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I do love that the White House is required to keep the flags at half mast for thirty days- right through Trump’s inauguration.

Man are those pictures going to be poignant.

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What happens if they don’t? Cause if a convicted felon doesn’t go to jail for rape and fraud, guess what, the flag ain’t gonna stop that POS.

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Yeah, at this point I’d say rules have been pretty effectively tossed out the window.

Friendly reminder that in less than a month a felon rapist who incited an insurrection against our government and illegally attempted to overturn an election will be our leader and the most influential figure on the planet.

I’m not going to say America is done for in the next 4 years, but if this is where we’re at, the downfall is inevitable on a long enough timeline.

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Biden is still President on the day of Trump’s inauguration. I’m sure he’ll follow the rules.

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What happened?

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Jimmy Carter died on the 29th

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I just want to step aside for a moment and point out this has no business being a GIF instead of a static image.

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I think the gif ironically demonstrates how stupid US television is.

Instead of just showing the person talking, the camera has to pan through some fucking bushes. And why the fuck are they talking outside in an autumn garden anyway? And there is a a real irony in talking about oligarchs with a billionaire media personality.

This may be the perfect gif.

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Yeah stupid American TV with its moving cameras and gardens and golden showers!

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I just wanted to see if you could do that :( I’d never tried b4

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So funny he says this as if it wasn’t always that way. I can’t tell if these people know the history of this country and are lying through their teeth or if they are genuinely just ignorant

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Hey I mean I fully agree with the sentiment you present and I run a space called USAuthoritarianism about it :/

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3rd option could be he realized most people bought the propaganda and he’d convince more people if he indicated it changed along the way. “We were a democracy but now we’re not” is a shorter bridge to walk than “everything you’ve learned about the US isn’t correct”

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Ya fucking think?!

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Reddit is full of Carter critics the last couple of days. I wonder how conspicuously silent they’ll be when Bush or Trump kicks the bucket.

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The Russians will fly their flags at half-mast to honor their Orange US Sock Puppet.

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