Lol Trump doesn't pay his bills. He still owes several cities from campaign rallies he held in like 2015. He's infamous for not paying his bills, and was so for decades before he became president.
Would he? I'm terrified of his ability to double down on obvious bullshit even when presented with facts directly countering his claims.
As bad as Trump is, I'm almost more concerned about the people who saw his first clown show and thought either "I have got to get in on this" or " I can use this to accomplish my goals. "
In 4 years, though, I can bet Vance would leave if he lost the election. He doesn't have the spine or charisma to do any showboating and grandstanding like tRump.
This was the exact sentiment that crossed my mind. The amount of money these dipshits have available and they're eating that crap? I don't even believe it. This HAD to be a photo op to make the idiots believe "Wow they eat what I eat" before they rolled in the burnt steak with ketchup and whatever else they actually prefer.
Nah it’s probably legit. Trump is famous for eating like trash. His usual order is reported to be two Big Macs and a Filet-o-fish, but I only see one Big Mac on his tray so maybe he’s on a diet.
Trump probably hates vegetables. Probably takes out the pickles and then cries about it like a little kid when Ivanka forgets to order a burger without any vegetables. So he won’t eat those tainted onions and carrots.
Remember, this is the guy, who tried to sell steaks under his name, because "he knows steaks", and also admitted to liking them well done with ketchup.
also admitted to liking them well done with ketchup
Oh. Oh god. What the fuck. And rural Americans voted for that? That's Iike if Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, and the pope thanked him while personally repainting the entire thing in an awful vomit-green color.
Wait. Why would you think that? It’s a mildly prestigious post. Sure, it’s honorable, but it’s certainly not something that anybody with any type of creative flair would ever aspire to. It’s a labor of 24/8 type love.
This reminds me of so many comments from Americans saying how embarrassing Biden is as a president and that no one takes 🇺🇸'Murica🦅 seriously anymore under the Democrats. It was weird to read as a foreigner because I loosely remember what Trump was like. And now here we are again. Hope Americans are proud.
I wish I knew someone who was disappointed. The only two people in my life that aren't Trumpers are my daughter and her fiance. Everyone else thinks that gas will get back to $1/gallon and food prices will return to pre Covid levels on Jan 21.
Sheeeesh, sorry to hear you're living deep in the red. Proud of my state for being a spot of blue in a sea of red, but hot damn that election map was bleak.
It's so wild how absolutely bonkers the political climate has become just in my lifetime. There was some real optimism when I got to vote for Obama as an 18 year old. Would've never seen all this coming...
Back then both parties tended to use the "slimy posh salesman" kind of deceit (half lies, misleading statements, promises left unfulfilled with twisted excuses given for it) and what happened was that Republicans, almost against their will (Trump was an outsider) stumbled upon the "strongman saying what people want to hear using straight talking language" technique of deceit.
It was a massive success because people had been fed the same kind of posh-saleman deceit (with pretty much all the media having gone along with it and turning into de facto propaganda outlets) for decades, found the new sort of discourse refreshing and comparatively trustworthy (even though it was still bullshit, just delivered differently, because it did not sound at all like the usual bullshit it seemed trustworthier to many and all the media that had chosen sides and gone along unquestionigly with the old style of deceit wasn't trusted anymore so all their denouncing of the "other side's lies" was ignored)
Whilst the Republicans did adjust to that unexpected success quickly, the Democrats did not and just kept using with their usual deceit techniques spread via the media-outlets to which lots of the electorate had built a resistance to, and acting to favour the usual people when in government.
So here we are today with a lying populist getting power for a second time in the American Two-Party system.
The thing is we had Obama and dem control of the legislature and we still didn’t get universal healthcare, or even basic shit like minimum wage indexed to inflation. It’s no wonder low-information voters think democrats suck at “the economy”.
I still think musk had something to do with it and not in a strictly legal way. Would explain how he has managed to stay close to the orange for so long unchecked.
The whole thing is going to look fucking stupid once EVs take off. Although I bet Trump will do everything to slow that once elected (even with Musk in his ear).
You know that they can just stop EVs from taking off, right? We elected an autocrat.
They can also stop infrastructure for it from being built, and perhaps even tear down existing infrastructure. Well, aside from the ones Tesla owns of course. At least until he and Elon have their falling out
Time to start beating your wife, she’s actively asking for it. If she’s your ex make sure to remind her that project 2025 wants to make her existence illegal.
What is actually embarrassing is that the US elected Reagan, twice, then G.W Bush, twice, and now Donald Trump, twice.
As the great scholar Bush once said:
There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again
The first time I flew out of the US after Trump became president I was so embarrassed of being American because of all the questions about his crazy ass. When I landed back in the US and saw his portrait on the wall in the airport, I stared at it perplexingly trying to understand what the fuck his stupid face was doing there….then it hit me that it’s there cause he was the president. Trump is a laughing stock and him at the helm of the US makes all Americans laughing stock for allowing this country to elect an orange makeup-caked, lying, shyster.
Honestly, in my social circle we're all kinda treating it like this... strange, self-inflicted, natural disaster. Like we can't even really joke about it, still. It's like we all know it's gonna be bad, the only question is how bad it's going to be. There's a lot I'm hoping is over-reaction, but honestly that's a pretty shitty thing to hope for and a hard hope to maintain all things considered.
Nope, 'that Trump.' That Trump still exists, that he is president again, that he's doing what he's doing, or everything at once, so I just remember that Trump. To me, that's enough.
'McDonald's has the biggest fries, the best fries. I helped them put the fries in the box, yes, me. McDonald's has been with me every step of the way, even when all the wrong lesbians were being mean to me... Like, comment and vote if you want to see more of this wholesome Christian content... Elon here... Elon brought his own ketchup... It has bananas in it... I don't know about that... Bananas in the ketchup... But he knows what he's doing... And I trust his banana ketchup... I'm not going to eat it... The banana ketchup... But I trust him and his cars.'
Because daddy famously loves McDonald's and he's hoping that if he shows sufficient brand loyalty that eventually daddy will love him.
