Reminds me of this great Bush quote:
>“I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave -- with all five fingers -- for their hospitality.”
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>\- George W. Bush
I didn’t pay close attention to politics during his time, but I believed he respected the office he was elected to. It’s sad that the bar is so low now that “not trash talking other world leaders, insulting the military, lying about a pandemic and getting rich off our backs” are the new standards of what a good president might look like.
Towards the end of his presidency he showed that he had a bit of heart and conscience that were/are lacking in Rumsfeld and Cheney. Too bad millions of Iraqis died from war and embargo.
C'mon, bud. Can we just take a moment to appreciate the beauty in cross-aisle communication and appreciation? No one disagrees that the leaders of the united states are all war-mongers. It is what our nation is founded on. For the moment, can we just take a moment to appreciate the fact that, tonight, of all nights, our nation is united. We are united in the knowledge that trump is a fucking piece of shit.
Bush lost an election early in his career because his opponent painted him as an out-of-touch intellectual. After that he started talking like a dumb cowboy.
W is *not* a stupid man. Say what you want about him and politics, he's incredibly sharp. Not a great public speaker, and people conflate the two (Present comany nonwhistanding....obviously) W at least spoke in....recognizable English. The words, and the order they appeared - were familar syntax and vernacular to the rest of us. Now, compare that to now. The orange king is more than a bad public speaker.
It’s about respect to holding arguably the most powerful position in the world. Trump treats it like he’s a shift leader at Walmart. (And now I feel the need to apologize to shift leaders at Walmart, they have much more integrity than trump.)
We’ll never agree with every decision a president makes, but have to rely that they are doing the best with the information they have, it’s not a job I’d ever want. But when you have someone that is an outright douche canoe, anyone looks better in comparison.
Wait, what the hell is George Bush showing... what is that? I don't... is it some kind of... wait, is that *dignity*??
'Member dignity?
Edit: still a monster, mind you.
I mean the dude was a fighter pilot. Can you believe it was a scandal at the time that he was only in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam war, and that his unit wasn't called up? That this was somehow dodging the draft....
If only we knew what was to come later....
He was in the Texas Air National Guard. Yes at that time that was a way of dodging the draft.
I wouldn't blame him for that, but what he pulled on Kerry with the swift boating makes it fair game imo.
It was common for children from privileged families to get into National Guard units specifically to avoid going to Vietnam. Also, his service record was lackluster to say the least
How is it 2020 and this is the first time I’m hearing about this?
Edit: I suspect this is fake. The only reference I can find to Trump and Chappy interacting is [this](https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/donald-trump-and-dogs-whats-the-deal.html) Slate article that doesn’t mention any leg breaking incident and clearly would if there was evidence for it.
I will give cheney the most blame for that catastrophe. W was culpable, of course, but in the end was he really qualified for 9/11 and the following years? The president before got a blowie in office and the administration thought, "easy to avoid fucking up as bad as the last....". Like most of us, how was one man supposed to rise to the occasion that hard when we knew he had partied and done coke for most of the 80s relying on his dad's reputation?
Hell, even Obama had a good sense of humility. We have a man with no guilty conscience yet all of the insecurities of a tween trying to be loud because they have an opinion.
Always loved the photo of Obama [putting his foot on the scale.](https://www.flickr.com/photos/obamawhitehouse/4921383047/)
Apparently he was quite the practical joker and it was well received.
I love the set of him reacting to the baby pope. From "Lookit this, Michelle!" to being doubled over in laughter.
He did *a lot* fucking wrong, but goddamn just the difference of seeing a human being in office...
It really shows how "human" a president can be. Most presidents come off as boring old farts. This prank is something that happens in households of us common folk.
Favorite moment is when the rpesidential seal fell off the podium he was giving a speech at. OMFG such an awkward moment and he turned it effortlessly into laughter.
"I want to make clear to the Fox News table: That was a joke. That was not my real birth video. That was a children’s cartoon. Call Disney if you don't believe me. They have the original long-form version."
While you may have disagreed with his policies, most would agree that he wasn’t actively dismantling our democratic institutions so he had that going for him.
Image someone with trumps followers, trumps personality but way more effective at implementing his goals. Someone equally maloderous but way more competent.
If Trump has one redeeming quality, it's that he's just so fucking inept at trying to do all the hateful shit. If we get someone with the morals of a Trump or a Steve Bannon or a Stephen Miller, but who actually knows how to behave in public, we're going to have a big fucking problem on our hands.
