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Would you like some fries with that?
Uncommon Analysis ^ | 10/23/2024 | Uncommon Analysis

Posted on 10/23/2024 10:57:15 AM PDT by HamiltonJay

Would you like some fries with that? If ever there is an example of how much Politics have changed in the Trump era, nothing captures it quite as adeptly as President Trump’s photo op cooking and serving fries at a McDonald’s yesterday.

Now photo ops are nothing new, they have been part of political life in the United States since before the camera was invented. Candidates volunteer at soup kitchens, county fairs, stop by children’s cancer wards, whatever and wherever they can and fell will be a good backdrop to draw in the press and get a story about whatever their cause is. They aren’t limited to campaign season either, though that is clearly when they are most used. (AOC crying crocodile tears at the border a few years back anyone?). These things are basically just part of the political landscape.

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1 posted on 10/23/2024 10:57:15 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

Now democrats are investigating Macdonalds for price gouging. Coinkydink?


2 posted on 10/23/2024 10:59:37 AM PDT by lucky american (Had enough yet?)
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To: HamiltonJay

One of the best I’ve seen was when Jesse Jackson was running for president during the Iowa caucus season. Jesse almost won Iowa because he was the only Dim candidate who knew how to milk a cow.


3 posted on 10/23/2024 11:01:23 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: HamiltonJay

wherever they can and fell will be a good backdrop to

I think the writer meant FEEL and not FELL.

Just another of the dropoffs in expectations in the US in 2024.


4 posted on 10/23/2024 11:05:14 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: HamiltonJay

Perhaps.

But Donald Trump wasn’t running for office when he made this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88cwgAL4o18

Just Sayin’.


5 posted on 10/23/2024 11:10:00 AM PDT by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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To: left that other site
That is a great video.
6 posted on 10/23/2024 11:23:14 AM PDT by kickstart ("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane' )
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To: lucky american

$20.00 an HR + Price Gouging = Inflation


7 posted on 10/23/2024 11:25:14 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: kickstart

I think that it was originally aired on Oprah or Ellen’s show, which in itself is remarkable.


8 posted on 10/23/2024 11:26:11 AM PDT by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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To: VanShuyten

I say Trump should go to Pennsylvania dutch country and milk a cow, then drink a big glass of whole milk. 100% of the Amish vote right there.


9 posted on 10/23/2024 11:41:02 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: left that other site

Hadn’t watched it before. So glad you put up the link. What fun! Waving frantically.


10 posted on 10/23/2024 11:53:57 AM PDT by mairdie (Trump (I Will Win) - Pavarotti's Nessun Dorma - https://youtu.be/MigUKGKr-nQ)
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To: mairdie

I had a hard time finding it, but I was determined! :-)


11 posted on 10/23/2024 11:56:27 AM PDT by left that other site (Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
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To: lucky american

I’m surprised they haven’t done everything they can to shut McDonald’s down as a company.


12 posted on 10/23/2024 11:57:13 AM PDT by hoagy62 (Don't let evil win again!)
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To: lucky american

In a free market economy, realistically price gouging does not exist because customers will shop at the competitors’ store.


13 posted on 10/23/2024 12:04:18 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: lucky american; All

In a free market economy, realistically price gouging does not exist because customers will shop at the competitors’ store.


14 posted on 10/23/2024 12:04:25 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: bigbob

Great idea. 👍


15 posted on 10/23/2024 12:10:32 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: VanShuyten

Jesse Jackson knowing how to milk a cow is a natural for him
since he would have, if elected, milked you the taxpayers
with great gusto


16 posted on 10/23/2024 12:51:56 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: VanShuyten

But a pro milker knows to grab the cow’s tail and trap it against it’s side with your head so it won’t keep switching you with it.


17 posted on 10/23/2024 12:55:42 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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