They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.
— Elle (@elleisanisland.bsky.social) May 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Humor, the Best Medicine!
REPORTER: You campaigned on lowering the price of groceries. How can you justify cutting food assistance in this bill?
TRUMP: The cut is gonna give everybody much more food— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) May 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
By forcing them to starve and entering the cool zone, we will have more food. That is, you will be able to hunt your neighbors for food.
— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) May 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Ramona
So Rep Gerry Connolly succumbed to cancer today. Who is going to take his place on his committee now?
Geminid
@Ramona: From what I’ve read it will likely be Rep. Patrick Lynch of Massachusetts who replaces Connolly as Ranking member. A lot of people want Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett though.
I’m not sure it makes much difference with the Republicans in the majority, since they set the agenda. But the Ranking Member job has acquired a certain amount of symbolic value so we’ll probably hear a lot about this contest.
cain
@Ramona:
It seems like Dem leadership is dying off.
sab
@Geminid: Stephen Lynch, not Patrick?
Geminid
@sab: You’re probably right. The only thing I know for sure is Rep. Lynch is from Massachusetts.
NotMax
French fries cooked in water instead of oil?
Hard pass.
Gloria DryGarden
I’m not clear when this cut to Medicare and food stamps is set to begin.
I already live an extremely frugal lifestyle. Getting older seems to involve more health things, and a more careful diet. This is going to matter.
NotMax
@Gloria DryGarden
Should it pass in the full House (iffy at present with the ultra slim GOP majority) it’s most probably DOA in the Senate, who will amend it and kick it back to the House. If (and it’s a BIG if ) something similar then passes both chambers and is signed into law, budget year begins Oct. 1st.
eclare
@cain:
Three in just the past few months: Connelly, Turner, and a rep (IIRC) from AZ.
scav
Trump’s recipe for stone soup would definitely rule out any of those socialistic “contributed” additions of vegetables, etc. Granite with un-fluorinated un-treated water; that’s it. The stone will cost you; free market pricing to protect you from the woke.
Tony Jay
@NotMax:
That’s boiled potatoes, isn’t it? With the likelihood of mashed potatoes. Though I guess this new paeleoshittic diet of The Pustule’s would rule out expensive luxuries like salt, butter and, of course, olive oil.
Real patriots could just not wash, of course, and collect their own natural oils in hessian sacks. Plenty of salt in there. And it’s both organic and locally sourced! Checkmate, Libs.
cain
@eclare:
Yep. I suppose that generation of politicians are going to try to hold on as long as they can.
Aussie Sheila
@cain:
If they are trying to ‘hang on’ after the normal retirement age for working stiffs, they need to be dynamited out. Christ almighty, elected Office isn’t a ‘right’, it’s a privilege granted by the voters supporting the Party that person represents.
No one, and I mean no one, is ‘owed’ the right to continue in elected Office for as long as they feel like running. For a start, such attitudes clog up what should be a pipeline of young and hungry wannabes.
David Hogg was foolish and wrong to run his campaign from a position in the official Democratic Party apparatus. That was/is reprehensible, in my opinion.
But his goals were correct. It is precisely those elected in ‘safe’ seats that need to be turned over. Unless and until a way is found to ensure that there are younger, more capable people willing to step up, elected members being carried out in wheelchairs and pine boxes will continue.
It is positively unseemly to see a political Party in that position, particularly the only US political Party actually committed to liberal democracy.
NotMax
@Tony Jay
Sparked memory of the #10 cans of peas in the pantry at the summer camp where I worked. Very large print, in bold, in a box outlined in red on the label reading “Peas do not meet minimum FDA standards.”
Below it in much smaller print was a paragraph reading “Above legend mandatory. Peas actually high quality.”
p.a.
Can’t post the photo-meme here, but it’s the father/son cable guys who are either pawnbrokers or motorcycle makers. (I don’t know or care which.)
Dad: They’re coming here illegally!
Son: They need our help!
Dad: What about helping Americans?!
Son: OK! Let’s help Americans.
Dad: NO! THAT’S SOCIALISM!
BellyCat
@NotMax:
American Fries ™ = Mashed Potatoes
Get with the new program!
BellyCat
@Aussie Sheila: We’re supposed to put OUR democracy in the hands of CHILDREN?!?!
(Narrator: Yes. Who else do you think will be wiping your ass someday?)
BellyCat
@NotMax: Where was the Surgeon General’s label?
Canned peas, cooked to shrivelment, are only one very small step above Lima beans at the bottom of my overcooked food chain forged during childhood.
Aussie Sheila
@BellyCat:
People in their 30s, 40s and 50s aren’t children. People in their late 60s, 70s and older are old people. Better ruled by the young than by the old. The old can listen and teach when asked.
Otherwise, they should get out of the way.
Gerontocracy is a politics of privilege and status.
NotMax
@BellyCat
Worse still were the #10 cans (either misordered or misdelivered one time) of ravioli. Not in any kind of sauce, packed in brine.
Why such an abomination existed remains a mystery.
lowtechcyclist
@scav:
Stone soup, and you can’t even take the stone for granite.
:d&r:
NotMax
@lowtechcyclist
A little pink Himalayan salt will perk that right up.
