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Should be a wild four years.

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In American crime related news:
A 61-year-old named Richard Ferguson was kiIIed by a previously deported illegal from Guatemala who was driving drunk in NC.

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The illegal, known as Wilmer Fuentes Mejia, was released into the U.S. under the Obama admin, deported by Trump, and came back again illegally. A local DA allowed him to WALK FREE after MULTIPLE DUIs. The illegal now has an ICE hold.

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In cases like these we should just chop their hands and legs off and then deport them. After being flooded with hundreds of thousands of cripples these shithole countries would learn to stop sending them over the border.
 
Out of curiosity, does anyone know a good resource for these types of things if you wanted to learn better house keeping skills?
Cooking stuff or budgeting?

For cooking, Pinterest is a nice agrigate of tons of different sites and recipes. If you're looking to save money/budget, cutting down food waste is a great start. Look at recipes that have similar ingredients but different tastes as to not be boring, to ensure that all the veg, etc. will be used before spoiling. Right now we are entering prime soup making season, make big ones at the beginning of the month and freeze and if money is tighter at the end of a month, you'll have some options. Got about 4 nice ones in my freezer at the moment, and another bonus is its pretty much a night off from having to cook. Just get a nice bread and boom, you're set.
 
An interesting point/cope re: Mamdani- ultimately Cuomo is still a Democrat, and if it were between him and Mamdani, it would basically be like California where you get your pick of Democrat and Democrat. As such, it is to a degree ridiculous to ask the only Republican in the running to stand aside to allow the Democrats to resolve their own civil war.

If the moderate Dems are cleared out, and every single Dem is forced to own that Democrat = Mamdani, then there may be a road out of the mess, however narrow it is.

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That being said, Silwa was the wrong Republican candidate IMO, and the demographic outlook is pessimistic (the browns want socialism). Likewise, is it worth placing your primary metropole in the hands of the enemy, or allow a shitlib flood to escape the city and infect other states (look at Katrina, blacks, and Texas)?

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There was a monastery where the door for the cafeteria was very thin and the trays could not fit through it. This was to keep the monks humble in that if they didn't fit through the door they were supposed to stop eating until they did. Perhaps we could create a similar system for these fat negresses. Something like a double door that only opens if the combined weight of the person and their groceries is less than 200 lbs.
Honestly, the way I've seen black people talked about here recently just sickens me. Coming up with all these convoluted schemes to torture and humiliate them, this is the pastime of a sick mind. All you need to do is starve them/shoot the ones who resort to theft.
 
I've also seen the inverse a lot (well known example being Jimmy Carter) where the family insist that everything must be tried even if it's completely hopeless and keep the person in painful agony for extra weeks or months rather than letting them go.
This can be a personal Catholic belief, one that Mother Angelica of EWTN chose. If you believe in Purgatory and know that earthly suffering (borne with grace) can reduce your time in Purgatory, then choosing to extend your life through risky, painful medical intervention is merely furthering God's Grace in you.

In Mother Angelica's case she was bedridden for so long her bones were dissolving and she was in constant pain. This was her choice to be closer to God, but she also believed that families should make the same choice for their Catholic loved ones. Keep them on the ventilator as long as their body still lives with it and maybe you are reducing their time in Purgatory. She argues that choosing to "pull the plug" could be making their Purgatory time longer and that's not something we should want for anyone.
 
I can't believe it was actually easier for Trump to broker a ceasefire (a tenuous one, but still) between Israel and Hamas than it is between Ukraine and Russia.
Both Zelensky and Putin are embarrassing. Fucking small-dick energy from both these clowns.
The simple reality is that it was a lot easier to exert leverage and pressure on Israel and Hamas then Ukraine and Russia. Ceasefire talks on the matter have gone in circles for a long time now and unless anything drastically changes that will continue to be the case.
 
I get the pain management side, especially some types of cancer which are just infamously painful. But the idea of dying while high, not thinking straight or in your right mind at all, is kind of creepy. No good options at that point I guess. Also, to keep this on topic, uh, Joe Biden's dying of ass cancer. He's deeply sick inside his ass.
That's the way we all go out, if it isn't instant. You choose between excruciating pain, and less excruciating pain because you're blitzed off your tits.
Car marketing has deeply penetrated your butthole
There's an image!
 
This can be a personal Catholic belief, one that Mother Angelica of EWTN chose. If you believe in Purgatory and know that earthly suffering (borne with grace) can reduce your time in Purgatory, then choosing to extend your life through risky, painful medical intervention is merely furthering God's Grace in you.

In Mother Angelica's case she was bedridden for so long her bones were dissolving and she was in constant pain. This was her choice to be closer to God, but she also believed that families should make the same choice for their Catholic loved ones. Keep them on the ventilator as long as their body still lives with it and maybe you are reducing their time in Purgatory. She argues that choosing to "pull the plug" could be making their Purgatory time longer and that's not something we should want for anyone.
I thought having a pope and doctrines n shit was supposed to cut down on the heresy and trying to mind-read God; I guess the opposite of sola scriptura is "Catholicism is the personal expression of my mental illness".
 
Zohran Mamdani: “We came here to remake the state in the image of our people.”

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This lunatic is going to raise the corporate tax rate to the same as New Jersey's and increase tax yet again on high earners, driving business out of the city - all to pay for stuff like his mobile homeless shelters, I mean "free" buses.

