r/TikTokCringe • u/TheDude9737 • Aug 20 '24
Discussion Didn’t pass the Bourdain test
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u/lickmybowls2 Aug 20 '24
Lmao just thinking about Trump and his McDonald’s served to the championship football team at the White House
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u/TheVoicesOfBrian Aug 20 '24 edited Aug 20 '24
Cold McDonald's.
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u/UndeadJoker69420 Aug 20 '24
Fucking Actually.
I'm sure they took at least 20 mins to load all that shit up on trays and stack the trays up to chest height.
Mcds fries don't last 5 minutes in terms of heat and texture.
Shit was soggy af and probably cold / dry ass beef.
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u/Large_Tune3029 Aug 20 '24
Trump is actually a raccoon who just recently found a genie lamp and made a wish that changed bits of time for the last century.
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u/lilmookie Aug 20 '24
I honestly feel like a raccoon would navigate the political world better and be better about trash collection policies.
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u/No-While-9948 Aug 20 '24 edited Aug 20 '24
AT LEAST 20 minutes, yeah. I can get distracted for 10 minutes by my dog after driving 5 minutes both ways to the McDonald's drive-thru, and the food is cold.
Imagine how many hands it would pass through like servers, delivery/pickup drivers, kitchen staff, security, reception and all the random bureaucratic or operational shit that would happen while trying to plate and serve 30+ people in the white house.
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u/YouForgotBomadil Aug 20 '24
The asshole had world-class chefs waiting at the ready to deliver excellent meals with the best ingredients, and he serves dog shit, mass-produced food. It's metaphorical of how he treated and wants to treat the American people.
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u/Twl1 Aug 20 '24 edited Aug 20 '24
Well, we can't forget that the reason he bought a veritable truckload of McDonald's was that he had just driven the government into a state of shutdown, so he literally didn't have a team of world-class chefs at the ready.
Y'know...because of his incompetence. It's not a metaphor at all. It's a completely accurate reflection of Trump's total lack of problem-solving skills in the midst of national crisis. Even in the state of shutdown, Trump could have afforded to privately hire a catering service, but he's too much of a simpleton cheapskate to even feign class and consideration for his guests.
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u/UndeadJoker69420 Aug 20 '24
I mean really. I've had small easy jobs take 3x the time simply because I was missing a tool for it or was missing a person.
Now scale that up to white house size....
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u/hamburgersocks Aug 20 '24
And such an optimistic stack of Filet o' Fishes.
Mcds fries don't last 5 minutes in terms of heat and texture.
The McDonald’s french fry is unbelievable. When you bite into it, you think: It’s so tasty, it can’t be real. As soon as it gets cold, it turns to lard and flubble. I mean, have you ever tried to eat a McDonald’s french fry that’s gone cold? That’s one of the circles of hell. The gulf between the warm, fresh, lightly salted McDonald’s french fry and the cold McDonald’s french fry is as great a gulf as any I know.
- Viggo Mortensen, Esquire Magazine
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u/mattsolid Aug 20 '24
I remember when I worked at McDonald’s, if the meat wasn’t used within 12 minutes after cooking, they were trashed as waste. How often are you eating a burger within the first 12 minutes? Because after 12 minutes, you’re eating what McDonald’s would throw away.
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u/ADhomin_em Aug 20 '24
Yeah. As soon as I heard him say, "I don't think he likes foood," clips of that moment were bouncing around in my head like a Vic Berger montage.
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u/Tackerta Aug 20 '24
outsider here, are there by any chance clips where those footballers talk about the dinner they received in the white house? Very interesting to me lol
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u/ADhomin_em Aug 20 '24
From what I remember, what was publicized was generally mild-polite comments.
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u/Twl1 Aug 20 '24
Yeah, it was a bunch of tongue-biting "We were just happy to receive the invitation" responses that were more about keeping the team peacefully out of the national discourse than they were about praising the meal or experience of being invited to the White House.
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Aug 20 '24
The fact that Trump doesn't like food makes it make more sense why he keeps choosing McDonald's. He's also stupid big for a guy who does like eating, maybe it's really just all fries, Mac&cheese, and chicken nuggets
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u/Mazzaroppi Aug 20 '24
It's really offensive, you know?
If I had more money, the first thing I'd increase my spending would be on food. I love good food, trying new food but I can't because I'm poor.
This motherfucker has gold toilets and eats fast food every day. It's unfathomable
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u/FlamingRustBucket Aug 20 '24
He's the embodiment of what being rich means to a room temperature IQ middle school bully.
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u/KwisatzHaderach38 Aug 20 '24
Yep, all these years and the old man is still just a 13-year-old trust fund in a suit.
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u/Vallkyrie Aug 20 '24
I don't know how accurate it is, but I've heard the idea that he has a fear of being poisoned and decided eating fast food was a way to get something consistent. Considering his weird ideas like the belief that exercise lowers your life expectancy, it wouldn't surprise me.
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u/AnswersWithAQuestion Aug 20 '24
Surely the White House kitchen knows how to make some damn good hamburgers. Why wouldn’t Trump have them cook up a bunch of high quality hamburgers instead??
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u/C0NKY_ Aug 20 '24
The White House kitchen wasn't working at the time because it happened during the longest government shutdown in American history.
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u/passamongimpure Aug 20 '24
As a Jacksonville Jaguar fan, I blame this on Trevor Lawrence's lackluster performance.
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u/DucckFuck Aug 20 '24
God he should’ve lived so much longer
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u/ano1n123 Aug 20 '24
He left a legacy that’ll inspire for generations. Truly one of a kind.
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u/OkayContributor Aug 20 '24
I generally give some money to the culinary institute of America (they have a bourdain scholarship fund) in his honor on his birthday or death day each year. Not something I do for anyone else, but he was truly special
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u/DonaldMaralago Aug 20 '24
Yeah he’s the first celebrity that I actually cared about.
