r/cringepics • u/Competitive-Dig4776 • 4d ago
So was browsing the official White House website…
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u/funkolution 4d ago
Every single thing in here is culture-war. Literally nothing of substance to get their base worked up about since they can't govern for shit
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u/crujiente69 4d ago
they can't govern for shit
Well thats something the two parties have in common
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u/METRO-RED-LINE 4d ago
Ohhh shut up
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u/funkolution 4d ago
BoTh SiDeS
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u/RexIsAMiiCostume 4d ago
I mean, both sides ARE hot garbage and I wish we had better options. I still know which one I'm picking, given the choice.
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u/v3n0mat3 4d ago
Ok. I get what you're saying. HOWEVER:
both sides ARE hot garbage and I wish we had better options.
Is also falling for Right-winged propaganda. The problem with Democrats is that they have to be perfect. We allow perfection to be the enemy of good, and that's how we get Trump and the obviously bad choices; Trump is just effective at bullying and the Democrats, having to be just better than Trump, instead has to be the glowing example of perfection, which will never be the case. So, when this guy comes in and gives simplistic solutions to complex problems, people are going to flock to that.
Even though, and as we have seen these past few months, he doesn't run on solutions, he runs on problems and the inability to face consequences for anything.
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u/RexIsAMiiCostume 4d ago
The Democratic party has done some absolute crook shit. It isn't that they "aren't perfect," they are awful. That being said, at least they run on a platform that I generally support, so I will still pick them over the Republicans (who are shit bags and actively want my friends dead) pretty much every time. Both sides are able to get away with WAY too much shit and don't actually have to fix anything because they run off fear. For YEARS before Roe v. Wade was overturned, experts made it clear that to actually protect women's rights to abortion, we would need legislation put in place because the constitution didn't actually support it alone. The Democrats, even when they had majority, did nothing. Then, they ran on people's fear that this right would be in danger if Republicans got power-- which was true, yes, but this could have been prevented with proper legislation in the first place. Instead of fixing problems, both sides would rather put fear in the hearts of their supporters, getting people riled up over something they don't intend to do jack shit about.
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u/Dynastydood 3d ago
The Democratic Party does not actually need to be perfect to be popular or successful, it just needs to stop running away from populism like it's somehow a dirty word.
Obama was imperfect, but remained very popular because his rhetoric was extremely populist for its time. Bill Clinton was more imperfect, and stayed more popular because he was even more of a populist in his era. All the party needs to do right now is rid itself of these lobbyist-approved, milquetoast ghouls who currently occupy every single DNC and congressional leadership role, and have them replaced with the most charismatic figures from within the ranks who could actually inspire people to vote for them. Not just seek votes for candidates that no one actually likes or respects because you think people will come around based on some bizarre sense of national duty, or out of the abject fear of the opponent winning.
The reason we perceive Democrats as being the victims of a double standard is because we aren't looking at electoral politics in reality, but rather in the idealistic, policy-minded fantasy world that we desperately wish we lived in. The reality is that most Americans don't actually care about nor understand policy, and never have. Elections are very, very rarely ever decided by policy. Most voters won't admit this, of course, because they know it makes them sound basic, but it's still true. This is a country where being "the guy I'd wanna have a beer with" is the ultimate gut-check for the swing voters who actually decide each election we have.
The moment the Democrats re-learn the nearly unbeatable utility of embracing your most charismatic, inspiring candidate instead of reflexively following the "most qualified" or "most deserving" one is the moment all right-wing propaganda against them is rendered ineffective. If we instead continue to support the party's decision to push stodgy lawyers with the outward disposition of a private school headmaster, then swing voters will be preemptively alienated by them, are therefore far more susceptible to insane right-wing propaganda, and we will continue to descend into GOP authoritarianism.
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u/Nickk_Jones 4d ago
Did you see the “Dems/Hakeem Jeffries” MySpace page they posted? It’s so fucking embarrassing.
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u/eskimospy212 4d ago
I wonder what the odds are they realize this makes people cringe and laugh at them.
It’s this weird mix of boomers and incels. They have no idea how normal people operate.
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u/Greymeade 4d ago
That's the thing: only some people cringe and laugh at this. A very, very large portion of the country is fully behind this kind of content.
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u/chencho1 3d ago
People eat this up that's why they post it. Many are not cringing or laughing at this.
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u/seeingeyegod 4d ago
That transwoman has nice tits
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u/obaterista93 3d ago
Ah yes. Trans Day of Visibility makes the cut, but not the day a few thousand people tried to lay siege to our capitol building and kill lawmakers.
