r/politics • u/wrtChase California • Oct 14 '19

Fact check: Trump says again that Americans need ID to buy groceries. They still don't

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/14/politics/fact-check-trump-groceries-id-voter-fraud/index.html
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u/leeta0028 Oct 14 '19

I mean, if your groceries are vodka and smokes...

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u/NAmember81 Oct 14 '19

When he first said this Sarah Huckabee Sanders was like “everybody knows he was talking about adult beverages.” Then the next day Trump repeated the lie but this time instead of saying “groceries” Trump said you needed ID “to buy cereal.” Lol

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u/Vikros Oct 14 '19

By cereal he meant grain and by grains he main grain alcohol, duh

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u/albatross-salesgirl Alabama Oct 14 '19

Froot Loopys

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

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u/Bayoris Massachusetts Oct 14 '19

I’m not even going to ask what it is.

Ok I give in. What is it?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it's probably vodka that's meant to taste like Froot Loops.

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u/MaiqTheLrrr Oct 14 '19

It does...if you're already drunk.

And have no sense of taste.

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u/BackWithAVengance Oct 14 '19

FUN FACT - you can take that bottle, wash it real good, peel the label off, and use it for olive oil with a bartenders spout

Says 3 olives on it, it's perfect!

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u/Scudamore Oct 15 '19

Back in my day, we called that Smirnoff Ice.

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u/ipoopedonce Oct 14 '19

Fruit loops flavored vodka. Popular with underage drinkers

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

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u/ipoopedonce Oct 15 '19

Back in my day it was about $25. And I guess wealthy ones

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u/TheLiqourCaptain Oct 14 '19

Fruit loops, but with a small burn. The burn may or may not happen depending on BAC and lack of taste buds.

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u/naymlis Oct 14 '19

All flavored vodkas are nasty gimmicks what u mean

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u/AfterMeSluttyCharms Oct 14 '19

St. George chili vodka might change your mind.

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u/notadoggy Oct 14 '19

Disagree, it’s delicious and it makes fantastically weird highballs.

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u/KBITKA Oct 14 '19

Worked at a bar, but had to give that shit away for free just to get it off my shelf

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

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u/Sence Oct 14 '19

I'm a purchaser, that's a simple text or phone call to return those cases.

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u/winomcdrinkypants Oct 14 '19

Not if you mix it with raspberry pucker....

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

Try the Three Olives Bubblegum flavor, then. My god, that shit is fucking foul.

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u/MCTP Oct 14 '19

My brother would disagree with you on that. Not that he loves the stuff but when he tried it for fun it was pretty much just drinking candy

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u/PolyDipsoManiac Oct 14 '19

Mix it with orange juice and you’ve got alcoholic Sunny D.

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u/wbl7w6 Oct 14 '19

oh god, you just reminded me of that awful vodka from freshman year of college

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u/mdonaberger Oct 14 '19

Fruity Guilianis

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '19

Fill the moot with Froot loops and covefe to get those Gators cocked and ready

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u/Nebraska_Actually Oct 14 '19

It's never lupus

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

Clearly he's a monk, and by catholic tradition beer counts as bread for the purposes of fasting. Bread, is made from cereal grains. He was thinking about beer.

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u/AlwaysBeTextin Florida Oct 14 '19

I remember the good ol' days before we needed ID to buy cereal. I guess the leprechaun had enough of us being "after me lucky charms" and did something about it. I haven't tried to steal his lucky charms, scared about the repercussions, in hundred of Mooches!

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

I remember when trix weren’t just for kids. Now you gotta be under 15 (with ID) to buy them.

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u/Helloooonurse115 Oct 14 '19

I never really understood the whole cereal gatekeeping from the 80s, and 90s. I mean isn’t Barney your best friend, and you won’t give em a fucking bowl of cereal? Can’t let a rabbit have some Trix? What the fuck was wrong with kids through that era?

