specifically, he said he’s making the WH look like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.
CF is maximalist decor, Hussein had gold everything. it’s a solid, though workshopped bit, and deflecting from the Saddam portion to feign outrage is kinda the only retort.
the opposite would be hilarious though. “Obama hates America, says WH is too glamourus for former ally, executed Baathist strongman.”
Honestly to me it reads like out of touch elite liberal unforced error. I agree CF is maximalist in its decor and kind of gauche, but the comment feels mean spirited in the kind of sneering contempt out of touch establishment democrats have shown towards “uneducated” Americans time and time again,especially coming from a guy whosw while brand was built around black excellence to begin with.
again: eliding the Saddam half of the bit.
the Cheeseburger at CF is $20. it ain’t the exploited masses eating there between Uber Eats deliveries. now add half a million in gold leaf covered statues to that with a 24K AK-47 on display.
there’s a reason all the clapbacks for this are coming from aged multimillionaires LARPing as the Voice of The People.
Yeah but even that is like a 20 year old bit at best, so no one cares about the Saddam joke because he’s been dead for over a decade. It would be like making jokes about Bin Laden’s hard drive, when no one who isn’t terminally online hasn’t thought about in 10 years.
And I didn’t mean that the poor and huddled masses are eating at the CF, but in my experience for people outside of large cities and in suburbia, it can even be aspirational, or thought of as a “nice treat”. So it rubs me the wrong way that this man who has a house in Martha’s vineyard, who has made no secret his love for high cuisine and all surrounding bs, and who wouldn’t miss the opportunity to “eat like the proles” for a photo shoot is shitting on what (I assume many) people think it’s a nice, unpretentious spot to go for dinner on a Saturday.
And to add to it, Obama’s whole thing has always been to draw a very clear distinction between himself and working class people of color by adopting white, upper class signifiers for him and his family (what I called black excellence). So this is a perfect opportunity to have an already hated enemy and criticizing him for his show of open disdain for anyone who isn’t as rich as him. It’s an unforced error because he didn’t have to go for a popular food chain. His speech writers (who are all as stuck up their own elitist asses as he is) must’ve workshopped this joke forever and I’m sure there are alternatives that aren’t as sneering and dripping with condescension as this one.
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Fuck, that’s actually a solid joke.
I listened to some of his speech the other day, the politics still suck ass, but he is a generational talent as a front man. Just sucks that he was/is on the wrong side.
I usually use him as an example of how powerful charismatic speech is. It’s hard to not get roused by his speaking and I gotta remind myself “Yeah this guy is an evil war criminal and is terrible”.
I gotta remind myself “Yeah this guy is an evil war criminal and is terrible”.
i remind myself how he popped out of the woodwork to make sure Bernie didn’t win.
or told the people of Flint, MI it was safe to drink the lead water
Not to overreference a certain quote that mentions Spider-Man and SpongeBob, but in Lebanon, our default “you gotta hand it to him, I don’t like everything he stands for but he sure can enchant an audience” figure was Nasrallah lmao
Doubly impressive because of the speech impediment and because I promise you those who hate him hate him more than the Americans who hate Obama hate Obama. I know that’s hard to believe for some of you.
Totally, it is cool to see the political winds blowing Obama toward speaking for El-Sayed. I have major political disagreements with El-Sayed of course, but i do like him as a person, and he is a net good in the Senate.
Once I hear him punch left or does war crimes, my opinion is gonna drop real quick. Hasn’t happened yet though.
Anyway, thats as close as he is ever gonna get to being on our side. Pretty cool to see how he works the room.
I’ve never actually eaten at one, but my perception is that they are about the worst cost/quality ratio, but because they charge so much people convince themselves it’s good/fancy. No wonder MAGA loves them
My impression based on one visit is, it’s much like Dairy Queen or Friendly’s where the savory foods are just the thing you get through so you can get one of the myriad desserts. It does present itself as being a little elevated over the other fast casual restaurants, so I could see it being the favorite of that sort of exurban chud that simultaneously thinks of themselves as salt of the earth working class and bougie entrepreneur at the same time.
Realizing I was poor growing up because we only went to Cheesecake once and I thought it was a huge deal
That was me, but with Red Lobster
the bigger the menu, the less i trust the restaurant
They’re pretty decent IMO. Better than an Applebee’s or an Olive Garden, not as good a local joint, much less a local swanky joint
Critical support to the cheesecake factory for clogging the arteries of our class enemies, I guess?
Edit: meant to reply to the thread of Bessent eating there
And being the only restaurant in the US that I’ve seen serve spumoni. Killing fascists and serving spumoni, but that’s it.
The old spaghetti factory requests your presence
Maybe that’s the one I’m thinking of. There were two factory-themed restaurants and Cheesecake Factory might have been the fancy one.
edit: wait we had two factory-themed chain restaurants in a post-industrial town where the factories leaving destroyed the local economy and both were too expensive to justify eating at.
