The $60 billion that the Republicans wanted to cut from spending (simple cuts, not “reductions in rates”) was to the Federal Budget what 1/2 of a French Fry would be to a Big Mac Value Meal (medium size). That’s right, 1/2 of a fry. So why did the Dems manage to get the Republicans to cut that down to $38 billion? Do you realize what that amounts to in the same Value Meal? 1/4 of a French Fry. That’s the equivalent amount of calories in the Big Mac Value Meal that the $38 billion represents in terms of government spending. Think about that the next time you get a Value Meal (of any kind) at the fast food drive-thru.
This is the manifesto that will take down the Republican Party. Finally somebody puts it in terms we’re all familiar with. [Team Sarah]
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Which I estimate to be at least three or four times a day.
They're fat.
I have some new relatives my family married into that are so fat they only go out to drive though at night and order like 100 dollars worth of food and live off that for a week. Don't worry they are all on social security in their 30's, they are being kept away from mainstream society so far. Although austerity measures in the future might put them to work as ballast in industrial elevators or something else they are suited for.
The marriage ceremony was outside in the sun and even 2 rows away I could smell their fat rolls cooking under their tent-sized golf shirts. When the men left to go outside to look through a telescope the groom received for a gift there was 20 trays of appetizers left, when we came in because it got cold there was 5, all vegetable based. They cleared like 5 lbs of deli meat each, lol..
And it will take them two full days to really get the analogy.
I thought Sarah told us that if we bought food off the value menu everything would be just fine. I going to hide under my bed now.
I didn't think they had the McNuggets to pull it off. Oh well, we should all be employed by tomorrow, at the latest.
It is amazing that one is not a McMicrophalus.
I figured Teabaggers would get mad about the analogy because they lost 1/4 of a French Fry.
You know they'd notice if even one damn fry was gone. WHERE IS MY FRY!!!
Yep…sounds about right…it would piss them off even more if say that 1/4 fry was one of a hundred…and a starving, homeless person was going to get it. Shit, if that ever happened…IT'S PROTESTIN' TIME! WHA'S MY NOBAMA SIGN?!?! THAYTS SOCIALMALISM!
And corporations are the Hamburglar, taking food you paid for out of your child's mouth.
"That's a big twinkie."
"Let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of innumeracy of an average teabagger."
Needs more Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stay_Puft_Marshmallo...
Mr Staypuft is our debt. It all makes sense when you think about it. Soros is Gozer the Gozerian and Breitbart, Beck, and Bachmann are the Ghostbusters come to save us all from the crushing debt.
At last our childrens is learnin'.
P.S. You know who else Always Had a Great Relationship With the Blacks’?
That's right…
~
Reginald Denny?
Should probably click the link.
Simon Legree?
rad.
Thomas Jefferson?
Strom Thurmond
Clarence Thomas?
Ma'a Nonu?
Gene Wilder?
If you don't know what a medium sized Big Mac Value Meal consists of then you are an Islamic terrorists, a Kenyan or simply opposed to real USA Amerikkkans.
I fit in -I am a vegetarian(very similar to A Kenyan or Socialist) So I am not sure of what a BIg Mac is(I think I knew at one time- something with so-called hamburger meat- but Big-right?) But how do you get a medium sized BIG Mac- are there small, medium and large Big Macs? Or does this refer to the Value meal(big,medium and small value meals?)? This is confusing to me but probably the only thing teabaggers understand that I do not.
The Value Meal used to be sandwich, large fry, large drink. Recently — maybe as far back as six, seven years ago — it changed to sandwich, large fry, medium drink (though you can supersize the drink back to large). It's offered at Mc Donald's, like a combination platter at other restaurants.
Especially "medium size?" Seriously, what does that even MEAN? We don't live in a medium country. We live in an exceptional country. And the only exceptional value meal there is is the extra large, super size value meal.
"Welcome to Carl's Jr. Would you like to try our EXTRA BIG ASS TACO? Now with more MOLECULES!"
Internet history, folks!!! This is the first time "I can has cheezburger" was thought to have been spelled correctly.
