Gromnir

trump's improbable ignorance is tedious for multiple reasons, but not least 'cause it compels normal people to fill in the logic and reason holes he leaves behind when he provides an explanation for getting a dementia test, imposing tariffs on brazil, or suggesting merrick garland should be investigated for the 2020 election fraud scheme. 'cause trump explanations don't make sense if you take him literal, even the folks at msnbc will reflexive fill in the gaps or massage trump explanations/excuses with something plausible. otherwise most any discussion o' trump would devolve into concluding that the President is an idiot, which while accurate is not particular constructive. that said, trump has a few patterns, and doubling down is one o' his most predictable. after trump were questioned and mocked about his 2018 dementia test braggadocio, am thinking most o' us thought it weren't gonna be the last we heard o' how fantabulous he were for acing the test. maybe not as funny as his ongoing and evolving war on windmills, but the pattern is similar. HA! Good Fun!

what on earth are you talking about? am genuine baffled. never did we reference something said by joe biden... or is this your reflexive whataboutism at play? serious, am having no idea what you could possible be talking 'bout. and pointing out that you provided an answer is equal meaningless. could tell us the reason doctors tested trump in 2018 for dementia were sun spots. suns spots as an explanation would indeed be a response, an answer. so what? am thinking part o' the problem is that you don't know how to make sense of a calendar. who was on the democrat ticket in january o' 2018? trick question. answer: nobody. as o' january 2018, andrew yang and one other guy had announced they would seek to run as democrats in the Presidential election, and biden were not one o' those two. trump never mentioned biden when he had his dementia test in January 2018... which is in part why we questioned whether you had bothered to actual read the article past the quote you used. wanna go back and look at this board circa january 2018? see how much discussion there is o' the democrat candidates for President in 2020, much less an assumption biden would be trump's opponent. you get it now? you provided an irrelevant answer. sun spots. trump's response about biden from your linked article is just as irrelevant as is sun spots. the notion trump got a dementia test to preemptive set himself apart from biden makes no sense, no matter how many different ways you repeat. feel free to strawman all you want, but bringing up biden ad nauseum is transparent futile and pointless. biden mental problems, which we lamented more than once, is irrelevant as to why trump a doctor administered a dementia test to trump in 2018, january of 2018. as to tds... you must be joking. am certain you ain't joking, but am trying to give you the benefit o' the doubt. lord knows why you would wanna bring up questions of evidence and truth telling. is a movie clip, but it is educational 'cause if we are talking 'bout evidence, the witness' propensity for telling falsehoods is always relevant. the deluge o' documented and confirmed trump lies is too significant to catalog on this board, but that improbable bloated ledger is prima facia admissible evidence if it is offered to impeach a witness' testimony. proof of past falsehoods is relevant when attempting to convince the finder o' fact (jury or judge,) that the witness's testimony should not be believed. as hard as it is to believe, sometimes legal rules is just codified common sense. your improbable need to give trump the benefit o' the doubt is the actual tds. given thousands o' examples o' trump lies about anything and everything, when confronted with a situation where trump mighta' lied to protect his "chronic narcissism," zor nevertheless finds trump claims convincing... in spite o' the calendar. sheesh. am thinking it is safe to say that the 224 lb trump lied about his weight recent and is known he has pressured doctors into lying for him in the past. is not just that trump lies routine, but that he lies about his health and well being and has conspired with doctors in the past to perpetuate the lies. so we got a pattern as well as a propensity for falsehood... even so, zor soldiers on with his tds? no lawyer would ever put trump on a witness stand, not evar, 'cause his propensity for falsehood would be relevant under cross examination. it would require no great skill by an attorney to convince any finder o' fact that trump testimony is functional worthless, particular if there were some personal benefit to trump in lying. can zor imagine why a chronic narcissist such as trump might lie about the reason a doctor tested him for dementia in JANUARY of 2018? am betting literal everybody other than zor can come up with a plausible reason trump might lie to cover up the reason for his JANUARY 2018 dementia test. am not sure why your father's doctor thought he should take a dementia test, but our father's doctor most certainty were not worried about joe biden. am betting that in near all cases when a doctor recommends that their patient respond to MoCA questions, the motivation is approximately the same: the doctor has concerns that their patient is cognitively impaired. trumps 2024 word salad explanation for why he were being tested for dementia is clearly aberrational... is not the typical reason a person is asked to submit to MoCA questions. that a chronic narcissist would want anybody to know they took that test is also suspect, but perhaps zor is speaking to us from the upside down? our father were a proud man and he were mortified that he were needing draw a clock and identify a giraffe. am having a hard time believing a chronic narcissist would wanna discuss their dementia test results. ironic eh? you asked "why" and you got a far better answer than you offered us. again, biden is irrelevant. look. at. a. calendar. wanting a dementia test in january of 2018 cause o' biden is an idiotic claim for reasons obvious to anybody who can figure out how to read a calendar. jesus. 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the domestic terrorist label problem predates 1/6 by a smidge am not suggesting false equivalency and you could find older posts from Gromnir where we warn 'bout the slippery slope potential o' the domestic terrorist label. is not a new problem... but am admitting our failure o' imagination pre trump. the scale and scope o' what steven miller and the other trump admin authoritarians is implementing we so did not foresee short o' contemporaneous with a major war or economic cataclysm. in times o' relative peace and prosperity we could not have predicted the american people would shrug off masked troops in the streets acting on an extra judicial basis to intentional cause panic among the population. earlier in the year, trump identified people vandalizing teslas as terrorists. antifa is now terrorists, and antifa membership is pretty much determined by the doj disliking your social media? possible drug runners, thousands o' miles away from the US and likely carrying cargo meant for europe is narco terrorists. next? but again, as much as we would like that it were true, the problem didn't start with trump and it sure won't end with him. just kidding. the gandhi quote might be misattributed, but am thinking it is axiomatic that our current american divisiveness ain't gonna get better anytime soon... and is no chance for improvement while so many believes they is justified in exacting retribution on wrongdoers. they deserve it, so is ok that they should suffer. HA! Good Fun!