The sheer amount of untreated generational trauma in this photo is astounding. I can only imagine how much less fucked up the world would be if more rich fathers could be bothered to actually raise and love their kids.
Not a single sauce opened, no bites taken, nothing removed from an annoying tray lip and placed on the table like a real person. No sign whatsoever that they are actually eating this junk. The half eaten fries are staged as eating without the ketchup that is right there on the tray is quite unlikely.
This is a staged ad. It is meant to be a message to others in corporate America, and for marketing to convenient idiots to quote the Russian term.
Apparently he eats so much McDonald's because he's paranoid about being poisoned and thinks sending someone there to get his food anonymously makes him more safe somehow. It makes you wonder where that paranoia came from once you also learn that this was first reported seven years ago.
Kennedy spoke openly the other day that the food they eat on the plane is absolute crap that is either big macs or KFC. So this could be a staged photo, but also it would mean another member of the photo was bitching about it being real and is lying.
“The stuff that he eats is really, like, bad,” he said on [a] podcast, in an episode that aired Tuesday. “Campaign food is always bad, but the food that goes onto that airplane is like just poison. You have a choice between—you don’t have the choice, you’re either given KFC or Big Macs. That’s when you’re lucky and then the rest of the stuff I consider kind of inedible.”
-- RFK Jr. a few days ago
Edit: to be fair, his expression in this picture does make him look more than a little disgusted
I love that the genesis of that was an article calling him a "short fingered vulgarian" aka a common thief but he was too uneducated to realize that and instead thought they were making fun of his small hands. He would send the author pictures of himself with his hands circled in gold sharpie trying to prove that his hands were actually of normal size. The internet then picked up the small hands thing and ran with it.
I love it, but just a quibble. I've always understood the "set" in "set and setting" to be the set of people you're with. Couldn't be much worse of a set. But an experienced pyschonaut like Kennedy should be about to power through.
It's from The Handmaid's Tale. Great TV show based on an amazing book that is all too relevant.
If you haven't read or seen it, you should. Like right now. Before January 20th at least. Margaret Atwood made sure that everything that happens in the story is something that has happened (to women) at some point in history. Because she knew there would be men saying that it's sensationalist, and would never happen... turns out all of it has happened.
Beware: it is harrowing. Very very very bad stuff. But sometimes it's necessary to not turn away from these horrifying things. Especially when they're happening again.
It's like the authors of Project 2025 read it and used it as an instruction manual, rather than a warning.
Wow can you imagine the inane conversations that happen sitting at a table with these assholes? That literallly sounds like torture.
It’s like Fiona Apple said about sitting in a private theater doing coke with Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson was a catalyst to never do coke again, this would be a catalyst to never breathing or living on this earth again.
The conversations would be insane because I bet ever single one of them would be a one upper.
RFK Jr would probably tell some story about cutting the head off a Bald Eagle then Elon would chime in about the time his personal Tesla flew to Mars with a Bald Eagle inside it, that's what was in the suit.
Trump would try and say it was actually not a Bald Eagles in the Tesla but it was him and the Air Force launched a second rocket top secret rocket to pick him up, it was the biggest rocket.
And lastly Don Jr or Eric which even kid that is would start to tell a story and Trump would interrupt him and talk over him telling a story about the time he sexually assaulted some random women but since he has zero self awareness he would frame it as a good time.
I have said it before, and I'll say it again: you can fault McD for a lot of things. You can argue that the products aren't to your taste, or subpar in regards to nutrition. But food safety is something that the clown takes extremely serious.
I've gotten sick from burger king. Once I had to decide what I'd rather wipe off the floor, because it was coming out both ways after eating Carl's Jr. But I've never been poisoned by McDonald's, nor have I talked to someone who has either.
Last time I went on this rant, a former McDonald's employee commented about food safety practices. They told how if you went to the bathroom and came back multiple people would ask you if you remembered to wash your hands. Not like this specific commenter, but that was just what they did to everyone. If you came in sick, you would be sent home with pay (I believe this was in the US, so it was actually extraordinary).
I gave you an upvote because it is on point. I want to down vote you because I don't want to live on that planet and its looking more and more like we will be that planet.
Elon's far from mindless. He's just a self-serving prick who would burn a country down to increase his stan- oh wait.
Yeah. Fuck.
He's potentially the most dangerous person at that table. He doesn't want power in the limelight - though he uses the limelight when he needs to, yes - he wants power behind the scenes. And he's very good at getting what he wants. That much should be unambiguously clear.
And if gaining that power means helping a fascist fucking prick fuck gain dictatorial powers, well I don't think he'd think twice.
I'd say idiot savant at best, lol. Rainman correctly deduced the square root of 2,130, but thought cars and candy bars cost 100 bucks. I think Musk is much closer to that.
IDK, I think Trump is still the most dangerous. He's the most unhinged, and the Supreme Court recently ruled that he can't be punished for any of the actions he takes as president. That combination makes him scarier than the others IMO.
You're right, I was playing devil's advocate to highlight that Elon is actually very detrimental to this country. Many people don't take him seriously.
(No one is illegal. Your family crossed hundreds of borders without papers. Borders aren’t helping me. Especially if Musks are in the United States and 2Pac’s mom is not.)
Even that is incredibly "murica" - he's white and a rich guy from a rich family hence he's not getting the same treatment for overstaying his visa a non-rich non-white African.
Racism and profound wealth discrimination are as American as it gets.
...because you're an adult who sees the bigger picture and don't have the lens of an 8 year old, but the focus of a man who's lived a few odd but hopefully even years?
Because it's a fucking Cybertruck lol... In nearly any other situation, I would say you're right. Take the kid's choice into consideration, but then maybe ask if they have a second favorite car.
His answer is no. I asked him why he loves it. He loves that it's different from anything on the road. Since he has a rare disorder, he feels that he is also different. He can relate to the car more. Can't argue with that.
last i ordered mcd 3 years ago it was cold straight out the drive through. i would expect these to be room temp, not like it would harm the sawdust taste
It's been so odd seeing Trump cabinet picks come in because it feels like he is just picking conservative celebrities, rather then actual politicians. Like it's still kinda crazy that fucking Elon Musk is gonna be in government.
