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poverty in the US is not what most people believe it to be. Kathryn Anne Edwards Opinion: The tyranny of the low-quality job "Longitudinal studies of family income in the 1970s and early 1980s show that, while long-term poverty exists, it is a slim, fractional minority. Poverty is a mostly transient state experienced by a much larger share of people and caused by household and/or labor-market disruptions. Poverty isn’t a function of where you lived or how wealthy your parents are. Income can drop for lots of reasons: Someone moves out of the house, a job is lost, an accident prevents someone from working full-time. A new job, or recovered earnings, can end the spell." is not a long piece and is worth reading. aside, most o' the traditional solutions is wrong, or at least poor crafted. when california raised the minimum wage for fast food workers, not surprising, the prices o' fast food skyrocketed. raise the minimum wage is inflationary as a whole, as such the general economic wisdom is that raising the minimum wage counter-intuitive hurts the people you are most trying to help. however, studies show there is a kinda sweet spot for raising the minimum wage-- if wages increase just enough, everybody wins and you will not see noteworthy general inflation. however, what is the chances this government gets the number right? @ShadySandshas, on more than one occasion, observed how medical debt is the primary cause o' US bankruptcies. after obamacare, employers turned fulltime jobs into multiple part time jobs and slowed wage increases in part to pay (not pay) for healthcare. obamacare has helped millions o' people, but pretending as if healthcare is no longer a problem for anybody who is at least trying to find a job is wrong. poverty and healtcare in the US is inextricable linked. am gonna suggest you cannot fix US poverty w/o fixing healthcare, and that is a big ask. childcare? *groan* would need a very long post to describe the problem in part 'cause some o' the solutions run counter to other solutions. US women with children disproportionate need good part-time jobs 'cause they cannot work full time or at the least they aren't gonna be able to take advantage o' jobs with traditional hours. no (or no meaningful) sick leave for a large % o' lower paying jobs is also a surprising big problem that unlike the rest o' the problems listed has an ez fix, but good luck with that. housing costs... am only scratching the surface o' the problem... US poverty is not what most americans believe it to be, so many o' the suggested solutions is also gonna be fails. HA! Good Fun! ps am habitual socratic method so am often forgetting to state the obvious: because american poverty is so difficult to solve, but also largely transitory, snap is an ideal government response in spite o' fox news perpetuating a boomer welfare queen narrative. snap is highly targeted and reactive. people is able to access and then decouple from the snap program quick. there is indeed a free rider problem, but it is not as large as many boomers believe it to be. snap does not and cannot fix poverty, but it has been an overwhelming success.

made pulled pork, carolina gold bbq sauce and cole slaw. the pork we made in the oven instead o' smoking. turned out nice even so. were a small pork 1/2 shoulder, a bit under 3.5 lbs, and it nevertheless took near eight hours to get to fall-apart doneness. we cooked the meat in the oven 'cause our carob shrub (is more than 30' tall and a bit wider, but am thinking it is technical a shrub 'cause it branches at the base instead o' having a single trunk, but am so not an arborist,) is current in bloom. we do not want to spend anytime outside and within 100 yards o' our carob... shrub, 'least not for another week. am almost never making carolina gold bbq sauce, which is weird 'cause am a fan o' the stuff. we went a bit light on the sweetness and added a tad more heat than is typical... not that we needed to make the sauce particularly hot as we had liberal spiced the pork. almost forgot to add worcestershire sauce... probable 'cause we make carolina gold so infrequent. the coleslaw we prepared is o' the sacrilegious midwestern variety being heavy on mayo, sweetness, vinegar and always is including a bit o' celery seed. our celery seed must be ten years old by now 'cause is maybe two other recipes we near never prepare for which we need celery seed, but in spite o' the age, it tasted fine. after shredding the cabbage and carrot, we salt the vegetable matter and then let it sit for about an hour to dehydrate a bit... and then we ring out much o' the remaining moisture via a tea towel. am always annoyed by wet midwestern coleslaw, so we take effort to prevent such an outcome. *shrug* am not general a fan o' mayo or miracle whip based slaw, but we had a hankering for it and nobody were gonna tell us it were a bad idea. am gonna have pulled pork for a few days. HA! Good Fun!

