Burger Kings, that is:
The Clemson Tigers, fresh from their Jan. 7 victory over Alabama in the College Football Playoff national championship game, arrived Monday for a White House visit with President Trump. The team was served a variety of fast-food items, for which the White House said Trump paid out of his own pocket.
“I think we are going to serve McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Burger King with some pizza. I really mean it,” Trump had said earlier in the day. “It will be interesting. I would think that’s their favorite food. So we’ll see what happens.”
Like I said elsewhere, this is the tackiest most white trash shit I have ever seen in my entire life and I live in West Virginia and just read a story about a lady being kicked out of the Walmart parking lot for riding a scooter while drinking wine out of a Pringles can.
nigga they got candles with a fast food dinner.
omg I take back all my slander to every one of my broke ass ex's. https://t.co/40dfpqPlLm
— Lady T (@VicTORIousGable) January 14, 2019
Burnspbesq
Even Clemson deserves better.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
I hope those young men walk in, politely decline every item offered them, refuse to shake hands, and leave early.
debbie
Pathetic, just pathetic.
debbie
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
I doubt they will, but I would bet they are disappointed in the offerings.
Burnspbesq
Seriously, D1 athletes are strongly encouraged to eat healthy, and have access to nutritionists and instruction in healthy cooking.
debbie
Jesus, fast crap food on the nation’s silver service!
lgerard
jeez
Why didn’t he send Sarah Sanders Huckabee into the kitchen to fry up some squirrel?
trollhattan
It’s not even his money! Suppose he got his two scoops in full view of them.
geg6
College students are notorious for bad eating habits, but D1 football players generally eat better than this in the campus dining halls. What a joke.
cckids
Jesus, that stuff is ok when fresh & hot; we’ve all been there. Ordered/made Christ only knows how far in advance, sitting around getting cold? Urgh, just disgusting. What an embarrassment, again, this creep is.
trollhattan
Pretty stilted way to dish out (heh) an insult if you ask me.
TS (the original)
When you think he can’t go any lower …
And the attacks on Michelle Obama for encouraging children to eat good food …
Misterforkbeard
Even better: Necessarily this stuff will have been sitting and cooling for awhile, even if they make it on site.
So who’s up for COLD wendy’s and quarter pounders? Christ, what a clusterfuck.
plato
The uncouth dumbshit is overseeing the dinner table settings?
LIE.
JoyceH
Geez, the WH kitchen staff must feel so humiliated working for this classless clown.
Anthony Cooper
I suppose that’s one of many reasons champions have been skipping the White House.
delk
Those bottom two Wendy’s on the left look like McCartney and Lennon .
Misterforkbeard
@trollhattan:
I see what you did there.
But yeah, this sounds a lot like an insult. If an accidental and carefully couched one.
Elizabelle
It’s the furlough. OMG, LOL, but poor Tigers.
hueyplong
The Warriors are laughing their asses off right now.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Misterforkbeard:
If this was an accident, I’m Ivanka Trump. I wouldn’t be surprised if they serve watermelon for dessert.
different-church-lady
So what we’re seeing here is that Trump the “Billionaire” can only afford fast food.
Elizabelle
More from the WaPost story in John’s link:
MJS
Not sure why these players went in the first place. It would be interesting to know if there were any threats made, overt or implied, to those considering a boycott.
raven
From my favorite UGA Football Blog
Yeah I bet a lot of folks are. We reported yesterday UGA lost its nutritionist. Now the coaches are tweeting at Collier Perno, the coordinator of sports nutrition at Florida, to come back home to Georgia. https://twitter.com/iWilburr/status/1084276549015293953 …
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9:35 PM – Jan 12, 2019
different-church-lady
OT: CNN…
Well, yes, I suppose sternly furrowing a brow does qualify as an action.
raven
@MJS: Dabo is a bible thumper and Clemson is in the heart of Trumpville.
oatler.
Cold french fries.
“By their acts shall ye know them”
Amir Khalid
The White House has professional chefs on staff, and Trump orders in commercial fast food? I have to say, that sounds like an intentional gesture of contempt toward his guests.
Ruckus
@lgerard:
That earned a hardy LOL.
MJS
@raven: Yes, which makes me think there were at least implied threats of retaliation involved.
different-church-lady
@Amir Khalid: You’re overthinking it: he orders food he knows the guests won’t eat, and that means more for him!
lollipopguild
@MJS: Coming from a very conservative state(South Carolina) I doubt that there was any serious thought given to not going to the White House. Some on the right will play this as trump “owning the libs” by serving “all american’ fast food. Maybe we can convince them that the best way to “own the libs” is to drink bleach.
feebog
So Alabama lost the game but won the war?
Ken
I’m sure I’ve seen this dinner party in a movie, but can’t remember which. Not Rocky Horror, not (quite) Texas Chainsaw Massacre….
different-church-lady
@lollipopguild:
Look, not too long ago we had to do PSAs to convince kids not to eat laundry detergent, so how hard could it be?
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
I’m not sure he has the ability to plan an intentional gesture of contempt. An off the cuff one sure, but intentional? No, I think he believes this is exactly what he says it is. Which is all the worse, this really is who he is. He has no pretense, he’s really this awful.
MJS
@lollipopguild: I have no doubt the team going to the White House was a given. But I also expect there are a number of players who would prefer not to be in the presence of a racist president* , but for whom a boycott was not in the cards for fear of reprisal.
rikyrah
Tacky as a muthaphucka ?
cope
Looks like Emeril’s stunt double lighting the candles. And why is the president* wearing an overcoat? No colliers in the cellar because of the shut down?
Chyron HR
Has anyone ever tried explaining to him that you’re supposed to eat fast food when it’s
freshstill hot?delk
Clemson has a culinary coach.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
Jesus Christ. This is just another example of him being a cheapskate, if he’s even paying for this out of his own pocket. This is only cost maybe a few hundred dollars if that. This wouldn’t have happened if Obama were still president.
According to this MSNBC tweet, this is why he’s serving fast food:
Ken
In a way, the team lucked out. He might have served them a steak dinner, prepared the way he likes it.
ETA: Actually that was never on the cards, if he was paying for it – unless he still has a warehouse of unsold Trump Steaks (TM).
West of the Rockies
@lollipopguild:
Maybe for shits and giggles, we should all start talking about “owning the wingers,” you know, throwing the stupid phrase back at them and effectively neutering it?
