Oh yeah, Texas brought us razor sharp legal minds like Ted Cruz and Chip Roy. Definitely inspiring

The white label manufacturer would provide the ingredients. I’m familiar with a couple companies who do that. One is Danny Cash, who make a variety of lame-ass right wing sauces. I’ve tried some of their sauces, and not only are they quite poor ingredient-wise, containing pointless preservatives, but they are also not great tasting. Not at all surprising for what is oddly grifting conservative bullshit (they used to make a few ‘maga’ sauces).

It’s apparently normal hot sauce but not surprisingly, the ingredient list sounds like complete shit. For a ghost pepper sauce, the first few items on the ingredient list should include ghost peppers but on Kirk sauce, every variety says “spices”.

Fuck… I love hot sauce but I don’t think I trust Kirk sauce.

“I think he learned his lesson” - Susan Collins

Great news. The NM race was also won by a Democrat by a large margin, which is less surprising.

I don’t think he can pardon them, but he might give them some of our tax money.

About time this absolute jackass faced some negative consequences

Who said it was? I’m speaking of my personal experience as someone who lives there. So the notion that one would vote for an imperfect candidate to block a fascist from taking power is not unfamiliar to me.

Lula doesn’t really stand a snowman’s chance in hell of winning this election.

oh, ok

I guess what I wonder is why Trump fans are either oblivious or indifferent to being lied to constantly

I don’t expect people to have already known how tariffs worked unless they personally imported items over $800. A fair amount of people do that as part of their jobs or businesses, though.

However, what I mean is working through the logic of Trump’s lies about it. Why would foreign governments pay for a private company to sell something to the US? If it mean the exporting company had to give us a discount, that sort of makes sense, but as I noted earlier, a 100% tariff, if always paid by someone outside the US, would mean it’s free for us, and over 120% would mean they paid us to take their goods. Obviously that would never happen.

Like everything he says about tariffs, or in general, the “tariff refund checks” is an offensively stupid concept. First, he lies his ass off all the time saying that foreign governments pay tariffs, which can easily shown to not only be false, but to make no sense at all (100% tariff = free for us?). He recently said that Mexico “paid for the wall” because he “charged them tariffs”. So either he straight up lies because admitting it’s a tax on Americans sounds bad, or he’s actually too stupid to know how tariffs work. Anyway, so if foreign governments pay for them, why would we be getting a “refund”? Next, if we pay for them, why charge tariffs and then just give the money back?? All that thinking is too hard for your average maga dolt though.

Yeah, I was saying it from their perspective. No doubt that he’d never pay up, like the idiotic $5,000 thing that would cost the government 1.25 trillion.

Of course. They can’t do anything now, only give people money if they get reelected.

“I don’t care about you, I just want your vote”

That’s how the US works as well.

He wants his posts to actually show up on Facebook? I don’t really see that as regulating internet speech. Meta has meddled in tons of elections and I think it’s fair to complain about.

Running his own instance would be about the equivalent of just making their own website or blog. The point of social media is the dissemination to the public, and just having a Lemmy/whatever instance doesn’t accomplish that.

Bad guy seems to be Bolsonaro and Meta. Why would Lula be included in that?

I can’t believe that this era of extreme Trump bullshit, war on Iran, Trump supporting Israel 100, we still have people acting as if being aligned with Israel is the reason to not vote for a Democrat, despite them being far better on three dozen other issues.

For one, he says he doesn’t vote for fascists just as much as he says he doesn’t vote for corporate Democrats. But then he goes on to say while he thinks you should vote for third-party candidates who you really would like to see get elected in some elections, sometimes you need to be practical and vote for a candidate that is not ideal, but better, and could actually be elected, for elections where that matters. Which is also what I’ve always said.