Just a reminder that the national review is a garbage rag and a biased source.

The judge had questions about the process used to decide the onion had won, and reviewed the information. That’s not the same as blocking the sale.
A hearing is normal after the sale of assets, and the people making the claim that it’s not are the other buyer, which is … Alex Jones.

Jones was accused of peddling the narrative that the shooting, in which a gunman killed 20 first-grade students and six teachers twelve years ago, was a massive hoax designed to get federal gun-control legislation enacted. The plaintiffs alleged Jones defamed them on his show and inflicted emotional distress.

That’s a very slanted way to say “Jones was convicted of defamation and inflicting emotional distress on the families of a school shooting by insisting their children weren’t real”.

https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-auction-onion-how-d42e7b2c916205b348628686c8b8dd4a

https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3lb3hecp7l22k

Not sure I get what you mean by “slow”.

And it’s not entirely shocking that we have more of the power source we’ve been building and less of the one we stopped building.

He kept his two income streams tied together, so that when one ran into trouble it took the other one down with it. He could have just as easily kept the business separate and potentially been able to keep one of the income streams working when the shit hit the fan.

Depends on what he means by “ultra-processed”, but you can bet that it’s probably not a reasonable criteria that he’ll be using.

The man isn’t rational, and doesn’t base his conclusions on sound reasoning.

Note the call to lessen regulations around “raw milk, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine”. That’s pretty insane.

And I can almost be certain that what they’ll do is eliminate funding for snap benefits and school lunches going to what they’ll classify as “ultra processed foods”, without adjusting funding to account for what they left behind being significantly more expensive. Some definitions of “ultra-processed” include things like “store bought bread”, “frozen meals”, “soup concentrate”, “yoghurt” and “sausage”.
Call me cynical, but I think if you apply the stricter work requirements for benefits they always want, while reducing the scope of the benefits to cover fewer things, and almost nothing helpful for the people with the severe time restrictions the work requirements can cause you’ll end up seeing people use the benefits far less often, because they give less usable food for the money. Then they’ll use that to justify reducing the size of the program even further.

We expect people making school lunches to make hundreds of meals that finish at the same time, to have the meal be nutritionally complete, tasty, and now also not use frozen or premade ingredients. We give them literally $1 for the ingredients for these meals, and maybe another $2 for operational overhead like labor costs and equipment.
Saying you can’t use canned tomato sauce, peanut butter, pre-packaged bread or ground meats is basically just cutting funding for feeding children under the guise of not paying for a scary sounding classification of food.

Ha! I didn’t see that at first. I love “fuck you so hard that we can and will put a significant dollar value on it being more humiliating”.

The assets were auctioned off to pay his debt to the families of the Sandy Hook shooting.
So effectively they gave money to the families of children killed in a school shooting that he slandered in cruel and vile ways.

Given that the families pretty reasonably dislike him, the added bonus of his creation being used to openly mock him and promote a message they endorse is quality icing on the cake.

His supplement business was under the same business ownership? That’s preposterously stupid and hilarious.

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/07/nx-s1-5026948/conservatives-in-red-states-turn-their-attention-to-ending-no-fault-divorce-laws

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna161562

There’s a massive difference between the social stigma attached to coming out, and the revocation of the legal rights associated with marriage.
It’s not even that long ago that people couldn’t visit their life partner in the hospital following an accident, because they weren’t married.

Limited access to certain types of contraception in certain areas is a very different beast than overturning the case that ruled that contraception isn’t criminally indecent.

If you don’t know how far civil rights have come even in the past 20 years, or how much further back than that they openly want to push things back, I don’t think you’re paying attention.
Abortion had just as much legal protection as porn or gay marriage, and it “wasn’t going anywhere” until it was suddenly gone.

What have they got to lose?

Gay marriage, contraception, porn, legal divorce? Just off the top of my head.

Right? Like, four years ago we had to shutdown big chunks of the world, inject trillions of Dollars of money into circulation to keep things vaguely moving, millions of deaths, logistical and manufacturing delays galore, and people are pissed that we’re not better off than we were before. So pissed that they want to take control from the people who have been turning it around and give it back to the people who fucked it up in the first place.

Codifying a right in the constitution when the case law making it legal has been explicitly name dropped as something to overturn by a supreme court justice is not in the least performative.

Before Roe was overturned, it was understood that the supreme court didn’t flip precedent because it messed with too much stuff, removing legal assumptions that people have been relying on, like unconstitutional laws banning gay marriage or abortion being inapplicable.

There’s a finite amount of political will. Expending effort to make a change, even a positive one, that doesn’t actually show a benefit takes more of it than something with perceived immediate benefits.

For obvious reasons, codifying those protections feels less redundant at the moment.

And, for reference, the US ingredients list:

• Corn flour blend (whole grain yellow corn flour, degerminated yellow corn flour)
• sugar
• wheat flour
• whole grain oat flour
• modified food starch
• contains 2% or less of vegetable oil (hydrogenated coconut, soybean and/or cottonseed)
• oat fiber
• maltodextrin
• salt
• soluble corn fiber
• natural flavor
• red 40
• yellow 5
• blue 1
• yellow 6
• Vitamins and Minerals:
• Vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
• reduced iron
• niacinamide
• vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride)
• vitamin B2 (riboflavin)
• vitamin B1 (thiamin hydrochloride)
• folic acid
• vitamin D3
• vitamin B12

Which is basically the same. Biggest difference seems to be the food coloring.

https://www.newsweek.com/voter-turnout-count-claims-map-election-1981645

Tldr: a lot of people assumed record turnout because we had higher registration numbers. Those predictions were in some cases wrong.

Additionally, at the time the election was call, not all the votes were counted. California was only about halfway done counting, but could be safely called for Harris. So the vote totals when the election was called is likely quite different from the actual totals.

Meanwhile, Dems simply don’t seem to care. They don’t repeal gerrymanders. They don’t amend the VOA. They don’t expand mail in voting. They don’t implement DC statehood.

I mean, in Michigan they did, at least as far as Michigan has the power to do so. It amounted to fuck all.

So while it’s all well and good to continuously look for a way to blame the outcome on one abstract institution or another, at some point you have to just say “fuck the voters who voted for a fascist, and fuck the ones who didn’t vote against him”.

Democracy is how you pick your leaders. It’s not the only tool you use to defend your rights and civil liberties.

I actually dropped mine off at the township clerks office just so I could get one of the new stickers.

Sadly, they were out of the werewolf.

Honest to God I think these stickers might be a significant driver for the increased turnout.

Totally. And the staff is also pretty reasonable about how it’s ultimately just a fun way to get food you might not have thought of.
I usually tell them I hate sour cream and they’ll let me know if I should get something else, which is technically against the “rules”, but it’s also just pizza that I’m paying for and not a national secret or anything.

They do ask you to let them know if you have any allergies, and they do tell you what everything is when they give it to you. You’re not at risk for eating something you can’t. You’d have to not tell them when they ask, and then ignore them when they told you the ingredients.

I get people wanting to defend the “traditional” preparation of a food, because otherwise you get into weird philosophical “burrito of Theseus” issues, but… You can just slap “non-traditional” on it and then carry on and enjoy the food. If you feel really strongly or it’s really out there, call it a fucked up ____ inspired whatever.

One of the best pizzas I ever had was at a pizza place near me that has a “trust us” pizza, where you don’t know what it is, but it’s new and definitely worth the cost (they’re not giving you a plain cheese pizza). It was like a strawberry and anduille pizza with a seasoned sweet white sauce. It was weirdly good.