PaulWartenberg
I hope the next President re-invites the Clemson team back to a proper White House dinner.
This is the tackiest fucking thing I have ever seen, and I’ve done enough high school reunions and two-bit sales meetings with questionable catering to say so.
A Ghost To Most
@Burnspbesq:
But Alabama wouldn’t.
I hope the White House chefs made something wonderful for the staff to eat while this shit gets doled out.
Duane
Invited to the White House as honored guests and this idiot president serves cold fast food. Again, Trumpov and his clowns can’t handle the simplest of tasks. The incompetence is unbelievable. Time after time, complete fail.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@A Ghost To Most:
Unfortunately much of that staff has been furloughed because of the shutdown. Trump basically fucked himself over and this humiliation is completely on him. So another Monday night.
rikyrah
The Trace (@teamtrace) Tweeted:
Armed “1st Amendment auditors” have been livestreaming their visits to police precincts and govt. buildings and calling out any perceived mistreatment, frightening public employees. Critics fear they could incite violence.
https://t.co/CaHUAo5T2z https://twitter.com/teamtrace/status/1084933254392762374?s=17
Roger Moore
@Ken:
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover?
Keith P
It’s official – Trump is the villain from “Statesman”
Elizabelle
Paul Krugman is shrill. Illustrated with a photo of Trump and Sean Hannity at a rally for white people in November. I think he might have outsourced the writing of this column to Kay.
He discusses Kevin Hassett, Chair of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisors, who has said on TV that it’s great federal employees get to take a rest without using vacation time. He discusses Sean Hannity, who said earlier this month that taxing the rich more heavily would mean the wealthy are not buying as many expensive boats and taking luxury vacays.
WRT Hannity:
Yeah, pretty much.
raven
@delk: Every big time program does.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
there was some event at Maralago early in the regime, IIRC some business summit or some such, the buffet was cold cuts and white bread rolls and bowls of mayonnaise and mustard, almost exactly what my legendarily cheap and lazy aunt used to serve when it was her turn to host family parties. The only thing missing was the generic cans of “Cola” and “Lemon-Lime Soda”
Matthew Smith
No matter who’s furloughed, Trump certainly has the money to have an event catered on his own dime. Announcing that he paid for it out of his own pocket, as though it’s a generous gesture? It would be a generous gesture coming from me, on my budget. From him? Not so much.
plato
The idiot is actually proud of his burgers.
Quinerly
I’ll just leave this here.
KS State Rep. Steve Alford, a 75-year-old Republican from Ulysses, Kansas, on legalizing marijuana: “What you really need to do is go back in the ’30s, when they outlawed all types of drugs in Kansas (and) across the United States. What was the reason why they did that? One of the reasons why, I hate to say it, was that the African Americans, they were basically users and they basically responded the worst off to those drugs just because of their character makeup, their genetics, and that.”
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2018/01/gop-lawmaker-blacks-cant-handle-marijuana-genetics/#A01AFmOuo3zgQdM5.01
hells littlest angel
“Paid for” out of his own pocket.
“It tasted like shit! I’ll give you ten cents on the dollar, or you can sue me.”
lamh36
@Elizabelle: I thought I’d read that Chump claimed he was paying for it himself…isn’t he supposedly a fuq’n billionaire? I mean mofo couldnt’ shoot for some actual catered food? Hell Subway caters, so does Chic-Fil-A, and sooo many others restaurants, I’m sure.
SMH…and as for the Clemson…ugh…
Gawd…
different-church-lady
@Matthew Smith:
Or does he?
lamh36
Republicans, rightwingers, Fox News jackasses, tried to call any damn thing the Obamas did in the WH “ghetto” and here ya got this mofo serving fuq’n McDonald’s and Wendys to a winning team, and fuq’n nugget sauce and dressing packets in WH silverware and plates…smh
https://twitter.com/GRYKING/status/1084967824173551617
lamh36
trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
That or “Eating Raoul.”
dmsilev
No Happy Meals?
That seems appropriate somehow. Also, I guess it’s safe to assume that Trump ate all of the KFC buckets (yes, including the buckets themselves).
different-church-lady
@Quinerly:
Oh, you were SO CLOSE to an epiphany there…
Misterforkbeard
@Chyron HR: Yeah. That was my first response. “These are going to be lukewarm at best.”
Brachiator
To be fair, Don Jr offered to shoot and serve some actual tigers.
Salty Sam
@West of the Rockies: Maybe for shits and giggles, we should all start talking about “owning the wingers,” you know, throwing the stupid phrase back at them and effectively neutering it?
Hard to pwn the wingnuts any harder than they self-pwn their own sorry asses…
Quinerly
@Brachiator: you win the thread. ?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
“some” eh, Hunter?
Hoodie
I hate Clemson with the heat of a thousand suns, but that’s downright insulting. That’s a multimillion dollar program with a dozen or more future NFL starters. They probably spent thousands to travel too see his flabby white ass. That cheapskate couldn’t order decent catering?
raven
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The draft dodger who would “gladly stand up and defend her STILL today”?
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@lamh36:
Yeah, somehow I don’t think any student boycott was ever going to be in the cards.
lamh36
Nate Silver needs to stick to stats…
Ken
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
You can get those at the soda machine Trump had trucked in, 75 cents a can. Usually the contract gives the site 10%, but Trump used his bargaining skillz and is getting a dollar a case.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I won’t pretend I don’t sometimes– when I’m feeling really lazy, too lazy even to microwave a frozen thing– crave a bag of greasy fast food handed to me through the car window, but as so many others have said, it’s so gross if it gets cold. I quit going to the Wendy’s nearest my house cause the french fries were always cold
the little plastic things of dipping sauce– did he get nuggets?— being served in silver dishes and trays.
Brachiator
@Quinerly:
Pretty despicable; but is the date correct? Is this a year old story?
lamh36
Ya’ll they are being served COLD hamburgers and shit…cause come on…aint’ no way shit from McDonald’s stay warm longer than minutes
smh…
Honus
@Burnspbesq: you non-ACC types can’t appreciate how much this means coming from a Dookie. Thanks, Burns.
Signed Honus UVA 77
Elizabelle
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: from the twitter thread, accompanying the photo of fast food sauce packets sitting in silver dishes:
Plato
lamh36
@LissandraVilla
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NEWS: McCarthy says steering committee unanimously decided not to seat Steve King on any committee following his latest remarks.
