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My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich

Sure, bury away the issue on some backpage. Boy howdy, the issues page of a campaign website! I'm sure that's what Sanders cares about, and not the "contribute" button.

Which do you think Sanders' staff cares more about, the placement of the contribute button, or having an issues page for white folk to pass around links to on facebook to show their friends that their wonderbread of a candidate is truly artisinal?

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Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

the article that went with the photo is also fantastic

NYT posted:

ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 4— As President Bush travels the country in search of re-election, he seems unable to escape a central problem: This career politician, who has lived the cloistered life of a top Washington bureaucrat for decades, is having trouble presenting himself to the electorate as a man in touch with middle-class life.

Today, for instance, he emerged from 11 years in Washington's choicest executive mansions to confront the modern supermarket.

Visiting the exhibition hall of the National Grocers Association convention here, Mr. Bush lingered at the mock-up of a checkout lane. He signed his name on an electronic pad used to detect check forgeries.

"If some guy came in and spelled George Bush differently, could you catch it?" the President asked. "Yes," he was told, and he shook his head in wonder.

Then he grabbed a quart of milk, a light bulb and a bag of candy and ran them over an electronic scanner. The look of wonder flickered across his face again as he saw the item and price registered on the cash register screen.

"This is for checking out?" asked Mr. Bush. "I just took a tour through the exhibits here," he told the grocers later. "Amazed by some of the technology."

Marlin Fitzwater, the White House spokesman, assured reporters that he had seen the President in a grocery store. A year or so ago. In Kennebunkport.

Some grocery stores began using electornic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade.

Having sampled the ways of the American shopper, Mr. Bush tried to identify with the American bad mood.

He pounded a lectern and raised his voice. He accused "professional pessimists" in Congress of conducting class warfare by criticizing some of his programs as favoring the wealthy. He talked sarcastically about advisers who urged him to get "the right political ring" into his oratory and his policy proposals. And he told jokes.


Reminding the audience of his "love for sports," Mr. Bush added: "And this being an election year, my competitive juices are flowing more than ever. And so today I'm making an announcement that many of you have been expecting for a long time. I am officially declaring my entry into your best-bagger contest. Just one question -- paper or plastic?"

It was a clearly improved version of the promotional speeches the President has been making for his economic proposals, and it drew a wildly enthusiastic response from the grocers in Orlando.

But Mr. Bush could not seem to escape the impression that, with the Democratic field still in disarray and the economy still in recession, he was still running against himself. Mom and Apple Pie

Mr. Bush can raise cheers from his audience, as he did today, by attacking government regulators with a late 20th-century version of an old American saw. "Regulations may have stated aims as wholesome as Mom and the apple pie," he said. "But you know better than anyone that when regulators carry that regulation too far, there won't be any apple pie for Mom to buy."

And the President could also note with a tone of satisfaction that the grocers' convention included a seminar entitled "The Regulators Are Back." But he had to leave it there and not go into more detail, since the "regulators" mentioned are in his Administration, which resumed issuing regulations at an energetic pace after the deregulation frenzy of the Reagan years.

After drawing a distinctly unenthusiastic response from a crowd in Philadelphia last week, when he gave a professorial recitation of his economic proposals, Mr. Bush seemed determined to rouse his audience with exhortations today.

He urged his listeners to pepper their Congressional representatives during the Feb. 8-17 Congressional recess with demands that they pass his economic proposals by March 20, the deadline he set in his State of the Union Message last Tuesday.

Mr. Bush acknowledged that the nation had "run into some hard times," but told the grocers not to listen to "professional pessimists" who he said "tell us America has become weak and disabled -- that our economy has fallen and it can't get up."

"Well, that's plain bunk!"the President said, his voice rising and his fist pounding the lectern. Focus on the Economy

Mr. Bush focused his remarks almost entirely on the economy and other domestic issues, part of a campaign tactic of avoiding talk of foreign policy to avoid criticism that he spends too much time on diplomacy.

