of all the things that never happened, this is the thing that never happened the most
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Your Canadian Girlfriend · 82 · 3h agoif only the government hadn't sent out those giant food pyramid posters of all the health foods we should be eating to classrooms since the '70s... or run PSAs about eating vegetables and fruits...
Brick layer? Or just guy who often gets hit in the head with bricks. These people are pathetic.
Friskiedgrrl 🏳️🌈 💙🍁 🌊🇨🇦 🇺🇦 · 3 · 2h agoOr listened to Michelle Obama when she was saying to eat better food.
Dave Conrad · 2 · 2h agoYeah, and now RFK Jr. has a new poster
Jane loves rain (and also Bluesky, ironically) · 19 · 3h agoSince the 60’s actually. At least.
Your Canadian Girlfriend · 8 · 3h agojust remember them from when I was in school.
Jane loves rain (and also Bluesky, ironically) · 15 · 2h agoMe too—3rd grade, 1961. I’m that old.
"Why can't the government just tell me what to do?" is definitely something he heard a person that doesn't trust the government's advice on vaccines say.
But imaginary food is much lower in calories.
Pave the vegetable garden, that will help.
Why are they feeding us Bullshit if they want us to have better diets?
Let me guess, was this bricklayer also a white guy. You know, the kind of salt of the earth guy who chats up moms at the airport about how much he'd like the government to tell him what to eat
Of course. And he listens to Luke Combs and watches NASCAR. And his favorite song is God bless the USA and he's from a small hometown. And he likes cold lite beer. And...
With tears in his eyes
...saying, "Sir."
He said sir, sir...
Totally eats at diners in Ohio with unemployed steelworkers, and is always ready with some folksy wisdom for a CNN newsteam, or the New York Times.
Oh, yes! He totally goes along with whatever the government tells him to do. /s
I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me at the airport.
He just wanders from table to table with his soda can and bag or chips harassing mothers with children.
Now I just call security
Bricklayer, soon to be Yoga instructor
They all lie.
It’s so exhausting.
The disdain these people have for those of us trying to navigate a crazy food pyramid, gastrointestinal parasites, increased use of pesticides and herbicides all while trying to keep within our household budget. This guy obviously has someone that tells him how to eat, how hard could it be?
As someone who grew up the son of a masonry contractor and spent years laying brick and block while building schools and baseball stadiums, I can safely say this is bullshit. I don't know any 60-year-old bricklayers, they all died of lung cancer or heart attacks well before they reached 60.
My bricklayer and stonemason uncle lived into his 90s. It must have been the alcohol.
Remember the outrage when Michelle Obama talked about healthy eating? I do.
The little girl couldn't take another minute of this bs.
Did the imaginary bricklayer have tears in his eyes?
From the smell of the bullshit
😂😂😂😂
I can't count how many fake steaks I've eaten in my life.
Remember the fall out when Michelle Obama built a vegetable garden with her own money?
The conservative outrage over government suggesting a healthier diet.
I do.
Maybe he should have read a book or something a half a century ago.
And then the virile, very muscular bricklayer went to President Trump and with tears in his eyes said;
"Thank you sir for making my life better. My wife has started following RFK Jr.'s advice and she's a lot less bitchy. She has long covid and has very little energy to nag. Thank you sir."
Yes an airport where there is an abundance of affordable "real food."
LOL—The first food pyramid was created in the 1970s by the Swedes and the US version in the early 90s. They’ve been telling that gentleman in his mid-60s his entire adult life what was healthiest to eat. 🥦🥑🍓🍗
Eat Ivermectin!
I hate to appear uninformed. Who is this person?
The quote; “The government should tell me what to eat” along with the sign behind him giving me They Live vibes
What happened to the freedom to eat whatever we want? Eating healthy isn't rocket science.
Whether it happened or not, I understand the sentiment. In my lifetime, the guidance has changed from eggs are good to eggs are bad to this part of the egg is good, that part is bad. Fat was bad, then it was just saturated and transsaturated fat. Make sure you get those good fats and cut carbs. 1/4
Switch from butter to margarine back to butter. Olestra was a thing for a hot minute.
Juice was a healthy alternative to soda, but there's so much sugar in it that it's basically a wash. And sugar substitutes? That's its own history. 2/4
It would be great if someone could just tell us what to eat. But it's not that simple. Different people have different requirements at different stages of their lives. You have to factor in cost, availability, and what people will actually eat. Science evolves. This stuff is complex. 3/4
As soon as a new recommendation is made, companies race to meet that recommendation as cheaply as possible, demonstrating Goodhart's Law.