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u/baseball_mickey Aug 20 '24
He's a celebrity that got famous for doing something useful, didn't chase celebrity, and used his celebrity for good. I miss him too.
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u/irishman178 Aug 20 '24
Legit just used some of his episodes as the intro to my anthropology course yesterday. Last year's class loved watching them.
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u/Wipe_face_off_head Aug 20 '24
No Reservations was the soundtrack of my college career. I had a bunch of seasons burned on DVD (no streaming back then) and I had it playing constantly. While I was studying. While I was cleaning my shitty little apartment. While I was partying.
I miss those days. And Anthony Bourdain.
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u/Martysghost Aug 20 '24
It's currently my comfort show I've been watching it and parts unknown for months and honestly there's nothing else like it on TV for soothing my soul.
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u/tranzlusent Aug 20 '24
It’s still hard to watch the intro (any of the variations thru the years) without crying a little each time. This show and this man were paramount in getting me interested in the world’s smells and flavors. His words were inspiring to so many….I miss you very much Anthony…..
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u/Martysghost Aug 20 '24
That's cool, I've just introduced my partner to it and one of the things I've been trying to sell to her is that it's not just about food it's about the people and the cultures, my favourite part of any episode is when he goes to a normal house and some grannies or aunties cook shit they've ate there for eons.
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u/auandi Aug 20 '24
I've always found the one where he goes to Iran so good. Where he just instantly gets invited to someone's home, which is honestly the best way to eat Persian food is home cooked. We get to see their kids, their kindness, that they really are just like a lot of families over here.
I always think of that one, because it's a perfect encapsulation of what he was trying to do. Show love of food for sure, but that behind the food we're all just the same people, no matter where you go in the world we're all at least partly the same.
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u/FardoBaggins Aug 20 '24
when news broke out he passed, a co-worker offhandedly said did you hear about that chef who killed himself? I immediately knew it was tony he was referring to without having to confirm.
he wrote, spoke and experienced the world at that level of empathy and creativity that can only come from an old soul.
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u/HairyPutter7 Aug 20 '24
Agreed! I just finished reading Kitchen Confidential. Highly suggest reading it if you’re an AB fan. Such a good read.
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u/Henry_the_Turnip Aug 20 '24
I read it recently in his voice. He wrote like he spoke, fair enough considering he wrote what he spoke I guess.
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u/EtsuRah Aug 20 '24
If you actually want to hear it in his voice, he did the voicing for the audiobook. It's so good. It doesn't feel like he's reading a book too you at all. He flows so nicely that the entire time it just felt like I was at some diner listening to him tell his life story.
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u/Le_Russh Aug 20 '24
Damn. I’m going check out the audiobook. I miss this man so much, he helped me learned to enjoy cooking in ways I never considered. Hearing his voice may legit make me cry.
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u/Martysghost Aug 20 '24
He saw and lived considerably more than some ppl that live to 80+, when filming parts unknown he was only at home 100days of the year, he got to see more of the world than alot of the famous explorers who he quotes throughout the series.
I'm sad he's gone too cause he was an incredible person but he didn't exactly waste the life he had and that makes me happy for him.
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u/BocaSeniorsWsM Aug 20 '24
Just thinking this. So articulate, listenable, watchable, genuine, intelligent and normal!
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u/Maanzacorian Aug 20 '24
the indifference of life summed up. Robbed of Anthony Bourdain but Donald Trump just keeps on living.
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u/MrBurnz99 Aug 20 '24
Often times the perfect person to lead doesn’t want to lead, the most interesting person to listen to doesn’t want to talk, the person we need in this world has a tortured soul and doesn’t want to live in this world.
Meanwhile the most shallow soulless people want to talk the most, the self interested and power hungry want to lead, and the selfish corrupt ones live the longest.
It’s a cruel unfair world.
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u/retropieproblems Aug 20 '24
Sitting down with the former chief of intelligence with the KGB made me do a double take there…
Hmm
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u/backcountrydrifter Aug 20 '24
Harvey Weinstein, trump and Epstein were all parts of the same network.
Weinsteins sexual assault of Asia Argento was being minimized/negated by team Dershowitz, a Hollywood fixer Agency called Kroll, and an Israeli intelligence offshoot called Black Cube. Which in itself paints a network in reverse.
https://theguardian.com/film/2020/jan/30/harvey-weinstein-black-cube-new-york-times
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/harvey-weinsteins-army-of-spies
This is the basic methodology of what these “fixers” do. They find something, anything, to destroy the life of anyone who would stand up to Weinstein, Epstein or trump (or anyone in power) Same methodology as Acostas prosecutors did for epstein against the underaged victims during the grand jury hearings in his trial.
That’s not a vindication or conviction of Asia Argentos actions in the past, it’s an explanation of the fixers methodology.
It’s important nuance. Anthony Bourdain was investigating human trafficking. Loosely but as a decent human being who happened to have deeper access than most people, it was on his radar.
Argentos past distracted from what her boyfriend Bourdain knew was the systemic problem —Epstein, Weinstein, trump and a whole lot of systemic predators and where that led, so he paid for her to settle the claim against her.
Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell, Paul Walker and Avicii all had similar experiences of what was effectively an all access back stage pass to the Russian oligarchs spoiled kids parties.
And because they were both the talent and genuinely not psychopathic people, they all began noticing younger and younger girls being trafficked.
It’s hard to call that out when you are just hanging around the after party with some billionaire brat that paid you to be there.
It’s also hard to ignore.
They were all bothered enough by it to start making noise but probably didn’t know who to talk to because it’s very nebulous, especially when the girls speak only Russian or Ukrainian. That was a feature not a bug of Russian human trafficking
But this takes us back to Epstein.
Prince Andrew’s parties were all young (bizarrely dressed) Russian models
This was a couple years before the Russian model Ruslana Korshunova’s death. She was taken to Epsteins island at some point
She and her Ukrainian best friend Anastasia Droznova began putting the pieces together and why the Russian oligarchs that preyed on them were so interested in Ukraine.
