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    I’m old enough to recall Bush political cartoons, he was constantly a monkey clown for our amusement. I’m fine with any President being portrayed as a monkey, personally.

    But this struck me immediately as deeply racist. I think it’s because of the attack on the former first lady? It’s a visceral reaction.

    What did she ever do to anybody?

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        Agree. I think everyone should skip to make a point but my guess is most politicians will go to ‘show respect for the office’. Most of them are spineless PR machines.

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        no one can learn anything in the modern world

        edit: i don’t like the tone i took with this comment. i forgot the golden rule of the internet that tone is always lost so you must always post in earnest if you post at all. what i hope for is actually that people will look at the past 5, 10, 20, 50, 80, 100, and 160 years to see what works and what doesn’t when it comes to getting people more access to dignified living. it’s very consistently organizing into a big strong coalition of the people that transcends race, gender, and sexual identity

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      Saw this in a post somewhere.

      He’s a super-sexist-pedophile-nazi-racist-potus.

      Say it like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

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        23 hours ago

        He is the very model of a model racist-potus,
        He’s prone to information super-sexist-nazi locust…

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    About 4 or 5 years ago, I was at a relative’s house – The relative was one of those people that basically watch Fox News 24/7. So, unfortunately I was exposed to the literal propaganda that is Fox News. Calling it propaganda is literally and understatement.

    Anyway, at one point during the 5 o’clock “news”, they aired a segment that featured Democrats in congress. They played the audio feed from whatever hearing or whatever was going on, but the video feed was a bunch of chimpanzees in a zoo setting.

    So, what happened today is nothing new. This is who conservative Republicans in the USA are and have always been.

    More importantly, reach out to people in your life, and especially people of color. What happened today is absolutely disgusting, and a lot of people are/were already struggling with things. A bit of kindness, connection with others goes a long way. Community and connections are especially critical in these times, and checking in with your friends, family, and neighbors is basically the least you can do, but also one of the most impactful things you can do right now.

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      You’re not wrong, and playing a video feed of chimpanzees while Democrat representatives are speaking is dumb, but I imagine it was a mix of colors and genders. Putting the former PoC president and his wife’s faces on fucking apes is another level. It’s a very old, very specific, and very intentional act of racism…

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        No point carrying water for racists. Regardless of the skin tone, racism is the point.

        I don’t understand how any rational person could fall for the ploy that “some of those politicians had pale skin!!!”

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      Yes, the original video was. Which is why everyone should bring it right back to the tRUMP-Epstein files like in the above picture.

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        Reminds me of one of my all time favorite tweets:

        “It’s Raining Men and Bodies by Drowning Pool are two different perspectives on the same event”

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          I was gonna say that things falling on floors happens indoors while rain is traditionally outdoors, but I imagine the terminal velocity of adult males plummeting from the sky would cause them to end their flights on a fair few floors anyway.

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      If the mother nature removes him from the office it would be a clear sign to the world that the only thing that can stop dictator in the USA is time. And that the next one will happen soon.

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        And an asshole, that keeps people alive more than any medical science.

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            She was a firecracker I’d say she could be rather cunty at times. And that’s a compliment, she reminds me of my aunt who’s also a badass

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      This type of helplessness is the power vacuum that the Republicans have taken advantage of and filled.

      They take action while the dems polish their prayer sticks and dance their rain dances.

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          “rest of the leftists”

          See, you’re working under the false assumption that Liberals are leftists. Never forget that neoliberism is a right-wing ideology.

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    Bruh…

    Is that a real post? That can’t possibly be real… Is it?

    But also, hearing both Barack and Michelle speak and then seeing their faces like this still brings me positive, constructive joy. Seriously. Go listen to an interview with either of them and you’ll feel your whole body stop tensing.

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    “You know who isn’t in the Epstein files? Barack Obama. You know who actually improved the economy as president? Barack Obama,” he added.

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      Bailing out multinational banks with taxpayer funds is not “improving the economy.”

      Yeah, I know they “paid us back”… i.e. they returned funds made with interest from that bail out, and returned a significantly smaller (through inflation) amount of money. CLEVER THAT SURE TRICKED ME

      Inflation isn’t because of some mysterious unknown cause. This bailout in 2008 is a big part of why.

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      He is mentioned in the files several times, but negatively i.e. the pedo elites didn’t like him. Which, ironically, only paints Obama in an even better light.

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    Black Republicans: “I sure hope that’s fake or you guys apologize”

    How the hell could it be fake and you know he won’t, but keep towing that party line.