{"id":4107,"date":"2025-05-19T22:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2025-05-20T10:34:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T14:34:24","slug":"donalds-drive-thru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4107","title":{"rendered":"Donald&#8217;s Drive-Thru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/donaldsdrivethru\/donaldsdrivethru150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/donaldsdrivethru\/donaldsdrivethru650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"935\" \/><\/a><strong>Though actually quite grim and cringe as hell, I found<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/05\/12\/mcdonalds-to-hire-375000-workers-trump-labor-secretary.html?qsearchterm=McDonald%27s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> this news<\/a> sickeningly funny somehow,<\/strong> in ways reminiscent of the big-ups drum beating <a href=\"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sept 2005 BLS jobs report<\/a> the month after Hurricane Katrina. Y&#8217;think Microsoft was hoping Mickey D&#8217;s would pick up some of that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/05\/13\/microsoft-is-cutting-3percent-of-workers-across-the-software-company.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> layoff headcount?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, of course, is the cringingly upbeat economic hard-sell in the Mickey D&#8217;s announcement featuring the new Labor Secretary, and the obvious clumsy-ass tap-dancing they&#8217;re going to have to do around our new quack-ass Health &amp; Human Services Secretary \u2013 especially seeing as Big Mac&#8217;s is one of El Presidente&#8217;s favorite brands.<\/p>\n<p>You deserve a break today!<\/p>\n<p><strong>11 x 15.75 inch medium-res<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/donaldsdrivethru\/donaldsdrivethru150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> color .jpg image,<\/a> 790kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though actually quite grim and cringe as hell, I found this news sickeningly funny somehow, in ways reminiscent of the big-ups drum beating Sept 2005 BLS jobs report the month after Hurricane Katrina. Y&#8217;think Microsoft was hoping Mickey D&#8217;s would pick up some of that layoff headcount? Then, of course, is the cringingly upbeat economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,8,762],"tags":[1480,1059,326,1058,99],"class_list":["post-4107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-media","category-right-wingnuts","category-trumpism","tag-cybertruck","tag-elon-musk","tag-mcdonalds","tag-tesla","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4110,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions\/4110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}