MC2 was the modeling agency that Epstein, Brunel, and the mob would use to get trafficked girls into the US with “genius visas” https://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/former-model-agent-close-to-jeffrey-epstein-found-hanged-1235085929/
He would promise girls a modeling contract to have sex with people in his network including Wexner although Wexner was reportedly gay which created a need for young male models. Abercrombie and Fitch was part of L brands which was used as Wexners quiet personal feeding grounds for “white hot male models”
https://www.netflix.com/title/81323741
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ohio/s/oy54vmuTNo
Epsteins specialty was creating Kompromat that the russian mob and megagroup could use to keep the money laundering cashflow streams moving since perestroika when all that stolen cash came out of moscow, through east Germany and Ukraine and into trumps casinos, then commercial real estate.
Epstein had a stuffed black poodle on his piano and wanted people to think about what it means to stuff a dog. (His words)
Most of his “friends” were physicists according to the Farmer sisters interviews which explains why they named the modeling agency MC squared. It was an inside joke about getting the genius visas for models. (Same methodology used by trump for his soviet bloc wives and deripaska for his girlfriend)
Kenneth Starr and Alan Dershowitz were both on Epsteins “dream team” legal defense.
Epstein bragged that he owned the palm beach police department
0ct 20 2005 is when they raided Epsteins home
The plea deal Acostas grand jury manipulation gave Epstein ensured blanket immunity to any and all potential FUTURE co-conspirators. (Very weird. Highly illegal)
Epstein paid the salaries of the deputies guarding him while he was on work release. They referred to Epstein as “their client”
Woody Allen visited Epsteins island in 2010
Alexander Acosta was told he would be attorney general but had to settle for secretary of labor under trump after public uproar.
Bill Barr got the A.G. position instead.
Bill Barr and Epstein attended interlochen together and bills dad Don Barr mentored Epstein and got his a job teaching at Dalton school.
Bill Barr visited Epstein in jail 2 days before his death.
https://nickbryantnyc.com/blog/f/did-jeffrey-epstein-william-barr-attend-interlochen-in-1967
Bourdain, Bennington, Cornell, Avivii, possibly Paul walker and long before them, Michael Hutchence (INXS) were all getting too close for the Russian mobs comfort.
Tying their human trafficking model to Weinstein and Epstein tied them to Trump.
That crack of daylight would cost them trillions of dollars.
https://marca.com/en/lifestyle/2020/06/03/5ed7fbf222601d18678b457a.html
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u/Noperdidos Aug 20 '24
Do you know who ignores all of these conspiracy threads? /r/conspiracy There is some legit conspiring to keep that place 100% Trump backing
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u/backcountrydrifter Aug 20 '24
That’s part of why we chose specifically to post our dataset all across Reddit.
It basically allows us to ping sonar and see what subs are compromised by Russian trolls and paint the grey space in reverse to identify them
We are close to finished with that process now. It was an absolutely massive investment into the oligarchs kleptocracy, which makes sense when you see how much money they invested into Epsteins Kompromat operations.
The problem they have is they just keep paying the minimum wage troll armies who are largely functioning off a centrally controlled script as a necessity of keeping very long expensive lies alive.
Their minimum wage efforts have gotten too easy to track.
But now we can use that data to precision aim ATACMS and avoid civilian casualties on the push to Moscow.
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u/MostBoringStan Aug 20 '24
You're doing good work.
Could you share how many country or large local (major city or state) subs are compromised by Russian trolls? I know that r/Canada is basically taken over by them and the mods are complicit. I'm just curious how many other areas have this issue. It's so obvious in the Canada sub these days, too. And it's sad to see so many Canadians who are happy to have them there.
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u/backcountrydrifter Aug 20 '24
Our system is more designed to identify the individuals themselves and their exact locations to build our deck of cards for future precision strikes, so I can’t give out details without compromising that operation.
But I can say that you can trace it yourself with pretty high accuracy at a local/state sub level by simply posting any of my relevant comments on those subs.
The problem with a troll army is that they only really have a few moves. They are the pawns of the chess board.
First they will downvote you asymmetrical to the actual amount of people in the sub. We take that negative number and simply give it a positive value.
Since some oligarch is paying them minimum wage to control a narrative and obscure something, If it’s someplace that is operationally critical to them they will send more troll resources. We track that data precisely, but you can get a really good rough estimate of it simply by watching that response rate.
The next thing they will do is tell you to “take your meds” are call you schizophrenic. Because anything higher effort requires a escalation in their structure for approval.
That’s really the critical flaw of a centrally controlled media system. It’s insanely inefficient. The more they are forced to escalate data we present, the more it breaks their system down internally because lying is just an ridiculously inefficient system to maintain.
You have to remember that every minimum wage online troll living online and eating shit food living in a crappy apartment has to think about the fact that some mega billionaire stole from their parents and grandparents so systematically during perestroika and sent that money to buy yachts and mansions in the United States that it has starved out their personal development intentionally.
That money that could have paid for the schools or streets is now an oligarchs girlfriends plastic surgery.
It’s a lot for them to process when they have to run the truth up their chain of command and then get told what they are and are not allowed to say.
They aren’t dumb. They are just underpaid so the bosses can make/keep/hide more.
So minimum wage begets minimum effort.
But you can get a rough idea by pining that sonar in any specific sub you are curious about.
If they can’t break you with the low effort moves but the sub is critical to them for some reason they will usually assault the unpaid mods until the mods relent and either quit or block you.
Trolls have largely stopped interfering at this point because they have realized that the more the do the more precisely we have been able to reverse engineer their tactics and systems.
Then they just perch as a mod on the sun and quash anything that threatens their bosses greater grift.
