fatkid was not being serious synth

Obama got away with some things. The continued expansion of the surveillance state after claiming that he would rein it in and blatant disregard for civilian life in the use of the government drone strike program are pretty big deals that occurred under his watch.

That said, it's less than a drop in a bucket compared to what is slowly becoming the norm in 2017.

My Republican army fellows, doctors, and surgeons assure me that Obama droning citizens was the only thing he did that they approved of. Also, they hate Obamacare because they are busier, don't understand marginal taxes, and pay for the poors they are treating.

let's not forget the biggest scandal of them all: the chipotle sneeze guard scandal of '14

I have tan suit over that one.

He forgot the infamous latte salute.

Some of Obama's pardons were pretty debateable, surprised both these items were not on the list.

Poupon mustard was definitely the worst.

Just watched "the brainwashing of my dad." Covers the right wing outrage machine pretty damn well.

It really is. I'm going to have a low-grade depression for at least 4 years. I've had a really good week this week and it's like an average week 2 years ago.

I just can't look at this country or a lot of my friends and family members the same. I see now how if **** ever really hits the fan, and our govt moves to commit atrocities or end democracy, it will be trivially easy to get them to buy into excuses and deflections. They would absolutely be the nice Nazis who looked the other way and tried to ignore everything going on around them. At best.

I bolded the actual scandals for you.

Or you can just watch this.

Is that awval?

shirtsleeves... in the Oval Office! *faints*

Fail: Bengazi only mentioned once. Also it's Beeeeennnngggaaaazzziiiii

Was coming to post this, but latte salute is probably second to Barack Hussein Obama.



The thing that strikes me about Trump's latest tweets is they all remind me of how excited he was at the positive press he got for the three-month debt ceiling thing. His tweets after that seem like they're almost desperately begging for more praise specifically from the press. Maybe praise from fake news is so much sweeter, after the pounding he's been taking from them, that it's a bigger high than the normal stuff he gets from Fox and the rubes at his rallies.

His ghost writer for Art of the Deal wrote about a party Trump went to with old-money elites in Florida where Trump was doing his normal braggadocio routine. He was despondent afterward and asked Shapiro "Why don't they like me?" This doesn't discount the racism he likely picked up from his KKK daddy, his impressive narcissism, his con-man guiding star, or any of the other stuff, but the last few days he seems like a little kid who so, so desperately wants to be liked--not even elevated and told he's the best like normal, just accepted with a pat on the head.

I mean... **** him, but I almost feel pity for him.

ETA: Full disclosure, I got a similar feeling at one point in the campaign about HRC, also, so what the hell do I know?

yep

When white supremacists and literal Nazis march, the ****ing POTUS says there's good people on both sides, a Nazi runs over 19 protestors - and your takeaway is "but antifa" or "muh free speech". Yeah, you'll look the other way when **** really goes down.

Nark

Thanks but no.

Hip-hop BBQ deserves a mention.

The tan suit messed me up for a day and a half.

Mom jeans

chez has gone to plaid

Pajama boy was pretty sordid.

I can agree with this. I think it's actually FNC's worst aspect. Sure, it's super ****ing racist but the deeply unhealthy thing about FNC is how stressful it is to watch their network. I mean that sincerely; not a healthy thing to do all day.

I can't watch for more than 30 seconds max.

But yeah - it turns into a negative compulsion for some of their viewers.

I feel like I respond to you a lot, but probably only because you're a little more open-book than some people.

Here's the thing I DON'T understand about this take. And it's common. SURELY you must have at some point internalized that atrocities are common in our history. Like, you can't look at this country the same *if*, gasp, SOMEDAY, we commit an atrocity? IF!?

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Or whatever, that SNL skit with Chappelle right after the election with all those despondent white people after Trump was elected.

America has always been populated by metric ****tons of angry bloodthirsty racist idiots. Your depression is understandable. Its temporal nature is not.