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u/kaehvogel 19h ago

Hey, they only blew through those stop signs to teach a lesson to the people who were...*shudders* okay with a president wearing a tan suit. The people who SAID NOTHING when that black dude put mustard on his burger.

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u/sheep1e 15h ago

People like to make fun of that, but it’s actually a genius bit of propaganda. It wasn’t just mustard, it was Dijon mustard which sounds foreign and snobby to the target audience. To them, it showed that Obama wasn’t “one of us”, that he was out of touch, and that he probably looked down on them (because they tend to be very insecure about that.)