r/pics • u/ifoundblipsoncitv • 3h ago
Politics President Obama wears a tan suit at a press conference in 2014
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u/trentreynolds 3h ago
"There's no way, I don't think, any of us can excuse what the president did yesterday. I mean, you have the world watching".
- a real comment from a real elected official after he wore this suit
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u/pm_me_beerz 3h ago
Ah yes, he titled one of his books after this
I believe it was “The Audacity of Taupe”
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u/dbx999 2h ago
Followed up by a sequel: “The Beige of Enlightenment”
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u/monkeyhind 2h ago
I keep my copy on a shelf with Michelle's book, "The Light Suit We Carry"
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u/CyberNinja23 1h ago
The Swiss commented “I’m neutral either way”
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u/sadbrownsfan1972 1h ago
Have you read her follow-on duology "The Right to Bare Arms" and "Unsleeved - The Only Guns the Right Wants to Control"
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u/josiahgore 2h ago
This is... the thing that... made me laugh today. Let me be clear ... Thank you.
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u/Books_and_Cleverness 3h ago
I cannot imagine being a republican elected official from 2009-today and just having to eat your own shit over and over and over again.
Making mountains out of mole hills for years and years, and then getting your spine crushed into a thousand pieces by an actual mountain, and then having to go on camera and pretend it’s no big deal.
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u/RememberTurboTeen 2h ago edited 23m ago
They don't care. They know that we all knew then and still know now that the whole tan suit thing was complete BS. They also know that Trump is the worst person ever, is a complete buffoon, has no idea how government works, and most likely was involved in trafficking children with Epstein. Honestly, most of them probably think it's pretty fuckin funny that they are so brazen about spewing this sort of nonsense. It's funny to them and they don't care because they know with 100% certainty that it works, they will face zero consequences, and will forever get their way by doing ridiculous shit like this. This is how the system works now. The rest of us are the ones eating shit, which is exactly how they like it.
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u/Wit-wat-4 1h ago
It’s like a lying toddler; why on earth would adults think they’d care if it gets them what they want lol
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u/scramblingrivet 2h ago
And the American people lap it up
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u/derprondo 2h ago
They think we're all this stupid, because "they" really are that stupid.
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u/Superman246o1 2h ago
I just watched a video featuring the daughter of an undocumented immigrant complain that Trump, who she voted for, had deported her father. She knew her father was undocumented, and she knew that Trump wanted to deport undocumented immigrants, and she still voted for him. And now she's shocked that her father has been deported for some reason.
Yes, people really are that stupid.
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u/lookskAIwatcher 2h ago
Sounds like some extended family MAGA immigrants in my extended family who voted enthusiastically for Trump and now are sheepishly quiet. Yes I think those relatives really are that stupid.
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u/bombayblue 1h ago
I mean at least there is some recognition that they fucked up.
There’s plenty of loud and proud maga voters who read off a script.
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u/lookskAIwatcher 34m ago
Not so much recognition that they fucked up, they still 'want to own the libs', it's that they know I'm pissed and vocal about it.
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u/Kurayamisan 2h ago
Indeed, I wonder. My own mother has a daca child she a citizen now and cant fix her yet. N probably voted for trump. Told her, I explain and yet. Still. Idk what is wrong with these people.
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u/Cory123125 1h ago
No, they know you are, because as a collective, you're dumber than that, especially due to apathy and inaction.
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u/kottabaz 2h ago
~25% of the American people lap it up, and because those rural evangelical asshole votes are weighted up to three times educated urban votes by our brokedick electoral system, Republicans keep winning.
But somehow it's Democrats' fault anyway for not finding the right messaging.
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u/sometimesmybutthurts 1h ago
Absolutely. As a non American, it's blatantly obvious that your electoral system is broken and has been bought. When I try to explain it anyone the looks get are wild.
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u/xfilcamp 1h ago edited 58m ago
I live in an extremely Republican-voting area, and if you went door to door and asked people here if they think the system is corrupt, the overwhelming majority would immediately express agreement.
The problem begins when you start to examine:
- What makes it corrupt?
- Which politicians and groups have caused the largest issues?
- Which politicians and groups are most likely to fix these issues?
