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He kept his two income streams tied together, so that when one ran into trouble it took the other one down with it. He could have just as easily kept the business separate and potentially been able to keep one of the income streams working when the shit hit the fan.

Depends on what he means by "ultra-processed", but you can bet that it's probably not a reasonable criteria that he'll be using.

The man isn't rational, and doesn't base his conclusions on sound reasoning.

Note the call to lessen regulations around "raw milk, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine". That's pretty insane.

And I can almost be certain that what they'll do is eliminate funding for snap benefits and school lunches going to what they'll classify as "ultra processed foods", without adjusting funding to account for what they left behind being significantly more expensive. Some definitions of "ultra-processed" include things like "store bought bread", "frozen meals", "soup concentrate", "yoghurt" and "sausage".
Call me cynical, but I think if you apply the stricter work requirements for benefits they always want, while reducing the scope of the benefits to cover fewer things, and almost nothing helpful for the people with the severe time restrictions the work requirements can cause you'll end up seeing people use the benefits far less often, because they give less usable food for the money. Then they'll use that to justify reducing the size of the program even further.

We expect people making school lunches to make hundreds of meals that finish at the same time, to have the meal be nutritionally complete, tasty, and now also not use frozen or premade ingredients. We give them literally $1 for the ingredients for these meals, and maybe another $2 for operational overhead like labor costs and equipment.
Saying you can't use canned tomato sauce, peanut butter, pre-packaged bread or ground meats is basically just cutting funding for feeding children under the guise of not paying for a scary sounding classification of food.

Ha! I didn't see that at first. I love "fuck you so hard that we can and will put a significant dollar value on it being more humiliating".

The assets were auctioned off to pay his debt to the families of the Sandy Hook shooting.
So effectively they gave money to the families of children killed in a school shooting that he slandered in cruel and vile ways.

Given that the families pretty reasonably dislike him, the added bonus of his creation being used to openly mock him and promote a message they endorse is quality icing on the cake.

His supplement business was under the same business ownership? That's preposterously stupid and hilarious.

I can actually forgive this one. A lot of medical devices regulations require that if you function as something or make it available, then you need to pass the certification for offering it.
You can't just relabel a device as something else if you clearly intend for it to be used as a medical device. Shady Bob's emergency electrical heart massager isn't going to fly.

In the US, hearing aids required a prescription until 2022. What I can glean from translated sites is that India still has that requirement.

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/07/nx-s1-5026948/conservatives-in-red-states-turn-their-attention-to-ending-no-fault-divorce-laws

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna161562

There's a massive difference between the social stigma attached to coming out, and the revocation of the legal rights associated with marriage.
It's not even that long ago that people couldn't visit their life partner in the hospital following an accident, because they weren't married.

Limited access to certain types of contraception in certain areas is a very different beast than overturning the case that ruled that contraception isn't criminally indecent.

If you don't know how far civil rights have come even in the past 20 years, or how much further back than that they openly want to push things back, I don't think you're paying attention.
Abortion had just as much legal protection as porn or gay marriage, and it "wasn't going anywhere" until it was suddenly gone.

What have they got to lose?

Gay marriage, contraception, porn, legal divorce? Just off the top of my head.

While true, it's kinda tangential here, no?

If you suddenly disappear with no markers of violent crime, it's unlikely they're going to jump to charging someone with murder on the grounds of "you were once extremely insensitive and rude to her".

The notion of getting a special edition white one, then swapping the shell to a custom black is funny.

Right? Like, four years ago we had to shutdown big chunks of the world, inject trillions of Dollars of money into circulation to keep things vaguely moving, millions of deaths, logistical and manufacturing delays galore, and people are pissed that we're not better off than we were before. So pissed that they want to take control from the people who have been turning it around and give it back to the people who fucked it up in the first place.

I'm always confused by the need for the Democrats to be more policy specific, when they're the only party that actually shares any policy.
I feel like people aren't saying they're unsure of the specifics of Kamala's policy points, so they're going to instead vote for the guy who rambles incoherently for an hour about evil Mexicans.