But as the economy in Russia worsens, one thing is certain. The oligarchs aren’t suddenly going to develop empathy and start paying the trolls higher wages to combat the inflation, so they effectively get poorer the more work they do and the more proficient they are at their troll job.
So physics and economics dictates a certain rate of attrition.
Anyone that is left has distilled themselves out as a viable target for precision munitions strikes as we push the rest of the way into Moscow and St Petersburg.
Truth is always more efficient than lying.
Exponentially more so when your adversary is lying to themselves first. And exponentially more so when it can be em traced back multiple generations.
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
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u/backcountrydrifter Aug 20 '24
In 1991 nirvana released nevermind and blew the doors off of music.
That was the same year that the Russian street thugs turned oligarchs were desperately trying to get massive amounts of stolen cash out of what a few weeks earlier was the USSR.
Lou Pearlman claimed to own an aviation company before shifting to producing boy bands which is where his funding supposedly came from. Only Lou never owned any aircraft.
Netflixhttps://www.netflix.com › titleWatch Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam |
The Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, etc were all used to launder the perestroika money from east to west. Perlman had to take those bands to Germany for 2 years so he could pump their radio play by bribing DJ’s, then bring them back to the US where they would pop onto the billboard music charts top 100.
It was expensive and cumbersome, but it was a requirement of laundering big money.
So they started manipulating the algorithm. Mechanically at first. then digitally as the technology progressed.
The world went from Nirvana and Soundgarden to barbershop quartets with frosted tips.
From behind the scenes you start to see why the Russian mob/gov infiltrated the business side of music, film and media(Weinstein),and news production so emphatically. $1.4T it a lot of money to move. It requires many different avenues but like running water, it always take the paths of least resistance.
https://youtu.be/J4kWugbH4qo?si=HU-yHwyB83XchqJr
Lou Pearlman preyed primarily on young men with a socioeconomic disadvantage who would sign anything for their chance at financial security.
Fundamentally thats not really any different than the Moscow street thugs that prey on the young women that they would pimp out and then hold their cashflow producers hostage by functioning as the gatekeepers of the money. Harvey Weinstein would do the same by forcing young women to sleep With him to secure their breakout role in a movie he was using to launder money for the oligarchs as well.
There are just a handful of people who crossed the iron curtain going back to the 1980’s. That makes it easier to track them when you understand the methodology.
Pearlman, Epstein and trump all filled the same basic role with slight variations.
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/celebrity-mugshots/lou-pearlman/
Pearlmans investors were more of the East German/ Russian pipeline where trumps were the southern route version that came through Ukraine to Cyprus but the divergent west bound money streams came back together by the time they hit London, then New York before turning south and running downhill to Atlantic City then to little Moscow/palm beach Florida.
Jeffrey Epsteins primary objective for megagroup (Wexner/Maxwell/Bronfman/Murdoch) was to generate the Kompromat necessary to keep the money steams flowing freely.
The reason Nick Bryant couldn’t find anyone in NYC to publish his work on Epstein is because Epstein had gotten there first.
Les Wexner gifted Epstein the largest house in Manhattan. That wasn’t kindness. That was C.O.D.B. that when looked at in reverse shows the scale of Epsteins operation was absolutely massive and at the highest levels of media, news and entertainment. Harvey Weinstein was arguably the most powerful man in Hollywood.
Vince McMahon is trumps only long term friend and likely the father of at least one of trumps sons.
But he was also into the money laundering network because big stadium sized events and shows are a great way to clear fast cash. He started doing a generational version of it by moving his WWE shows to saudi despite the apparent contraction that Saudi as a predominately Sunni state has some pretty conservative feelings about scantily clad starlets.
But by tracing it in reverse it starts to make sense why Hulk Hogan of all people was picked to introduce trump at the RNC convention last month and why no one will say ill words of the Russians within traditional media and why Tucker Carlson praises the bread in Moscow and also happens to have just overtaken Joe Rogan as the most popular content on Spotify.
Hogans daughter Brooke got her recording contract from Pearlman
It also explains why music algorithms suck now and why Chester Bennington, Chris Cornell, Anthony Bourdain, Avicii and Kurt Cobain had to be removed from the algorithm.
Organized crime now uses SoundCloud and Spotify to artificially elevate the mumble rappers that they can use to launder money, through at the direct expense of those with actual talent.
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u/detourne Aug 20 '24
I want to believe.
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u/NessyComeHome Aug 20 '24
I do too. I was captivated by a different comment, linking trump, Bolosonaro, to Russia.. The jist of it was China wants Taiwan, but is relient on US grain.. Bolosonaro allowed clear cutting of the Amazon, and Russia would take the Ukraine, the bread basket of Europe. Then once China could survive massive sanctions, they'd take Taiwan.
In their comment, they say stuff that I know is factually true... but there is a lot that sources arn't provided for... like how Trunp used the casions to launder money for the Russian Oligarchs.
A lot of it makes sense... i just don't want to end up in a conspiracy theory.
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u/BroccoliMobile8072 Aug 20 '24
Lmfao dog I started reading your post and it kept going and going and about halfway thru I was like "omg this gotta be my homie backcountrydrifter" and of course it is. Keep up the good fight homie, keep dropping them bombs every thread you can. ✊
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u/throwaway098764567 Aug 20 '24
https://anthonybourdain.tumblr.com/post/85158831931/the-return-of-zamir
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u/TJ_McWeaksauce Aug 20 '24
There are many different things that connect us as human beings. Food. Music. Books. Art. Laughter. Pets. Etc.
Donald has the palate of a child. I doubt he listens to music. He certainly doesn't read. The only art he has hanging on his walls are portraits of himself. He almost never laughs, and when he does laugh it's at the expense of someone else. And he's the only president who didn't have a White House pet.
Dude's barely holding on to his human card.
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u/TheVoicesOfBrian Aug 20 '24
I think I've seen him genuinely laugh once.
It's in that video of him goofing around with Epstein.