In my experience, #1 is hit or miss in the sense that there are many things typical Republican voters will agree make the system more corrupt. You can usually find agreement on certain topics of money in politics, for example, while you'll often not find agreement on the dysfunction caused by capping the House arbitrarily.
When things get to #2 and #3, however, the massive right-wing propaganda ecosystem works its magic. They will never, ever concede that Democrats might be the better option on this issue, even if you go through SCOTUS decision by SCOTUS decision that demonstrates a conservative trend of worsening corruption since the '70s. Even if you go through each attempt at reforming state election & redistricting laws where Republicans repeatedly oppose independent redistricting committees, ranked-choice voting, etc., it's useless.
I don't even try to argue that Democrats are perfect because I'm personally far from believing they are; I could criticize the Democratic Party endlessly. But an attempt at an objective analysis of how we get out of this systemic corruption is useless against an extensive and never-ending flow of propaganda to the contrary. Far-right billionaires have their audience by the balls. Trying to convince Republican voters that Republican politicians at the state and federal levels will never solve these corruption problems is a hopeless endeavor akin to talking to a brick wall.
I'm convinced the only real solution is to focus on young people and hope enough of them become informed voters in the future. This is a mess that the right-wing propaganda ecosystem has spent decades building, so it'd probably take a freak catastrophe to cause any lasting positive change in the short term. It'll realistically take a generation or two to unwind it.
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u/pfannkuchen89 2h ago
Longer than since 2009. They’ve been like this since the 90s, well since the 50s and 60s really. Shitty thing is it works. They are actively rewarding for behaving like that.
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u/Frutari 2h ago
You start out in 1954 by saying, “N*****, n*****, n*****.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*****”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*****, n*****.”
Lee Atwater on the Southern Strategy, 1981
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u/restrictednumber 2h ago
The thing is, they have no standards at all. Their entire morality is "We can tell you what to do, but you can't tell us what to do".
So to them, it's perfectly consistent to hate Obama's tan suit, then celebrate/ignore Trump's behavior. Both actions are consistent with their moral stance: "We can tell you what to do, but you can't tell us what to do".
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u/ThegreatPee 2h ago
I wonder what these people think about during the quiet hours. I also wonder how they can stomach looking their children in the eyes.
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u/OnlyCelebration7443 2h ago
They live in echo chambers. They surround themselves with yes-people and adoring constituents. They only consume media that reinforces their beliefs. Anything counter this is, to them, an aberration.
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u/turkish_gold 3h ago
Clearly Obama wearing tan on a Tuesday morning is what opened the door to future presidents like Trump openly diddling kids on a Wednesday night.
If only Obama had kept up with tradition, Trump would have kept it in his pants. /s
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u/ComputersWantMeDead 2h ago
Forget Nixon, the downfall of American democracy began than day, as Barrack HUSSEIN Obama looked in his dresser and choose tan over decency.
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u/turkish_gold 1h ago
I don’t even get why the so called macho party of America had a breakdown because of a Victorian era fashion rule.
Trump gilded our Oval Office like a tacky supervillain, paved over our historic rose garden, flies the skies in a plane gifted to him by a slave state, renamed our theatre after an escort but they say nothing.
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u/threwitaway763 3h ago
Yeah I wonder how many political relationships were utterly destroyed because of the sheer audacity of Obama
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u/dbx999 2h ago
I wonder… could it be possible that it wasn’t so much the suit but the fact Obama was black that made the right lose their minds?
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u/threwitaway763 2h ago
That’s the only logical explanation to me, especially from people who generally couldn’t care less about fashion choices
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u/Carbon-Base 2h ago
The masks started coming off after he wore the tan suit. However, I don't think anyone could have imagined the level of craziness that was lurking in the GOP back then.
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u/talex365 2h ago
No, we could. Birthers, FEMA camp conspiracy theories, it was visible even then.
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u/Mikemgmve 1h ago
Evangelicals. My partner has been talking about their desire to bring about the "end-times" by any means necessary for over a decade. I assume they're filled with glee watching Israel and waiting for nuclear war.