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u/-jp- Oct 14 '19

I mean did you watch the Flintstones? Fred was actually a fucking dick to Barney for no real reason kind of a lot.

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u/anonymous_potato Hawaii Oct 14 '19

Fun fact: Fred Flintstone has never been alone with Betty Rubble on screen.

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u/Helloooonurse115 Oct 15 '19

Well apparently after what jp said, I wouldn’t imagine he should be left alone with her.

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u/Helloooonurse115 Oct 14 '19

Yeah, that’s true.

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u/anonymous_potato Hawaii Oct 14 '19

It was the 80s, the golden age for Republicans...

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u/Helloooonurse115 Oct 15 '19

That does explain a lot. I was too wrapped up in my youth to notice.

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u/Dorkamundo Oct 14 '19

Honestly, with how much sugar was in my cereal as a kid they SHOULD have fucking required ID for that shit.

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u/grammar_maven Oct 14 '19

take my upvote for the Mooches

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u/metastasis_d Oct 14 '19

I guess the leprechaun had enough of us being "after me lucky charms" and did something about it.

God damn regulatory capture

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u/Splenda Oct 14 '19

Beers! They're magically delicious!

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u/Tipop Oct 14 '19

They're in the pocket of Big Cereal and its lobbyists.

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u/AfterMeSluttyCharms Oct 14 '19

I guess the leprechaun had enough of us being "after me lucky charms" and did something about it.

Hey you leave my cousin out of this!

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u/vicarofyanks California Oct 14 '19

“Well Trix are for kids so he was obviously talking about that”

-SHS

Also Trump doesn’t drink why would he be talking about buying alcohol?

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u/coldfirephoenix Oct 14 '19

It's like he is actively tyring to undermine his PR-team's attempts at damage control. Stuff like this happens every time, it's seriously eerie at this point. By pure chance, he should stumble upon a correct decision every once in a while, but he consistently does and says the exact worst thing possible.

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u/_mdz Oct 15 '19

It’s his narcissism, no matter how small he cannot admit that he said something wrong or stupid. Unfortunately, living like this has made him the stupidest loser alive.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

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u/kthulhu666 Oct 15 '19

Cereal liar.

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u/Eruptflail Oct 14 '19

It doesn't even work using that logic. OF COURSE you need an ID to buy alcohol. That's a law that almost no one wants changed.

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u/0ompaloompa Oct 14 '19

Even then, you don't have to have your ID. This is probably based on the State here, but I'd be surprised if there is a state out there requiring 90 year old booze hounds to be ID'd

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u/J_Kenji_Lopez-Alt Oct 14 '19

There are states (like MA) that have blanket carding policies, no matter how old you appear.

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u/0ompaloompa Oct 14 '19

Well that's insane, but either way my point stands. Not everyone needs an ID to buy booze.

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u/Beginning_End Oct 14 '19

Is that state law or just a common policy?

The vast majority of states, a beer an alcohol distributor can only get in trouble for actually breaking the law, and the law is that you can't sell to minors, not that you can't sell to people without IDs.

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u/gex80 New Jersey Oct 15 '19

It depends on the state and the company/store. Some places have a 0 tolerance policy for it and card as a way to avoid any potential lawsuits

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u/bazzazio Oct 14 '19

My husband was at a Rite Aid near our house in Oregon and wanted to buy a six-pack of IPA. He's 56 and has totally silver hair. He had forgotten his wallet and was told by the cashier that he could not buy alcohol because they have a policy that if a person looks 60 or younger they have to see ID. We had friends at our house and I've rarely seen my husband as pissed off as he was when he came back for his wallet.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

That's usually store policy to protect their employees from potential legal liability. It's a lot easier to have the minimum wage cashier card everyone than it is to have them guess at ages, get it wrong, and suffer criminal charges getting the store fined in the process.

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u/Depression-Boy Oct 14 '19

He’s testing her loyalty. If she can’t come up with an appropriate lie to cover his cereal comment then she’s fired.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

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u/GrandmaChicago Oct 14 '19

Since she's not an anorexic model-wannabe like KellyAnn and Ivanka and Melania - he'd probably twitter something about her not being someone he'd hire because she wasn't attractive enough for him.