So, while I get what this imaginary brick layer wants, that's just not the way the world works. 4/4
"Ya know what growing kids need? Lard."
Didn't happen.
Meanwhile ...
Dum question, I guess, but who is this speaking?
I have no idea either.
AI slop writing omg!!!
I was assured during the Obama presidency that no one wanted the Government telling us what to eat. Though, the Christian overlords did not specify back then that bricklayers were involved so I guess this checks out.
Right? Do you remember the massive ration of shit the First Lady got for having the temerity to suggest that children could eat more healthfully? 🙄
All to well!
IF this was true wouldn’t you start with the Big Mac, french fry eating, Diet Coke drinking 300+ lb president??? He’s starting to look like Taft.
A brick-layer in his mid 60's? That's one of the most physically demanding trades. You don't meet many brick-layers in their mid 60's.
If he wants to feel better he should be thinking about retirement not MAHA.
Well IF the story was true that would be an issue. However, full retirement age for most workers here in the USA is now 66-67 some as high as 70. 🤷🏼♀️
Oh sure, the government doesn't produce any nutritional recommendations at all, does it? /s
Ah yes, the old random bricklayer telling random strangers how badly he wished the government would tell him what to eat? What’s not to believe?
I suggest starting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
That fat mf'r has never eaten a vegetable in his life.
This fictional guy’s doctor has been telling him what to eat for years.
And I’ll leave you with this inspirational quote from the great Ronald Reagan… f them poor kids, ketchup is all the vegetable they deserve.
1) Who the hell is this guy?
2) Eat 'real food'...like only McDonalds and not the competitor's as 🍊💩🤡 does, leading the magats by his obese example?
3) Ummm...Michelle Obama anyone???
4) Taylor Foods donated to 🍊💩🤡 (so no more $ from us) destroying our chopped kale mix purchases-so thanks for that
is this 60 year brick layer in the room with us now?
This is like the same bullshit you hear at a time share sales presentation.
“This guy, mid 60’s, retired, likes to travel, 200k+ in the market just asked my wife at the grocery store, not knowing who her husband was, “Hey, what’s a good place to invest other than stocks and savings?”
Retired bricklayers are notoriously chatty about their diet when sitting in an airport.
Can’t even tell you how many times retired bricklayers have interrupted my wife and our four children to share that he wishes “the government would just tell me what to eat.”
It’s a real menace
If only RFK Jr. had been there to apply a sauerkraut poultice or something.
In addition to the fact that this never happened, what kind of father trots his young children out on a public stage like this? What kind of person thinks that's a "normal" thing to do?
Of course these people were so receptive when Michelle Obama spearheaded her healthy eating campaign while FLOTUS so this tracks.
They acted like she was killing them!
She was even so evil she taught kids how to grow food. Something I never learned. How dare she?!!
IT WAS COMMUNISM!!!
FFS!
Were there tears in his eyes when he said it?
Yeah the people that were screaming “They’re coming for your cheeseburgers!” really want to be told what to eat 😂
But when Michelle Obama wanted healthier lunches for school kids….holy hell broke out.
I dunno, fake stuff has a lot of competition these days...
Eating the cats & dogs comes to mind
Glad to see Tom Friedman's taxi driver is still going strong.
Republicans, the party of small government that dictates what you can eat.
But not how to prevent pandemics.
“I wish somebody, anybody, would tell me what to eat. All I know us soda, chips and bricks, because I am your typical bricklayer.” -said nobody ever
What? Everyone’s talking about “MAHA” these days. Amiright?
Did Malaria come up with that slogan?
She did amazing things with:
Be Best!
“Eat Taylor Farms products and you’ll lose weight!”
😂
Lettuce make your diet more healthy!
Taylor Farms, the non-vegetarian lettuce.
I wish the government would tell me what to eat, but then proceed to recommend what now has parasites, is covered in toxic chemicals, or is too expensive for anyone other than a hedge fund manager to afford.
So he wants the “government to tell me what to do” 🙄
Like we want Big Brother to tell us what to eat. I’d rather they make sure our food is safe and that we fund science to do things for us that doesn’t cost an arm and two legs.
Soylent Green
Big strong guy, tears in his eyes
Yes. Bricklayers are so chatty.