fox news is at it again BREAKING: FAKE NEWS! Fox News just got caught reporting on disgustingly racist AI videos as REAL! we did double-check other sources to make sure the facebook claim is legit. the fox article https://www.foxnews.com/media/snap-beneficiaries-threaten-ransack-stores-over-government-shutdown am knowing europeans cannot read the comments section, but keep in mind that most o' the following is being contributed after the correction to the story were made, and only a couple point out fox's switcheroo and avoiding the double-post, while admitting am exhausted... zor invents an argument nobody made, then argues against it, while in part relying on trump integrity to reach a pointless conclusion. sure. zor medical expertise aside, *eye roll* dementia progresses different with every patient and actual progresses is slower when signs appear first later in life, but this is also irrelevant and red herring fodder. find where Gromnir claimed trump has dementia. for all we know, the doctors thought he had suffered a stroke or might have Parkinson's. tired o' repeating, but the MoCA is not a dispositive test for dementia, so whether trump passed or not would hardly prove (or disprove) that he had dementia in 2018. trump acing the test is not particular meaningful to us 'cause am far more concerned as to why the doctors thought the test were warranted. "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?" one-upping biden were not a plausible option 'cause calendars... duh. and no, as has been shown numerous times now via actual linked expert opinions, the MoCA would not have been utilized as a screening test. doctors woulda' had a reason to believe the test were appropriate. more than a dozen specialists examined trump following his episode in late december o' 2017, and then he is given a dementia test. believing trump without any corroborating evidence that he personally requested a dementia test just 'cause requires a level o' gullibility we cannot muster. so, back to square one. btw, Cognitive Test Trump Took May Have Been Undermined by Publicity, Doctors Warn an examinee knowing the contents o' the test may interfere with its value. "person, woman, man, camera, tv." for all we know, trump spends considerable effort preparing for the test each time he takes it. sure, if he were impaired into insensibility, then no amount o' preparation or foreknowledge would save him from failure, but again, we were in the room when our father took the test and "aced," it which shocked us at the time. is also apparently the reason why, "It can be more valuable to ask family members or others who know the patient well whether the person has been inefficient at tasks they once did well, like negotiating a new route when driving or following a recipe." but again, "as grotesque as it might be, am gonna suggest americans is much better off with a President who reflexive lies than one who is honest taking pride in his dementia test results." notice we didn't place trump's possible dementia in the balance, but if we take zor's max gullible position, that would mean the President o' the united states is genuine proud of having been able to draw ten-to-eleven on a blank clock face. "I took it at Walter Reed Medical Center in front of doctors,” Mr. Trump said. “And they were very surprised. They said, that’s an unbelievable thing. Rarely does anybody do what you just did..." sooooo... no doubt zor also believes that the doctors were "very surprised," by trump being able to identify an elephant. HA! Good Fun!

the commercial isn't particularly funny, but Gromnir can't be the only one who hears how similar it is to... can't help but feel like somebody is getting punk'd. HA! Good Fun!

The H-2A Visa Trap "As the hearing drew to a close, Judge Lisa Godbey Wood explained that she had watched Sofi’s body language and studied the tone of her voice as she testified. And she could see how much Sofi had to lose, especially in the face of threats to her and her son. She couldn’t find a single reason not to believe Sofi. “I would find by any standard of proof that she’s telling the truth,” Wood said. “As a result I find that the rapes did occur.” "Wood turned to Mendoza. “People think that there’s no slavery anymore,” she told him, moments before sentencing him to 30 years in prison. “There is, and you were doing it right here in our state.”" ... "The Biden administration increased protections for H-2A workers, but several lawsuits filed by states including Georgia have prevented them from fully going into effect. This past June, the Trump administration went one step further, suspending any enforcement of the new program’s rules until that litigation is resolved. "The number of H-2A visas issued has increased every year since Sofi arrived. The escalation of Trump’s deportation efforts this year has led to arrests of undocumented farmworkers — who account for over 40% of all field laborers — and sparked enough fear to convince others to no longer show up to work. If farmers are squeezed further by the shortage of farmworkers, the H-2A program can fulfill that demand. There’s no limit to how many visas can be issued." ... am still perplexed as to why so many farmers voted for trump considering the pain they felt during his first administration and in spite o' the bailouts, bailouts which am thinking everybody believes will be replicated and increased this time around. tariffs is brutalizing farmers again, and is no way they may pretend that the misery they are suffering due to trump's ignorant trade wars were unexpected or that they were lied to when they voted overwhelming for trump in 2024. that said, one reason why the mass deportations don't rule out trump support by farmers is 'cause so many prefer an expansion o' the h-2a program which for them is cheaper and easier to maintain through labor contractors such as mendoza as 'posed needing deal with messy free market forces which has individual farm workers able to chose their employer and to leave at anytime if they do not like their employment situation. the trump admin is exponential increasing the h-2a program while simultaneous ending any enforcement issues o' a program which were already rife with criminality. during the pandemic, estimates o' h-2a visa holders being victims o' human trafficking increased to 25% and in spite o' the subsequent biden admin resolve to clean up the program, estimates only fell to 20%. one in five? trump has effective ended enforcement efforts all together, so what do you believe is gonna happen to the numbers? does anybody trust trump's claims he is concerned about human trafficking especially when farmers is now, more than ever, gonna need a cheap and reliable source o' labor other than undocumented workers? HA! Good Fun!

