artifex 112 points 4 months ago

I think it was the black guy more than the tan suit that they took exception to.

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faythofdragons 15 points 4 months ago

Misread, disregard

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Dr_Fetus_Jackson 81 points 4 months ago

Oh, and EPSTEIN EPSTEIN EPSTEIN

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uriel238 65 points 4 months ago

Obama was not just a black president, but a well-spoken, intelligent, knowledgeable black president who navigated the US out of the subprime mortgage crisis and won a second term despite all efforts by the GOP to wreck his chances.

Granted, he still abused the disposition matrix, failed at his promise of executive transparency, ratcheted up surveillance of Americans to eleven and stuck to neoliberal policies which still pulled wealth up from the working class to the ownership class, but the conservatives and Republicans had no complaint about any of this. These grievances came from the left.

But how dare he be a black man, and far more competent than Bush!? (Curiously, he got a Nobel Peace Prize just for not being Bush. Even Obama was surprised and admitted he hoped to earn it during his tenure.)

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tacoplease 11 points 4 months ago

Obama was a good and competent president who happened to be black. Being black had nothing to do with how well he did his job.

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Janx 9 points 4 months ago

Yes. That's the point. But it did have just a little bit to do with why Republicans viciously attacked him and still do...

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tacoplease 8 points 4 months ago

Race had everything to with the attacks.

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Janx 3 points 4 months ago

Someone's paying attention!

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brainzzz 6 points 4 months ago

Plus so very charismatic and has a brilliant wife and a great marriage. He really has so much going for him!

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theunknownmuncher 46 points 4 months ago

At best they were "serious" about it

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Sanctus 33 points 4 months ago

But it was definitely flung around every where like he had ritually sacrificed a human being on the chamber floor.

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nexguy 12 points 4 months ago

Remember when Obama wanted to erect a statue of himself? Right after accepting an award that someone else won? What a low life! Who does that?

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jaybone 4 points 4 months ago

A tan suit is kind of like a gold suit…

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M137 -1 points 4 months ago

everywhere*

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DagwoodIII 4 points 4 months ago

Actual Senators spoke out about it on the news.

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takeda 34 points 4 months ago

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lefaucet 0 points 4 months ago

Came here to post this

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LuminousLuddite 27 points 4 months ago

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tacoplease 10 points 4 months ago

Yellow mustard sucks. Dijon mustard beats yellow all the time.

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Rcklsabndn 1 point 4 months ago

I forget, did they rename Dijon mustard during the Freedom Fries era?

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Klox 26 points 4 months ago

Yeah and those several times Obama shit his pants on camera. Oh, right, that's President Dump.

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Unstoppable_Flop -4 points 4 months ago

Obiden shits in dumps pants every day!

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ExLisper 24 points 4 months ago

There were not serious about it. They were paid to say this bullshit. They all new it's stupid but the base was dumb enough to buy it.

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phoenixz 18 points 4 months ago

Not people

Paid pundits who's sole job it was to keep the US population distracted over dumb shit while real shit was happening

This has been a thing in the US for what, decades, now? It's pretty much the sole reasons for Fox News existence, to distract people with bullshit so that the billionaire thugs can rob the coffers dry

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saltesc 18 points 4 months ago

No. US media was talking about it as they pushed narrative. Americans, who live and die by their social and news media feeds, then started copying that, as usual.

They don't think for themselves, they just follow their feeds and timelines. If their feed stops talking about Epstein, so do they. If their feed starts talking about Iran, so do they. Literally that's all that happened with the tan suit and why the ballroom is nothing.

Hell, scroll through Lemmy's 'Hot' and 'New' feeds while the US is active if you need to see it in action.

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TheOctonaut 7 points 4 months ago

This... This is a link aggregator website. It exists to link to external sources and discuss them. I'm sorry did you think this was Original Thoughts dot com?

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saltesc 1 point 4 months ago

No, This is politicalmemes and a comment section anywhere is for expression and discussion, but especially more common for memes. Kinda the whole point of the culture of it existing.

What I do think is you've given an excellent example of irony... dot com; or whatever.

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TheOctonaut 1 point 4 months ago

You literally specify about Lemmy's Hot and New feeds, why would you try to bluff about only talking "memes"?

It's ok to be wrong some times. Bit embarrassing though to, 2 comments lower, claim you meant something else.

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saltesc 1 point 4 months ago

The point was never about a specific feed. It was about people following whatever their algorithm or curation drops into it, rather than thinking independently.

I don't know what you're on about, but that's the argument. One that wasn't even at you.

So if you want to challenge that, great. But pulling apart the wording and ignoring the substance ain't engaging in the idea.

It's ok to be wrong some times.

Look, honestly, that sounds like either projection or a line that's worked on you before. It's normal that everyone's wrong a lot of the time and I think most people know that of themselves and others. I have no idea why you'd profound that out of no where unless you've made it a "who's right; who's wrong" interaction in your head somehiw. And if it is, peace out! Fuck that shit lol

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TomMasz 17 points 4 months ago

Idiocracy was a cautionary tale not a how-to guide.

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heartSagan5 4 points 4 months ago

President Comacho also did it better. He actually swallowed his pride and found the best man to solve the issue of his day. The current guy? He’ll parade around like he solved it because that’s all he’s got … plastic. No wonder “Mar-a-lago infection” has manifested in women contorting their face with “a herpes.”

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LittleBorat3 2 points 4 months ago

Do they have herpes now, is that what you get when rimming old men?

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tacoplease 16 points 4 months ago

Yeah let's leave it up and use it for advertising. Nothing says sophistication more than an ad of Goya Beans in front of your house.

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Someone8765210932 2 points 4 months ago

Honestly, I agree. This should stay. Maybe the next time a spot next to Trump opens up, all his sycophants can fight it out in a cage...

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tanisnikana 13 points 4 months ago

I’m tired, boss.

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RampantParanoia2365 12 points 4 months ago

Right, but this is what plants crave.

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joeljoelle 11 points 4 months ago

I really just can't take people who support this seriously anymore. Either admit you got conned or you're a big ol jerk who's profiting from the destruction of America, which one? You haven't "owned the libs" or anything, you just made yourselves look like the biggest dupes ever.

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bigbangdangler 10 points 4 months ago

Most of them weren't serious about it. They spent 8 years bitching that extra amount because the President was black.

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Drusas 9 points 4 months ago

Many racists, maybe even most, don't recognize that they are racist. They have some other excuse in their head for why they hate somebody.

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iThinkDifferentThanU 9 points 4 months ago

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ArgentRaven 9 points 4 months ago

He's literally only saying this as a distraction. From the Epstein files and now Iran (which was originally a small distraction from the Epstein files).

THAT'S CRAZY! WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES?

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jaybone 4 points 4 months ago

But they released the ALIEN FILES.

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DrBob 7 points 4 months ago

Shit at least he didnt express a preference for Dijon mustard. Because that would be clfucked up.

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jaybone 5 points 4 months ago