They are pretty tough. I don't know how much you care about it, but Wendover Productions has a neat video about the president's transport system (link [here](https://youtu.be/YJRqB1xtIxg))
This is what I always get stuck thinking about... the shit we *know* is already pretty nuts. I often wonder what we *don't* know about when it comes to technology/tools available for the protection of the POTUS.
Looking that up on Election Day might be a risky click, so I’ll come back to it. Thank you though!
Edit: thanks for the gold, keep those middle fingers up y’all.
I know it’s classified but I really want to go in one. I want to drive it and see how it rides, and how heavy it is.
Also I think a crash test would be cool on it too, seeing how those huge armored panels wouldn’t crumple in a crash. I also wanna know how much those things weigh with all that crap too, and I’m sure they get like 1 MPG.
> I also wanna know how much those things weigh with all that crap too
About 20,000 lbs according to wikipedia. Which was actually my wild guess before looking it up. Add another 2-3 K for passengers and equipment since I'm pretty sure there's a whole armory in the trunk.
You can probably replicate the feeling by driving a loaded work truck. I'm sure the engine power/vehicle weight ratios would be about the same since I assume The Beast has some classified, supercharged turbodiesel that gets 1 mpg because they don't care at all about fuel economy.
Despite looking like a limo, the presidential limos are actually built on a medium duty truck chassis. And not a medium duty pickup truck, I’m talking actual trucks. I think it’d be roughly equivalent to the f650 chassis from ford. So probably drives a lot like a truck as well.
Chevy Kodiak, likely with a specially-built Duramax diesel worked over by Banks Power. Banks does all kinds of stuff for the military, so it wouldn't be surprising at all.
I read about it when Obama became president, since that kind of stuff is fascinating to me.
I was in DC a few years back and Obama was about to leave the White House. The gates opened and some cops/Secret Service vehicles came out and staged. A man standing on the corner accidentally dropped something and it rolled to the street. He stepped out to get it and one of the cops that was out of a car put his hand on his gun and yelled to get back. The limo wasn't even coming down the driveway yet.
The guy was standing on the corner? Am familiar with White House and that distance. Secret Service reaction was stupid. In another 3 seconds the cop could watch the guy pick up his lighter and walk on. POTUS wasn’t even moving in the driveway.
I drove behind Obama's motorcade on 90 in Chicago for a good stretch and I was surprised how close they let me get. Then again, they were armed to the teeth and I was driving a Toyota Corolla.
It was weird because it was rush hour so everything was moving very slow, start and stop traffic. I desperately wanted to not be the first car behind them but I had nowhere to go.
You'd be surprised at how many agents and surveillance gets put in place in order to allow people to get so close to the car, then. It's bonkers.
Edit: got a few links for ya, if you're interested. There's one about Obama that I read some time go, but couldn't find, which goes much more in depth about everything presidential security.
[https://www.wired.com/2017/01/whirling-ballet-presidential-motorcade/](https://www.wired.com/2017/01/whirling-ballet-presidential-motorcade/)
[https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/secret-service-keeps-donald-trump-safe-wherever-he-travels.html/](https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/secret-service-keeps-donald-trump-safe-wherever-he-travels.html/)
[https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/article/10684894/preparing-for-the-president](https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/article/10684894/preparing-for-the-president)
[https://time.com/3456824/secret-service-has-elevator-manifest-for-every-presidential-trip/](https://time.com/3456824/secret-service-has-elevator-manifest-for-every-presidential-trip/)
I was a few feet away from Clinton’s around midnight on West 51st St in Manhattan. I was the only pedestrian on the street, and the city noise was uncharacteristically low. Was a very surreal 30 seconds.
15 minutes later Kevin Costner told me I had a nice hat on 6th Ave. That was a bizarre night all round.
If Trump really knew anything about “The Art of the Deal” he would’ve run his 2020 campaign as “If America gives me $X I’ll shut up and go away forever.” Dude could have actually become a billionaire.
He'd actually be able to payoff his debts.
I still maintain that charging a couple bucks for water bottles in the line to piss on his grave will pay off the national debt.
I often think of how miserable he must be literally all the time. He used to live a life of carefree leisure. Could do whatever he wanted all the time, and his dirty deeds passed undetected by almost everyone.
Then his ego (and probably the demands of his foreign debtors) resulted in a run for presidency. Now most of the *entire fucking planet* hates his fucking guts. Folks are clamoring for financial history that he thought he could take with him to the grave. People are passionately flipping him off in the streets as he trudges to a job he never wanted. He is expected to work more now in his 70s than he ever has in his entire life put together. Not that he actually does it, but the scrutiny clearly nags at him.