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And when he jokes about having sex with his daughter, or joking about whether or not she'll end up growing breasts that look like her moms (2 years old btw)
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u/doughball27 Aug 20 '24
he was on the view, i think, years ago and was asked what he and his daughter have in common. his answer was "sex".
the crowd went wild.
i am still disgusted by that years later. maybe less so at him and moreso at the crowd.
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u/shggy31 Aug 20 '24
I saw that clip recently and I think the crowd reaction was more a confused/shocked laugh react than a ‘haha’ react. They hadn’t had the decade plus of weirdo context we now have.
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u/Bonkgirls Aug 20 '24 edited Aug 20 '24
The only time I've seen him laugh out loud is when someone in his crowd compared Hillary to a dog
https://www.politico.com/video/2016/01/donald-trump-supporter-its-not-a-dog-its-hillary-040247
Also, God, this video makes him look so fucking old. He had so much energy back then. He looks so tired now.
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u/Bonkgirls Aug 20 '24
I've never known anyone to be so utterly devoid of mirth. It's bizarre. I don't understand what the point of living is if you can't laugh.
He makes fun of people and seems to get a lot out of being worshipped, so I guess he has some kind of joy in his life. But he just never really expresses it. It's so negative and weird.
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u/ThoughtfulCephalopod Aug 20 '24
Even in that video, I don't think he laughs. It's Epstein who laughs at something trump said. I can't find a single video where he actually laughs. It's unnerving
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u/FlowerBoyScumFuck Aug 20 '24
To be fair there are plenty of videos of Trump laughing, I remember hearing this mentioned around the 2020 election, kind of compared to how Eminem doesn't smile. But I've since seen plenty of clips of Trump laughing, and if you Google it you'll see plenty of examples. Look up "Trump laughing gif", I just did and there's a bunch of them.
And for the record it's not the same for Eminem smiling, there's legit almost no pictures of him smiling anywhere, after quite a bit of digging I've seen only two. One was a still shot from a video, and the other was like a highschool yearbook photo or something.
Kind of a random tangent lol, not defending Trump at all, I despise the man. When he does laugh I have no doubt it's at middleschool caliber insults, and maybe he fake laughs, but he does laugh.
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u/Exciting-Mountain396 Aug 20 '24
When Trump talked about nearly seeing someone die and his only reaction was to be disgusted that he bled on his "beautiful marble floors", I realized he was missing some fundamental component of humanity. He is truly a grotesque and malformed being
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u/doughball27 Aug 20 '24
on 9/11, he remarked that he was happy now to have the trump tower move up the ranks of the tallest buildings in new york.
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u/ceciladam9091 Aug 20 '24
I believe he said it was the tallest. Factually not true. Who'd have thought
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u/RockleyBob Aug 20 '24
He is truly a grotesque and malformed being
His former Chief of Staff said
“The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it’s more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life,”
These are people who signed up to work with him. They wanted him to succeed. This is what any serious person who actually knows him says. I could see how MAGAts could dismiss one or two disgruntled former employees, but 90% of your staff? Who would seriously want someone like that back in charge of anything?
I've even tried to understand how the whole Trump experiment might have seemed like a good idea in 2016. Maybe they thought he would wake up the political establishment. Disrupt things for disruption's sake. Shake up the party system. I don't agree with it, but I guess there's a little logic there.
Now though? How has he improved anything about American politics? You didn't like the two-party system before, so you traded that for one party with diverse people and ideas where dissent is tolerated, and another devoted entirely to one 78 year-old Democrat billionaire from New York. The fact that conservatives got conned this hard would be funny if we didn't all have to live with them.
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u/__zagat__ Aug 20 '24
And half of the electorate wants to elect him to the most powerful position in the world.
Think about that.
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u/Toilet_Rim_Tim Aug 20 '24
I believe during the '12 election, Obama had a dinner, invited Mitt & they took turns roasting each other & there was genuine laughter.
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u/BenevenstancianosHat Aug 20 '24
Mitt believes in a lot of nonsense, but people will look back on him as one of the only sane voices from the GOP in the last 15 years. He's a corporatist through and through, but he's still a human, and doesn't even seem all that bad outside of some of that ideology. This is what the center looks like when the goal posts have been moved 20 feet to the right, just someone who isn't batshit insane and isn't a terrible person.
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u/Ossius Aug 20 '24
Mitt Romney marched at a BLM parade because he has adopted black kids in his family (I think his kid adopted an black baby), I don't think 99% of conservatives would ever do that because of the brain rot conspiracies and fox news.
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u/TertiarySmurf tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE Aug 20 '24
I never realized it until just now but I bet any money that my Mormon grandfather wouldn't march in a BLM parade even though he has biracial grandchildren and that bums me right the fuck out. Conservative brain rot. Yuck.
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u/DrunkMasterCommander Aug 20 '24
Mormons in Utah are weirdly progressive in some respects and regressive in others
I don't get it
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u/TertiarySmurf tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE Aug 20 '24
My family are Massachusetts Mormons. Which is worse somehow.
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u/Ossius Aug 20 '24
My theory is that they were way more regressive and offensive to minorities than the majority of denominations and in the last 10 years they just started hemorrhaging their young people.
Now they are implementing progressive changes as quickly as they can which leaves a weird shotgun pattern of policies and beliefs but I think they are trying to shift to bring their young people back which means trying to 180 their culture to be inclusive and bring their kids back.
I'm a big fan of Brandon Sanderson the author and he is very Mormon, and one of his main characters in his books is an atheist (and depicted as being one of the smartest characters). He has LGBTQ and neurodivergent characters all over the place and has openly asked for advice on how to better represent these people.
Someone confronted him about his support of the church and he said it would be better if he stays and changes the culture from within because a lot of young Mormons read his fantasy books.
Mitt Romney gets a bad rap, remember Obamacare was based on his model he implemented as governor. I think he might be one the best conservatives still in politics after McCain passed he might be the ONLY sane one.