ya think? HA! am having a hard time taking you serious. trump wanted to be tested for dementia? his idea? the 224lb trump wanted to prove to self, prove to the world, that he were just as sound o' mind as he were o' body? alternative: mayhap the reason he mentioned it were 'cause the fact he got the test were recorded. Presidential records and all that. am having no idea what were the real reason why trump got the test, but is improbable biden figured into the calculus in January 2018. am s'posing that once trump took the test he could either find some way to hide the fact the test were administered, or he could try to spin the circumstances. as such, am seeing a relative obvious and plausible reason for trump mentioning it. admitted, hiding the fact the test were administered would not be unique in Presidential history; has happened numerous times in the past. however, trying to cover up scandals in the trump wh were a hit-or-miss proposition in 2018 as his staff were notorious for leaking and knowing that your co-conspirator were the pill-popping and alcoholic ronny jackson might have been cause for concern. heck for all we know, kellyanne conway found out the truth at which point trump woulda' suspected wapo or cnn would have the story w/i twenty-four hours? sure, we know that in 2025 trump coulda' had seal team 6 disappear ms. conway to keep her from spilling the news, but that weren't the case in january 2018. doesn't actual matter what were trumps' thoughts 'cause regardless it takes near zero imagination to picture a trump convinced o' his own ability to dr. mesmer willful obtuse maga faithful (and zor) into believing that there were nothing at all curious about his being the subject of a dementia test... 'cause how many other stoopidly bad situations has he successful spun? again, trump took the test in january 2018, so the biden explanation should immediately dissolve into insensibility for anybody paying attention... anybody but zor. ... and am wondering if you even bothered to read the rest o' your own linked article, which is pretty damning for trump. regardless, am amused anybody would find a gobbledygook bit o' word salad from a pathologically mendacious 224lb horse's mouth at all persuasive when there is a skeevy and self-serving explanation available. *shrug* in any event, as predicted, this become farce all too quick. HA! Good Fun!

Judge Blasts Border Patrol Boss Greg Bovino For Violating Excessive Force Order “Kids dressed in Halloween costumes walking to a parade do not pose an immediate threat to the safety of a law enforcement officer,” U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis told Bovino during a court hearing Tuesday morning. “They just don’t.” am having no idea what is the "block club chicago," or how trustworthy they is as sources, but am having read a couple stories which are near identical but are paywall protected. also, much o' the relevant info is quotes by bovino and ellis which am able to tentative verify via multiple sources. also, this effective vacates the earlier appellate ruling, so the original tro preventing national guard in portland remains in effect... though am forgetting the duration o' the original tro, so there could be a need for the original judge to reissue the tros. gives us a headache trying to keep all the troops in the streets cases separate. HA! Good Fun!

the number of specialists named as having been part o' a Presidential medical review is strawman. our recollection is that george w. bush (is literal the only President other than kennedy am having searched... and the kennedy doctors lied about his addison's and drug use, so take that for what it is worth,) had more than a dozen listed specialists examine him and he took any number o' tests during his time as President including a head ears nose and throat exam, a chest x-ray and an ekg, but nothing particularly noteworthy. no MoCA. no multiple mri. if george w bush had been subjected to multiple PET scans or a doctor felt a MoCA was warranted, that woulda' been big news. for gawd's sake, bush had some benign colon polyps removed and 'cause he were incapacitated during the procedure, **** cheney were the temp chief executive. the polyp removal procedure were relative trivial, but 'cause it were Presidential polyps, the news were front page. but for some reason, trump getting tested for dementia deserves a hand wave from zor? ok. yeah, instead o' a general practitioner reviewing basic test numbers as would happen for joe the plumber, the doctors reviewing joe the President tests is gonna be specialists, but that fact is not actual relevant to the significance o' a doctor determining a MoCA were warranted. again, not helping your position. uh... what? the real sequence of events is worth a review. first reports o' trump taking the test is from 2018 and he were bragging 'bout his results before anybody knew biden would be his opponent in a Presidential election. am not recollecting any trump mention o' biden contemporaneous with the 2018 MoCA test, so maybe the explanation you see as clear is a bit more muddy, eh? trump figured that he might be running against an old guy in 2020, so in january o' 2018 he takes a dementia test? ... well, ok then. are you sharing your father's situation as some kinda rebuttal of the observation that the test itself is not dispositive? that wouldn't make much sense, would it? is gonna be a host o' factors involved, including the chat with the specialist you casually reference and again, whatever circumstances prompted the doctor to suggest your father should take the test in the first place, no? Gromnir's father had experienced a TIA and during conversations with doctors, he seemed impaired. taking the MoCA were not just some kinda rando checkup event. am not sure why this needs repetition, but the fact a doctor believed Gromnir's father should have a dementia test were concerning. even our father were recognizing the seriousness o' the situation. am not aware o' your father's circumstances, but given the results o' the doctor exam as you describe, am suspecting there were reasons why the doctor administered the test in the first place. by now am able to tell when you are arguing for the sake o' arguing no matter how weak is the position you choose to take. HA! Good Fun!

