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Trump was an actual campaign stop photo op... Harris didn't do a McD photo op. So not clear on your point. Also Trump rode in a garbage truck around the same t

by anonu 2y ago

Trump was an actual campaign stop photo op... Harris didn't do a McD photo op. So not clear on your point. Also Trump rode in a garbage truck around the same time. Was he one upping Harris? Or just trying to appeal to the working class? Probably the latter...

gowld 2y ago
The garbage-truck photo op was Trump's a followup to his campaign calling Puerto Rico "garbage", and in particular to Biden calling that behavior "garbage".
- epcoa 2y ago
  Your chronology does not fit.
- ifyoubuildit 2y ago
  This comment illustrates pretty well how much of a game of telephone american political culture is. The person whispering in my ear said that a roast comedian at a trump rally told a joke where Puerto Rico was called an island of garbage. I wonder how many levels it had to go to become "[trumps] campaign calling Puerto Rico "garbage"".
rdtsc 2y ago
> So not clear on your point. I just meant that an article, claiming to go for a deep dive on how McDonald's is part of the new American zeitgeist, mentions one presidential candidate, and the CEO murderer, but doesn't mention the other presidential candidate. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/01/kamala-harris-on-working-at-mcdonalds-in-her-20s.html https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/01/kamala-harris-on-working-at-... is just from a few months ago. > “It was not a small job,” Harris told Ruhle. “There are people who work at McDonald’s in our country who are trying to...raise families and pay rent.” Just seemed like an odd omission, that's all.
- santoshalper 2y ago
  Not really. Free Press is only pretending to be journalism. In an article defending JK Rowling, they describe people who are upset with her views on transgender rights as "maniacs, who are then flattered by cowards". It's a partisan rag.
  - jobbie 2y ago
    This is the context of that quote, which doesn't state what you're claiming: In recent years, she has become a figure of some controversy. Not for any real reason, but because we live in an era where things that are self-evidently true are denied by maniacs who are then flattered by cowards. Also, this was in a piece from one of their columnists. Opinions are to be expected. (https://www.thefp.com/p/things-worth-remembering-jk-rowling https://www.thefp.com/p/things-worth-remembering-jk-rowling)

by anonu 2y ago

gowld 2y ago

The garbage-truck photo op was Trump's a followup to his campaign calling Puerto Rico "garbage", and in particular to Biden calling that behavior "garbage".

epcoa 2y ago
Your chronology does not fit.
ifyoubuildit 2y ago
This comment illustrates pretty well how much of a game of telephone american political culture is. The person whispering in my ear said that a roast comedian at a trump rally told a joke where Puerto Rico was called an island of garbage. I wonder how many levels it had to go to become "[trumps] campaign calling Puerto Rico "garbage"".

rdtsc 2y ago

> So not clear on your point. I just meant that an article, claiming to go for a deep dive on how McDonald's is part of the new American zeitgeist, mentions one presidential candidate, and the CEO murderer, but doesn't mention the other presidential candidate. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/01/kamala-harris-on-working-at-mcdonalds-in-her-20s.html https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/01/kamala-harris-on-working-at-... is just from a few months ago. > “It was not a small job,” Harris told Ruhle. “There are people who work at McDonald’s in our country who are trying to...raise families and pay rent.” Just seemed like an odd omission, that's all.

santoshalper 2y ago
Not really. Free Press is only pretending to be journalism. In an article defending JK Rowling, they describe people who are upset with her views on transgender rights as "maniacs, who are then flattered by cowards". It's a partisan rag.
- jobbie 2y ago
  This is the context of that quote, which doesn't state what you're claiming: In recent years, she has become a figure of some controversy. Not for any real reason, but because we live in an era where things that are self-evidently true are denied by maniacs who are then flattered by cowards. Also, this was in a piece from one of their columnists. Opinions are to be expected. (https://www.thefp.com/p/things-worth-remembering-jk-rowling https://www.thefp.com/p/things-worth-remembering-jk-rowling)