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Remember how many times Obama was mocked, did they fire anyone? No.
While I agree with the sentiment, there's always 1 person who says something really racist or something and does get into trouble, but usually gets a bunch of right wing support too.
Edit: Google search mentions several, including Ferguson police officer being extremely racist, a teacher also being racist calling Michelle a gorilla, a NY police officer got a mere 60 days for a slur and suggesting the president "go die in a shallow grave."
The overall point stands that they did way worse than someone calling out the truth, but right wing defenders will definitely say it happened with Obama too.
I guess, Obama didn’t respond like this:
why does it look so weak coming from that lumbering husk of a person with a little curved appendage
Geico fired R. Lee Ermey because he gave a speech claiming Obama was bankrupting the country on purpose so he could bring socialism to the US. Just saying.
I truly don't understand that line of reasoning. At all.
Putting aside ideological stances on economic and social structures, how does someone reason that the country being broke makes socialism more achievable?
If I can remember correctly (and I probably can't) I think they figured Obama would cause mass unrest, bankrupt the country with insane economic policies, then use that as excuse to implement martial law, then use that to pass a law that says we do socialism now.
I'm pretty sure I remember that rhetoric going around during Biden too.
Eh, replace socialism with a dictatorship and that describes the current administration.
Of course. Every accusation is a confession.
Well that's fake news. Trump being a pedo is fact.
Yeah, I agree with you. The assertion was that no one was ever fired for saying anything about Obama, and all I'm saying is that's not the case.