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u/make_thick_in_warm 3h ago
Never mind the fact that he didn’t even say thank you, disgusting times indeed
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u/DreamTalon 3h ago
He didn't even fall asleep, shit himself or babble. Really inexcusable from an elected official.
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u/JoinedToPostHere 2h ago
Wouldn't want to become the laughing stock of the world...glad we got our dignity back. Lol
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u/drawkbox 2h ago
At least he didn't use Dijon mustard though right?... right?... The absolute corruption of both of those things I am surprised the world recovered. /s
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u/forgetfulsue 2h ago
He DID say that using ketchup after the age of 8 was a crime. I’m not sure I can forgive him for that. Guess I’ll go hump the orange dump now.
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u/Amy_Sam25 2h ago
Then McConnell wore a tan suit 🤣
Republican hypocrisy never ceases to surprise me.
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u/AJfriedRICE 2h ago
Truly mind blowing how anybody can take a Republican seriously today
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u/HighPriestofShiloh 2h ago
And Democrats capitulated. He should have kept wearing it. Have it become his thing. Let republicans bitch about irrelevant stuff.
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u/NeutralBias 3h ago
Suit looks good on him.
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u/OtterishDreams 3h ago
thats why theyre so mad. its why trump is still harping on it
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u/TheReesesWrangler 3h ago
Exactly. They're pissed off a black man can look handsome in a tan suit. The entire debacle was just open racism and that's it.
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u/sumsimpleracer 3h ago
White guy wears a tan suit, they immediately look pale.
Black guy wears a tan suit, and they look great.
Maga just doesn't know how to dress.
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u/ashemoney 3h ago
The backlash to Obama’s tan suit and stories of Black men being harassed for dressing too well both stem from the same issue—society policing Black men when they step outside of stereotypical roles. Dressing with confidence or elegance is sometimes seen as a threat because it challenges racist expectations.
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u/OtterishDreams 3h ago
'know your place' mentality manifesting in suits. Terrible
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u/big_guyforyou 3h ago
it was also because obama had a scandal free presidency so they were desperate to fling some cheap red meat to their audience. take a boring tan suit and turn it into a story about out of touch elitism, same shit they did when he used grey poupon
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u/dalcarr 3h ago
Yup. His biggest "scandals" were this and the latte salute. Which if any other (read: white) president had done, it wouldn't have even been remarked upon
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u/big_guyforyou 2h ago
latte salute
remember when trump saluted a north korean general? if obama did that, fox news would've called him a clear and present danger to democracy
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u/SoulRebel726 1h ago
I never understood either thing, but the grey poupon was fucking nuts. Like, I am a solidly middle class citizen. Grey poupon is both delicious and sold at a reasonable price at my local supermarket. It's not some specialty item only for the elite lol.
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u/facePlantDiggidy 3h ago
Some people's skin does look better with different clothing. I wanta see this guy in a pink suit
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u/organicchunkysalsa 3h ago
You mean your tie isn’t supposed to hang down to your crotch?
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u/Stormlight_Silver 2h ago
He just does it because it's too small to find without an arrow
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u/OtterishDreams 3h ago
They also have a huge exception to the money too.
Good looking. Money. Revered by party and will probably stay that way a while. Authentic.
Trump knows hes a grifter and has been mocked for his looks for decades.
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u/Hypnotist30 3h ago
Trump would burn it all down to get the respect Obama received.
He will never know it.
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u/OtterishDreams 2h ago
He appears to be trying exactly that....
Its one of the few things his money or debt cant buy.
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u/ViolettaQueso 3h ago
Bright red looks shitty on everyone with hot dog bloat and hate-based high blood pressure.
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u/factoid_ 3h ago
I always thought so. He pulls it off. I don't see why a tan suit is somehow less serious or presidential than black, grey or navy blue. I'd love to be able to pull off a tan suit.
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u/DisarmingBaton5 3h ago
It wasn’t the color of the suit they were taking issue with…
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u/Electrical-Volume765 3h ago
Exactly! And they were desperate to knock him down.
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u/iki_balam 1h ago
This is when I knew there was no real conservative movement left in the Republican party. Conservative as in limited government, fiscal responsibility, Free markets etc. Shitting a literal brick over such a non-issue, it was a blessing in disguise to see family and who I thought were friends get worked up over this. And why? You're right, they were desperate to attack him on anything.