6:43 PM – 14 Jan 2019
https://twitter.com/LissandraVilla/status/1084974380927598593
Quinerly
Rep Steve King has been removed from all committees. MSNBC reporting.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@lamh36:
Don’t worry, Chef Mike will warm that shit right up in a jiffy.
Steeplejack
@Ken:
Harold and Kumar Go to the White House.
Well, maybe not Kumar.
Sebastian
He is wearing his stupid coat indoors. He must be so fucking fat that not even his shitty baggy suit can hide it anymore.
Baud
@lamh36:
@Quinerly:
Now they’ll demand that Dems meet them halfway and fund the Wall.
Still, good thing.
schrodingers_cat
I have eaten better food at departmental seminars as a grad student. What a cheap skate.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Quinerly:
It remains to be seen how long this will last or if he’ll be censured further. I’m sure King is pissed and confused. He said all of that white supremacist crap before and nobody gave a shit for years.
The Thin Black Duke
@Quinerly: I think more than a few Republicans are beginning to see the handwriting on the wall.
Honus
@Amir Khalid: it’s not a gesture of contempt. He honestly believes that Wendy’s, Macdonalds and Burger King is the favorite food of your black men. It’s somehow oddly empathetic.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I don’t know how much they would help, the french fries are just a lost cause, but… there are no chafing dishes in the White House?
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Sebastian:
I don’t think that’s his coat. He’s just that big and obese.
Punchy
Im stunned its not 40% Popeyes, 40% Churchs, and 20% watermelon with Donny Douchebag in charge of this.
Quinerly
@Brachiator: great catch. I’m usually very careful about dates but missed the 2018 date. A KS friend sent it to me this AM. I Googled Alford. Looks like he’s still in office but resigned from all committees on 1/9/2018 after these remarks.
lamh36
Me and sis lucked out this trip…our TSA experience was simple and easy going and coming from LA. Smoother than when I traveled before the shutdown.
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
Truth!
JR
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: I think once he’s stripped of his committee assignments they are gone for good
This is more than I expected.
Quinerly
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: “confused”
That made me smile, Goku. Thanks.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@lamh36:
There was some speculation earlier that this was because air travel in general was way down and that’s not a good sign for the economy.
zhena gogolia
@trollhattan:
Love that movie!
schrodingers_cat
He can’t even play the ceremonial part of the presidency well. Pathetic.
Quinerly
@JR: Chris Matthews just said, “that’s it; he’s powerless.”
Honus
@delk: just imagine if the White House had been aware of this and reached out to, I don’t know, let this woman work with the shite house chef?
Nah, it was easier just to order some fast food for the black kids coming to the white house.
Quinerly
@schrodingers_cat: he can’t even take a Christmas call from a child without ruining Santa Claus.
tybee
@trollhattan: hah!
lamh36
@justinjm1
4m4 minutes ago
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Mueller and SDNY investigating inauguration-related event with foreign officials, Nunes, Flynn, @ErinBanco reports
https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/1084979467964043265
schrodingers_cat
@Quinerly: Yes he can’t behave like a functional adult. At all. He has zero impulse control and is constantly throwing tantrums.
Roger Moore
@Steeplejack:
Kumar worked for the Obama White House. Or at least Kal Penn did.
lamh36
@robertcyoung
Them dudes really went all the way to the WH to get some Wendys and McDonalds.
Immanentize
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: This
Trump’s “let see what happens” =
NigCLANG!
Gelfling 545
@debbie: Yeah. Not even a Trump steak.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Quinerly:
No problem. But seriously, nothing happened to King before when he said racist stuff like this. Apparently, McCarthy feels King could be a drag on the party in 2020. Elections have consequences I guess
@JR: guess
I thought nothing would happen again either.
Immanentize
@lamh36:
Please please type “Nunes” again to make my heart go pitter-pat!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’d bet that would be a campaign violation– not that trump would care but people say Emmett Flood is a real lawyer. I’m sure there’s some kind of White House foundation that Kellyanne badgered into picking up the check.
But the big question: Did he send Chris Christie around to all those drive throughs?
Jeffro
I saw this on Twitter, raced over here to post a YALL ARE NOT GONNA BELIEVE THIS SHIT and see we’re already 114 comments deep. Way to be ON POINT, Balloon Juice!
Also, truly, let this be the last gasp of Boomer rule in America: “Here you go, student-athletes! Have yourself some of that fine fast food I know you young kids crave!! Training regimen, schmaining regimen! EAT. UP.”
You almost expect to see Pennywise peeking out from behind one of those curtains…yeesh…
Mike in Pasadena
If he wanted to impress these young men, he would have let the staff serve perfectly-cooked steaks, baked potatoes with all the fixin’s, and a salad or green vegetable. THAT’S what you serve hungry athletes.
schrodingers_cat
@Roger Moore: He does have some awful people of Indian origin working for him though. Seema Verma, Ajit Pai etc.
Quinerly
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: we may be crossed up in our communications here on this thread. I was praising you for using the word “confused” to describe King. It made me smile. Only smile of the day. Thanks.
Mr Stagger Lee
If I was a Clemson player senior or close, I declare for the draft and say screw you. Speaking of Dabo. I am glad more players are skipping bowl games to concentrate on the NFL. That butthurts the Dabos and I include the 4 game and transfer rule, that Alabama QB Jalen Hurts is doing. More freedom for the players.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
Christ, imagine if they had plated giant watermelons!
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Quinerly:
I understood what you meant and you’re welcome : )
I’m just still sort of amazed that King finally faced consequences for once.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Mike in Pasadena:
That and maybe pasta dinners.
Immanentize
@The Thin Black Duke:
And that handwriting says what I actually saw scrawled in a tube station in London:
“White Man Can’t Fuck.”
Quinerly
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: I still think Trump’s first choice for this little gathering was buckets of KFC. Kellyann nipped that in the bud when she heard Steven Miller getting the order together. ?
Roger Moore
@schrodingers_cat:
The point of a lot of the ceremonial parts of the job is that the president is congratulating other people for the great stuff they’ve done. When done well, the president can pick up a bit of reflected glory, but that concept is way too subtle for Trump to grasp. He can’t stand to see someone else getting more attention than him, so he messes it up as a way of winning back that attention. It doesn’t seem to matter to him that the attention he’s getting is negative; he just wants to be the center of attention, good or bad.