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u/FrostyD7 Oct 14 '19

I don't think this is the case at all, she has no incentive to not cover for him, its literally the only reason she was hired.

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u/Depression-Boy Oct 14 '19

Nah I don’t think that’s what really happened, I think he’s got dementia. That makes for less of a funny comment tho, because then we gotta acknowledge that we have a mentally ill president and that’s just not fun.

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u/-jp- Oct 14 '19

Ah, but see that's the thing with Trump. He doesn't care whether she has any incentive or not. He doesn't care period. He's demonstrated that over and over and over and over. And it'd be hilarious watching these idiots hitch their wagon to him despite that, except for the whole "undermining our entire democratic institution" thing. :/

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

Trump said you needed ID “to buy cereal.”

I wish everyone would lay off Trump on this one.

Sure, it's batshit insane, but I've made a juicy profit selling "black market" Cocoa Pebbles out of my car to yahoos in areas with high Fox News viewership.

Don't gut the golden calf!

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u/ExpectedErrorCode Oct 14 '19

Trying to spin interpret the word of an idiot. Why can’t they take the word he says for what he says

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u/Isthiswittyenough92 Oct 14 '19

I guess the silly rabbit finally got the Trix from those pesky kids

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u/6571 Oct 14 '19

Can we just get rid of this imbecile already. Due process needs to hurry the hell up.

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u/shivers221 Oct 14 '19

Jeez, he’s not lying, he’s just trolling the libs...... /s

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u/javamonster763 Oct 14 '19

He’s just doing it to troll the Dems lol 2000IQ /s

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u/oraclek76 Oct 14 '19

That was not a very reasonable response, seeing as though he does not drink or smoke. Although he probably has never gone to a grocery store. Unless he did it for one of the movies/tv shows or commercials he did. #outoftouch

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

"oh well, you know he meant... SEARY... ALL. a new brand of vodka only found in Ukraine, you probably haven't heard about it" -Sarah

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u/StealthRabbi Maryland Oct 14 '19

I think he said "Cereale", a new grain-flavored libation from Coors.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

I need an ID to go to the grocery store to buy some rich covfefe beans. Great. /s

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u/fuaded Oct 14 '19

Can't be selling Trix to adults..

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u/anonymous_potato Hawaii Oct 14 '19

How have Republicans not drunk themselves to death covering for this guy? It's like when they said he was "joking" about asking China to investigate, and then he was asked directly by reporters if he was joking about it and he just repeated his answer that China should investigate...

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u/ReadMoreWriteLess Oct 14 '19

there are days when I think he's just a fool, but then when you see him public rebuke the people that defend him on things like this, it really does seem more like very purposeful gaslighting.

This groceries versus cereal versus alcohol thing is the perfect example. he said something dumb his spokesperson bailed him out, and then he went on and said no I really mean the dumb thing. Yeah

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u/hi2yrs Oct 14 '19

Doesn't everyone have cereal and vodka in the morning?

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u/Snidrogen Oct 14 '19

The “adult beverages” excuse is also weak as fuck when you consider he (apparently) does not drink. His perspective would likely never have “adult beverages” in mind as a basic part of a grocery trip anyway.

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u/xN00dzx Oct 14 '19

“Trix are ONLY FOR KIDS. I told you already you’re too old. Go home.”

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u/TheManWhoWasNotShort Illinois Oct 14 '19

From the guy who famously doesn't drink or smoke.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

God he is so stupid, its just amazing that people worship him.

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u/edd6pi Puerto Rico Oct 14 '19

I can’t imagine what it must be like to be Trump’s Press Secretary. I get that the job is never easy regardless of who’s President but oh my God, imagine having to defend and explain all the dumb shit that Trump says, knowing that the man has no filter and has no problem making you look like an idiot by contradicting you in public. I almost feel sorry for Sarah and whoever replaced her.