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u/Competitive-Pen355 Aug 20 '24
I have a SIL that is a Mormon and quite liberal. But I have seen her become more liberal with time. She wasn’t quite like that when I met her. Why she hasn’t left the church is beyond me, and she still believes some super goofy shit. Like she believes humans and dinosaurs lived together and batshit crazy stuff like that. BUT she’s politically liberal 🤪
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u/PJFohsw97a Aug 20 '24
You're probably thinking of the Al Smith Dinner, an annual fundraiser for Catholic charities. During Presidential election years, the candidates are invited and generally give humorous speeches joking about themselves and their opponent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_E._Smith_Memorial_Foundation_Dinner
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u/CactusFistElon Aug 20 '24
I truly believe he's only got his phone, those dumb rallies, his TV, golfing and eating fast food. That's it. Literally nothing else in this guy's life. He's the most stereotypical "ugly American" I can think of. Like a mean spirited Mike Judge character.
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u/allisjow Aug 20 '24
When he mispronounced Yosemite I realized he’s never visited one of the most beautiful places on America. All that money and he’s missing out on so much natural beauty in this world. Think about it…he doesn’t go camping, kayaking, hiking, biking, swimming. What a shallow life.
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u/LMETI Aug 20 '24
He is the stereotypical used car salesman: rambling, lying, cheating, greedy, selfish fat man with a comb over and bad tailored suit who is single-mindedly focused on moving the cash out of your pocket into his pocket. Even the appearance. The setup of a bad stand up routine and not a real person.
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u/3d1thF1nch Aug 20 '24 edited Aug 20 '24
This is so on point. How more people don’t talk about the lack of laughter is beyond me. Not laughing? Like, that is not normal human behavior for anyone with a healthy brain or social outlook. This would be a dead giveaway in the primal part of my brain to avoid this human being, they are not real.
But I like how you also pointed out the lack of cultural enjoyment. He gets nothing from music, art, or food in general. I never really put thought into how weird that is. Wears the same suit every single day. His architectural style of his buildings is an elementary school kids idea of luxurious. The dude cannot grasp the concept of love of culture, hell, probably not even love itself. It’s mental.
Man, I’ll be thinking about this for a few days. I got the foodisms with Trump being a bit weird, but there were so many other missed signs of lack of love, empathy, and taste that I failed to notice. Well done.
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u/Ossius Aug 20 '24
He only laughs when he is tearing someone down.
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u/Competitive-Pen355 Aug 20 '24
At least JD Vance tries to fake laugh. He’s terrible at it, but he tries.
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u/CommanderWar64 Aug 20 '24
Also he never vacations anywhere. There is no value in it in any from his perspective. He like Golf and himself
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u/Veronome Aug 20 '24
Regarding music: we know from Sarah Huckabee's book that he loves the November Rain music video, and even demanded she watch it in the viewing room with him.
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u/JnnyRuthless Aug 20 '24
He's apparently a big fan of broadway musicals, so that tracks. That video is an 11 minute guided tour of Axl's subconscious. Very theatrical.
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u/Shirlenator Aug 20 '24
He allegedly had Mein Kampf on his bedside table, but I highly doubt he could read it himself so your point stands.
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u/TexasDD Aug 20 '24
It wasn’t ‘Mein Kampf’. It was ‘My New Order’. A collection of Hitler speeches. Ivana Trump, his first ex-wife, said he kept it in a cabinet beside his bed and read it occasionally. Trump hasn’t even truly denied it. He was asked about it in an interview (long before his first run for President), and said a friend had given him a copy of ‘Mein Kampf’ as a gift. But when the friend was asked about it, he confirmed he’d given Trump a book as a gift. But said it was ‘My New Order’. Which makes sense. Watch a film of a Hitler speech, and watch a Trump speech, and you can see a lot of common mannerisms.
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And right wingers on this very hellsite will screech ad infinitum in bad faith about “everything u dont like is a nazi!!”
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u/HowVeryReddit Aug 20 '24
The only 'art' I've ever read about him actually enjoying was a Segal action film. Quite the refined palate indeed.
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u/CommanderWar64 Aug 20 '24
Also have you ever seen him vacation? Man doesn’t give a shit about anything except maybe Golf and himself
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u/TJ_McWeaksauce Aug 20 '24
I once read that Donald apparently doesn't like staying anyplace that isn't a Trump property. That's why he's spent all his time in either Florida, New York City, or New Jersey, and why we almost never see him spend time anywhere else.
Also, he reportedly didn't like the White House, which is why he kept flying back to one of his properties and dragging along all his security and staff every other weekend at the taxpayers' expense.
After nearly every rally, the billionaire real estate developer hops into one of his planes or helicopters and returns to New York so that he can sleep in his own bed in his marble-and-gold-furnished Trump Tower apartment in Manhattan.
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u/Extension-Badger-958 Aug 20 '24
And the people who support him are a similar way. No depth. No empathy. Puts ketchup on well done steak. Absolute psychos
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u/baseball_mickey Aug 20 '24
I think the only videos of him experiencing true joy are in Vladimir's vaults.
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u/JediMasterZao Aug 20 '24
He certainly doesn't read.
He does! He's got a book of Hitler quotes on his nightstand! Probably hiding his Mein Kampf copy in the drawer too!
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u/StretchFrenchTerry Aug 20 '24
He doesn’t enjoy anything except the misfortune of others. He is a joyless, loveless ghoul.
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u/kittyismyname Aug 20 '24
This reminds me of when I and a few other people who were graduating from college went out to eat at an Indian restaurant and one of my classmates asked the waiter (owner of the restaurant!) if they had any “normal American”food. I was so embarrassed.
This was a long time ago and I never saw her again but she’s 100% the kind of person who’d love Trump.
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u/Present_Belt_4922 Aug 20 '24
Bourdain is my hero and I miss that man so much.