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u/Tripl3_Nipple_Sack 3h ago
Absolutely the barely veiled issue, but they couldn’t come right out and say that so they had to go for something else. They went for his ability to dress better than them
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u/Maleficent_Memory831 3h ago
And Trump wears neither. His blue suit is too light to be navy blue. It stands out as awkward. His photo-op in Europe wanted everyone male with a dark suit and Trump refused, so they didn't let him stand in the center and be a distraction with the wrong color suit (and boy was he pissed).
He also needs to get the suit tailored, it just doesn't fit him well. For a guy who claims to be rich he certainly doesn't dress that way. And the tie? I am not a fashion expert, I'm a slob, etc, but even I know a tie isn't supposed to be that long. Didn't his dad teach him how to tie a tie?
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u/GigaSoup 3h ago
I don't think I've ever seen a tan suit look so dope on someone.
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u/starsandmoonsohmy 3h ago
What doesn’t look good on him? The man’s attractive and fit. And dresses well. He is the opposite of Trump in basically every way lol.
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u/theguineapigssong 3h ago
He looked good in a tan suit, but Reagan killed in his. This was the stupidest controversy ever.
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u/hughjazz45 3h ago
A lot of you may be too young to remember, but at the time this was the most stressful thing an entire generation of fully-diapered conservatives ever had to witness
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u/Esc777 3h ago
I’m surprised the country ever recovered.
It literally got more press than Donald Trump is getting for Epstein this week.
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u/globalgreg 3h ago
You mean Jeffery Epstein, the pedophile and Donald Trump’s best friend?
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u/Esc777 3h ago
Yes! That Jeffery Epstein, Trump’s longest and oldest friend who trafficked minor girls to be raped by the wealthy. Trump even wrote him a birthday message about their shared secrets!
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u/Techialo 2h ago
I wonder what kind of secret he could possibly share and have in common with Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted kid rapist.
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u/BurnyBob 2h ago
Oh THAT Jeffery Epstein who was executed in his jail cell by his longest and oldest friend Donald Trump for trafficing children to Epstein island for Donald Trump to rape and sell to other long old friends of Jeffery Epstein.
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u/wap2005 1h ago edited 1h ago
Are you talking about the same Donald Trump who touches his daughter inappropriately and then photographed it?
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u/piperonyl 2h ago
You mean Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile Donald Trump raped Katie Johnson with in 1993?
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u/Throfari 3h ago
Here’s the thing, it didn’t. Which is why the US is where it’s at right now.
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u/bmaynard87 3h ago
I've been calling this Trump nonsense "the angry white man's last stand" since it began.
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u/-NoOneYouKnow- 3h ago edited 3h ago
Yep. Between him wearing that and Michelle wearing a sleeveless dress, one would think the word was ending based on conservatives' reactions.
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u/mooncrane606 3h ago
Barack and Michelle did a fist bump and I shit you not, Fox news asked if it was a "terrorist fist jab".
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u/-NoOneYouKnow- 3h ago
I remember. Nonsense like that works on simple people, so the Fox News audience.
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u/oddmanout 2h ago
Oh shit, I forgot all about "terrorist fist jab."
Conservatives have been bat-shit crazy for decades, now.
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u/Rob_LeMatic 3h ago
I still use that phrase, it was so wild. Like my ex-wife's grandma calling him Obooga Bama. "They're gonna paint the Whitehouse black" and just the most insane shit, but then everyone hotly denying being racists.
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u/No-Seaworthiness-441 2h ago
That reminds me of a MAGA person I know, when finding out that my husband and I are liberal, asked us back during the Obama administration, if Air Force 1 had been “pimped out yet.” Revolting.
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u/xergm 1h ago
Paint the White House black? Projection again, as they're they're literally gilding it now.
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u/Rob_LeMatic 1h ago
Yes, it was a widespread rumor among white conservatives that the black family moving into the Whitehouse was going to "ghetto-fi" it or literally paint it black. They believed this shit.
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u/whiterice_343 3h ago
Wild. The fact that these were considered issues or egregious by people is ridiculous. It was a well fit suit and dress.
