Trump Signs EO Reversing Obama's Ending of the Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, Marking the Beginning of Trump GAINZZZ

America will no longer be celebrating weakness and slothfulness as some kind of special virtue of the very unhealthy.

WATCH LIVE: President Trump signs EO restoring the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition https://t.co/a5AA3qcXuG
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 31, 2025

For as long as I've been alive, leftists, hippies, health nuts, and Food-Worriers have demanded we remove artificial ingredients -- like chemical food dyes -- from our food.

Fifty years of demands on this front yielded no results.

Until now.

And the response from the left? Silent fuming.

#6 – FDA approves new natural blue food dye from gardenia fruit.

Artificial dyes are being phased out en masse while clean, natural ingredients are taking over.

Big win for MAHA.

Video: @EricLDaugh pic.twitter.com/wwYs7p2CDI
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) July 14, 2025

.@DrMakaryFDA on artificial food dyes: "Studies have shown that they are linked to Attention Deficit Disorder... The FDA normally approves a natural color as a food dye once every couple years — well we just approved 4 and we're going to approve 2 more in the next few months." pic.twitter.com/gLcQ33s4Rt
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 1, 2025

Nestle has just announced they plan to remove food dyes from ALL of its products by 2026

Big win for MAHA! pic.twitter.com/OIfl9CupkD
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 26, 2025

I can see right-leaning people, who don't want the government intruding into our lives or consumer choices, and who are up to their eye teeth with constant Food-Worrying, sitting on their hands for this.

But leftists? Leftists who have been demanding this for half a century?

One begins to suspect that they believe exactly none of the things they claim to believe, and that what they really believe in is Marxism, and all of their relentless attacks on normal society aren't about the issues they claim they're arguing about but only about undermining and hollowing out normal society so that the Great Communist Revolution can come and sweep it all away.

Some preamble for this next link: I don't want to insist that you believe the new thinking on corn syrup/fructose. You may well think, "They're literally telling us that this or that is poison every ten years before reversing themselves later."

But here's my pitch: Whether or not you buy it, it's been a steady buzz in health circles -- and the awful media -- that corn syrup/fructose is not a "healthy" sugar, but is in fact a sugar even more unhealthy than sucrose. Fructose is processed in the liver, unlike other sugars, and American livers are already over-taxed due to our high obesity rates and diabetes rates and exploding rates of fatty liver disease.

Anti-sugar campaigner Dr. Robert Lustig insists it's the most poisonous of all sugars.

I'm not saying you have to buy any of that. I'm not sure I buy the claim that one sugar is "better" than another. They're both bad, at least in the enormous quantities we now consume them in.

I am saying the media has bought into this idea, and has previously reported that high-fructose corn syrup is driving our high obesity rates.

Until now, that is. Trump badgered Coca-Cola into dropping the high fructose corny syrup from its sodas and replacing it with cane sugar (as Mexican Coke is sweetened with, which is then imported into the US by people who say it just tastes better).

So as soon as Trump Does It, NBC "News" is suddenly pro-HFCS.

Again, my point isn't about HFCS itself, but how the media routinely does complete 180's whenever Trump endorses a policy.

This was going on pre-Trump, of course. For thirty years, the media enjoyed saying that all Republican efforts to cut government spending were utterly useless because the only real way to reduce the deficit was to rein in Social Security and Medicare spending.

Then, in 2012, Mitt Romney and his political fuckboy Paul Ryan actually grabbed that third rail and did what the media had shouted for thirty years was the "eat your vegetables" solution to fixing the nation's finances and proposed very modest reforms to Social Security and Medicare.

And the media demonized them for doing exactly what they said must be done for three decades straight.

I'll never forget that. And it's why I forgive Trump for not having the "bravery" to address this issue: Because we all saw what happened the last time someone proposed doing what the media insisted must be done.

So: Are you making GAINZZZ for Trump?

I had Trump GAINZZZ for a couple of weeks and then this last week I became Low-Energy Jeb.

I would just like the weather to not to "feel like" 100 degrees plus, alternating with heavy rain. I would so much enjoy that.

Posted by: Ace at 05:30 PM

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1 Prayers for my husband, please. His father just passed after fighting cancer for two years.

Posted by: Jmel at August 01, 2025 05:33 PM (bVhJi)

2
Leftists are never happy. They ain't right in the head.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 05:33 PM (3ek7K)

3 "all of their relentless attacks on normal society aren't about the issues they claim they're arguing about but only about undermining and hollowing out normal society so that the Great Communist Revolution can come and sweep it all away."

"The issue is never the issue." Saul Alinsky

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 01, 2025 05:34 PM (UseAb)

4 I appreciate seeing handsome Bryson the golf player and good looking J.D. Vance . I also seeing men wearing suits and ties every so often

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:35 PM (2GCMq)

5 Mexican Coke?

Nay.

American Coke!

Posted by: mrp at August 01, 2025 05:37 PM (rj6Yv)

6 Pleased to brag about my 1200 calorie/day diet, which has me down to 180 lbs from 195, on the way to 170. It's working very quickly. I'm hoping to reduce BP and backaches.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Healthful Glow at August 01, 2025 05:37 PM (klf3J)

7 Posted by: Jmel

I'm sorry. What a long battle for your FIL and for those that loved him. May the Lord, strengthen and comfort all of you who mourn.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:38 PM (2GCMq)

8 I am sorry to hear of your family's loss, jmel. I will say a prayer for your husband.

Losing a parent is hard.

Posted by: ace at August 01, 2025 05:40 PM (KRtlO)

9 David Hogg announces it will self medicates with estrogen to protest toxic normality.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 01, 2025 05:40 PM (9vYpt)

10 1200 calories a day ??? what is that ? parsley, banana and a handful of nuts ??

Posted by: runner at August 01, 2025 05:40 PM (g47mK)

11 >>> 1200 calories a day ???

Is this a diet for ANTS?!

Posted by: Derek Zoolander at August 01, 2025 05:41 PM (KRtlO)

12 Prayers given Jmel. May the Lord bless you with His strength, with comfort and peace.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * sporting my Andrew Breitbart attitude at August 01, 2025 05:42 PM (OQ/W8)

13 Yeah, but as fuckboys go--I was a damn good one.

Posted by: Paul Ryan at August 01, 2025 05:43 PM (paSBy)

14 10 No, it's all the same stuff, just weighed and consumed in little portions. I keep a food diary with everything I eat itemized and totaled.

Except sweets. I cut out sweets altogether, except for raisins. That's probably a biggie.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Healthful Glow at August 01, 2025 05:43 PM (klf3J)

15 Oh man, I remember this. The 600 yard run...bane of every fat kid in 6th grade.

As I recall, the rope climb was in there too, and if you completed all the requirements you got a certificate signed by the President (ahem...via autopen and copy machine)

Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2025 05:43 PM (dIske)

16 willowed:

Cincinnati officials are now claiming that the woman they all celebrated being beaten and assaulted by their brownshirts is actually, get this, a russian asset. I don't know where they picked this up, but even the NYP is running with it. What is this? USA circa 2016-2020?

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 01, 2025 05:44 PM (cduTK)

17 6 Pleased to brag about my 1200 calorie/day diet, which has me down to 180 lbs from 195, on the way to 170. It's working very quickly. I'm hoping to reduce BP and backaches.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Healthful Glow at August 01, 2025 05:37 PM (klf3J)

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I did that a few years ago, I was easily losing 2 to 3 pounds a week and my triglycerides which was high for years went down to normal.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at August 01, 2025 05:44 PM (Vh9CX)

18 I remember the Presidential Physical Fitness Test. I think I got the patch, and maybe a certificate.

What I also remember, was it was an early indication that I couldn’t run for $&it. I thought I could. I could run like the wind!