He did mention foreign affairs, drawing applause for his leadership in the Persian Gulf war. He also talked about his meeting with world leaders.

"I had a fascinating visit with Boris Yeltsin up at Camp David on Saturday," Mr. Bush said. "This man's got some tough reforms here. Got to stay with him. Got to help him make them work."

But the President quickly brought the talk back to politics, suggesting that Congressional Democrats are lagging behind even the Russians in moving into the new world. "Isn't it ironic that at the exact moment the world is turning to our values of more economic freedom and competition, some in the United States want to go just the opposite way," he said.

Otherkinsey Scale
Jul 17, 2012

Just a little bit of sunshine!

BetterToRuleInHell posted:

If you have to email someone to buy you skim milk, you lose my vote.

If there's one thing we've learned about Hillary lately, it's that she can buy her own chipotle.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

My Imaginary GF posted:

Sure, bury away the issue on some backpage. Boy howdy, the issues page of a campaign website! I'm sure that's what Sanders cares about, and not the "contribute" button.

Which do you think Sanders' staff cares more about, the placement of the contribute button, or having an issues page for white folk to pass around links to on facebook to show their friends that their wonderbread of a candidate is truly artisinal?

Bernie Sanders: "I will work to end institutional racism"

My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich

Carrasco posted:

If there's one thing we've learned about Hillary lately, it's that she can buy her own chipotle.

It's also that her color is fake.


More money doesn't end institutional racism. You know what ends institutional racism? Admitting that the problem is race.

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:

My Imaginary GF posted:

Sure, bury away the issue on some backpage. Boy howdy, the issues page of a campaign website! I'm sure that's what Sanders cares about, and not the "contribute" button.

Which do you think Sanders' staff cares more about, the placement of the contribute button, or having an issues page for white folk to pass around links to on facebook to show their friends that their wonderbread of a candidate is truly artisinal?

Sanders is Whole Wheat*; bitter, boring, embraced by hippies in the 60s, and dissatisfied whites looking for "authenticity" in the twenty-first century.

* Commercial whole wheat is in fact white flour with the germ and bran (the coloured bits) added in- much like his racial views :ssh:

Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

Wheat bread tastes better than white.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Did you know there is a state-run flour mill in the US?

It is in North Dakota and is the 4th largest in the US.




North Dakota might be the most socialist state.

My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich

Trabisnikof posted:

Did you know there is a state-run flour mill in the US?

It is in North Dakota and is the 4th largest in the US.

Let them eat privitized wheat.

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:
I like my presidents like my (rye) bread; black and northern.

Salvor_Hardin
Sep 13, 2005

I want to go protest.
Nap Ghost

My Imaginary GF posted:

More money doesn't [do thing].

I think this is the first time you have ever expressed this sentiment.

Brannock
Feb 9, 2006

by exmarx
Fallen Rib

Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:

Wheat bread tastes better than white.

Whole wheat grain. I see this soft-rear end wheat bread in stores and it's basically white bread dyed brown. If it's fluffy and you can smush it with your hand, it ain't bread. You get you some Brownberry Natural Wheat Grain.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005


A Grupo Bimbo brand

Brannock
Feb 9, 2006

by exmarx
Fallen Rib
I am motherfucking serious. You try out some actual firm bread, it will change your life. It blows my mind that people tolerate soft-rear end air-injected bread that turns into lumps in their palate instead of some real bread with real flavor.

If you're going to buy supermarket bread instead of going to a real bakery then at least buy some proper bread.

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

We need a new bread.

blue squares
Sep 28, 2007

Brannock posted:

I am motherfucking serious. You try out some actual firm bread, it will change your life. It blows my mind that people tolerate soft-rear end air-injected bread that turns into lumps in their palate instead of some real bread with real flavor.

If you're going to buy supermarket bread instead of going to a real bakery then at least buy some proper bread.

This is America, I shouldn't have to work hard to chew my food

Hollismason
Jun 30, 2007

Witchfinder General

Authentic Lithuanian bread with butter is the best snack ever.