It's looking more and more like this term will be "Celebrity Apprentice: Washington".
Which, as sad as that is, is still preferable to the alternative where he has a small inner circle of actually smart far right strategists, who he trusts completely and follows their recommendations to the last detail.
I don't know that it holds true across the board, but for Trump at least, it appears that in the right wing you get smarts or charisma/a following...but not both.
Trump is a flashy moron who appeals to the GOP base, which is comprised largely of morons. They need a moron at the top of the ticket to speak the language of their base, but in the process they're stuck with a moron at the top when they win.
They'll still do damage, no doubt, but I feel like the biggest check on Trump's power is that he's too stupid to wield it to maximum effect.
The dark and distant drumming
The pounding of the hooves
The silence of everything that moves
Late at night you'll see them
Decked out in shiny jewels
The coming of the caravan of fools
Like the wings of a dove
The waiter's white glove
Seems to shimmer by the light of the pool
Some dull, blinding winter
When you can't help but lose
You're running with the caravan of fools
Love and devotion, deep as any ocean
Don't play by anybody's rules
With your carousel of horses
And your unforeseen forces
You're running with the caravan of fools
Caravan of fools, caravan of fools
You're running with the caravan of fools
Am I the only one that thinks this looks like a family gathering with Mike Johnson smiling proudly over the family 'kids table'?
Like, exact same vibes as a bunch of random kids all shuffled away to a single kid's table, and then the one adult (and boy is that stretching the definition) watching over them, and all of them trying to smile for the picture some random auntie none of them have met before is taking.
hahaha. Jesus what fuckin losers man. I mean they may fucking re-educate me with a bullet between my eyes but at least I'll be laughing at them as they do.
I'm not joking. He probably should be too, he makes enemies of everyone he's ever come in contact with.
Including the people in this photo. He will use them until he has no more need for them, and then he will throw them under the bus, or ditch them, or now use one of the many arms of the federal government that will be at his whim to bury them.
That's what he does, he uses people and then disposes of them. The ones he can't get rid of completely become his enemy.
Unfortunately, now, he will have means to get rid of them completely in various creative ways. Because that's what autocrats do. Look out for people like Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, et. al. to start disappearing or dying mysteriously.
If there was a "Deep State," now would be the time to step up and do something to protect the Republic... Could you imagine if they manage to take him out with poisoned McDs? lol
Sniveling Johnson trying to fit into the picture like "hey I'm here too! Don't worry boss I'll have the house ready to do your bidding. We don't represent anyone but you!"
This whole campaign seems to want to make having cheap fast food on private jets a thing. Maybe they think this humanizes them to Joe Blue-collar? Maybe one of them has terrible taste and the others just want to ironically be part of the club?
I don't care what kind of reptilian lizard wizard is in charge of the galley on that plane, there's no way you are breathing life back into McDs after schlepping that all the way from the frier to the tarmac.
Of course not, because it's never been done. That's why we need to keep trying again and again instead of accepting that perhaps it's impossible because it's been tried countless of times and cost countless lives and still never succeeded. /s
Because under communism you'd get a redistribution of wealth to everyone. In Trump's case the redistribution is the inverse. The methods differ a bit too. During a communist revolution the redistribution is done by the people, and sometimes quite violently. Trump's redistribution is more subtle than that, and is going to involve marketing, laws and last, but certainly not least, government procurement contracts.
I'd bet that if mcdonalds sucked the old cheesepuff enough, they could get a lucrative contract for MREs. Or an exclusive contract for restaurants in military installations.
Get ready to see big corporations lining up outside the Whitehouse with knee pads and a box of tic tacs.
It’s because his mouth really looks like a butthole. Some uncanny valley shit. What can I say, some people just got that butthole mouth thing going on.
Pete Strzok, now podcast cohost of Cleanup On Aisle 45 commented that seeing RFKjr in this pic reminded him of the old drug-cartel vetting practice of getting the new guy to sample the product (by nose or freebase, usually) to show that they're true undergrounders and not a law-enforcement plant.
So does he have a mini McDonald's on his plane? Because that shot doesn't have the best heat retention, so if he doesn't have one then that's some cold as or horribly reheated McDonald's.
Why are people so against RFK JRs ideas to try and make the American people more healthy? Force these "food" companies that only care about profit to stop putting terrible additives into your food. Certainly no one else was campaigning on this ideology.
Sure I see that this looks hypocritical. Everything in moderation right? Being extreme tends to lead into the pitfall of perfection being the enemy of progress. I'm not making excuses for the guy, time will tell if he will actually do what he said he wants to.
That’s not what people are afraid of. It’s his antivaxx stance and other extreme stuff that people are against. If only he pushed for just the sane stuff like banning/regulating additives, dyes, HFCS, etc.
The taxpayer doesn't pay for his meals, actually. Came as a surprise to the Obamas they said once.
2014 link: https://www.theguardian.com/money/us-money-blog/2014/nov/28/obama-bill-white-house-thanksgiving
Didn't look to hard for the Obama quote, but Nancy Reagan's reaction is in that one.
I heard about the President being billed for services in an interview with Laura Bush.
Lol Trump doesn't pay his bills. He still owes several cities from campaign rallies he held in like 2015. He's infamous for not paying his bills, and was so for decades before he became president.
There is no chance that Trump paid for this.
I guarantee Trump finagled the taxpayer into paying to stuff his greasy pedo face and all of his chomo friends
I am confused by this. He pays his meals, but the chefs are paid by the government? So he only pays for the ingredients?
Oh the McD orders will be on top of everything. The kitchen will just throw away a lot more food.
Do you want President Vance? This is how you get President Vance.
At least that mf would be predictable.
Would he? I'm terrified of his ability to double down on obvious bullshit even when presented with facts directly countering his claims.
As bad as Trump is, I'm almost more concerned about the people who saw his first clown show and thought either "I have got to get in on this" or " I can use this to accomplish my goals. "
I'd at least be fairly confident Vance wouldn't seriously suggest nuking a hurricane.