Except, we would have races with all the other kids in school. Even my secret “Turbo Mode” was wholly ineffective. I got smoked. Maybe, just maybe, I wasn’t all that, and a bag of chips.

In Basic Training we took the first of many PT tests. On the 2 mile run, held on a 1/4 mile track iirc, I got lapped. LOL. By then I had no illusions about running. I got better, and eventually turned in respectable times. Or at least acceptable.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 05:45 PM (TgO2L)

19 > I would just like the weather to not to "feel like" 100 degrees plus, alternating with heavy rain.

You just want everything, huh?

Posted by: RandomDave at August 01, 2025 05:45 PM (aJQbY)

20 Oddly I only recently heard about Hereditary Fructose Intolerance, but it is in fact a thing in genetics. Specifically Scythian genetics:
tinyurl.com/3nx2uyr6
They're an Iranic group who conquered the steppe, and the civilized nations south of it, but didn't get much traction. It may be that being unable to stomach fruit was a disadvantage where wine was being drunk, and dates and raisins shipped, everywhere.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 01, 2025 05:46 PM (gKWVE)

21 I read somewhere that Jews have the highest mean IQ of any race. I dunno. If Jews are so smart, why's the weather so bad?

Posted by: Bombadil at August 01, 2025 05:47 PM (MX0bI)

22
It was 44 degrees here in Wyoming this morning. Turned the heat on for a bit. Probably snow next week, lol.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 05:47 PM (3ek7K)

23 The left is now outraged that LT was at the White House. . Not the best human being but eff the left

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 01, 2025 05:47 PM (j1Y/l)

24 OK, why must we add even natural colors? Why can't we let food be its own color?

Posted by: Decaf at August 01, 2025 05:47 PM (unUNN)

25 Anti-sugar campaigner Dr. Robert Lustig insists it's the most poisonous of all sugars.

well you know what I think! lol no added sugar

no chemical fake "sugar"

keep a handle on fruit

sweeten with honey or dates

and stay the hell away from HFCS!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 01, 2025 05:47 PM (Pv3Rg)

26 Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 05:45 PM (TgO2L)
________________________

In this particular case we will allow "respectable" in place of "acceptable". But, don't get used to it.

Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2025 05:47 PM (dIske)

27 I completely agree here.

But it just isn't the Dems.

For decades all I heard was we need to open ANWR. All sorts of politicians campaigned on it. Then Trump came in, and... opened it. deafening silence. The only people saying anything were the Dems, screaming like I'd stolen their fruit loops.

This is how Trump wins/pisses people off. He just does what he says he's going to do. He makes it look...easy. That makes politicians on both sides of aisle look like idiots. You mean the president could have just...done it? The whole time?

I think the Ds and Rs agree that certain problems will never be solved, because what else can they all run for/against?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 01, 2025 05:47 PM (D1vbu)

28 What I've already read about the fructose corn syrup is it does not satiate the way the older sugar sweetened sodas do. So you end up drinking that 32 oz soda instead of being filled up from a 10 oz bottle (the 10 oz glass bottles were before my time). I dunno if that is true or people just get conditioned to want a larger sweet drink.

I switched to water and mostly unsweetened tea, or herbal tea years ago. Perhaps that helped me gain less, but I didn't get skinny cuz of the switch. I did see improvement with going to the intermittent fasting eating schedule.

The reading about IF sounded good to me. Seems to make sense that having that window with no food so your body uses up insulin in the bloodstream and will burn fat helps break the cycle of craving sweets every few hours. Also for me it is a useful thing for telling myself I am not really that hungry and if my body is actually wanting more calories I will just eat more when the eating window opens again. People that have never battled the tendency to stress eat or to mindlessly eat something just because it tastes good don't get how hard it can be to break that cycle.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 01, 2025 05:47 PM (bP/i4)

29 24 OK, why must we add even natural colors? Why can't we let food be its own color?

aw bc people like cupcakes

(not me tho)

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 01, 2025 05:48 PM (Pv3Rg)

30 I read somewhere that Jews have the highest mean IQ of any race. I dunno. If Jews are so smart, why's the weather so bad?
Posted by: Bombadil at August 01, 2025 05:47 PM (MX0bI)

closed for shabbas ??

Posted by: runner at August 01, 2025 05:48 PM (g47mK)

31 Again, my point isn't about HFCS itself, but how the media routinely does complete 180's whenever Trump endorses a policy.

"Trump has endorsed not dropping bowling balls on your feet. How will this hurt manufacturers of steel-toed boots?"

Posted by: The MSM at August 01, 2025 05:49 PM (DgGvY)

32 Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 01, 2025 05:44 PM (cduTK

Yes, and I'm sure the punks who beat her up were well aware of that /sarc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:49 PM (2GCMq)

33 Can the kids get some real food for lunch now?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 01, 2025 05:49 PM (/lPRQ)

34 I swam and walked/ran a lot down south so lost weight and even got tan which I am terrible at (I have that weird dark hair/blue eyes/fair skin no-melanin genetic combo somehow)

I mean not really tan but for it it's something

felt great down there! trying to keep that feeling up back in miserable yankee land here lol

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 01, 2025 05:50 PM (Pv3Rg)

35 Everything is about achieving The Revolution.

Posted by: Accomack at August 01, 2025 05:50 PM (4qMiv)

36 Hold on a minute here....
Some Left Wing Judge soon

Posted by: steevy at August 01, 2025 05:50 PM (YwEeS)

37 No shit.

Elon Musk was an idol of the Left until he bought Twitter. Now he's Hitler.

Big Pharma was evil until the media told the Left Big Pharma were Frontline Healthcare Heros, in This Together With Us All. And now they have Pfizer tattoos.

I was shrieked at from early childhood til middle age that War Is Not The Answer. Now Karen is flicking her bean to snuff films of Russian troops.

I had it on good authority from all the bien pensants that any criticism of their movement was anti-Semetism. Now they've converted the campus quads into Kristsllnacht reenactment.

Seeing the pattern yet? They're automatons, and history always started with the last Alphabet Corporation firmware flash.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2025 05:50 PM (OJ+Mf)

38 mom gave me money for lunch....and I spent it wisely !

Posted by: runner at August 01, 2025 05:51 PM (g47mK)

39 We may see this - with a Donny Two Scoops in office

Imagine requiring those who cannot support themselves to meet generally accepted height and weight standards. You’re a Fattie? Well, step on this scale. The military feeds you - but they will make you lose the excess poundage. You want “free” health care?

Get your happy ass on the track. Put the fork down. The Drill Sergeants teamed up one day in the mess hall, about 5 of them, kicked the door in and marched in that purposeful way, straight to one guy, who had stolen a donut. How they knew this, I don’t know. They smoked his ass for a 15 minutes outside. He was extremely overweight. He lost it all, they kept having to issue him new (smaller) uniforms. He was fit and trimmed in about 16 weeks however. And very proud.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 05:51 PM (TgO2L)

40 24 OK, why must we add even natural colors? Why can't we let food be its own color?
Posted by: Decaf at August 01, 2025 05:47 PM (unUNN)
____________________________________

Someone needs to sit me down, look me in the eye and try and convince me that raspberries are blue. If you take up the challenge, wear a white shirt, because I aim to prove you wrong spectacularly.

Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2025 05:51 PM (dIske)

41 Is that Bartiromo in that one clip?

I never thought she was a great beauty, but, damn, she's looking rough.

Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 05:51 PM (77rzZ)

42 This morning letting out reef, it was not exactly cool- but it felt awesome.

Supposed to stay low 80s into next week.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 01, 2025 05:51 PM (JK4un)

43 also PDJT put saquon on his new fitness council, which is cool

along with Harrison Butler or whatever - that guy!

and LT!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 01, 2025 05:51 PM (Pv3Rg)

44 All this shit is just a emotionaly driven campain to "Get Whitey" that has been going on for deades.

Posted by: pawn at August 01, 2025 05:51 PM (QB+5g)

45 what? raspberries are not blue.

Posted by: runner at August 01, 2025 05:52 PM (g47mK)

46 Someone needs to sit me down, look me in the eye and try and convince me that raspberries are blue. If you take up the challenge, wear a white shirt, because I aim to prove you wrong spectacularly.

lol that is funny

I have black raspberries here! how are they different from blackberries. they all have thorns! I have no idea how this works

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 01, 2025 05:52 PM (Pv3Rg)

47 Bringing. back the physical fitness tests. Don't they have to bring back PE?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2025 05:52 PM (HFcKg)

48 Look at fucking ANTIFA.

They convinced trump he had to make allowances for these goons.

Now - arrests, persecutions, and serious jail time. One of the big, underreported stories - Trump is arresting and prosecuting these people hard. And he's afraid to go full throttle at them.

And the word is out - don't give the FEDS any reason to arrest you, because it's FO time. Also don't do this shit in red states. And suddenly we see...a lot fewer protests. And a lot less broken glass.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 01, 2025 05:53 PM (D1vbu)

49 One begins to suspect that they believe exactly none of the things they claim to believe, and that what they really believe in is Marxism, and all of their relentless attacks on normal society aren't about the issues they claim they're arguing about but only about undermining and hollowing out normal society so that the Great Communist Revolution can come and sweep it all away.
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No, I think they do, especially in terms of diet, but Orange Man Bad has consumed their feeble little brains. It's a software glitch, you can see them short out in conversation as they try to reconcile the fact that they actually agree with Trump on something.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 01, 2025 05:53 PM (ZOv7s)

50 And the media runs with this about football plsyet Lawrence Taylor being at the WH:

Taylor has appeared on stage with Trump at campaign rallies in the past. But his attendance at the White House on Thursday comes as Trump faces increasing pressure over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender who authorities say died by suicide in a federal jail cell in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 05:53 PM (2GCMq)

51 I remember being a scrawny 12 year old kid and passing the Presidential Physical Fitness Test, and getting the patch they gave you to commemorate it.

Folks may mock, but it was a BFD for a little kid, especially one who'd worn glasses since age 6, was a nerd and not very confident. I felt like a king the day we heard we'd passed.

Posted by: Sharkman at August 01, 2025 05:53 PM (z+u0n)

52 Trump has endorsed not dropping bowling balls on your feet"

TRUMPH endorses law against wearing plastic bags on one's head! Must protest by, uhmmm...

Posted by: man at August 01, 2025 05:53 PM (tubbA)

53 47 Bringing. back the physical fitness tests. Don't they have to bring back PE?

we still have the little certificates signed by PDJT from the kids during his first term

a cool thing! he has the best (auto)signature

so glad it's back!

Posted by: Black Orchid at August 01, 2025 05:54 PM (Pv3Rg)

54 Oddly I only recently heard about Hereditary Fructose Intolerance, but it is in fact a thing in genetics. Specifically Scythian genetics
Posted by: gKWVE

I saw Hereditary Fructose Intolerance open for Candye♡Syrup at Sweetwater Music Hall in '17.

https://youtu.be/glGOBWHjzdI

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 05:55 PM (DgGvY)

55 Honey has a lot of fructose, 30-40%

Posted by: Accomack at August 01, 2025 05:55 PM (4qMiv)

56 Everything is about achieving The Revolution.
Posted by: Accomack at August 01, 2025 05:50 PM (4qMiv)
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Unless it lowers their property values or involves cuts to Social Security.

The feeblest revolutionaries ever.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 01, 2025 05:55 PM (ZOv7s)

57 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 01, 2025 05:53 PM (ZOv7s)

This. It's Norman Coordinate time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 01, 2025 05:55 PM (JK4un)

58 They put HFCS in all sorts of stuff. Did you know it's in lunch meat? My local grocery store is small and they carry what people want. It's hard to get away from the junk. Cake mixes now have genetically altered ingredients. I can get ice cream and Hersey's syrup that uses normal ingredients.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 01, 2025 05:56 PM (kUxzU)

59 I was the last kid picked for the basketball team in gym class, despite my height. And got mocked for it.

Restrict team sports in school to those kids who want to do it. Leave us nerds alone.

Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 05:56 PM (77rzZ)

60 The point is never the point with marxists.

The point is to get you to deny reality. Whatever aspect of reality you deny is irrelevant. If they can get you to deny you own interests, observations, and common sense, they can program you to serve them.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 01, 2025 05:56 PM (D1vbu)

61 59 Concur!

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Healthful Glow at August 01, 2025 05:57 PM (klf3J)

62 Earlier, when he was still in the Michelin Tire Man stage, we were at the Obstacle Course. One of the tasks was this overhead rope thing, quite high off the ground really. Hand over hand.

Tubby ran into trouble about 1/4 of the way. The Senior Drill sergeant positioned himself right under him. “Don’t worry Private!!! I’ll ketch ya!! I’ll ketch ya!!!” LOL

Well, . he didn’t catch him. He just … plopped on the ground. All that extra cushioning meant he didn’t hurt anything but his pride.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 05:57 PM (wzsAY)

63 Cokes were the best when I was a kid. The really cold ones would fizz up and burn the back of your nose. I don't think it does that anymore.

Posted by: huerfano at August 01, 2025 05:57 PM (n2swS)

64 Cincinnati officials are now claiming that the woman they all celebrated being beaten and assaulted by their brownshirts is actually, get this, a russian asset. I don't know where they picked this up, but even the NYP is running with it. What is this? USA circa 2016-2020?
Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream

She's went to Russia. May even live there.
Ta Da - Russian Asset.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 01, 2025 05:57 PM (/lPRQ)

65 mRNA vax good
GMO food bad

Dozens more examples.

The Left are crazy for Coco Puffs.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2025 05:57 PM (VofaG)

66 I think all should attend physical fitness classes. Do your best, but don't avoid it.

Posted by: runner at August 01, 2025 05:57 PM (g47mK)

67 I'm curious. Did all you guys and gals have a day they set aside in late May or Early June called "Field Day?"

We did. It was a full day of athletic events. Running, throwing (basically, the elementary school version of track and field). If you placed you got a blue, red or yellow ribbon with the event written on the back tab. It included an outside picnic lunch for each class....and overall, a great time.

Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2025 05:57 PM (dIske)

68
Nope, all kids should have PE.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 01, 2025 05:57 PM (3ek7K)

69 One begins to suspect that they believe exactly none of the things they claim to believe

[ Fen has entered the chat ]

Posted by: toby928 at August 01, 2025 05:57 PM (jc0TO)

70 Sneezing is about the best thing the Lord ever invented.

Posted by: jsg at August 01, 2025 05:57 PM (QA89Y)

71 They should have speed shooting teams.

https://tinyurl.com/2vtm48nb

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 01, 2025 05:57 PM (/U5Yz)

72 Ace, you missed the most egregious example of Leftist hypocrisy. Lefties DEMANDED that H.W. Bush raise taxes to cut the "huge" Reagan deficits. Then when Bush did actually raise taxes, Bill Clinton dragged Bush over the coals for it. Suddenly the Democrats were the "low tax" party and Bush betrayed the American people.