Folks, elections are like Shamrock Shakes. They only come around once every so often. So you've got squeeze every drop of minty hydrogenated goodness out of that Shamrock Shake that you can get, 'cause you never know when you'll be able to get the next one. And Rand Paul, why, he's like a delicious Little Ceasar's, you know, Pizza Pizza, 'cause there's him and his dad, just like when I get two pizzas at the Travel Centers of America in Amarillo.
So this explains why I poop green after an election.
When I was a kid, I FUCKING LOVED Shamrock Shakes. I lived for that shit.
(no point to my observation – just awash in happy memories at the moment)
my mom used to put green food color in milk.
that was weird.
Good one!
Further off-topic story: My mom is the queen of milkshakes. (I say that without snark and without any relation to "milkshakes, boys and yards".) Her sweet tooth in general is legendary, and milkshakes are pretty much her favorite of all the tasty treats. She's actually said, "When there's no ice cream in the house, there's no food." (She's tiny, btw. Sadly, I'm not, as half my genes are from my un-tiny dad, but I love sweets almost as much as my mom.)
So my mom would make homemade "shamrock" shakes too – mint chocolate chip ice cream FTW. Despite that, McDonald's Shamrock Shakes were still an elusive and gourmet delight – unmatched levels of hydrogenation and corn syrupitude.
Family legend has it that my Grandpa dyed the chickens' feed green for St. Patrick's Day, making the yolks green.
He was Scottish, and had an irrational hatred of the Irish (among others).
Mom says the eggs were gross!
As dumb as this is, it's way better than the millions-of-dollars to years-since-Jesus's-time ratio that was floating around the internet a couple of year ago.
At least they didn't touch any of the Military-Industrial Freedom Fighting Fries.
Ach, du lieberIke delivers?They fucking hate DDE. He is to the left of Obama.
The last reasonable Repub?
In some policy areas Nixon was to the left of Obama.
Some? Which ones did you have in mind? The war? State secrets? Motherfucking health care? No, really, I'm struggling to come up with the policy where Obama's to the left of Nixon, though I will grant that he has none of Nixon's profound, constant racism.
Okay, I'm done channeling Ken here, sorry about that outburst, but seriously, kind of a disappointment.
"In new a campaign pitch, President Obama unveiled a plan to buy $100 billion worth of big macs for tea baggers if they vote for him"
i'm imagining big macs being air dropped into a tea party protest and the inevitable orgy that would ensue. "hamburgers" gumming up the works in their hover rounds.
Wait, so when we are discussing gov't spending should we think about Value Meals, or when we are eating Value Meals should we think about gov't spending?
So confused.
Yes
French fries (FF) seems a little vague, given their non-uniform dimensions. Maybe we should convert these into more standard bagger units:
1/10 FF = 1 Lipton Tea Bag
1 FF = 1 Yellow Ribbon Magnet
10 FF = 1 Flag Pin
100 FF = 1 Bumpit
1,000 FF = 1 Eagle Tear
I dunno… that looks suspiciously metric. There need to be a few 3s, 16s, and 5280s in there.
How many FFs for a pair of Trucknutz?
I would guess 2.
The most frightening part of this is the use of a mcdonalds big mac(medium) meal as a measure of precision…….as opposed to say, a Burger King double Whopper with cheese (large), or an applbee's Riblet Meal with a side of cole slaw…….When the fatty scooter community has to do math, they have to do it in terms of food so that they all understand it.
And now I am hungry. Fuckers.
Wow, comparing it to Macdonalds somehow manages to be even more obtuse than comparing it to a single-income family's annual household income as though the government and a single-income family are totally the same thing with the same priorities.
And, of course, the more we let people make these asinine comparisons, the more the fact that a lot of the things we cut are things that actually save us a great deal more money than their cost in the near and long term (like, say, IRS enforcement) and thus things that will actually make the deficit worse to cut, will get lost in the shuffle.
However, it *is* really fun whenever a wingnut uses that comparison and then hyperventalates about what a terrible idea it is to run up debt that's more than half your income, on an annual basis, for several years in a row, and to be able to succinctly respond with, "college".
A half of a french fry's worth of salt and fat is no where near enough to carry you through . Keep stuffing it in and store some in your cheeks for later incase we get a flat tire and can't hit the drive-thru for an hour or so. And take that fry from that old guy in the wheel chair too. He doesn't need it… I DO GIMME GIMME GIMME!!
