Dom Perignon at the Old Post Office
Remember those two Michigan Republican legislators who visited Trump yesterday? One of whom sang a hymn rather than answer a reporter’s questions at the airport?
It seems they had a fun party at Trump’s hotel last night.
Also…
So, again, Trump puts money in his own pocket via government business…if it can even be called government business when the purpose of summoning the two loyalists was to steal the election. Nevertheless we know we paid for the whole thing, including their overnight in Trump’s expensive hotel.
Not that I’m accusing Jeremy Newberger of dishonesty or hyperbole but looking at those cars that has to be both9 the most affluent and most idle food line I’ve ever seen. Can’t Texans even get out of their fuel-guzzling behemoths to queue for food? And how much shorter would that queue be if the people in it were stood just two metres apart (except they wouldn’t be ‘cos Texas don’t follow no gubmint rules)?
After spending five years in Texas, I can unequivocally answer this: no. Neither can Oklahomans or Nebraskans. I make no statement on other states, though I have visited many of them, because I have no idea if what I observe there is the norm.
It might be like at the vet, where you have to wait in the car until you are called, or it might be that putting things into the car (contactless delivery) is safer than having Texans inside the food bank. I think it’s regulated and safe, not lazy. And so what if the vehicles aren’t all beaters: this pandemic is affecting all kinds of families who haven’t had to resort to food banks before.
Fair points, Maddog. My remark about the cars and affluence wasn’t so much that the cars were late models but that there were so many 15-20mpg SUVs in the lines. What I hadn’t taken into consideration is that fuel is so much cheaper in the US than in the UK. At around two dollars per gallon, it’s over five dollars cheaper than here.
I agree that what maddog is saying is probably right, but if we want to be honest, sitting in idling cars is a habit around the country, but in the midwest, it’s an inviolable right. Especially in Texas. It also shows their contempt for the wimps who believe in global warming, the idiots who eat vegetarian, and the sissy men who drive sissy compact cars and turn them off when they are in a parking lot. (Not my own estimation of those groups, you understand. I am channeling my inner Texas, which I don’t really have, but which I can fake because of years of studying them in their natural habitat.)
It’s true here too though, in oh so enlightened Seattle. I’ve been noticing it for the last couple of years especially (but I can recall telling a couple of people to turn their engines off before that). People just parked on the street playing with their phones, with the tail pipes spewing.