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[–] P34C0CK 161 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] asteriskeverything 74 points 1 year ago

Obama definitely wore it best

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's really a great looking suit

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The audacity that man has to walk around looking so dapper

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly?

I don't like the suit, but he made it look good anyways.

I'm told the yoots call it rizz.

[–] GopherOwl 11 points 1 year ago

Personally I'd recommend a tie with more contrast. Maybe a deep green or navy blue. Or maybe a dark brown tie with a pattern of little tan suits on it!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

To be fair, I wouldn't want the President looking that good if I might have to be photographed next to him

[–] eran_morad 98 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

“Allowing casual clothing on the Senate floor disrespects the institution we serve” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., wrote in a letter signed by 45 other Republican senators.

Okay, but what about being a fucking traitor?

[–] utopianfiat 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They hate that Fetterman looks and dresses like the people he serves. Working class laboring Americans.

[–] eran_morad 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And I hate that we pay these goddamn worthless traitor parasites. We should treat them as the filth they are. I cannot wish enough ill upon republicans.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

“Allowing casual clothing on the Senate floor disrespects the institution we serve” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla, American Traitor and Fraudster who stole over 1 billion dollars from medicaid, medicare, and other instutitions that help americas most at risk and needy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Florida man

[–] fne8w2ah 7 points 1 year ago

cough 🇷🇺🪆 cough

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's really damn simple. It's because they don't care.

The hypocrisy is the point.

Everything they do is "do as I say, not as I do".

It's about control and power. Not about values.

They have no actual values.

[–] CosmicTurtle 14 points 1 year ago

There is only one party that cares about hypocrisy.

And it ain't the fucking republicans.

[–] Carvex 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A pointing out the hypocrisy is moot, they will just move the goalpost further down field. Rules for thee, not for me.

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[–] FlyingSquid 96 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Have any Republicans said a thing about Boebert giving her boyfriend an over-the-pants handy in public yet?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Brickhead92 16 points 1 year ago

That family's name: The Aristocrats!

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, my public sexual indecency in the presence of minors, a felony, isn’t as shocking as a hoodie.

[–] ericisshort 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would not be shocked if this were a real Boebert quote.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would because it uses the word "sorry".

[–] frickineh 9 points 1 year ago

And it was obviously written by someone literate, so that excludes her, too.

[–] badbytes 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hoodie + Trust > Suit + Lies

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As the limit of fucks I give about clothing at work approaches zero.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Clearly clothing is optional to her as well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Hey now, she really knows the importance of putting on sheep's clothing as a wolf.

[–] WaxedWookie 40 points 1 year ago

How many trans people have been caught jerking off their partner while getting groped, vaping, and using inappropriate language in front of minors?

Never mind - we'd better genocide the queers just in case - to protect the children, you see. Boebert? Whatever do you mean?

[–] snekerpimp 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was this political party in Germany in the 1930s that insisted everyone dress sharp while they tried to systematically wipe out anyone not blonde hair and blue eyed… the name escapes me though…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is seriously the logical conclusion if things progress like this. Republicans are operating on complete bad faith, all in the pursuit of power and getting their way.

And it's all so obvious, and yet they still hold a lot of power in the US. That is seriously concerning. Or should be, at least.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

It’s not that they can’t see their own hypocrisy it’s that they don’t care. To their base they see only the one side anyways so it doesn’t matter to them. When will we stop pretending that the GOP is going to change from facing their own hypocrisy.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t think they care. They went after Obama’s tan suit, AOC’s dress and now Fetterman’s sweater.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Republicans are fully aware of the absurdity of their hypocrisy

They just don't care.

And more over, they find absolute delight in people on the opposite side from them getting in a huff about it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not even a case of 'republicans believe themselvea the only real americans' they act like they believe themselves the only real humans

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Therein lies the true danger from these zealous traitors: they see outgroups as not human and will happily commit any number of atrocities against anyone they consider "other."

[–] dangblingus 8 points 1 year ago

Debating how hypocritical anybody in politics is being is a fool's errand. It's irrelevant and is not productive. Every single one of us exhibits forms of hypocrisy all the time.

How about we shift to a paradigm where everyone criticizes politicians based on how good or bad their policies are, including how they vote on bills?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly, Schumer should just declare casual fridays or something like that. It’d be cool to see who understands that attire doesn’t really have that much impact on the efficacy of the body (to be clear, that’s both commentary on how attire generally doesn’t impact one’s ability to do a non-physical job, as well as an oblique insult to what the Senate has become).

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