Yes, I’m very sorry to have misspoke…they only own the livestock farms, distribution centers, the land the restaurants are on, and they have exclusive partnerships with the potato growers and ranchers. They DO outsource the pickles from another supplier (who only supply McDonalds), onions (at least the whole ones, couldn’t confirm a source for the dehydrated), and other produce like tomatoes.

Especially in cases like McDonalds. They’ve owned their entire supply chain since at least the late 90s.

Dead eyes…like a doll’s eyes.

You have to bear them against the right people.

Great…now they’re gonna crusade against the liberal zoos. There’ll be super successful “patriot zoos” which are really just paid tours of factory farms where the treatment of the animals will be landed as traditional, conservative, even biblical. People will eat it up.

This is the issue that prevented me from joining when I first heard about them.

I imagine the implementation would cost them more than the fine…

Not even a tithe.

“Mmm…look at that profile! This is why I don’t skip fin day!”

You can resolve the paradox by remembering that MAGA isn’t arguing anything in good faith. At all.

Instructions unclear…JD runs toward the gallows

I imagine being kidnapped is a pretty traumatic event, and it’s pretty easy to gaslight a child even if they haven’t been traumatized. If every adult in your life keeps telling you you imagined something or dreamed it, it probably sticks after a few years.

Trying to use the Principal of Charity, it was probably just that one or more counties pushed a version of the form out from after the Republican convention, but before the Democratic one.

I’m fairly confident that if it was done with malice, they’ll figure it out in short order and handle it accordingly. Despite what Republicans want to think, there are a good number of fraud protections built into the system…if there weren’t, it would be easier and more effective for Ryssia/China/Iran/whoever else to directly hack the system than to spend the time and money paying people to shitpost devisive political garbage for months leading up to the election.

I mean, casual observation seems to show that to about 1/2 the electorate, being descent is, or at the very least should be punishable by death.

“It’s OK guys, he was trying to go to a library and got the address wrong”

His fans think he’s under protection from God, and everyone else would respond somewhere between relieved and elated.

Is a promise from Boeing even worth the paper it’s written on?

It does sound ludicrous…might be better off making a concave mirror so it reflects and intensifies the light…like a giant magnifying glass over an ant hill. Yeah…that’s how they should do it. Nothing gonna wrong with that.

I would have sworn it was an article from this election cycle, but hey, that’s the brain for you…not nearly as reliable as we’d like to believe.

I wish I remembered where I read it so I could attribute it, but I saw someone describe Trump not as a liar but as a bullshitter. It’s not that he lies. It’s that he has no regard, one way or another, for whether what he is saying is a lie or not. He simply has a thought and recites it. It’s so effortless for him to lie because, from his perspective, it’s the same as telling the truth. If this is true, the pattern you’ve identified could be merely chance based on the probability that any random thought a person has is more likely to be wrong than right when they are incapable of learning new information.

I didn’t feel like I was doing it justice, so I found the sauce…from fucking 2015. https://newrepublic.com/article/124803/donald-trump-not-liar