In 4 years, though, I can bet Vance would leave if he lost the election. He doesn't have the spine or charisma to do any showboating and grandstanding like tRump.
There is a cockroach effect for some people when it comes to medical matters, like cancer gets them instead of the other way around.
I'm not sure Vance is any better.
Not sure he's any worse either. Ugh.
This was the exact sentiment that crossed my mind. The amount of money these dipshits have available and they're eating that crap? I don't even believe it. This HAD to be a photo op to make the idiots believe "Wow they eat what I eat" before they rolled in the burnt steak with ketchup and whatever else they actually prefer.
Nah it’s probably legit. Trump is famous for eating like trash. His usual order is reported to be two Big Macs and a Filet-o-fish, but I only see one Big Mac on his tray so maybe he’s on a diet.
He already scarfed down the others.
Trump actually loves McDonald's and eats it all the time.
Hopefully the ecoli gets them all.
Trump probably hates vegetables. Probably takes out the pickles and then cries about it like a little kid when Ivanka forgets to order a burger without any vegetables. So he won’t eat those tainted onions and carrots.
Remember, this is the guy, who tried to sell steaks under his name, because "he knows steaks", and also admitted to liking them well done with ketchup.
Oh. Oh god. What the fuck. And rural Americans voted for that? That's Iike if Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel, and the pope thanked him while personally repainting the entire thing in an awful vomit-green color.
They are insulated from almost all facts about the fuckhead in chief.
Yeah, but what about the promotional and kick back opportunities lost? You have to think about profits...
And that's why they are not going to eat any fast food, they are making ads
Oh I'm sure he'll have a nice well-done steak with ketchup every now and then.
(I died inside a little bit just typing that)
Wait. Why would you think that? It’s a mildly prestigious post. Sure, it’s honorable, but it’s certainly not something that anybody with any type of creative flair would ever aspire to. It’s a labor of 24/8 type love.
Hate to say it, but the US isn’t the only country that is fucked. The impact is going to be felt worldwide and in a harsh way.
We’ll see how long places like Ukraine and Taiwan will last.
Ugh, the more I think about it the more I realize how bad it’s going to be.
There could be (rare) upsides. If they go through with 50% or higher tarrifs, electronics prices in EU might come down due to dumping.
I'm not sure if I want to put my hopes for affordable electronics in manufacturer's accidentally oversupplying due to the US tariffs!
Yeah, climate change is global.
Last before what?
Annexation in whole or part by Russia and China respectively.
Going from an authoritatian police state to another doesn't sound like much of a difference
Which one are you calling authoritarian police state? Ukraine, Taiwan, or both?
they are both authoritarian police states same as usa or russia
This reminds me of so many comments from Americans saying how embarrassing Biden is as a president and that no one takes 🇺🇸'Murica🦅 seriously anymore under the Democrats. It was weird to read as a foreigner because I loosely remember what Trump was like. And now here we are again. Hope Americans are proud.
Nahhh... we're pretty fucking disappointed... Least everyone I know with half a brain.
I wish I knew someone who was disappointed. The only two people in my life that aren't Trumpers are my daughter and her fiance. Everyone else thinks that gas will get back to $1/gallon and food prices will return to pre Covid levels on Jan 21.
Sheeeesh, sorry to hear you're living deep in the red. Proud of my state for being a spot of blue in a sea of red, but hot damn that election map was bleak.
It's so wild how absolutely bonkers the political climate has become just in my lifetime. There was some real optimism when I got to vote for Obama as an 18 year old. Would've never seen all this coming...
Unfortunately, all this is pretty much a backlash to that event.
Yup. We elected the black guy (twice), and people lost their fucking minds.
Dude was a moderate, center-right, President, but none of that mattered. They spent 8 years fantasizing about lynching him.
And now this is our retribution.
Here's an alternate theory:
Back then both parties tended to use the "slimy posh salesman" kind of deceit (half lies, misleading statements, promises left unfulfilled with twisted excuses given for it) and what happened was that Republicans, almost against their will (Trump was an outsider) stumbled upon the "strongman saying what people want to hear using straight talking language" technique of deceit.
It was a massive success because people had been fed the same kind of posh-saleman deceit (with pretty much all the media having gone along with it and turning into de facto propaganda outlets) for decades, found the new sort of discourse refreshing and comparatively trustworthy (even though it was still bullshit, just delivered differently, because it did not sound at all like the usual bullshit it seemed trustworthier to many and all the media that had chosen sides and gone along unquestionigly with the old style of deceit wasn't trusted anymore so all their denouncing of the "other side's lies" was ignored)
Whilst the Republicans did adjust to that unexpected success quickly, the Democrats did not and just kept using with their usual deceit techniques spread via the media-outlets to which lots of the electorate had built a resistance to, and acting to favour the usual people when in government.
So here we are today with a lying populist getting power for a second time in the American Two-Party system.
The thing is we had Obama and dem control of the legislature and we still didn’t get universal healthcare, or even basic shit like minimum wage indexed to inflation. It’s no wonder low-information voters think democrats suck at “the economy”.
I still think musk had something to do with it and not in a strictly legal way. Would explain how he has managed to stay close to the orange for so long unchecked.
I think it's revealing that apparently as long as gas and eggs are okay, the country falling completely apart is secondary (to the voting majority).
Gas is the big one. I don't hear as much complaining about food where I am.
The whole thing is going to look fucking stupid once EVs take off. Although I bet Trump will do everything to slow that once elected (even with Musk in his ear).
You know that they can just stop EVs from taking off, right? We elected an autocrat.
They can also stop infrastructure for it from being built, and perhaps even tear down existing infrastructure. Well, aside from the ones Tesla owns of course. At least until he and Elon have their falling out
My theory is that they will institute a tax on old products so that buying new items is the same or cheaper than buying new.
What will they think when those things don't happen? Some conspiracy shit?
Cognitive dissonance - They'll find some way to blame it on Biden/Harris/Newsom/Pelosi.
"Thanks, Obama!"
Biden will be taking the blame for all the problems over the next couple of years.