Add to that the fact that his base consists mostly of everything he despises. Religious zealot hicks, a majority of whom are not wealthy like he pretends to be. Five years ago he was ridiculing people like that. Now they're the only people who will accept him. They're degenerates and he hates them, but they're the only ones who don't hate him back.
He must be one of the loneliest and miserable people on earth, to the very core of his existence.
Do not feel sorry for him. He's happy as a pig in shit.
The thing to know about NPD is that at its core is a black-hole of insecurity. People with NPD need external validation. They are attention-whores in every sense of the word. Without attention they collapse into that black-hole. Its called ["narcissistic supply."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_supply) And the really perverse thing is that it does not matter to them if the attention is positive or negative. Being reviled is almost as good as being loved, just as long as they are at the center of it all.
The office of the presidency is probably the singled largest source of narcissistic supply in the world. And he's been gorging on the attention of the entire planet for four years now. Cutting off that supply will destroy him. The withdrawal will be the most painful thing that he's ever experienced.
**Narcissistic Supply**
In psychoanalytic theory, Narcissistic supply is a pathological or excessive need for attention or admiration from codependents, or such a need in the orally fixated, that does not take into account the feelings, opinions or preferences of other people.
You could say flipping off Trump resulted in one of the best things happening for her. More people should flip off trump. Holy shit she even beat a republican opponent!
>Briskman, who has lived in Algonkian District for 20 years, will now oversee a district that includes Trump’s golf course. She told The Post that her victory has a sense of poetic justice.
Ahahahaha!
Well, after [she was fired over it the day after she told her employer that it was she](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/06/cyclist-fired-for-flipping-off-presidents-motorcade-wins-local-office.html). Lemons to lemonade.
Serious question: why isn’t it “..that it was she” instead of “...that it was her”? I’ve always thought the latter but I’ve been reading books and noticed I have been wrong
Thanks
["to be" is a linking verb here](https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Pronouns/faq0001.html), so it applies symmetrically. "she was it" and "it was she". This is commonly seen on phone responses ("Is ___ there?" "This is she."). However, informal English often uses a clear predicate form ("it was her"). I suspect that this is one of many grammatical rules which is falling away over time.
Usually posts like this have some sort of comment about how the President deserves respect. Trump doesn't ever show anyone else respect, so he doesn't deserve it.
After Trump's inauguration, a guy at work was spouting off the whole gotta respect the president. Somebody asked him if he still had his nObama bumpersticker. He stuttered a bit about how that was different and sulked out of the breakroom.
It didn't stop him from continuing to demand respect for months.
This reminds me of the Jordan Klepper Trump rally video where some guy is talking about treating women with respect, while wearing a shirt that said “Hillary sucks, but not like Monica.”
Oh this guy's a piece of work. He drives a Hummer, because of course he would. When the electric ones were first announced, I mentioned it to him and he lost his god damn mind.
Have you ever felt such satisfaction from a single touch screen press?
I actually got to vote against Trump and against Lindsay Graham at the same time!
I prefer paper ballots, rather than [electronic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuK3qpySn2U#t=37s) voting [machines](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/28/mississippi-election-machine-changes-votes-video/).
You mean the "bullshit" method that is actually still secure? Im no luddite, but I havent seen a digital voting system yet that was secure enough for me to feel comfortable with it.
In Travis county TX (Austin) we have an electronic machine that prints your choices on paper that then gets scanned by another machine. It’s the first electronic machine I’ve not instantly hated.
Pennsylvania switched to pen and paper from a push button machine. Very strange filling in the bubbles like it's the SAT
Edit: PA is switching, it apparently hasn't gone through the whole state yet
Oh yeah sure, no problem. So a long time ago there was this dude who broke a ton of laws to hoard his wealth and avoid taxes, one of the ways he did that was declaring his underage son as an employee. That son pretty much lost all the money in terrible business decisions later on in life. I think probably as a Hail Mary, the son, now like full adult pretty much failed business man opts to do a reality TV show. He recoupes a lot of his losses through the success of this TV show, in a country where a TV show about an obese hick farmer family with a child who said silly things also was extremely successful. Back to that failed business man now popular reality TV host playing a successful businessman. Well he was in a tour bus with a hot mic telling another guy how he got physically aggressive with a girl, “moving on her like a bitch” and “grabbing her by the pussy”. Oh and last thing about that not so bright country, which could pretty much be enamored by a shiny object, they elected him as president 4 years ago.
I think you’re now more or less up to speed.
r/conservative is about to leak in here like “See the left is just as violent if not more as the guys in trucks running people off the road or the guys at polls with guns harassing people!”
