Anti-abortion groups and individuals are gathering in Washington, D.C. today to participate in the March for Life — a series of events protesting Roe v. Wade.
A diver in California has stumbled on an unexpected source of plastic waste in the ocean: golf balls.
As the balls degrade, they can emit toxic chemicals. And there appear to be lots of them in certain places underwater — right next to coastal golf courses.
Two years ago, a 16-year old diver named Alex Weber was swimming off Pebble Beach along the Pacific near Carmel, Calif. “My dad raised me underwater,” says Weber, and she means it. She’s a free diver: no scuba tanks; she just holds her breath. She was diving in a small cove and looked down and saw something weird. “You couldn’t see the sand,” she recalls, still sounding incredulous. “It was completely white.”
White with golf balls. “You looked down and you’re like, ‘What are you doing here?’”
There were thousands of them. “It felt like a shot to the heart,” she says.
So my first thought upon seeing these is “Why, then, do they not eat cake?”
And then I learned the actual story behind these photos: Clemson University’s football team (the Tigers) held their national championship celebration (15-0 win this season) at the White House last night (2019/01/14), but because much of the residence staff at the White House is furloughed, Trump personally payed for the event to be catered with food from Burger King, McDonald’s, and Wendy’s. [source] [source]
McD’s sauces in gravy boat
Fries served in paper cups with the PotUS seal on them.
The combination of wealth and cheapness here is extraordinary.
POTUS has to cater a meal to honour guests, and offers to pay for it out of his own pocket (because of the shutdown he engineered) and then goes for the cheapest possible option.
Hell if he’d volunteered to organise a barbecue I’d have been ore impressed, but no… fast food?
My mind feels like it’s trying to change three different gears without a clutch.
Part of Trump’s obsession with fast food is apparently he’s a major germaphobe and considers prepackaged and fast foods to be more hygienic than anything else. That might also be why he eats his steaks so cooked to death.
apparently the players thought it was a joke and were… less that excited about eating junk food (they’re serious athletes)
Guys have a year round special athletics dining hall with their own nutritionist, and they go to the WHITE HOUSE and get served lukewarm congealed fast food
You know what McDonald’s fries are like when they’re left to sit out? Now picture a whole meal of that. From THE WHITE HOUSE.
It’s truly remarkable what a failure this man is on every level.
also, like: the juxtaposition of fast food on these silver platters surrounded by gold candelabras is just the clearest image of this administration we’ll likely ever get
Let’s also not forget that, in blatant violation of the emoluments clause, he has a restaurant branded with his name very, very close to the White House. He could very easily have arranged for that food- which, while reviews say is not good, at least isn’t fast food. And it would have cost him a fraction of what normal people are charged, because he wouldn’t have to pay the mark-up.
He likes the optics of this. He thought very seriously and decided that this was the best way to present things, either as a “fuck you” (to Dems “causing” the shutdown? To football players who remind him of the professionals who exercise their free speech rights with kneeling?) or because he genuinely think this makes him look good.
He’s a shitty person who’s also very bad at this.
Bold of you to assume Trump paid for any of it when his whole thing is getting other people to pay for it after promising to pay you back and then not doing that either.
Also Quavo’s throwing them a real party so let’s get ready for those pictures.
My mother and I were talking about this at lunch, and she said “Like, I LIKE fast food, and if I was served it at the White House? Which has a chef ON STAFF? I’d be going ‘haha funny but for real where the fuck is the real food, I came here to eat some lavish dishes with French names.”
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