Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

Religions are bullshit.

I answered a question about Christian retards.

Why do some people hate the religious? Without them, there would be nobody to work at places like McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, or Arby's.

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You make a good point. We need stupid people who can flip hamburgers, and there is nobody more stupid than a god-soaked idiot.

Agnes by Tony Cochran

American morons love their junk food. Everytime I go to the grocery store I see these fat pigs buying garbage. Vegetables make them cry.

In the United States, about 40 percent of U.S. adults are obese, and another 32 percent are simply overweight — rates that are among the world’s highest and mean that nearly three-quarters of Americans may be at increased risk of severe Covid-19 if infected.

The fat morons of Idiot America. Vegetables make them cry but they like to eat garbage.

Wall Street Journal

More than 70% of U.S. adults ages 20 and older are overweight or obese, according to 2015-2016 figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About 42% are obese, according to 2017-2018 CDC data. Nearly 14% of children ages 2 to 5 are obese, as are about 18% of 6-to-11-year-olds and about 21% of 12-to-19-year-olds.

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Here in Idiot America where I live, we have millions of morons who eat lots of garbage, and they give this crap to children. Then they wonder why they have so many medical problems.

"Nearly 14% of children ages 2 to 5 are obese, as are about 18% of 6-to-11-year-olds and about 21% of 12-to-19-year-olds."

This is child abuse and there is no excuse for it.

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A comment I wrote at the Wall Street Journal:

I don't eat any of this stuff. It's like eating garbage. I wouldn't feed it to a dog.

American morons eat junk food, get fat, and then they wonder why they have so many health problems. "There’s a very high correlation between obesity and Covid deaths. And one of the reasons the United States has had more of a problem with Covid is simply that the comorbidities like diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, they’re just higher in the U.S."

The New York Times

CORNER OFFICE

Whole Foods Founder: ‘The Whole World Is Getting Fat’

John Mackey, who espouses a high-minded version of capitalism, sold his upscale grocery chain to Amazon.

By David Gelles

September 24, 2020

For the better part of the past decade, the Whole Foods founder John Mackey, a libertarian and health food enthusiast, has been preaching the redemptive power of what he calls “conscious capitalism.” As he tells it, when businesses find their true purpose and serve not just investors, but all stakeholders, everyone wins.

That enlightened perspective has not spared Mr. Mackey from the rough-and-tumble realities of capitalism in the 21st century. Three years ago, the activist hedge fund Jana Partners took a stake in Whole Foods and called on Mr. Mackey to institute sweeping changes to make the upscale grocery store more profitable, or consider selling it.

Mr. Mackey was blunt in his assessment of Jana. (“They’re greedy bastards,” he said.) But the hedge fund got its way. Whole Foods was sold to Amazon for $13.4 billion, Jana made a tidy profit of $300 million and Mr. Mackey found himself working for Amazon’s chief executive, Jeff Bezos, who is not exactly the poster boy for conscious capitalism.

Mr. Mackey, who has a new book out called “Conscious Leadership,” contends that under Amazon’s ownership, Whole Foods hasn’t lost its soul. The company is more tech savvy and more data driven, yes, but still Whole Foods.

Still, with its high-minded founder and the resources of one of the world’s most valuable companies behind it, Whole Foods is constantly under a microscope. The company has drawn fire for its treatment of workers during the pandemic, though Mr. Mackey contends the criticism is unfair. And Mr. Mackey’s views on things like the federal minimum wage (he’s not in favor of it) can be hard to square with his kinder, gentler vision of commerce.

This interview was condensed and edited for clarity.

How do you think business should help address some of the big challenges we’re facing, like unemployment, income inequality, health care and political divisions?

Whole Foods can’t solve all the country’s problems or all the world’s problems. We can’t take on all these problems. What we can do is do what we do. We can sell healthy food to people. We have a hundred thousand people working with the company. So we’ve been a good employer. We’ve tried to keep them safe during Covid times.

I wasn’t challenging Whole Foods to solve all of the world’s problems. But part of the idea behind “conscious capitalism” seems to be that when businesses work together they can collectively make a dent in some of these intractable issues.

We have to recognize both what business can do and what business cannot do. Any problem that we have in our society that a business can make money doing, it belongs in the private sector. Business could be doing a lot more in certain areas, if it was allowed to, like education and health care. Those are very highly regulated businesses. And so, in some sense, you have a lot more crony capitalism in highly regulated industries.

Government has to do its part. And that’s a challenge right now because the country is so divided politically. Today, it’s probably the most divided since maybe the Civil War.