Ruckus
@lamh36:
And they are about as right wing as fast food gets. The owners are deep end RWMJs.
The guys at work go there every once in a while. I walk over to the taqueria a block away. Foods better and I’m not supporting a RWMJ family.
Quinerly
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: and he’s still confused. ?
Villago Delenda Est
Just when you think Donald can’t be more embarrassing, this shit comes along.
schrodingers_cat
@lamh36: T is their ( the ones who voted for T) revenge against the rest of America for Obama.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Ruckus:
A Ghost To Most
@Quinerly: Colorado is embarrassed to share a border with Kansas. What a bunch of book banging nazis.
Elizabelle
From NY TImes article on Steve King losing his committee assignments: SMH:
earlier in story:
GOP trying so hard to get in front of this story, although they stuck with him when he was a useful tool.
And what did he say?
chris
@rikyrah: Holy crap! Not the weirdest thing today but still…
Immanentize
@schrodingers_cat:
Don’t forget ol’ ex-US Ambassador “Nikki” “Haley”
Ruckus
@different-church-lady:
At one time he could have borrowed it from his owner, Vlad.
Now he has to live off his salary and I understand he donated that, to probably one of his shell companies.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Nice warm-up swing, Willard. Now do trump.
Another Scott
@Jeffro: Obama is a Boomer.
Just sayin’
Cheers,
Scott.
(“Hi OO!”)
A Ghost To Most
@Ruckus: I have never eaten at Christ-Full-A. I may try it the next time they are open on a Sunday.
Quinerly
If you want some laughs, go to Jason O Gilbert’s Twitter. He’s all over the Clemson thing, but my favorite recent tweet of his is “Like her or not, Rashida Tlaib shouldn’t have referred to the President using the Secret Service code name for Mike Pence.” On the smarty pants phone, so please excuse the formatting.
Brachiator
@Mike in Pasadena:
Throw in some prime rib and you’ve got the Lawry’s Beef Bowl.
From a past news story.
Jeffro
@Elizabelle: GOP better run harder and faster away from Steve King’s crap…we have them all on video, multiple times, loving them some Steve King, stalwart defender of “American values”.
a LITTLE LOUDER if you please, GOP-officials-now-trying-to-distance-themselves-from-King-craziness…we can’t hear you…
A Ghost To Most
@Immanentize: cue the scene in Ghostbusters where Patty and Abby are describing Erin’s ex-whatever.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Geoduck
@Ken: The first Kingsman movie had a scene in which Samuel Jackson’s supervillain character had McDonalds food served on fine china. It was intended as a joke.
lamh36
Mandalay
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Not just McCarthy. The other Mc delivered this burn:
Steve King has become the emperor with no clothes. He’s completely fucked now. I suspect if he goes rogue and opens his pie hole again he’s gone.
Fuck him.
Another Scott
@Elizabelle: Of course, it’s easy for McConnell to say that since Rep. Steve King is in “the other body”.
Let’s see him do that to a Senator.
Grr…
Cheers,
Scott.
CarolDuhart2
Ewww. I was thinking, even in a furlough, there has to be some minions. Cant they at least send out for deli food? and if its Kroger deli food, they serve hot chicken and sandwiches. Certainly someone could have been sent out with a shopping list of good food. But then this is the crowd that couldn’t find the light switches for the first week. Better not trust them around chafing dishes, ovens and hot plates. I mean the White House has already had one fire….
Jeffro
@Another Scott: Yeah but he’s already out of office…I’m ready to hand this whole thing over to the Millennials. Most definitely need to skip (my) Gen Xers and go straight to the Millenials.
No Boomers, no Gen Xers, just turn it over to the (30-year-old) kids.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Quinerly:
I think the KFC would have been a little too on the nose. I don’t know the racial composition of Clemson’s football team but that could have been a disaster. Well, more than it already is. I’m sure Sanders would have tried to spin it as typical “southern” fare.
@Quinerly:
I can’t wait to read his reaction to being removed from the House Agriculture committee, which is apparently a big deal for Iowan politicians.
Elizabelle
@lamh36: It breaks my heart. It really does.
Quinerly
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: What’s going to be interesting is Trump’s answer when the press asks him about King’s removal from the committees.
TS (the original)
@lamh36:
Much more likely he asked for a “campaign donation” from the outlets. Told them all about the great publicity having their food in the White House.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Another Scott:
It’s not hard to see his caucus actually turning on him if he tried it.
@Mandalay:
He is fucked. I don’t what suddenly changed though. 2020 maybe?
Roger Moore
@Geoduck:
I served a fast food burger on fine china once when I was working as a waiter. I was working the head table at a wedding reception that was apparently planned by the bride’s mother without bothering to consult with her daughter and son-in-law-to-be. The happy couple were not at all happy with the food, and one of them commented that they’d be happier with a Double-Double. The best man, proving his right to the title, hopped in his car, drove to the nearest In-N-Out, and bought them burgers and fries. He gave them to me, and I served them on our finest dishes. It was one of my happiest moments at that job; the bride and groom were obviously thrilled- and completely surprised- to get something they preferred to the planned menu.
JMG
Clemson’s football media guide has a picture of the team’s “executive dietary coach” (chef) and her staff. Their job one is to keep the players away from the stuff Trump’s serving them. I mean, undoubtedly the staff at Trump’s hotel, five blocks away, could’ve sent over a team to whip up a passel of steaks or pasta or whatever. This is just weird.
Ruckus
@schrodingers_cat:
Well, that’s because he isn’t a functional adult. Not in any normal sense of the word. People get mad that I say he acts like a toddler, but remember I said he acts like a spoiled rotten toddler, not your average every day toddler. And I still say he’s acting somewhat like a person with Alzheimers, which is like infancy in reverse.
The Midnight Lurker
Five. Five FULL-TIME chefs work at the White House.
Did they ALL get furloughed?
Elizabelle
WaPost story on King losing his committee assignments:
I wonder if that is going to be an issue.
Another Scott
@Jeffro: Generation-ism is stupid.
Lots of us point to the start of the long decline that we’re (in many ways) living through as being when Reagan took office. Reagan wasn’t a Boomer.
Stephen Miller isn’t a Boomer.
Kellyanne Conway isn’t a Boomer.
Brett Kavanaugh isn’t a Boomer.
Ragging on Boomer’s is stupid.
