Joe Money, Joe Problems: the November 2021 U.S. Politics Thread

diesel milk????? no thank you!!!!

diesel her about 8 dollars a gallon or so

a small price to pay for improved performance

am i sorry for this post? a little bit, yes.

this is me resisting the urge to correct for US vs imperial gallons

different unit

thxbye

don't do it. would only raise hell.

lol at anybody choosing to have nine kids and complaining about the price of anything.

i heard there was milk chat going on, did i get here too latte??

Milk Mustaches - did any u.s. politician appear in one of those? Celebs like Arnold that later became political icons don’t count

https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.rogerebert.com/uploads/review/primary_image/reviews/the-straight-story-1999/straight-story-image.jpg

maybe having nine kids is just an attempt to get more milk

aw, caek, I love htat scene.

Like, you know what else is more expensive when you have nine kids? Literally everything.

Do you know how much the $1 value meal at McDonald's is when you have nine kids? $9!

yeah, the milk consumption might be within (the ridiculous) government guidelines. the 9 kids, however.

just watching your chance to ever reach san diego Monster Jam slip away with that 8th sibling

maybe having nine kids is just an attempt to get more milk

If there really was an equivalent left wing media outrage generation ecosystem, this would quickly become a very serious investigation and there would be accusations of trump voters having more children just so that they could buy even more milk

It’s all just so that when they’re putting the tenth gallon of milk on the conveyor belt, they can say “I have many children, and this is getting expensive. The milk consumption I mean”

time for Biden to implement a one child policy

"let's build up a high sensitivity to fluctuating milk prices" a common tinder line from dogs

sounds like a D. Boon lyric

Republicans are forcing cats to breed in order to drive up milk demand even more and crash the sustem

Some are calling Operation Kitty Licks

We’re all a little punchy this week, aren’t we

How much milk do you think Joe Manchin throws away every year

Not so much punchy as a little milky, imo.

If you have nine kids, how do you get them around? Do you drive a fucking bus? How much does a bus cost? Can't be cheap! Plus you need a big car to cart around all those groceries. 12 gallons of milk or whatever, that's like a whole trunk for most cars! How many refrigerators do you need?

What is the optimum number of kids for a person to have and what makes up that number

And they said one kid is a foster, which means they get gov't money that surely covers the milk bill.

The whole point of the milk price inflation story is that the middle class are suffering, dammit. In their own minds, that suffering is undeniably true and they are fed up and would like to have a word with the manager, who is Joe Biden.

optimum number is obviously zero considering climate change and our general impending doom etc., one for "jeez never doing that again" households, two or maaaaaybe three for reasons of having them be well-socialized, keeping each other busy, etc. (to be clear, i was the third and last my parents had, and intend on having no kids.)

trick question, dmac, nice try. it would depend entirely on how much milk you can carry home each day.

1 kid + 1 "old soul" is optimal

it's very tricky because 2 kids or 2 "old souls" is a nightmare

The sooner we instigate a one child policy that ends the suffering of the middle child forever, the better

optimum number is obviously zero considering climate change and our general impending doom etc., one for "jeez never doing that again" households, two or maaaaaybe three for reasons of having them be well-socialized, keeping each other busy, etc.

Actually the optimum number is negative, which is why I try to kill at least one child per year

I dunno about optimum number, but other things aside, probably not so many that you complain about the cost to buy them so much fucking milk.

I mean, the thought of 9 kids gives me waking nightmares even typing the phrase out, but they did mention that not all of them are biologically theirs, so it is possible that some of them might be kids they've taken in for other family members or something. Point being, sometimes it's not always an intentional plan to end up with that many kids.

You start out trying to balance the number of kids with the number of "old souls"

Or maybe they abducted them all, and it's just hiding in plain sight. If only they offered any suspicious clues to the outside world, like buying 12 gallons of milk a week.

Keep an eye on your mailboxes (while I gank all your milk)

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/11/04/politics/january-6-committee-subpoenas/index.html

If I was working the supermarket and somebody came in every week to buy 12 gallons of milk, I would probably call the SPCA or something. And then CPS next. And then whoever it is that makes Lactaid, with a hot lead for them.

Or maybe I would assume they were youtubers doing some sort of stupid hot chili challenge. Or maybe they keep getting sprayed by skunks. Or maybe they're trying to recreate the snare drum scene from the J. Geils Band's "Centerfold" video.
https://i0.wp.com/www.thenewdrummer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Steven-Bladd-Milk-Drums.gif?ssl=1

Regardless, the last thing I would assume is that someone was drinking 12 gallons of milk a week.

They had two kids and then adopted a family group of two, and then a family group of 3, and then a single kid, and are fostering one more single. I watched at least that much of the video.

You know what's really expensive? ADOPTIONS.

Seriously, as I understand it adopting kids costs tens of thousands of dollar.

Cards on the table i was poking to see how far the "dont have kids you cant afford lady" line would be taken and lads idk idk i really didnt expect the poke to run that easily that far

https://theintercept.com/2021/11/04/build-back-better-billionaire-tobacco-taxes/

Free the vapes

lol you guys been talking milk all day

lol you guys been talking milk all day

What else would we be talking about, as we sit around our kitchen table with our paper and pencils, if not gabbing about the finer details of our monthly budget, just like all those legendary working folk invoked by every politician for the last half century?

This seems bad.

GOP rushing to pass extreme gerrymandered US House maps:

-Rs would hold 86% of seats in OH where Trump got 53%

-71-78% of seats in NC where Trump got 49.9%

-75% of seats in WI where Trump got 49%

-65% of seats in TX where Trump got 52%

Dems running out of time to stop it

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) November 4, 2021

maybe they can negotiate ohio down to like 84% of seats