• ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    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.

  • tacoplease@lemmy.world
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    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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      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…

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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.)

    • brainzzz@piefed.world
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      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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      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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        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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    I think it was the black guy more than the tan suit that they took exception to.

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    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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      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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    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