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[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago

Thanks for letting me know what brands to avoid

[-] kn33@lemmy.world 60 points 2 months ago

If you weren't avoiding Folgers already, you were fuckin up, bud

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Hey. Folgers is fine.. From a purely consumerist, apolitical standpoint anyway. The coffee is ok.

Is it great? No. It's not gonna win any contests on flavor. But it's perfectly alright.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago
[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Listen all I'm saying is that if Jim Holden could carry nine novels and 5 seasons of a TV show drinking something called coffee that contained no actual coffee and still love it, we can all quietly admit that folgers coffee is at least actually coffee, and mostly tastes like coffee. It's not bad, it doesn't smell of cigarettes like Starbucks does. It's just, ok.

Could you get much better coffee for a little bit more? Absolutely, and you should. But if someone offers you a cup and they pull out the Folgers tub you ain't gonna turn that shit down. You're gonna brace yourself for a perfectly passable cup of coffee. Then you'll go home because you gotta poop. Because while it doesn't taste of a crisp summer night atop the Columbian Andes, it does taste exactly like ok coffee.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

The Expanse always deserves Lemmy Gold.

[-] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The Expanse

A movie I should watch?

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Book series. Was adapted by SyFy and Amazon into a TV series. Highly recommend.

EDIT: Apple TV+'s "For All Mankind" is considered by many to be the prequel to the book series.

[-] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I'll have to figure out how to check it out, thanks

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Janeway would only commit a small massacre for Folger's.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

folgers coffee is at least actually coffee, and mostly tastes like coffee.

Beg to differ. It tastes burnt. Otherwise it has no flavor.

It's not bad, it doesn't smell of cigarettes like Starbucks does.

Wait is this weird satire or what?

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[-] Wiz@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

"Medicinal caffeine"

[-] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Not exactly.

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[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Did these brands actually endorse Trump, or did he just yank them off the pantry shelf for a photo op?

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He was using them as props for how inflation has raised prices of consumer goods.

He brings up inflation for a fraction of his speech, then mostly talks about immigrants, complains about non-issues with the Democratic party, lies about electric trucks, and complains about wind turbines killing birds.

Edit: he also said he wanted to take the Cheerios home after the speech since he hadn't eaten them for years.

[-] Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

There's no way he didn't take money from those brands

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

There are competing brands there. And by 2024, I have a feeling most brands that aren't being run by ideologues know there's way more risk being associated with Trump then not.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

4 seasons landscaping vibe.

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

Bean and cheap steaks energy

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

It's insane that these aren't AI generated.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

You can tell by the correctly tiny hands

[-] FantasmaNaCasca@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I started to believe that everything is AI generated. Makes it somewhat easier

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

I don't... is that his dinner?

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

He's about to do a prop comedy routine

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Jimmy Deans in the pooper.

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

The little sausages, or the big boy?

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

The little ones are Johnsonvilles, no?

[-] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

I didn't see any giant hammers. So I can only assume he's going to shove them up his ass.

[-] nalinna@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

From https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/business/economy/kamala-harris-inflation-price-gouging.html

Vice President Kamala Harris will highlight an argument that blames corporate price gouging for high grocery prices. That message polls well with swing voters...groups cheered the announcement late Wednesday that Ms. Harris will call for a federal ban on corporate price gouging on groceries in an economic policy speech on Friday.

Soooo...he's officially just plagiarizing her talking points now? Does he think he'll get points for having said it 24 hours before she did? (I'm sure he didn't blame corporate price gouging; probably immigrants if I had to guess.)

[-] ngwoo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

"I'd also like to express my fondness for that, uh, particular beer."

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

How about a federal ban on all price gouging?

[-] nalinna@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Let's not get crazy, now.

[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

He must be extremely desperate for the ad revenue. Money a much bigger problem for him than we're aware?

[-] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 months ago

We're aware of his money problem.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Half of us, at least.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Dude, he advertised beans from the oval office. He just has zero standards, and gets a kick from making a mockery of our institutions.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

He should have been removed from office when he did a bean commercial from the Oval office. Now he's just running infomercials as part of his campaigning? Disqualify his ass! Better yet, arrest him for any of the thousands of felonies he has committed. FFS. Its like I live in bizarro world run by a clown college.

[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

We're getting closer to the reality where politicians wear the logos of their sponsors on their uniform; just like Nascar drivers.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

They would never allow that. Could you imagine the power of a clean suit in such a world?

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Serious business by top men.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

What the fuck.

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

He looked so youthful and vibrant back then.

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

Then the world just ate him up...

And like most shitty meals, regretted long after.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Complete disgrace to the presidency, the country, the people, and democracy

[-] ValorieAF@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Wouldn't be the first time.

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Why is American coffee in plastic containers?

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Those two brands are, but most coffee is sold in vacuum sealed bags like the rest of the world.

Folgers and Maxwell House are pre-ground. The containers do a better job of keeping oxygen out. Pre-ground coffee goes bad quickly the more it’s exposed to oxygen.

There are some pre-ground Italian espresso brands that are famous for doing similar things.

this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2024
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