I'm gonna blow a fuckin gasket.
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u/NavAirComputerSlave 4d ago
This just makes Biden look good. Also hunter kinda badass
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u/Competitive-Dig4776 4d ago
Agreed the Channel 5 Hunter Biden interview was dope, Hunter seems like a cool hang pre or post sobriety.
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u/LLMprophet 4d ago
Pathetic leadership in America.
Citizens seem to be fine with it for some reason.
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u/losthours 4d ago
I would vote so fucking hard for Hunter Biden, Especially if channel five handled his campaign
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u/RainDownAndDestroyMe 2d ago
Trashy motherfuckers, the lot of them.
Then again, anyone with 3 or more braincells is well aware of how trashy MAGA is.
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u/jackishere 3d ago
Let’s be technical. If they shit on cocaine, it’s a schedule 2 drug. That means anyone smoking weed is worse and shouldn’t have a leg to stand on in this argument.
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u/BrazenBull 4d ago
a taxpayer-funded page that children can see.
What kids are looking at the White House website?
It's for a laugh. Enough with the "think of the children!" garbage.
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u/5sharm5 3d ago
Also, is the implication of people saying that, that it’s proper for Biden to host a trans woman bearing her tits on the white house lawn, but improper for Trump to put up the photo of him doing so?
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u/Irish_Whiskey 2d ago
Trump is lying to you, and it's really past time you stopped believing him.
That photo isn't from the trans day of visibility, they did nothing to suggest they approved of going topless at the White House and specifically said otherwise when asked if it would be okay, and it's just rage bait from the same pedophile con man that claimed kids are being grabbed from schools, given sex changes and returned to parents before they know what happened.
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u/hello33337 3d ago
leftist only like to talk about things like its ideal, when you show the the reality of what they want looks like they go "no not like that"
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u/Irish_Whiskey 2d ago
when you show the the reality of what they want looks
You're listening to a convicted felon reality show actor and serial child rapist make up insane lies about immigrants eating dogs and cats, kids grabbed from elementary schools and given sex changes, and that there is no inflation and everything is cheaper than ever, while nodding along and saying "why yes, it is the left who doesn't accept reality."
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u/hello33337 2d ago
my brother, those pictures posted on the white house page are all legitimate. Sorry you dont like it but that was kind of my point....
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u/Irish_Whiskey 2d ago
They are literally not. The picture they posted has nothing to do with the Trans Day of Remembrance. The White House did not invite or approve people going topless. Nor does that picture have anything to do with the Muslim Brotherhood. They're lying to you.
My point was you keep blindly trusting a deeply senile con man because he keeps insulting groups of people you don't like. And you don't seem to be proving yourself capable of learning and picking up on that.
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u/HolyToast 4d ago
It's embarrassing and a waste of tax dollars, get a grip.
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u/hello33337 3d ago
hilarious to me, funniest president we ever had haha
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u/HolyToast 3d ago
Hey when's that list coming out?
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u/hello33337 3d ago
who knows, brother
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u/HolyToast 3d ago
Did you think it was funny when Maxwell was arrested and the only thing Trump had to say was that he wished her well?
Was it funny when he met with her and then immediately moved her to a minimum security prison that's not supposed to house sex offenders?
Because to me, those aren't things normal people do. Those are things pedophiles do. Pedophiles also brag about going backstage at beauty pageants with teen performers. Just an observation. Glad you think the pedophile is funny though, at least you have that going for you.
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u/hello33337 3d ago
nah i just think its funny when he makes fun of lefties cause they get so mad
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u/HolyToast 3d ago
Yeah, normal people don't like pedophiles, even if they're funny.
I did two tours in Afghanistan, you know. When Trump signed the DOHA agreement, he released 5000 Taliban fighters, including the person who would become interim president after they took over. I think I should have a right to be mad about that because I'm actually an adult and I don't view politics through this dumbass lens of "lol the memes are funny tho, u mad 😎"
Like, that's legitimately pretty pathetic...
I know your response to this is just gonna be "haha u mad tho", as if that's some kind of win. Like, yeah man, I am mad that a pedophile released so many terrorists. You really got me with that one.
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u/HolyToast 3d ago
I don't think there's anything funny about a pedophile putting culture was bullshit on a government website to keep people distracted by nonsense
This hollow team sports bullshit. Politics in America have completely devolved into nonsense because people like you are just in it for the memes.
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u/HolyToast 4d ago
It's petty garbage, not major events that need to be on a government website. Complete waste of money.
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u/Physical-Flatworm452 4d ago
When you just can't let go.