Posted by: JTSmith at August 01, 2025 05:58 PM (o1ceo)

73 In Basic Training we took the first of many PT tests. On the 2 mile run, held on a 1/4 mile track iirc, I got lapped. LOL. By then I had no illusions about running. I got better, and eventually turned in respectable times. Or at least acceptable.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 05:45 PM (TgO2L)
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The Air Force runs 1.5 miles and I got lapped all the time.

Of course by then I was in my uh, 29+ age bracket, so I didn't care.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 01, 2025 05:58 PM (ZOv7s)

74 Corn syrup and soy bean oil.

Posted by: Accomack at August 01, 2025 05:58 PM (4qMiv)

75
parsley, banana and a handful of nuts

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2025 05:58 PM (63Dwl)

76 >>Prayers for my husband, please. His father just passed after fighting cancer for two years.
Posted by: Jmel at August 01, 2025 05:33 PM (bVhJi)
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Done.

I dusted off a 15 year old Trek mountain bike and started riding last weekend for the first time in about 10 years. I am a VERY casual, non-serious rider. But it's been really fun wheeling around and getting some decent exercise. And the heat really isn't much of a problem with the wind and all.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 01, 2025 05:58 PM (bNf8H)

77 Aloha!

Sitting in the tire store. Upon returning from a drive into the mountains for the Darrington Jade Festival, I heard, then saw a rather large pointy rock in my left rear tire.

Tire store says. Yeah. You bought these tires here. In 2015. It’s kinda time to replace them.

Ugh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 01, 2025 05:59 PM (Ygx2e)

78 Posted by: Jmel at August 01, 2025 05:33 PM (bVhJi)

Sending prayers. Lord bless.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at August 01, 2025 05:59 PM (0aYVJ)

79 parsley, banana and a handful of nuts

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

* looks around *

More than a handful, really.

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 06:00 PM (DgGvY)

80 the rope test was b.s. Or, at least: There's a way to do it and a way not to do it. You can't just try to arm-over-arm your way up. You're supposed to extend your body up with your legs,then hold the rope with your hands, pull your legs up, grab the rope with your legs, and then extend your legs again.

No one ever really explained that to me.

Posted by: ace at August 01, 2025 06:00 PM (KRtlO)

81 Posted by: toby928 at August 01, 2025 05:57 PM (jc0TO)

I'm sorry . I'm not sure what your reference to me is about.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 01, 2025 06:00 PM (2GCMq)

82 >>I'm curious. Did all you guys and gals have a day they set aside in late May or Early June called "Field Day?"
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Yes! I loved that day. It was like the Olympics for grade-schoolers. So fun. I also still have my PFF award signed by, of all people, Jimmy Carter.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 01, 2025 06:01 PM (bNf8H)

83 Trump should just start putting out some boob-baiting tweets for a few weeks about how he's considering some Leftist wet dream like UBI or blanket EV mandates or a firearms ban. They'll start cranking out the "Why Public Health Experts Say You Should Own At Least Three 120mm Cannons" articles. Then he should just be like "psyche, bishez. I'm already drafting an EO for a depleted uranium shell stimulus."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2025 06:01 PM (OJ+Mf)

84 Tire store says. Yeah. You bought these tires here. In 2015. It’s kinda time to replace them.
Posted by: nurse ratched

How do you get 10 years out of tires? Are the steel belts on the outside?

Posted by: mikeski at August 01, 2025 06:01 PM (DgGvY)

85 1 Prayers for my husband, please. His father just passed after fighting cancer for two years.
Posted by: Jmel at August 01, 2025 05:33 PM (bVhJi)

Prayers up.

F*** cancer.

Posted by: jsg at August 01, 2025 06:01 PM (QA89Y)

86 One begins to suspect that they believe exactly none of the things they claim to believe, and that what they really believe in is Marxism...
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Well Marxism and the Will to Power.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2025 06:01 PM (JvZF+)

87 What I want to know is why is sugar in everything? You buy horseradish sauce and I can taste the sugar and sure enough it has it. Whether it's the HFCS or regular sugar why is it the second ingredient in something like horseradish, I don't get it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 01, 2025 06:01 PM (77W69)

88 >>I dusted off a 15 year old Trek mountain bike and started riding last weekend for the first time in about 10 years. I am a VERY casual, non-serious rider. But it's been really fun wheeling around and getting some decent exercise.

Nice. I got a good ride in on Wednesday. First Mt Bike ride in almost 3 months following up a bad bout of Tendonitis. Which had kept me on the Road/Gravel Bikes for most of this season.

Looking forward to a morning of climbing trails tomorrow and an afternoon of long descents.

Posted by: garrett at August 01, 2025 06:02 PM (fVmgO)

89 I am a VERY casual, non-serious rider"

Same, but just bought Trek DS3. Very nice, and quite a bit easier on the old legs/ hips...

Posted by: man at August 01, 2025 06:02 PM (tubbA)

90 No one ever really explained that to me.
Posted by: ace at August 01, 2025 06:00 PM (KRtlO)
_____________________________________

LMAO...Andre the Giant climbing up the cliff style in Princess Bride.

Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2025 06:02 PM (dIske)

91 >>I'm not sure I buy the claim that one sugar is "better" than another. They're both bad, at least in the enormous quantities we now consume them in.

I agree with this completely. I do not buy into the HFCS = bad hysteria, other than the fact that it is cheap and is added to everything.

BUT, I know it does not taste the same. I can tell sugar from HFCS, and I prefer sugar. I just don't enjoy HFCS coke. Not at all. It tastes *similar*, but the experience after drinking half the bottle is different. the taste seems to become dulled.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 01, 2025 06:02 PM (dm8l3)

92 Trump is NOT body-positive.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 06:02 PM (krQz2)

93 77 Aloha!

Sitting in the tire store. Upon returning from a drive into the mountains for the Darrington Jade Festival, I heard, then saw a rather large pointy rock in my left rear tire.

Tire store says. Yeah. You bought these tires here. In 2015. It’s kinda time to replace them.

Ugh.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Ugh. Sorry to hear that.
I was up in Darrington on Tuesday shooting in the gravel pit. Ran the AR's extensively. Only a couple of people were there.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 01, 2025 06:03 PM (/U5Yz)

94 73: heh, When I was younger and would jog I would get all discouraged by people who did not seem to be pushing themselves at all passing me and pulling quickly away. Around age 50 I started jogging for fitness and when I'd get left in the dust I would just think "go you, but I'm 50+ and out here at all so good for me". But then my knees started protesting and I gave up trying to jog.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 01, 2025 06:03 PM (bP/i4)

95 Let's talk about GAINZZZ!

High fiber diet.

That's it. High fiber diet.

After the thing where you get butt scoped, it was determined that I needed a high fiber diet.

I lost 10 pounds in a few weeks without even trying. I'm getting lazy now (and it was too hot to work out), but I got to within 2 pounds of my Army Basic Training weight without pushing myself at all.

I kind of have to force myself to eat, because 25 grams of fiber is a lot of fiber. I'm figuring it out, though. Getting more efficient. I was dehydrated for a while, but then figured out that canned pears are fiber rich and help rehydrate. Coconut also helps.