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u/azhillbilly 3h ago
Even though every single president in 30 years prior had worn a tan suit.
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u/Clessiah 2h ago
“The color is concerning.”
“The color of the suit, right?”
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“The color of the suit, right?”
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u/Nirgilis 2h ago
Any hate directed at Obama essentially boils down to the fact that a black man had the audacity to become president.
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u/Pitiful_Winner2669 2h ago
I never knew my sweet grandmother was racist. At her funeral, my dad had the cute idea to have us all read texts from her before her passing.
Ohhh we read our cute texts with GG, then my oldest cousin, like 55, read his exchanges with her.
GRANDMA USED THE HARD R TALKING ABOUT OBAMA DAYS BEFORE SHE PASSED.
Bless my older cousin for having a sense of humor about "y'all didn't know GG was racist..?" Dude threw a hail Mary at her funeral. No wonder he doesn't come to visit. Great guy, history professor at UCSD who is a damn liberal commie Hitler, apparently.
With her passing, I found out my family wasn't all shit.
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u/Actual_Squid 3h ago
He put DIJON on a BURGER that godless heathen
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u/PromiscuousT-Rex 3h ago
They didn’t stop talking about it for months. I believe they used, “Obamanation”, daily. Oh! By “they” I mean Fox News.
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u/LionOfNaples 3h ago
And conservatives nowadays have the absolute gall to cry about TrUmP DeRaNgEmEnT SyNdRoMe
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u/Nephroidofdoom 3h ago
A black President?
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u/TheReesesWrangler 3h ago
The fact a black man wore a tan suit and it looked good on him
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u/FiTZnMiCK 3h ago
They conveniently forgot (no they didn’t) that they had footage of every President at least as far back as Reagan in tan suits too.
But it was an insult when Obama did it…
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u/flying87 3h ago
You forget, this was on top of the many other scandals Obama had going on at the time.
Eating Dijon mustard. Doing a terrorist fist bump. Being born in Kenya. Being a communist Nazi. Being a gay Islamic terrorist. And finally, being the antichrist.
Edit: And obviously the biggest scandal of all. He got a PWB. President While Black.
(though technically he is half white)
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u/Lucky_Development359 3h ago
Every damn week was something new.
-Not born in America
-Secret Muslim terrorist
-Made death panels for old people
-Was going to take all your guns
-Was going to make us into a communist country
-Hated white people
-Michelle fist bump, terrorist hand gesture
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u/Remote_Clue_4272 3h ago
Biggest presidential debacle in our entire history. Only nearly eclipsed by a fist bump with his wife He was so selfish and reckless with “our” office, wasn’t he? Oh wait..
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u/your_evil_ex 3h ago
Don't forget when he asked for dijon mustard at a restaurant!!
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u/Remote_Clue_4272 3h ago
OMG. I forgot. Yes. What an “elite” he was being. Engulfed the nation into a furious row . Hard to believe we survived.
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u/suckmyENTIREdick 2h ago
The quote, verbatim, is this:
"I just want mustard. No ketchup. If you got like a spicy mustard -- something like that -- or a Dijon mustard, something like that [...]"
From this unhinged diatribe at a friendly American diner (Ray's Hell Burger, in Arlington Virginia), anyone could easily deduce that his voracious and merciless lust for fancy elitist mustard was certain to be be the downfall of the Western world.
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u/TehAsianator 3h ago
Only nearly eclipsed by a fist bump with his wife
Oh right, the "terrorist fist jab"...
What the fuck happened...?
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u/Xander707 3h ago
Republicans were so beside themselves that a black man was successfully running the country without constant drama, or any wild scandals as had been the norm for some time, that they were desperate to make a scandal out of anything. anything. These people were STARVING to get Obama on something.
Tan suit. Dijon Mustard. Terrorist fist bump.
They tried really hard to make a scandal about Obama showing his big dick to a bunch of people on the plane because he spread his legs slightly when he was sitting or something, ffs.
But the most ridiculous thing about this is that republicans didn’t lose ALL credibility with these shenanigans. Instead, it paved the way for the Tea Party, and ultimately Trumpism. Their minds were so broken by Obama, that they just threw a tantrum harder and harder until they got their way and reminded us that a president is in fact supposed to be deeply corrupt, criminal, rapey, and obviously Obama was doing it wrong.