"Keep stuffing it in and store some in your rolls for later in case we get a flat tire and can't hit the drive-thru for an hour or so."
better?
They get all soggy there… but I guess the "frummudah" cheese does add nice finish.
Sarah's pronouncements ARE like McDonalds for the mind: empty calories that give you the shits.
Mayor McCheese = RINO!
Grimace = Teabagger
Lies. Grimace would never use a fatty scooter.
The last time McDonalds tried to cut costs by moving the Coke fountain back behind the counter and not offering free refills anymore, a chorus of scooter-bound whales grunted "Death Panels" until they put it back.
The problem with the analogy is: Name the 'bagger that only orders one meal at a time.
OT & /snark off
Rick Anderson from the Seattle Weekly has an excellent piece on
the Army'sour failure to recognize and attend to the emotional scars that all to often result when we send our men and women into harm's way. It is rather long and I would suggest something to read after work with perhaps some bandy and a hankie handy.I apologize for it being out of the usual Wonkette postings as it is really not snarkworthy but I do think it is well written. In our budget cutting, it would be great to cut back on our war making, but in that process we need to make sure we tend to all the wounds those in the armed forces incur – and that includes emotional wounds as well as physical.
thanks…/snark on (later)
The healthcare costs of the physical and emotional scars of veterans are actually the most expensive cost of war. Of course, war mongers never factor that in when waving the war flag.
i am very sorry about all this but it's not the government's responsibility and we have to cut taxes.
Just as they champion fetuses and them dump them like a rancid turd as soon as they're born, the baggers and their ilk wave their flags and sport their yellow ribbons magnets until the soldiers come home. Then they're really fucked.
We had a spectacularly ugly case here in New Orleans. Post-Katrina, and to this day still, mental health beds were nearly impossible to find. A former Marine killed and chopped up his girlfriend, leaving her head in a pot in the stove, and then jumped off an eight story parking garage.
So, is the ketchup the blood they use to water the tree of liberty?
No, but the good news is, ketchup is officially a vegetable.
I think the tree of liberty is the urinal in the back.
Don't the teabaggers know that french fries are unamerican?
They're called Freedom Fries!
Somehow Wal*mart needs to be brought into this comparison to really make it sink in.
It's like Teabaggers all know the Micky D's menu so well as if they all work there…
they are accepting applications.
4.19.2011 — never forget!
WORK THERE???? I doubt that. Eat there on disability and social security checks maybe
Yukon Gold.
$38 billion off the budget and all i got was this lousy 1/2 french fry.
Must be a Pentagon french fry.
freedom fry plz
How'd you get a half? I thought it was only 1/4!
Half of the French Fry is what the Republicans wanted to steal from the poor 'bagger. I can see the tears running down their face as they read the analogy.
but there's no "Don't Tread on Me" flag.
Under the back fat, along with his 9/11NevarForgitWeepingEagle™ sign.
You mean like the tramp stamp BobSalem has?
So, keeping with the analogy, Mayor McCheese is a Socialist, born in Kenya, who wants to take away our liberties and tax us for the building of a greater Islamic/Communist World Order?
Which would make the Grimace the IMF? And Big Mac would be UN Peace Keeping forces?
Aren't you forgetting the big guy? Where does Ronald fit into all this?
George Soros, obviously.
Who thought up that toy? He looks like Grimace the Hut.
Good job Trig! You were able to develop a somewhat coherent analysis, albeit it's not linked to a more plausible metric such as the annual impact to a family of 4 with a combined income of $80K. It's nice to see you help your special needs Mom in running her mouth.
Clearly, that guy's teachers were allowed to teach him creationism. And only creationism.
Unfortunately she loses her audience when they realize she's metaphorically asking them to eat less McDonalds.
Hell, she is telling them that the Republicans want to take more of one of their precious French Fries.
Two all beef paties,
Special sause,
Letuce, cheese,
No abortions
And no help for the poor.
Is that 1/4 of a French Fry to which they refer relative to a regular size value meal, or one that's been super-sized? It's important, because a lot of time that little quarter-fry is all dark and burnt and ends up stuck down in the gap caused by the folds of the cardboard fry container, and it's really not worth shredding that container to get that last quarter fry if you've already eaten the equivalent of four potatoes worth of French Fries, but maybe is worth it if you only got the normal size and you're still hungry.