more significant than the traditional turin horse fiasco we indulge with zor from time-to-time... via ny times: "President Trump said late Friday that the administration would provide the funding for food stamps in November once a federal court could clarify “how we can legally” supply the money." am expecting a snarky response from the judge, but usda foot dragging is expected... to what aim? again, the method used by the trump 2018 administration to fund snap were deemed illegal after the fact and the Congressional emergency fund were identified as the appropriate source o' funding at that time. trump playing dumb may be believable, but the lawyers who need argue for the government won't get such grace. there is no basement for the current gop, so perhaps am reading this situation wrong, but there is a vast number o' trump voters receiving snap money, and in spite o' aggressive (and possible illegal) efforts by the administration and the usda to blame democrats for the upcoming snap benefit delays, am not seeing how they may successful svengali this into a republican win, but... also, if you are looking for a glimmer o' sunshine, "President Trump late Thursday renewed his call to eliminate the filibuster to force through legislation ending the government shutdown, but his plea is unlikely to get much traction among the Republicans who control the Senate." thune and other R senators do not have an appetitive to eliminate the filibuster. thank goodness for sinema and manchin, eh? am not actual thankful for sinema btw, but am admitting we shared her reluctance to end the filibuster, precisely 'cause we envisioned the possibility o' something like 2025 even if am admitting is no way we literal coulda' predicted the Congressional 2025 charlie fox. *sigh* back to the salt mines. somebody loses track o' the thread quite easily. "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?" there were an event in december o' 2017 wherein trump were public slurring words during a speech. as a result, trump gets neurological tests, and at least a dozen specialists is involved in trump's exams... but according to trump and ronny jackson, the MoCA he took at that time and aced, were administered not at the request o' doctors, but by trump himself. ok. no reasonable person in their right mind takes a trump explanation as to why he wanted the MoCA to be administered at face value in part 'cause trump is a pathological liar. (is a rando vid... have never previous seen the guy in the hat and glasses) have stated multiple times now that we don't know the real motivation, but that is immaterial too. can say with near certainty it had nothing to do with biden however. duh. in any event, is no intelligent and honest person who is gonna suggest that in the absence o' evidence o' trump's specific lies, words direct from the horse's mouth should be taken at face value, 'cause that is not how real people behave and even court evidentiary rules recognize how stoopid that kinda trust would be. in january 2018, there were particular concerns 'bout trump's mental fitness, so lying about the reason why the MoCA were administered is in character for a "chronic narcissist." oh, and biden, anything concerning biden, is complete irrelevant to answering such concerns. as may be seen via quoted and linked material we already shared, the MoCA is not dispositive as a test for dementia and is not routine tests in any event. seems highly unlikely trump knew about the MoCA in december o 2017, but we are told that he asked to be tested for dementia in 2018. not being satisfied with the full testing procedure o' his team o' more than a dozen specialists, trump requested the dementia test. whatever "circular reasoning" you wanna strawman is as pointless as were your biden observations. again, we don't know for certain what were the motivation o' trump and his doctors, but the story they fabricated in january 2018 were not particularly believable and there were a clear motivation to lie. the fact that trump has spent the intervening years doubling-down on his dementia test glory doesn't help zor in any event 'cause as already noted, all the alternatives is bad... and doubling-down ad nauseum is also complete in-character for trump. that trump took a dementia test in 2018 and has been using that unfortunate necessity through the intervening years to try and convince his base o' his stellar mental acuity does not seem at all out of character. trump genuine believes acing a dementia test proves how smarty he is? trump is lying or reflexive doubling down... or mayhap he lied at first and now he genuine believes that being able to draw the time on a clock and the ability to recollect, "person, woman, man, camera, tv," were "very difficult." is literal more than five years later and Gromnir didn't need look up, "person, woman, man, camera, tv." regardless, is literal no good outcomes for trump as far as we can see. nevertheless, particular as the dementia test which started all this silliness happened so long ago, many people forget what were trump's excuses and the circumstances surrounding his initial dementia test. is clear zor forgot. *chuckle* why did doctors administer the MoCA is a relevant question. is not a dispositive test. is not a routine test. alternatively, you can squint your eyes shut tight, cover your ears and repeat over and over that you believe trump and ronny jackson until you believe it. 