America was founded on the principles of liberty and equality. It’s not either-or — it has to be both. We need more liberty. We need more equality. We need justice, and we also need freedom. All of these ideas are important and they all have to be affirmed, but it seems like we’re doing a lot of squabbling right now.

What do you make of President Trump, who has taken steps to reduce regulations on businesses and to reduce corporate taxes, but is also so divisive?

I’m not going to go there. It’s not my job to evaluate the consciousness of people and pass judgment on them. One thing I’ve learned over the years is, we are so divided in politics, whatever I say is going to upset 50 percent of the population. So my own personal politics, I keep to myself. I’m certainly not going to talk about President Trump.

I’m merely saying that business is good at innovation. It’s good at trying new things. It’s good at disrupting. But you can only disrupt things when they’re not highly regulated.

How has Amazon changed Whole Foods during the past few years?

Amazon has been really respectful of the Whole Foods culture. They’ve let us be ourselves. At the same time, there are things that Amazon does better than Whole Foods does. One of the reasons we wanted to do this merger is we saw Amazon as a technology leader, and Whole Foods was just a follower. Since Covid struck, our online sales have tripled. Could we have done that prior to Amazon? No way. From the very first day we merged with them, they pushed us to make the changes we needed to be more effective at online delivery.

Another thing Amazon has changed is that our culture at Whole Foods tended to be intuitive, managing more by the gut. Amazon is very much a company that manages through data. And if you don’t have good data and good arguments, then that’s the end of the discussion. That’s been a positive change for our company because we are making more data-driven decisions than we made previously, and, therefore, I think we’re making better decisions.

You’ve previously said you were opposed to a federal minimum wage, but you made those remarks when the labor market was more robust. Have your views changed now, given the high unemployment numbers?

Let’s make a distinction between what a private company does and what you do across the whole society. Amazon made the decision, and Whole Foods concurred with it, that we just needed to pay better. So it just came out of profits, and we just raised the pay and we made less money. When Amazon asked us to do it, we said, OK, here’s the math. It was a very big number because we had to raise everybody’s pay. And that was OK with Amazon. As a result, we made less profit for Amazon that year than we would have. Of course, the morale at the company went through the roof.

But we have to make a distinction between people working in New York or San Francisco and those in Jackson, Miss., or Shreveport, La., where the average pay is significantly less and the cost of living is significantly less. So a high, $15 minimum wage makes a lot of sense in certain cities. It doesn’t make sense in other places where the average pay is a lot lower and the average cost of living is much lower. When you force the minimum wage up artificially above the market rates, you’re going to get high unemployment, and you’re going to make certain businesses not competitive any longer because they can’t afford to pay those kind of wages without raising their prices above what the customers would be willing to pay.

You’ve been trying to get Americans to eat better for decades. How is that project going now?

Some people have been moving in the right direction, and the majority of people in the wrong direction. We can see that through the way people eat today versus the way they ate 50 or 60 years ago. Statistically, we definitely moved in the wrong direction. The whole world is getting fat, it’s just that Americans are at the leading edge of that. We’re getting fat, and we’re getting sicker, by the way. I mean, there’s a very high correlation between obesity and Covid deaths. And one of the reasons the United States has had more of a problem with Covid is simply that the comorbidities like diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, they’re just higher in the U.S.

For those who don’t have access to a Whole Foods or can’t afford to shop at a Whole Foods, where do you think other companies or the government might be able to intervene to offer better, healthier options?

In some sense, we’re all food addicts. We love things that are rich, that are sweet. We love ice cream. We love popcorn. We love French fried potatoes. And the market is providing people what they want. I don’t think there’s an access problem. I think there’s a market demand problem. People have got to become wiser about their food choices. And if people want different foods, the market will provide it.

Whole Foods has opened up stores in inner cities. We’ve opened up stores in poor areas. And we see the choices. It’s less about access and more about people making poor choices, mostly due to ignorance. It’s like a being an alcoholic. People are just not conscious of the fact that they have food addictions and need to do anything about it.

And Big Food, the fast food industry, the processed food industry — they all have a lot of skin in the game. They want people to continue to consume more calorie-rich foods.

We have not done a good job of educating people about what healthy food is. I tend to think it’s going to come about through education and through people becoming more aware and conscious about eating healthier, and then the market will respond to that.

Do you see things like the Business Roundtable statement as part of “conscious capitalism”?

