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You can also help push back against all these non dairy "Milk" "Cheese" and other non dairy dairy products that are starting to hedge out real dairy products. Almond milk and soy yogurt are seriously taking shelf space away from the dairy farmers. Even though these fake milk products are more pricier than real milk products, they are taking money away from the Dairy farmers. That would help the farmers too over all.

in other news…..

Is it just me or has the Democrats turned the majority of their attacks towards Barr now? I bet they are deathly afraid of what he will dig up on them investigating the investigation of the now debunked charges of collusion against President Trump.

To be fair I'm lactose intolerant so there's a reason why I drink almond milk.

try oat milk, its amazing. Publix is the only place near me that I know sells it. walmart doesn't sell it.

@Team Arkos
alternative milk products mostly just cost more because most grocery store take very little profit from real milk, or even lose money selling milk so they can get more people in their store. Also, oat/soy/almond milk is only a little bit more expensive. I don't buy regular milk due to all the sugar.

@xTSGx
>How? Nothing Manafort did relates to Trump or the campaign.

manafort was literally the campaign manager. losing him and cohen, his personal lawyer, is kind of a big deal.

>so why would Trump fire Comey and all that for something he wouldn't even know about for another year and half?

Because he knew. Literally everyone else who knew them knew they were shady.

@Poochy
I know. The thing Arkos is forgetting is that most of the world is lactose intolerant. If Trump were to ban almond milk, soy milk, oat milk your black, hispanic, asian, arab and native american friends would have explosive diarrhea. The last time I had actual dairy ice cream my diarrhea literally filled the toilet bowl cause everything in my intestines was flushed out of my system.

On the other hand it's my passive aggressive way of getting back at people I hate; eat cheese before using their bathroom.

A lot of people are saying right now that "nobody predicted that with high interest rates and low unemployment for inflation to remain low". A fuck ton of people knew this was going to happen; it's just that a lot of older people who aren't that good with computers don't understand that people browse the internet before shopping a lot of times.

Because people shop around a lot online or buy online this pressures companies to keep costs low, however with low unemployment that also pressures companies to increase pay to keep employees working for you.

There's multiple ways to keep costs low.
Outsourcing overseas but that can only reduce costs so much; like China's factory production most of the time is so technologically outdated that even with forced labor of minorities they still can't compete. To use an analogy that's why we don't rely on humans for making clothes anymore, unless it's like handmade scarfs or such. It doesn't matter how many sweatshops you have if a machine can make a million t-shirts in a day.

Reducing quality, but with Boeing and the 737 we're learning there's only so much you can reduce quality before shit hits the fan.

Shrinking products; you can see this especially at grocery stores. The food industry has been the last decade pressured to keep the same price but reducing the size of the product. Like with yogurt if you flip a plastic bottle upside down that little divot wasn't there a couple decades ago.

Redoing the image of your product to try and pander to people who want quality instead. We're seeing this with the alcohol industry lately, the thing about the latest generation z and millenials is that they're drinking a lot less alcohol than generation x and baby boomers. As a result companies are pushing towards products that taste better.

The thing that is going to cause some political shitstorms is that a lot of industries can only innovate so much and absorb costs so much. If unemployment remains low, inflation remains low and companies can't innovate fast enough or the industry isn't a industry that you can innovate a lot in what will eventually happen is the rich will start having to take pay cuts to keep the company profitable.

I love how thinly veiled your hyper-partisan edge is.

Biden sure isn't trying to get any support from people under 65

“The younger generation now tells me how tough things are, give me a break … I have no empathy” – Joe Biden pic.twitter.com/UWswJDJLMI

— Ibrahim (@IbrahimAS97) May 3, 2019

Here is the full video
From 2018

tl;dw "Old people had it worse back in the day than young people, so young people's problems don't matter."

@Poochy

There are better than plant based milks out there. There are now real cow milk that has been made that have the elements removed that make those that trigger the problems with lactose intolerance. Also there are also Goat milk options too. If you can't drink cow milk, goat milk should not give you any problems. Also, i don't know where you get that idea that Stores lose money selling milk. That do make a small profit off of them provided they are not purposely undercutting themselves by having a lower than normal sales price on them. Krogers (and other big time chains) stores sells so much of it the sheer volume of sales brings in a nice sum.

