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Trump cosplaying

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Coincidence? I think not.
- Covfefe? I think so.
  
  Trivago? Hotelikely.

There was a term I really liked for this kind of things: "Vacationing in poverty" I think, where people with wealth 'adventure' being homeless or something but don't even remotely appreciate that the people they're pretending to be don't have an 'off' switch or an easy out of their situations.
I find the whole premise despicable.
- Especially since they keep doing it to prove that "Oh anyone can be a millionaire, ya just gotta not be lazy.", and despite each of them failing when they fail to prove this, they still proceed to learn nothing form this.
  If only I could show the world what rich people really think of the common man, but if thousands of films like "Joker" and "V For Vendetta" where that's the sole point didn't do it, then what the fuck else will?
- Pulp - Common People
  
  This is lemmy, you want this one

Where I live McDonald's workers don't wear gloves. ¯(ツ)/¯
- Same here, but I don't think the workers tend to wear diapers either.
- He didn't wash his hands either.
  
  Neiter do McDonalds workers

Back in 2016, I didn't understand how an extremely wealthy heir to a billion-dollar fortune (and regardless of all his business failures) could present himself as the candidate of the little people. Today, after Trump was president and - of course - only made policy changes for the rich, I understand it even less. What is this photo-op all about? Are there seriously still people who don't understand that Trump has never represented the middle class - or even the working class? You can't be serious, dear US citizens.
- It's super frustrating but as an example - my parents are deeply conservative and supportive of Trump, and also on the lower end of "wealth" and semi-retired. It is 100% misinformation. My Dad quotes the Fox news rhetoric like it's facts, and regardless of me disproving most of the BS, he is completely brain washed. At this point Trump could run a live execution of his political opponents and the Trumpets would more or less shrug.
  
  They wouldn't just shrug. They would actively cheer it on.
- Yes. Half the country thinks Trump is for the little guy and Harris is an elitist asshole.
  Trump was born rich. Harris grew up middle class and a member of two minority groups. The problem is the democrats are shit at messaging. It’s why Walz calling republicans weird took off. Democrats don’t usually come up with sound bites like that.
  
  I sincerely don't understand how this is even possible. A lot of these people are old, do they not remember the 90's? Trump being "Smug Rich Asshole: The Character" was his whole brand, and people loved him for it because we were still drinking that "Capitalism good" kool-aid left over from the cold war.
  How is this man with a literal solid gold toilet "The Voice of the People"
  This whole nonsense makes me perfectly understand how "War of the Worlds" was mistaken for a legitimate news broadcast.
- Before 2016 he was a celebrity people liked him as a no bullshit business owner like the middle class small business owners. As he was exposed to more media and has proven he was more of an idiot it personified him as someone like them. A moron who does what they want with 0 reflection or cares about other people.
- Probably belongs to a franchisee who donates heavily to the GOP and trump.

Probably comes from the beef itself (corrected by someone else, came from the onions) since it's an outbreak on a wide scale.
McDonald's workers where I live don't wear gloves yet there's no outbreak. Wearing gloves isn't more sanitary (it increases the odds that people won't clean their hands often enough), you still touch the gloves to put them on, if your hands are dirty the gloves are contaminated, if someone touches the gloves box with dirty hands then the surface is contaminated and cross contamination can happen every time someone takes a pair of gloves.
- THANK YOU.
  It's not gross because he's not wearing gloves, it's gross because he probably never washes his hands after digging in his ass all day.
  Get your reasons this man is disgusting straight people!
  I wrote a similar comment about this exact same situation on another post but from a more healthcare oriented perspective. Specifically that unless you have open cuts / sores on your hands as a healthcare worker, clean but nonsterile gloves do not protect the patient! They are an OSHA requirement in place to protect the worker from exposure to bodily fluids and caustic cleaning chemicals. And for chemo you glove twice.
  Sterile gloves, which are used to protect a patient from infection and are used for surgeries and specific types of bedside procedures like urine catheterization, are packed in sealed packages in single pairs and must be applied in a highly specific way by a trained individual, the minimum license usually being an LPN and more often an RN.
  Unless that beef patty is acidic enough to burn your hands while preparing it (and if it is I shudder to think what it would do to a stomach) gloves out of a 100-count box ain't protecting anybody from anything and at their worst are bamboozling people out of washing their damn hands.
  
  Plus, consider how much plastic waste that comes to. I've seen people describe them changing gloves several times an hour to comply with food safety laws. We don't have outbreaks of this shit because people wash their hands and don't rely on gloves.
- I saw an announcement yesterday saying it was from the onions.
  
  Thanks for the correction!
- Cross contamination is so much worse than people think it is.
  Everything is pretty much contaminated all the time.
  I'd still want the illusion of the workers trying to be sanitary by wearing gloves.
  
