| 6ixStringJack: The problem is that kids are doing even worse things than cigarettes now. They're vaping oil into their lungs, and we really have no idea what the price of that is going to be for another decade or two. At the end of the day, the Government doesn't want us smokers to quit. They want us to die young. Almost everybody who dies from a non-accident is going to rack up plenty of medical bills before they go, no matter how old they are and how healthy a life they lived. If somebody like me dies before Social Security and Medicare kicks in, that saves the US taxpayers 30 or so years of making montly SSI payments to me, as well as 30 years of paying for the bulk of my medical care in retirement. They don't want me to quit. They'll be happy when I die early. |
| Brenda: And those higher prices may even stop people from even starting. That is a good thing. Are you a smoker Second? |
| Brenda: Second, some people who maybe just picked up the habit will quit. Which in turn will save your health care system and ours in Canada millions of dollars. |
| 6ixStringJack: Shut up, faggot. Get a hobby. |
| second: The Pentagon is lying about the cost of the war | May 1, 2026
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told CNN on Thursday that he heard estimates that the cost to the U.S. is around $50 billion. He said the higher estimate would be based on the “billion dollars a day” spent for more than 60 days since Feb. 28.
“I’m going to try to make some inquiry into what they based their estimate on, because $25 billion is considerably below all the other estimates I’ve been seeing for the past two months,” King told the outlet.
On Thursday, CNN reported that the Pentagon’s estimate failed to account for repairs to damaged U.S. military bases in the Middle East, with sources telling the outlet that those repairs could raise the cost by between $15 billion and $25 billion.
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| 6ixStringJack: Get off it, retard. You couldn't spell emphysema without google. |
| second: Brenda: Similar law suits in the US were settled for $246 billion—of which $206 billion came in one large settlement by 46 states—which will be paid by smokers through higher prices. [Repeat: paid by smokers through higher prices] The settlement came after the collapse of an effort to write federal legislation [Repeat: collapse of an effort to write federal legislation] that would have substantially increased the cost of cigarettes through taxes and would have restricted the marketing of tobacco. [go to link] Despite all those law suits, tobacco is still a very profitable business that kills millions of the dumbest people, the ones who can't spell "emphysema" so they changed the name to COPD, which is real easy to spell: [go to link] |
| Brenda: Second, Canada has successfully sued tobacco companies because they lied about the health risks of smoking. |
6ixStringJack: Really?  Nobody cares. |
| THG: Trump family crypto project quietly sold as holders got stuck |
| second: On April 14, 1994, CEOs from seven major U.S. tobacco companies testified under oath before a House Subcommittee that they did not believe nicotine was addictive. This landmark, televised hearing featured executives denying the link between smoking and health issues, contradicting internal industry documents. [go to link] |
| second: Trump’s supporters have constructed an elaborate double standard to ignore his fire hose of lies and incendiary rhetoric, which they dismiss as “mean tweets” or otherwise inconsequential. They have justified doing so in large part by turning Obama into a chimerical monster who supposedly launched the racial war that Trump must now win.
Yet the strongest evidence they can marshal for Obama’s alleged provocation is rhetoric that is more thoughtful, dignified, and presidential than anything Trump has said in his entire time in the White House. [go to link] |
| second: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise declared that gas is much cheaper than it was “two years ago,” when, he claimed, it was $6 a gallon. The average price then was actually $3.66.
And Pete Hegseth, the Defense secretary, told Congress that gas prices in California were $8 a gallon on the eve of the Iran war; the average was actually $4.64.
What’s striking about these efforts to create an alternate reality isn’t merely the fact that politicians are lying. It’s the fact that they’re lying about a subject in which the truth is more or less literally in everyone’s face every day. Lies about, say, immigrant crime are difficult for ordinary Americans to check. But gas prices are displayed on giant signs all around America — and drivers face a reality check on fuel costs every time they fill their tanks.
Why, then, do Republicans believe that these lies will work for them politically? [go to link] |
| Brenda: But maybe they've been having getting on SIX. |
| Brenda: Never know. People pick things up and then drop them with no rhyme or reason. |
| 6ixStringJack: They sound like High School girls. |
| second: "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had." - William T. Kelley, former Wharton Professor. Now he's the dumbest President America has ever had.
It’s rare for a professor to disparage the intelligence of a student, but according to attorney Frank DiPrima, who was close friends with professor William T. Kelley for 47 years, the prof made an exception for Donald Trump, at least in private. “He must have told me that 100 times over the course of 30 years,” says DiPrima, who has been practicing law since 1963. “I remember the inflection of his voice when he said it: ‘Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had!’” He would say that [Trump] came to Wharton thinking he already knew everything, that he was arrogant and he wasn’t there to learn.” Kelley, who passed away in 2011 at age 94, taught marketing at Wharton for 31 years, retiring in 1982. [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: They've been pretty quiet for most of the day though, huh? I think some serious things just hit home for them today. |
| 6ixStringJack: Look at those crybabies cry... |
| Brenda: Wow! That is shocking. Never thought that would happen SIX. |