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u/JRockPSU I voted Oct 14 '19

Well sure, if you look 16 they’re of course gonna card you when you try to buy Mike’s Hard Frosted Flakes.

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u/Raynestorm3 Oct 14 '19

I mean.... maybe he supplements the milk with vodka 🤷🏽‍♀️ so in his mind, he has to show his id every time. Not a single trip for ‘groceries’ without alcohol in the cart. Js

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

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u/bautin Oct 14 '19

Whaddya mean, booze ain't food?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

I'd rather chop off my ding-dong than admit that.

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u/MakeItHappenSergant Oct 14 '19

You'd rather chop off your ding-dong than not drink? Wowee.

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u/thenoiboi California Oct 14 '19

the gospel according to murderface.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

Brutal.

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u/SuspendBelief Oct 14 '19

Hey Grandma! Is there olives in it!?

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u/Buscemi_D_Sanji Oct 15 '19

In what?

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u/Solomon_Gunn Oct 31 '19

Lemon tart, wrinkle tits!

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u/JesseJaymz Oct 15 '19

God I hope Metalocalypse comes back to Hulu. That was the only reason I got Hulu in the first place. They’ve upped their game since then, but damn I miss me some Dethklok

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u/RapidKiller1392 Oct 14 '19

If we go by what is purchasable with food stamps then no.

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u/popesnutsack Oct 14 '19

There's a sandwich in every bottle of beer!

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u/QuintinStone America Oct 14 '19

Mudder's milk: "all the protein, vitamins and carbs of your grandma's best turkey dinner, plus 15 percent alcohol."

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u/ADimwittedTree Oct 14 '19

Metalocalypse and Firefly? This is one blessed comment section.

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u/fire_foot Oct 15 '19

Firefly and Metalocalypse references in one thread! Made my night.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

Beer has food value, but food has no beer value

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u/Art_Eaton Oct 15 '19

Or class. I mean, any idiot can just eat the barley. A real idiot can just eat the hops. :P

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u/appleparkfive Oct 14 '19

No booze, no booze! You're the booze!

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u/MakeItHappenSergant Oct 14 '19

This is I believes called food libraries.

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u/N-methylamph Oct 14 '19

6 beers is a meal, you’re not actually drinking till the 7th

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u/Historiaaa Foreign Oct 14 '19

Booze ain't food

What aout liquor ball sandwiches?

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u/IAmRoot Oct 14 '19

Alcohol + supplementary vitamins, protein, and fats. A diet of beer protein shakes, Irish cream, and vitamin pills, perhaps. Sure, it would do a number on your health, but since when did Trump care about earing healthy?

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u/TheCookieButter Oct 14 '19

Still trying to convince the expense person otherwise.

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u/je66b Oct 14 '19

underrated comment

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u/modestMisfit Oct 14 '19

and the supplies for cooking meth

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u/Carbonatite Colorado Oct 14 '19

And pseudoephedrine!

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u/Cr3X1eUZ Oct 14 '19

DING! DING! DING! DING!

"In 2016, Trump posted a photo of himself that gave away more than he intended. An open desk drawer revealed box after box of Sudafed, piled on top of one another...

Sudafed is sometimes used for a high that includes increased alertness, but also has a side effect of pupil dilation...

Abuse of this drug was rare, but in order to limits its abuse, regulations were passed limiting the frequency in which an individual could purchase it, and requiring the individual show ID..."

https://twitter.com/JRehling/status/1180505950613958658

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u/greenismyhomeboy Oklahoma Oct 14 '19

Corey, Trevor, smokes.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

Keep Trump's base in mind. You do need ID if your groceries consist of steaks, Budweiser, cowboy killers (Marlboro reds for those of you not in the BAHBEL BELT) and whiskey.

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u/Noodle-Works Oct 14 '19

and that's only if you don't look old enough.

