Posted on 10/13/2018 4:16:07 PM PDT by mandaladon
Donald Trump is responsible for all manner of things, particularly if you ask anyone at MSNBC, CNN, the New York Times or the Washington Post. He’s caused unrest around the world using nothing more than tweets, sparked riots in the streets and I’m pretty sure at least a couple of people have blamed him for global warming. But perhaps his greatest trick of all has been to increase the rates of alcohol consumption in America. Or at least that’s the opinion of WaPo columnist Kathleen Parker.
Amid hurricanes, a vanished journalist, the recent Supreme Court hearings, midterms and “mobs,” it is little wonder that Americans are drinking more than ever.
Factually, this is so. More than 70 percent of Americans imbibe each year, and about 40 percent drink excessively, according to two separate studies last year. A comparison to 2014 data showed a 10 percent increase in the number of heavy drinkers.
I mention these sotted stats for context. Lately, at least from my perch on the porch, the evening cocktail has become less an aperitif than a medicinal slug made necessary by the alternative of ripping off my face. To bear witness to These Times In Which We Live is to go insane, join a cult or pour your favorite poison.
Parker goes on from there to cite a number of horrible things about the world today, spending most of her time talking about Kanye West’s recent appearance in the Oval Office. All of this is supposedly to blame for a rise in American drinking habits.
Let’s put the snark aside and say that this is true. If so, Trump can chalk that up as one more win.
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“Isn’t that global warming’s fault?”
Absolutely, because he pulled the US out of the Paris accord. When we were dragged into it, Obama singlehandedly stopped the sea level from rising. It was a campaign promise fulfilled.
The LIBS eat, breathe and live hypocrisy . It comes natural to these freaks of nature .
I’ll drink to that!
Prost, Y’all!
(Sign at our South Carolina city’s Oktoberfest)
“A direct result of the last 50 years of Feminism.”
And I believe that the majority of Human Resources professionals everywhere in America are applying their social justice warrior ideologies to their hiring practices. They are permitted to create the illusion of transparency but there exists a virtual wall of opaqueness and a code of silence about how it really works. They need to at least be challenged on it and find out why they can’t seem to “find enough people with the right skill sets”.
More dems drowning their sorrows because they need a reason to love and being themselves isn’t working for them...
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