And Trump will take credit for the good policies that Biden implemented, if he manages to not fuck it up.
It’s those brown people in Iran! We better start another 20 year invasion!
Time to start beating your wife, she’s actively asking for it. If she’s your ex make sure to remind her that project 2025 wants to make her existence illegal.
It's always projection with conservatives.
What is actually embarrassing is that the US elected Reagan, twice, then G.W Bush, twice, and now Donald Trump, twice.
As the great scholar Bush once said:
Prophetic.
Fool me one time, shame on you
Fool me twice, can't put the blame on you
Fool me three times, fuck the peace sign
Load the chopper, let it rain on you
The first time I flew out of the US after Trump became president I was so embarrassed of being American because of all the questions about his crazy ass. When I landed back in the US and saw his portrait on the wall in the airport, I stared at it perplexingly trying to understand what the fuck his stupid face was doing there….then it hit me that it’s there cause he was the president. Trump is a laughing stock and him at the helm of the US makes all Americans laughing stock for allowing this country to elect an orange makeup-caked, lying, shyster.
So glad we get to do it again!!
Honestly, in my social circle we're all kinda treating it like this... strange, self-inflicted, natural disaster. Like we can't even really joke about it, still. It's like we all know it's gonna be bad, the only question is how bad it's going to be. There's a lot I'm hoping is over-reaction, but honestly that's a pretty shitty thing to hope for and a hard hope to maintain all things considered.
Those were probably fake accounts
Musk being best buds with the President of the USA is legit friggin' scary, speaking as a foreigner.
Then you remember that Trump, and it becomes terrifying.
then I remember that trump... what? I'm also "a foreigner" (meaning I don't live in the shithole known as the US), but that's an incomplete sentence
Probably meant that's, or at least I read it that way
Nope, 'that Trump.' That Trump still exists, that he is president again, that he's doing what he's doing, or everything at once, so I just remember that Trump. To me, that's enough.
I just love how this has become the most controversial thing I've ever posted on the internet =))
Have you ever heard someone say "I can't even" as a complete statement? Seems like the same sentiment/vibe.
I hope they all have strokes.
Given the average age (and diet), there's hope yet
Are those quarter pounders? Listeria is on the table...
make escherichia coli great again
Trump will be dead in a year and you guys will have president Vance to care for you 😆
Never has more divorce been captured in a single photograph
I wonder if Mike had to text his son when Trump brought the hookers out immediately after this photo was taken.
There, I fixed it for you
We need to go deeper
what, are you saying that a douchebag isn't allowed to be proud of his fries? I'm sorry, I thought this was America
You gotta emphasize how normal and approachable you are. A true one of the people
McDonald's is normal.
Eating it sitting facing each other on a private jet is not normal.
Got to show off the sponsors, it is in the contract.
Brought to you by Carl's Junior
HAH! That got me 👍
Come on! Let the kiddo feel proud!!!111
'McDonald's has the biggest fries, the best fries. I helped them put the fries in the box, yes, me. McDonald's has been with me every step of the way, even when all the wrong lesbians were being mean to me... Like, comment and vote if you want to see more of this wholesome Christian content... Elon here... Elon brought his own ketchup... It has bananas in it... I don't know about that... Bananas in the ketchup... But he knows what he's doing... And I trust his banana ketchup... I'm not going to eat it... The banana ketchup... But I trust him and his cars.'
Because daddy famously loves McDonald's and he's hoping that if he shows sufficient brand loyalty that eventually daddy will love him.
The sheer amount of untreated generational trauma in this photo is astounding. I can only imagine how much less fucked up the world would be if more rich fathers could be bothered to actually raise and love their kids.
Almost certainly because he knows it’ll “trigger the libs” and he’s a massive cunt.
Not a single sauce opened, no bites taken, nothing removed from an annoying tray lip and placed on the table like a real person. No sign whatsoever that they are actually eating this junk. The half eaten fries are staged as eating without the ketchup that is right there on the tray is quite unlikely.
This is a staged ad. It is meant to be a message to others in corporate America, and for marketing to convenient idiots to quote the Russian term.
It’ both. The before eating pics are always more PR friendly. Trump loves McDonald’s because he has no taste
Apparently he eats so much McDonald's because he's paranoid about being poisoned and thinks sending someone there to get his food anonymously makes him more safe somehow. It makes you wonder where that paranoia came from once you also learn that this was first reported seven years ago.
Paranoia of some non-existent foe and right-wingers
Name a more iconic duo
Apparently like Warren buffet he will eat it.
Not sure about the rest of them
There's no way these people are eating "peasants" food. This looks more like an ad
Kennedy spoke openly the other day that the food they eat on the plane is absolute crap that is either big macs or KFC. So this could be a staged photo, but also it would mean another member of the photo was bitching about it being real and is lying.
Yeah, I honesty call bullshit on a 78 year old constantly eating McDonald’s.
Fun fact: RFK jr plans to ban most of the ingredients of the junk food he is currently eating
That’s because most places don’t serve raw milk… yet.
Isn't there a huge outbreak of salmonella or something because the maga sheep all dutifully followed RFKs raw milk nonsense?
-- RFK Jr. a few days ago
Edit: to be fair, his expression in this picture does make him look more than a little disgusted
Oh my god for a second there I almost felt empathy for him. The feeling passed quickly though.
So he’s proposing banning seed oils and similar?
Yes he is, he wants to ban high fructose corn syrup and a lot of other things too
We're going to see how that plays in Congress. Way too many special interests.
Why does the guy with the good idea also have all the worst ideas....gahhhh!!
Something something broken clock
Fair
He's totally hiding his tiny hands under the table. What's he hiding under there? Very rude to not keep your hands visible while eating.
I love that the genesis of that was an article calling him a "short fingered vulgarian" aka a common thief but he was too uneducated to realize that and instead thought they were making fun of his small hands. He would send the author pictures of himself with his hands circled in gold sharpie trying to prove that his hands were actually of normal size. The internet then picked up the small hands thing and ran with it.
Republicans: We want to get rid of the elite in power.