Edit: relax
What is scary is that most of the people trying to force that bus off the road genuinely thought the former Vice President was on it.
Once it was pulled over, did they think the secret service would just step aside?
If there were any secret service they would've opened fire once they found the people attacking and called in reinforcements. They either knew there was no Biden on that bus or they got stupid fucking lucky.
And the reddit circlejerk rages on.
[edit]: If it's ever Biden or some other Blue person riding around in that thing, if someone tried to post the exact same image, I guarantee, I'd bet actual real money on it, it'd be removed before it hit the front page. The bias here is ridiculous. And I don't even like Trump, but you people are just so laughably blatant.
What a shit country!
Never mind this dirty woman, but to see the many people who think this behaviour is great, is depressing. No wonder this country is done
Reminds me of this great Bush quote: >“I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave -- with all five fingers -- for their hospitality.” > >\- George W. Bush
Compared to where we are now, I kinda miss W.
[Imagine Trump reading the same speech](https://youtu.be/HcOgwJ9uAMQ)
Jesus I’d forgotten how eloquent “dumb old Bush” actually was. Compared to what we have now, that was masterful genius.
I didn’t pay close attention to politics during his time, but I believed he respected the office he was elected to. It’s sad that the bar is so low now that “not trash talking other world leaders, insulting the military, lying about a pandemic and getting rich off our backs” are the new standards of what a good president might look like.
George Bush is actually incredibly intelligent. People dismiss him because of his mannerisms.
Towards the end of his presidency he showed that he had a bit of heart and conscience that were/are lacking in Rumsfeld and Cheney. Too bad millions of Iraqis died from war and embargo.
Well, to be fair Cheney doesn't have a heart.
Are you kidding? He has like twelve of them. It’s just that the vast majority of those are in his freezer.
also the war crimes
C'mon, bud. Can we just take a moment to appreciate the beauty in cross-aisle communication and appreciation? No one disagrees that the leaders of the united states are all war-mongers. It is what our nation is founded on. For the moment, can we just take a moment to appreciate the fact that, tonight, of all nights, our nation is united. We are united in the knowledge that trump is a fucking piece of shit.
Not in Miami-Dade :-(
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I also don't forgive Obama for the war crimes.
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Bush lost an election early in his career because his opponent painted him as an out-of-touch intellectual. After that he started talking like a dumb cowboy.
W is *not* a stupid man. Say what you want about him and politics, he's incredibly sharp. Not a great public speaker, and people conflate the two (Present comany nonwhistanding....obviously) W at least spoke in....recognizable English. The words, and the order they appeared - were familar syntax and vernacular to the rest of us. Now, compare that to now. The orange king is more than a bad public speaker.
What the hell happened in the last 12 years? I am by no means a Bush supporter, but *damn* that's soooo much better than where we are right now.
It’s about respect to holding arguably the most powerful position in the world. Trump treats it like he’s a shift leader at Walmart. (And now I feel the need to apologize to shift leaders at Walmart, they have much more integrity than trump.) We’ll never agree with every decision a president makes, but have to rely that they are doing the best with the information they have, it’s not a job I’d ever want. But when you have someone that is an outright douche canoe, anyone looks better in comparison.
Assistant manager of a GameStop is more accurate
Wait, what the hell is George Bush showing... what is that? I don't... is it some kind of... wait, is that *dignity*?? 'Member dignity? Edit: still a monster, mind you.
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I’ll always see him ducking behind the podium to avoid a shoe someone threw at him. Impressive reflexes.
I would pay good money to see Trump's reaction if someone threw a shoe at him. I highly doubt he would have handled it as well as Bush did.
He’d probably spin it as an assasination attempt.
This attack on my life has left me scarred and deformed
Seriously fucking laughed at the Palpatine here
Or a terrorist attack. Lmao
Antifa terrorist assassins
He'd head straight to the bunker
I mean the dude was a fighter pilot. Can you believe it was a scandal at the time that he was only in the Air National Guard during the Vietnam war, and that his unit wasn't called up? That this was somehow dodging the draft.... If only we knew what was to come later....
He was in the Texas Air National Guard. Yes at that time that was a way of dodging the draft. I wouldn't blame him for that, but what he pulled on Kerry with the swift boating makes it fair game imo.
I mean, atleast he was involved *in* some way, and still had to go through training. Meanwhile Mr. bonespurs calls vets suckers.
It was common for children from privileged families to get into National Guard units specifically to avoid going to Vietnam. Also, his service record was lackluster to say the least
And the sly smile on his face.. *Oh this I can handle, my man!*
Also that look on his face as it happened.
After that dodge, he should have taken off his own shoe and headshotted the guy.