I wish I could say "New Yorkers are going to learn", but I don't think they are going to.
 
in your attempt to make a joke your getting closer to the truth than you realize. Might examine that though SLIGHTLY more in depth.

Crazy that Fentanyl kills more than cancer now though, Suicide and homicide are also ahead to as long as your under 45
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They call it "accidents" fucking crazy
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Look at the bottom left hand corner of that first chart. Imagine how bad your life would suck if you were an INFANT who died of heart disease.
In cases like these we should just chop their hands and legs off and then deport them. After being flooded with hundreds of thousands of cripples these shithole countries would learn to stop sending them over the border.
Can you imagine if that was our illegal immigration policy even for just a decade? We catch you and you can't produce a green card and we just shoot you on the spot.
I mean I understand it's not practical, but it would be pretty funny.
 
This can be a personal Catholic belief, one that Mother Angelica of EWTN chose. If you believe in Purgatory and know that earthly suffering (borne with grace) can reduce your time in Purgatory, then choosing to extend your life through risky, painful medical intervention is merely furthering God's Grace in you.

In Mother Angelica's case she was bedridden for so long her bones were dissolving and she was in constant pain. This was her choice to be closer to God, but she also believed that families should make the same choice for their Catholic loved ones. Keep them on the ventilator as long as their body still lives with it and maybe you are reducing their time in Purgatory. She argues that choosing to "pull the plug" could be making their Purgatory time longer and that's not something we should want for anyone.
I thought they retconned that purgatory no longer exists
also fuck year Cap'n Nun, the saltiest sister of the seven seas YARRRRRR
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I mean with inoperable cancer, I have had family members as well as friends do the "painkillers/fuck it" route. I mean they have to be hospitalized and put into a coma until they die at the very end, which is what they do anyway after you've gone through the expensive radiation chemotherapy route to squeeze out a couple of extra horrible months of pain. Pain which is mainly caused from the chemotherapy and radiation, even though your cancer is terminal.
My Grandma had terminal cancer, and I remember she just came and stayed with us. She didn't even quit smoking, she just did the painkillers and waited to die. She heard that the median survival time with treatment for stage 4 small cell lung cancer is a year to a year and a half. Without treatment it's 6 months. I looked that up to check my work and yeah it's about a 1-1.5 years with treatment vs 6-12 months without.
But you have to look at the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation and weigh whether or not you want to cling to an extra few months or a year or two. I know that sounds easy but you also have to take into account the QUALITY of that life. I'd rather count down the clock living like a normal person popping morphine like they're tic tacs and crossing things off my bucket list then laying in a hospital bed looking like a hairless mummy who is in constant agony from vomiting and the chemo shits.
We weren't made to desperately claw for any little scrap of life we can. When it's our time to go sometimes we just have to go with dignity. It's less of a burden on yourself and it's less of a burden on the healthcare system.
My dad had stage 4 lung cancer. Smoked all his life, did pipeline welding, Marine Corp jet mechanic work, played with asbestos...just about everything you can do to increase your risk of lung cancer. He chose surgery, chemo, and radiation to ensure that my son had memories of him. That was about 6 years ago, and the tough ol' man is still alive and kicking. He got to see my brother have two sons because he chose to stick around.

That said, he isn't the same man he was before chemo. Losing 1/3rd of a lung will cause that, but he also nearly had his kidneys fail because of the full body scan contrast not flushing properly. He's not been going to checkups for it, and he's decided he is not going to go through chemo again when his cancer inevitably returns.

He never quit smoking either lmao
 
My dad had stage 4 lung cancer. Smoked all his life, did pipeline welding, Marine Corp jet mechanic work, played with asbestos...just about everything you can do to increase your risk of lung cancer. He chose surgery, chemo, and radiation to ensure that my son had memories of him. That was about 6 years ago, and the tough ol' man is still alive and kicking. He got to see my brother have two sons because he chose to stick around.

That said, he isn't the same man he was before chemo. Losing 1/3rd of a lung will cause that, but he also nearly had his kidneys fail because of the full body scan contrast not flushing properly. He's not been going to checkups for it, and he's decided he is not going to go through chemo again when his cancer inevitably returns.

He never quit smoking either lmao
That's another thing: even with advanced stages of cancer, your odds of survival with chemo aren't always zero. It can put cancer into remission.
 
I can't believe it was actually easier for Trump to broker a ceasefire (a tenuous one, but still) between Israel and Hamas than it is between Ukraine and Russia.
Both Zelensky and Putin are embarrassing. Fucking small-dick energy from both these clowns.
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Doomers will say Trump failed on his campaign promise ("He SaId He WoUlD eNd It On DaY 1!").
 
Out of curiosity, does anyone know a good resource for these types of things if you wanted to learn better house keeping skills?
Some more advice on the cooking front. YouTube is your friend. There are infinite videos out there showing you how to cook just about anything. A favorite channel of mine is Food Wishes with Chef John. (Some other nice ones are The Mediterranean Dish and Sip and Feast if you like Mediterranean food.) If you're looking for budget friendly cooking recipes, Spend with Pennies has a website and a YouTube channel, and there's a website called BudgetBytes. But there are infinite other channels out there with other cooking videos you can search for.

YouTube can teach you just about anything when it comes to repair, cleaning, yard work or anything around the house. I don't know anything about repair, but I was able to repair a dryer by consulting YouTube and watching a repair video by a repair tech. This is the golden age of DIY instruction.
 
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