There is value in having sensible people with experience in national government. Turning everything over to 30-somethings would be stupid, too.
“You mean there were operating systems [before] Windows??!? And there were national labor strikes in America??!?!”
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
(“Who is also a Boomer.”)
Kay
Finally. Devin Nunes. Who was basically waving “hey! over here! I have been captured by foreign agents!” for two years
I was waiting until it spread to the GOP Congress. It was absolutely inevitable some of them would be implicated, right? There had to be congressional cooperation for this to happen.
jackmac
Have the White House pastry chefs learned how to make Twinkies yet? Or does Trump just send the Secret Service to the store for a couple of cases.
jl
OK, the WH fast food feast is weird. Sure it’s not an Onion article?
” riding a scooter while drinking wine out of a Pringles can. ”
Maybe that is an activity Trump could throw to attract the pro teams?
Mandalay
@Another Scott:
True, but he didn’t have to say anything, and I’m sure he worked the whole thing out with McCarthy in advance.
McConnell has now raised the stakes. If King doesn’t stay in his lane now, McConnell and McCarthy will be expected to go after him even more aggressively, and I can’t imagine anyone in Congress siding with King (the White House being a separate matter). King is screwed now. He has been publicly warned about his behavior, and his ability to say what’s on his mind are over if he wants to keep his job.
Ruckus
@A Ghost To Most:
Smart ass.
Good one.
The Midnight Lurker
@Kay: Oh, noes! Not Agent Uber!
lamh36
Just…the pictures are just sad..
https://twitter.com/Natural_OneDurr/status/1084980521279672321
Jeffro
@Another Scott: I remain unconvinced despite the insults. It’s kind of my M.O.
Kay
The problem, as I see it, is fast food doesn’t hold very well. It has to be hot and fresh or it’s disgusting. It really can’t be even 20 minutes old – we have had the swim team turn their noses up at Taco Bell that is an hour old, rightfully, I might add.
So it will be horrible and insulting, like all Trump events, because they’re not smart or practical people. They don’t know how real things work because none of them ever had normal jobs.
chris
@Kay: I’m still waiting for Mueller to land on Jason Chaffetz. Remember him, the guy who left in a sudden hurry?
lamh36
Quinerly
@jl: there’s been an update on scooter chick with her Pringles can.
https://thetakeout.com/woman-drinking-wine-out-of-pringles-can-at-walmart-warm-1831735388
lamh36
Someone said…ya know Wendy’s and McDonald’s PR team have got to be pissed!!!!
Jeffro
it is kind of funny to read Steve King’s statement about how he was ONLY referencing/defending “western civilization” and not all the other terms he used in the very same sentence.
Which is funny because now the RWNJs won’t – in theory – even be able to use “western civilization” as a dog whistle for “white supremacy”. What’s next, complaining about “conditions here on planet Earth”? There’s a point at which even your own followers, STEVE, are gonna ask you to just use plain ol’ racial pejoratives ’cause you’re too hard for them to follow…
“I WUZ JUST TALKIN’ ABOUT WESTERN CIVILIZATION, WHYZ EVERYONE SO UPSET?” My ass.
A Ghost To Most
@Another Scott: I’m in the middle of the boomers, and based on my sample size, most boomers are selfish, book banging cletuses with a real spite problem. YMMV.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Once in a great while, only an Egg McMuffin will do.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@lamh36: Yeah, there’s your Lee Greenwood singer-alonger right there, then he sees a cold filet-o-fish
@lamh36: that kid looks decidedly non-plussed, is that a Taco Bell thing he picks up and puts down?
@Kay: I don’t even quality sandwiches last more than twenty minutes or so, bread gets soggy and gross fast
Duane
The Trumpov team is always a target-rich field but this is just too laughable. Smh, Krugman’s shrill, twitter aflame. I can’t keep up. Maybe this way he doesn’t do any damage except to his guest’s stomachs.
lamh36
Lordt…I didn’t even think about this…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@debbie: they’re not good for me, and at my age they remind me of that pretty damn quick, but yeah McD’s breakfast sandwiches are good. and the hash browns.
A Ghost To Most
@lamh36: At best, spit.
Another Scott
@A Ghost To Most: Most people, of any generation, don’t run for public office.
Generalizations about a generation are just as stupid as generalizations about hair color or eye color or detached ear lobes or webbed toes.
I don’t know why it seems to come up every few months here.
Cheers,
Scott.
(“But don’t get me started on PG County drivers!!!1”)
Kay
@chris:
I feel like “contagion” to congress is an important marker. But as a practical matter, the truth is Trump couldn’t pull this Russian thing off without help. He can’t even host a dinner – he’s going to give them limp, soggy lukewarm fast food – you simply can’t hold it. Fast food fries are gross unless you eat them in literally 10 minutes. The buns! They’re hard as rocks when they cool.
I;m sure they’re polite and gracious so no one will say anything. To the idiot who is just showing off again.
Everything is all about him. He can’t even do the simplest ceremonial duties without INJECTING his horrible personality.
Jeffro
@A Ghost To Most: My Gen Xers (‘Reagan babies’) are worse, imho. VERY high ratio of air quote “libertarians”. They’re just flat-out convinced that “government is the problem”, as if Somalia is some sort of paradise on earth.
Quinerly
@debbie: I’m sneaking up on age 58. Never, ever been to a McDonald’s. Never, ever had any food item from McDonald’s. I have heard good things about the French fries and have been tempted.
debbie
@Sebastian:
Perhaps he is just back from picking up the food.
lamh36
@A Ghost To Most: but wiat…also didn’t think about this…
Ruckus
@Another Scott:
I agree. I’m only 4 yrs into boomerville and I believe that I’m at least reasonably liberal. OK sometimes I’m unreasonable. OTOH I know people younger than boomers (one just over old enough to drink) and they voted for drumpf and have a copy of Atlas Shrugged in their living room, prominently displayed.
A Ghost To Most
@Jeffro: Libertarians just exchanged their goatherder manuals for “Atlas Shrugged”. Still deluded assholes.
Adrift
@Elizabelle:
I’m still up in the top of the comments, but if it hasn’t been mentioned yet I would like to point out that Burger King is *ahem* a Canadian corporation since their inversion a couple of years back.
debbie
@Quinerly:
I’ve had them very rarely (usually pilfered from a niece’s or nephew’s bag). Not too bad, but there are better fries to be had elsewhere.
lamh36
This is just…
Elizabelle
@Adrift: What struck me is that Trump is all about everything American. Two days after the story is out that he has been investigated by the FBI as a possible Russian asset.