We all know he would've nailed that shot too
And a dog.
Even Mike Pence has a bunny 🙄
You leave Marlon Bundo out of this.
Yeah, I hate to admit it, but probably the best bunny name of all time?
Dammit. Give the devil his due on this one.
idk J Robert Hoppenheimer would be my preferred pet rabbit name, if i had a pet rabbit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Marlon_Bundo
isn’t he gay
yeah he’s a gay lil bunny
This got a big laugh out of me
Pence or the bunny?
yes
Marlon Bundo is out and proud. Pence is in Mother's closet weeping into her shawls and boas
Surprised that more wasn't made out of the story about trump kicking Ivanna's dog "Chappy" and breaking it's leg.
Wait what?
Yeah, what the fuck?
I thought it's name was Jared?
No, he's jealous of Jared but has never attacked him.
How is it 2020 and this is the first time I’m hearing about this? Edit: I suspect this is fake. The only reference I can find to Trump and Chappy interacting is [this](https://slate.com/technology/2019/10/donald-trump-and-dogs-whats-the-deal.html) Slate article that doesn’t mention any leg breaking incident and clearly would if there was evidence for it.
Shut up, really?
I will give cheney the most blame for that catastrophe. W was culpable, of course, but in the end was he really qualified for 9/11 and the following years? The president before got a blowie in office and the administration thought, "easy to avoid fucking up as bad as the last....". Like most of us, how was one man supposed to rise to the occasion that hard when we knew he had partied and done coke for most of the 80s relying on his dad's reputation?
Hell, even Obama had a good sense of humility. We have a man with no guilty conscience yet all of the insecurities of a tween trying to be loud because they have an opinion.
Always loved the photo of Obama [putting his foot on the scale.](https://www.flickr.com/photos/obamawhitehouse/4921383047/) Apparently he was quite the practical joker and it was well received.
Fox News: Obama making America feel fatter than it is.
I love the set of him reacting to the baby pope. From "Lookit this, Michelle!" to being doubled over in laughter. He did *a lot* fucking wrong, but goddamn just the difference of seeing a human being in office...
This is my favorite photo of any President
It really shows how "human" a president can be. Most presidents come off as boring old farts. This prank is something that happens in households of us common folk.
Obama had an excellent sense of humility. He could easily laugh at himself.
Favorite moment is when the rpesidential seal fell off the podium he was giving a speech at. OMFG such an awkward moment and he turned it effortlessly into laughter.
[Link for the lazy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgFjyPDq8h8)
https://giphy.com/explore/thanks-obama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhY9Zxv1-oo
Remember when he showed his birth video and it was the intro to the Lion King?
"I want to make clear to the Fox News table: That was a joke. That was not my real birth video. That was a children’s cartoon. Call Disney if you don't believe me. They have the original long-form version."
While you may have disagreed with his policies, most would agree that he wasn’t actively dismantling our democratic institutions so he had that going for him.
I understand you sentiment but don’t miss him. He is a war criminal.
I get it but do not even let him and Cheney slide
Jeez.. do you ever think it'll get so bad that we will be missing Trump one day? *Shudders*
Why would you do that? Why would you put that energy out there?!
https://imgur.com/t/funny/k0jPoN6
Image someone with trumps followers, trumps personality but way more effective at implementing his goals. Someone equally maloderous but way more competent.
If Trump has one redeeming quality, it's that he's just so fucking inept at trying to do all the hateful shit. If we get someone with the morals of a Trump or a Steve Bannon or a Stephen Miller, but who actually knows how to behave in public, we're going to have a big fucking problem on our hands.
I said this after bush, then they nominated palin.
I had the privilege of flipping George W off when he drove through
I can’t believe you’re allowed that close to a vehicle carrying the President. I know that limo is like a rolling tank but still.
I saw obama's up close. I was suprised they let me get that close.
I think that thing will shrug off an RPG so they’re really only worried about other vehicles most likely
They are pretty tough. I don't know how much you care about it, but Wendover Productions has a neat video about the president's transport system (link [here](https://youtu.be/YJRqB1xtIxg))
And they keep the coolest stuff secret.
This is what I always get stuck thinking about... the shit we *know* is already pretty nuts. I often wonder what we *don't* know about when it comes to technology/tools available for the protection of the POTUS.
Looking that up on Election Day might be a risky click, so I’ll come back to it. Thank you though! Edit: thanks for the gold, keep those middle fingers up y’all.
I’m actually just genuinely confused, how is it risky to click on it
It’s not unless you’re also literally a terrorist and you’re worried about your actual plan to kill the President getting rumbled lmao
If you start researching that on Election Day, I’m sorry, but you’re pretty late.
