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.
Well you're conveniently forgetting that Obama had the fucking audacity to
eat dijon mustardwear a tan suitbe black.And tan suit which is an anagram for satanic (well, almost…)
satunit
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
Big Antichrist vibes. Would it have burned his hand? I guess will never know.
I think we can safely assume it would have. Why else wouldn't he want to touch Jesus Book?
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.
The person can choose what they swear on. He chose the bible, then failed to use it.
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.
"we separate church and state" Church throwing bibles at every god damn state and court event and making people swear on them.
Not to be annoying but it is in fact your business
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christiansupremacyHell, even the racism and fake Christianity are just bones they toss to the base while doing their real business.
Fascism will always find an out crowd
White cis het male supremacy.
He was probably afraid of getting struck by divine lightning or something like that if he touched a Bible while uttering the words with no intentions to follow them.
Did the orange turd or someone else do that?
He actually did take the oath without putting his hand on a bible and they did try to make a big deal about it.
John Roberts messed up the oath during the inauguration and they had to redo it later.
During the do-over there was no bible: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_inauguration_of_Barack_Obama
As if they actually cared about such matters. It would have only been just another excuse to stoke moral panic and outrage as red meat for their rabid base.
It’s exactly the sort of cynicism that, by design and intent, leads to apathy and fascism
This is just the childish act of crossing your fingers when you make a promise. He didn't put his hand on the Bible because he isn't planning on presiding faithfully, and he has absolutely no intention whatsoever to preserve, protect or defend the Constitution of the United States unless it benefits him personally at the time.
It's the ceremony organizers' fault for neglecting to bring a bible small enough to put his hand on.
Not half, but a veeeery loud quarter of it
Obama put his hand on the Constitution. Maybe this is a sarcastic meme? I don't know
Or maybe you are just a liar??
When U.S. President Barack Obama took the oath of office Monday, he placed his hand on two Bibles.
The first was the Bible used by former President Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, when he took the oath for his first term in 1861. The second Bible was the so-called "traveling Bible" used by slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Junior.
openauth?
What happened?
Trump broke with tradition and didn't put his hand on the Bible during his inauguration.
One might expect to hear conservative Christians squawking about it, but they have been notably quiet.
Can you not read?
Is he not in the business of selling the Trump Bibles to schools? Bullshit is hurting my head.
Didn't that actually happen, and they had a private do-over?
John Toberts (Chief Justice of the SC) misspoke one of the lines that Obama was supposed to say. Obama, being an intelligent man had rehearsed the speech and recognized that it was incorrect. Obama Said back the correct wording even tho Roberts said it wrong. They did re-do it privately for exactly the howler monkeys on Fox News who were shitting-in-their-hands happy about to start flinging poo.
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.
Dude, he did it 2 times, give me a break and best part is that he meant it, hence the 2 times salute. Cope harder
Literal WW2 scholars have come forward and said that was unequivocally a Nazi salute. We have side-by-side comparisons that match the form and the timing. Everyone with an eye can tell what it is except for other Nazi sympathizers.
Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining.
Username does not check out.
I like that strawman you built, it's so weak and flimsy a small breeze would knock it over.
Straw man? I don't think you understood the point I was making...
Show me a video of AOC doing a nazi salute two times in a row.
Can you please show me what you are referring to and the context? Because the context of the event discussed was very clear. It wasn't a never do this educational situation. Dude just had to say, my bad it looked like that but I was caught up in the moment and meant to put my hand out with an open palm like Jesus in Rio but we instead accidentally kept them facing down.
A lot of the issue stemmed from him doing it twice after supporting a far right Germany movement and not just saying my bad.
Yeah that's my point. It has a lot more credibility as an accusation against Musk compared to when AOC did something very similar. Because nobody thinks AOC is a Nazi. It's a bit of a double standard, but so what?
This is what I'm referring to. If you can find the video it really does look like a nazi salute, but nobody actually thinks that it is, in any way: https://x.com/APTeacher1754/status/1882043612122497239/photo/1
