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    2 months ago

    If one of Obama’s friends would’ve done a nazi salute behind the presidential seal, the Republicans would’ve lynched Obama on the lawn of the white house

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    Whoever succeeds trump, (assuming that happens, and it’s not Vance), should do the same thing, so we can maybe get rid of that dumbass tradition.

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      “we separate church and state” Church throwing bibles at every god damn state and court event and making people swear on them.

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    Honestly, the current situation is beyond double standards. The Republicans have free reign to more or less break any of their own rules and suffer almost no consequences. Meanwhile, literally anything a Democrat does is spun into multiple mutually exclusive conspiracy theories that their base and the media somehow manage to spout simultaneously.

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      Not to mention leftists will latch onto it too and repeat the lie everywhere yet swear up and down that they voted for the Democrat even though they shit on them any time they open their mouth.

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    Sadly I think it would have been more than half. Personally I’d like less of the Bible in any of our swear ins, but Orange Hitler not doing it just keeps the process rolling forward.

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      Hell, even the racism and fake Christianity are just bones they toss to the base while doing their real business.

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    Yeah but if AOC makes a gesture that looks a lot like a nazi salute, nobody cares about it. It’s a double standard, but nobody actually thinks AOC is a nazi or was trying to evoke nazi imagery. Double standards aren’t always automatically bad or wrong. They need to be considered in the context of the person and what they stand for.

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          I don’t think YOU understood. You fabricated a scenario that doesn’t exist “AOC making a nazi salute”, and then claimed that nobody would have said anything about it, therefore it’s a double-standard.

          You conjured an event out of thin air, and then claimed your imaginary event that never even happened was proof of an existing double-standard.

          Now if AOC ever does an Elon and makes a constipated face while smashing her hand to her heart and grunting like a pig while thrusting it straight out in a nazi salute… twice… and nobody says anything… see, then you would have a point.

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            She could do the exact same thing and nobody would say anything about it. Nobody would consider for a second that she actually meant to do a salute. Why would she? What in her history would make anyone think she is aligned with nazis? What could she hope to accomplish doing such a thing to the type of crowd she would be speaking to? The very idea is preposterous, and for that reason it wouldn’t even be considered.

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    It is absolutely not a requirement to swear an oath on a bible, or even to have a bible nearby.

    It just happens to be a longstanding custom in the USA. Many politicians take the oath on a bible just for the optics. DT, of all people, is all about optics. Dude probably wasn’t paying any attention, and surely winging his swearing given the last minute changes.

    In any case, shouldn’t everyone be applauding a president for refusing to touch a bible, tacitly denouncing religious contexts near government?

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      Except when Trump was asked what his favorite book of all time was, can you guess what he answered?

      That’s right. He said The Bible was his favorite book. You do understand the difference between actually believing in something, or just being a hypocrite and a con-man, right?

      It’s not about whether it’s a requirement or not. It’s about a con artist revealing the con, and watching people like you handwave it away.

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        I thought he won because the handling of the day to day economics of the average citizen was in shambles, but yeah, clearly magic sky man holds more weight