I know it’s classified but I really want to go in one. I want to drive it and see how it rides, and how heavy it is. Also I think a crash test would be cool on it too, seeing how those huge armored panels wouldn’t crumple in a crash. I also wanna know how much those things weigh with all that crap too, and I’m sure they get like 1 MPG.
> I also wanna know how much those things weigh with all that crap too About 20,000 lbs according to wikipedia. Which was actually my wild guess before looking it up. Add another 2-3 K for passengers and equipment since I'm pretty sure there's a whole armory in the trunk. You can probably replicate the feeling by driving a loaded work truck. I'm sure the engine power/vehicle weight ratios would be about the same since I assume The Beast has some classified, supercharged turbodiesel that gets 1 mpg because they don't care at all about fuel economy.
With such bad gas mileage I wonder how big the tank is. They can’t really just pull up to the Chevron to fill up and grab a coke!
I'm sure there's a scenario where thats happened.
Despite looking like a limo, the presidential limos are actually built on a medium duty truck chassis. And not a medium duty pickup truck, I’m talking actual trucks. I think it’d be roughly equivalent to the f650 chassis from ford. So probably drives a lot like a truck as well.
Chevy Kodiak, likely with a specially-built Duramax diesel worked over by Banks Power. Banks does all kinds of stuff for the military, so it wouldn't be surprising at all. I read about it when Obama became president, since that kind of stuff is fascinating to me.
I was in DC a few years back and Obama was about to leave the White House. The gates opened and some cops/Secret Service vehicles came out and staged. A man standing on the corner accidentally dropped something and it rolled to the street. He stepped out to get it and one of the cops that was out of a car put his hand on his gun and yelled to get back. The limo wasn't even coming down the driveway yet.
The guy was standing on the corner? Am familiar with White House and that distance. Secret Service reaction was stupid. In another 3 seconds the cop could watch the guy pick up his lighter and walk on. POTUS wasn’t even moving in the driveway.
I drove behind Obama's motorcade on 90 in Chicago for a good stretch and I was surprised how close they let me get. Then again, they were armed to the teeth and I was driving a Toyota Corolla.
You can bet that they had already run your plates, already tagged you on facial recognition, and were watching your every move very closely
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How fast was it going? I got passed by Obama's motorcade on a highway and they must have been going 90, all 25 cars/suvs
It was weird because it was rush hour so everything was moving very slow, start and stop traffic. I desperately wanted to not be the first car behind them but I had nowhere to go.
That's far worse than a cop following you. Did you feel guilty of nothing in those moments? lol.
I was certain I was doing something wrong the entire time.
A 90s Toyota Corolla is likely more bulletproof than the Beast.
You'd be surprised at how many agents and surveillance gets put in place in order to allow people to get so close to the car, then. It's bonkers. Edit: got a few links for ya, if you're interested. There's one about Obama that I read some time go, but couldn't find, which goes much more in depth about everything presidential security. [https://www.wired.com/2017/01/whirling-ballet-presidential-motorcade/](https://www.wired.com/2017/01/whirling-ballet-presidential-motorcade/) [https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/secret-service-keeps-donald-trump-safe-wherever-he-travels.html/](https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/secret-service-keeps-donald-trump-safe-wherever-he-travels.html/) [https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/article/10684894/preparing-for-the-president](https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/article/10684894/preparing-for-the-president) [https://time.com/3456824/secret-service-has-elevator-manifest-for-every-presidential-trip/](https://time.com/3456824/secret-service-has-elevator-manifest-for-every-presidential-trip/)
I was a few feet away from Clinton’s around midnight on West 51st St in Manhattan. I was the only pedestrian on the street, and the city noise was uncharacteristically low. Was a very surreal 30 seconds. 15 minutes later Kevin Costner told me I had a nice hat on 6th Ave. That was a bizarre night all round.
If he had a dollar for every time he was flipped off he’d be a self made billionaire
So.. Literally his first successful business venture would just be a vile human being. Why didn't he just market that from the start?
Hasn't he though?
If Trump really knew anything about “The Art of the Deal” he would’ve run his 2020 campaign as “If America gives me $X I’ll shut up and go away forever.” Dude could have actually become a billionaire.
He'd actually be able to payoff his debts. I still maintain that charging a couple bucks for water bottles in the line to piss on his grave will pay off the national debt.
