Gatts posted:

One of the most hilarious phases of American culture to me was the notion of the Indian Guru, wisdom and such. Having come from the Middle East and Pakistan/India region I can tell you the amount of "classism" is tremendous. India seeped in caste, Pakistan the wealthy do poo poo like buying politicians to divert rivers to flood and kill villages to protect their gardens, the help are routinely treated bad, in the Middle East/UAE the poo poo the Sheikhs do would make Caligula blush and the entire thing is built on slavery.

Right now, MBS is going "US, buddy, why're you making such a big deal out of Jamal? I don't get it. This is what we do every day. Why is this one the problem? You had no problem with this before." And of course, the problem is, it was someone with journalist connections and the media needs to protect their own.

Those guys just have a completely different level of regard for life and their head goes into the stratosphere somehow.

FizFashizzle posted:

worse

Calibanibal posted:

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

trump bought 300 hamburgers for them then has 700 stacked up in his bedroom he plans to eat for the next week or two

pumpinglemma posted:

In that case, the really smart play would have been to give the journalists fast food but make a home-cooked meal for the guests, with Donald and Melania and Jared and Ivanka all pitching in like a human family. It would have removed most of the logistical difficulties for Donald since most of the work could be off-loaded to the rest of the family, it would have been an overt snub to the journalists he hates with a pre-made plausible excuse, it would have communicated that he was affected by the shutdown without looking whiny, and it would have been a great memory for the team - a lot of people have eaten at the White House, but very few people have eaten the President’s cooking.

Or alternative, overtly defying the law for the sake of America’s Brave Football Heroes, like he overtly defies every other law, but this time probably with public opinion on his side.

I am so very, very glad that Trump is not a competent fascist.

Nordick posted:

https://i.imgur.com/nxOeFA0.mp4

Fart City posted:

You know, I just realized that we, as a thread, knew about the Ronald McDonald WhiteHouse before the players did.

Can you imagine being invited to the White House to meet the President (even if it's Trump), and you go out and you buy a nice new suit because it's going to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and you know it's going to be one of the most distinguished moments in your life, and you open the door and there is just that slow, unfolding whaaat the fuuuuuuuck as look upon a sea of nuggets atop fine silver?

Fart City posted:

You know, I just realized that we, as a thread, knew about the Ronald McDonald WhiteHouse before the players did.

Can you imagine being invited to the White House to meet the President (even if it's Trump), and you go out and you buy a nice new suit because it's going to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and you know it's going to be one of the most distinguished moments in your life, and you open the door and there is just that slow, unfolding whaaat the fuuuuuuuck as look upon a sea of nuggets atop fine silver?

skylined! posted:

I’ve catered etiquette training meals for D1 football players and honestly they probably didn’t give a poo poo.

Otteration posted:

I have no idea, but why did anybody show up?

Giggy posted:

Everyone seems to forget that these are good ol' jocks from the south.

Calibanibal posted:

gratz on scoring the only two siamese in the world without creepy crossed-eyes

my bony fealty posted:

field day for the whackos

https://twitter.com/ChrisCaesar/status/1084967716514131968?s=19

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/1084999298612428801

empty whippet box posted:

At this point SNL doesn't even need to write anything anymore, they can just faithfully recreate actual events from the white house and nobody will be able to tell the difference

Democrazy posted:

New York has had famously archaic voting for years now. The whole system needs to be replaced, root and branch.

Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:

Still, poor person's idea of a rich person indeed.

Data Graham posted:

It's like a 5-year-old's crayon drawing of what he'd do if he had a millyun dolerz.

sexpig by night posted:

Really the only good thing about everyone calling this trashy and dumb is now Fox News/Sarah is gonna find some white linesman chud to be all 'actually I love big macs!!!!!' and try to make this into a 'fight'.

winterwerefox posted:

Oregon. You get a ballot! you get a ballot! interacted with the DMV? YOU GET A BALLOT!

Lycus posted:

I know that a lot of Californians are surprised that a lot of people have to have an excuse to vote absentee.

remusclaw posted:

We honestly can't rule out the possibility that the President is actually a kid who wished to be big.

TulliusCicero posted:

I dream of red hat maga chuds having their Weddings and Anniversaries catered by Mcdonalds/ Wendys/ Burger King, in solidarity with the Orange one

...and then their wives/ significant others walk out on them the instant it happens, and all of it is on video

Grondoth posted:

He only bought 4 pizzas.

The Mcdonalds he got was 2 for 5.

The Wendy's was from the value menu.

I cannot get over this

remusclaw posted:

We honestly can't rule out the possibility that the President is actually a kid who wished to be big.

The Glumslinger posted:

Mail ballots ought to be national, it's great to just have a few weeks to fill it out and the ability to research things

LeeMajors posted:

Didn't someone already do that with Papa John's at their wedding reception? Posobiec?

Owlofcreamcheese posted:

White Castle house is a better joke

CannonFodder posted:

Yes. In NC I can look up my ballot online and can use that to fill out a cheat sheet. Just filling out the ballot instead of making a fake ballot to use to fill out the real ballot would be better.


Also, for Oregon and Washington: Do the Post Offices there have a special "put your election ballot here" thing going on like around April 15th when they have baskets just for tax returns?

Tayter Swift posted:

The Man Who Would be Burger King

or

The Man in the White Castle

TulliusCicero posted:

Can anyone tell me how a nation's leader:

Breaks the economy through a fundamental misunderstanding of economics

Has the most ongoing corruption investigations of any leader in the history of said country

Is seen as grossly incompetent by the grand majority of the population

Shut down their government's functions in a fit of rage

Has their own nation's intelligence agencies actively investigating them as an agent for a foreign power (seriously, the leader of a country is being investigated by their own loving agencies as a potential spy )

And that person remains leader, and nobody even tries to go "wait a loving minute, shouldn't we do something different?!"