Keto has nothing on this.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 01, 2025 06:03 PM (ZOv7s)

96 58 They put HFCS in all sorts of stuff. Did you know it's in lunch meat? My local grocery store is small and they carry what people want. It's hard to get away from the junk. Cake mixes now have genetically altered ingredients. I can get ice cream and Hersey's syrup that uses normal ingredients.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 01, 2025 05:56 PM (kUxzU)

Why the heck would anyone think to sweeten lunchmeat?

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 01, 2025 06:03 PM (77W69)

97 RFK is saying exactly the same things now as he did 10 years ago but whereas 10 years ago everyone on the left agreed now they're all saying that it's silly anti-science political crap

To be honest I think most of this stuff is way overhyped, but again the other side has adopted the notion that if there is even a trivial chance something is dangerous it should be banned and yet here they're mad RFK is removing these ingredients

Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2025 06:04 PM (T7ru6)

98 seen at yahoo newz:

A new poll from Emerson College shows that Vice President JD Vance currently has a small lead over three Democrats who may run for president in 2028.

While Vance is currently positioned as the Republican party's likely candidate for the next presidential election, former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., are all potential Democratic opposition.

According to Emerson College's poll, which surveyed 1,400 registered U.S. voters between July 21 and 22, Vance has a slight edge over all three politicians, although it’s the closest race between Vance and Buttigieg.

In a hypothetical 2028 presidential election, 44% of voters would support Vance, while 43% would support Buttigieg. In a similar hypothetical, 41% of voters would support Ocasio-Cortez, in comparison to 44% for Vance; in a Newsom-Vance matchup, 42% would cast their ballot for Newsom, and 45% would opt for Vance.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 01, 2025 06:04 PM (CWTWj)

99 Oh.

>@nicksortor

>🚨 JUST IN: The DOJ has introduced CLASSIFIED evidence against wannabe Trump assassln Ryan Routh

>Judge Cannon ruled the evidence could cause “exceptionally grave damages to the national security of the U.S.,” so she SEALED it

>Was this guy a Ukrainian asset or something??!

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 06:04 PM (viF8m)

100 CPB informed employees that the majority of staff positions will be eliminated with the close of the fiscal year on September 30, 2025. It said a small team would remain until January to "focus on compliance, fiscal distributions, and resolution of long-term financial obligations including ensuring continuity for music rights and royalties that remain essential to the public media system," according to the CPB statement.

Oh no. My local PPS station has a banner headline that reads, "Defunded, But Not Defeated, Donate Now." Depending on AWFL to rescue this station is a lost cause. I will shocked if my local station is still on the air at the end of year.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 01, 2025 06:04 PM (9vYpt)

101 What I want to know is why is sugar in everything"

Overprocessed foods (for easier packaging, transport, and long shelf life) have no flavor. Added sugar, salt, and colors to substitute...

Posted by: man at August 01, 2025 06:04 PM (tubbA)

102 My weight was trending downward but then Mrs. F. got her oven repaired and the bakery re-opened.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2025 06:04 PM (JvZF+)

103 >>> She's went to Russia. May even live there.
Ta Da - Russian Asset.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 01, 2025 05:57 PM (/lPRQ)

But that's the thing. From what I can tell all those things are completely made up. She's never been to russia, born in Ohio.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 01, 2025 06:05 PM (cduTK)

104 The best diet is Socialism

Posted by: jsg at August 01, 2025 06:05 PM (QA89Y)

105 If you go to Europe one thing that stands out is not everything is sweet

Their desserts and candies are just like ours, but you'll notice that the foods that are not supposed to be sweet aren't

Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2025 06:05 PM (T7ru6)

106 In Basic Training we took the first of many PT tests. On the 2 mile run, held on a 1/4 mile track iirc, I got lapped. LOL.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 05:45 PM

I swam a 400m butterfly once. I hadn't made the final turn and everyone else was finishing. I got the special Olympics clapping for finishing 50m behind the next slowest guy.

And the damn thing was, there were so few entrants that I made the Finals and had to do it again.

Posted by: toby928 at August 01, 2025 06:05 PM (jc0TO)

107 >>>Was this guy a Ukrainian asset or something??!

Ukraine was the Cutout for the CIA.

Posted by: garrett at August 01, 2025 06:05 PM (fVmgO)

108 Watermelon and jicama are both good hydraters.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2025 06:05 PM (HFcKg)

109 >>What I want to know is why is sugar in everything? You buy horseradish sauce and I can taste the sugar and sure enough it has it. Whether it's the HFCS or regular sugar why is it the second ingredient in something like horseradish, I don't get it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 01, 2025 06:01 PM

Sugar is addictive. That is why.

Posted by: huerfano at August 01, 2025 06:05 PM (n2swS)

110 If you want people to take you seriously you can't call sugar poison.

That's the kind of hyperbole that people just can't take seriously.

Poison kills in seconds to hours not 50 fucking years.

Just stop doing that.

k thnks

Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 06:05 PM (fV+MH)

111 BUT, I know it does not taste the same. I can tell sugar from HFCS, and I prefer sugar. I just don't enjoy HFCS coke. Not at all. It tastes *similar*, but the experience after drinking half the bottle is different. the taste seems to become dulled.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 01, 2025 06:02 PM (dm8l3)
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I switched my sweetened lime juice from HFCS to cane sugar and it is soooo much better in my cocktails.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 01, 2025 06:05 PM (ZOv7s)

112 I fully admit to being overweight. But I walk, hike, and can climb the three flights of stairs to my office without getting winded. So for a husky fella nearing 60, I think i am doing pretty well.

My diet is pretty good too. A lot of fresh meals, very little fast food...just ignore the beer at my elbow.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo, First of his name at August 01, 2025 06:06 PM (0aYVJ)

113 Trump: "We have a cure for cancer"

NBC News: "How Trump's cancer cure threatens the livelihoods of medical professionals"

Posted by: Halfhand at August 01, 2025 06:06 PM (FslFT)

114 >>What I want to know is why is sugar in everything"

Sugar keeps you coming back for more.

That's why.

Posted by: garrett at August 01, 2025 06:06 PM (fVmgO)

115 Again, my point isn't about HFCS itself, but how the media routinely does complete 180's whenever Trump endorses a policy.

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Isn't it time for Trump to come out as pro-abortion, pro-child trafficking, and pro-child mutilation?

/

Posted by: ShainS -- Everybody Lies, Including Sleeping Dogs at August 01, 2025 06:07 PM (xQi1Y)

116 watermelon is all sugar

Posted by: runner at August 01, 2025 06:07 PM (g47mK)

117 Ryan Ruth claims he was working as a Merc recruiter for the ukrainians. If that's true the Assumption should be that the hit on Trump came from zelensky himself, though the interesting thing is the other Merc recruiters claim he was lying

And that means he was most likely working for an American intelligence agency which was at least aware and quite possibly approved what he did

Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2025 06:07 PM (T7ru6)

118
Aloha!

Sitting in the tire store. Upon returning from a drive into the mountains for the Darrington Jade Festival, I heard, then saw a rather large pointy rock in my left rear tire.

Tire store says. Yeah. You bought these tires here. In 2015. It’s kinda time to replace them.

Ugh.
Posted by: nurse ratched

I just bought a new set two weeks ago after getting a nail in one of them. I also bought the previous set in 2015.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2025 06:07 PM (63Dwl)

119 Prayers for my husband, please. His father just passed after fighting cancer for two years.
Posted by: Jmel at August 01, 2025 05:33 PM (bVhJi)
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May his memory be a blessing .