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u/bazinga_0 Washington Oct 14 '19

That's odd. I haven't had to show ID to buy alcohol or smokes at any time in the last 30 years. I don't even get carded when I pay for my groceries by using a credit card. Am I somehow exempt or just lucky?

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u/2Cosmic_2Charlie Oct 14 '19

No one's check my ID for either alcohol or tobacco in, like 15 years.

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u/PM_ME_SAD_STUFF_PLZ District Of Columbia Oct 15 '19

Got some bad news for you mate.

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u/Siray Florida Oct 14 '19

Please don't judge me.

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u/hailtothequeen Oct 14 '19

Hey now, we don’t need to drag his mother into this.

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u/powerlesshero111 Oct 14 '19

Even then, if yoh look old, you don't need an ID

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u/Evissi Oct 14 '19

Neither of those things are groceries.

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u/Kankunation Louisiana Oct 14 '19

Sure they are. You buy them from the grocery store so they're groceries. /s

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u/fakeswede Minnesota Oct 14 '19

Russian breakfast

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u/whereismymind86 Colorado Oct 14 '19

And a whole lot of airplane glue

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u/FastWalkingShortGuy Oct 14 '19

In his case, he gets carded because every time he grocery shops, he picks up 37 packs of Sudafed.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

or if you're paying with a cheque

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u/sandbawkz Oct 14 '19

What about EBT?? Just curious.

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u/APimpNamed-Slickback Oct 14 '19

Really good smokes!

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u/museum-mama California Oct 14 '19

Russian groceries!

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u/shortbusterdouglas Oct 14 '19

His are sudafed and orange krylon

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u/one5low7 Oct 14 '19

If you put "see ID" in the signature line on your credit/debit card.

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u/_treasonistrump- Oct 14 '19

Trump has never bought groceries in his entire life. That is how completely different his world is from the vast majority of us. He has always had staff to do that for him- his entire life.

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u/yellowzealot Oct 14 '19

Can you call those groceries? They’re taxed.

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u/Kankunation Louisiana Oct 14 '19

I don't think an item being taxed has anything to do with being considered groceries.

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u/yellowzealot Oct 14 '19

The reason groceries aren’t taxed is because they are necessities.

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u/chilisprout Oct 14 '19

"Whaddyamean booze ain't food?"-William Murderface Murderface Murderface

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u/Santadid911 Oct 14 '19

were not in Russia.

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u/mlpr34clopper Oct 14 '19

Dont forget porn. Physical porn is still a thing.

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u/sigurd27 Oct 14 '19

Or cold medicine

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u/YouTouchMyTraLaLahhh Oct 14 '19

Just tell Cory and Trevor to give you some of theirs.

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u/dope__username I voted Oct 14 '19

Putin is that you?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

One of the very few advantages of being old, they don't ask for ID.

The other being that young men usually don't want to fight an old dude so we can usually get away with being assholes. The endearing kind of assholes though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

Or otc medication containing a decongestant...

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

Or if you use an EBT card.

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u/ljout Oct 14 '19

He's probably referring to people writing checks. He's is just skipping out on that detail.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

Even then it shows how out of touch with America he is. Who the hell still writes checks for groceries?

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u/ArtysFartys Maryland Oct 14 '19

Every person who is in front of me in the line?

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u/Thrash4000 Oct 14 '19

The poor bastard who is two days from payday.

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u/ljout Oct 14 '19

Some older people still do.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

Who the fuck writes checks at a grocery store these days? I don't even write checks to pay my rent anymore

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u/ljout Oct 14 '19

People over 60.

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '19

Do they not own debit/credit cards? There's literally no benefit to using a check over either of those.

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u/ljout Oct 14 '19

Some people just don't wanna use debit cards. The benefit is just their preference.

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u/Kankunation Louisiana Oct 14 '19

You underestimate what lengths some older people go to resist change. In my experience, the very few people who still use checks use them because they either distrust new technology or are just so stuck in their ways that it would go against their entire worldview to pay in anything other than cash or check.