• WesternInfidels@feddit.online
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      21 hours ago

      I’m sort of torn:

      Is Whitaker just pandering to the reliably-votes-R base? Is this, the world-famous Buc-ee’s and Chick-Fil-A freedom, really going to impress them as a sacred principle that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the Bill of Rights? Maybe!

      Or is Whitaker pandering to the king, signaling that he (Whitaker) has just as much contempt for the peasants as anyone? “Look at the amazing slop you’ve inspired, sir, look at the peasants gobbling it up, sir,” he says, with a tear in his eye.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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        19 hours ago

        I honestly have no idea.

        Whitaker may just be one of those idiotic types that speak in utter platitudes and might have well just blurted out “Freedom Constitution Eagle, Trump is King, take that libs!” and that’d be sufficient to be in this administration and a “pundit” on Faux News.

        As someone else pointed out who just came back from a walkable area (in the EU) with access to lots of fresh food and no fast food in sight, what Whitaker was describing sounded like Hell on Earth. Stuck in traffic, eating a gas station sandwich in your car, while you are on the phone?

        WTAF.