There is a larger move in our society toward businesses having a higher purpose besides just making maximizing profits, and taking other stakeholders into account. That being said, I think there’s fundamental misunderstanding. This is not a win-lose framework. Purpose and profits are not opposites. They’re quite compatible. In fact, having a higher purpose can result in higher profits, and having a stakeholder philosophy doesn’t mean that the investors start making less money. It means that business creates strategies where the customers are getting better prices and higher quality, the employees are getting higher pay and better benefits, suppliers are getting better deals and investors are making higher profits.

Profits aren’t evil. Profits are good. Profits are what funds progress in our society. So taking away the profits and redistributing them is win-lose, a zero-sum game.

David Gelles is the Corner Office columnist and a business reporter. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter. @dgelles

I recommend click the link. You will see a very interesting chart which has a list of countries and the percent of people who are obese. Japan is the least obese country. Idiot America is the most obese country.

http://darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com/2019/09/idiot-america-wins-again-we-have.html

September 3, 2019

Idiot America wins again. We have the fattest people on the planet. For more information about America's disgusting obesity click the label "junk food".

I never get sick. Maybe it's because I exercise, never smoke cigarettes, never drink alcohol, and I don't eat junk food. I never see doctors. My goal is to never see them.

This blog has 2 posts about cigarettes at cigarettes.

This blog has 13 posts about junk food at junk food.

A fucktard at the grocery store.

This morning at the grocery store I was waiting in line to pay for my stuff. The fucktard who was in front of me was wearing a mask but she pulled it down so we could see her nose. And she was coughing and not covering the cough even though the cashier was right in front of her. The obese asshole had a cart full of garbage food I would not feed to a dog. I stayed 20 feet away from this stupid fucking asshole.

The upside is she will probably drop dead before the end of this year. Good riddance when that happens.

Nobody cares.

Today I have to risk my life at the grocery store. The last time I was there I counted 6 assholes who were not wearing a mask even though a big sign on the door says everyone must wear a mask in this store.

UPDATE:

This time there were only 2 assholes without a mask. Both of them were very obese which is typical in Idiot America. Too many Americans like to stuff their fat faces with cake and other garbage food.

What I wrote at the New York Times. The article is about Idiot America's junk food industry.

New York Times - Has Pandemic Snacking Lured Us Back to Big Food and Bad Habits?

What I wrote: "Snacks are garbage. I don't understand why so many people eat garbage."

"Wendy's restaurant set on fire over fatal shooting" It's a junk food restaurant for people who like to eat garbage. I would not eat there but also I would not burn it down. I also would not steal a police officer's weapon and I would not use that weapon to shoot at the police officer. But this fucking asshole would rather get killed so people can burn down a restaurant. Politically correct morons think burning down stores and shooting a weapon at a police officer is a good thing.

"Hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and obesity." This is what happens when people eat garbage food. I will never have these problems.

The Washington Post

A sweeping study published this week showed that most elderly patients with covid-19 do not survive after being placed on a ventilator. The results were consistent with what health experts saw in Europe and China, but it still surprised the study's senior author. “We had no idea how horrific this would be,” he said. “Definitely not just the flu.” Advanced age is the greatest risk for a severe outcome from the coronavirus.

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The study, published in the Lancet, is broadly consistent with clinical findings from China and Europe, and confirmed that advanced age is the greatest risk factor for a severe outcome, particularly if accompanied by chronic underlying diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and obesity.

Idiot America

Most Americans think eating garbage food is a good thing. These people don't like vegetables but they love their junk food.

For me vegetables are delicious. I don't understand why these obese people don't care about dropping dead and I don't understand why they like to eat garbage.

A big problem is America's junk food industry. They like to advertise their disgusting crap for children. The victims learn how to be morons. This is genocide and the assholes are getting away with it.

Wikipedia - Obesity in the United States

Obesity in the United States is a major health issue, resulting in numerous diseases, specifically increased risk of certain types of cancer, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke, as well as significant increases in early mortality and economic costs.