Oh, *bricklayer* is code for saying working class people are really dumb and need to be told what to eat and how to stay healthy.
Perhaps we could train check-out clerks to ask the customer *should you really be eating that junk? It's not real food,*
Haha cUz bLuE coLLaR wOrkErZ dOnT knoW tHaT pOtAtoE cHipS anD sOdA aRe Bad FoR yOu!
Dumbest timeline ever. Who's buying this (s)hit?. Who??!!
60 yo retired bricklayer ain't no food that's gonna make him feel good, thay work is hard on the body
What happened after the bricklayer hit on his wife at the airport? Did he get to show her his handiwork?
Honey, why is there grout on your blouse?
And then her 4 year old started citing the declaration of independance from memory and 2 eagles landed in his lap and started crying and jesus appeared handing him a gallon of cod liver oil and then fox news said that trans athletes were banned from playing competitive jenga and everyone clapped
With a soda in his other hand he’d have to be pouring the chips in his mouth. Plausible, but a weird detail
Was he sucking down chips while talking to his wife
Yea yea yea. Just tell me how MANY wild animal genitals im supposed to be eating per day, because the price of the beef and salmon pictured are up like 2-3x over the last few years...
Republican diarrhea, not just in trump’s face anymore.
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sounds exactly like a conversation a bricklayer would start with a complete stranger - at an airport.
It's so believable, I completely believe it.
Fictional man with chips and I have something in common, I also have no idea who his wife's husband is and what he does for a living.
If only, just once, someone told him about crisps and soda.
With tears in his eyes…
It is the loadiest of crap.
We dare not consume this stuff right now!
Just more administration bull crap
I travel a lot, and I can't tell you how many fruitful conversations I've struck up with bricklayers.
I see what you did there. 😉
They can't even write realistic fiction
100% real meat!
Sure he did. With tears in his eyes.
I’ll give the little girl credit. She stayed longer than I did. I checked out 15 seconds in.
Who the fuck is this?? He sounds as thoughtful as the purported bricks 🙄
Well the upside down food pyramid said a stick of butter was healthy so he should start there
Interesting. You want us to be healthier, but you're actively trying to kill us with: no vaccines, shit lettuce, gutting SNAP, Medicare and Medicaid, but do, go on 🙄😡
Michelle Obama would like a word....
Who is this? I have no idea who he is or why he's talking.
Right? Big “do you know who I am?” energy.
Big Karen energy. At the airport. 🫤
Big strong guy... came up to me... tears in his eyes... hands full of spaghetti... and said "Sir, please... my wets..."
That 60 yo brick layer eating chips and soda darn well knows about maha because he loves hearing that eat more steak is the key to health. Probably uses lard for his eczema too.
Michelle Obama has entered the chat.
Yes, if only there were professionals to teach us about diet, a sort of ‘dietitian’ one might say.
They could even be ‘registered’, so they have credentials.
If only…
If only…
🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥
Oh, and the guy that eats roadkill is gonna tell Americans what's healthy to eat?
And the guy had tears streaming down his face, I suppose.
Look. We all know what we need to eat to be healthy. Either we can’t afford to or we don’t want to or a little of both.
It’s not a lack of information.
She responded, “well, first and foremost, you need to cut beef from your diet completely. It is an environmental disaster and a simple switch from beef to chicken will improve both your health and that of the planet”
Then he screamed called her a commie and punched her in the face
The "Sir" story has escaped it's idiot owner.
Lemme get this straight: a 60-something bricklayer was sitting in the airport eating a bag of chips & a soda & lamenting to a lady that he would really like to be eating better but needs the GOVERNMENT to tell him what to do.
Get the ABSOLUTE fuck outta here.
Suddenly, all these salt-of-the-earth blue-collar laborers are just announcing publicly that they wish the government would tell them what to eat, as well as when, where, and how much.
Imagine if that was Michelle Obama saying that
He’s going to be telling everyone for years how he “snuck in bricklayer” out of nowhere because it “just came to him.” And he’ll be the loudest one laughing about it. And usually the only one,too.
They want the government to tell them what to eat yet lost their minds when government asked them to wear a mask.
From the people who brought you "People Don't Want the Government Telling Them What to Do" comes "People Want the Government to Tell Them What to Do".
“I wish the government would tell me what to eat”
So much freedom
Must I think for myself!!!?
But not if it's a brown-skinned First Lady. Must be a roadkill-eating white male ravaged by a brain worm.