Forgot about Burger King. But yes, it was an inversion. Tax policy. I remember that now. Was very disappointed with them.
Barbara
@Jeffro: As if Trump supporters (or many of us) sit around debating whether Beethoven or Bach is the first true modern composer in between reading Plato and Aristotle in the original Greek. And don’t get me started on all that crowing about the glories of western technology by people out of one side of their mouth while using the other half to viilify scientific inquiry and the Enlightenment.
trollhattan
@Quinerly:
Spouse’s grandfather, a gen-you-wine California Okie, stashed stale beer in orange juice concentrate cans in the fridge. MIL was not amused but that did not change this proud habit. And as we know, Texas=Baja Oklahoma.
chris
JFC
MomSense
He is just so fucking tacky and disgusting.
He couldn’t hire a caterer to make some decent food?
Brachiator
@Quinerly:
The fries were better when the frying oil contained beef tallow.
TS (the original)
@lamh36: Cold French Fries in paper cups. Did trump have to do the washing up?
Jinchi
Considering that McDonald’s is Trump’s favorite food, this may be the most sincere gesture that he’s made in the 2 years he’s been president.
On the other hand, he apparently likes fast food because he assumes that anyone who knew he was coming to dinner would try to poison him.
Probably not a bad bet.
Barbara
@Quinerly: Wow. An honest to God fast food virgin. You might be able to make a small fortune as a modern day freak show.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Ruckus: my soon-to-be 90 year old father is a member of what is sometimes rated the ‘worst’ generation, politically, the Silents. He has never voted for a Republican for president in his life, casting his first vote for Stevenson from Korea in 1952. In 1974, one of my uncles came up to him at a party and said, “I’ll be damned, you were right about Nixon.” (he went right back to voting R, of course). At a business lunch after the ’76 election, one of his partners said “Well, we’ll run Reagan in four years.” My father looked up to laugh at what he was sure was a joke and saw that his partner was dead serious and the third guy at the table agreed. He quit donating to the Salvation Army last year when I told him about their stance on gay rights.
and this whole “Boomers vote like this” “Gen X votes like that” … it’s a very white/male slanted discussion. I think white men under thirty went pretty heavily for McCain, and then Romney. They and trump all won white women, I’m pretty sure.
Ruckus
@debbie:
I’ve gotten massive food poisoning at McDs. Twice. While traveling. Only place open in the morning nearby and I had to work. No longer. If McDs was the last place on earth with anything called food, I’ll volunteer to starve. It would be better for me. And yes I figured the first time was a fluke. The second time I learned. Two different McDs in two different states, with almost a year inbetween, that’s not just a local, one time issue.
Mary G
Villago Delenda Est
@Geoduck: Samuel L was obviously enjoying every minute of scenery chewing he was encouraged to engage in in that film.
Frankensteinbeck
As for Steve King: This is a perfect example of the fucked up rules about racism Reagan sold to American white.
You know what the problem is? You know why he got in trouble this time? He used the words ‘white supremacy.’ If he’d only used ‘white nationalism’ he’d have gotten away scot free. Notice how the press bends over backwards to never, ever describe even the hardest core racists with the phrase ‘white supremacy.’ Like the n-word, the words ‘white supremacy’ are part of the code to let whites be as racist as they want and avoid the accusation. There are hardly half a dozen ways you can fuck that up, and King picked one of them.
Gravenstone
@West of the Rockies: I’m not buying any wingnuts. You can take my share if you like. They’re icky…
rikyrah
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Villago Delenda Est
@chris: He didn’t buy ANY hamburgers. He put them on Sarah Slander’s Visa card.
A Ghost To Most
@Barbara: To be fair, I have never debated the merits of Bach, Mozart, Plato, or Aristotle. King is simply wrapping his fascism in flowery words.
Now, if you want to debate the best pedal-steel player, this liberal redneck has some thoughts.
Different strokes.
Jinchi
@Quinerly: I’m pretty sure McDonalds fries are perfectly calibrated to trigger all the pleasure sensors on a 7 year old’s tongue.
I’m not sure it will translate to a 58-year old palate.
chopper
alabama’s all well, maybe losing wasn’t so bad after all.
Mike J
@MomSense:
Trump owns a hotel with a restaurant. I think he could have had decent food sent in.
Villago Delenda Est
@Jeffro: The only problem with Somalia, in their eyes, is all the ni*CLANGS* living there.
raven
@Another Scott: Sort of like this “the South” bullshit.
Elizabelle
@rikyrah: I cannot stand the conservative side of the Catholic Church. I hope this breaks very, very badly for them. As in, some should go to jail.
Quinerly
@debbie: I just never have done the fast food thing. (full disclosure… Taco Bell, sometimes, when driving to NC). I have done Hardee’s many years ago. It was started by Wilbur Hardee in a neighboring small town in NC and Wilbur was a friend of my father’s. Wilbur sold Hardee’s early on in the 1960’s and ended up violating a non compete agreement contained in the sale when he started another drive in called “The Little Mint.” My dad had a Little Mint franchise for about 5 years. They never really took off, though, and Wilbur basically lost everything, became an alcoholic, got sober, got religion, and died not long ago. Well, that’s basically what I know about fast food. ?
Jeffro
@A Ghost To Most:
LOL
They were “Republicans” until Newt’s bomb-throwing became all the rage in GOP circles, then they were “Conservatives” until the bombs blew back into their own foxholes, then they were “Compassionate Conservatives” until W was AWOL on 9/11, dragged us into Iraq, and blew up the deficit, and then they were all “Libertarians” (2005-2008) and “Tea Partiers” (2009-2016).
Shown graphically, it would look like that classic ‘Ascent of Man’ diagram in reverse, ending in “Trumpublicans”, orange-tinged single-celled creatures incapable of logic, reason, or even self-interest.
Ohio Mom
Just got back from the Cincinnati Meet up, where we had American pub food — a feast compared to what’s being served in the White House. Better company and conversation too. It was a very nice time.
Jay
Burger King was the first fast food franchise to take poutine out of Quebec, all the way across Canada. Late 1990’s.
Mike J
@A Ghost To Most:
Tom Brumley.