>Biden sure isn't trying to get any support from people under 65

No shit. Biden has a chronic foot in mouth disease and he is the best the Democrats can do? No wonder President Trump will win reelection.

@Degenerate

Wow, not are you a nasty and petty person no one likes, you also have a stereotypical mindset how those ethic groups react to eating milk. I have even seen migrates from all over the world eat diary products with out any issue.

@Brent

That is rich coming from you. You never even bothered to hide your partisanship at all.

@Arkos
"Siri what percent of the world is lactose intolerant?"
Siri, "65%"

As much as I don't like Pelosi she has a good point, chances are Trump and Republicans won't respect the 2020 election if Trump loses the election. Even if he loses by a wide margin and they do a recount chances are he's going to refuse to leave office.

Humm….. Now where did I hear that before? Oh yes, back in 2016 the Democrats said the same thing about Trump. Just who didn't accept the election outcome now?

Arkos is right here. It takes a hell of a lot of hutzpah to say that. What is she completely unaware of what the Democrats and the left have been doing for 2.5 years? If she's so concerned about accepting election results she should consider how her side is behaving here.

I recall that during the Bush Jr years there was a lot of anger, outcry, and outright obstruction by the left. When Obama took over the Republicans behaved exactly like the Democrats did during the Bush years.

You don't think the Republicans or the conservatives are going to play the same game, if they lose? Why shouldn't they? The precedence has been created.

Look at the Muller report. All that saber rattling about impeaching the president and putting him on trail for treason, literally making that the entire focus of the Democratic party these last 3 years he's been in office. And when the report shows that he didn't do what they claimed he did, or at least not to an extent to be considered illegal, they just changed subjects on what they can impeach/arrest him for.

Even the higher ups of the Democratic party are desperately trying to get their fellow democrats to focus on something, anything, other then impeaching drumpf but the party only seems to care about that point. The only other policies they have are opposing building a wall, and the new green deal. Ones a okay hill to talk about and the other is absolute insanity that can't actually be implemented without dooming the country to food shortages and destroying the economy. (No more ajr travel and 18 wheelers? Goodbye US based Fed Ex, USPS, Amazon).

The democrats need message beyond "I hate trump" and "white man bad" because even as a non-white guy, their partys message is ringing more and more out of touch and hollow with every passing year. Especially with joe "young people suck" biden Being their current frontrunner.

@Black Graphic T
>literally making that the entire focus of the Democratic party these last 3 years he's been in office.

We just had a midterm a few months ago. Which candidates made impeachment their entire focus during that midterm?

>The democrats need message beyond "I hate trump" and "white man bad"

That implies their current message is "I hate trump" and "white man bad". What leads you to believe that? By the constant talk about healthcare and immigration during the 2018 midterm by democrats and lack of impeachment talks, I would have assumed their message was about, well, healthcare and immigration, but you must have some information I don't?

AOC and her ilk made impeachment fount and center of their campaign and still do. Nancy to my surprise still has enough sense to not push impeachment. However, she is losing power to the extreme left wing of the Democrat party. AOC is on the track to oust Nancy and take her place in the power structure of the Democrat party.

>but you must have some information I don't?

It's called getting out of the left wing media bubble. here, this might help you

I hope that people who read my previous comment didn't think I was endorsing that behavior. In fact, the very reason I abandoned the GOP (as I used to vote Republican and considered myself a Republican) was precisely because the things that the Democrats did during the Bush Jr. years that disgusted me, many Republicans started doing to Obama and Democrats during 2008-2016. I am not a fan of Obama's policies. But he was my President. He did represent the US on the foreign stage.

This political behavior is only worsening the country. It is utterly divisive, and weakens us tremendously domestically and abroad.

@poochyena

I think the rhetoric stems from the fact that in Jan of 2018 66 Congressional Democrats voted to start impeachment procedures on Trump

Not to mention, exit polls from 2018's midterm election showed most Democrats wanted Trump impeached
2020 Election candidates have been pushing impeachment rhetoric as well.
Kamala Harris for example.

Beto O'Rourke as well.

Joe Biden sort of as well.

