"The president wasn't even mad about the Saddam Hussein comparison! But he was very upset about the Cheesecake Factory" -- here's Obama's full riff about the "phony outrage" over his Trump/Cheesecake Factory comments and how it illustrates that "these are not serious people"
Oct 29, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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Last week, a joke familiar from X circulated on rival platform Bluesky: “(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??” It was obviously a jab at the moral intensity that now seems to define the site, and indeed much of the rest of the social media landscape. On most platforms such a [...]Read More...
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Bit of a strange, rambling thing. They all agreed, but they didn't agree? Their group is poorly structured, but it's unclear if the person who didn't post on Twitter and then deleted the apologies in general has changed their mind or been removed. It's just not a great explanation in general.
BARQ!
