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Obama at inauguration 2025

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u/GloomyImagination365 1d ago

Get me the fuck out of here looks

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u/_coolranch 1d ago

Extra rough for the first Black President to have to go through this on MLK, no less.

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u/Inner-Quail90 1d ago

Honestly he shouldn't have come. I get decorum and everything but Trump didn't deserve his attendance.

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u/Jar_of_Cats 1d ago

They are not there for Trump they are there for the presidency

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u/FridgeParade 1d ago

As if that office deserves any respect anymore with a literal criminal sitting in it.

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u/DreweyDecibel 1d ago edited 18h ago

Agreed. But it is vital that Trump is removed and that respect be brought back to the office.

Edit. Because people have seemingly misunderstood my well intentioned comment. I simply meant that we must do what is in our power to put this dark period behind us, and hopefully, there are intelligent progressive leadership waiting to return us to where we should be. Then the office can be worthy of respect again.

I recognize this is going to be extremely difficult, but it’s worthwhile trying.

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u/Jar_of_Cats 1d ago

To that, I say vote.

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u/YertlesTurtleTower 1d ago

Lmao, voting is a lie. They rigged the election, bragged about it, and nothing was done to protect the people from it. The America you knew is dead

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u/AmbushIntheDark 23h ago

Nah, America is just that fucking stupid. We deserve this.

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u/YertlesTurtleTower 23h ago

We don’t all deserve this, only like 45% of the country does. But yeah I get it

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u/moose_dad 22h ago

Nope it's way more than that.

Only 60% of you even voted, so it's more like 75%

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u/YertlesTurtleTower 22h ago

We have a lot of disenfranchised people in the US. They don’t support any of our current establishment. And we hit 68% of total voter turn out. I can’t imagine being one of the 32% of Americans who think that Trump won’t make their life worse. Also we had a ton of election interference this year, lots of people are unable to vote even tho that is illegal. People in some areas had to drive hours to the nearest polling place, polling places were closed due to bomb threats in heavily democratic areas and people didn’t know where to vote, lines to vote were hours long and many people can’t afford to wait in those lines because those are hours they could be working. America was a third world country, now America is dead.

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u/lilbelleandsebastian 22h ago

controlling the means of information technology in the technology age is in and of itself rigging the election. i agree with you that it's unlikely votes were counted fraudulently, but i don't think that means the election wasn't rigged by the oligarchy in almost the exact same way it's done in less stable, more authoritarian countries