Across the land, people from all walks of life, have spent their years on this earth, never once saying this sentence.
These people really need better writers.
What I don't understand about all this is how it squares with total deregulation and the uber capitalism practiced by these people.
Haven’t they gutted monitoring and food standards? I’m just an ignorant European but doesn‘t real food mean not putting crap in everything?
the secret is that they don’t really care about health. It will lead to selling supplements and peptides.
As a Brit I do struggle with American officials lecturing on food when they allow it to be so pumped full of additives and sugars. Unsanitary conditions resulting in chlorinated chicken.
I remember the GOP and conservative outcry a few years ago when the black woman living in the WH created a vegetable garden there and said people should eat more vegies....
Outcry was: Big government shouldn't tell us what to eat!
maga white man says: The government should tell us what to eat....
Capitalist corporations, who are people afterall, clearly instruct one to eat processed foods and drink sweet beverages.
He sounds like a pastor trying to sell you a spot in the afterlife
But he had tears in his eyes, Aaron
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What a commie
"honest information" is not something you will EVER get from the Trump administration, or any Republican administration for that matter.
Todays GOP: Come for the 'ketchup is a vegetable' stay for the Pedophiles.
Complete and utter nonsense. Anyone with an Internet connection can access information about what’s healthy and what isn’t. It’s not complicated, and it ain’t crisps and Coke.
Anyway, I don’t believe a word of this so-called conversation ever happened.
He’s inhis mid-60s. Has no idea what might be good or bad to eat.
With tears in their eyes....please government tell me what to eat and then when to sleep, when to s_it!
Seriously, what's wrong with these people?
2024 & prior, and all other nations
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They want the government to tell them how to eat? I can’t keep up with MAGA/MAHA accusations. I thought they want less government.
I loathe these people.
They want the government to tell them what to eat, but not how to stay safe in a worldwide pandemic. OK
I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt that there was some reason he couldn't help his wife fly with four children. But the fact that he thinks she would then have their energy to have an uninterrupted conversation with a stranger at the same time is mind-boggling.
I always contact my Member of Parliament for healthy food options. Who doesn’t?
What a nob, they have no shame do they. Bull shit just flows down from the top.
Is this the one who brags about his bowels movements?
Remember First Lady Michelle Obama…
Who is this guy anyway, and has he met many other human persons?
“But not Michelle Obama because well you know and my wife then understood what this bricklayer was suggesting and they both suddenly had tears in their eyes because they shared something unspoken”
Big strong bricklayer straight out of Central Casting
With tears in his eyes.
WH gardens bad. WH cage matches good
I just wonder how he worked in his profession into the conversation or if he loudly announced it
The Obama version had far too much caring about Black people in it.
And women and children. They hate women and view children as property
How can anyone access these guarded secrets? 🤦🏻♀️😂🤣 He could* ask his Dr 😳 Seek out a dietitian, nutritionist, library, book store, google... SMH
Legally, Bricklayers have to self identify
"He said to my wife 'Take it from an expert - you're built like a brick...!'"
Walking around the airport just randomly yelling "MAHA!...MAHA!"
Then they sent him to the ER for a psych eval.
Remember when they screamed at Michelle for promoting healthy lunches for children?
MAHA
Make America Have Anal bleeding from all the well-regulated-produce-caused diarrhoea.
In this administration, eat real food…and shit your brains out…explosively…for weeks. Golden Age.
He must have been wearing his bricklayer uniform.
I don't know what you're insinuating. Most of my airport conversations with strangers are about things that the government should tell me to do.
Yes the first thing I talk about with strangers at airports is " hey you hear about that MAHA movement??"
Was it a big, strong beautiful body to look at type of man with golden hair and not at all tiny hands, big D energy and an orange aura?
"...because I have never gone to school, or watched TV, or read the label on a package of food."
The party of "personal responsibility" is saying people are wanting/needing a government to tell them what to do?
LMFAO
Story tellers.
yeah that’s exactly what MAGA wants…”for somebody, the government, anybody to tell them what to eat.”
Biden was always saying, "eat only chips and drink only pop" and Maga followed this and now they are sad and unhappy in airports asking strangers what to eat
So the government told the bricklayer to stop eating chips and stop drinking soda and eat more broccoli. And he said nope and went back to eating chips and drinking soda. The end.
Did the bricklayer have tears in his eyes?
So, they WANT the deep state to control their lives.
These people were mad at Michelle Obama for suggesting this for school lunches.