MoCA is not a special test, like for astronauts or somesuch. MoCA is far more akin to a roadside sobriety test administered 'cause there is some reason to believe an individual is an imminent danger to themself or others. doctors won't let mary go home alone from the hospital if she fails to pass the test. furthermore, as explained to us, the MoCA is one tool for assessing cognitive issues and is far from dispositive. the test is crude and not meant to be used as proof o' wellbeing. incidental aside: we mentioned how our father took the MoCA following a TIA episode. gonna admit we were shocked when dad got every question correct 'cause at 81 and suffering numerous health problems, he were cognitive more than a couple dimes short o' a dollar. dad were at his worst at night, but even during daylight hours he were noticeable... off. people who hadn't seen our father since he were 78 or even 79 woulda' been nonplussed at pop's decline. our father aced the MoCA, and he were simultaneous a wreck. pass the test is not meaningful proof o' mental fitness. personal anecdotal evidence is functional worthless when attempting to formulate conclusions o' general applicability. nevertheless, am mentioning in part 'cause our father were not proud o' his test results and he sure as heck wouldn't have shared with anybody that he had taken the exam; am suspecting our presence in the exam room were mildly traumatic for him. our father, as diminished as he were at 81, recognized how simple and trivial were the questions o' the MoCA. our father were insulted at being asked such ridiculous simple questions, but he were also self aware enough to be afraid that doctors deemed the test were necessary. we can count on one hand the number o' times we had seen our father show visible fear... and have a couple spare fingers. am thinking trump consistency on demanding everybody take the MoCA missies the point(s.) the MoCA is not an intelligence test as he suggests. nobody with all their marbles would brag about acing the test. the test is not part o' even comprehensive physicals. etc. edit: as a practical matter, am not seeing a way to add a cognitive test requirement for article 1, 2 and/or 3 offices. would need to amend the Constitution and is unlikely you add a specific test or some subjective measure such as cognitive fitness to an amendment. am s'posing individual states could require passing a state approved mental fitness test to be added to their ballot, but am thinking there is obvious hurdles for that solution, not to mention the nightmare scenario o' each state having different tests and standards which would then likely result in scotus deciding the scheme is unconstitutional regardless. the most simple answer is one am having mentioned previous: a Constitutional Amendment which creates an age limit for enumerated article 1, 2, and 3 offices. yeah, such an amendment would not solve the problem o' folks such as fetterman and others who is younger but possible impaired, but age is an objective standard and cognitive fitness is not. is unfortunate that the only way we see the adoption o' any kinda amendment which might address the cognitive impairment issue either direct or indirect is if something were to go dramatic and horrible wrong with a President or a scotus Justice. HA! Good Fun! ps https://www.instagram.com/p/DN_Ui9oD-LU/

"Trump has unveiled a number of moves aimed at cutting drug prices in recent months, but he has yet to move the needle on reducing costs – much less slashing them by 1,500%, which is mathematically impossible, experts say." ... experts say? experts? why not just ask a random fourth grader? am curious why the obvious question regarding the MoCA administered by walter reed doctors as part o' a trump exam is never asked: why did doctors feel it were prudent to have trump take the MoCA? is not a standard test for seventy-somethings. the fact doctors had trump take the test should be worrisome to people, but somehow that fact gets lost. tell us that his most recent PET scan is clear wouldn't raise alarms? 'course you would be curious as to why he were getting PET scans, right? PET scans is not routine. MoCA is similar not ordinary. trump bragging about acing the test is signature trump stoopid, but it should concern everybody that doctors had reason to administer the test. we were in the room when the test were administered to our +80 father following his TIA. *shrug* keep in mind that the media mocking trump for his ignorance and stoopidity is one o' the reasons he is so popular, as insane as that sounds. maga is about outrage and grievance... maga is the real victims in 2025. the perception that smarty-pants libs has been mocking working class americans for their lack o' education is one reason why they vote for trump. 47 is overt ignorant, unapologetically bigoted... and he is a winner. is a curiously seductive combination for too many americans. trump is using his voters and likely hates 'em, but maga loves trump 'cause he is their retribution. https://www.c-span.org/clip/campaign-2024/user-clip-i-am-your-retribution/5100721 maga identifies with trump not in spite o' his ignorance and bigotry but 'cause o' such. maga loves trump 'cause he is shameless and vindictive. lord help us. HA! Good Fun!

prepared one o' our faux fancy & low effort meals for family. made an immersion blender caesar salad dressing a couple days before dinner... is sooper ez and quick but you gotta be careful 'cause olive oil becomes bitter when hit with the high-speed immersion blender. recommendation: halve the extra-virgin olive oil amount and go with grapeseed or other neutral oil as a substitute for the remining oil volume... and try to blend thorough but as little as possible. am knowing we identify opposing tensions, but there is a point at which your blended olive oil will become unpleasant bitter. that said, you may blend the ingredients in a mason jar so is fewer dirty dishes to clean. literal takes a few minutes to do prep and combine o' ingredients. yeah, hand whisk is more legit and you don't need worry about the blender+olive oil issue if you do the mixing by hand, but the immersion blender option is so much more simple and quick. a couple days ahead, we dry brine a cross rib roast. remove any excessive fat from the meat and then salt and season and place in the fridge for a day or two. ideal place the roast on a wire rack + baking sheet so you got good air circulation. this step counter-intuitive required the most meal prep effort on our part as making room for the hunk-o'-meat-on-the-sheet in our refrigerator were challenging. the remaining menu were popovers made with green onions and creole seasoning as well as roasted root vegetables... and if you want desert, then buy something from a bakery or soopermarket... we purchased an apple galette from corti brothers. am suspecting nobody needs us to detail roasting root veggies. we added a bit o' fennel bulb and parsnip 'cause they is delicious and 'cause our family thinks they is exotic. *eye roll* am thinking we have mentioned once or twice how we bake only extreme infrequent. popovers is kinda a cheat/exception. despite our baking aversion, we have a dedicated popover pan which is a bit deeper than ordinary muffin tins. we make popovers relative frequent. serious, this meal is so simple it is stoopid. we got one o' those wireless thermal probes which tells us when meat is at temp, so cooking the roast beast requires searing the meat and then sticking it in an oven set at 275F and then waiting. depending on your oven, you might need to rotate the meat every 30 minutes or so to achieve even cooking. regardless, when the meat reaches your desired temp (or rather, when the meat is ~ 5 degrees shy of your desired internal temp,) remove it from the oven and tent it with foil. the meat will continue to cook for about ten or fifteen minutes and the internal temp on a roast o' 3-4ish lbs will increase by those five or so degrees we mentioned. deglaze the baking sheet and then add the drippings to a sauce pan-- is the foundation o' your au jus/sauce which is gonna vary a smidge depending on how you seasoned the meat as well as personal preferences. am genuine feeling guilty when we make this meal for company. cross rib roast is a much underrated cut o' beef and is cheap compared to other options. cross rib is also ideal for pot roast btw. roasting root veggies and making popovers is extreme low effort. immersion blender caesar dressing is no more difficult than the immersion blender mayo and is easier than immersion blender hollandaise. ... gonna admit the cortis brothers apple galette were likely better than whatever Gromnir mighta' crafted, so that worked out great for everybody but it does hurt our pride a smidge. edit: we also made croutons for the caesar salad. these were premade, so we kinda forgot to mention. more low energy as we prepared 'em in a basket air fryer. not long ago we ordinary made croutons in a skillet, and we still do when am wanting the best croutons we can craft. the air fryer variety is simple and far less messy than skillet croutons, so now we typical go the air fryer route. HA! Good Fun!

