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Robert's avatar

Wow! Let's just say that if I were Trump, I wouldn't let him cook for me!

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John Leake's avatar

Very good one.

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Lisa@eatrealfood's avatar

Drowning is a side effect of cooking for obad ma’s?

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CB's avatar
May 2Edited

My thoughts exactly. This chef needs to find work at Obummer's Long Island beachfront mansion (quick, before the oceans rise) and take up paddleboarding as a hobby.

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suannee's avatar

Yes

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Paul's avatar

Obama cook dead

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Taming the Wolf Institute's avatar

"The U.S. and British governments and their intelligence agencies are simply a bad joke." And nobody is laughing. What was the line from the BeeGees song?

"I started a joke

Which started the whole world crying

But I didn't see

That the joke was on me, oh no..."

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sifubernie's avatar

culinary course at harvard? what a joke. Speak volumes about modern academia...

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Honeybee's avatar

I think the point here reveals how divided our society has become.

Andrés supposedly withdrew from a planned restaurant in the proposed Trump Washington, D.C. hotel in 2015 which led to each suing the other. The reason on Andrés' part was ostensibly that Trump said "Mexico wasn't sending its finest," when Mexican criminals and violent offenders became noticeably present in the U.S., to which Andrés took exception.

Well...the truth of the matter is Mexico hasn't and isn't sending their best. In fact, Mexico dumps sewage within our boundaries and steals water from Texas. Mexico is not a very nice neighbor with their cartels shooting American ranchers within our borders and express mailing their fentanyl to American citizens. Moreover, Mexico continued their bad neighbor policies by assisting the hordes of illegal immigrants who arrived under Biden's auspices giving them printed directions, food, and transportation assistance from southern Mexico up to the U.S. border.

The fact of the matter, although a world-renown chef and certainly an individual to be congratulated on his humanitarian efforts via World Central Kitchen, I wouldn't eat in his restaurants even if comped. In my eyes, he isn't a restauranteur; he's a politician. Liberal progressives have a nasty habit of spewing their political opinions like so much diarrhea of the mouth when, in truth, we just wish they'd STFU.

If Mexico is such a great country, let their citizens stay there. Develop their own industries. Develop their own businesses. They can't because of corruption? Because of violence? Then pursue the cartels instead of lying in bed with them. Mexico criticizes the U.S. continually, but evidently huge numbers of their own citizens don't want to live there.

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Patricia Flynn's avatar

Hear! Hear! 👍

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AG Fairfield's avatar

class offerings like “culinary physics” really do make it seem as though this institution is “a hedge fund that offers courses” as one podcaster has suggested

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Great post, Me. Leake.

I wonder what *is* the actual criteria for being presented with the Presidential Medal of Honor? Frankly, over the past few years I’ve formed an opinion about *all* medals and awards. They seem to simply be a popularity contest, and a farce.

These few photos of this chef say it all for me.

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suannee's avatar

There was a meme with Obama draping the Presidential Medal of Honor over the necks of the honorees. It was titled "the release of the Epstein list photos".

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Chris Gorman's avatar

Andres is a cause celebre exactly because he sticks his fist in the air for the supposedly oppressed masses while hobnobbing with the great and the good. He has done some truly inspiring things to help ravaged people in places like Haiti, but his room temperature geopolitical IQ aligns beautifully with the progressive chattering class.

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Lisa@eatrealfood's avatar

The articles seems to imply that this chef may serve an intelligence role?

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Stuffysays's avatar

"Spanish chef doesn't like Donald Trump". That's the obvious explanation! The (un)liberal elite suffer so much from Trump Derangement Syndrome that anyone at all who dislikes Trump is worthy of adulation.

As for the US and British govts and spooks - well, Graham Greene was spot on. They are all completely useless and completely dangerous. I always liked the stories of the CIA failing to kill Fidel Castro in interesting ways. Or MI6 having little cameras hidden in fake rocks outside presumed important buildings in Moscow which everyone could see. Do you know Mr Bean? Or Inspector Clouseau? Ian Fleming based James Bond on competent naval officers. Just like Hornblower, Jack Aubrey and Captain Kirk were based on Cochrane. Competent men doing real work. Now they are all characters played by Steve Carell or Rowan Aitkinson.