Factories killed the food factories
Video killed the radio starUsed to have a Pizza Factory where I grew up.
we toss em
they’re awesome
PIZZA FACTORY
The only factory the US has built in the last 50 years
The point is that the political media wants to go after democrats. They desperately want to cheerlead for the nonexistent reasonable republican, and so will search high and low for anything to criticise democrats for that isn’t something they also support as right of center American exceptionalists, so that’s why all the weird cultural signifiers get blown up.
i studied cheesecake in college, got my cheesecake degree, just to get a job at the cheesecake factory and now suddenly its bad? fuck you
I was born in the Cheesecake Factory, I got married in the Cheesecake Factory, and I will die in the Cheesecake Factory.
I had a brother at Khe Sanh
Fightin’ off them Viet Cong
They’re still there, he’s all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms, nowDown in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I’m ten years burnin’ down the road
Nowhere to run, ain’t got nowhere to goBorn in the C-C-F
I was born in the C-C-F now…I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Me when I’m watering down the culture war slop into a thin gruel
Me: “P-please sir, can I have some more?” holds out slop bowl
US Politicians: “MORE?!?!”
drone strikeAs far as I’m concerned, this is original recipe culture war.
Obama being lambasted for his taste and sensibilities, rather than anything he actually did while in power? That’s my childhood. Dijon mustard and a tan suit were the beginning and end of mainstream criticism of the guy who basically served W. Bush’s third and fourth terms.
but anyway what do they serve there is it only cheescake or is it burgerland staples like hotdogs and shit?Each customer is placed at the end of a conveyor belt with their mouths open, and then cheesecake is placed on the conveyor belts by cheesecake factory workers and conveyed into their mouths.
Shit sign me up!
It’s everything. Their menu is like a book and Chef Mike works overtime. I think most people think it’s expensive but not particularly high end.
I think most people think it’s expensive but not particularly high end.
Yes it’s in the same category as Olive Garden or PF Changs. Overpriced mid food.
It’s often the most fancy-looking sit-down chain restaurant available to the average American suburbanite. It’s not fancy or expensive but I bet it’s a place that for many people you go for “special occasions”
I have never heard anyone say, “let’s go to cheesecake factory!” When an olive garden opened in my town the was a line for days. No one likes CF, here at least
Weird, where I live it seems to be the opposite now
Their claim to fame is that they serve a large variety of fresh prepared foods. So they have a diverse menu and actually do prep it and cook it fresh. It’s alledgedly not just Sysco frozen meals. That’s why “factory” is in their name. They figured out how to prep and make all this bistro food at scale. I have never eaten there so I can’t confirm the quality. I also haven’t seen if private equity owns it but if so, you can bet it’s not that fresh.
I ate at one in Mexico and was honestly surprised at the quality considering the whole vibe of the place
I ate at one once and it was just sort of ok. Like the burger was decent, better than bottom of the barrel fast food slop but worse than an actually good burger, and the desert was just standard sugary slop that’s almost impossible to fuck up.
It was overpriced even then, and I’m sure it’s even worse now.
they serve literally everything. they have a menu that’s like 50 pages thick
America has by far the most Cheescake Factories. And people dare say American industrial might is in decline.
I’m OOTL. Who said what and am I woke of I eat at cheesecake factory now?
Obama said Trump is making the WH look like a Cheesecake Factory and Republicans are now espousing their eternal love and devotion to the franchise.
This is what they meant when they said they were bringing manufacturing back to America
well good thing that place is pretty mid & easy to avoid then i guess
I wonder if Obama bought stocks in the Cheesecake Factory just before this, knowing that the CHUDs will now all flock there to “own the libs”
Never eaten there, though I plan to at some point. I have had their bread that they sell at stores and that is good though. Idk why mfs crashing out over whether or not it’s the best/worst place, it’s a mediocre dine-in establishment and they’re acting like someone insulted In-and-Out.
In-and-Out is mid
You’ll pay for this.
Alright listen here motherfucker- (/j)
Yes. But it is truly cheap, fast, and consistent.
It’s decently cheap, but its own unearned popularity undermines the “fast” part. Longest fast food line I’ve ever seen, not worth waiting through a second time to test consistency.
Reality TV country
I got a cheesecake from there once. It sucked.
Misleading post. The segment is about Obama mocking the way that Trump decorated the White House during Obama’s speech in Michigan. “There’s gold everywhere. What’s up with the gold? Everything… more gold! He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory.”
https://nitter.click/atrupar/status/2114072550426681781#m
Trump seemed very upset and went on a vaguely racist rant. Trump said that Obama needs to be taught how to be clean because people like him like to live in filth. “Guy likes Obama don’t see it. He doesn’t see dirt. He doesn’t see filth.”
