Some Things I Will Simply Never Understand

Let's say you're an American billionaire.

Or perhaps just a billionaire who's made their fortune in America.

You've obviously done very well under the system we have.

A billion dollars is a lot. Multiples of a billion are almost beyond comprehension for the vast majority of people.

Sure, there are rules and regulations and laws you may chafe about. Just because you have, at a bare minimum, one thousand million dollars doesn't mean you can't find things to complain about.

Human nature being what it is.

But, bottom line, you've done very well financially by this country.

So, why do some billionaires want to destroy the system that has made them rich, Rich, RICH?

It might make a suspicious person think that they must be working for someone else.

Maybe some foreigner.

Some foreigner who really does want to destroy America from the inside.

It isn't too surprising that Trump doesn't understand how tariffs work.

After all, he's bankrupted several business, including a couple of casinos.

He's simply not very good with numbers and he simply can't wrap his mostly empty head around the whole tariff issue.

But he has people around him who aren't complete imbeciles, and they should sit him down, give him a Big Mac and plenty of ketchup, and talk him through the whole tariff deal until he either gets it, which admittedly isn't likely, or gets distracted by something shiny, and forgets about the whole subject.

My dog, who is a poodle and therefore smarter than many people, understands that Obamacare and the ACA are the same fucking thing. Why don't the "low information voters" so beloved by Trumpie?

We continue to read about the many people who vehemently want to get rid of Obamacare but keep their ACA health plan.

I mean, it's one thing to be "low information" and quite another to be a fucking moron.

Don't you think?

Hey, once they round up all the "illegals" and throw them into processing "camps" so that the MAGATs, Tom Homan,  and Stephen Miller can finally get an erection that lasts, who's going build the houses, pick the produce, work in the slaughterhouses, clean houses, mow lawns, cook food, look after your kids, in short do all of the things that obese, lazy, soft, white folks can't or won't do?

Oh! That's why Republicans are bringing back child labor! My bad.

All the latest food fads, all the latest diets, all the latest miracle pills are completely unnecessary. And yet we are inundated with adds for all sorts "miracle" weight loss schemes. And desperate people frantically grasp any and all of them.

You don't need a pill to lose weight. Just stop eating so much.

We, as a nation, are obese because We. Eat. Too. Much.

It's just that simple. It's not about preservatives. It's not about what is and isn't organic. It's not about corn syrup. It's about quantity.

This isn't rocket science. You take in more calories than you expend, the excess turns to fat.

Every foreigner who comes to this country is shocked by our portion sizes.

Add in an increasingly sedentary lifestyle, and voila!

Exercise of practically any kind is good for you, but unless you're a marathon runner, or tri-athlete, there is no way that exercise alone will overcome the shear amount of food that the typical American ingests in a week.

Here's an experiment. Keep track of all the calories you consume in a week. Divide by 7. Then look up the recommended daily caloric intake for your age and sex. If your daily average isn't well above it, you are in the minority.