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2025 06:07 PM (JvZF+)

120 In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again, as they are always done, in Watermelon Sugar.

Posted by: Richard Brautigan at August 01, 2025 06:08 PM (fVmgO)

121 I don't care what it says or does. If Obama's name is on a piece of paper, rescind it. Every single paper with that communist shithead's signature should be repealed and thrown away. That asshole needs to be wiped entirely from our records & the day Obamacare is repealed is one I yearn for.

Posted by: Mister Fabulist at August 01, 2025 06:08 PM (x8eGV)

122 Yeah, I buy into the idea that a problem with the American Diet is that there is a longer and longer backup in line for the liver.

I voted for MAHA.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 06:08 PM (krQz2)

123 Will to Power."

Saw them open for Gloria Estefan...

Posted by: man at August 01, 2025 06:08 PM (tubbA)

124 I have no problem with PE per se. Just let every kid participate in the physical activity of his/her choice, even if it’s nothing more than walking.

Team sports are for communists.

Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 06:09 PM (77rzZ)

125 I decided in 2019 that I was going to fast before a 2 day road trip, to avoid . Problems … upon arrival.

The Internet sites showed me Dr. Ted Naiman’s .PDF on intermittent fasting. I lost 80 pounds in the next 8 months or so. Kept it off ever since.

One meal a day is very liberating. I ate whatever I want, just not a whole lot of it, like before.

The first thing you will discover restricting calories, one will become very mindful of the calories. If 1200 calories, or 1500 is your personal magic number, then it better taste good. No mindless stuffing whatever into the gullet.

Ice Cream is fine. But it better be Ice Cream eg., Cream, sugar, salt, vanilla. Not seaweed extract, xanthan gum, corn syrup, and preservatives.

You can’t go by the name. These bastards are insidious. I’m not a complicated guy. But “All Natural” and “Old Fashioned” would, at first glance, seem to indicate an Authentic product. Nope.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 06:09 PM (wzsAY)

126 >>Ryan Ruth claims he was working as a Merc recruiter for the ukrainians. If that's true the Assumption should be that the hit on Trump came from zelensky himself, though the interesting thing is the other Merc recruiters claim he was lying

It was OUR Intel Agencies trying to kill Trump.

None other.

Posted by: Richard Brautigan at August 01, 2025 06:09 PM (fVmgO)

127 My weight was trending downward but then Mrs. F. got her oven repaired and the bakery re-opened.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

I fail to see how this could be seen as a problem.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at August 01, 2025 06:09 PM (9vYpt)

128 99 Oh.

>@nicksortor

>🚨 JUST IN: The DOJ has introduced CLASSIFIED evidence against wannabe Trump assassln Ryan Routh

>Judge Cannon ruled the evidence could cause “exceptionally grave damages to the national security of the U.S.,” so she SEALED it

>Was this guy a Ukrainian asset or something??!
Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 06:04 PM (viF8m)
__________________________

Whoa...Judge Cannon isn't going to do that arbitrarily. Ukrainian is a solid guess, but based on the current state of affairs, could be anything (including Russian).

As I recall, this guy had some financial funds without any valid source. So, I'm going to suggest Iranian.

Posted by: Orson at August 01, 2025 06:09 PM (dIske)

129 Ace, you missed the most egregious example of Leftist hypocrisy. Lefties DEMANDED that H.W. Bush raise taxes to cut the "huge" Reagan deficits. Then when Bush did actually raise taxes, Bill Clinton dragged Bush over the coals for it. Suddenly the Democrats were the "low tax" party and Bush betrayed the American people.
Posted by: JTSmith at August 01, 2025 05:58 PM (o1ceo)

Actually that was Buchanan in the primaries who started the Read My Lips retort and the Democrats smartly used it in the general. What’s ironic is there were no new taxes but an increase in existing taxes.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2025 06:09 PM (VofaG)

130 I saw Hereditary Fructose Intolerance open for Candye♡Syrup at Sweetwater Music Hall in '17.

Scythian rock ain't dead
youtu.be/7Ax35f5lmFQ

Posted by: gKWVE at August 01, 2025 06:09 PM (K7yuL)

131 Beatnik Sock OFF

Posted by: garrett at August 01, 2025 06:09 PM (fVmgO)

132 I don't care what it says or does. If Obama's name is on a piece of paper, rescind it. Every single paper with that communist shithead's signature should be repealed and thrown away. That asshole needs to be wiped entirely from our records & the day Obamacare is repealed is one I yearn for.
Posted by: Mister Fabulist at August 01, 2025 06:08 PM (x8eGV)

Are you including deeds to his properties, and any IDs, in that diktat? Good luck finding his birth certificate!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2025 06:10 PM (S/Y4j)

133 America will no longer be celebrating weakness and slothfulness as some kind of special virtue of the very unhealthy

Shit just got real. This time, it's personal.

Posted by: Lena Dunham at August 01, 2025 06:10 PM (1Djv4)

134
Overprocessed foods (for easier packaging, transport, and long shelf life) have no flavor. Added sugar, salt, and colors to substitute...
Posted by: man at August 01, 2025 06:04 PM

And the HFCS is cheaper I'd be willing to bet.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 01, 2025 06:11 PM (77W69)

135 Just my thought as someone who did food qc for 15 years and has tasted a lot of stuff:

-real sugar is clean. Eating it will not change the taste of other things.

-hfcs... coats your taste buds. Like it mutes your ability to sense sweetness in other things right after you consume it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 01, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

136 We must war them. Can't let them.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 01, 2025 06:11 PM (TWyLr)

137 Bring back dodge ball.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 01, 2025 06:11 PM (/U5Yz)

138 Team sports are for communists.
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 06:09 PM (77rzZ)

Guessing you couldn't even hit a fastball.

Posted by: jsg at August 01, 2025 06:11 PM (QA89Y)

139 >>Ukraine was the Cutout for the CIA.

Still is.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 06:11 PM (viF8m)

140 Poison kills in seconds to hours not 50 fucking years.

Just stop doing that.

k thnks
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 06:05 PM (fV+MH)
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You know there are mystery stories about a woman killing her husband or somebody over years with microdoses of poison, don't you?

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 06:11 PM (krQz2)

141 They know Republicans going after massive waste is popular, so they want instead for us to go after Social Security and Medicare.

I actually think Trump is shrewd to not take the bait.

Posted by: Scotch at August 01, 2025 06:11 PM (kCZTv)

142 I would have respected Trump more if he had walked in the room carrying a McDonald's bag.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 01, 2025 06:12 PM (3wi/L)

143
Pick your poison. We're all gonna die anyway.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2025 06:12 PM (zCv9W)

144 You should see how they all did a 180 on the Temu stuff with Trump going after the de minimus exemption for imports.

The problem is that China has overwhelmed the system and there is no way to inspect millions of packages a day for illicit contents. They know this. Trump claimed it is a security emergency, which it is even though it is not acute and instead has been building for years.

But the Left is claiming that Trump is raising the prices for poor people who can no longer buy subsidized crap from China.

(The other problem is that they get free shipping from USPS -- does anyone know if Trump has canceled that or has plans?)