An obese person in the United States incurs an average of $1,429 more in medical expenses annually. Approximately $147 billion is spent in added medical expenses per year within the United States. This number is expected to increase approximately $1.24 billion per year until the year 2030.[1]

From 23% obesity in 1962, estimates have steadily increased. 2019 figures from the CDC found that more than one-third (36.5%) of U.S. adults age 20 and older[2] and 17% of children and adolescents aged 2–19 years were obese.[3] A second study from the National Center for Health Statistics at the CDC showed that 39.6% of US adults age 20 and older were obese as of 2015-2016 (37.9% for men and 41.1% for women).[4]

Obesity in an adult is defined as a BMI of 30 and above. Overweight in an adult is defined as a BMI of greater than 25 and less than 30, (so 25.01-29.9999). For children, obesity is defined as BMI 95th percentile or greater for gender/age on a growth chart and overweight is defined as BMI 85th percentile to 94.999th%.[5]

Overweight or obese: For the following statistics, adults is defined as age 20 and over. The overweight + obese percentages for the overall US population are higher reaching 39.4% in 1997, 44.5% in 2004,[6] 56.6% in 2007,[7] 63.8% (adults) and 17% (children) in 2008,;[8][9] in 2010 65.7% of American adults and 17% of American children are overweight or obese, and 63% of teenage girls become overweight by age 11.[10] In 2013 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found that 57.6% of American citizens were overweight or obese. The organization estimates that 3/4 of the American population will likely be overweight or obese by 2020.[11] A forecast based on early long-term trends suggests that more than 85% of adults will be overweight or obese in the U.S. by 2030.[12]

Obesity has been cited as a contributing factor to approximately 100,000–400,000 deaths in the United States per year[13] and has increased health care use and expenditures,[14][15][16][17] costing society an estimated $117 billion in direct (preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services related to weight) and indirect (absenteeism, loss of future earnings due to premature death) costs.[18] This exceeds health care costs associated with smoking[17] and accounts for 6% to 12% of national health care expenditures in the United States.[19]

The election is next year so there have been thousands of articles about healthcare in America. They're doing it wrong. Americans need to learn how stop being sick.

What I wrote at the New York Times:

Americans could spend much less on health care if they didn't eat junk food, smoke cigarettes, and avoid exercising.

I never get sick and I never see doctors. I'm able to do this because I have a very healthy lifestyle. My goal is to never see a doctor for the rest of my life.

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This is what I didn't write at the New York Times:

A large percentage of Americans are obese. We have lots of 500 pounders. (500 Pounds = 226.79619 Kilograms). Americans like to stuff their fat faces with cake.

When I was living in Florida in a condo, most of the residents were very obese. Also, they were assholes. I hated these fucking morons. I saw one woman who must have weighed at least 700 pounds. I'm not making this up. These disgusting people liked to talk as loud as they could so everyone else in the building could hear them. It was nonstop yapping.

Here in this northwestern Illinois farm town, everyone is civilized. There is no noise problem in my neighborhood. It helps that I live next door to a cemetery. Dead people are very quiet.

Idiot America wins again. We have the fattest people on the planet. For more information about America's disgusting obesity click the label "junk food".

Idiot America's religious stupidity is just part of many problems. Another problem is Americans love to eat garbage food. And that's why they weigh about 500 pounds (227 kilograms).

I found this in a New York Times comment. I'm adding it to my list of favorite quotes.

"Friends who traveled to China a few years ago told me that Chinese citizens say that they can easily spot Americans from other Europeans because they are so fat."

Instead of eating garbage (aka junk food) I prefer fresh vegetables, fresh fruit, and chicken. My weight is not a problem. I expect to live for at least 110 years. Dropping dead is for other people. I think staying alive is a good thing.

An interesting thing about healthy food: It's delicious. The people who stuff their fat faces with cake don't know what they're missing.

A possible reason for eating junk food and not caring about their health is their idea that there is a magical 2nd life in a magical paradise for dead morons.

The Idiot America stupid, it burns.

This is something I wrote 8 years ago in 2011. It's about Idiot America's brainwashing industry.

The junk food industry, the tobacco industry, and the religion industry are equally worthless and equally evil.

The junk food and cigarette industries manufacture products that kill their customers. The people who work for these corporations are guilty of genocide. The Jeebus business is worse. It makes its customers insane.

All three of these businesses acquire new customers (AKA victims) by brainwashing innocent children. The junk food industry uses commercials for children's TV shows to convince them to eat the crap they sell. The cigarette industry can't legally advertise to children but they do it anyway if they can get away with it, for example there's the Joe Camel cartoon character.

The assholes of the Jeebus business are expert brainwashers because they've been mentally abusing children for several centuries. It's for a good reason most religious tards belong to the exact same religion as their great great ... great great grandparents. It's considered normal to call a two year old a Catholic child or a Baptist child or a Muslim child because the brainwashing is assumed. Mental child abuse is expected and tolerated for all religions. I don't tolerate it. I have extreme contempt for these assholes but in Idiot America I'm in the minority. The vast majority of Americans think it's perfectly OK to ruin a child's life with superstitious stupidity.

