That’s good to hear. Given all the inputs into things like beef, plant-based should almost always be cheaper. I’m still irritated when something vegetarian/vegan on the menu is as expensive or even more expensive than the omnivore edition.

Few things highlight the deep distortions that actual social engineering does to the marketplace as much as that.

Of course, buying certain ingredients and making plant-based yourself can often be far cheaper than eating out.

I thought that might be where she goes, but she’s about as clueless about nutrition as can be expected of a winger.

It’s too bad he’s holding up gigantic projects like wind and solar. Also, many subsidies for EV and rooftop solar disappeared. So, yeah, if he brought that back, demand might shoot way up thanks to the failed policies of donnie.

Well, she didn’t tell them to eat rice and beans, which would have been too woke, I guess. Even if much smarter on a whole lot of levels.

She pointed them at other animal foods, or as become the new fashion, “protein”.

LOL, she was soooo close for a moment, I guess. She’s still adhering to protein mythologies, it seems. It’s 2026. Do people still not know?

But I find it funny that the cons clutched their pearls so hard over Michelle suggesting kids get more exercise and eat vegetables. And now it’s a con that is depriving them of beef and telling them to make do.

I thought the liberals were going to make conservative eat bugs and live in a shoebox and own nothing?

How about calling for an arrest?

It’s fashionable to dismiss virtually all of Chomsky’s work now, but I wonder if even he anticipated someone like donnie eventually just saying this kind of shit out loud on the very flimsiest of pretenses?

Ah, is this why we are hearing about that investigation now?

Republicans try to do multiple things per day to try to hurt Americans and having one of their members even mildly suggest pumping the brakes on some awful scheme of theirs is a bridge too far.

Is she going to be eligible for Blanche’s “weaponization” reparations fund? The one that they were supposed to kill, but no one believes them?

Mehmet Oz, who runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the ACA, has previously said that his agency believes perhaps one-third of ACA enrollment is improper.

Hmmm

Maybe they can play some zoo and jungle noises over top of the footage.

Or circus music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pct1uEhAqBQ&list=RDpct1uEhAqBQ&start_radio=1

Or Yakety Sax.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ&list=RDZnHmskwqCCQ&start_radio=1

The moron always was doing “chopper talk” anyway, so seems appropriate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOjshSiFnA8

I’m Gen X, and I remember hearing older generations from the working class - and the very poor part of it, no less - bitching about FDR, comparing him to a dictator, saying he was a Communist, etc…and these motherfuckers almost surely had their lives improved by FDR.

My parents were boomers and would overhear this kind of thing (usually with lots of colorful language not really meant for kids) and when I was asking what they were talking about, they would just shake their heads and I could tell they were quite pissed about all of the stupidity they had to wade through daily. We lived in the rust belt and in a very red area.

And that’s all pre-hate radio, pre-Faux News. And wayyyyy before shit platforms like Xitter and Facebook and Nextdoor…somehow, I doubt these types will learn much of anything.

Your general point still stands, though - this guy has agency.

Just look at how the older cons go on about Jimmy Carter for your answer.

Jimmy Carter wore his xtianity on his sleeve, and as far as walking the walk he was probably the closest thing as far as Presidents go and yet…all the evangelicals could not flee fast enough to the Republicans later on. And it was mostly about white flight xtian schools.

I hope I’m wrong when it comes to how it might play out for Talarico. But an early warning might be how these right-wing freaks are butthurt and very keen on insisting that their god must have a penis.

https://www.salon.com/2025/01/09/how-jimmy-carters-so-called-betrayal-of-evangelicals-led-to-maga/

Hard as it may be to believe, Carter won the majority of evangelical voters in 1976. Being a white evangelical Christian from the South, he read to many as one of theirs. Things shifted in 1978, however, over an issue that seems obscure now, but was a big deal to white evangelicals at the time: school desegregation.

I’d love to see lasting damage done to conservatives and their party - damage that lasts for generations.

He’s a Representative, but he’s one of the chairs for a subcommittee on the Appropriations Committee, which apparently has 61-63 members?

So even though he’s a rep, so he’s one of 435, he happens to be in a rather powerful section of that group, meaning he probably has more influence than just 1 of 100 Senators.

But yeah when these people act like they are just another yokel in a sea of millions, that is wild.

Such a fragile little man, that tiny-d donnie.

They should retort - “by all rights, you should be in prison”.

Bear in mind, this is Dan Rather, a man who the unhinged right considered part of the dastardly “liberal media”. Listen to how he talks about getting a pie in the face. This is on CBS, even before the more extreme recent takeover by Bari Weiss.

Yeah, that liberal media. It’s almost like they are just reading Marx on the air. What with all their liberal bias and whatnot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK6SS8CXYZo