(The third problem is that it cuts the US out of manufacturing, and retail, and brands, and IP, and everything. We are becoming the low cost amazon delivery guy of the world shipping their products for pennies while they make all the cash. that can not go on.)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 01, 2025 06:12 PM (dm8l3)

145 116 watermelon is all sugar
Posted by: runner at August 01, 2025 06:07 PM (g47mK)

So is sweet corn.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 01, 2025 06:13 PM (77W69)

146 Overprocessed foods (for easier packaging, transport, and long shelf life) have no flavor. Added sugar, salt, and colors to substitute...
Posted by: man at August 01, 2025 06:04 PM

And the HFCS is cheaper I'd be willing to bet.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 01, 2025 06:11 PM (77W69)
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Almost all orange juice in America is reconstituted from orange matter that has *lost* all flavor. The flavor is then reconstituted from things like *paper*.

Mmmm. That's good paper juice!

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 06:13 PM (krQz2)

147

Mexican Coke is a lie

https://youtu.be/NY66qpMFOYo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2025 06:13 PM (63Dwl)

148 Plumbing adventure all afternoon, but at least it's better than it was

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2025 06:13 PM (g0Y10)

149 I remember when Trump kicked illegals off Medicare and the left shifted from illegals don't get Medicare to suddenly how dare Trump cut Medicare

Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2025 06:13 PM (T7ru6)

150 145 116 watermelon is all sugar
Posted by: runner at August 01, 2025 06:07 PM (g47mK)

So is sweet corn.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 01, 2025 06:13 PM (77W69)

I think cow corn may be as well because if I spill any chicken scratch my dog is over there trying to eat it, she likes corn.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 01, 2025 06:14 PM (77W69)

151 Team sports are for communists.
Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 06:09 PM (77rzZ)
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Fire teams win wars. Individuals are targets.

Dodge ball was the great equalizer. I was one of the youngest kids in my grade, so also one of the smallest. Not particularly fast or agile, but I was small, and quite valuable because I could draw ball onto our side. I recall with exhilaration the time I saw *three* balls sail over me as I went into a slide to safety, feeding our shooter and leading to victory.

Could not field a ball worth a damn, but a lead pipe cinch on a single. Consistent middle pick.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 01, 2025 06:14 PM (ZOv7s)

152 I have a Mexican coke when we go to eat at the taqueria. Other than that, I don't drink sodas, just water with lemon and coffee with real cream.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 01, 2025 06:14 PM (3Ope8)

153 Dammit, does this mean I need to start doing pushups again?

Posted by: BurtTC at August 01, 2025 06:14 PM (dGCAG)

154 I think President Trump should appoint a drink tester for Puerto Rico, to make sure the drinks down there are made correctly.

Who would make a better candidate: Nancy Pelosi or AOC?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 01, 2025 06:14 PM (S/Y4j)

155 Also a lot of orange tree died due to the Asian citrus psyllid. Almost certainly imported here deliberately by our friends the CCP.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 01, 2025 06:15 PM (K7yuL)

156 Does this thing he signed lower my taxes any?
Didn't think so.

Posted by: Case at August 01, 2025 06:15 PM (q3kYF)

157 I've cut out sugar in my coffee.

It's a start.

Posted by: jsg at August 01, 2025 06:15 PM (QA89Y)

158 I use the zero sugar Coke ... not sure if the fake sugars are pure, but seem much better than "real sugars". Same with HFCS and cane sugar. ... (and BigCorn thanks you for your support).

Fruit in general is not such a "health food". Dr. Boz thinks it is kinda bad ... because it (fructose) triggers the fat response, (and maybe Alzheimers).

youtube.com/shorts/KZ3iMHtzNmY

Posted by: illiniwek at August 01, 2025 06:15 PM (vbXSk)

159 Mexican Alamo beer can give you diarrhea.

Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2025 06:15 PM (VofaG)

160 So is sweet corn.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 01, 2025 06:13 PM (77W69)

yeah...and grapes...

Posted by: runner at August 01, 2025 06:16 PM (g47mK)

161 What’s ironic is there were no new taxes but an increase in existing taxes.

Clinton smiles.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 01, 2025 06:16 PM (K7yuL)

162 So is sweet corn.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 01, 2025 06:13 PM (77W69)
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An excellent source of fiber!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 01, 2025 06:17 PM (ZOv7s)

163 I loved doge ball!

Posted by: runner at August 01, 2025 06:17 PM (g47mK)

164 *dodge ball

Posted by: runner at August 01, 2025 06:17 PM (g47mK)

165 .
NOOD

Mark Halperin: Biden's Inner Circle Is Threatening Kamala Harris That If She Dishes About His Cogntivie Impairment, They'll Start Admitting How Incompetent She Is

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 01, 2025 06:17 PM (O7YUW)

166
Ice Cream is fine. But it better be Ice Cream eg., Cream, sugar, salt, vanilla. Not seaweed extract, xanthan gum, corn syrup, and preservatives.

Any brand names you could suggest?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2025 06:17 PM (63Dwl)

167 Ace, you missed the most egregious example of Leftist hypocrisy. Lefties DEMANDED that H.W. Bush raise taxes to cut the "huge" Reagan deficits. Then when Bush did actually raise taxes, Bill Clinton dragged Bush over the coals for it. Suddenly the Democrats were the "low tax" party and Bush betrayed the American people.
Posted by: JTSmith at August 01, 2025 05:58 PM (o1ceo)

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Even more, every single bill the Democratic Congress put on Bush's desk to sign up until that point had hefty tax increases.

Finally, they enjoined him to "be responsible" and forget that foolish consistency. And then, when he did, they had him.

One of the dirtiest tricks played out before the entire public there ever was. It wasn't just Bill Clinton, the day after Bush signed that bill, they decried Bush's "intentional dishonesty" from the same floor and news shows.

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 06:17 PM (krQz2)

168 When I turned 29 for the 11th time, my metabolism slowed down quite a bit. Or I should say, that’s when I noticed that my metabolism had slowed down the first time I turned 29. I just realized I couldn’t keep blaming the broken scale and wondering how all my clothes had shrunk. Easiest thing I did in my diet was stop drinking my calories. I went from one coke a day to one a week to one a month to sharing one per month to…I barely ever have a soda anymore. It never felt like it filled me up so it was the true definition of empty calories. I’ve since turned 29 another 15 times so I’ve had to keep making cut backs. But the drinking calories were the low hanging fruit. Corn syrup or sugar, didn’t matter, just can’t afford to drink calories.

Posted by: Mad Max in VA at August 01, 2025 06:18 PM (8iNlE)

169 Poison kills in seconds to hours not 50 fucking years.

Just stop doing that.

k thnks
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2025 06:05 PM (fV+MH)
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You know there are mystery stories about a woman killing her husband or somebody over years with microdoses of poison, don't you?
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 06:11 PM (krQz2)

That makes no sense though, if a man is married (to a woman) for any number of years, she's already killing him slowly. She need not feed him anything that will show up on a toxicology test.

Unless they can measure nagging.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 01, 2025 06:18 PM (dGCAG)

170 Ace - this was a horizontal rope, hand over hand, if that makes sense. Not tough really. Maybe 50 yards, over a sand pit. It WAS pretty high off the ground. Tubby couldn’t go any farther, and he couldn’t back up either. So he hung on until he couldn’t. Gravity did the rest.

Senior Drill Sergeant deftly stepped aside, so as not to get killed. It did seem a bit cruel at the time, but ole Tubby did turn into a pretty good troop.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 06:18 PM (wzsAY)

171 138 I loathe baseball/softball.

Calvinball FTW!

