Tucker Carlson is on the teevee telling me that the government can’t tell me what to eat.
Which I would have heard if I wasn’t eating a big-ass hamburger and drinking corn-syrup laden soda. Thanks, government subsidies - you taste like delicious!
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At this point, Carlson is basically the television equivalent of one of those fact- and logic-challenged wingnut comment trolls you guys keep around for fun. If only the cable networks were as inclined as you are to ban them once they get tiresome.
How do they come up with this crap? “The government can’t tell me what to eat.” Did the government ever try to tell you what to eat numbnutz? What the frick? I don’t need to know about your freaking fantasy life, I want to know about what is actually going on.
What was he reacting to? Transfat-bans or something?
I think that whole issue is really evidence of how childish Americans react to health issues - they so fiercely defend their own bad decision making, that they just assume anything the government is trying to ban is good - trnasfats don’t have a flavor, they don’t make foods taste better! It’s like getting upset if the government was trying to ban Yellow 5 or some other artificial additative.
Corn subsidies create the industry drive for high-fructose corn syrup. Originally, these subsidies created the drive to produces whiskey. So we’re not lushes, but we’re fat and we still have right-wing assholes distracting from real problems. There’s been no net progress, imo.
When the government gives billions of dollars to corporations it’s “The Free Market”
When the government gives billions of dollars to doctors to provide basic health care it’s “ZOMG TEH SOCIALISM!!!”
Anyone who can’t tell the OBVIOUS difference is a libertard.
Q.E.D.
Transfat oils and high-fructose corn syrup are prime examples of companies doing whatever’s cheapest no matter how it impacts the public, and these dopes acting like any opposition to that is a violation of their civil liberties is pathetic.
Dear Tucker,
Thou Shall Not Eat Paste.
Yrs, The Government.
Remember the Reagan administration being caught trying to change the parameters for what constituted a school lunch?
KETCHUP IS A VEGETABLE!
Yeah, the government never gets involved in what’s good for us to eat!
....I still throw that in the face of anti-choice people who try to imply that family values conservatives care more than progressives about children…
total BS that is.
Of course the government tells us what to eat. For example, no, you can’t inspect all your beef carcasses for BSE, because that would show up the big producers who don’t.
Can he tell me about relaxing limits on the amount of lead in the food supply? Ass. Hole.
Tucker liked Big Daddy Govt when he let lil’ Tuck see a bunch of cool explosions and he got a nice raise in his allowance. But now Big Daddy Govt is taking away his raise in allowance and talking about responsibility and other boring stuff that lil’ Tuck doesn’t like! Why is Big Daddy being so mean to Tuck now?? BAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW