Marcus

the Magnificent Bastard of West Seattle

[Marcus @MarcusWSea]

@NickKohloff @woodwardsports You guys have hit JP Crawford and put him out for multiple games, then hit Naylor, and now Emerson. But you're still crying about Naylor tossing a fucking sock at a fully armored catcher? Softest fan base EVER!

[Marcus @MarcusWSea]

@MichBBallGlazer @BosscherBen I mean, the Tigers hit JP Crawford, then Naylor, and now Emerson. But yeah, cray about Naylor throwing a fucking sock at a guy in full armor. Pussies.

[Marcus @MarcusWSea]

@Mariners Gonna fix the audio before first pitch?

[Marcus @MarcusWSea]

@jFudgy_ I have never seen a fan base this soft

[Marcus @MarcusWSea]

@rugbytony @NickKohloff https://t.co/MMteXbLZ59

[Detroit Tigers @tigers]

Happy Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

Celebrate with us at Comerica Park on June 23: https://t.co/F8Gj1cjWW5

[Marcus @MarcusWSea]

@WallStreetApes Funny how all the glitches, mistakes, and simple mix-ups only ever go one direction

[Marcus @MarcusWSea]

@JomboyMedia Some serious mental gymnastics when you think tossing a padded little mitt at a fully armored catcher equates to pitching a hard ass baseball 90+ mph at someone's back. The Tigers are fucking soft.

[Marcus @MarcusWSea]

@thehoffather So does that mean the threats her constituents face on a daily basis all over the city are... not credible?

[Marcus @MarcusWSea]

@ChrisDaniels_TV @komonews So does that mean the threats her constituents face on a daily basis all over the city are... not credible?

[Jesse Proudman @jesseproudman]

They sold you a "millionaire's tax."

What they didn't mention: it's unconstitutional, it’ll eventually hit everyone, and they passed it without letting you have a say.

Class dismissed.

Vote YES on IP26-645 to stop the tax.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1911 a soap company taught America to eat a candle.

Procter and Gamble were not in the food business. They made soap and candles, and both needed fat. That meant lard and tallow, bought from meatpackers who had them over a barrel on price. So P&G went hunting for a fat they could own, and found one nobody else wanted: cottonseed oil, a waste product of the cotton gin, treated as near-worthless industrial slop.

Then a chemist showed them a German trick called hydrogenation. Pump hydrogen through that cheap liquid oil and it stiffens into a pale solid that looks, if you squint, like lard.

It was meant for soap. But P&G looked at this lard impersonator and asked the only question a soap company asks: why sell it for pennies as soap when you could sell it for more in a pie?

They called it Crisco, and they did not advertise it so much as evangelise it. A free cookbook in every home. The clean, modern, scientific fat, set against the dirty old animal fats your grandmother trusted. It worked. A waste product from the cotton gin became the fat in the nation's kitchens.

That is the clever business story. Here is where it turns into something worse.

Skip to 1948. The American Heart Association is a small, broke club of cardiologists nobody has heard of. Then it lands a windfall of around 1.7 million dollars, the better part of 20 million today, and explodes into the most powerful voice on heart disease in the country.

Where did the money come from? The AHA will tell you, primly, that Procter and Gamble never wrote a cheque. True enough. The money was raised through a radio contest called the Walking Man, on a programme Procter and Gamble sponsored and used to plug its products. The company sponsored the show that gathered the money, pushed its goods across it, and stamped its name on the whole affair.

A bribe with an alibi is still a bribe. Routing it through a game show does not change what it bought.

And what it bought was a pulpit. The body that would soon tell every household in America to bin the butter and cook with vegetable oil was launched into national power by the company that made the vegetable oil. The makers of Crisco built the pulpit, and the man in the pulpit preached Crisco.

Preach it he did. The animal fats humans had eaten for all of history were recast as killers. The factory oil was the cure. It went into the schools, onto the guidelines, out of your doctor's mouth.

There is a punchline, and it is not a kind one. The hydrogenated oil they spent decades calling heart-healthy was riddled with trans fats. By the 1990s the evidence was overwhelming, and in 2018 the very fat the establishment had championed was banned from the food supply as a danger to the heart. The FDA reckoned it was killing around 7,000 people a year before they pulled it.

A soap company invents a fat. It buys the body that blesses the fat as healthy. The fat is fed to a nation for a century. Then it is banned for killing people.

Nutritional science grew up in a soap works with a marketing budget, and it has never entirely left home.

Read the label. Then read who paid for the study behind it.

[Janet™ @Janet_sm145]

Kids today will never understand how hard 90s Democrats would get canceled in 2026. 🤣

[Marcus @MarcusWSea]

Fucking @Peacock. Honestly, they make you sit through 2 minutes of ads just to access the game where they are also gonna show you ads between every half inning. Just absolutely shameless.

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

Smells like football season. Our 2026 schedule is here.

Get your tickets now » https://t.co/yxNNnRledd

[Marcus @MarcusWSea]

@paulswaney3 Dude has 1,000+ replies to this, and it looks like most of them are him replying to himself.

Also, it's COULD'NT care less. When you're doling out professional advice to the youngsters, check your fucking grammar.

[Marcus @MarcusWSea]

@Matt_Pinner Magnolia

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@SenWarren

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Go for it