The Trump Presidency - Part 2

Like republicans would go against monsanto and the likes. Get ready for a lot of lolz. If anything, the only think that RFK will tackle is exactly what you don't want: "Vaccines (amongst other things)"
The majority of them will do what the orange master tells them, what RFK promises to do and what he actually can do is moot
 
Kind of an odd analogy to equate to what I said. But you're kind of making my point: they are indeed doing it because they re self interested.

Your point was that they are "keeping Trump at bay" when they are not. They are folding to him and empowering him to burn decades of progress to the ground across multiple fields and disciplines.

That is what my analogy was referring to.

When it all goes wrong, he isn't going to look after all the people who kissed his arse while he was ruining the gaff. He will do what he's always done when the shit hits the fan and stab the backs of everyone and anyone he worked with along the way to save his own rotten neck.
 
I kind of agree, I don't have a fitness/health eating regime after a decade + in the US, and I haven't piled on the pounds

But it does help to avoid a lot of stuff

I have no doubt that you have to avoid lots of stuff. If I moved to the USA I would be 500lbs after a year. I understand how bad much of their processed food is as we have banned it here in the UK. Chlorinatod chicken is the prime example I can think of, but my point still stands that not everything can be bad? Personal weight gain can't simply be blamed on poor produce etc, it's got to come down to what they eat, how much and how often they eat and how they exercise?
 
I have no doubt that you have to avoid lots of stuff. If I moved to the USA I would be 500lbs after a year. I understand how bad much of their processed food is as we have banned it here in the UK. Chlorinatod chicken is the prime example I can think of, but my point still stands that not everything can be bad? Personal weight gain can't simply be blamed on poor produce etc, it's got to come down to what they eat, how much and how often they eat and how they exercise?
I don't eat poultry but the chlorination is a hygiene/standards issue rather than a quality one, same with the eggs.

Regarding the processed food, it's crap obviously but so is much of processed food in the UK and Europe, Red 40 being banned is a favourite one as is Yellow 5, except they aren't really because they are they exact same chemicals as E129 and E102, the main difference is that over there the foods that containing them are required to have warning labels which they don't here

One odd flip is ice cream, UK ice cream cannot be called ice cream in the US, I forget the exact details now but it's down to the % of the mlik/cream ratio, apparently the minimum in the UK is 10% and here it's 20%, I wonder if that explains why Häagen-Dazs and Ben and Jerry's are popular in the UK despite being expensive!
 
Assuming it has been noticed previously that Michael Bennett sounds exactly like Mr Mackey from south park

Mmmkay
 
Of couse they have, they knew it would never fly in the courts, now the narrative will be the liberal judges stopped us doing what we said we would do so blame the Democrats
This is what they are going with currently



Although I wouldn’t believe anything coming from the White House.
 
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I don't eat poultry but the chlorination is a hygiene/standards issue rather than a quality one, same with the eggs.

Regarding the processed food, it's crap obviously but so is much of processed food in the UK and Europe, Red 40 being banned is a favourite one as is Yellow 5, except they aren't really because they are they exact same chemicals as E129 and E102, the main difference is that over there the foods that containing them are required to have warning labels which they don't here

One odd flip is ice cream, UK ice cream cannot be called ice cream in the US, I forget the exact details now but it's down to the % of the mlik/cream ratio, apparently the minimum in the UK is 10% and here it's 20%, I wonder if that explains why Häagen-Dazs and Ben and Jerry's are popular in the UK despite being expensive!

I honestly don't know anyone who eats Ben & Jerry's or Hagen Das.... But I get your point.

The UK isn't much better and has a high obesity issue too. It's mainly down to the same as everywhere else, processed and fast food, poor diet and lack of exercise.

People just need to admit they like food and can't be arsed to exercise. Or they like alcohol or they can't be arsed to cook or buy healthy meals. Aside from a few medical conditions, it's really as simple as that.
 
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You're making out like everything to eat in the US is bad or dangerous and it also reads that it's all responsible for you putting on weight. Without being rude, I'm pretty sure reducing your calorie intake and exercising regularly helps in keeping your weight down?

I mean no disrespect here, but surely you have put on weight due to a change in lifestyle and eating/drinking habits combined with a different exercise regime and age related physical metabolic change?

