Getting people to drink something they aren’t used to drinking is unreasonably difficult. The worst that can happen is they don’t like something you just gave them for free, but they’ll act like you’re asking them to pay upfront for a new house sight-unseen.

I love Amari, and think it’s great to try and bring something different.

DoD spending dwarfs the rest of the budget? Discretionary spending, which includes DoD, is 30% of total budget. Of the 30% discretionary, military is 54%. That makes spending then 16.2% of the total budget.

That’s the problem with most of these types. If you want to argue specific wastefulness, of course. There are tons of legitimate examples. But when you start drilling down, you discover that they are really just opposed to the military in general, and many of them live in this fantasy world where we could just disband…

Yep, Ben and Jerry are a noted hippies and general anti-corporation types that sold their company to a global conglomerate for $326mn.

Maybe someone should drive a dumptruck of human shit around town so people know what it will smell like if any more hippies move in.

So if someone sat on the sidewalk outside your house with an airhorn, you’d argue that it was protected by the 1st Amendment?

I lived in the path of the Base/Burlington Airport and the only time it was really loud was first thing in the morning (8:30-9am). The rest of the time while I was going about my day never noticed it.

I lean towards this view. It’s not THAT big of a deal, and has nowhere near the health consequences that past equivalents (cigarettes and chewing tobacco) had.

BAKE THE CAKE

I would assume Bernie supporters would love this, as protectionism for favored labor unions is great when someone they like does it.

You seem like a sane person.

Hi, Splinternews. Threskos feels it’s ok to make violent threats against me because he doesn’t like my politics. Is that cool in this forum?

I always wonder if they and CNN realize that one day Trump will be gone, but they will have totally destroyed their credibility forever.

Oh, threats are cool here?

Your use of the words “entitlement programs” reveals that you have little to no conception of the subject.

Except it wouldn’t do any of those things - because the Republicans would not spend one penny of that money on any of those things.

honestly it FEELS true.

How is that any different to conservatives jacking off every time Kelly Anne Conway goes on the air?

Ah, the old “Fake but accurate”.