Actually, according to the CBO, the budget cuts are more like getting a small fry added to your bag, even though you didn't order it.
I had fries with my sandwich yesterday at lunch. It wasn't at McDonald's. It was at one of them sit down sort of mom and pop places. But the thing is, I could have spent an additional 89 cents and got onion rings instead of the fries. Except, I'm so price conscious because we have such huge deficits that I didn't. But when it was all over, I wished that I ordered the onion rings.
Does that make me a big tax and spend Democrat, or am I more of a fiscally responsible Republican?
It makes you a target for Michelle Obama's Nutrition Brownshirts.
Unless you use the Hungry Girl recipe which involves crushing fiber one cereal for the coating , using egg substitute for dipping and baking them in the oven on a pan lightly sprayed with non-stick spray(1 cal, per spray)
"intercepted by a war lord"
"This cigar, aid to Israel, from U.S. Aid, intercepted by… whore-lady".
because a simple pie chart couldn't help?
Mmm, pie.
Yeah. Too distracting. (And hot.)
socialized obesity !
The Downfister is apparently upset that we are making fun of his McDonald's meal. I can see him now, jacking to the thought of all those calories and hot hydrolyzed fat, and being upset that the Republicans want to get between him and his fries.
exactly how much of three ketchups is this?
100% of your recommended daily servings of vegetables.
McDonald's is only popular with students and homeless people in PDX, with all the food carts but there are carts that cater to fatties like Big Ass which serves the Gut Bomb and sometimes the deep-fried Gut Bomb which is easily 1000+ calories.
http://www.foodcartsportland.com/2009/12/29/big-a...
Times are tough; we've all got to tighten our belts. So to speak.
Yeah, think about that next time you're at the drive-thru! Certainly don't think about how working at MacDonald's is about the only job that will be left soon due to lack of economic stimulus, or how bumpy the roads are due to right-wing spending priorities neglecting basic infrastructure.
A McD's manifesto? doesn't manifesto sound too urban?
The amount of barf in my mouth at the moment is equivalent to
3 Supersized rat-enhanced Big Mac meals.
Another way of looking at it is, the Republicans only wanted you to lop off your pinky finger to the second knuckle, while the Democrats bravely convinced them to only make you lop it off to the third knuckle. But how much of your arm is either of those? Just lop off your damned hand. Only commies need two of them.
I prefer overly simplified analogies to be explained to me in terms of poop.
But then, who doesn't?
This makes way more sense than that "pie" bullshit they used to peddle.
I can't believe I just did the sums, but based on a federal budget of $3.82 trillion, the "nutrition" information from the McDonald's website, and the analysis being touted by Team Sarah, I think John Q Teabagger is only getting 12.5 fries in his medium-sized Big Mac Value Meal. Surely that provides greater grounds for complaint that anything Barry O could do?
And yet — at the same time — the Congressional Budget Office comes out today with this: "Anyone remember when the Republicans were lying about things like Planned Parenthood as part of the process to negotiate huge cuts in order to stop a government shutdown, and thus they said around $38 billion was cut? It's likely closer to around $351 million. Hope no one notices that the Democrats reprised their role as pussies and Republicans the same old lying cocksuckers."
Meanwhile, Team Sarah is trying to impress us by being the average American uninformed dumbass.
Sounds to me like McDonald's is some kinda SOCIALIST company we ought to burn down! I say we all go thru their driveway and shout "YOUR FRENCH FRIES AREN'T DOING ENOUGH FOR THIS COUNTRY!" and then go to Five Guys or someplace else.
They fear a renewed Potato Blight as much as, if not moreso than, Kevin Drum fears Peak Oil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Gorske
6'2", 185 lbs — prolly thinner than a fair number of Wonketteers.
Just remember: flush twice, it's prolly a long way to the nearest McDonalds.
Grimace is our new Uncle Sam!
Ronald McDonald is our new Ronald Reagan!
Hamburgler is our new Tom DeLay!
Mayor McCheese is our new Justice Scalia!
Environmental issues (EPA, Clean Water, Clean Air). Arguably the Economy (Regulation, economic intervention).
More the nature of the times, but technically, probably true.
Can we get David Frost to interview Obama?
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