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These people don't do their own shopping. Anything they say about groceries is most likely wrong. Fucking hell Trump didn't even know the word groceries until a while back.
I mean, it was hilarious when Poppy was amazed by grocery scanners, but donnie going on about the word "groceries", sounding like an alien in a skin suit is 1000x that.
These people are so completely out of touch it’s painful.
Anybody that wants to be president should go through a mandatory 6 month immersion course where they have to live on 40k a year in middle America. Don’t even make it difficult where they’d also have to support a spouse and two kids on that income. Oh, and make them work a retail job that’s at least 30 min from home. And they have to drive a 15 year old American car as well. Heck turn it into a reality tv show. Call it something like “Really Presidential” or “The Real Candidates of DC”
I'd be down to watch this. Give RFK a 1br apartment on the sketchy side of town, an old Toyota Camry where the CEL won't turn off (but you're sure it's just an O2 sensor, ignore it for now), and a job 40 minutes away where you're pretty sure they're not gonna fire you but you're definitely not getting a pay raise any time soon. For extra fun, let's throw $40k worth of student loans on there.
I wonder how even the ones that grew up in something like this, like JD Vance, would be able to cope.
40K in middle America is probably much easier because cost of living is cheaper. I’m assuming you mean living in literally the middle of the US like Kentucky or something? Middle America is technically Mexico and Central America.
40K in NYC, SF, Chicago, etc would probably be a better learning experience than 40K in Kentucky.
That'd be the best part of this show. We've all lived on less. Let's watch them have it mediocre and absolutely struggle and drown
I was thinking somewhere like rural NC but yes middle of the US.
I honestly wish they would take Trump into a supermarket to buy stuff. Or maybe use the self-checkout. That would be some amazing comedy show.
~~"It's all computer!"~~
"Everything's computer!"
Close, it's "Everything's computer!" You can check the White House Auto Mall commercial.
Oh, right! Haha, love that.
It could only good happen
"Where's the hamberder aisle?"
Beautiful word though isn't it? Groceries. Everything that you eat
I do my own shopping and I have no idea how much things like butter or milk cost. I know they don't cost enough to affect how much I spend on food overall but how much exactly? No idea. Maybe it's 1€, maybe it's 3€ 🤷 With most things I look at the price and if it's not something crazy I buy it and forget about it.