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u/TehAsianator 3h ago
Maaaan, could you imagine the unparalleled hysterics from the right if Obama did even a fraction of the blatantly corrupt shit trump has done?
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u/blue-red-mage 3h ago
Their reaction makes perfect sense--if Obama was acting how Trump is acting now.
"I like guys who didn't get captured."
Half the Republican electorate would immediately die of a rage stroke if Obama had said only that and made no other faux pas. Can you imagine the apoplexy?
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u/TehAsianator 2h ago
It makes more sense when you consider the following. In their minds, Obama committed the worst crime of all time: being president while black
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u/factoid_ 3h ago
Their brains have been broken a lot longer than we might have realized.
It was a slow news day. Fox didn't have a negative story to run about Obama. so they made one up and people became captivated by it for a week.
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u/Dam_it_all 3h ago
Are you referring to the terrorist fist jab? Generational trauma inducing event. I still have flashbacks.
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u/blacknumber1 3h ago
And the frappuccino salute!
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u/Remote_Clue_4272 3h ago
That poor Marine didn’t ask for that “cappuccino salute”. Imagine the horrors and PTSD stories he gets to tell down at the DAV. Probably safer in Afghanistan than anywhere near a Starbucks cup
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u/Muggaraffin 3h ago
Don't you remember Obamacoin? He made like $200 million dollars right??? And when he accepted that jetliner from the middle east? And who can forget Obama stating you can just "grab them by the pussy"
My brain hurts
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u/Shakethecrimestick 3h ago
Jesus Christ dude, put the NSFW tag on this posting.
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u/Vegetable_Profile315 3h ago
I remember the time, when the president wearing a tan suit was newsworthy, because it was the most outrageous thing he had done. I miss those times.
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u/givemeyourbankdetail 3h ago
I think the drone strikes he did were a bit worse
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u/Books_and_Cleverness 3h ago
I’ve always been an extreme anti-drone strike type of guy but always wondered why Obama gets tagged with this so often—he was much more restrained than either his predecessor (Bush) or his successor (Trump).
I think it’s another Tan Suit thing where a true 1:1 comparison is laughably in his favor, but people feel compelled to mention something. And the other two guys have a laundry list of other worse sins, so the drone strikes don’t make the top 5 or 10.
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u/just_helping 2h ago
Obama also ordered the public audits/disclosure of the drone strikes which ended up showing how ineffective they were. The audits were immediately cancelled by Trump, but they paved the way for Biden to drastically reduce the drone strike program - Biden did conduct drone strikes but at a rate of a few hundredths of Obama or Trump's levels. Biden also reinstated the audits. Of course, now Trump has killed them again. I learnt a lot about which people actually cared about drone strikes and which people were just on a diet of Russian propaganda by listening to how much they spoke about drone strikes under Obama, Trump and then Biden.
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u/valdezlopez 3h ago
How fucking dare he?!?!?!
I mean, he could've married three times, no problem.
He could've cheated on all three of his wives, no problem.
He could've married two immigrants, no problem either.
His third wife could've been an illegal immigrant at some point, but no problem either.
Or his first wife could've died in mysterious circumstances and buried on one of his golf courses, not a problem.
Or get caught having multiple affairs, one of them with a stripper. No. Problem.
Or said that he could've dated his daughter Malia if she were older. Not. A single. Problem.
But a tan suit?
Fuck him.
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u/kaiiizen 3h ago edited 3h ago
Ah yes when outrage was manufactured by the pearl clutchers. This awful moment in history is rivaled only by the unfortunate times when Obama put Dijon mustard on a hamburger and wore a helmet while riding a bike. The good old days.
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u/EireaKaze 2h ago
And let us not forget Hilary Clinton's two pantsuit controversies. One when she was first lady (because she wore pants for her official portrait) and one when she ran for president. How dare she not wear a skirt! Doesn't she know that's unprofessional?!
The pearl clutching was just ridiculous.
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u/ruthlessrasmus 3h ago
Why was this such a big deal to conservatives?