Republicans:
Do they a) have a McDonalds Kitchen on the plane b) eat warmed up Burgers and Frys c) eat lukewarm Burgers and Frys
or, possibly: d) all of the above
Nightmare blunt rotation
I mean, at least there’s a bunch of fries available.
Kennedy is not looking forward to the cabinet mushroom trip.
Kennedy did a shit ton of acid when he was young. I assume mushrooms as well. He would be the happiest of all of them to trip at the White House.
Set - interesting, kinda austere, bright.
Setting - Trump's 2nd Cabinet plotting a facist rewrite of the Constitution your dad and uncle died trying to protect.
I love it, but just a quibble. I've always understood the "set" in "set and setting" to be the set of people you're with. Couldn't be much worse of a set. But an experienced pyschonaut like Kennedy should be about to power through.
Who's the red dress? Don't recognize her?
As far as I can tell, this is a character from The Handmaid's Tale series.
Based on a respective book, it tells about a dystopian society in which women are put to serve as nothing but baby machines, against their will.
It's from The Handmaid's Tale. Great TV show based on an amazing book that is all too relevant.
If you haven't read or seen it, you should. Like right now. Before January 20th at least. Margaret Atwood made sure that everything that happens in the story is something that has happened (to women) at some point in history. Because she knew there would be men saying that it's sensationalist, and would never happen... turns out all of it has happened.
Beware: it is harrowing. Very very very bad stuff. But sometimes it's necessary to not turn away from these horrifying things. Especially when they're happening again.
It's like the authors of Project 2025 read it and used it as an instruction manual, rather than a warning.
I knew Grimace wasn't too be trusted.
Wow can you imagine the inane conversations that happen sitting at a table with these assholes? That literallly sounds like torture.
It’s like Fiona Apple said about sitting in a private theater doing coke with Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson was a catalyst to never do coke again, this would be a catalyst to never breathing or living on this earth again.
The conversations would be insane because I bet ever single one of them would be a one upper.
RFK Jr would probably tell some story about cutting the head off a Bald Eagle then Elon would chime in about the time his personal Tesla flew to Mars with a Bald Eagle inside it, that's what was in the suit.
Trump would try and say it was actually not a Bald Eagles in the Tesla but it was him and the Air Force launched a second rocket top secret rocket to pick him up, it was the biggest rocket.
And lastly Don Jr or Eric which even kid that is would start to tell a story and Trump would interrupt him and talk over him telling a story about the time he sexually assaulted some random women but since he has zero self awareness he would frame it as a good time.
Ugh, that sounds so fucking insufferable.
I bet Elon and Trump are fighting to get the attention.
Reality is too much
In fairness to him, he looks genuinely uncomfortable just holding it for this paid publicity shot. Not enough raw bear meat in it for him.
Boycott McDonalds, sponsors of Fascism 2025.
Yeah if RFK jr wasnt such a shitheel id feel bad for him, but he is infact a shitheel so I have only one want for him, suffering and pain.
I boycott McDonalds because of the salmonella.
I've never gotten food poisoning from them but lately it's been the prices
I have said it before, and I'll say it again: you can fault McD for a lot of things. You can argue that the products aren't to your taste, or subpar in regards to nutrition. But food safety is something that the clown takes extremely serious.
I've gotten sick from burger king. Once I had to decide what I'd rather wipe off the floor, because it was coming out both ways after eating Carl's Jr. But I've never been poisoned by McDonald's, nor have I talked to someone who has either.
Last time I went on this rant, a former McDonald's employee commented about food safety practices. They told how if you went to the bathroom and came back multiple people would ask you if you remembered to wash your hands. Not like this specific commenter, but that was just what they did to everyone. If you came in sick, you would be sent home with pay (I believe this was in the US, so it was actually extraordinary).
He'd probably be more enthused with that given he's one of the nutty raw milk boys.
Has the same vibes as homelander forcing the deep to eat the octopus.
Saving this picture, in case I ever eat something poisonous i can use it to throw up immediately.
I gave you an upvote because it is on point. I want to down vote you because I don't want to live on that planet and its looking more and more like we will be that planet.
Are they celebrating bring your kid to work day?
Elon disowned his daughter so it's probably not bring your daughter to work day
A real meeting of the mindless.
Elon's far from mindless. He's just a self-serving prick who would burn a country down to increase his stan- oh wait.
Yeah. Fuck.
He's potentially the most dangerous person at that table. He doesn't want power in the limelight - though he uses the limelight when he needs to, yes - he wants power behind the scenes. And he's very good at getting what he wants. That much should be unambiguously clear.
And if gaining that power means helping a fascist fucking prick fuck gain dictatorial powers, well I don't think he'd think twice.
Agreed that he's not mindless, but he's a far cry from "genius". He's just a lucky dipshit narcissist.
I mean unless he's falsifying his own IQ scores he is "technically" a genius - but being intelligent doesn't necessarily mean you're a good person.
Or that you're "right".
This sure didn't scream, Genius.
Like I said if he is a genius by intellectual standards he's not using it to the benefit of anyone but himself And thanks for the read lol
I'd say idiot savant at best, lol. Rainman correctly deduced the square root of 2,130, but thought cars and candy bars cost 100 bucks. I think Musk is much closer to that.
IDK, I think Trump is still the most dangerous. He's the most unhinged, and the Supreme Court recently ruled that he can't be punished for any of the actions he takes as president. That combination makes him scarier than the others IMO.
You're right, I was playing devil's advocate to highlight that Elon is actually very detrimental to this country. Many people don't take him seriously.
Don, Jr.: My dad put these fries in the box himself! hurr durr
The man whose brain worm died of starvation.
Wow, I can say with confidence that this is the first time I've ever wished for a plane to crash. Just one patriotic pilot is all it would take.
I really don't like that these shitstains make me feel such vitriol...
Such a low IQ photo.
Literally the most 'MURICA! photo ever. 🤣
Except for the illegal from Africa
(No one is illegal. Your family crossed hundreds of borders without papers. Borders aren’t helping me. Especially if Musks are in the United States and 2Pac’s mom is not.)
