• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Fun fact - presidents pay out of pocket to host these dinners. It’s not a write off or anything, it’s straight cash.

      Other fun fact - Trump absolutely loves McDonald’s.

      So this trashy guy hosted a fancy dinner with McDonald’s, and paid about $1000 for it.

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        Lol … Actually thinking that he paid for anything.

        He probably ordered it from the nearest McDonald’s and just demanded it all because he’s president, promised them they’d get paid … then never thought of them again.

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    Thinking about the original photo, seeing so much junk food piled in the white house really feels like a AI generated image

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    Does anybody knows whose art of back painting? or is it AI stuff?

    It photoshopped and swapped original image to match this situation but I couldn’t find it.

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      Ok, maybe I’m ignorant, maybe I found the phrase “body fart” hilarious, maybe both. But can someone please tell me what is the difference between a regular fart and a body fart?

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        Excessively smelly usually because of intolerance to foods, swallowing air or if you get constipated because of stress so your body is expelling all the air it can possibly find in the colon. And you’re not alone…body fart is hilarious.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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      It was a dick move like everything else. He hosted the national college football champs during a partial government shutdown, but rather than pay for some nice food from a third party for those champs, he figured that just being in his presence was reward enough, so enjoy your shitty fast food, boys.

      In an explanation for the evening’s menu, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted, “The Democrats’ refusal to compromise on border security and reopen the government didn’t stop President Trump from hosting national champion @ClemsonFB tonight. He personally paid for the event to be catered by some of America’s great fast food joints.”

      Though he told reporters that he had personally bought “300 hamburgers,” in a tweet the next morning that number had skyrocketed to “1000 hamberders [sic].” (Photos and videos of the scene show that the lower number is likely the more correct one.)

      https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/1/15/18183617/trump-clemson-mcdonalds-burger-king-wendys-dominos

      “1000 hamberders” would have cost him what, $3000 at most? When he flaunts how rich he is constantly? And then brags about it?

      Dick move.

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      There is a mountain of reasons to bash this dipshit. This… this was genius.

      Now if you’ll excuse me, that pile of Wendy’s on the left is calling my name…

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    People make this out to be worse than it is, it’s not a big deal and probably better for the players in the sense that it makes the event more casual

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      They didn’t travel to the white house expecting or hoping for “casual”. They got cold fast food because the entire government had been shut down.

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        They went because they felt they had to

        Anything that makes it more casual and less of an obligation is a good thing

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          This reflects more of your opinion about obligations, or how you would feel in this situation, than anything else.

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              It’s an honor to be invited to dinner with the leader of your country. When that leader can’t pay the staff to make the dinner, so he orders McDonald’s, it’s not a relief.

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                It’s not an honour, it’s work

                Same as if the CEO of your company brought you out to eat

                Stop idolizing people, it’s dumb

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      If I just won a national championship and was invited to the White House, I wouldn’t think, “I hope this is a casual affair.”

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        Well you probably never accomplished anything but most people, especially athletes who have had to be on a strict diet all season would rather party and just joke amongst themselves

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          So you think Trump saying, “there’s a partial government shutdown, so we can’t give you a fancy catered dinner full of the fanciest food you’re ever likely to eat in your life because it is literally made for the world’s royalty, but instead I’ve dug deep into my rich man pockets and spent $3000 on some room temperature Big Macs and Chick-Fil-A” is something that would appeal to them? Yeah, I guess you’re right. I mean it’s not like you’d want to be treated like a king after winning a national championship. Much better to have to travel to DC at the team’s expense and have the president buy them the worst possible burger he could have bought them.

          But sure, it’s because I’ve never accomplished anything that I wouldn’t understand why someone would be honored to eat a Big Mac paid for out of Trump’s generous pockets when he could have had lobster flown in fresh from Maine. Or, I don’t know, catered well-made burgers from a good burger place. I’m guessing D.C. has one or two local places that might just possibly taste a little better than what they’ve got at McDonald’s.

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            Much better would be drinking all night and not going at all

            how did you get “honoured to eat a burger” from “not as big a deal as people make it”

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              It’s not even that it’s a burger. It’s that he put it on display as a banquet, talked about how he paid for it personally, and he acted like they should be honored to eat the burger.

              And, again, maybe it’s because I’ve “never accomplished anything” that I would hope that the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES would spring for more than a cold Big Mac after inviting me to the WHITE HOUSE.

              I’d do what I could to offer those guys more than a cold Big Mac if I invited them to my house and I’m by no means someone who brags about his fabulous wealth.

              I think they deserved to be treated better regardless of you think what they would have wanted because of all of your amazing accomplishments. I’m sorry, but your Nobel Prize doesn’t mean they aren’t entitled to be treated with at least the modicum of dignity as a visiting head of state.

              I mean at the absolute very least keep them warm instead of taking them all out for a photo op where they’ll get cold! Is that making too big a deal out of it? Saying they were entitled to a warm Big Mac when visiting the President of the United States at the White House who brags to you about paying for it with his own money?

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                I thought by now you would have deleted this since it illustrates how people blow it way out of proportion

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                  Yes, expecting someone to get warm food when they get invited to the White House is an embarrassing position and I don’t know why I haven’t deleted it yet. Maybe it’s my lack of accomplishments.

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      Your logic implies that a hundred cows are killed to source a single burger. That’s not how that works. Be vegan, but don’t be stupid.

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        My math was bad admittedly - I didn’t take into account that most or all of those patties likely came from the same processing facility; so that even if 100 body parts are in one patty, 100 patties might contain the tissues of the same 100 cows that were slaughtered. In all that table might be a picture of 100, 1,000, or 10,000 body parts mutilated beyond recognition and mixed together.

        My intent was not to suggest that it takes 100 cows to make one burger, that would be untrue. My intent was to point out exactly what the article was getting at, which is to recognize that when someone looks at most ground meat products, they are looking at a grotesque slurry of what used to be not just one living being, but the combined flesh of as many as a hundred or more once-living sentient beings.

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        Be vegan, but don’t be stupid.

        I think you found the problem there, sport.

        • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          what they asked is how many died for the bun. not whether you think that line of reasoning is sufficient to discourage veganism.

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            Yes, and odds are they are asking as a way to bring up the idea of how many animals are killed in order to harvest plant crops. If you had bothered to go to the link, it would have at least somewhat answered your question because the short version is: fundamentally, significantly less than the amount of animals killed to produce meat.

            All it takes is to think it through. If harvesting crops kills a lot of animals (which as the link shows, is already significantly less than some assholes made it up to be), then raising animals for food automatically kills even more animals because it takes way more crops to feed the animals that are raised for meat or dairy, than it takes to just feed humans directly.

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              If you had bothered to go to the link,

              Ed is quoting some pretty misleading statistics to support your point. if this is the best that you have, you might want to reconsider your position.

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                  about 85% of all soybeans are pressed for oil for human uses. but a soybean is only about 20% oil altogether. that leaves 69% of the soybeans as industrial waste. feeding that industrial waste to animals is actually conserving resources.

                  so it’s not even true that the land used to make food for animals isn’t used to make food for people: it’s the same land.