The parents do most of the brainwashing but there are also the professional assholes who abuse children for a living. A good example (if you can call a subhuman good) is Ken Ham of Answers in Stupidity. He has made religious indoctrination his career. He specializes in making children hate science. His Assholes-For-Jeebus business is extremely lucrative.

Junk food, also known as garbage food, should be thrown into the garbage can. But here in Idiot America millions of idiots actually eat this crap.

In Idiot America we have a huge junk food industry. Most Americans eat their garbage. For example they stuff their fat faces with cake. They give candy bars to children. This is child abuse.

We have millions of extremely obese morons in this country. They weigh 400 or 500 pounds. They love cake and other processed foods. They never eat vegetables.

If you have this disease I recommend reading this:

The Health Hazards Of Consuming Processed and Ultra Processed Foods

- Most often these products have excessive amounts of sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup, both of which are seriously harmful to brain health, body health, metabolism, insulin resistance, triglycerides count, cholesterol, fat accumulation in the liver and abdominal cavity, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer.

- The man-made, chemically-driven, satisfying sensory experience of these foods results in extreme overconsumption and addictions.  We are encouraged to eat until we often become sick.

- Being unfamiliar with the ingredient lists on these foods keeps us totally in the dark about chemicals, additives and the like.  We see the picture on the wrapper, shrug off the uninterpretable list of ingredients, and just dive right in.  We are taking the "poison pill" and embracing the opportunity to do so, as we remain ignorant as to what we are actually putting into our bodies.

- We are consuming chemicals that keep food from rotting; that give food its color; that give food its flavor; and that give food its texture.  If we could see these products in their natural state, we would, most likely, turn up our noses and be mortified that this is called "food."

 

These products often contain dozens of chemicals 

not required to even appear on its label. 

- These foods are literally addictive, as we battle obesity in our country. These foods activate the brain just as other drugs of abuse, such as cocaine.  In lab tests, rats actually PREFERRED sugar water to cocaine water, and gravitated to it repeatedly.  Insightful? 

- These foods are very high in carbohydrates, and are quickly broken down in the digestive tract, leading to rapid spikes in blood sugar and insulin levels.

- These foods are extremely low in essential nutrients

- These processed foods are very low in the fiber that our bodies require. Soluble, fermentable fiber, functions as a probiotic, to feed the friendly bacteria in the intestine.  Fiber also slows the absorption of carbohydrates to help us feel more satisfied with fewer calories.  It also treats constipation.  Processed foods are very low in fiber because they are so often removed during processing.

- We burn only half as many calories digesting and metabolizing processed foods compared to whole foods.

- Processed foods are often high in the unhealthy fats.  Unhealthy fats are the cheap fats like refined seed and vegetable oils (soybean oil, for example) which are often hydrogenated.  Hydrogenation turns the fats into trans fats, the most unhealthy substance you can put into your body.  Vegetable oils are very unhealthy and, when consumed, increase the risk of heart disease, the most common death in Western countries today (it kinda makes you wonder, doesn't it?)

     "Knowledge is power."  "Know better, do better."  There is a reason for these sayings.  You may feel fine today or even next year, but as we learn more about how to take care of the one and only body we will ever have, wouldn't it be great if we could own what we learn and put better habits into practice?  Aging is tough enough without working against ourselves!  

 Countries of the world who have adopted the foods of the western world have experienced high incidents of disease like they have never known before.  We are a country full of sickness and medication, followed by sickness and medication.  One must question, at some point, why this is such a problem in our country.  We must find a way to save ourselves, because the makers and shakers of ultra processed food on the grocery store shelves are clearly unconcerned about our health or the health of our children.

     There seems to be such an irony in the occasion of Halloween traditions.  Back in the 60's, the concern from our "trick or treat" bags was that there would be no razor blades in the apples.  Then, it was straight pins in the salt water taffy.  Today, there are many cautions with our children and the "trick or treating" experience, but it is so ironic that the most consistent "trick" is that almost every piece of "treat" in that bag, if you look at the label, proudly announces that this food item is loaded with chemicals of which we have no idea, with consequences that can be quite serious.  Yet, we accept this as normal fare, and never miss a step.  Yikes!

 Next time you reach for the chips (“betcha can't eat just one!"), the cookies or your cereal, make it a habit to at LEAST read the ingredient list, just to assure yourself that you now know better and are at least aware of what choices you are making for your health.