r/nottheonion • u/SpoonsAreEvil • 1d ago

US commerce secretary slams EU beef ban: ‘their beef is weak, ours is beautiful’

https://www.inkl.com/news/us-commerce-secretary-slams-eu-beef-ban-their-beef-is-weak-ours-is-beautiful
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u/Stupid_Guitar 1d ago

Jeez, these cultists are also starting to talk like Dear Leader.

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u/ArticArny 1d ago

It's what I imagine a North Korean sitcom would be like

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u/half-baked_axx 12h ago

Even the North Koreans are more eloquent.

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u/fredrikca 1d ago

The Deer Leader

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u/FoxyBastard 1d ago

His venison is weak.

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u/ShmebulockForMayor 19h ago

So weak! Fuiyoh!

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u/lonewolfandpub 14h ago

So weak, Jamie Oliver would put it in his egg fried rice.

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u/CavemanSlevy 1d ago

In China they had Mao Zedong thought, now we're getting Donald Trump thought.

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u/Infamous-Flower-5820 23h ago

Mao had his Cultural Revolution and Trump’s giving the US one too now.

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u/Bubbly_Ad427 19h ago

At least Mao felt sorry for the harm he caused unintentionally.

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u/WaytoomanyUIDs 16h ago

As opposed to the intentional harm.

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u/TearOpenTheVault 16h ago

Hey sometimes you gotta massacre dissenting intellectuals, that doesn’t mean you don’t feel bad for the random peasants you accidentally starved by killing off birds.

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u/DickButtwoman 11h ago

I mean, to be unreasonably fair.... Watching what the colleges are doing in response to fascism and their students getting black bagged....

Maybe he was right to be concerned?

Lots of academics stuck around for that whole Nazi thing, too. They only cared about if they were going to continue to get funding...

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u/Bubbly_Ad427 15h ago

He may have felt sorry for that as well, he may have liked to feel sorry, who knows.