@Hurlshot is looking for rational and reasonable, but what too many people ain't figured out yet is that rational and reasonable is incidental concerns which 90% o' the time may be deflected with whataboutism or bible verse. the remaining ten percent? the maga faithful, when confronted with clear evidence o' mistake and/or hypocrisy, will final admit, "nothing you say or do will change my mind." even before hillary's deplorables remark, libs like hurl made real americans feel shame. all too frequent you (not hurl specific, but libs in general,) dismissed their beliefs as conspiracy theories and religious zealotry. recognizing that minorities commit more crime and are habitual leeching off o' government welfare programs is facts according to tucker carlson, but libs identify such truth telling as racist. real americans worked harder and got less every year, but libs ignored their problems and instead focused on providing free transition surgery to prisoners. etc. hurl being annoyed and confused is the point. immigrant suffering is also the point. precisely because immigrants is part of the them as opposed to the maga us, their suffering is justified and righteous. additional, hurl's impotent displeasure is in part why ice has videographers following around their ice teams. seeing them suffer is swell, but hurl qqing about the unnecessary cruelty is delicious. children crying as their parents is detained with excessive force is the point... but hurl predictable complaining is also a motivating factor. vol's transitive property stoopid which resulted in every act o' violence being the fault of blm and antifa has been coopted by the trump administration. 'ccording to 47, antifa is a terrorist organization. if you suggest that a member o' the trump administration is fascist, authoritarian, or you accuse 'em of using unnecessary violence to achieve illegal government goals, then you are a member of antifa and as such a terrorist and an enemy of the state? hurl being outraged by this kinda stoopid is as much the point as is the genuine authoritarian effort to suppress dissent. etc. maga wants trump to lower prices of groceries, housing and healthcare, but they don't need it. what maga needs is for them to suffer and for hurl to complain without being able to do anything about it. HA! Good Fun!

the nfl thread is out of date, so am apologizing in advance to europeans and others who will need suffer a moment o' puzzlement. HA! Good Fun!

our disappointment in fellow americans who has not expressed outrage and horror over the cecot efforts by the trump administration is impossible to fully communicate... and somehow seven months past might as well be a century removed in our new attention economy. that trump would do this kinda thing surprised us not at all, and you may review our posts since 2017 to confirm that claim. project 2025 was, in part, an effort to assemble a group o' at least marginal competent people who would be willing to advance tribal values either for personal power or 'cause o' a genuine ideological commitment regardless o' legal niceties, so am not surprised there is lawyers and burecrats carrying out the sinister marching orders o' the tangerine tyrant. am not shocked that hardcore maga people who have utmost faith in trumpism and is ok with any excess as long as the libs is being owned would choose the steven miller narrative regardless o' any evidence which might challenge their increasingly myopic world view. where is the rest of america? what serious bothered medicine dan, and others like him who somehow see themselves as reasonable trump voters in spite of hundreds o' examples o' trump excesses, were defund the police, white privilege accusations and talk of reparations for slavery... am thinking the subtext o' the underlying motivation need not be stated aloud for that kinda trump apologist to be understood. folks such as gd is sudden tired of all the negativity, but he somehow still sees equivalency 'tween trump and the dems ordinary incompetence? joe rogan now thinks what trump is doing to immigrants is crazy and inhumane, but is not as if trump hid his plans when he promised a mass deportation of 20 million people. even so, am not certain rogan and the kinda low information bro culture people who helped make trump 2024 possible is capable o' enough self reflection to recognize that their mind blowing gullibility is the cause o' the ice excesses near as much as is kristi noem or tom "cava bag" homan. ... but where is everybody else? even if you subtract the willful obtuse and proud boy adjacent crowds, where is the outrage from the rest of america? am pleased + seven million people came out for no kings. we saw a whole lotta gen x and boomer representation with their fanny packs, npr totes and american flags... not quite the sorros terror campaign republican leadership and fox news described. maybe the next no kings reaches nine million? even so, am not sure how we got past cecot with only a relative small number o' folks showing outrage. disappointed. HA! Good Fun!

but kamala didn't go on rogan, so... particular galling is the realization that at least 1/4 o' the country is cheering trump 'cause he is perceived to be "owning the libs" with the above buffoonery... and near 1/4 o' the rest o' the population shrugs off such behavior 'cause as mendacious, petty, cruel, ignorant and vain as is trump, kamala woulda' (insert a personal boogey man here.) promote trans in women's sports? defund the cops? pick the wrong side in the gaza issue? make white people pay reparations for slavery? take gd's guns? whatever.

kinda inspired by @ShadySands, we combined miss vickie's spicy dill chips with tuna salad and it turned out better than anticipated. 'course as one might expect, we made the sandwich more complicated than necessary by using both albacore and skipjack as well as making our own mayo. given the nature o' the chips, we chose to include fresh dill and some fine chopped dill pickle to the salad. we served the sandwich on a crusty baguette along with sliced red onions which we quick pickled in red wine vinegar and for a bit o' green, we added leaves of organic butter lettuce. etc. *eye roll* most o' the aforementioned effort were complete unnecessary. coulda' used wonder bread and a very basic tuna salad-- the sandwich woulda' been only a smidge less tasty, though am admitting the fresh dill and dill pickle were nice additions. regardless, and more immediate relevant, utilizing miss vickie's spicy dill chips in our tuna salad sandwich were a pleasant discovery. aside: it likely goes without saying, but the chips should only be added to the salad and sandwich immediate before planned consumption. HA! Good Fun! ps these are ~20% off at amazon, so we bought one... 'cause.