Even that is incredibly "murica" - he's white and a rich guy from a rich family hence he's not getting the same treatment for overstaying his visa a non-rich non-white African.
Racism and profound wealth discrimination are as American as it gets.
Oh fuck. Gutted. Touché.
Not enough guns and flags
If there was ever a nicer place to hit with a hellfire missile...
I wanted to buy a Cybertruck (don't judge me, my kid loves it). We also love McDonald's.
I no longer want anything Tesla or even want to eat at McDonald's anymore.
Your kids love it because it looks like something they could have drawn themselves.
He told me that he loves it because it's unique and since he is also different from everyone else. That is why he loves it. Can't argue with that.
Why would you want to buy a vehicle just because your kid likes it?
My life revolves around my kid. So ya. If it makes him happy to be in a car he loves and it fits the families needs, then why wouldn't I?
...because you're an adult who sees the bigger picture and don't have the lens of an 8 year old, but the focus of a man who's lived a few odd but hopefully even years?
I'm an adult that will do anything to make my kid happy. Maybe you don't understand that is the bigger picture.
Hotwheels is a thing.
I wanted a Ferrari growing up, dad had sense.
Well, not everyone can afford a Ferrari. I can afford a Cybertruck.
If my kid loved a Ferrari and I was in a position to buy it. Best believe I'm buying one.
Buy a real car, then weld some sheet metal panels to it. It will be 10x safer for your kid and they won't know the difference.
Step 1: Buy metal. Step 2: learn to weld. Step 3: nahhhh.
If he has to get a vehicle why not one his kid likes? What vehicle choice criteria do you find acceptable?
Safety, efficiency, and price.
Probably utility and price?
If my parents had bought a car I thought was cool back in the 90s it would have been Sgt. Slaughters Warthog from GI Joe or a Dodge Viper.
Duuuuuuuude if my dad bought a Viper, I would have diiiiiiiied.
Because it's a fucking Cybertruck lol... In nearly any other situation, I would say you're right. Take the kid's choice into consideration, but then maybe ask if they have a second favorite car.
His answer is no. I asked him why he loves it. He loves that it's different from anything on the road. Since he has a rare disorder, he feels that he is also different. He can relate to the car more. Can't argue with that.
Wonder if the hamburders are cold.
One can hope. Those asshats don't deserve the comfort of warm meals.
last i ordered mcd 3 years ago it was cold straight out the drive through. i would expect these to be room temp, not like it would harm the sawdust taste
What a proud moment for the USA
It's been so odd seeing Trump cabinet picks come in because it feels like he is just picking conservative celebrities, rather then actual politicians. Like it's still kinda crazy that fucking Elon Musk is gonna be in government.
It's looking more and more like this term will be "Celebrity Apprentice: Washington".
Which, as sad as that is, is still preferable to the alternative where he has a small inner circle of actually smart far right strategists, who he trusts completely and follows their recommendations to the last detail.
I don't know that it holds true across the board, but for Trump at least, it appears that in the right wing you get smarts or charisma/a following...but not both.
Trump is a flashy moron who appeals to the GOP base, which is comprised largely of morons. They need a moron at the top of the ticket to speak the language of their base, but in the process they're stuck with a moron at the top when they win.
They'll still do damage, no doubt, but I feel like the biggest check on Trump's power is that he's too stupid to wield it to maximum effect.
Are there many smart far right men that trump isn't angry with?
what ever happened to jd vance? rarely see that guy these days
JD Vance is busy preparing for the implementation of Project 2025 while this clown car is busy pWnInG tHe LiBz.
Yep, awaiting orders from his owner, Peter Thiel.
What with the couch fucking joke? I don’t get it
JD Vance is a sofa-sexual and enjoys a smooth ride. When he feels the soft, inviting advances of a seductive sofa working up his Sectional Feelings, he wraps it up with a Grandma Brand© Plastic Couch Cover. It cleans up in a jiffy and his guests never suspect a thing!
Anyone want some more ranch dip? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
In this case, it’s literally illegal for him to be on the same airplane for very good reasons.
McDonald’s Unhappy Meal
Not shown: perfectly normal JD Vance humping the backrest from behind Trump while violently stuffing his face with a cold cheeseburger.
Why are they doing an ad for mcdonalds?
Left wingers should boycott McDonald's just for fun because it's Trump's favourite thing apparently. It would be interesting to see.
As opposed to my current boycott because the food is terrible?
Or makes you die
I can’t think of another fast food chain that tastes worse than McDonald’s.
I feel it's about equal to Subway.
Burger king maybe?
You can't triple stamp a double stamp.
McDonalds is already on the BDS list for giving free food to the IOF. Which isn't difficult because it's garbage food at the price of real food.
I love your username! Which I wouldn't have noticed if you didn't give such good sauce so thanks
I already do, animal and labor abusers can get fucked.
Kickbacks.
To remind us of the food poisoning incident.
GOYA BEEEEAAANN
They're just trolling at this point ..... lol .... this is what America wanted
Get ready for the ride.
Junior is posing with an empty box of fries like he never learned how to pose to capture a memory, only to sell a product.
Air Force One is going to smell like fries forever now.
Fries, ketchup, makeup, and butt.
"why is there an adult size diaper-change station?"
Caravan of Fools comes to mind…
The dark and distant drumming
The pounding of the hooves
The silence of everything that moves
Late at night you'll see them
Decked out in shiny jewels
The coming of the caravan of fools
Like the wings of a dove
The waiter's white glove
Seems to shimmer by the light of the pool
Some dull, blinding winter
When you can't help but lose
You're running with the caravan of fools
Love and devotion, deep as any ocean
Don't play by anybody's rules
With your carousel of horses
And your unforeseen forces
You're running with the caravan of fools
Caravan of fools, caravan of fools
You're running with the caravan of fools
John Prine
Am I the only one that thinks this looks like a family gathering with Mike Johnson smiling proudly over the family 'kids table'?
