(Cousin Eddie voice) “Oh, nothin’ but the best, Clark!”
Ketchup in those little, bitty dishes instead of packets.
Gold-colored, of course.
Ooooh… That would make a satisfying clang against the wall
Possibly she thinks there’s no way the rest of the American electorate could be as stupid as she was in 2016? It wouldn’t be a catastrophe if Trump were to lose in 2024.
I imagine it’s something like this:
The scary part? That movie came out in 2014, well before Trump’s weird-ass White House banquets.
I disagree (although tbf I don’t know any more details about Hutchinson’s statements or views than either of you). I read that (possibly clumsily expressed) statement as meaning “I don’t want to catastrophize—i.e., pessimistically obsess about the worst possibilities for—the situation by assuming the scenario where Trump is the Republican nominee.”
IOW, in my reading, Hutchinson feels that at present it is “catastrophizing” to focus on the hypothetical worst-case scenario where Trump actually is the next Republican nominee and voters have to decide whether or not to vote for him. Because she considers it very possible—and, clearly, desirable—that he won’t get the nomination in the first place.
He asked the White House chefs to replicate the McDonalds menu. He wasn’t satisfied with their efforts, so he made his body man Keith Schiller go to McDonalds and pick up food for him.
Perhaps I’m naive, but I think you’re being a bit unfair to Hutchinson. I doubt she’ll work in politics again. Even if the the pubs get their shit together, it’s unlikely any of them would hire her. Pols will all value loyalty to them whether or not they wanted trump to fall; I doubt that she is ignorant of this fact. Possibly she genuinely believes in traditional republican ideas. Hopefully, after all she’s seen and experienced she’ll move past that too.
It’s ludicrous to think that maga will give her a pass for saying she’s still a republican, after saying anything remotely negative about trump. She may have been a bit young and naive when she began this road, but she’s learned a lot about trump and his fans. She’s been in hiding since j6, I doubt she, at this point, wants or believes she’s going to get maga’s forgiveness or support.
McDonald’s has not deep fried pies since 1992.
That is correct.
What’s funny is I never knew this. As a kid I remember hating the apple pies at McD’s. Eventually a girlfriend forced me to try one and I thought it was delicious.
But that would have been after the switch. So I suppose I must have hated the fried ones and like the baked ones. I didn’t know there was a difference, I just thought my tastes had changed.
It’s understandable. I think the crispy texture of the pastry is deliberately made to resemble fried pastry. Probably by having a high enough oil content that it might as well be fried.
Damn, and here I was, thinking, “The US still fries them? ROADTRIP!” The baked ones just don’t have the same “Oh, I know this is unhealthy, but my god it’s good!” quality to them.
A Texas man who attacked the U.S. Capitol with a metal tomahawk — and is now the face of a website selling merchandise portraying jailed rioters as “political prisoners” — was sentenced Friday to seven years behind bars.
Shane Jenkins, 46, tried to smash a Capitol window with his tomahawk during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege. He also repeatedly threw makeshift weapons at police officers, hurling a desk drawer, a flagpole, a metal walking stick and a wooden pole with a spear-like point.
Seven years isn’t too bad, I guess, for his treason. But the part of this story that really grabbed my attention today is the writing: a wooden pole with a spear-like point. Personally, I’d’ve just written spear, but I’m not Jeremy Duncan.
What are your suggestions for Michael Kunzelman’s new terminology for the other weapons connected with the insurrection on January 6, 2001?
I think the obvious would be “a wooden shaft with an axe like blade.”
Now I have a mental image of a stereotypical snooty chef flying into a rage at this request and chasing him around the White House with a meat cleaver.
Just put “freedom” or “liberty” in front of the regular name. “Look out! He has freedom spray!” “She’s swinging a liberty chair!”
Maybe that’s what she meant, but the possibility of trump becoming the Repub nominee hardly seems like a “hypothetical worst-case scenario”. “Worst-case”, sure. But far from hypothetical or unlikely at this point.
Not sure what to say about this other than to wonder why so many people worry about Biden’s cognitive abilities when Trump says these kinds of things on an almost daily basis:
Was it really a gizmo manufactured to be a spear? Or was he throwing a flagpole that has a spear-shaped finial on it? I know I don’t know.
Big difference in accurate throwability and actual pepetrating power between a real-nokidding modern hunting spear head and the sort 6-foot flagpole one could find all over a political office.
Both acts are equally criminal, the intent was to throw the [whatever] is if it was a spear, and the defendant deserves at least 3x the sentence he got.
But if we’re going to quibble of the article’s terminology, it’s be worthwhile to know what was really thrown.
Are you referring to the journalism-like strings of words?