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2014: Barack Obama Tan Suit Scandal (biggest scandal of two presidential terms)

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

https://youtu.be/5sl3GRuE0ao

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  • nomecks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    There was the whole “Winning the Nobel Peace Prize while ordering drone assassinations”, but yeah, tan suit was #1.

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Imagine 2014 fox trying to rile up their base because the president was killing innocent brown people. They wouldn’t give a fuck. Tan suit and Dijon mustard were all they had to work with.

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    • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’ll take targeted strikes over the indiscriminate ones that level residential blocks I’ve seen lately.

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      • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “Targeted” strikes that blew up schools, weddings, and a doctor’s without borders hospital

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    • winterayars@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah but that wasn’t a scandal. The news, his peers, everyone (important) was all on the same side. At least on the drone strike thing. Not everyone was happy about him winning the Nobel.

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    • splicerslicer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      He won the prize before even entering office.

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    • MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Obama was like Sherman: His deeds will be memorized in the occupied territory for all of eternity.

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  • TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I like how this is remembered as a scandal, as opposed to drone striking a wedding

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    • thecrotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      and a doctor’s without borders hospital. You know you’re a piece of shit when one of the most altruistic organizations that’s ever existed calls you a war criminal

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    • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Americans have different priorities

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    • Sarmyth@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Certainly, presidents have some responsibility for things that the military does during their tenure, but people talk about these events, like he was told they were striking a DWB facility. I suspect he was told told they had located their target, and he approved without knowledge of the location and potential blowback.

      His Whitehouse always struck me as more savvy than that, which led me to believe some of these were the result of omissions during communication from overseas.

      That said, I totally believe they would bomb a wedding if they felt a high enough priority target was there (even if they were wrong). I felt the military was given ALOT of freedom to make decisions on their own while Obama was in office.

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      • TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That sounds reasonable.

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  • ArugulaZ@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Don't forget when he dared to ask for GREY POUPON on his hot dog! Oh, gasp and swoon! The media assured us that it was exactly as bad as Trump raping a thirteen year old girl, because anything one side does is just as bad as everything the other side does.

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  • Teon@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The real scandal was how fucking hot he looked in that suit!
    And how jealous the GOP was of it.

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    • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Dapper lad

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  • azurefirefly@lemmy.basedcount.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Looking dapper

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  • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Republicans accused him of trying to remove God on the money and made him sign shit to “remind him”.

    They also accused him of saying tire gauges were his foreign policy plan because they love lying and are a bunch of bastards.

    Lots of aren’t fond of the Dems either but the Republicans are just terrible people.

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    • 1847953620@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      his environmental plan

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’d think it was when he approved the extrajudicial killing of a US citizen with a drone. Imagine someone like Trump running with the precedent he set.

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    • Plavatos@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh yeah, that’s fun, let’s go back further. Remember when Bush lied about WMDs to invade Iraq? Imagine Obama running with a war in the Middle East on his hands.

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      • hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        George Washington executed his own troops for demanding to be paid for their service. Imagine… Yeah.

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  • cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So people are super mad that Obama fought islamic terrorism? Ok

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  • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    YouTube links aren’t shitposts, they’re fuckin sewage

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    • BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So you are bemoaning a dilution of your good old wholesome shit? 😂 🤣 😂

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  • WhyDoesntThisThingWork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Remember this?

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  • BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    youtu.be/WrTf6CaTTc0

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