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.
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.
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.
'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.
this is how you choose to spend the limited time you have
My guess is that these guys saw someone like Bernie coming down the line at some point, a populist left wing politician who would have basically ended the billionaires free-for-all in america, and they said 'well we gotta take over the entire government to stop this', and people fell for it.
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'm comforted by the fact that everyone in this picture despises everyone else in this picture. the thought that trump probably hates elmo because of his giant hands makes me happy
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 have unfortunately been around many wealthy Republicans in my life. They don't eat fucking McDonald's - ever. This was a staged photo, if it's even a real photo at all.
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 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.
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.
(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.
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.
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.
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.