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Bread and Circuses

(1,775 posts)
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 11:06 PM Jan 11

BREAKING: A top oil company executive says Donald Trump "smelled like rotten roast beef"

The White House staff are all Traitors! Covering up for this debacle so that Putin and (redacted) can run this country.

(redacted) = a certain prime minister with International Criminal Court arrest warrants for crimes against humanity.

The part that should terrify people isn’t the smell. It’s that this is who Republicans want handling national security, foreign policy, and nuclear codes. With that said…that’s disgusting.

Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) 2026-01-12T03:54:50.861Z


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BREAKING: A top oil company executive says Donald Trump "smelled like rotten roast beef" (Original Post) Bread and Circuses Jan 11 OP
Halfway post is satire / bs dweller Jan 11 #1
Thanks. Now we know more. nt eppur_se_muova Jan 11 #7
I guess I should have just said dweller Jan 11 #8
No, I liked the way you handled it. eppur_se_muova Jan 11 #9
I have lately started taking all of the net with a grain of salt jfz9580m Jan 12 #19
Gag Bayard Jan 11 #2
He looks like rotten roast beef too. 🤢 Dave Bowman Jan 11 #3
Not illegal even if it were true Qutzupalotl Jan 11 #4
The Halfway Post is a satire site. Ocelot II Jan 11 #5
So top oil company executives can't tell the difference between "the smell of rotten roast beef" and Jack Valentino Jan 11 #6
Honestly that sounds on brand for him. Initech Jan 11 #10
Thanks for reporting on this, Oil EXEC Cha Jan 11 #11
He is repugnant in every way possible. GoodRaisin Jan 12 #12
That's probably why he got up to look out the door: to pass gas. C Moon Jan 12 #13
Destroyer of Democracy Kid Berwyn Jan 12 #14
If you're going to post satire, please identify it as such Martin Eden Jan 12 #15
K&R UTUSN Jan 12 #16
It's sad to see some of these large accounts posting fake info like it's real. demmiblue Jan 12 #17
I am not a fan of Malcolm Nance jfz9580m Jan 12 #18

dweller

(28,022 posts)
8. I guess I should have just said
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 11:27 PM
Jan 11

Take it in the same vein as Borowitz or the Onion … but they don’t actually come across as them , imo



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eppur_se_muova

(41,428 posts)
9. No, I liked the way you handled it.
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 11:29 PM
Jan 11

Last edited Mon Jan 12, 2026, 12:10 AM - Edit history (1)

I suppose "Halfway Post" is supposed to be a parody on "Huff Post", but if you're not sure what's being parodied, it can be hard to know it's parody.

Even in the Lounge.

jfz9580m

(16,708 posts)
19. I have lately started taking all of the net with a grain of salt
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 11:19 PM
Jan 12

It is not that I mind looking stupid..I would be confused if I was the type of frantic/daft Type A obsessed with always being right about everything, since I am about as knowledgeable as Trump..But it is a lot of time wasted in faking embarassment on autopilot in unfair terrain because you are distrait and angry.

I have noticed over the years that Trump
and I have some similarities in terms of knowledge and skills. The similarities end there.

It used to bother me, till I did this sophisticated calculation and figured out that I am not President of the US and it is okay to use even non-racist Trumpy brainwashing free animal id from the left to defend your turf (my home, street, devices). If a lefty animal id could be a thing ;-/..

I got that far..some of these guys like to make nicer or at least harmless people feel or look “stupid”. It is all a bit catty and petty and not worth it since it takes from ire and time that must go into disarming and kicking out the worst creeps first, then the next set of creeps and so on, leaving only what one would truly ignore as petty or truly accept irl adjusted for the world of 2008 or earlier..pre-FB/Google’s nuisance encroachment. Nor would a series of small creeps be okay. All bad..

Ocelot II

(129,846 posts)
5. The Halfway Post is a satire site.
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 11:20 PM
Jan 11

Even so, it wouldn't surprise me if Trump really did smell like rotting beef, since that's basically what he is - a big sack of meat that's turning green around the edges.

Jack Valentino

(4,678 posts)
6. So top oil company executives can't tell the difference between "the smell of rotten roast beef" and
Sun Jan 11, 2026, 11:20 PM
Jan 11

the smell of liquid SHIT leaking out of Trump's diapers!


(maybe they were trying to be "nice" ) lmao



Martin Eden

(15,464 posts)
15. If you're going to post satire, please identify it as such
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 08:08 AM
Jan 12

We lose credibility when we think a made-up story is true, then share it as truth with others.

demmiblue

(39,497 posts)
17. It's sad to see some of these large accounts posting fake info like it's real.
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 09:00 AM
Jan 12

Malcolm Nance is another one that I take with a grain of salt, now (I unfollowed his account). I have seen him posting misinfo/disinfo a few times.

jfz9580m

(16,708 posts)
18. I am not a fan of Malcolm Nance
Mon Jan 12, 2026, 09:13 AM
Jan 12

He is kind of a sleazy, spook propagandist imo. I have a lot of sympathy for Zelenskyy and Ukraine and feel sorry to see a handful of ex intelligence types cynically use Putin’s war for the mercenary rather than explicitly far right wing of the national security state.
Spooks of a type, like corporations, are not left, right or centre imo. They want to divvy up the spoils.

I feel very resentful of any group that used or uses people as pawns from any angle using the net. That’s incitement. I don’t mean
Nance specifically so much as anyone who is a disinfo agent to any extent.

I am a civilian catlady - the piddly activist type and very angered by left underground instincts being hijacked by spooky disinfo agents and at a great cost to the left.

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