The only major Democratic candidate who is refraining from doing that is Bernie Sanders who worries that focus on impeachment would work in favor for Trump

>AOC and her ilk

???
https://ocasio2018.com/
The only mention of Trump is regards to his handling of immigration.

>AOC is on the track to oust Nancy and take her place in the power structure of the Democrat party.

Are you serious. Where are you getting this idea from?

@Chewybunny
voting for impeachment =/= making impeachment front and center.

>2020 Election candidates have been pushing impeachment rhetoric as well.

See above

> exit polls from 2018's midterm election showed most Democrats wanted Trump impeached

yes, but its also the least important thing to them too https://news.gallup.com/poll/244367/top-issues-voters-healthcare-economy-immigration.aspx

@Team Arkos
You do realize by linking Drudge you're just giving people a different bubble to go to?
Also I was just curious, what's your opinion on the endless wars the US has going?

>Drudge is a bubble?
>Drudge is in fact a conglomerate of a vast swaths of websites and news outlets. Including left wing sites
>PatrickBateman96 has shown himself to never been to Drudgereport before.

Maybe you need to visit Drudgereport yourself too.

I have visited it. It was perpetually open on the family computer we had because my dad despises anything left wing.
And you didn't answer my question about endless war.

@Arkos
Since Pelosi is "is losing power to the extreme left wing of the Democrat party.", how do you explain Biden polling 30 points above everyone else? Biden being the most closely aligned person to Pelosi than anyone else running.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html

The reason why Republicans should take the 2020 election seriously is that in 2022 22 of the 34 senate seats are held by Republicans. If Trump loses in 2020 then we're looking at four years of uncontested Democrat rule.

Another reason why Republicans should take it seriously is that latest polling places Biden at 44% of Democrat voters for the primaries.

@PatrickBateman96

>I have visited it.

Looking at it from a distance and not touching the keyboard and mouse to browse the links is not visiting.

>It was perpetually open on the family computer we had because my dad despises anything left wing.

Alright kid, next time you can use his desk top to check Drudge report then.

>And you didn't answer my question about endless war

Because that is a dodge to avoid the topic of discussion.

@Poochy

Biden has nothing to do with Pelosi losing power. The more old school/establishment Democrats are afraid of AOC's wing and they know that the new blood socialist are zealots that will do anything to get their way. This includes protests, harassment (physically in person and online), intimidation and maybe worse methods. AOC's people are ruthless and Pelosi can't handle them. That and she is very old and may not last long in her seat. AOC is quite young and could be around for years after she is dead from old age.

Speaking of Biden, Styxhexenhammer666 bring up a good point about him.

>The more old school/establishment Democrats are afraid of AOC's wing

afraid of what?

>This includes protests, harassment (physically in person and online), intimidation and maybe worse methods.

None of that is unique to any political ideology

>AOC's people are ruthless and Pelosi can't handle them.

What leads you to believe this? You keep saying Pelosi and aoc hate each other, but never provide evidence for it. why?

>afraid of what?

The new radical wing that is taking over the Democrat party. Chewybunny already posted the graphic that shows that the Democrats are lurching further and further left. When a party that big moves that far left, violence is often the end result. That and AOC is leading the youth of the party, and Pelosi is heading the slowly dieing off elder side of the party.

>None of that is unique to any political ideology

That is a technically accurate statement, but reality is that the Left is holding the monopoly of political violence in this nation and beyond today. Antifa is the left's new army that does the skull cracking and window breaking. Hell, they are nearly running the city Portland under their terror. Don't think for a second that AOC's wing won't point them in Pelosi's way in a heart beat, and she knows this.

>What leads you to believe this? You keep saying Pelosi and aoc hate each other, but never provide evidence for it. why?

At first I thought you where being sarcastic about this. Then after thinking about it for a bit, you really are serious that you don't have a clue about the bitter dislike between the two of them. You really don't understand how women act when they talk about the other who they hate, but not before they reach the point of a cat fight breaks out. I could show you the clips of their speech, but since you haven't learned how to catch on, then there is no point. You just can't see it poochy.

But on the off chance I am wrong about your perception level, here is some evidence.

Link 1

Link 2

Link 3

Link 4

Journalists jailed in Myanmar have been freed.

Steve Mnuchin is refusing to acknowledge Congress' legal authority to send over Donald Trump's tax returns.

Will he be part of tomorrow's contempt vote against William Barr, too?

So apparently Biden is 36 points ahead of Bernie now according to Harris polling. While a lot can change between now and the primaries it's a pretty safe bet to say that Biden is the front runner.

"Trump invites Hungary's Orban, describing him as an "alternative to Liberal Democracy".":https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1125753841029459968

@Team Arkos
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you're for the offensive wars the US is in, but you don't want to says so because you'll look dumb.

He might be in favor of Bolton's obsession with a "holy war" with Iran.

White House will instruct former WH Counsel Don McGahn to not comply with a House subpoena for documents.

They have no authority over him.
Also, suborning Contempt of Congress isn't a good look for an already legally-precarious administration.

@Team Arkos
>The new radical wing that is taking over the Democrat party.

Yes, the radical left that has biden, the most moderate democrat running for president, with 30+ points ahead of anyone else.

>When a party that big moves that far left, violence is often the end result.

AOC and Bernie are the farthest left people in congress. What violence have they lead to?

>the Left is holding the monopoly of political violence in this nation and beyond today.

Why do you just say stuff that you know is a lie? You telling me this guy was left wing?

>Don't think for a second that AOC's wing won't point

…are you actually trying to imply aoc and antifa are under the same wing?

> You really don't understand how women act when they talk about the other who they hate

yay, sexism /s

>here is some evidence.

Arkos, you need to stop reading these bias articles. The headlines and articles are so incredibly exaggerating its borderline lying. Its literally just them two disagreeing with each other over stuff. Look at literally any democrat or republican primary debate, they attack each other over policy all the time, but 95% of the time, they don't end up hating each other and end up endorsing the primary winner.

Update:
Don McGahn is half-acquiescing to the current White House demands, and is asking for an accommodation to be made between the Legislative and Executive branches.

Wrong move, Donny. Congressional subpoenas are to be honored, and refusing to do so will have you in Contempt of Congress.

Steve Mnuchin's refusal to turn over Donald Trump's tax returns is reliant on a Department of Justice memo that may or may not exist (yet).

@Poochyena
The other thing that Arkos is ignoring is that there were 50 attacks in the USA that can be considered terrorist attacks, pipe bombs, shootings, people driving vehicles into crowds and such; 39 of which were caused by white nationalists.

The group everyone should be worried about is the resurgence of neo-nazis, kkk and white nationalists. The sad thing is attacks on synagogues is sadly becoming a normal occurrence.

They've been taking over ICE and CPB to enact their white-supremacist fantasies against hungry, vulnerable migrants.

@Patrick

Wrong kid. I am tired of the endless wars that get us nothing. I do support fights that have end goals that we can reach and further U.S. interest. Iran causes a shit lot of problems in the ME and if we can smack them down and bring them to heel, then great.

@Degenerate

Yea, Biden's up in the polls, But as I predicted he is not targeted by other Liberals

@Poochy

>AOC and Bernie are the farthest left people in congress. What violence have they lead to?
>Why do you just say stuff that you know is a lie? You telling me this guy was left wing?

Did you forget about these guys?

One homeless guy in a van who got caught trying to send non working mail bombs is the vanguard of the violence on the right, while you ignore all the ongoing violence the Left is doing IN NUMBERS! See all those people in those pics? how many of them can you count?

The Synagogue shootings? Gee, just who has currently sitting anti-Semites in their party? Who is also backed by known anti-Semites?

Will you disavow them from your party?

>Did you forget about these guys?

What relation do they have to aoc? And you said "monopoly", which means exclusive.

>One homeless guy in a van who got caught trying to send non working mail bombs is the vanguard of the violence on the right, while you ignore all the ongoing violence the Left is doing IN NUMBERS!

Charlottesville, Synagogue shooter, christchurch shooter, Tallahassee shooter. idk how many right wing attacks you want me to list. Idk where you are getting the idea that there are more left wing attacks than right wing.
Do you actually think antifa is anywhere near the size of white supremacist groups?

I like how Arkos keeps ignoring white nationalists terrorist attacks.

>What relation do they have to aoc? And you said "monopoly", which means exclusive.

If semantics is the only thing you have to defend your position than you have lost your argument.

>Charlottesville, Synagogue shooter, christchurch shooter, Tallahassee shooter

What? 4 people there? Verses THOUSANDS of Antifa thugs?

Do some white nationalist commit violence? yea, but how many are there? Not that much left. 10,000 left? Now compare to how many on the left are there? 100,000s of them and they are growing fast.

Do you over look all of this? Do you really turn a blind eye to the shit your side do?

>If semantics is the only thing you have to defend your position than you have lost your argument.

You lied. Thats not semantics.

>What? 4 people there? Verses THOUSANDS of Antifa thugs?

There are thousands of murderers who are antifa? source?

>Do some white nationalist commit violence? yea, but how many are there?

There are thousands of right wing hate crimes in 2017 alone https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2017/topic-pages/tables/table-1.xls
If thousands are committing crimes, then there is no doubt many thousand more who are non-violent white nationalists.
82% of hate crime incidents were towards against non-white people. 97% were against lgbt people.
Now where is your data to show that antifa and their ideology is bigger than white supremacist and right wing extremist ideology is nearly non-existant?

@Team Arkos
I didn’t think anyone could be so delusional as to think a war with Iran would be different than any of the current forever wars going on now. You proved me wrong. Congrats.
And saying something over and over, doesn’t make it true. I’m talking about Ilhan Omar. Right wingers can call her an anti semite as much as they want, it’s still not true though. The truth is she gave the same criticism to Saudi Arabia.

>Translated means they don't know who did those acts.

They know enough to know it was a hate crime, and thats what matters.

>That is all the reason to ignore and do nothing about the violence the left does to everyone else.

Violent left wing people go to jail just like violent right wing people do. The difference is that the rate of right wing violence is might higher. Its like asking why you aren't worried about your car's flat tire when the engine is on fire. Some issues are more serious than others.

@Team Arkos
"if you even bothered to look at her tweets"
Well you didn't cite anything in particular so I don't think you've looked either.

@Arkos
Hey if you want to play cherry picking then there's also Steve King on the Republican side.

My point is that both the radical left AND the radical right are bad people. BOTH should be banned from the internet and social media. BOTH neo-nazis AND antifa are bad people.

At least we can agree there is bad on both sides. Which is more than some others in here are willing to admit. However banning the radicals don't make them go away. In fact it seems to only makes them worse and desperate. Better to know who they are than for them to hide in the shadows.

So biden's not even the democrats locked in guy yet, and he's already alienating people from his platform by disparaging an entire generations problems as just millennials whining. This alongside his billing as the establishment choice by democrats makes me feel like we're looking at a Hillary 2.0.

Well this is good news. You know how we talk about automation and all that? This is more about tech and such, but a team of researchers found out that ai works a lot better and more efficiently if a human is guiding it. The way ai currently works is by using a massive amount of information to train itself. What was done instead is that by using a human to oversee it's tasks it needed a lot less processing power and a lot less information to achieve a task.

A example that gets why this is good; currently there are already robots that can harvest bell peppers however they're slow because they have to scan each bell pepper individually. If you have a human pointing to each ripe bell pepper it would harvest them MUCH faster than the robot acting by itself or the human picking them by themselves.

The best way to describe what I'm getting at is which current technological limitations and how people are over-estimating how good ai is currently having a robot that is supervised by a human would be much faster and more productive than either humans working by themselves or robots working by themselves

The problem currently business wise is people are currently vastly over estimating just how good ai is currently, having humans supervise it is the best way to meet company expectations.

Jerry Falwell Jr. had enlisted the help of Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen to cover up a sex scandal.

I'm thinking this looks like extortion. Blackmail the evangelicals for their support.

Donald Trump's business losses from the mid 80's to the mid 90's amounted over 1 billion dollars.

A man desperate for money he spends more than he receives is ripe for manipulation by foreign interests.

Also, Trump's sister resigned from her judicial bench to keep the scandal under wraps earlier this year.

Also, Donald Trump demanded that Congress would install yes men into the IRS to help conceal his tax returns.

Donald Trump just tried to exert Executive Privilege over the Mueller Report.
The report that was mostly made public already; four-hundred pages of it.

It reminds me of this.

Neo-Nazis march in Arkansas yesterday, chanting 'six million more'.