made chicken soup. we don't have a recipe for chicken soup but we do have a process with multi variations/options. however, we did learn that skimp on carrot is an auto fail. only had three mediumish carrots and we used 1.5 for the stock, which were a mistake. am recognizing, belated, that more carrot is essential for our chicken soup regardless o' customization. unlike many folks, we break down the chicken before boiling. is so much easier to work with smaller pieces as 'posed to a whole chicken carcass, particularly once the chicken is cooked and falling apart, so we always break down the chicken as a first step. also, we often put the chicken pieces in an oven set for convection or in an air fryer for ~20 minutes just to create a bit o' browning o' the bird. am not trying to cook the chicken with the 20 minutes o' browning, but a little color adds depth o' flavour to our soup and am preferring to do the chicken browning in the oven as 'posed to browning in the dutch oven/stock pot we will be boiling the chicken. try and brown the pieces o' a whole chicken in a dutch oven involves avoiding overcrowding, occasional flipping o' pieces and potential greasy splatter. 'course as often as not, we simply cover the the chicken pieces with a few litres o' cold water and then boil for a couple hours to produce the stock for our soup as well as to cook the chicken. to the water and chicken am adding... whatever. couple bay leaves, a bunch o' pepper corns, crushed garlic cloves, carrots, onion, and celery is the most common additions, but no salt. we ordinary make salt free stock nowadays and then add salt later in the cooking process. the thing is, what genuine goes into the stock is gonna be determined by the sad looking veggies in our fridge am trying to use before they become compost material... sans stuff such as bell pepper. ick. am also typical avoiding adding older mushrooms to a stock but not 'cause o' flavour concerns but rather for aesthetic reasons: old mushrooms will make for a kinda fugly grey-brown stock which tastes ok but appears less appealing. curious, our recent soup used only those ingredients we earlier identified as "common additions." while am making stock/cooking chicken, we do periodic skimming with a slotted spoon to remove scum, but am suspecting doing so is unnecessary save for if you want a prettier stock. meh. am no longer so precious as to worry overmuch about whether or not our stock is the ideal hue or perfect clear, which is why after 1.5-2 hours o' simmering, we pull our chicken pieces outta the cooking pot and then strain the stock with a fine mesh colander, but we don't go to any extreme effort to make our stock a clear and perfect amber. ... can make this a two-day thing where you chill the resulting stock and cooked chicken in the fridge and then finish day two, but am old and lazy so... because our chicken is already broken down, am able to make quick work o' separating the meat from the carcass and skin. we give the chicken meat a rough chop, and we save the bones and skin, which am typically throwing in the air fryer and browning once more before we then freeze. the frozen bones and skin is utilized when we eventual need make stock sans chicken soup. to our strained stock, which we return to the dutch oven/stock pot in which we made the stock, we add veggies and salt. chances are we don't need much pepper as we used a fair amount o' peppercorns when making the stock. for our most recent soup we had on hand a couple smallish turnips, a couple largeish parsnips, onion, celery and not enough carrot. boil and simmer the vegetables (this is also when we add pasta if am making a chicken "noodle" soup. we were gonna add datteri baresi pasta 'cause we were gifted excellent datteri pasta a few months back, but we decided at the last minute that we would skip the carbs,) until they is tender and then return the cooked chicken back to the pot as well as the chosen chopped herbage, which for Gromnir were italian parsley and dill. when returning the chicken and adding herbs, you might consider stirring in as little as a quarter teaspoon of tumeric as this will give you the vibrant yellow hue often associated with deli-style or canned chicken soup. *shrug* regardless, simmer until the chicken is warmed through. salt-to-taste and then plate and serve. one decent sized chicken and an equal weight o' veggies is gonna result in a rather copious amount o' chicken soup that refrigerates for days but freezes for months. 'course if you don't have enough carrot for the soup, that means you will potential need suffer the same minor disappointment... for months. good soup, but just shy o' greatness for want o' one large carrot? le sigh. HA! Good Fun!

... wtf. ... so it turns out this "misstep" as a fed judge generously described, were purposeful directed by the deputy attorney general, and from the admonition about active body cams, those who carried out the illegitimate directive were aware that what they were doing was wrong. ... am not genuine surprised save for how brazen is the efforts by this administration. the true tragedy is we expect, at best, limited and partisan outrage with the vast majority o' americans shrugging this revelation off with indifference, 'cause they are all bad, right? maga folks will see nothing wrong with the todd blanche intervention or cop behavior save that the ice folks were forced to pretend to follow due process as they arrested the enemies within. a f'ing circle jerk of masked thugs carried out violence they knew to be wrong at the direction o' the deputy attorney general of the US, and am doubtful anybody but pod save america and meidas touch folks is gonna still be talking 'bout this by next wednesday. wtf.

