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« Reply #27315 on: January 15, 2019, 02:36:37 pm »

I mean I'm amused, but also not understanding why it's this much of a huge deal that he served fast food? Were they like, promised a banquet? Are previous winning teams invited to the white house served fancy dinners? Legit asking here.

Like imma be honest here if I was back in college and literally anyone set before me a massive spread of Wendy's and Pizza I would not complain. TBH you could do this for me now and be met with sound approval.

I think it's just that it's classic Trump: absurdly gauche and perfectly in line with a stereotypical kid's dream of being rich. Funny, yes, but beneath the dignity of the office.

And yeah, usually people invited to the White House are fed via the White House mess, which can serve up to 140 (although it only has seating for 50). The food varies, but it's cooked by Navy cooks and you can find menus. Event food is broadly similar.

Is there actually a clear history of burgers? You've got your Belgian fries and your Italian pizza, but where are hamburgers from? I'm going to go ahead and assume it's not Hamburg.

Actually there is; hamburgers came from Hamburg steaks, which were either chopped or pounded steak patties filled with fried onions. They got sandwich-ified in the mid-1800s for convenience, since they could be cooked fast but need a knife and fork to eat before someone stuck them in a bun.
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« Reply #27316 on: January 15, 2019, 05:03:59 pm »

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« Reply #27317 on: January 15, 2019, 05:04:50 pm »

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« Reply #27318 on: January 16, 2019, 12:31:33 am »

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« Reply #27319 on: January 16, 2019, 04:16:43 am »

Kirsten Gillibrand says she's running for President.
Not merely content to speak with the manager, the young suburban mother decides to become the manager.


I mean, at least there are a few more female candidates running this time around, so there's that...

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« Reply #27320 on: January 16, 2019, 06:48:16 am »

I mean I'm amused, but also not understanding why it's this much of a huge deal that he served fast food? Were they like, promised a banquet? Are previous winning teams invited to the white house served fancy dinners? Legit asking here.
Like imma be honest here if I was back in college and literally anyone set before me a massive spread of Wendy's and Pizza I would not complain. TBH you could do this for me now and be met with sound approval.

Serving fast food to guests at a formal occasion is certainly a low-class move, well below the dignity of the White House. But considering that they were hosting football players and not dignitaries or anything, yeah it's not that big of a deal.
The way that Trump bragged about defeating the shutdown by ordering burgers is a bit of an insult to the people struggling to figure out how they will buy food and medicine for their families without paychecks. Also, Trump bragged that he bought over 1000 burgers, when fact-checkers are finding that the number was actually a bit shy of 300. So just usual Trump BS.
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« Reply #27321 on: January 16, 2019, 11:45:31 am »

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« Reply #27322 on: January 16, 2019, 12:04:36 pm »

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« Reply #27323 on: January 16, 2019, 12:06:50 pm »

More like a modern version of Baron von Munchausen, and how he saved the day.

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« Reply #27324 on: January 16, 2019, 12:53:08 pm »

Pence says ISIS has been defeated, hours after an attack that killed US troops in Syria. Looks like we have our Mission Accomplished moment.....

(yes, I know Trump has claimed victory, but the visuals and cognitive dissonance of this one seals it)
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« Reply #27325 on: January 16, 2019, 01:02:28 pm »

Pence says ISIS has been defeated, hours after an attack that killed US troops in Syria. Looks like we have our Mission Accomplished moment.....

(yes, I know Trump has claimed victory, but the visuals and cognitive dissonance of this one seals it)
These statements are not dissonant, it is a peculiarity of the war of terror that 'victory' has become synonymous with total extermination of the enemy. This is the problem with prior American efforts in the war on terror, there is no victory condition, no point at which the American armed forces may withdraw. No other country as far as I am aware fights a war with no victory condition; Russia set its objectives in their Syrian intervention and withdrew without requiring the complete extermination of ISIS, France set its objectives and explicitly ruled out the extermination of ISIS as a feasible objective in their West African intervention. It is about time the US modernised its foreign policy, which currently only serves the interests of the military-industrial complex in tying up American troops & cash in pointless conflicts which will never end.

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« Reply #27326 on: January 16, 2019, 01:03:28 pm »

Maybe that attack was the last ISIS guys on the planet and they're literally all dead now.
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« Reply #27327 on: January 16, 2019, 01:08:06 pm »

Maybe that attack was the last ISIS guys on the planet and they're literally all dead now.

Mission.

Accomplished.
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« Reply #27328 on: January 16, 2019, 01:09:11 pm »

Maybe that attack was the last ISIS guys on the planet and they're literally all dead now.
Even if that was the case, ISIS memes would survive, like an antiobiotic resistant bacteria

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« Reply #27329 on: January 16, 2019, 01:11:32 pm »

This just in, US Goverment declars War on Memes.
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