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Before viral Islamophobic rant, ex-Obama official harassed women, Russian diplomat’s dog - The Grayzone (thegrayzone.com)
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[–] Lemmygizer@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is unbearable! Obama needs to step down from the Presidency IMMEDIATELY over this.

[–] corrupts_absolutely@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

cant quite understand can u translate the magnitude of this into tan suits
(no symapthy for seldowitz, but wont take blumenthal seriously)

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago

ex-us official under many presidencies

[–] livus@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ex-Obama official

I would hazard a guess that his behaviour has nothing whatsoever to do with his former job and everything to do with mental illness.

It feels ghoulish to be focusing on him.

[–] NightOwl@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm glad that you assume sane people couldn't be this hateful.

[–] livus@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

@NightOwl it's not that.

People who are sane and this hateful at his age spend their time doing stuff like propping up right wing think tanks, writing memoirs about how great Kissinger is, or introducing discriminative policies into their HOA.

Spending their time and energy serially harassing hot dog vendors and people's dogs, on the other hand, is more the pastime of those with mental health issues.

Also, I saw the first video, he had a manner that strongly reminded me of paranoid delusional people.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I dont know why people are suddenly posting that website, but it's absolute garbage

[–] xerazal@lemmy.zip 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Idk why every publication talking about this keeps pointing out that he was in the Obama administration. The guy has served in multiple admins over the years, dating back to the reagan admin I think.

Also grayzone? No offense, but those guys are loony. Founded by a guy who is a regular contributor to RT.

[–] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago

Politically useful to blame Obama for everything. Not like the maga crowd is going to fact check.