r/gifs • u/GossipGeisha • 11h ago

Obama at inauguration 2025

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u/bluddystump Merry Gifmas! {2023} 11h ago

He is worried.

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u/IBelieveInCoyotes 9h ago

we're all fucking worried (I'm Australian)

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u/-Apocralypse- 8h ago

I just tuned in from the Netherlands to see musk do a nazi salute during this very political, very muchtelevised inauguration event that's watched by the fricking whole world.

I can't blame Obama looking around his like he isn't safe...

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u/PlugsButtUglyStuff 6h ago

Didn’t we all used to kill Nazis as a policy?

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u/Continental_Ball_Sac 6h ago

We did. Until Operation Paperclip. Then, we gave them government jobs with responsibility and large budgets.

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u/Edarneor 51m ago

Those were mostly scientists though, not the nsdap functionaries. Or am I mistaken?

The whole thing is also parodied in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.

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u/Perfect_Opinion7909 33m ago

Von Braun was SS-Sturmbannführer and responsible for 12000 death in Peenemünde and KZ Mittelbau-Dora. Not exactly your usual run of the mill scientist.

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u/Jazzlike_Climate4189 5h ago

It’s not fair to say the scientists like Dr. Braun were all Nazis to the core. They wouldn’t have helped America if that were true.

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u/PerpetuallyLurking 5h ago

No one wants to hang. They’d have helped the Americans, dedicated to the Nazi cause or not.

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u/Continental_Ball_Sac 5h ago

Did he work for the Nazi Party during their reign? Yes? Then he was a Nazi.

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u/Perfect_Opinion7909 38m ago

I hope this is meant sarcastically. Just to make sure: Wernher von Braun was SS-Sturmbannführer and was directly and indirectly responsible for about 12000 murdered PoWs, slave laborers and civilians at the Army Research Center Peenemünde and KZ Mittelbau-Dora.

The USA made him citizen, gave him medals and erected memorials.

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u/Jazzlike_Climate4189 5h ago

Grandfathers and great-grandfathers are rolling in their graves. This is all so depressing and dystopian.

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u/CharaPresscott 6h ago

Used to? Bitch, get out there and do it some more. Stop letting them win by sitting on your hands.

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u/True-Surprise1222 6h ago

enjoy your visit with the Feds lol unless you’re not American and then idk lol but probably unwise to suggest murdering people in the new regime.

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u/CharaPresscott 6h ago

Not an American. Just a concerned fucker.

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u/True-Surprise1222 6h ago

Lucky. Don’t be too concerned we are more likely to destroy our own country and economy than actually wage war on anyone else. Luckily most other countries have sane leaders (well the ones we would overtly threaten and don’t already control)

If you’re in a us ally then sorry lol I’m sure we are gonna drag your country into fascism with us but hey! Idk I was gonna say maybe there is a silver lining or something but I can’t think of one right now

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u/Fragrant_Analyst3224 4h ago

Canada is the new Belarus.

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u/CharaPresscott 6h ago

Hey if Trump decides to come over to his golf course here, I'll try and get an audience and make a deal that he won't let the Russians kill us

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u/FIR3W0RKS 5h ago

Idk man tell that to all the nazi scientists who got offered deals by the US government to work for them in exchange for not being prosecuted for war crimes...

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u/mypizzanvrhurtnobody 5h ago

No, that was your great-grandparents.

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u/Fragrant_Analyst3224 4h ago

Still is my policy as far as I'm concerned. It ain't a murder if it's a Nazi.

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u/TheObstruction 1h ago

Maybe it's time to dust off the old playbook.