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What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
Coming around to the idea tha 90% of our problem is people these days will believe anything they see on the internet. Couple that with a lot of right wing online influencers while the Dems seem to still want to base campaigns around messaging through traditional media and we have a situation where right wing messaging is 24/7 defining Democrats as only caring about esoteric special interests (trans people, illegal immigrants, etc) and we have a problem.
The Dems are letting the opposition define them except for like 10 months every four years. People are too dumb or distracted to sort the truth from spin about… healthy diets, cooking, medical care and treatment and of course politics.
BellyCat
@NotMax: GAH!
Baud
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?:
Worse. Dems allow other Dems to define them.
BellyCat
Only 90%?
Baud
@BellyCat:
Good job not believing what you read on the Internet.
BellyCat
@Baud: Only all the internet traditions warrant our belief.
Baud
Some potential leopard feasting today
NotMax
@Baud
You want sweet and sour or honey mustard sauce with that face?
;)
MagdaInBlack
@Baud: Gee, thanks for the close-up of rfkjr. He’s even more unattractive than I thought
p.s. I’ll be skipping g breakfast now.
Baud
@MagdaInBlack:
The RFK war on overeating is already working.
Glory b
@Aussie Sheila: In the US, acting on such attitudes is illegal discrimination based on age and is a violation of the Civil Rights Act.
You are assuming a person’s characteristics based on an immutable, unchangeable aspect, no different than their race, gender, disability, religion, etc.
Just as others have said, many of the people saying the same never make the same request (to step aside) of St Bernard of VT.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@BellyCat: I’m feeling generous this morning.
Booger
@lowtechcyclist: Yeah, gneiss rock ya got there. Shame if sumpin were to happen to it.
NotMax
@Booger
Holy schist, Batman!
:)
MagdaInBlack
@Baud: 😐
EarthWindFire
Over 30 comments and no soylent green references yet? Impressive.
When we were kids, my sister thought stone soup was real and tried to cook it one night for dinner. A trip to Burger King soon followed.
Rusty
One small grace this morning, all the headlines on the Trump press conference with the president of South Africa make clear that Trump was promoting a false conspiracy theory. Bay steps, baby steps.
geg6
@cain:
If that’s what it takes to actually get new leadership, I’m not against it.
prostratedragon
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Suzanne
@Glory b: Voting for candidates for elected office isn’t hiring. It has never been subject to the same legal protections.
On the topic of cheap-ass cooking, I sometimes wonder why we associate certain foods with breakfast but not dinner. I do intermittent fasting, and thus don’t do breakfast, but I love breakfast food. I eat oatmeal for dinner a lot. Cook up a couple of cups of steel-cut oats, and it’s at least five meals. Mix with some chopped-up apple or spices or nuts or yogurt….. so good, and cheap AF.
prostratedragon
You mean — federal employees don’t get all kinds of freebies?!!
prostratedragon
Mea maxima culpa
“Volver”
Suzanne
@eclare: The other Rep who passed was Grijalva. A good man.
sab
@Suzanne: On a regular basis we have breakfast-for-dinner when I just can’t get inspired to make anything more complicated. Toast, eggs and hashbrowns.
After years of watching Midsommer Murders reruns I have finally convimced husband that baked beans and toast are not just edible but actually tasty.
Planetjanet
Effing ghouls on this thread.
JeanneT
@Baud:
One of the few good things RFK Jr might do is support the regenerative agriculture movement. I don’t expect it, but it’s possible.
Baud
@JeanneT:
Maybe. There’s always some random good things that comes out of the maelstrom. They’ll be touted as making the general degeneracy worthwhile.
Professor Bigfoot
@Planetjanet: It’s just one more reason to hate Democrats.
Suzanne
@sab: I love most of the traditional American breakfast foods. I had a hard time in Germany with the breakfast beer, though! Beer for breakfast, damn.
Anyway
Same here. Avocado toast sometimes “with an egg on it” is (was) a dinner favorite but the Dumpf Tarriffs have made it spendy…
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
Are we sure it won’t be leeches?
Anyway
elected feds have great healthcare.
prostratedragon
“The Economy,” Clay Bennett
Bupalos
@NotMax: I believe the cuts are currently set for 2026.
Bupalos
@Glory b: age is immutable? This is very good news.
Suzanne
@Anyway: Yes, agreed. I’ve cut back on eggs since they’ve gotten expensive, but I do love them on avo toast!
Gloria DryGarden
@sab: yummy.
But too many carbs if one is flirting with diabetes, or high pre diabetic numbers..
Wapiti
@NotMax: My barber (Alaska Native, grew up poor) told a tale of a boat that wrecked near Cordova, AK, when he was a kid. His family got a bunch of #10 cans of diced potatoes from the salvage. He fondly remembers those potatoes.
Paul in KY
@Tony Jay: I must say I’ve never thought of collecting my own oils for cooking use. Checkmate indeed.
Paul in KY
@Booger: I hope something happens to it to make it edible.
Paul in KY
@Suzanne: When I was on Spring Break in Daytona that was on the menu. Only time in my life I’ve been drunk for a solid week.
Miss Bianca
@Suzanne: beer for breakfast used to be de rigueur back in the day, before coffee and tea became widely available (and fashionable).
frosty
@Suzanne: ”The beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad, so I had one more for dessert.”
Sunday Morning Coming Down
Quicksand
“Soup” is kind of an old-fashioned word.
Bill Arnold
@MagdaInBlack:
Via John Cole: