True that. I don’t go to sit down restaurants anymore because I know I won’t have enough to leave for the proper +20% or so tip. Bars, I have a one drink maximum because a drink is always +$1, can get pricey!

Agreed... my math skills... you’d swear I wouldn’t be able to tie my own shoes based on my math skills - like I’ve had waiters chase me down the streets because I can’t calculate a tip correctly.

This is what I mean. Republicans are not heartless or adhere to the ‘survival of the fittest’ arguments you see on teevee, but your friend has succumbed to a subtle redefinition of who constitutes ‘her own’. In Republican speak, the only “true” Americans are European-descended Christians living in rural/low-population…

Republicans in power have made a heyday of rousing xenophobic and racist fears to divide people who would normally “look out for each other”. Republicans love to scare rural white folk that the people who *could* be using X-service might be Muslim or a scary Black - they might be indigent, or a criminal - therefore…

Agreed. I wrote elsewhere that THIS is the biggest Republican propaganda coup the Republicans pull off each and every time - dividing the lower classes by race and culture so that the rabble are all fighting while they go and rape the top. Fucking hell...

Or it’s some warped sense of ‘manifest destiny’; God has chosen one person to be healthy, rich and dominant, while the poor and suffering are fulfilling God’s plan at being wretched. Zorastrianism gone mad.

The biggest coup the Republicans have ever won has been dividing people by race (and more so now nationality/religion) so that they would vote against themselves.

TEACH ME!

Exactly - people voted for him because they could. Politics is not very much fun for most people to think about seriously and, as Americans, our education system doesn’t really stress its importance, besides, who the fuck wants to take their medicine when there’s cotton candy to be had.

PROPAGANDA. PROPAGANDA. PROPAGANDA. PROPAGANDA. PROPAGANDA. PROPAGANDA. PROPAGANDA. PROPAGANDA. PROPAGANDA. PROPAGANDA. PROPAGANDA. PROPAGANDA.

It’s deeply imperfect, and was known at the time as being deeply imperfect - it was even known at the time to be a modified Romneycare plan and a former Heritage Institute policy paper. It is a big fucking gift to Insurance companies... It was also meant to be a platform to build on and modify... It was also meant to…

Doubt it - they make Faaaarrrr too much money fleecing old people out of $$$ for ‘survivalist’ soup and gold bar investments.

Ditto - sometimes even looking at water will do the trick for me too. Like I’ll walk along a river or any other waterway nearby - don’t know what it is about watching water ebb and flow, must be some sort of vestigial thing.

Drawing! YES... I used to take a figure drawing class which was honest one of the most meditative and soothing experiences of my life. I used to get into a state where I was only a hand and an eye - incredible!

Jeebus! Don’t want to run into you on a bad day! That being said, do you use a compound bow? I thought shooting with a bow and arrow was wicked hard and takes a TON of skill... I can see it

Play guitar! It’s a sensual thing. The vibrations next to my body, and I find my fingers really crave pressing down on some strings if I haven’t played in a few days. I play a nylon string, too. Not as harsh to start with and a really nice, mellow sound.

No, I’m grateful for it... Thanks for the info!

How do you explain Trump then? Isn’t he third generation? And George W. Bush, too, right?

Let me just blow a big fat raspberry - Fox’s WHOLE BRAND is being sexist and racist - That’s what their viewers go there for!!!

That’s because he’s not really listening, he’s thinking up his next shock tactic, thing that will piss his guest off most. His show exists for one reason only, people love to see someone thrown off their guard, and Tucker specializes in that - no matter that it makes him look like an incendiary asshole to the rest of…