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Little bit late on the draw, but I since I was guilty of more or less the same thing, I edited my comment to read differently. Sorry 'bout that.

Yup. My Mom got these for years to save money and make sure we got enough vitamin C. I hated orange juice for a long time because whatever brand she bought was awful and had an overly sour, almost fermented tang to it. Went on a road trip with friends to celebrate graduation and my uncle served us fresh squeezed OJ at one of our stops. It was almost life changing.

Doing shit like this without consequences is a virtue to his base. Same with hypocrisy. They know this was vile, if they didn't it wouldn't be funny to them. They know when he's being hypocritical. But has the power to do it anyway, and that makes him godlike to MAGA chuds.

And the real tell is that the warrior ideal combined with super broad chest and shoulders are meant to denote strength, but the strongest men tend to be thick through the middle and lack the bodybuilder v-taper they give these toys. Not that bodybuilders aren't stronger than most people by far, but when you look at the people who hold records for lifting the most weight they're nothing like those toys. It's just as shallow and dumb as a lot of women's beauty standards.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows the captain lied Everybody got this broken feeling Like their father or their dog just died Everybody talking to their pockets Everybody wants a box of chocolates And a long-stem rose Everybody knows

Same guy probably complains about his near certainty of dying alone as well.

I think it stole a sense of security from them. It's like they assumed that because MLK day was a bank holiday no one needed to be upset about anything anymore, we could keep electing old white guys until the sun burns out and no one would ever think they're the bad guys for maintaining the status quo.

Right, so now we have a way to rationalize and minimize the human cost of conducting war for profit thanks to that sloppy ass-kissing drunk.

At this point, even if they won't admit it, I think most people understand that economic reality is the opposite of whatever Trump says.

I remember seeing Obama sworn in on the break room TV at work. People still didn't say the quiet part out loud back then, but you could tell they were fucking seething about him getting elected.

"Look how smug he is." "She's ugly." "Just a disgrace." "I bet they're all happy now."

The people who would go on to become the MAGA of today, as well as Trump and so many others, will never let Obama's victory go. They'll never forgive him for being black, successful, and worst of all, more popular than they are.

Even if Obama disappeared from the public consciousness today, or it was discovered that he's committed some horrible crime and he goes to jail, they'd still feel that his getting elected was an unforgivable insult towards them on a personal level.

That's the kind of mentality we're dealing with.

Building incendiary devices sounds like it could become a fun and profitable handycraft...