  How about they actually are sanitary by washing their hands instead of relying on putting their dirty hands in gloves that they never clean?

This is a double-whammy PR nightmare.
Are we going to do what happened with Jack in the Box in the naughts and start associating E Coli with McDonalds? I remember hearing that FUD so much back then and now that the shoe is on the other foot, I wonder what will happen. 🤔 Not to engage in the fast food wars or anything, but also fuck McDonalds for helping this fat ass at all.
- As much as I enjoy shitting on McDonald's, I don't think McDonald's corporate had anything to do with this. I'm pretty sure this was a franchise.
  That being said, McDonald's may need to revisit some of the restrictions in their franchise agreements with regard to direct participation in political campaigns. A candidate visiting a location is one thing, but this restaurant directly arranged and participated in this nonsense.
  
  As much as I enjoy shitting on McDonald’s
  So you are behind the outbreak!
  
  They basically told the franchisee that they were cool with it.
  
  The owner of this franchise is a right-winger who has been fighting minimum wage raises and probably thinks those pencil-pushers at corporate can kiss his ass LOL.
- How was the Jack in the Box thing FUD?
  
  What is FUD?
  
  I just meant that it last a lot longer than the few months it was a real problem. Like, I feel like we all talked about it for years and it affected their business.
  I somehow expect that won't happen here considering how popular McD is worldwide, that's all I mean.

This is all media just dog piling on Trump.
The diseases he spreads are WAY worse than e coli.

Gloves and hot oil do not mix well. Good way to get gloves melted to your hand.
- If you get hot oil on your hand, glove or no, you're gonna have a bad time.
  
  For sure! I would rather have a burn than a burn with plastic/rubber in it, though.
  
  It's not that bad unless you get a shitload on there. It's not even as bad as cutting your finger with a knife, I'd say.

Y'all real can't help but give Trump extra publicity on his stunt, eh
- it is crazy since this was like right after saying he'd persecute his critics

Hand hygiene >>>>>>>>> than gloves when it comes to food safety. Wash your hands sufficiently and frequently.
- Isn't Trump a germaphobe?
  I just looked it up and apparently it's a lie he made up when asked whether he enjoys getting peed on.
- Yeah, he didn't do that either. I read that they asked him to and he said that his hands were nice and clean already.
- Love it when people handle money with a gloved hand. They didn't understand the concept.

I mean..... Correlation does not mean causation, but in this case, I'm not sure.

Wow, someone has actually died as a result of this McDiddles E. Coli outbreak? Imagine living your whole ass life, doing regular shit, being a regular ass person, and then dying to a mcdouble. WTF. Just another reason I rarely let other people cook my food.

Every october he dresses up and pretends he's the spookiest thing he can imagine. This year he's one of the poor ghosts that make his fries.

When he went to the bathroom earlier to do the mud pie... he must have used too small of a slice of toilet paper when he wiped, and he got mud pie on his tiny hands, and then he touched the fries, and then someone ate the fries, and now they are sick off of his mud pie.

Donny, quit scratching your diaper while serving people food! its gross.

Damn he looks old.
- He is old.

I know people love fake hygiene, but gloves are disgusting af. I worked with food for a huge part of my life and washed my hands three times before I touched the first piece and throughout the day after each time I touched something. Was it good for my hands, no. Did anyone ever get sick from my food, yes if we count the spicy challenge we did with colleagues

Isn't he cosplaying a perverted, old ghoul?
- Nah, that's just him.
  
  Well shucks. I thought that maybe some really racist people were weekend at Bernie's him. I guess he's just an asshole.

LOL I wonder how far back this goes. When I was young and immortal I ate at McDonalds a lot because it was handy, and the Quarter Pounder (aka Royale) with Cheese was my favorite thing there. After decades of avoiding it I did venture into one a couple years ago. Was a yuge McLetdown.

I just remembered this song. William Shatner at his finest https://youtu.be/ainyK6fXku0?si=j0hPFKd4QXRM9zle

He looks older than biten

It'd feel soooooo amazing to fire donny trumpet...

It's funny yeah but Trump didn't spread E. Coli to 10 states in 2 days, and the McDonalds wasn't open during their photo op.
- No, see, he's like santa. He can break the sound barrier under his own power in his goal to spread e. coli.

He only served fries. These aren't related.
- Of course it's not, and anyone thinking so is a fool, but it's funny. It's a shitposting community, the post fits the bill imo.
  
  Lol, exactly and the CDC advisory is for 10 states
- It's a shitpost
  
  * E. Coli-post
- Wooosh
- Next you're gonna tell us JD Vance didn't really have sexual relations with a couch

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