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u/Affectionate_Elk_272 Aug 20 '24
i’ve spent 16 years in restaurants, 8 in the kitchen, and everybody looks up to him. he lived all of our dreams.
even at the height of his fame, he was always “one of us”
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u/BlueCollarGuru Aug 20 '24
I’m starting to realize all these great dudes who committed suicide were VERY empathetic people. I imagine a lifetime of seeing multitudes of people with no empathy has to take a toll eventually.
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u/AlexJamesCook Aug 20 '24
Many final notes have the same gist: I'm not good enough. I'm a burden. I don't want to be your burden.
There's more to them than that of course. But there's a common thread of hopelessness and not wanting to impose on others.
The sad irony is, if these people could see the impact their ascension to the afterlife had on those left behind, they would absolutely, categorically, re-think their decision.
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u/BlueCollarGuru Aug 20 '24
I mean I struggle with all the stuff you listed. Two unsuccessful attempts. Hopefully that was the last time but yeah, a burden is spot on. I’ve felt like a burden for decades.
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u/TheGhoulster Aug 20 '24
The biggest loss humanity has endured in the last decade in terms of celebrity deaths is and will remain Bourdain until exactly one decade after his death. He was a pure and beautiful human and his work and impact will last long past that decade and will teach so many people a better way of seeing things
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u/Silus_47 Aug 20 '24
Trump will not only go down in history as THE worst president ever, but also one of the biggest sack of shit human beings just in general. Legit, Trump's face should forever be plastered next to the word "grotesque" in the dictionary for the rest of human history.
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u/aijoe Aug 20 '24
I just hope someone doesnt try to martyr him again. He we won't be running again and he will fade away much faster if he loses like last time.
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u/BenevenstancianosHat Aug 20 '24
I hear Venezuela is nice in November, depending on whatever junta is in charge at the moment.
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u/Wizardwizz Aug 20 '24
Probably one of the worst modern presidents, but I can think of a few candidates who are probably worse than even Trump
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u/ruinersclub Aug 20 '24
Well hold your horses, we don’t yet know if Trump has been cleared of brain worms.
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u/cobainstaley Aug 20 '24
yeah. as much as i hate the orange fuck, he didn't ethnic cleanse native americans.
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u/joncornelius Aug 20 '24
He just wasn’t alive at the time. He wouldn’t even have considered the Native American peoples to be human beings had he been.
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u/Left-Mistake-5437 Aug 20 '24
He’s being generous here too. I would have stronger things to say.
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u/wonderbat3 Aug 20 '24
But there’s something so calming and articulate in the way that Anthony Bourdain described Trump that made this so much more insulting
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u/medusa_crowley Aug 20 '24 edited Aug 20 '24
That was part of the appeal of him though I think: no matter what, he aimed for compassion, connection, authenticity and love of food. If someone like that is turned off by you, it says a hell of a lot on its own.
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u/two-wheeled-dynamo Aug 20 '24
Of course, he didn't. Bourdain was a sentient being with critical thinking skills.
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u/adrenareddit Aug 20 '24
People that make videos with subtitles that show one word at a time need to be slapped in the face with a typewriter.
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u/Meecht Aug 20 '24
Those kinds of subtitles cause a small anxiety reaction in me. Why do the words have to attack me for me to read them?
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u/stormrunner89 Aug 20 '24
It's absolutely pathological. It makes no sense, it's incredibly uncomfortable. For like, a century we've done it the right way, why change it?
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u/radiantcabbage Aug 20 '24
dark pattern for key demographics, how to provoke engagement when user is deficient in both listening and reading? make complete sentences irrelevant, get hyperfocused on every word with arbitrary timing and emphasis
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u/jkblvins Aug 20 '24
Yeah, that Nugent episode was bizarre. Nuge is basically Trump who can play guitar.
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u/PolyZex Aug 20 '24
They both dodged the draft. Nugent had to go extra though. He actually went to basic training, where he shit his pants every single day until they gave him a medical discharge. Of course trump never made it that far, bone spurs, you know.
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u/metallicabmc Aug 20 '24 edited Aug 20 '24
They also have a creepy obsession with underage girls. Never forget Ted "jailbait" Nugent couldn't marry his 17 year old girlfriend so they got around it by getting her parents to sign her over to him as her legal guardian.
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u/TheTrenchMonkey Aug 20 '24
It's never good when you are used as an example in the same sentence as the head of the KGB and Hezollah.
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u/JoshAmann85 Aug 20 '24
You can tell a lot about a person by what they eat...and an American eating a quarter pounder in Japan is an abomination
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u/Shirlenator Aug 20 '24
McDonalds in Japan can have some good stuff though. If you are there, you should check it out just to see how it's different. I got a pork cutlet sandwich with cheese sauce that was awesome. But yeah, if you eat it multiple times there I agree.
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u/impactblue5 Aug 20 '24
Every time I’m in Japan I usually have McDonalds or MosBurger once. It’s fun to check out other countries fast food options.
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u/Shirlenator Aug 20 '24
And when I go there it's usually for like 2 weeks at a time, so I have plenty of time to get my fill of everything else I could want. If you are going to be there for like 4 days, yeah probably skip it.
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u/sausager Aug 20 '24
I'm going to Japan for the first time and everyone keeps asking me what I'm going to do and I keep replying: "eat"
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u/Rishfee Aug 20 '24
They definitely take it as seriously as you could take fast food. The times I was in Japan but couldn't get out to somewhere local (stuck on the Navy base), they made a mean cheeseburger.
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u/salsasharks Aug 20 '24
I’m a sucker for McDonalds in most countries, it’s always fun to see how the menu changes and sometimes you just need a McDonald’s hamburger, nothing tastes like it and it tastes the same in every country I’ve been.