We remember!
It's just so weird for this to come out after they all soiled themselves in rage when the Obamas set up a White House produce garden...
Remember when Michele tried to get public schools healthy food…nvm.
what a load of shit
and what happened to Michelle Obama’s garden at the White House again...
Even the little girl stormed out in complete disbelief at the obvious lies.
OMG!!
This did not happen. This coming from the very same people who claim less government overreach?
Now we need the government to teach us how to eat healthy?
Just take a look/listen at what's guiding us.
As a gentleman in his 60's who is in an airport frequently if a family with four kids sat by me I would move to the other end of the concourse or turn the volume on my headphones up.
…and that’s why we’re going to cut education. 🙄
Or you could consult with one of the 114,164 Registered Dietitian Nutritionists in the US
More lies and propaganda from the party of lies and propaganda.
with this gentleman by chance Jim that told Trump Paris went downhill?
I'm sorry, I thought we couldn't be true Americans unless we were allowed 30oz sodas.
Right. Those evil politicians how did I forgot about that!
I mean a grown adult needing government direction on how to eat healthy! They really do try to appeal to the dum dumiest of the dum dums.
Is this the part where he tells us how cool scurvy is?
Oh yeah, the country's full of down-to-earth guys in their 60s who want the gummint to tell them what to eat. Because they can't figure it out for themselves. Poor things.
ah yes, ye ol' bricklayer who strikes up conversations with a women with almost a half dozen children
Is he related to Joe Plumber?
the guitarist from the Clash?
That’s Joe Strummer. I’m talking bout this guy:
I'm so bored with the USA.
Wanting desperately for the government to tell him how to eat
Hold on. Now the bricklayer DOES want the govt telling him what to do to be healthy? I’m so confused.
Exact same cadence as a pastor at mega churches
Have you got a recipe for raccoon dick?
Looking forward to seeing all of these people on late night tv soon — if we activate our communities and vote.
I've never had a conversation with a bricklayer that didn't start with him: *sucks teeth * "oh this has been done so badly, it'll take a lot to fix". Not really a nutrition enquiry, is it?
I'm sorry, if you've made it to your 60s and don't know that chips and a soda is not a healthy meal choice, then a government official telling you what to eat is not the help you need. If this was at all true of course.
"I wish the Republicans would tell me what I should be eating"
This is the Republican position now. The Republicans say the government should people what they should eat.
I just.... I can't
That kid trying to find the person responsible for booking this gig.
It's interesting how unidirectional is their hearing!
Remember the uproar from the right when Michelle Obama dared to “impose” healthy lunches for school children?
I will never forget how they lost their minds over the program.
Good God!!!!
This government even wants to tell you what to eat.
And this fucker is lying about this made up shit story.
When I’m at airports the first thing I do is look for a stranger with 4 kids and whine to them about not being able to find anyone to tell me what and how to eat.
So no more Big Macs when Trump has sports teams at the WH?
In that picture
Produce no one wants to eat cuz explosive poop is no bueno.
Steak and salmon is too expensive.
So… just that lone peanut
For a healthy eating gig seems like a poor choice of background.
These people are supposed to be for less government. Now they want the government telling them what to eat??
"Bricklayers I've met at the airport..."
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If you have to read a moment you lived off a cue card, chances are you didn't live that moment.
"I wish the gov would tell me what to eat?"
On what planet?
They don’t even have plausible lies. 🙄
The lying liars continuously lie as they've seen how well it works out for their dear leader an it looks great to live in a world with zero consequences! How pleasant!
Really? A 60 yo man in a physically demanding job doesn’t know what to eat?
Oi vey.
Talk to your doctor. Listen to your doctor.
Your government doesn’t have it. Sorry
"Talk to your doctor. Listen to your doctor."
OR (just hear me out, here. ok?)
You can wait until the next time you're waiting for a flight somewhere and strike up a conversation about your lack of nutritional information with a total stranger which will not seem strange or creepy at all.
No! That’s not weird at all!!
I’m still stuck on the bricklayer job title. What buildings are still being built with real bricks being hand laid by real people? 🧱
I know this never happened, because I was that bricklayer.
It's one thing for these assholes to be stupid, but it's quite another to think everyone else is equally as dumb
“… because I really liked it when that nice lady, Michelle Obama, really helped me with dietary advice and encouraged me to eat vegetables.”
Conservatives: We just want to eat what the government tells us to eat.
A brick layer