am sorry to say that am thinking you are identifying the perhaps singular aspect o' the embarrassing totalitarian jamboree hosted by trump and hegseth most o' the command officers approved. wanna take bets on the % o' generals and admirals who agree with the notion that accusations o' toxic command from often anonymous sources is a real and genuine problem for today's US military? the fact those generals and admirals feel as if they could only anonymously express their own views on such matters is likely, in their minds, proof o' the problem. the trump portion o' the pep rally were disquieting on multiple levels, and the ridiculous nature o' the event itself no doubt bothered near everybody in the auditorium at quantico, but am thinking is no accident that pete spoke first. yeah, the military brass did not find pete's fafo bit funny and am doubtful most generals is on board with the secdef's new (racist) beard guidelines, but am disappointing confident that a large % (and like the majority) o' the hostage audience was in fact supportive o' the aspect you are calling out in your post. pete's promise to put an end to anonymous accusations o' toxic command were the proverbial fresh meat. those anonymous accusations, particular claims related to misogyny and racism, have been a sore spot for many o' those older men in uniform held hostage for more than an hour in quantico today. getting the collected generals and admirals buy into the idea o' using the US military against americans on american soil were (and thankful still is, ) a tough sell, but trump is always the salesman, even when he is slurring words and garbling sentences. aside, and hopeful more significant... is also a good time to re-read judge wilkinson's blistering condemnation of the trump administration's efforts to send US residents to cecot w/o due process. https://time.com/7278774/judge-harvie-wilkinson-opinion-read-full-text-trump-abrego-garcia/ IF we manage to get through the next +3 years w/o a full embrace o' franco style authoritarianism, am thinking we are gonna owe a great deal to a handful o' so-called conservative judges who not only has held firm to Constitutional norms, but have been willing to speak truth to power at a time when courage has been complete absent from republican Congressman. HA! Good Fun!

@Elerondyeah, we specific identified the tech bros feeling left out o' the decision making regarding government regulation o' ai as a motivation for choosing trump over harris, but the problem is they get everything else trump along with deregulation. trump is mercurial and is simultaneous trying to take control of the US economy. in 2024, the potential downside o' a trump Presidency for tech bros as he talked up tariffs, mass deportations and suggested he would overhaul the fed, shoulda' been enough to discourage people who were collective making more money under biden than any group o' people had ever made during a similar span o' time in the history o' the US. take him seriously but not literally. people have been saying that bit o' pith since 2015 and time and again trump shows us how it is a mistake to not take him literal even if he frequent tacos. so is 2025 and the tariffs were never gonna happen for reals is now happening and so too is mass deportations. contrary to trump claims, nobody in their right mind is making major US manufacturing investments 'cause o' endemic uncertainty caused by trump and we finally got a rate cut that trump wanted, but we got it 'cause signs is showing a serious weakening o' the economy. any foreign government which is willing to make a billion dollar investment in trump's sh!t coin gets favorable deals, which leads more uncertainty, and certainty was kinda the reason the dollar has been an effective reserve currency which is partial why we got market multipliers in the US which has been considerable better than europe or asian. yeah, the tech guys is building ai data centers at a break neck pace, data centers which create almost no new jobs for american workers, and certainty not for those rust belt folks who voted for trump, but simultaneous trump has cut federal investment in all kinda energy projects 'cause he hates windmills and solar, and is not as if by doing so trump made the fossil fuel guys happy 'cause trump is simultaneous working overtime to keep fuel prices low while also making energy production more expensive via his tariff shenanigans and mass deportations. the tech bros need vast new energy production and trump actions is making energy production more difficult and less lucrative, so... etc. yeah, the tech bros got deregulation o' ai and they exorcised lina khan, but on balance, are they more uncertain today compared to september o' 2024? am understanding why bankers and investors is ok with uncertainty 'cause they is making buckets o' money whether there is a massive shift up or down in the markets. am disappointed by the myopia o' the investor class, but we get it. converse, if during the biden years you were a tech bro who made more money than were previously imagined, why would the reality o' 2025 look like a win? HA! Good Fun!

am agreeing the US is embracing fascism with disappointing vigor and speed, but am simply noting that all too often people use "fascist" and "authoritarian" interchangeable... save that fascist feels worse, so is more pejorative? most o' us rolled our eyes when vol identified every group or action he disagreed with as nazi. all too often, people do something similar with the fascit label. dunno. regardless, am agreeing that the US is pretty deep into fascism at the moment. the following is kinda silly, but also illustrative valhalla? the commander in chief dodged the draft for chrissakes, but somehow we got this weird quasi-comic warrior culture being perpetuated by pete hegseth and... kash patel, the trump administration's living embodiment o' peter pettigrew. serious? add contempt/fear o' science, demonization o' trans people and minority groups, a s'posed "invasion" at the southern border, exploitation of outrage and grievance, as well as the deep state nonsense. etc. but again, is not difficult to make a fascist argument for almost any government organization or action... if you don't like 'em. am simply pointing out that identifying generic authoritarian behaviors and practices by a government doesn't genuine push the needle toward a result of fascism in any meaningful way. as for tech company's following the lure o' profit, we agree... mostly. during the biden years the tech companies were doing extreme well. profits were historic good. the US economy were the "envy of the world" and all that. sure, ordinary americans had struggles with inflation and cost of living concerns, but the tech bros were unaffected by such minutiae. one reason why bernie sanders and elizabeth warren were always outraged during the biden term is 'cause never had so few made so much money in such a short a period o' time, and those tech bro billionaires were paying proportional less in taxes than rich people had been required to pay for +80 years. converse, trump is an ignorant buffoon who doesn't care what happens to the economy as long as he personal gets rich. the tech guys knew before the election that tariffs were problematic and trump's current assault on the fed is not helping with investor confidence. mass deportations is necessarily gonna result in further inflation as well as a shrinking of the consumer and tax-paying base as well as creating severe impacts on specific industries such as agriculture and construction. the tech guys know that if the economy tanks, they will also suffer, but they nevertheless supported (and continue to support) erratic and ignorant as 'posed to the status quo, a status quo which were making them all fabulously rich. so, if profits were your most pressing concern, which bet made more sense, harris or trump? am gonna suggest that even more than profit, the tech guys is blinded by their need for control. there is a belief amongst the tech bros that if they have control, they will keep making money no matter what, so control and profit is necessarily intertwined, but if if they gotta make a choice 'tween the two, control wins. biden frequently cut the tech oligarchs outta the decision making 'round government regulation of ai and lina khan was kinda their nightmares given flesh. converse, the tech guys can get trump to respond to their phone calls and a shiny bauble and a performative genuflection is, they believe, gonna get them the results they desire. kleptorcacy and oligarchy ain't the same thing, but the tech oligarchs is betting that they are able to convince trump to enrich them too even if the recent conflict 'tween elon musk and donald trump should prove that they don't have legit control. regardless, if profits were genuine your most pressing concern, why would you f with the status quo o' the previous administration? HA! Good Fun! ps our biggest concern regarding the endemic misunderstanding o' fascism is that the only reason most maga folks, not to mention a considerable % o' the remaining general population, reflexive balk at being called fascist is 'cause they don't know what is fascism. w/o mention o' fascism, describe the kinda vague ideology being promoted by tucker carlson, bennie johnson and yeah, charlie kirk using the framework o' umberto eco's fourteen features. describe in glowing terms how tucker, unlike the mainstream media, recognizes the threat of trans people and immigrants, or how bennie johnson embraces a return o' masculinity. without mention o' fascism, use the fourteen features to describe the increasingly typical right-wing pundit and then see how many americans see such as problematic v. positive. when the el paso walmart shooting happened, we read the shooter's manifesto. in 2009, the manifesto woulda' sounded like the ranting o' a lunatic. in 2019, the manifesto's main points were familiar to anybody who followed tucker carlson. @Pidescois no doubt certain that fascism is unhealthy for a society, and history supports that conclusion, but am increasing of the opinion that fascism is only seen as pejorative by most maga types because they don't know what fascism is. pps am also gonna observe how most o' the media companies, law firms and universities who has capitulated were similar going mask off in the name of profits. as noted, the law firms who rolled over for tump were the firms who has big merger and acquisition portfolios. the current kerfuffle regarding jimmy kimmel happened 'cause the head o' the fcc intimated that he would kill a prospective merger deal 'tween sinclair and nexstar. earlier when cbs and abc caved to trump whims, it were also likely due to the fact they got big deals in the works which require fed approval to happen. universities caved as soon as trump went after their grants. etc. this trump administration has had difficulty avoiding tripping over their own feet even as the rough beast, its hour come at last, slouches toward bethlehem. even so, you gotta hand it to the project 2025 folks as they appeared to bet that all the big talk from lawyers, universities and others regarding rights and justice was just so much air and that if tested, people with the power to make a difference would choose their third vacation house as 'posed to remaining true to their espoused convictions. trump, is a psycopath, but am s'posing that is the source o' much o' his success. trump can smell weakness?

