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Re: Mashed Potatoes and Ketchup: Cheese and meat (crumbled sausage is a strong contender), probably a bit of pepper, maybe some bacon bits if you don't have actual bacon. On their own it's kinda' eh, but you can mash some other stuff up in it and things start complementing more. Still not terribly good, exactly (BBQ sauce comes out much better, especially the sweeter varieties), but it's pretty edible.

Rats are, sure, but you're ascribing to trump the motive skills and competence evolution gave a rat.

That said, I'm pretty sure the government being out to get him is nothing new. The shitstain's been under intermittent state and federal investigation for decades. What's another one on the pile?

Though vis a vis exile, can't recall if trump's actually up and said it but apparently some number of his followers have gone straight to execution, now.

You're exactly the kind of person we institutionalize in a modern society.

To a fair extent, yes, but not because of what I do to food. Don't knock it 'till y'tried it and all that. Not applicable to everything but it's a pretty fair ethos for cookin'.

Not sure what the question in there is, but still. Have no fear. I will not judge you for your homoerotic love of burly oiled men vigorously fondling each other. No need to make excuses or obfuscate. It's all good, j.

So, is anyone worried about just how fast the public's opinion on FBI has changed from "impartial defenders of justice, despite their personal opinions" to "Trumpland, to the point where them trying to coup the government or "accidentally" forget to prevent one would not be unexpected", in just a few days, and all based on their appointed-by-Obama director being an asshat with a couple questionable information releases, Twitter chatter, and a few news pieces with anonymous sources?

I mean, sure the standards of evidence would be obviously different either way, and sure, FBI has not done some very good things, but this is ridiculous, we're talking about probably the most iconic core law enforcement agency of USA, how could people have so little trust in it?

Near as I can tell no one's quite figured out why obama appointed the guy, heh. S'also not just been comey doing shit that might catch hatch law charges, iirc. Him and (by extension and otherwise) the FBI acting like they have at this particular point in time is pretty big juju, though. The backlash and the actions aren't small things. That said, don't think many outside the general trollosphere portions of the internet and media are really reacting like that. May if some house cleaning doesn't happen in the near future but m'pretty doubtful there's actually much of a swing against them, particularly in any long term sense.

Don't think the public's opinion of the FBI was "impartial defenders of justice" though, tbh. Probably higher regard than local police for a lot of folks but that's not necessarily saying much.

If it was just the democrat numbers that were indicative, you'd have more of a point, heh. It's not, though -- the relative party turnouts are (in general) big compared to last election, but so is the NPA/third party turnout and the racial demographics involved overall. Even more so considering the defection rate polling has been picking up among republicans, basically none of it is looking good for the GOP. If the relative general turnout stays steady with 2012, or even leans harder republican, the outlook for trump is "fucked". And for all a good chunk of the media is trying to horse race this, that outlook was pretty damn bad even beforehand.

Not anything. I remember trying to mix it and tea turning out pretty badly.

For what it's worth (not all that much, tbh), the FBI didn't really do that, exactly. The folks they gave the information to did, but the letter itself that sparked that latest round of nonsense was pretty empty, all told. Almost certainly shouldn't have been sent anyway, but they don't deserve all the blame on that front. Just a fair chunk.

... some of the stuff after, now, well. There's a reason people are talking about hatch law violations.