Further evidence that Donald Trump is batshit crazy

 

Washington Post, 10/14/2021

“It was all phony s---, okay. All phony stuff,” he said of the Democratic impeachment efforts and the investigation of his ties to Russia. 

Unprompted, he brought up an unsubstantiated claim he had interactions with prostitutes in Moscow before he ran for president. 

“I’m not into golden showers,” he told the crowd. “You know the great thing, our great first lady — ‘That one,’ she said, ‘I don’t believe that one.’ ” 

After extensively praising Chinese President Xi Jinping for his intellect and touting his good relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he also returned to his long-standing hatred of windmills, referencing a new plan by the Biden administration to expand the number of offshore wind turbines.  [highlights added]

Remembering McPizza

 

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Business Insider, 11/28/2020

The pizza became a part of a wider effort from the chain to win over customers around dinnertime in the early '90s. McDonald's also tested items including "grilled cod served on french bread with sauce, lettuce and tomato, and 'Chicken Zestado,' a grilled chicken breast served on pita bread with salsa," the Associated Press reported in 1991. Unfortunately, the McPizza — like most of McDonald's other attempts to expand outside of burger and fries — did not really succeed. By the end of the '90s, nearly every McDonald's in America had removed pizza from the menu.

Retiring Guy, before he was Retiring Guy, offers his thoughts on McDonald's pizza

Las Vegas.  Saturday, May 5, 1990

McDonald's is now offering pizza, a product which may still be in the testing stage. Whatever the case, I think they’ve made a marketing blunder by only offering whole pies instead of pizza by the slice. My feeling is that they shouldn't be going one-on-one against Pizza Hut. They need to use a Rocky Rococo approach. An odd strategy, but if anyone has the money to back it up, McDonald's is the muscle company.

 

GET ME REWRITE: John Deere workers react to obscene levels of CEO pay and corporate profits

 

Headliines from top to bottom:

• Exec Pay
• World Socialist Web Site
• Des Moines Register

Excerpt from the Register:

The contract that members rejected Sunday would have increased wages by 5% or 6%, compared to what the workers made earlier this year. Deere promised 3% pay bumps in 2023 and 2025, as well as higher monthly payments for retired workers on the company's pension plan. But the company would have ended the pension plan for new employees hired after Nov. 1.  [emphasis added]