Posted by: Bulg at August 01, 2025 06:18 PM (77rzZ)

172 >>I think President Trump should appoint a drink tester for Puerto Rico, to make sure the drinks down there are made correctly.

>>Who would make a better candidate: Nancy Pelosi or AOC?

Me. My old dive shop in PR was located in a big resort hotel and every Wedneday afternoon one of the bartenders would do a pina colada making demonstration. For everyone in the hotel. He made it by the gallon.

And every Wednesday afternoon we would close the shop early, fill up jugs of the stuff and go sit behind our cabana and watch pretty girls in bikinis. I'm ready to go back on duty.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2025 06:18 PM (viF8m)

173 Even with all that, minus perot, Clinton goes nowhere.

Remember as much as the rose colored glasses the Clinton's forced on us, Bush was:

-coming off the asswhipping of GW1

-the fall of the Berlin wall

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 01, 2025 06:18 PM (zZu0s)

174 But Mexicans don't have the Alamo.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at August 01, 2025 06:19 PM (TWyLr)

175 You have ice cream? Lucky bastards. All we have Is "frozen desserts."

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 01, 2025 06:19 PM (wBaIH)

176 Or frozen yogurt

Or frozen custard

I want ice cream, dammit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 01, 2025 06:20 PM (zZu0s)

177 Another Trump Gainz. The WH rose garden plaza is finally done! The WH will work on the new ballroom next, so lefties have something else to shriek about. Upset we are funding a new ballroom vs Elmo.

Vid of the old rose garden vs the new changes. Apparently the old one was a mess underneath and needed to be redone anyway to improve drainage. But let's blame Trump and Melania!
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/24/politics/
video/white-house-rose-garden-paved-over-trump-vrtc

New drain covers, which the left will be disappointed are American flags and not swastikas:
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1951376609954406590

Posted by: LizLem at August 01, 2025 06:21 PM (gWBY1)

178 No churn ice cream is really good and so easy.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2025 06:22 PM (HFcKg)

179 Any brand names you could suggest?

Wilcoxson's, if you can get it.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at August 01, 2025 06:23 PM (iNp3L)

180 Brand Names? Not really, because my point is, they change all the time. Check the label ingredients is all hou can do. Cheap, fake ersatz ice cream “burns” in the mouth.

I’ve heard Blue Bell (a Texas firm) is really good. Never saw it in Iowa. We had a brand called Blue Bunny. Someone was gushing about how good Blue Bunny ice cream was. I didn’t say anything, because I knew it was crap. Corn syrup + Chemistry set. She had mixed up the names.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2025 06:23 PM (wzsAY)

181 headline at ny post (too much to quote):

Biden stumbles through speech at Chicago gala as he warns US in 'dark days'

Posted by: gnats local 678 at August 01, 2025 06:24 PM (CWTWj)

182 Mexican Coke is a lie

https://youtu.be/NY66qpMFOYo

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2025 06:13 PM (63Dwl)
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Hoodathunk that the country that winks at illegal cartels that rival the government in fire power would lie to people about what's in their drink?

Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2025 06:24 PM (krQz2)

183 On personal Gainz, I'm intermittent fasting again and love it. And reduced carbs until I went on vacation, need to get back on the low carb groove.

I also figured out how to make my fave dirty soda drink sugar free at home, instead of paying a ridiculous amount at the drive-up shacks for a high sugar version. Making my own sugar free syrups at home! It's the simple pleasures in life. But I love it.

Posted by: LizLem at August 01, 2025 06:24 PM (gWBY1)

184 I believe that HFCS is pretty bad for you after the data I have seen and I really never cared that much.

But now that I am thinking finally of starting to get some GAINZZ, I've been looking harder into this stuff. Man the internet proposed information on diet and GAINZZ is so colossally huge. It can get pretty confusing.

So I'm gonna start with walking an extra 30 minutes a day until I decide on a fitness plan.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 01, 2025 06:25 PM (rvwwT)

185 The best diet is Socialism

Posted by: jsg

Why are you in my swim lane?
- Smokin' Joe

Posted by: Stalin - at August 01, 2025 06:25 PM (QcUc+)

186 Oh, btw on Trump's new ballroom, its all funded by donations, no tax dollars used.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 01, 2025 06:27 PM (rvwwT)

187 I am honestly skeptical that food dyes are problematic and damaging to anyone, but I am also fine with getting rid of them as well. What bothers me is the massive overuse of soy, seed oils, and sugar in everything. The preservatives concern me as well but I don't see a way around that for now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2025 06:28 PM (dfIr7)

188 Well, they sure put the white flavor back in blue jeans.

Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2025 06:30 PM (LHPAg)

189 187 I am honestly skeptical that food dyes are problematic and damaging to anyone, but I am also fine with getting rid of them as well. What bothers me is the massive overuse of soy, seed oils, and sugar in everything. The preservatives concern me as well but I don't see a way around that for now.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

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Yeah, I agree with this as well.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 01, 2025 06:31 PM (dm8l3)

190 Did anyone call a nood? Cause there is a nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at August 01, 2025 06:31 PM (zZu0s)

191 bryson is a total fox

Posted by: cherries in season at August 01, 2025 06:31 PM (F6VW6)

192 One begins to suspect that they believe exactly none of the things they claim to believe, and that what they really believe in is Marxism, and all of their relentless attacks on normal society aren't about the issues they claim they're arguing about but only about undermining and hollowing out normal society so that the Great Communist Revolution can come and sweep it all away.

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And Marxism's sole soulless concern & purpose is the seizure, acquisition, accumulation, exercise, and abuse of raw negative political power.

Posted by: ShainS -- On Power (Positive vs. Negative) at August 01, 2025 06:33 PM (DAz5E)

193 The Presidential Fitness tests made my high school years miserable. Every year I demonstrated how miserably out of shape I was.

Coke with real sugar? My local grocery stores have been selling it for years because Omaha has so many Hispanics.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at August 01, 2025 06:33 PM (sZyeE)

194 Part of the problem with food additives is that Europe got rid of GRAS (Generally recognized as safe). They did this mostly as part of their "fortress Europe" plan to exclude US products by creating a special market in EU that was too expensive for US to tailor its products for.

But this got lots of money for researchers to find problems with anything that was GRAS. Pay researchers to find problems, and they will. I doubt most of those problems exist.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 01, 2025 06:34 PM (dm8l3)

195 190 Did anyone call a nood? Cause there is a nood.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

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Yes, but more talk of those two losers bores me to tears. I would rather hang out on a dead thread.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at August 01, 2025 06:35 PM (dm8l3)

196
Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla

Ingredients

Milk, cream, sugar, skim milk, high fructose corn syrup, natural and artificial vanilla flavor, cellulose gum, vegetable gums (guar, carrageenan, carob bean), salt, annatto color.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2025 06:37 PM (63Dwl)

197 I attribute my good health to eating well and good genes.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2025 06:38 PM (HFcKg)

198 Life here in flyover country is miserable right now because Canada is on fire and the smoke is drifting down here. I couldn't figure out why my nose was running like an Olympic champion and my eyes watering nonstop recently. I figured something had to be polinating, but no -- it's Canada.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin at August 01, 2025 06:40 PM (sZyeE)

199 No churn ice cream is heavy cream, condensed milk vanilla and whatever flavoring you want. I made black walnut ice cream and it equaled childhood memories.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 01, 2025 06:42 PM (HFcKg)

200 Nic Update

Posted by: ShainS -- On Power (Positive vs. Negative) at August 01, 2025 10:02 PM (jQqep)

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