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uziq wrote:

i read a piece a few years ago saying that, for all the pillorying of 'flyover state' redneck yokel MAGA idiots, that wasn't actually the most vociferous or rabid voterbase for trump and his billionaire-crook cash-grab style of politics. the archetypal trump voter, in this view, was a pretty well-off car dealership owner or something like that. apparently those folks are also highly politically organised?

anyway yeah, pretty fucking funny that your commander in chief is now applying his hucksterism to gas stations.
this sounds accurate, but i'd rather not hang out for long with either of those maga factions. the boat-owning, business running maga class are voting against their own self interests as much as trades maga and trailer park maga. we've had how many years of trump, and maga keeps saying stuff is getting worse, while at the same time begging everyone else to trust that donald has a plan.

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/051/277/i_have_the_concept_of_a_plan.jpg

what has your guy been doing? trump exists to serve trump. selling trinkets from the oval office. even america jesus would flip some tables.

imagine waging a failed war, blowing up gas prices because of it, then promoting special gas deals at limited stations from your public office. ThE dEmS dO iT tOo.

i read an article from some co-uk advising americans that $1k per american was lost in 2025? yeah, to be fair, i guess a school full of dead children wouldn't stir a lot of americans.

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uziq
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regardless of her politics, it is extremely funny that hillary clinton basically lost an election because she didn't archive her emails properly. and then subsequently america has had 10 years of corruption and malfeasance on a once-in-250-year scale.
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people have probably rightly called donald trump a symptom of the illness.

i was in a conference call the other day and we could hear someone's conservative talk radio in the background. it really sounded like a religious program with trump as head of church. a mishmash of neocon, tea party, fawning devotion maga wankery that makes xitter liberals (who right-wingers are always on about being too mean or indoctrinated or lost causes) look tame.

he was like "oh you can hear that?" fumbled out a, "it's just someone expressing their opinions, i guess," what else do you say. i wasn't in the mood to have political discourse with a republislop enjoyer. if nothing trump's done has turned a person off of that stuff, there's nothing i can really add.
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visual mess. makes your eye twitch.
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Buffet is written in more fancy script though, and its french, and gold, so you know its a upscale location.
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nothing says class like a buffet. i hear the one at versailles in the court of the sun king had a legendary general tso's chicken recipe.
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ah, we've called it 'general kenobi's chicken' ever since disney acquired panda express.

i imagine a white house buffet would be rather like this:

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5c3e10b2f92c694343cc71b9/master/w_1920,c_limit/Rosner-Fast-Food-Trump.jpg
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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/051/277/i_have_the_concept_of_a_plan.jpg
This is what politics is now, vote for me and I'll come up with a plan - soon, meanwhile they enact their agenda.

Starmer did this for two years, Burnham will be the same, they're all the same.
Everything is great
unnamednewbie13
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i think using 'both sides' irt trump ignores the sheer scale of corruption, criminality, and bad taste.
unnamednewbie13
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there was a stink made about trump eating in his bedroom. probably not the most productive use of criticism space. a person living a crowded house might take to eating in their bedroom, and not appreciate the big, stuck-up dump being taken on it, and come to the conclusion that trump is their guy because of this. a bedroom is not an ideal place for snacks, but sheets can be changed, floors can be cleaned, and windows can be opened. i think a lot of families have transitioned throughout the past few decades to living room eating. tv trays so you can stuff your face while watching fox news. if you want a dining room in america, you're going to shell out more in rent. people would rather have a place with an extra half-bath so two people living on this country's disgusting food can take a shit at the same time under one roof.

the greatest generation had things like sitting rooms, sewing rooms, rec-rooms. rooms with names no longer in mainstream circulation. boomers shuffled into apartments during america's class downshift, and kissed reagan's shoes for it.

i dunno, i'd focus on his leaving boxes and wrappers everywhere and staining the sheets orange. or, you know, the epstein files and aforementioned cronyism and corruption.

if we're talking purely of domestic hygiene, wearing outside shoes inside has a significant yuck factor.

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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

ah, we've called it 'general kenobi's chicken' ever since disney acquired panda express.

i imagine a white house buffet would be rather like this:

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5c3e10b2f92c694343cc71b9/master/w_1920,c_limit/Rosner-Fast-Food-Trump.jpg
i actually cannot imagine the smell of that room. if i eat a single big mac i get a weird chemical sweat for the next few hours and smell like my grandparent's old composting shed.

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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

the greatest generation had things like sitting rooms, sewing rooms, rec-rooms. rooms with names no longer in mainstream circulation. boomers shuffled into apartments during america's class downshift, and kissed reagan's shoes for it.

i dunno, i'd focus on his leaving boxes and wrappers everywhere and staining the sheets orange. or, you know, the epstein files and aforementioned cronyism and corruption.

if we're talking purely of domestic hygiene, wearing outside shoes inside has a significant yuck factor.
i don't think being a slob is a generational thing. you don't need boomer affluence to rise above these things. victorian workmen living in terraced houses with the total floor space of 1/10th of air force one managed to keep prim and tidy homes. hell, they even preserved unused 'front rooms' dedicated merely to ornaments and never-to-be-opened liquors.
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i don't think that contradicts. there was a palpable of a drift between boomers and the greatest generation, i think. many very differently managed households by generation, regardless of floor space. culturally, meals definitely shifted away from the dining room. a lot of things fell by the wayside. except racism and homophobia, i guess.

it goes without saying anyway that trump is a slovenly person. beating a dead horse, here. it just puzzles me why articles led with him eating in bed, and not the spray-tan stains and burger wrappers. who were these articles written for? like, it's foul as a guest and unbecoming of a president, but if someone wants to snack while doomscrolling in their own bed, it's none of my business, and you're probably not going to elicit the revulsion these pieces were aiming for at just that. very mild faux pas. wash your sheets.

i actually cannot imagine the smell of that room. if i eat a single big mac i get a weird chemical sweat for the next few hours and smell like my grandparent's old composting shed.
it's heinous. just driving past one of these places has me roll up my windows and turn the fan off. very nauseating. if you look around you can see editorials by people who stopped eating it, then got sick when they tried again years down the road. how do you even process food to that point of inedibility?

ice cream vs. 'frozen dessert.' these two things shouldn't even be on the same aisle in a grocery store.

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