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regarding the impending halt of snap: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQb2n6yETOC/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/us/politics/federal-judge-food-stamps.html "Despite the imminent lapse, the Trump administration has maintained that it would not try to cover the shortfall, not even by using billions of dollars that Congress had previously set aside for SNAP to address possible funding emergencies. That prompted 25 states and the District of Columbia to sue this week, arguing that the White House had a legal and moral obligation to provide the benefits. "During a tense hearing on Thursday, Judge Talwani appeared to doubt the government’s claims that there were legal, technical and budgetary hurdles to reprogramming the money during the shutdown. "“Congress has put money in an emergency fund,” she said during the hearing. “It’s hard for me to understand how this isn’t an emergency, when there’s no money and a lot of people are needing their SNAP benefits.”" this is not a new thing. there has been previous government shutdowns, including idiotic ones such as the 2018 wall shutdown. snap benefits continued during previous shutdowns 'cause Congress had foreseen the possibility o' such interruptions and they included a mechanism to make certain that snap funds were available even in the event o' emergencies, no doubt 'cause regardless o' which side o' the aisle you were on, children unnecessarily going hungry were seen as politically bad.... and wrong. and as a reminder for those who is opposed to handouts for the unworthy, the vast majority o' snap recipients receive benefits for six months or less, and sixty-something % o' all snap money goes to children. even if you believe folks taking welfare is habitual ne'er-do-wells who interminable suck off the government teat to pay for their drug and alcohol addictions, snap ain't the program you should want ended. edit: update: Federal judge orders Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits out of contingency fund funny aside, we went back and looked at the 2018 wall shutdown situation and discovered that, to our surprise, the trump administration did not use the Congressional emergency fund to pay for snap during the government stoppage. the thing is, what trump did last time, and what the government is arguing they can't do this time 'cause is too complex and difficult, were declared illegal sometime after the shutdown ended, but maybe not for reasons you might initial expect. the government accountability office found that trump ignored all the money Congress had set aside for emergencies such as shutdowns, and instead used other inappropriate funding sources to prevent a delay o' snap. the reason why the 2018 funding o' snap were deemed illegal were not 'cause trump did it but 'cause he did not use the funds specific provided by Congress to deal with the problem. in short, the usda and trump is saying they can't use the emergency funds 'cause a shutdown is not the sorta emergency envisioned by Congress, but there were already a post 2018 shutdown ruling on the mater which concluded the exact opposite. trump were able to fund snap in 2018 w/o much difficulty and in spite o' technical hurdles, but his actions were illegal because he didn't use Congressional emergency snap funds to accomplish the feat. nuts.

am so not embracing the biden v. trump cognitive race to the bottom. neither one 'o them shoulda' been running for President in to 2024. we mentioned multiple times how we wouldn't trust either one 'o them behind the wheel o' a car or working a gas stove, so why on earth would we think they were up to handling the office o' President? am thinking it's possible that most o' the biden team had genuine convinced themselves that he could still handle the duties of President in 2024, 'cause people are capable o' all kinda self-delusion and goal post shifting when confronted with tough choices. what am not able to accept is that the biden folks thought joe could manage another four years, and if that is the case, then multiple people shoulda' stepped forward to insist on a traditional primary. should never have needed get to the debate performance. am not letting the biden folks off the hook. they doomed democrats by not convincing biden to step away and let somebody else be the democrat candidate. unlike biden, trump is the one who shows legit signs o' dementia as 'posed to just old age, but so what? biden were looking very old, too old to be President. nevertheless, biden weren't a threat to democracy who had already tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power. biden were not a convicted felon who had, according to grand jury testimony of his own lawyers, attempted to prevent federal agents from retrieving top secret documents from mar-a-lago where he directed multiple persons to destroy evidence o' his interaction with those documents. biden were never found liable for sexual assault/digital rape. biden weren't talking about the enemy within and a mass deportation o' 20 million people, which is the approximate population of ny state. etc. elections is usually a lesser of evils choice. the thing is, biden were old and NOT on the ballot at the time of the election. we didn't much like kamala harris either, but compared to trump? even if all the republican fever dreams 'bout harris were born out, the worst case scenario for 2025 is... what exact? with a republican house, senate and this Court, harris wouldn't have been executive ordering her way to through the charred embers of the Constitution even if she had immunity from prosecution. so maybe a few more trans athletes competing in girls/women's sports? economically, what could she have done that were worse than trump's tariffs idiocy? and again, am a fiscal conservative, so am most certain not embracing many o' the progressive suggestions regarding economic change, but the US did better than virtual the rest o' the world post pandemic and is not as if the biden folks had implemented a communist takeover while nobody were looking. with biden out of the race and none o' those pesky age/capacity concerns at play with harris, it were difficult for us to see why a traditional free market conservative would vote for trump instead o' harris... even if we were able to ignore the rape, felonies, obstruction, mass deportation and "enemy within" crap from trump, which we couldn't. but yeah, the biden folks had to know he weren't fit to be President for another four years... and? HA! Good Fun!