Well it's not entirely all that but I do live in the south and all due respect to Louisana it's probably not the healthiest state (everything is fried!) so I did bash American food at large but it's not all entirely bad but there's a lot of chemicals and additives that are banned in the EU, I belong to a Expat Group on Facebook and it's one of the main things that is moaned about (we are Brits after all) bread being high up on that list, completely different and yes there are options especially these days as opposed to when I first came over.

But I was a skinny guy when I first came and now I am again, I am pretty fit, I (doubt still mind) can or say did the 100m in a PB of 11.7secs and played footy on the wing, I cycle around 20miles every couple of days, now with all of that... I go back to a real American diet I pack on the pounds like it's no tomorrow, if I stay within what I now know what to eat then Im in a healthy range but what's weirder, everytime I go back home to jolly England and eat everything I used to eat, by the end of the trip I've lost weight, that could be a number of coincidental things as I used to live in London and it's alot more walking obviously.

I'm sure you don't wanna know my entire life story and not to derail the thread off course ;) but I do believe Americans can benefit from removing the likes of Red40/Blue/Yellow (yes I know, to a point) and have cleaner ingredients in their food, you only gotta compare the likes of Doritos or Crisps in general/Yogurts/Ice Cream to the UK counterparts or European and see the differences, there is also A LOT more sugar in things here..
 
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So when is she getting confirmed?

To defend and burnish Tulsi Gabbard’s image as her political star was rising, her congressional campaign hired a public-affairs firm in 2017 that tried to suppress coverage of an alleged pyramid scheme connected to her Hindu sect, according to interviews, emails and Federal Election Commission records.

 
This guy is atrocious, America is fecked if he is confirmed.


This is what I would call a demolition.

Not only he mentioned several points of Kenedy's insanity (which you know, the right actually love), but ended it with the question about abortion, the one thing in his life Kenedy was correct about.

I do not think it would change much for the 'love Jesus, must not do abortion, but it is fine to gun people afterwards' lunatics, who will still vote for him though.
 
And that's the disappointing thing, he's clearly unfit for office but the Republicans are cowards.

I dont know if you are brittish, but saying "is disappointing" in the situation the US is living in, is the most brittish thing to say
 
Well it's not entirely all that but I do live in the south and all due respect to Louisana it's probably not the healthiest state (everything is fried!) so I did bash American food at large but it's not all entirely bad but there's a lot of chemicals and additives that are banned in the EU, I belong to a Expat Group on Facebook and it's one of the main things that is moaned about (we are Brits after all) bread being high up on that list, completely different and yes there are options especially these days as opposed to when I first came over.

But I was a skinny guy when I first came and now I am again, I am pretty fit, I (doubt still mind) can or say did the 100m in a PB of 11.7secs and played footy on the wing, I cycle around 20miles every couple of days, now with all of that... I go back to a real American diet I pack on the pounds like it's no tomorrow, if I stay within what I now know what to eat then Im in a healthy range but what's weirder, everytime I go back home to jolly England and eat everything I used to eat, by the end of the trip I've lost weight, that could be a number of coincidental things as I used to live in London and it's alot more walking obviously.

I'm sure you don't wanna know my entire life story and not to derail the thread off course ;) but I do believe Americans can benefit from removing the likes of Red40/Blue/Yellow (yes I know, to a point) and have cleaner ingredients in their food, you only gotta compare the likes of Doritos or Crisps in general/Yogurts/Ice Cream to the UK counterparts or European and see the differences, there is also A LOT more sugar in things here..

So.... Diet.

I get it, I really do, especially living where you do. I'd be living out on bbq, ribs and shellfish, corn drenched in butter, fried chicken and fish, homemade pies the lot.

But you have just said yourself the sugar content is higher in everything and you walk less... You have won your own argument.

Sadly, it's a price you have to pay for where you live, or you're just going to have to get out and exercise more.

Btw, I was a 180lbs ripped gym monkey. 5 days a week, healthy diet and hard manual labour job as a fisherman. Then boat skipper who trained non stop. Now a 2 pub landlord surrounded by alcohol and often can only eat takeaways at silly hours. I'm 210lb now and definitely not ripped, I feel your pain.
 
What a disaster.

Let’s take a moment to thank the 2001-2 government for creating the current executive format that allows the president to rule like a king.

That sure showed those terrorists!
 