My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich

Salvor_Hardin posted:

I think this is the first time you have ever expressed this sentiment.

More money doesn't cure poverty.

Only an honest and frank national discourse on priviledge and perception will win the war on poverty.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Grouchio posted:

We need a new bread.

Marbled Septembernickel

Sulphagnist
Oct 10, 2006

WARNING! INTRUDERS DETECTED

Brannock posted:

I am motherfucking serious. You try out some actual firm bread, it will change your life. It blows my mind that people tolerate soft-rear end air-injected bread that turns into lumps in their palate instead of some real bread with real flavor.

If you're going to buy supermarket bread instead of going to a real bakery then at least buy some proper bread.

I have no idea how Americans are capable of pooping when they don't regularly eat delicious rye bread.

Islam is the Lite Rock FM
Jul 27, 2007

by exmarx

Grouchio posted:

We need a new bread.

Zucchini bread?

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

DemeaninDemon posted:

Zucchini bread?

Holy poo poo, yes please.

My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Holy poo poo, yes please.

I bet you support Sanders, as well.

Me? I'm for Sourdough. Respect the mayor of flavor city.

JeffersonClay
Jun 17, 2003

by R. Guyovich
MIGF now that you're on the topic of institutional racism remind me what you think about Palestinians.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Trabisnikof posted:

Did you know there is a state-run flour mill in the US?

It is in North Dakota and is the 4th largest in the US.




North Dakota might be the most socialist state.

http://banknd.nd.gov is the only state owned bank in the country.

Cabbit
Jul 19, 2001

Is that everything you have?

Mister Macys posted:

Sanders is Whole Wheat*; bitter, boring, embraced by hippies in the 60s, and dissatisfied whites looking for "authenticity" in the twenty-first century.

* Commercial whole wheat is in fact white flour with the germ and bran (the coloured bits) added in- much like his racial views :ssh:

Which candidate is a telera roll?

My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich

JeffersonClay posted:

MIGF now that you're on the topic of institutional racism remind me what you think about Palestinians.

It isn't a good idea to concern troll outside the Republican party.

Take, for instance, O'Malley's proposal to create economic growth. Its a concern troll that gets him no attention; compare it to Trump's concern trolling on Lincoln's constitutional amendments, and look at how many headlines he grabs.

FAUXTON posted:

http://banknd.nd.gov is the only state owned bank in the country.

Isn't the Fed a state-owned bank?

Zarin
Nov 11, 2008

I SEE YOU

My Imaginary GF posted:

More money doesn't cure poverty.

Only an honest and frank national discourse on priviledge and perception will win the war on poverty.

And to think, I was absolutely sure that MIGF didn't post ironically.

My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich

Zarin posted:

And to think, I was absolutely sure that MIGF didn't post ironically.

I didn't. You can throw money at problems, that don't change the cultural aspects of poverty nor that racism is a naturally occuring phenomenon.

Munkeymon
Aug 14, 2003

Motherfucker's got an
armor-piercing crowbar! Rigoddamndicu𝜆ous.



Raskolnikov38 posted:

Holy poo poo, yes please.

Seconded. Thirded?

All savory applications can be on tortillas which have both better shelf life and volume economy.

Basically, tortillas > bread for most of the stuff you want bread for that's not croutons, sopping up soup and something to eat anchovies on.

Mister Facetious
Apr 21, 2007

I think I died and woke up in L.A.,
I don't know how I wound up in this place...

:canada:

Hollismason posted:

Authentic Lithuanian bread with butter is the best snack ever.

That's what my dad said once.

Of course, he also said the butter needed to be twice as thick as the slice it was on...

v v v Naan owns.

I agree with MIGF on something... :psyduck:

Mister Facetious fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Sep 1, 2015

My Imaginary GF
Jul 17, 2005

by R. Guyovich
change of opinion, most american bread ethiopian sourbread

second most american bread naan

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ComradeCosmobot
Dec 4, 2004

USPOL July
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