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Rascal Nick Of's avatar

Wasnt Julia Child or some other famous chef like her working for intelligence agencies? That might have actually been important work. Now it just seems like celebrities and intelligence agencies are basically working together.

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William Whitten's avatar

Marie L. Yovanovitch, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Term of Appointment: 08/2016 to present

Ryan Wesley Routh Armed with a Soviet-designed rifle between two bags packed with bulletproof plates, prosecutors say Routh had a clear shot of the 6th hole green when Trump was golfing that Sunday afternoon.

Ryan Wesley Routh was fixated on Ukraine, sources say

Ryan Routh sought 'anti-aircraft weapon' to use in Trump assassination, DOJ claims

“Send me an rpg [rocket propelled grenade] or stinger and I will see that we can do,” Routh allegedly texted an individual he believed to be a Ukrainian arms dealer. “[Trump] is not good for Ukraine.”

“I need equipment so that Trump cannot get elected,” Routh allegedly added. Federal prosecutors revealed that Ryan Routh, the accused would-be assassin of President Donald Trump, sought to obtain military-grade weapons – including a rocket launcher – from a Ukrainian contact as part of his alleged assassinatUS Ambassador to Ukraine: Possible Involvement in Trump Assassination Attemptsion plot. Routh told his associate to "send me a rpg [rocket-propelled grenade] or stinger, and I will see what we can do… [Trump] is not good for Ukraine," Was this Ukrainian contact someone from the US embassy in Ukraine? Marie L. Yovanovitch, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine is a signatory to “The Assault on American Democracy: A Call to Action”.

See: Former US ambassadors to Bulgaria among signatories of ‘Assault on American Democracy: Call to Action’ letter.

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Mike Bond's avatar

While studying at The Hague one summer, I came back to the dorm and found the Peruvian beauty Lola entertaining a bunch of Spaniards in the kitchen. They invited me in to share their chorizo and Spanish whiskey. After a few pulls, one of the gents asked my what I thought of Bush. This was the summer of our invasion of Iraq to topple Hussein. Looking around at this crew of half drunk Spaniards, I said, Bush is an idiot. That drew a round of laughter and an offer of several more pulls on the whiskey. Thinking the coast was clear, I added, but he is my idiot. And more whiskey came.

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Phil Davis's avatar

Your post today pretty much sums up governments. They may all start as logical systems but eventually become insane asylums. Damn, you're well-read.

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David Kukkee's avatar

Which part of the alphabet does this man represent is my question. A really good chef keeps his sauces confined to their appropriate sauce pans. As for the inordinate outbursts, I would surmise a sudden and violent resentment of maintaining a facade for too long. He's an alphabet. Nice CIA field vest in three of four photos. Spook.

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Just a Bloke's avatar

Sometime around 1990 the political axis of "the West" inverted. Left became ardent forever-war mongers and Right became anti-establishment peaceniks. I guess it was around this time that the Left had established total control of the civil services, universities and "the Establishment" of "the Free world":

In power, The Left is utterly conservative, like Xi and the Soviet Politburo.

Like the World, politics is a globe, slowly rotating around an axis of Free vs Control, Peace vs War - let's see if we Right Wing Anti War, Anti-Establishment, Freedom-loving Revolutionaries can overthrow the Left.

A start would be The Obamas (Barry and Mike) in orange jump suits, with a full report on his SSN, and his Rise Without Trace.

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Snork's avatar

Bizzare, to say the least!

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Deep Dive's avatar

It is funny how these guys sometimes come out of the woodwork, (or should I say wetwork?). I loved the Gong Show as a kid, and Chuck Barris was a real hoot. Then things got weird, and I started questioning the first impressions from prominent people.

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