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Obama was an unmitigated disaster and beget the riots, and misdeeds for the next eight years.

I would also add it was Obama who allowed the secret gain of function research in China while pretending to oppose it by banning it here in 'Murica.

He appears to be a creature of the CIA machine groomed to take down our American Republic.

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He also re-ignited racial fires that, up until his Presidency, had calmed significantly.

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Some of the absolute worst back and forth racism I ever saw was in Virginia.

That went both ways and publicly.

Blacks behaving especially bad in public bossing around Asian kids serving up food in a restaurant and then leaving them a two-dollar tip on a hundred-dollar bill even their nasty loudmouth tween kids got in on the act.

To the detriment of everyone else in the restaurant.

Finally, some good old boy family popped off I actually thought it was going to turn into a shootout at the local ramen place.

I suspect I was the only one in the place besides the restauranters not packing heat.

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Where have you been? Having worked in multiple restaurants over the years, I can tell you that blacks never tip, and if they do, it's lucky if you get 10%.

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It's OK as long as they pay the bill. Tipping has gotten out of hand. Now they want at least 20%. Ten percent should be more than enough.

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I tend not to pay attention and the last restaurant I worked in was in 1986 as a cook and busboy.

A long defunct place bought out by the now failing Red Lobster.

It's a hard business serving up food and dealing with the public even a public with manners and solid middle class values is rough.

So many dine and ditch types and the servers got screwed.

I had a lady ask for a well-done Halibut, so I cooked it beyond what I had been taught was a properly cooked piece of fish.

She sent it back, untouched.

So, I put it back on the open mesquit grill again for another three or four minutes to the point it was almost shoe leather, and she sent it back again.

So, I stoked up the coals and turned it into charcoal expecting to get in trouble and figuring she wanted a free meal minus the fish.

Sent it back to her basically blackened and it did not come back.

As she wandered out the door, she handed me a $20 and said it was the best piece of Halibut she had ever eaten. I was shocked.

That was actually one of the worst jobs I think I ever had high pace, high volume cooking over a huge iron grill that spun like a wheel covered in fish.

God help you if you had a sunburn the heat coming off that grill was something else and it was a main attraction with a big tempered glass window so everyone could watch you cooking their fish.

Going home every night after an eight hour shift absolutely wrecked. Covered in fish scales and reeking like fish and smoke so bad your car smelled awful, your clothes smelled awful, and it took me twenty years before I would even look at fish again.

I also worked a plenum cleaning service for a couple of months.

For those not in the know a plenum is the venting mechanism over grills and stoves that sucks the steam and smoke out the top.

So many Kitchen nightmare behind the scenes disasters.

Cockroach infested filthy kitchens with plenums so saturated in grease it was a wonder the place didn't burn down.

The worst ones were the Chinese food kitchens with the sickly red sweet and sour sauce that congealed in the plenum and duct system.

That was so rubbery it would rip the cleaning scraper out of your hands at times and resisted steam cleaning and what a scam.

$150 an hour two hour minimum two guys getting $8 an hour a truck and a steam cleaner probably $25,000 invested and we would hit six or seven restaurants a night most of them took an hour to setup and clean with twelve-hour days. Eight bucks an hour in 1989 was almost triple minimum wage.

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