https://juliachildsrecipes.com/soup/julia-childs-french-onion-soup/

Hey, me too!

I envy your lack of this particular childhood trauma.

No kidding.

I remember dad making me read some book proving the end times were here because Saddam was Nebuchadnezzar reborn (the proof was their silhouettes looking similar). So much “whore of Babylon” stuff.

He recently sent me a YouTube video of a guy talking about the valley of Jehoshaphat and Trump heralding the end times.

It never ends.

As much as I’d love to convince you to drink some other cocktails, you’ve got a set of decent selections already. I’ll add and reiterate.

Bourbon $25-$35 (depending on where you are assuming US) these are mixing price and all eminently sippable neat:

• Wild Turkey 101
• Elijah Craig Small batch
• Buffalo Trace
• Old Grand Dad Bottled in Bond

Tennessee whiskey (like Jack Daniels but better and about the same price):

• George Dickel

Scotch $20-$25 It will hit the note for speyside drinkers and won’t break the bank:

• Chivas 12yr

Scotch $35-$50 cheap single malt you won’t mind sipping after the party:

• Glenfiddich 12
• Glenlivet 12
• Bruichladdich Laddie

Irish $55-$60 not big on Irish whiskey, but I always have a bottle for the ones who insist and Jameson is frat party trash:

• Redbreast 12yr

White Rum $20-$25

• Plantation 3 stars
• El Dorado 3yr

If you feel like something with color and a bit bigger flavor,

• Appleton Signature

If I could beg you to step away from the amaretto, a boulevardier is a fine whiskey cocktail that can be adjusted easily to taste. Get you some campari and sweet (red) vermouth (carpano antica, cocchi di torino, or punt e mes) to go with the bourbon. I like a ratio of 2 bourbon to 1 campari and 1 vermouth.

Pardon any errors here (Cunningham’s law and all), I was a bit toasty while listening to the knowledge fight episode.

My favorite part of this whole thing is that he’s calling shenanigans because he knows that the high bid didn’t win. And Alex signed documents acknowledging there were other factors.

There were 2 bids. Just 2. And do you know what the high bid was? $3.5 million. That’s it. A paltry sum for his life’s work. The price of a McMansion in California.

The executive branch ethics program works to prevent financial conflicts of interest to help ensure government decisions are made free from personal financial bias.

https://www.oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/about_what-we-do

Since it went so well last time Trump was president, it’s just another virtue signal for him to wipe some more shit on.

Memories are really short apparently.

Recess appointments are “on the table.”

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cabinet-recess-appointments-john-thune-1986307

The rabbit hole is only about a thousand podcast episodes deep.

https://knowledgefight.com/

Yeah. Unfortunately at this point it is pretty much just a bit of grandstanding to try to maintain a semblance of a bar. A bar likely to be entirely ignored (best case scenario) by the new trump administration.

Hello fellow Midwesterner!

I guess I’m confused but your need to qualify that statement at all.

Maybe we went wrong somewhere…

That’s why the recess appointments are so important to them. And Thune has already signalled he is happy to bend the knee.

You mean “and then he became the US Attorney General.”

That has to be a hell of a damning report.

“There’s really no such thing as a Palestinian”

-The next US ambassador to Israel

When you start proselytizing your feelings about it including through seemingly bad faith posts on the Internet that beg the question.

I’m sorry Jon.

Tom Homan

During the Obama administration, which deported a record number of people, he served as head of the ICE** **branch charged with arresting and deporting immigrants. For his work, he even won the nation’s highest civil service award. “Thomas Homan deports people,” declared a 2016 profile about him in the Washington Post. “And he’s really good at it.” *(*Homan reportedly keeps a framed copy of the story in his office.) After taking office, Trump said he had heard people describe Homan as “nasty” looking, and said, “That’s what I’m looking for.”

Lest we forget Obama was a centrist in progressive clothing (the tan suit obviously).

Obligatory “Thanks Obama.”