Oh it's going to be a spectacle alright. 👀 🍿

Name them and shame them, loudly and clearly. We'll make their lives a living hell in return. They ought to have no place in our leadership.

No, I say that as if you are the person who called her brown, not them. They are bigoted fucks, yes. But their bigotry is not exclusive to non-white people as you suggested. That both diminishes their actual bigotry and is so inconsistent with reality that you leave a very obvious defense to your criticism of their bigotry, both of which are counter-productive. They hate brown people, yes. They also hate anybody else that is different, brown or not.

She's... not brown though. Like you see these two next to each other and can compare their complexions, right? Maybe you mean she's not European White?

She's Iranian, born in a Muslim culture, belonged to the family of a Theocratic Dictator, a victim of the Trump regime, and her death will be ignored for all of those reasons. But that girl is white. As was the Ayatollah. As are most Iranians. They are as white as Jews are. Being white doesn't stop other white people from victimizing you for all your other innate qualities though, nor from pretending you aren't actually exactly as white at them.

Even plant based gums, like those made from chicle sap are a polymer chain that will chip off with chewing and enter your system. The major difference is that those particles are typically still biodegradable. That doesn't necessarily make them safe, but they shouldn't stick around forever.

Yes it's true. Gum base is made from various polymers and plastics, either synthetic or naturally extracted from plants. Regardless of whether it's natural or synthetic, some microparticles will strip off into your saliva during chewing and enter your digestive tract. The vast majority of this will pass all the way through your digestive system without ever being absorbed into your bloodstream. But there may be nanoparticles small enough to pass through your gut membranes into your bloodstream.

The amount that gets absorbed is unknown, as are the long term affects of this. It's clearly not dangerous in the short term, else billions would be sick all the time from chewing gum. But more science needs to be done to fully understand the implications of this.

As for alternatives, altoids are a particularly strong mint that lasts, imo. But if mints aren't your jam, you can always keep a small bottle of mouth wash with you to get an occasional swish from (be careful not to dry your mouth out with it, or that will make your breath and oral health worse) and dissolvable breath strips if you can find them (feels like they're nowhere near as common as they where when I was a kid). Also proper oral hygiene including twice daily tongue brushing/scraping keeps your breathe from getting bad in the first place, even if it's not actually minty from that.

"What really just hits me hard," she said, continuing, "is when i'm in the grocery store, and I see his hot sauce, I want to buy it."

Audible eye roll

Jokes aside, let us not forget that many of these people voted blue through gritted teeth in direct opposition to Trump. Those people will not appreciate being called a liberal for their votes. They will 100% go back red on the next election if and when Trump and his cronies are not on the ballot, unless the Dems can take advantage of this situation and show some actual fucking leadership and demonstrate why their choose was a good one. This is not a time for complacency. We won a lap, not the whole race.

There it is. I had to dig way to far before finding this Naked Gun reference.

Of course he's totally devoted to him. He isn't stupid. He knows full well that everyone knows he's a nazi fuck and absolutely nobody but a vindictive idiot cunt like Trump would ever give him enough power to decide so much as a lunch menu. He also knows full well that this is it. He's attached to a highly unpopular lame duck president who triggered the biggest political wave in 50 years against his party. Clock's ticking before he loses every bit of power he'll every have.

He'll play the deluded sycophant on tv to appease his boss, but he's not. He's an opportunist that is taking advantage of a temporarily powerful egotistical man who is highly susceptible to flattery and personal loyalty to exercise every ounce of his fascist agenda he can.

Things are about to ramp up in the Trump White house. If this new congress does their jobs, they're about to be very busy fighting back against Miller's agenda items. If they don't do their jobs, it's about to get far far worse in the US before Trump's time runs out.

So we're full-on in the Kim Jung Un-style masturbatory lies without even resembling reality stage? Fun.

Listing the similarities between the two shows, the court cited the emergency room setting, the fast pace, the use of medical jargon, graphic depictions of injuries and younger doctors fresh from medical school being trained.

With the exception (maybe) of the younger training doctors, though I imagine doctors gotta learn, everything described there is a definitional part of a medical drama set in an emergency room. I understand the court letting this move forward because there may be good reason to explore the more detailed similarities. But the ones they listed there... that is baseless.

You cannot copyright a real world setting or genre. The subject matter of emergency room medicine is not owned by Michael Crichton, Warner Brothers, or anyone. Would be like saying the creator of Honeymooners owns the rights to domestic abuse. ER's copyright encompasses its characters, and specific stories. Not the entire concept of an ER or triage medicine. It did not create any of those concepts. It also doesn't own the style of narrative, pacing, editing, cinematography, etc. used, either.