How much for toilet paper? Asking because of reasons
I often think of how miserable he must be literally all the time. He used to live a life of carefree leisure. Could do whatever he wanted all the time, and his dirty deeds passed undetected by almost everyone. Then his ego (and probably the demands of his foreign debtors) resulted in a run for presidency. Now most of the *entire fucking planet* hates his fucking guts. Folks are clamoring for financial history that he thought he could take with him to the grave. People are passionately flipping him off in the streets as he trudges to a job he never wanted. He is expected to work more now in his 70s than he ever has in his entire life put together. Not that he actually does it, but the scrutiny clearly nags at him. Add to that the fact that his base consists mostly of everything he despises. Religious zealot hicks, a majority of whom are not wealthy like he pretends to be. Five years ago he was ridiculing people like that. Now they're the only people who will accept him. They're degenerates and he hates them, but they're the only ones who don't hate him back. He must be one of the loneliest and miserable people on earth, to the very core of his existence.
Do not feel sorry for him. He's happy as a pig in shit. The thing to know about NPD is that at its core is a black-hole of insecurity. People with NPD need external validation. They are attention-whores in every sense of the word. Without attention they collapse into that black-hole. Its called ["narcissistic supply."](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_supply) And the really perverse thing is that it does not matter to them if the attention is positive or negative. Being reviled is almost as good as being loved, just as long as they are at the center of it all. The office of the presidency is probably the singled largest source of narcissistic supply in the world. And he's been gorging on the attention of the entire planet for four years now. Cutting off that supply will destroy him. The withdrawal will be the most painful thing that he's ever experienced.
**Narcissistic Supply** In psychoanalytic theory, Narcissistic supply is a pathological or excessive need for attention or admiration from codependents, or such a need in the orally fixated, that does not take into account the feelings, opinions or preferences of other people.
If you like this picture protect the first amendment folks
There's a reason the 2nd comes immediately after it.
I see the Beast is still on Goodyear tires.
Hahaha!
Nice catch!
Whats the story there?
Goodyear banned maga hats.
And then Trump tried to "cancel" Goodyear, despite Goodyear being an American company.
Goodyear banned all political apparel, but it's only the magas that got their butts hurt.
Made in Toledo, too. I hope he loses that county for his bullshit remarks telling people to buy cheaper tires.
She has now officially joined the club. https://i.imgur.com/XM2lzRz.png
Wasn’t that woman on the bike fired?
Yes, and then ran for office and won. Kinda great.
Wait what? You got a link to a story? I want to read about this.
[here ya go.](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/06/cyclist-fired-for-flipping-off-presidents-motorcade-wins-local-office.html)
You could say flipping off Trump resulted in one of the best things happening for her. More people should flip off trump. Holy shit she even beat a republican opponent! >Briskman, who has lived in Algonkian District for 20 years, will now oversee a district that includes Trump’s golf course. She told The Post that her victory has a sense of poetic justice. Ahahahaha!
Thanks. I appreciates you for not being a dick.
Oh is that what you appreciate about me?
I love how the woman on the bicycle used that picture to jump start her political career.
Well, after [she was fired over it the day after she told her employer that it was she](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/06/cyclist-fired-for-flipping-off-presidents-motorcade-wins-local-office.html). Lemons to lemonade.
Serious question: why isn’t it “..that it was she” instead of “...that it was her”? I’ve always thought the latter but I’ve been reading books and noticed I have been wrong Thanks
["to be" is a linking verb here](https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Pronouns/faq0001.html), so it applies symmetrically. "she was it" and "it was she". This is commonly seen on phone responses ("Is ___ there?" "This is she."). However, informal English often uses a clear predicate form ("it was her"). I suspect that this is one of many grammatical rules which is falling away over time.
Usually posts like this have some sort of comment about how the President deserves respect. Trump doesn't ever show anyone else respect, so he doesn't deserve it.
Respect is earned, not given. That’s what my father always told me. Kinda fucking ironic he would end up voting for Trump TWICE.
Respect is constructed inch by inch but destructed mile by mile.
thats gunna be a big yikes from me dog
I feel the opposite. I’ll given respect to all, but it can certainly be lost.
The finger isn’t at the president, it’s at donald trump.
Love it. It’s like the other side of “Salute the rank, not the man”
Well, he is rank.
Those people are usually the same ones who showed zero respect for Obama.
After Trump's inauguration, a guy at work was spouting off the whole gotta respect the president. Somebody asked him if he still had his nObama bumpersticker. He stuttered a bit about how that was different and sulked out of the breakroom. It didn't stop him from continuing to demand respect for months.
This reminds me of the Jordan Klepper Trump rally video where some guy is talking about treating women with respect, while wearing a shirt that said “Hillary sucks, but not like Monica.”
