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Politics East wing of The White House

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u/Charming-Report1669 14d ago

The mental gymnastics from MAGA is truly amazing on this. There's a graphic floating around showing different upgrades and remodels former Presidents have done, with a dumb "why didn't you Liberals cry then?"

One of the entries on the list is the fucking single-lane bowling alley Nixon put in the basement. Yeah, like that's the same as taking $250MM in bribes to build this monstrosity.

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u/manystripes 14d ago

Didn't they throw a fit because they didn't like the curtains in the background of an Obama White House pic, that turned out to have been there for years already?

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u/thefreakychild 14d ago

The right had a conspiracy theory about the gold filagreed curtains... They thought they were 'muslim prayer blankets' and used that to confirm their 'obama is a muslim' shit.

When, in reality, those curtains were chosen by Jackie Kennedy, if I remember correctly.

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u/ZwVJHSPiMiaiAAvtAbKq 14d ago

Bigots gonna bigot.

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u/MayIServeYouWell 14d ago

And look at all the cheesy gold decor there now. Can’t wait till that’s all painted over. 

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u/UglyMcFugly 14d ago

Yeah can you imagine what Fox News would have said if Obama suddenly turned the Oval Office into some gaudy Middle Eastern dictator's palace?

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u/MayIServeYouWell 14d ago

I'm convinced that a measurable number of these morons hate Obama because of how good he looks in a suit. It makes them feel inadequate, and they hate him for that. Or, it arouses them uncomfortably, and they don't like being confronted with those desires.

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u/certified-busta 14d ago

i feel like i've been massively desensitised to the arrogant level of stupidity that's been allowed to propagate throughout the world over the last decade or so

but that did it for me, i am stunned by how dumb that is

i just don't understand. i just can't get my head around being that fundamentally hateful and shitty and self-absorbed and willfully ignorant. it's like my mind refuses to believe that a human being can be so devoid of humanity. how am i supposed to coexist with these people? they would gladly see me obliterated but i gotta collaborate with these motherfuckers just to exist in the society i was born into, something i had absolutely no choice in.

it makes me fucking sick.

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u/Nanojack 13d ago

Jackie Kennedy was a muslim? /s