you are describing authoritarianism more than fascism, but such confusion ain't your fault as the definition o' fascism is a gestalt o' somewhat related qualities and factors which exist to greater or lesser degrees in various real world examples of fascism. given the admitted fuzzy descriptor o' fascism, you end up with kinda a dual problem as 1) almost nobody genuine knows what fascism means, and 2) it is not difficult to legitimize pounding any square peg you don't like into the fascist round hole. if you don't like cops, the catholic church or no-smoking areas, then is all too common you will see those entities, organizations and regulations as fascist. authoritarian + more-than-just-bad = fascist? am not suggesting @Pidescois doing such, but am sure you have noticed such behavior. that said, the current US embrace of authoritarianism is bordering on axiomatic. for crying out loud, even the trump campaign distanced itself from project 2025 during the run up to the election in part because even the folks at fox recognized the proposed blueprint was overtly embracing authoritarian methodology to achieve extreme goals... were a franco christmas list for chrissakes. the pushback against project 2025 complaints from the right was not that project 2025 were a legit approach to government reform but rather that libs were using the mad scribblings o' a fringe group to unjust paint trump as a wannabee dictator. we are eight months into this Presidency and something like 47% o' project 2025 goals has been implemented. fascism? if you were attempting to plot where the US is on a fascist graph or spectrum, am willing to concede that due to the challenging nature o' the fascist definition, there is uncertainty in definitive identifying nascent fascist regimes sans equivocation. nevertheless, 2025 US has gotta be worse than 1930s and charles lindbergh, yes? ... am disappointed by the tech companies, media organizations and even universities as they capitulate at the first sign o' trump displeasure. few law firms have fought back against trump, although every one who has done so won in court. those firms with any kinda mergers and acquisitions portfolio has too often displayed humiliating, if predictable, cowardice. am not at all shocked by the craven servility o' Congressional republicans. also, we fully anticipated that +1/3 o' the country would cheer on trump as he indulged his most salient personality attributes: greed, vanity, pettiness, ignorance, cruelty. most o' this freaking mess is what we has warned 'bout all too often, although am gonna admit we were genuine dumbfounded by the blatant grift of the proposed tik tok deal... and cecot caught us complete off guard. is september 2025 and we keep waiting for some kinda pushback from ordinary americans. trump loyalists will stick with the President no matter what, but the majority o' americans ain't hardcore maga. there is some encouraging signs that the mass deportations and ending protected status for venezuelan asylum seekers is having an impact on those admitted diverse latino voters who flipped from democrat to republican in the recent election, but the problem is that while they no longer trust trump, am doubtful they are more enamored with "godless" democrats in 2025 than they was in 2024. still, if all those latinos just don't vote, it would help democrats in the midterms. will it take some unspecific level o' inflation/stagflation to finally motivate americans to protest en masse, 'cause masked ice agents mistaken brutalizing american citizens hasn't. sending the national guard to american cities? meh. trump and elon's colossal failed promise of $2 trillion in dodge savings? tax cuts for billionaires leading to rural hospital shutdowns? trump's sh!t coin shennanigans? the epstein files? what? joe manchin is doing a book tour. kamala harris also released a book. what we learned via reporting o' the books (is no way in hell we read either offering) is that the only thing democrats and republicans can agree on in 2025 is that democrats suck. anywho, we bring up manchin specific 'cause we saw him recent on a podcast (to sell his book) and among other topics, he explained why west virginians keep voting republican in spite o' the fact republicans has now controlled the state for years and the economic situation in west virginia has gotten noticeable worse-- what would it take for a demcorat to win in west virgina? manchin conceded that the democrat brand is too toxic in west virginia for any democrat to win, regardless o' economic policies or promises. is tribal/social/community which has west virginians reject democrats, and it ain't so much democrat economic policies which is the problem. the people of west virginia won't vote democrat 'cause they see democrats as habitual "mainstreaming" behaviors west virginains don't approve. democrat values is repugnant, so west virginians will vote against democrats regardless o' economic interests. let that sink in when trying to predict future election outcomes. 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the ruling in the birthright citizenship case, which did not address in anyway what constitutes US citizenship, will have almost no impact on the birthright citizenship case, which am gonna guess has already been refiled to get around the arcane procedural issue scotus identified. however, for a large number o' other trump administration actions, this is a game changer. am pressed for time, so can't give it the time it deserves, but the point is that today's 6-3 birthright citizenship decision should have no meaningful practical effect on the birthright citizenship issue. HA! Good Fun! ps: (quick addition) J Amy Coney Barrett messed this up whether you agree with the outcome or not. the ruling offers little in the way o' practical guidance and am predicting a multitude o' new litigation which will need to lurch back to scotus before we get answers to the numerous new questions this decision spawned.