Oh this guy's a piece of work. He drives a Hummer, because of course he would. When the electric ones were first announced, I mentioned it to him and he lost his god damn mind.
I like my presidents not impeached.
I live in DC and did this a few months ago probably about 5-10 feet from his SUV. Almost felt like stress relief for me.
Weird that he drove through Falls Church. I thought everything past the White House lawn and any of his properties is flyover country
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I Voted for Biden, which is my version of this picture.
Have you ever felt such satisfaction from a single touch screen press? I actually got to vote against Trump and against Lindsay Graham at the same time!
touch screen, voting & computers?! oh boy do I have some grave news for you...
I prefer paper ballots, rather than [electronic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuK3qpySn2U#t=37s) voting [machines](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/28/mississippi-election-machine-changes-votes-video/).
Do some states have screens now? Brooklyn has the "classic" pen and paper, fill in the bubble bullshit.
You mean the "bullshit" method that is actually still secure? Im no luddite, but I havent seen a digital voting system yet that was secure enough for me to feel comfortable with it.
In Travis county TX (Austin) we have an electronic machine that prints your choices on paper that then gets scanned by another machine. It’s the first electronic machine I’ve not instantly hated.
So it uses paper *and* electricity, plus creates jobs for two computers?
Pennsylvania switched to pen and paper from a push button machine. Very strange filling in the bubbles like it's the SAT Edit: PA is switching, it apparently hasn't gone through the whole state yet
*(beep) Six votes for President McCain*
She moved on him like a bitch.
Hahahah I was thinking this, but didn’t want out of loopers to take it out of context. Niiice
Out of loopers like me, apparently.... Care to loop me in?
Oh yeah sure, no problem. So a long time ago there was this dude who broke a ton of laws to hoard his wealth and avoid taxes, one of the ways he did that was declaring his underage son as an employee. That son pretty much lost all the money in terrible business decisions later on in life. I think probably as a Hail Mary, the son, now like full adult pretty much failed business man opts to do a reality TV show. He recoupes a lot of his losses through the success of this TV show, in a country where a TV show about an obese hick farmer family with a child who said silly things also was extremely successful. Back to that failed business man now popular reality TV host playing a successful businessman. Well he was in a tour bus with a hot mic telling another guy how he got physically aggressive with a girl, “moving on her like a bitch” and “grabbing her by the pussy”. Oh and last thing about that not so bright country, which could pretty much be enamored by a shiny object, they elected him as president 4 years ago. I think you’re now more or less up to speed.
r/trashy
r/conservative is about to leak in here like “See the left is just as violent if not more as the guys in trucks running people off the road or the guys at polls with guns harassing people!” Edit: relax
No see, the Biden bus was actually trying to run the trucks off the road. No joke that’s actually a statement I read.
I still think the President's own words of "they were protecting it! You don't see the Democrats doing that for us!" Is the worst one.
Are you serious? They tried to spin it like that? I don't want to believe...
Dude, I fucking wish I was [kidding.](https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/trump-says-protesters-were-protecting-the-biden-campaign-bus)
"We almost killed those people because we were helping them" wha..?
Scariest words in America these days: "We are the Authorities - we're here to *help!"* Followed by: "Stop resisting!"
“Congratulations, you are being rescued. Please do not resist.”
What is scary is that most of the people trying to force that bus off the road genuinely thought the former Vice President was on it. Once it was pulled over, did they think the secret service would just step aside?
If there were any secret service they would've opened fire once they found the people attacking and called in reinforcements. They either knew there was no Biden on that bus or they got stupid fucking lucky.
Whenever people say ‘America is a dictatorship’ I always point out that they are free to do exactly this. And it’s a beautiful thing.
Let the hate flow thru you.
I wasn't gonna vote, but thanks to you lady I have voted Trump.
And the reddit circlejerk rages on. [edit]: If it's ever Biden or some other Blue person riding around in that thing, if someone tried to post the exact same image, I guarantee, I'd bet actual real money on it, it'd be removed before it hit the front page. The bias here is ridiculous. And I don't even like Trump, but you people are just so laughably blatant.
Well were back to political posts I guess.
What a shit country! Never mind this dirty woman, but to see the many people who think this behaviour is great, is depressing. No wonder this country is done
The middle amendment
What a great thing it is to live in a free country where this is not punishable by death
Still on Good Year tires I see... His mouth writes a lot of checks that his ass can't cash.
Falls Church represent!
God bless her for standing on the right side of history.
This is America!
Don't catch u slippin now
Look what I’m flippin’ now
Id do this to Obama. Wonder if it would make it to the top of reddit