It's not me. It's the Prez complaining about flushing 10 to 15 times and not being able to wash his hands. Remind me not to shake hands with him. Clearly he is making this a campaign issue to appeal to his base.
I would say it is insulting to my intelligence, but he isn't targeting me. He is targeting his supporters. Those who feel we need a President with "common sense". Yes, that is exactly what we need...
I wonder if any of his supporters feel their intelligence is being insulted?
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Well, if the President really is full of shit, it might actually take 10-15 times to flush.
A more insightful analysis would begin with the tabulation of number of required flushes by party affiliation, or length of time in office.
I can say I have no clue what you are talking about, but then I don't have a hard on looking for every little nit pick I can find to knock Trump. Typical Trump derangement syndrome. Just wait 5 years, it will go away on it's own. But something important, the flush lever in my toilet disintegrated and fell apart today. I've only been in the house 25 years and already there is not much left. The amazing thing, somebody thought they could make a couple bucks if they built a new handle and distributed it. In 4 different styles! Just amazing how that invisible hand guides things.
Mikek
But Bernie Sanders doesn't see why we need 23 different deodorants on the store shelves. One assumes that is plan is for government to tell you which one to use and the rest will be taken off the market. It's so much more efficient that way.
Soviet style - much more efficient in the short term, but stifles innovatio n, competition, development, progress. And the populace doesn't always want efficiency. Making Ladas may have been efficient in some way, but Russkis got fed up of having no other realistic choice. They were mass producing th e same car for over 40 years!
NT
The Washington Post didn't get it either:
John ;-#)#
They weren't called Ladas in Soviet Russia they're known as "Lada" because that was the name they exported them to the West under. The Soviet Union spanned like 12 time-zones from the Arctic to the desert latitudes and the Lada performed pretty well in all environments.
Not sure that one of the few export products the Soviets made that was so renowned for its solid design and ruggedness that people elsewhere wanted to buy it in decent quantity is the best example; it would have been silly to stop if there was still a good-sized market for it. And it received fairly regular upgrades along the way same as the VW Bug so it wasn't really the same product, exactly.
When Gibson guitars or Harley Davidson or Budweiser makes the same product for 40 years they call it "traditional"
You might say that in many ways the Soviet Union was "conservative" in the original meaning of the term. We do things in the old fashion if it ain't broke don't fix it. No we don't want your degenerate Western rock & roll and films corrupting our pure Soviet youth in a counter-revolutionary way and our traditional family values. etc.
When expats go to the Ukraine or Russia looking for a "traditional" wife or girlfriend they're talking about a Soviet-style wife, not some carbon-copy of an American woman who has thirty pairs of shoes from different manufacturers, only watches American TV shows and drives a BMW her previous boyfriend bought her. /shrug
Tell a man there are 23 different deodorants and 100 models of car for him to buy and he'll extol the virtues of the un-fettered market system, tell a man that there are applications available for women to easily catalog and sort all the single men in his area by income and attractiveness, and assist her to make well-informed market decisions about who to have sex with right from her smartphone and suddenly he's yearning for a planned economy.
It's very curious.
A gay friend of mine was once accosted by a hooker in New Orleans.
"$10 dollars", she hollers out. "No thanks, I'm gay."
..and without missing a beat, she counters: "$5 dollars"!
That's capitalism right there.
I don't want to go there...
(ducking)
John ;-#)#
The difference between late-stage capitalism and Soviet communism from a goods-and-services perspective is that in Soviet communism you can purchase one or two types of deodorant made by one domestic manufacturer from one local store. blech.
In late-stage capitalism you can purchase 23 types of deodorant all developed by one or two multinational conglomerates and manufactured God-knows-where from _two_ stores, Amazon and Wal-Mart, unless you're some type of non-rational actor who likes paying more than you need to for personal hygiene supplies. Meh...
You can buy a Coke product. or a Pepsi product. or some other kind of beverage product or even nothing at all if you e.g. hate America you virtue-signaling greenie f*ck.
Ok! I'll have a diet Pepsi, gosh. But only if it doesn't make me gay.
It's not even more efficient in the short term.
Speaking of 23 choices... One of the big mysteries in life (for me anyway) is whether there truly is any difference whatsoever in the various brands and types of toothpaste.
To wit: The lastest one I've seen marketed (and I am not making this up!) is called "Crest Detoxify". WTF??!
This reeks of total marketing bullshit. "Detoxify"? - what? you mean like what already happens when you brush with any other toothpaste? Or for that matter, maybe even brushing your teeth with water alone?
You look at ANY brand of toothpaste and the active ingredient is always the exact same (i.e., sodium fluoride or stannous fluoride), and usually in the exact same dosage.
Of course, the irony of it is that if one swallows an inordinate amount of any toothpaste, even this Crest "Detoxify" brand, it is.... toxic. :)
It even says so on the package.
No, that would be a TAB! :) I wonder if they even make that stuff anymore?
There is a difference between stannous (tin) and sodium fluoride. The "teeth whitening" toothpastes tend to have sodium fluoride because tin can stain teeth (particularly older formulations). The "pro health" sorts have stannous fluoride because it's much better at killing bacteria and protecting against plaque and tooth decay. Stannous fluoride toothpastes tend the be significantly more expensive, even within the same brand.
Ingesting fluoride isn't a good idea. It tends to be bad for the bones. The rest is basically a detergent and taste/smell good stuff.
s any difference whatsoever in the various brands and types of toothpaste.
) is called "Crest Detoxify". WTF??!
h any other toothpaste? Or for that matter, maybe even brushing your teeth with water alone?
he exact same (i.e., sodium fluoride or stannous fluoride), and usually in the exact same dosage.
f any toothpaste, even this Crest "Detoxify" brand, it is.... toxic. :)
I can assure you that the real active ingredient in toothpaste is the soap. Brushing with water alone is useful, but adding the soap helps a lot. Th e fluoride is there to help prevent cavities by strengthening the enamel wh ich is the "medical" aspect of tooth paste and so they call it the "active" ingredient. The soap is a first order effect, the fluoride is a second or der effect.
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