That's the only reason why I'm actually for RFK, if he can hold off on the batshit reasoning of Vaccines (amongst other things) he does have very good thoughts on chemicals like red 40 that are prevalent in American foods, since I've lived here for the past 10 years I've got fatter (I'm now on Ozempic lolz so 170lb from 220) but specific eggs here make me itchy, I definitely can't eat any form of meat so I'm vegetarian which would be okay if they didn't spray chemical galores on thing so I have to be weirdly organic specifical on what I do buy - luckily I know a farmer who does his own crops

So basically if he actually does the things and takes on "Big Food" then this *could* be a good appointment, obviously being a Trump croonie it'll go tits up
That's one way for a veggie to ger a bit of protein I suppose.
 
Well it's not entirely all that but I do live in the south and all due respect to Louisana it's probably not the healthiest state (everything is fried!) so I did bash American food at large but it's not all entirely bad but there's a lot of chemicals and additives that are banned in the EU, I belong to a Expat Group on Facebook and it's one of the main things that is moaned about (we are Brits after all) bread being high up on that list, completely different and yes there are options especially these days as opposed to when I first came over.

But I was a skinny guy when I first came and now I am again, I am pretty fit, I (doubt still mind) can or say did the 100m in a PB of 11.7secs and played footy on the wing, I cycle around 20miles every couple of days, now with all of that... I go back to a real American diet I pack on the pounds like it's no tomorrow, if I stay within what I now know what to eat then Im in a healthy range but what's weirder, everytime I go back home to jolly England and eat everything I used to eat, by the end of the trip I've lost weight, that could be a number of coincidental things as I used to live in London and it's alot more walking obviously.

I'm sure you don't wanna know my entire life story and not to derail the thread off course ;) but I do believe Americans can benefit from removing the likes of Red40/Blue/Yellow (yes I know, to a point) and have cleaner ingredients in their food, you only gotta compare the likes of Doritos or Crisps in general/Yogurts/Ice Cream to the UK counterparts or European and see the differences, there is also A LOT more sugar in things here..
Prepackaged US bread is rightfully high on that list - it's disgusting yet my wife loves it (she's American)

In-store bakery bread, whilst still having some crap in itis way, way better and at least is edible

I actually get my bread in Aldi, their Sourdough and Italian are reasonaly good and are pre-packaged, I also get cheese from there as well as some odds and ends of Euorpean stuff they have

Find yourself and Aldi and/or a Lidl - Trader Joe's might be an option because it's really the US brand of the other German Aldi
 
Indeed. It’s the worst word in recent memories because in in it’s usage it means nothing other than “things the extreme RW dislikes”.

Anytime I hear or see the word I think of this meme.

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Well it's not entirely all that but I do live in the south and all due respect to Louisana it's probably not the healthiest state (everything is fried!) so I did bash American food at large but it's not all entirely bad but there's a lot of chemicals and additives that are banned in the EU, I belong to a Expat Group on Facebook and it's one of the main things that is moaned about (we are Brits after all) bread being high up on that list, completely different and yes there are options especially these days as opposed to when I first came over.

But I was a skinny guy when I first came and now I am again, I am pretty fit, I (doubt still mind) can or say did the 100m in a PB of 11.7secs and played footy on the wing, I cycle around 20miles every couple of days, now with all of that... I go back to a real American diet I pack on the pounds like it's no tomorrow, if I stay within what I now know what to eat then Im in a healthy range but what's weirder, everytime I go back home to jolly England and eat everything I used to eat, by the end of the trip I've lost weight, that could be a number of coincidental things as I used to live in London and it's alot more walking obviously.

I'm sure you don't wanna know my entire life story and not to derail the thread off course ;) but I do believe Americans can benefit from removing the likes of Red40/Blue/Yellow (yes I know, to a point) and have cleaner ingredients in their food, you only gotta compare the likes of Doritos or Crisps in general/Yogurts/Ice Cream to the UK counterparts or European and see the differences, there is also A LOT more sugar in things here..
I‘m also in the US. You can buy food without crap in it. I read labels and avoid many things.

Processed food has stuff in it designed to repress your body signals telling you you ate enough, so you eat more.

There is more sugar in things, that‘s true.

Sweeteners aren‘t the answer either. They are toxic and mess up your metabolism.

It‘s best to skip sugar, substitute it with things like honey or maple syrup, or use very moderate amounts.

Lifestyle for me here is different than in Europe, with more driving and less opportunity for exercise.