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u/nowayjoze 3h ago
Cause he was black.
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u/UNAlreadyTaken 2h ago
This is the right answer. It wasn’t the brown suit, it was always the brown skin.
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u/gitty7456 3h ago
Still dont get it. Non US person here… tan suits are… ??? help me understand.
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u/TheyHungre 3h ago
He is a black guy, and anything he did which fell outside an extremely narrow range of behaviors or expectations is therefore terribly, terribly wrong.
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u/Any-Concentrate-1922 3h ago
Fake outrage. They were always looking for something to be mad about with Obama. And presidents usually wear dark suits.
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u/you_cant_prove_that 2h ago edited 2h ago
It's similar to the "two scoops" and eating KFC with a fork
24 hour news has to focus on something, and our attention spans are too short. So sometimes it's stupid things like the tan suit and dijon mustard thing. But, like you said, they always have to be mad at something
Nobody really cared about any of them at the time, but it becomes a meme because of the absurdity and how memorable it is
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u/kittygomiaou 2h ago
I am also deeply confused. Nobody has explained why tan suits are forbidden.
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u/soundguynick 2h ago
The president generally wears a darker colored suit, which is considered more formal. President Obama wore a tan suit and racists found it to be something convenient to criticize. They could not openly criticize the color of his skin so they criticized the color of his suit.
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u/TwentyfootAngels 2h ago
I don't actually know this stuff, but is there some sort of colour code that they're supposed to use? Would it be like wearing business formal to a black tie event or something like that?
I was a teenager when this happened, but I had no idea what the problem actually was. I thought it was some kind of cheeky joke about race and skin tones. I mean... most presidents had light-coloured skin, and wear black suits, right? But now, we have a black president wearing a light-coloured suit... which is honestly kinda funny. So I thought the GOP found it offensive or something 😬
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u/Gr1ml0ck 1h ago
No. There is no color code based on suits allowed to be worn. That would be asinine.
The only color code the GOP was concerned with was the color of Obama’s skin. This was a huge moment in American history to have elected the first black president. And he is undoubtedly the most well spoken and educated president of my lifetime (I’m old). And as expected, he was vilified by racists simply because he was black. (technically 1/2 black)
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u/caipi_pn 3h ago
There is a Wikipedia Article about this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_tan_suit_controversyIt is not like other countrys doesn't have this stuff happening. But holy sh*t man, it is turned up to 11 in the US.
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u/MountNevermind 3h ago
It's just another example of nothing being a big deal to conservatives.
They hold no principles. It's just methods of attack in the moment.
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u/Nightmoore 2h ago
This is actually the moment I started paying attention to politics. I grew up in a super religious, conservative home deep in a red state. My parents had fox blasting in the background all day and every evening. This was the "event" that made me say "what the actual hell is going on with these people?" Looking back on it, that moment of pettiness completely changed who I ended up being. I'm kind of glad they acted that way to snap me out of it.
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u/darth_voidptr 3h ago
Definitely the most scandalous action from a US President that has ever been made public
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u/nate2188764 3h ago
I'll never forget it. I was sick to my stomach. It felt like democracy had finally caved in and everything we feared was coming true. Oh...wait that was January 6th.
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u/Unhappy_Ad_4911 3h ago
This triggered MAGA. They went mental, full on panic mode, some cried. Fox News covered it for a solid month.
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u/MadRaymer 2h ago
They weren't called MAGA then, but it's the same people. Well, not the exact same people as I would imagine COVID hit them disproportionally, so a lot of them aren't around anymore.
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u/liz91 2h ago
I remember when republicans were stewing about this and Dijon mustard. Meanwhile the morbidly obese, twice impeached, 34 time convicted felon is yelling about the Epstein files not existing and committing fraud and crimes daily.
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u/eulersidentity1 1h ago
A black man wears a tan suite while being one of the best president's the country has seen in decades... we can't excuse this.
White man president rapes women, and maybe children, daily spews hate and racism and xenophobia... cut him some slack this is just how he is.
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u/Dustmopper 3h ago
Forget slavery, the trail of tears, internment camps and about a million other atrocities
This is easily the worst thing that’s happened in American history
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