am having heard that this dlc is uncharacteristically stable and relative bug-free for an owlcat release. however, am expecting an inevitable rebalancing patch to drop soonish, a patch which based on past experience has a noteworthy possibility of breaking existing saves. as such, to reduce frustration, am gonna wait to restart a new game and play beyond character creation until after the next patch. HA! Good Fun!

Senate parliamentarian deals blow to Republicans over Medicaid provisions in Trump's megabill The ruling is a major setback for Republican leadership, who are under pressure to expeditiously move it to the Senate floor to meet the July deadline. This ruling will require potentially major reworks of the bill with relatively little time to accomplish them. And no matter how they change it, leaders are likely to frustrate some faction of the Republican conference, which could imperil the bill's passage. ... not accurate, but it might be true. by a majority vote, the senate could overrule the parliamentarian, but that almost never happens. 'course a whole lotta almost never happens has been happening under trump, yes? also, the scotus procedural ruling on deportations to third country is disappointing and has the Court fully embracing its ordinary three wise monkey attitude. "Instead, at least five of the same justices who, as recently as April, were especially adamant that alleged alien enemies have a right to notice and an opportunity to be heard before they can be removed under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 were willing to sign off on a ruling that effectively allows for countless other migrants to be removed to third countries where they have credible arguments that they’ll be mistreated—for no other reason than because they’ve already been held to be removable to some other country. Due process apparently matters to these justices on the initial removability question, but not beyond that." the Court, back in april, recognized that the government were intentional misleading in their efforts to rush plaintiffs outta jurisdictions just ahead of judge rulings being delivered in addition to the fed's embrace of deceitful shell games such as ceding authority of deportees to the department of defense while claiming that judge orders specified only homeland security and ice... not to mention sh!te like the doj is serious arguing that abrego garcia should not be released from criminal custody 'cause then he would be deported, resulting in the State losing the opportunity to criminal prosecute a bad guy. oh, and emil bove HA! Good Fun!

a few o' those go considerable past the last decade, so am not sure what the temporal range is if we are including x-files and firefly, which both had their final episodes over twenty years past, yes? example: pushing dasies and wonderfalls were broadcast after firefly and x-files, but they is a bit remote. fleabag, better call saul, hannibal, atlanta, true detective (season 1) and a few seasons of fargo all are near the top o' our favorite tv series from the last ~decade. a couple other notables: mr robot had loads o' great performances, but... am curious ambivalent. not sure why we didn't like it more. the bear. wth? how the heck is the bear categorized as a comedy? great show that makes us feel terrible. we watched the bear and thought it were fantastic, but maybe something resonated too much, 'cause we frequent were made uncomfortable on a physical level when watching the bear. chernobyl, shogun and watchmen is miniseries we enjoyed. kinda surprised by shogun-- maybe we liked it more 'cause we were expecting so little? keep in mind, am old enough to have seen the original nbc shogun miniseries when it were first televised. regardless, can't stress how much we approve of fleabag. HA! Good Fun! ps the 80s was a good time for broadcast miniseries, and only about half of them starred richard chamberlain. in fact, richard chamberlain was jason bourne back in the late 80s. 'bout a year after nbc's shogun, masada, with peter o'toole (we kid you not) and peter strauss were released by abc... think it were abc. am realizing that with times being what they are, there is 0% chance o' a masada remake, which is too bad. 1989, at the end o' the decade, we got lonesome dove. was a whole lotta not good miniseries, but following rich man, poor man and roots, they became expected annual occurrences for the networks, and a few o' those miniseries were justifiably memorable even when they weren't fantastic.

fixed maga politicians is positively giddy that the democrat clown car operation is likely gonna make a thirty-three year old with extreme limited policy making experience, who seeming wants to throw money at every problem in a city where they already waste too much money and who is okie dokie with globalize the intafada, one o' the more visible democrats in the country. mayor of nyc is so not a learn-on-the-job office. and maga has been holding up bernie sanders as an extinction level threat to scare independents and moderates on both side of the aisle to instead choose republican candidates? mamdami is the politician maga has been praying to baphomet to send 'em... although gozer the gozerian might be the more appropriate dark god given we are talking 'bout nyc. there were other democrat candidates, but democrat leadership somehow let this become a binary mamdani v. cuomo situation as you accurate observe. As Donors Work Against Mamdani, Top Democrats Stop Short of Backing Him the democrat establishment coulda' gotten behind zellnor myrie or brad lander (and brad lander is also a progressive, but his policy positions are far more realistic and he had a much better chance o' being a successful progressive mayor,) but instead they went with andrew cuomo? the accused sex offender who had to take his limo five blocks to vote in the primary? maga politicians is loving this, and their wet dreams has democrats doing similar in places where the margins is six points or less instead of +50 democrat. edit: the thing to keep in mind when attempting to translate trump's gibberish is that he is a deeply stupid person. HA! Good Fun!