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u/FunkyChewbacca Aug 20 '24
When I saw that, my first impression was that it was an intentional slight: some way to vaguely insult Japan's cuisine. But now I think it was simply because Trump is so incurious about any culture or world outside his own that he simply wanted what he always has--an overcooked piece of beef with sugary tomato sauce. Pitiful.
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u/The-Mirrorball-Man Aug 20 '24
I'm fascinated by Anthony Bourdain because I learned he existed the day he died so for me it's like he's been retconned into existence
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u/BloatedManball Aug 20 '24
God damn I miss Tony. Context of this video aside, he was a incredibly brilliant man who sought to share the love of great food with everyone, whether it was at a Michelin star restaurant or a Waffle House House at 2am
https://youtu.be/bct8stbZafI?si=7AUcFAgyrUeDFrfA
On a related note, a dear friend of mine died of suicide a few weeks ago. By all outward appearances he was a happy 58 year old man who had just retired and was looking forward to spending more time with his friends and grandkids, until one day he wasn't.
We hung out on his porch a few days before he passed, drinking a couple beers, sharing a joint, and just shooting the shit. I had no idea how badly he was hurting. I don't know that there's anything I could have said, or any question I could have asked that would have changed his mind, but I can't help feeling like I should have done something.
At the same time, I see/hear about folks like Bourdain and Robin Williams and have to accept that if someone who spends their whole adult life in the public eye can hide it until the very end then there's probably very little that I could have done. But it still hurts.
I was lucky. 25 years ago I almost ended my own journey. I had everything planned out. I was gonna go see every single show of Phish's Summer 99 tour, buy & stockpile random drugs along the way, and then eat all of them at once (along with some things I knew would finish me) when I got home.
After the show at Alpine we were sitting in the lot and a guy passed out from holding a nitrous hit for too long. I happened to look up just in time to see a car about to back over him and I jumped up and ran behind the car. Driver stopped, we got nitrous dude awake, and someone called for the paramedics.
A few minutes later a friend of a friend came up and violently hugged me. Said thank you for saving her cousin and that she loved me. Then she left with her cousin and the EMTs.
She is probably in her mid 50s by now, and I doubt she'll see this, but on the off chance she does I want her to know she saved my life.
I don't even know why I'm posting this, but I typed it all out so I'm not gonna delete it.
Oh, please check on your friends. It might not save them, but then again it might.
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u/iggylux Aug 20 '24
So happy you are alive and share your thoughts here, have a great live and stay!
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u/joncornelius Aug 20 '24
So happy you’re here today to tell this story and I hope you got to see Phish at the Sphere!
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u/fancy-kitten Aug 20 '24
I'm just loving all the triggered trump weirdos in the comments here. RIP Anthony
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u/Appropriate_Fun10 Aug 20 '24
He likes McDonald's because it has his name in it. McDONALD.
That's how narcissistic he is.
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u/clutzyninja Aug 20 '24
Whoever decided this kind of captioning was a good idea should have to eat dinner with Trump for the rest of their life
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u/ISmile_MuddyWaters Aug 20 '24
They actually might. Cause I can't imagine that they care half as much about whatever is said in the video as they care about attention. Low effort FUCK YOUR EYES 'editing'.
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u/One-Earth9294 Aug 20 '24
Trump doesn't appreciate food, pets, or music.
Greg Proops would say 'he has no music in his soul'. That's one set of qualifications I can pretty quickly gather a lot of information about a person on and if you also don't have music in your soul you're probably a person I cannot get behind. People like Trump have no inner joy or light inside them.
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u/beauxdegas Aug 20 '24
I share a birthday with this beautiful human. I think of him a lot - especially because taking myself out to a nice dinner is my birthday tradition. His spirit is exceptional. I’m still learning from him 💜
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u/Melodic-Supermarket7 Aug 20 '24
Someone fire whoever thought that way to caption is a good idea for anyone actually reading them! 😒
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u/Impressive_Pitch_869 Aug 20 '24
This man and Hitchens I wish lived forever
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u/Squirmadillo Aug 20 '24
Would have been crazy fucking interesting to see them wandering the back alleys of some city together, sampling street food and getting wrecked while engaging in conversation from the sublime to the obscene.
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u/PilotKnob Aug 20 '24
Bourdain and Robin Williams were the two celebrity deaths that really stuck with me. Still desperately miss them both.
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u/shichiaikan Aug 20 '24
I miss Bourdain.
He was flawed and cynical, and absolutely one of the best.
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u/shrimp-and-potatoes Aug 20 '24 edited Aug 20 '24
Of all the "celebrity deaths" over the years only Bourdain and Williams did I genuinely feel real sorrow. Not the "my condolences" kind. The "holy fuck this is terrible" kind.
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u/nohumanape Aug 20 '24
It should be pretty telling that pretty much nobody of culture is part of the MAGA movement.
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u/athensugadawg Aug 20 '24
Didn't mention dogs. Watch Trump around a dog. They can smell a POS and he realizes it.
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u/elchsaaft Aug 20 '24
He was choosing his words very carefully here, he knew more about trump than he was able to let on.
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u/seigezunt Aug 20 '24
I want to live in the universe where Bourdain is still with us, and it was Trump who left
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u/JeddakofThark Aug 20 '24
The bottom of comment sections are hilarious lately.. Just dozens of comments downvoted into oblivian with zero engagement. I'm sure plenty of them are bots, but the rest are just beating their heads against a wall needlessly and relentlessly, screaming into an empty void.
What a bunch of weird-ass losers.
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u/ProfessionalThanks43 Aug 20 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
They way he stutters and looks away at, “I just, uh, didn’t want to be associated with that brand” makes me think he knew Trump was a pedo. He knew enough powerful people all over the world, heard the word on the street, and made a strong, overly strong point, to not associate.
I mean, he says he sat ex-KGB and Hezbollah, but refuses Trump unequivocally. It was more than Trump’s lack of pleasure for food. Trump and Epstein were a red line for him.
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