Like, exact same vibes as a bunch of random kids all shuffled away to a single kid's table, and then the one adult (and boy is that stretching the definition) watching over them, and all of them trying to smile for the picture some random auntie none of them have met before is taking.
hahaha. Jesus what fuckin losers man. I mean they may fucking re-educate me with a bullet between my eyes but at least I'll be laughing at them as they do.
Why is Musk's hands so damn big?
What's with this guy and McDonald's? He even brought it on a plane?
He's afraid of someone poisoning him.
I'm not joking. He probably should be too, he makes enemies of everyone he's ever come in contact with.
Including the people in this photo. He will use them until he has no more need for them, and then he will throw them under the bus, or ditch them, or now use one of the many arms of the federal government that will be at his whim to bury them.
That's what he does, he uses people and then disposes of them. The ones he can't get rid of completely become his enemy.
Unfortunately, now, he will have means to get rid of them completely in various creative ways. Because that's what autocrats do. Look out for people like Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels, et. al. to start disappearing or dying mysteriously.
If there was a "Deep State," now would be the time to step up and do something to protect the Republic... Could you imagine if they manage to take him out with poisoned McDs? lol
Why doesn't he fear someone tempering with his MickyD's?
He "worked" at one and saw they use gloves when handling fries.
I’m sure RFK is really going to eat that.
He has to or else it gets the hose
The man eats road kill. What do you expect
Maybe they'll forget to take their cholesterol meds with all the childlike excitement they seem to be having about eating McDs.
I was wondering if it was Ai.
Sniveling Johnson trying to fit into the picture like "hey I'm here too! Don't worry boss I'll have the house ready to do your bidding. We don't represent anyone but you!"
They all look so happy, like kids having a birthday party in a giant ball pit.
Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
You know, that would be Epstein's plane if he was alive.
USA didn't vote for a female president for the first time but at least you now have a male first lady for the first time.
It's a shame no one ever gave Elon Musk the "You're good enough I guess, please stop calling your ex-wife, move on." talk to end his midlife crisis...
I can say it definitely happens. I know a couple people, they aren't even obese either.
I can smell the evil in this photo
The smell of overused fryer oil
They need to UN-deepfry this image
The food looks unspoiled, are they actually eating that or just making ads?
This whole campaign seems to want to make having cheap fast food on private jets a thing. Maybe they think this humanizes them to Joe Blue-collar? Maybe one of them has terrible taste and the others just want to ironically be part of the club?
I don't care what kind of reptilian lizard wizard is in charge of the galley on that plane, there's no way you are breathing life back into McDs after schlepping that all the way from the frier to the tarmac.
Is that Leonard Leo in the back? (Right side)
That's the master vampire! If we stake him, the rest lose their powers!
No, that's Mike "My son and I know each other's porn habits" Johnson.
Dang it. He's not the master vampire.
Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House
Musk actually has the most punchable of faces.
That meal is too fancy for RFK. Generally he's ok with some homemade raccoon jerky
I know it smell crazy in there.
Musk is buying whether or not he knows it
Have all their gaze at once feels very unconfortable.
I can smell this picture
This photo is absolutely terrifying on so many levels
The new live action McClowns are a bit too scary for my own comfort
Is McDonald's right wing now?
Under fascism, all corporations become an extension of the government. Those that refuse to are nationalized or eliminated.
How is that different from communism?
That's the neat part!
Only if you don't know what communism is : a stateless, classless, moneyless society.
Calling something that isn't that communism doesn't magically make it that, just like calling something (national) socialism doesn't make it that.
So please, do explain how massive corporations as an extension of the state fit in to actual communism. (I won't wait)
I know I am going to come under fire for this, but when have you last seen true communism?
Of course not, because it's never been done. That's why we need to keep trying again and again instead of accepting that perhaps it's impossible because it's been tried countless of times and cost countless lives and still never succeeded. /s
Because under communism you'd get a redistribution of wealth to everyone. In Trump's case the redistribution is the inverse. The methods differ a bit too. During a communist revolution the redistribution is done by the people, and sometimes quite violently. Trump's redistribution is more subtle than that, and is going to involve marketing, laws and last, but certainly not least, government procurement contracts.
I'd bet that if mcdonalds sucked the old cheesepuff enough, they could get a lucrative contract for MREs. Or an exclusive contract for restaurants in military installations.
Get ready to see big corporations lining up outside the Whitehouse with knee pads and a box of tic tacs.
As if corpos don't do the same when the Dems are in charge.
They're going to Make America Healthy Again, huh? Now, where did I put my giant "press X to doubt" button...
Great opportunity
This is going to be a funny four years to watch 🍿
It may be real, but why does it look shopped, especially jr looks fake.
It’s because his mouth really looks like a butthole. Some uncanny valley shit. What can I say, some people just got that butthole mouth thing going on.
Roll out the Fallout
Is Elon’s left shoe bigger? Did he order “what the President’s having”?
Ewww.
Pete Strzok, now podcast cohost of Cleanup On Aisle 45 commented that seeing RFKjr in this pic reminded him of the old drug-cartel vetting practice of getting the new guy to sample the product (by nose or freebase, usually) to show that they're true undergrounders and not a law-enforcement plant.
So much win!
Is it strange to say I think Mike is the highest threat in this picture? I think he stands to do the most damage wielding a republican trifecta.
Sure trmpf is president and all but, he isn't as smart as Mike.
So does he have a mini McDonald's on his plane? Because that shot doesn't have the best heat retention, so if he doesn't have one then that's some cold as or horribly reheated McDonald's.
Why are people so against RFK JRs ideas to try and make the American people more healthy? Force these "food" companies that only care about profit to stop putting terrible additives into your food. Certainly no one else was campaigning on this ideology.
Sure I see that this looks hypocritical. Everything in moderation right? Being extreme tends to lead into the pitfall of perfection being the enemy of progress. I'm not making excuses for the guy, time will tell if he will actually do what he said he wants to.
That’s not what people are afraid of. It’s his antivaxx stance and other extreme stuff that people are against. If only he pushed for just the sane stuff like banning/regulating additives, dyes, HFCS, etc.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/rfk-jr-is-now-an-extinction-level-threat-to-federal-public-health-programs-and-science-based-health-policy/