But I’m a big Buck Owens and the whole Bakersfield sound fan.
Quinerly
@Barbara: No Chick Filet, no KFC either. I do like Popeye ‘s (but only in Louisiana after 1:00 AM?) and I have had Wendy’s chili. I adore White Castles. ???
different-church-lady
@trollhattan: “Who put PINEAPPLE JUICE in my pineapple juice?!?”
zhena gogolia
@Quinerly:
I live two blocks from a McDonald’s and haven’t eaten there in probably 15 years.
I used to go there once a year, on my birthday, and get Filet-o-Fish, fries, and a chocolate malt for lunch. Then I realized why I was always sick on the afternoon of my birthday, and the tradition ceased.
A Ghost To Most
@Jeffro: They keep using that word “conservative”. I do not think it means what they think it means.
different-church-lady
@A Ghost To Most:
David Gilmore, natch. [DUCKS]
Ken
@debbie: When I take the 7AM Amtrak to visit my family, I get an egg McMuffin at the station. I always eat it before boarding, though – the one time I waited, well, it’s like everyone else has said. Plus the eggs vulcanize, or some similar chemical process, as they cool.
raven
@zhena gogolia: There is one two blocks away and we’ve never been in it. When we first moved here 20 years ago a neighbor came over and said “Your cocker spaniel Raven is standing in front of the door Mac’s begging for food”!
different-church-lady
@Jeffro: And yet through all that they’ve always been assholes.
Ruckus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Thought I’d better add this in – this is not aimed at you or any person here.
We are all guilty of generalizations of people, be it political, racial, spiritual, age, gender, sexual identity, hair color, whatever. It makes it easier to find our way or lose our way. It’s one human trait that should die a much needed death. It turns being human into a bullshit contest, my bullshit is better than your bullshit. More people voted for Hillary Clinton thab did for Donald Trump. He is president because the racist land owners known as some of the founders didn’t want people to win elections who they did not like. Well the racist wealthy got their wish this time. The far better person lost, not because of the electorate but because of the land owners/racist segment of the founders.
It’s time to talk about fixing our national government. Not tearing it down, the republican way to fix stuff – destroy it, the real way, decide what it is that the majority want, not the wealthy land owners, not the racists.
Jeffro
@A Ghost To Most: Yup. It was a bit of a wake-up moment for my RWNJ dad and brother back in 2016 when I told them I could better articulate actual ‘conservative’ principles than they could, and that set of arguments would be a better fit with/would be much more in support of the present-day Democratic Party than the present-day GOP.
Needless to say, variations on Hillary-hatred and ‘ALL lives matter’ and ‘soshulism!’ were the response, instead of “really? Wow…I need to think and reflect about that. My party might really be off the rails!”
(sigh)
Honus
@Brachiator: that’ll go over well with the GOP trying to pretend that Steve King is an uncharacteristic anachronism.
chopper
@lamh36:
“oh no, these are ‘steamed hams’”
zhena gogolia
@Quinerly:
As Kay says, they’re great if you eat them immediately.
Mnemosyne
I’ve been out of the loop with a migraine all day, so I’ll just say this:
My annual salary is probably about what Trump (allegedly) makes in a single day, and EVEN I could easily afford to buy that much fast food out of my own pocket.
But, of course, I’m not a malignant narcissist who’s more interested in embarrassing his “enemies” than he is in welcoming guests to the White House. Because you know that every single convervative is denouncing the Democrats for “forcing” Trump to be a cheap bastard and spend at best $300.
Jeffro
@different-church-lady: So true. And yet, easily explainable as, “I want to act out and not share and not understand or change or grow, not even in my own self-interest”. Covers a lot of what it means to be an asshole.
Jinchi
Oh my God. I just realized, Trump had to order fast food, because all “non-essential” staff are on furlough.
lollipopguild
@different-church-lady: Cindy Cashdollar.
Leto
As an eternal Tigers fan, I just can’t. This is just… like no fucking words. Avalune read this to me, throughout tears of laughter, and I swore this was a fucking Onion piece. It’s just… words fucking fail me.
Every team that was invited to the White House needs a do over once this fucking traitor leaves office. They didn’t get a real WH visit. They didn’t get the real experience. This is beyond Forrest Gump level of farce.
Elizabelle
I really wonder what the Obamas think when they watch what’s going on in the White House now.
@Jinchi:
You know, that is possible. Although the Clemson players looked so restrained in the footage we’ve seen.
raven
@Mnemosyne: Do you know about this for migraines?
Ken
@Mnemosyne:
Especially if you just got one of those mailers with the double page of 2 for $4 coupons.
Villago Delenda Est
@Another Scott: “Paul McCartney was in a band before Wings?”
Quinerly
@zhena gogolia: I grew up in a very rural small town. I think the first McDonald’s came to a larger neighboring town in about ’74. Like I said above, we had Hardee’s in the area because of the founder’s history in the area (Wilbur also had steak houses called “The Three Steers.”) Those kind of hamburgers and fish sandwiches just were never on my radar. By the time I hit my 20’s it kinda became a novelty to say that I had never been to a McD, Burger King, etc… I did fall into the whole White Castles thing after late nights in St. Louis in the mid to late ’80’s.Now, about every two-three months, I’ll get a craving for them.
Mnemosyne
@different-church-lady:
Yup. “Billionaire,” my Aunt Fanny.
zhena gogolia
@raven:
It’s hilarious, but I never even remember that it’s there. I hope Raven didn’t get his tummy upset with a Big Mac!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Elizabelle: I absolutely agree with Jinchi, this was his usual projection, everyone agrees with me, and he’d probably rather have a QP than a trump hotel 75 dollar steak, well done
also, I know bupkis about the DC pizza scene, but…
Ken
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: What, not Little Caesar’s?
zhena gogolia
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Oh, I can assure you that there are roughly a thousand places in DC where you can get better pizza than in Domino’s.
jonas
To be fair, Trump’s first suggestion when asked for menu ideas for the Clemson visit was “fried chicken and watermelon.” When an aide explained that that might be offensive, he replied, “What? Isn’t that what, you know, those kind of boys like to eat?” “Ok, fine!!” said an exasperated Trump, “How about some fucking Whoppers, then? This isn’t going to cost a lot, right?”
raven
@zhena gogolia: Wait, I’m worried about memory issues, are you from here? Did I know that? damn
different-church-lady
@zhena gogolia:
Public trash cans, for instance.