Trump Says He ‘Aced’ a Cognitive Test. What Does That Really Mean?Experts say one popular test that the president might have taken is by no means definitive, or even diagnostic. "Do medical societies recommend cognitive screenings? "No. Such exams are not like mammograms for breast cancer and colonoscopies for colon cancer. With those tests, doctors can get a diagnosis and begin treatment. "But they are only part of an assessment of the mental functioning of an older adult. It can be more valuable to ask family members or others who know the patient well whether the person has been inefficient at tasks they once did well, like negotiating a new route when driving or following a recipe." "Screening tests like the MOCA cannot rule out declines in reasoning or memory, or difficulties with planning or judgment. The test is just too blunt an instrument, and for many high-functioning people, too easy. "For that reason, dementia specialists say they would not make a diagnosis based on a screening exam like the MOCA." btw, the test were original administered to trump in january 2018 shortly after an episode wherein the President were showing signs o' difficulty in speaking. "Asked about a much-discussed episode in which the president seemed to slur his words during a televised speech in December (2017) about the Middle East, Dr. Jackson said that he and his team of a dozen specialists conducted several tests, including an ultrasound of his carotid arteries, to determine whether there might be a clinical explanation. "Dr. Jackson said that the tests all were normal, leading him to believe that the slurred words might have been caused by Sudafed, a medicine for nasal congestion, that he prescribed for the president. He said Mr. Trump does not wear dentures “of any kind,” a popular theory on Twitter for the slurred words." so, if the number o' specialists reviewing a case is significant... again, biden is a red herring. irrelevant. trump had the test relative contemporaneous with a december 2017 speech which garnered much concern at the time. that said, am admitting having reviewed the video it seems positive pedestrian by donald's 2025 baseline standard. regardless, there were an obvious not-biden motivation for a doctor to administer the test. and speaking o' his 2020 MoCA test, trump observed, "I took it at Walter Reed Medical Center in front of doctors,” Mr. Trump said. “And they were very surprised. They said, that’s an unbelievable thing. Rarely does anybody do what you just did..." ... a dementia test. but hey, the statement came straight from the horse's mouth, right? trump has managed a kinda mass hypnosis in that most people has voluntarily disconnected any ordinary standards o' decency, intelligence and morality when reflecting 'pon trump behaviors and statements. how would any o' us ordinarily treat the self serving claims o' a pathological liar with literal thousands o' documented falsehoods to his name ranging from trivial golf score fabrication to pr0n star payoffs and even the most ridiculous and easily dismissed boasts such as the number o' floors in trump tower? have mentioned previous how post January 6, any accusation of tds sans irony is comical bold and deserving o’ brutal mockery, but zor using the derisive maga label in the context o’ the reliability of trump public utterances is exhibiting implausible credulousness which somehow managed to surprise us. when reflecting ‘pon trump’s improbable pride in his MoCA score, am faced with deciding whether it is more likely the President of the United States is so ignorant and divorced from reality that he genuine believes that acing a dementia test is praise worthy, or we must consider that trump is lying to the American people in an effort to explain why a doctor felt a dementia test was warranted for the most powerful man on the planet. curiously, zor’s defense o' trump’s explanation forces us to consider almost the same choice o’ unfortunates. but again, insofar as mr. trump, how the hell has he managed to so complete and utter change standards and expectations? we observed already that, "am having no idea what were the real reason why trump got the test," but we sure as heck wouldn't give any weight to trump's claims recognizing his tortured relation with truth. imagine not trump and instead your annoying neighbor who were the pathological liar, and they were bragging about their sexual, athletic, intellectual prowess. would you believe 'em w/o real proof? but let's say you somehow convince your self that corporal bone spurs and dr. feelgood are reliable sources regarding the motivations for the 2018 trump dementia test. the obvious alternative is that trump genuine believes that passing a dementia test (identify the elephant) is "very difficult" and praise worthy. ... as grotesque as it might be, am gonna suggest americans is much better off with a President who reflexive lies than one who is honest taking pride in his dementia test results. is not even one full year of trump's second term and we are in such a weird f'ing place, but somehow people have normalized it. 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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.