The "Justice" Thomas Thread

Demonstrably wrong, kid.

http://wordforge.net/index.php?threads/rbg-dies.120552/

@Federal Farmer displaying his "Christian" morals...

FF is following the example of Fearless Leader and right wing talk hosts: never admit you're wrong and denounce any and all proof of such as "fake news".

And you’re displaying douchebaggery.

I haven’t had a drink in thirteen days

September surprise is hardly dancing on her grave, it's a statement made in an election year when usually there's an October surprise. It was a tongue in cheek statement. I still had respect for RBG and when she was alive, I wasn't actively wishing for her death just so Trump could get another appointment, but it was very clear since 2016 that she probably wasn't going to make it much longer.

You're right, @MikeH92467 wasn't in particular, but others were and that's where I should have placed my disgust.

So, only two months to go before you start saying anything fucking sensible?

Are you attempting to quit?

Not a judgement, just wondering. Usually people don’t say “I haven’t done “x” in ___ days” unless they think “x” is something of which they should be ashamed. I sometimes go days, weeks, months without drinking. Never kept track in days, nor even noticed while in the middle of such. Just fun in life happens in other ways.

Anyway, if it is your intention to quit drinking, I wish you luck.

Does your probation officer make you keep track?

But in all seriousness, good for you.

Agreed. "X days without" is a sign of an attempted quit OR an attempt to convince yourself you COULD quit.

I can go two weeks without booze. I've still knocked back three glasses of whiskey today.

Even doing "dry month" challenges isn't a sign of success.

Definitely agree with that. I stopped after bariatric surgery almost four years ago. The procedure turns you into a one drink instant drunk. No fun there.

Agreed, but it can also just be aimed at improving physical health rather than trying to quit altogether. I tracked my drinking several years back when I was working on just improving my overall physical health. Not that I was trying to quit drinking, but just limiting my alcohol intake helped out a lot in losing weight (combined with healthier food choices and regular exercise). It's amazing how quickly those calories add up from drinks. A decent 600-700 calorie dinner plus a few servings of beer or wine can easily turn into 900-1,000 calories, which was nearly half of my daily caloric needs to lose weight. But I guess that was more calorie counting than it was "it's been X days since I drank."

Yea, when I started counting calories is when I switched from rum and coke type drinks to vodka and seltzer water.

Vodka and seltzer water?

I was in the hospital last week for pancreatitis. I’m trying to recover from that and I’m taking multiple medications so alcohol is out of the question for some time. I’m trying to cut back at the very least.

Also a very good reason for counting days since last drink of alcohol. Think I did with the pregnancy of my second child (I was only 18 with the first one, so drinking alcohol wasn’t a daily thing at the time).

Hope you feel better soon.

Pancreatis damn near killed me. I wouldn't wish on anyone...(well I do have a list. It's a short one and includes no one here) It was just awful. So bad, even doctors shudder when I talk to them about it. FWIW, if you have a problem with drinking (my problem was drinking too much....adding weight, damaging the liver) my suggestion is just give it up altogether. Trying to "drink less" was something I tried to do many times and I always went back to overdoing it. Mind you, my problem was not the deepest version of alcoholism. I never lost jobs because of it, or even had work hampered by it, so the recovery period from the bariatric surgery gave me the break I needed to get away from it. I found I didn't miss it and haven't gone back. It makes things a lot easier when you're talking to doctors just to say "I don't drink". They won't believe you no matter what you tell them, so I just get past that by saying "no" when they ask if I drink. That said, alcoholism in it's worst form is a chronic disease possibly caused by a genetic trait common among American Indians, so that's just one factor that could cause it to be extremely difficult to quit. One direct benefit is that you will not be haunted by drunk posting/email. Good luck.

The first few days I thought I was going to die. It's the worst pain I've ever felt. I'm feeling a lot better now. As George Lucas said about The Phantom Menace, "I may have gone too far in a few places" so I'm trying take it easy for now.

When was it in question that the president isn’t CIC? And I don’t mean January 6th.

Read the article

If you read the linked article, it was in relation to a bunch of Navy SEALs who thought they could defy orders when it came to the COVID vaccine. Nevermind that they have to take any of a number of vaccines when they first enlist, and before they go overseas, it's the COVID vaccines that are bad.

Well yeah, fuck them.

Pretty rich coming from the guy who bitched about being told the same thing.

And I'm on record saying that if you work for the government, especially the voluntary military, then you have no right to bitch. The private sector is different.

Yet we don't see you posting complaints about "No shirt, no shoes, no service" laws, or laws requiring the proper labeling of chemicals, foods, or a host of other laws, which fall into the same level of "oppression" as the government requiring folks in certain jobs to provide proof of vaccination (or to take other steps to mitigate the chance that they might expose people to a potentially deadly disease). And ya damn sure cheer on folks who want to restrict who can play on what sports team, use a particular bathroom, or be married to someone of their choosing.

There are over 300 million guns in private hands in America today, more than there has been in any other period in our nation's history. If guns equal freedom, then we're the freest we've ever been. But to hear your ilk talk about it, any second now, we're going to all be hauled off to the gas chambers and executed because we forgot to put our pronouns in our FB profiles. I know that nothing I'm posting is going to make a dent in your pointy little head on the subject because you've demonstrated over the years that you're not interested in understanding anything, you just want to yell and scream.

Anarchists, communists, and Libertarians really are a bunch of stupid fucks, because if they actually stopped speaking in their ideological jargon, they'd realize that they all want similar things. No shit. What do anarchists want? Nothing that could be considered a strong central government, just people working together for a common goal. What do communists want? Nothing that could be considered a strong central government, just people working together for a common goal. What do Libertarians want? Nothing that could be considered a strong central government, just people working together for a common goal. Oh, but wait, communist states like the USSR had a strong central government, so that's a fail, right? The US has a strong central government, so shouldn't that mean that capitalism is a failure? Ooooh, no, because you see, if the "right" people were running the government (meaning Libertarians), then capitalism would work just fine, and that's totally different than what we see in the USSR, China, Cuba, and North Korea. GTFO here with that bullshit. Ya'll get over trying to best one another in your dick measuring contents and you might actually be able to accomplish something.

Watching FF arm-wrestle with the contradictions of right-wing propaganda is like watching Jo-Jo Rabbit trying to break his addiction to Imaginary Hitler.

I had several attacks before the one that put me in ICU (where I gather the docs were 50/50 on whether I'd make it out). If I had gotten help before then, I'm sure things would have gone a lot better. In my defense I thought the symptoms were "dumping syndrome" which is a common side effect of the bariatric surgery. Obviously a big mistake (almost fatal) on my part. But I made it...