink slime balls cost 5k and the tacos cost 7k, but here we are busting our asses and the Principal is praising the slime ball brigade because they are a better asset in his "Pay for the Principals golf trips" campaign.

As a result, instead of offering those amazing tacos, line 2 is now offering pink PORK slime, prepared exactly the same as the pink CHICKEN slime.

As a hungry student with two dollars and fifty cents, do you buy the slimy chicken balls or the slimy pork balls?

You buy neither.

You go hungry. You go through the line and ask for tacos as loudly as possible, get to the cashier, leave your empty tray, and pocket your 2.50.

Next month, your option will be pink chicken slime balls or tacos.

You get 5 bucks worth of them amazing tacos.

(Metaphor based on a true story. If you were eating lunch at highland high school in 2003, you can vouch).

Puts on my Heisenberg voice

"Cracking down" on a drug has never worked. Ever.

Want to have an impact on the drug market? Produce a superior product.

A superior product demands a superior market share.

A superior product that is cheaper than the competitor dominates the market.

Dominate the market and competitors get snuffed out.

Want to stop Fentanyl overdoses? Offer the cheapest, best quality, most stable Fentanyl.

The junkies get a better high and accidental overdoses plummet.

I was going to answer that Biden doing stupid things would not make people vote Trump, but rather, would disenfranchise people who vote Democrat.

I would say "NoT vOtInG fOr ThE dEmOcRaT iS vOtInG fOr ThE rEpUbLiCaN" is something out of touch boot licking neo-progressives say so they can sound just like Republicans.

I would say as a life long Democrat, I simply cannot vote for genocide, prohibition, the stripping of a union's right to strike, and for attempts to "strengthen our relationship" with someone who is "definitely a dictator" (Biden's words).

All this would force me to vote "no confidence" on the 2 party system, ie: not vote.

But I wasn't asked so I won't answer.

How about:

Prohibition doesn't work. Never has. Every prohibition effort has failed. Every prohibition effort has done FAR more harm than good. Prohibition efforts are inherently and categorically 100% bad.

Implementing a new prohibition with a Chinese Dictator. WONDERFUL follow up to funding genocide.

Why are Democrats trying SO HARD to get Trump back in office?

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-01-31-covid-19-leading-cause-death-children-and-young-people-us

That is the most recent straight-from-source study I can find on the topic. Also published coincidentally right around the time governments started to refuse to collect data on Covid and declared Covid "over".

So, I'd say if we were still collecting the data, we may be able to see if the trajectory has changed, but we aren't, so we cant.

Also cant imagine that eliminating all Covid restrictions improved the figures.

So, is it true? 100% a year ago. I am inclined to believe it is still true, but I cannot say "100% that is true today."

This is why I still mask and social distance.

That, and covid is still the number 1 killer of youth under the age of 18.

In other news, water is wet. Wait. We have breaking news! Fire is hot!

Correct, but by election day, she will be.

Put AOC up there tomorrow and she will win.

Keep Biden up there and he will lose.

Just shows how the voice and the vote of the people doesn't matter.

The Party does what The Party does.