Starfish
Was the White House Chef not considered an essential employee? Were they affected by the shutdown?
different-church-lady
@jonas:
Mr. Trump then began by reiterating his promise that Mexico would pay for the border wall…
Amir Khalid
@jl:
I didn’t know Pringles cans were watertight. They sure don’t look that way to me.
zhena gogolia
@raven:
No, no, I’m in Connecticut. But there’s a McDonald’s two blocks from my house too. It’s just not the same McDonald’s.
jonas
@Duane:
There’s always a tweet. Remember all the times he bagged on the Obama’s for supposedly not hosting classy enough WH dinners? Jeebus, the poor Clemson players are lucky he doesn’t just pitch the burgers at them like they were Puerto Rico hurricane victims. “Hey, go long!”
raven
@zhena gogolia: Thank goodness!
lollipopguild
@Elizabelle: The Obamas are two of the classiest people to ever live in the White House, if I were them I would be laughing my ass off.
jonas
@Amir Khalid: They’re not. That was, I’m sure, part of the whole vivid tableau.
Quinerly
@jonas: I continue to be fascinated by this Pringles Scooting Chick. She never even made it in the store but yet was on a store scooter in the parking lot. That update I posted up thread said she had been scooting around several hrs before 6:30AM. She may be my new spirit animal. I want to know more.
jonas
@Jinchi:
I don’t know if the WH cooking staff are furloughed or not, but you’d think a “billionaire” president — with an ounce of class or decency — would say, “you know, this week, I’m paying the salaries of all food service staff so we can have this celebration,” and host an actual damn decent luncheon instead of serving some of our nation’s most talented young athletes….cold french fries and soggy cheeseburgers.
But Michelle Obama said to eat your vegetables and get exercise, so there are war crimes on the other side to answer for, I suppose.
Gravenstone
@Ken: I think you mean Papa Johns? //
sgrAstar
@Jeffro: what the hell does this have to do with “boomer rule”? FAIL.
Elizabelle
I kid you not, this is in the LA Times at the moment! Full story, in their sports roundup.
Whoa. I wonder if that was meant to make it to the website.
jonas
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Don’t forget the ketchup.
I would really like him to host a bunch of stockmen from Nebraska or Texas for a big cookout at the WH and serve them all cheap-ass, over-done steaks, just like he likes ’em. I would want them on camera, of course, singing the praises of dear leader’s wonderful appreciation of their great commodity as they worked through each bite of shoe leather.
But Obama once ordered a “fancy” kind of mustard on a sandwich, so there are war crimes to account for on both sides, amirite?
Mike in NC
@jonas: The country has still yet to recover from that time Obama violated the Constitution by wearing a tan suit.
jonas
@Elizabelle:
God, what a dickhead. If a group of Olympic gymnasts came to the WH is he going to offer them all a can of TaB soda?
zhena gogolia
@Mike in NC:
I saw someone refer to that as “wearing a tan suit to a funeral.” No, it was TO A PRESS CONFERENCE. And it was covered more extensively than Trump eating the notes of his meeting with Putin.
Ken
@jonas:
Extra points if it later turns out the beef was imported from Argentina.
I suppose that could be a thing with the fast food – don’t some of those chains promise that, although they buy beef from Central and South America, it’s not raised on (former) tropical forests?
Ruckus
@raven:
I take magnesium oxide and B2 every day for migraines. That and staying far away from triggers as possible limits my migraines. Like anything else it doesn’t work for everyone but it has made a huge difference for me.
Jinchi
@jonas:
That would be illegal. He can’t simply choose to pay some federal employees to do their job out of his own pocket. If they’re furloughed they can’t work. He could probably hire a completely different group of caterers on his own dime, though.
It’s like the clod who tried to run a GoFundMe for the Wall. Even if he had raised the full amount, it wouldn’t be legal for him to simply hand it over and demand it be spent on Trump’s pet project.
Suzanne
@Honus:
Remember that Trump loves this stuff. Apparently he has Big Macs and fried chicken served to him on domed platters. His love of fast food was one of those semiotic clues to the deplorables. “A poor man’s idea of a rich man,” for sure.
OTOH, Obama ate arugula and that how we all knew that he was an uppity foreigner.
Duane
@different-church-lady: It’s what criminals do. After awhile you need a new alias. They’ll need another one after the Trumpov scandal. Maybe be honest for once and call themselves assholes. Everyone else does.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
You know, there actually would have been ways to serve fast food and make it cool and fun. Here in So Cal, people will have the In N Out Burger truck come to their wedding and cook everything fresh, and I can’t imagine that no chain in DC has something similar.
The very least he could have done was have his frickin’ hotel cater burgers and fries. But, nope, he had to be a cheap asshole and blame his cheapness on everyone else.
Mnemosyne
@raven:
I keep meaning to do the magnesium supplements that Ruckus keeps talking about, but I haven’t gotten around to it.
I’m annoyed because I started feeling weird yesterday afternoon but didn’t realize what it was until around 1 am. I might have been able to nip it in the bud if I’d taken my Excedrin earlier.
Mnemosyne
@Elizabelle:
The LA Times doesn’t give a fuck about Trump, especially now that they’re locally owned again.
I keep telling all of yinz, out here in Hell-Lay even old white guys are vocally contemptuous of Trump. Young white male assholes who want to pick fights are way more likely to declare themselves Trumpers.
VOR
@Mnemosyne: One of my son’s friends worked for a Culvers franchise where they would send a team to cater parties. Subway or Jimmy John’s could do cold sandwiches which could at least sit for a little while, unlike fast food burgers. A colleague brought in a food truck for a work event serving over 100 people. There have to be a lot of caterers in the DC area who would be thrilled to cater a White House event.
Joseph A. Miller
@Jeffro: Oh, enough of this stupid “Boomer” crap. It’s a pathetic stereotype and a way to generalize about millions of people you don’t know. I’m really tired of it, and I’m equally tired of cliches about “Millennials” and “Gen Xers”. Seriously, can we stop with these labels?
Death Panel Truck
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
We kids sat at the card table on the back porch and sipped warm store-brand ginger ale poured from glass bottles into wax cups. It was 1968. One of my brothers killed a horsefly and dropped it into my cup. I swallowed it, and gagged trying to cough it up. I still haven’t forgiven the fucking bastard, and he’s been dead for 39 years.