Like…a girdle?
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It’s probably something like a girdle, but it’s probably also something idiotic like he thinks that the person who leans the furthest forward wins the confrontation. Kind of like his stupid handshake.
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The Mike Pence simultaneous shame/adulation face is fucking fantastic.
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might be a very low seat, meant to make whitehouse “guests” uncomfortable, but the dotard sat on it by mistake.
I hope his torment is excruciating and everlasting.
I won’t stand for this Trump posture bashing.
I’m like the opposite of him. I lean back with my hips pushed forward for some weird reason.
What happened to all the scotus stuff today 
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A Scorsese movie on this whole thing would be a masterpiece
Usually they decide on Friday night and announce it Monday morning.
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Or a much better corset.
Definitely is extremely low. First thing I noticed.
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Yeah I thought like five major rulings were dropping today.
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He definitely knows it sucks and sits in it because it proves how awful Obama was to leave such terrible seats. Good thing Trump has a good back. Some are calling it the best back of all presidents!
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i think most people, if they were to be asked, “hey if you were born fred trump’s son, do you think that’d be pretty lucky? compared to what you’ve seen in your life?” would agree yeah it would be a great luck to be born rich and inherit $400M of new york city real estate in the 1970s.
but trump doesn’t see it that way, he thinks he deserves the best. his triplex penthouse is covered in gold. barely passing Upenn even though he transferred there and definitely cheated a bunch of times probably from middle school forward, he didn’t need to go to the wharton school of business to start work as the #2 at his dad’s company, so he didn’t, and began a fabulous lifestyle of banging models and eating candy in bed watching tv that lasted 50 solid years. and then he accidentally became president while trying to drum up a business deal with the russians, and now he’s like a god to all the dummies who want to cast the blame for their lot in life, not on blind luck, but on race. insisting, of course, that their race is the good one.
the communists correctly identified luck as the root cause of social inequality, and the fascists hate them for it even more, because it’s like a personal insult against their race. that’s why they feel that we’re the racists. anyway that’s what i learned in trump’s first term. please submit this as unstuck politics’ first op-ed article
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you can see why they idolize him so much. He’s a shining example of white privilege “working” (for the white of course). To them, he’s going to bring back the “natural” order of things.
It may not be conscious for all of them but I have no doubt it’s at the core of most of the remaining trumpkin’s rabid support.
For me, I am ashamed of my privilege. I have gotten a great deal from it (not $400mm, of course) and it is difficult sometimes to accept that I haven’t gotten by on hard work alone, although there was quite a bit of hard work involved. I can think of specific instances where if not for my privilege I would have either been greatly delayed or stopped entirely.
Had a surreal convo with a former mentor the other day, who is Iranian. He beseeched me to go farther in my career, because I “look and sound” right for the jobs that are available to me. Just another way of saying I am white so doors will be opened for me that were not for him, because of his nationality/race and english as his second language. I totally understood and agreed.
The funny thing is, I am actually mixed race white/black but I look very white. That makes my feelings about privilege even more complicated, because my family has almost certainly suffered because of systemic racism, and my dad just happened to get lucky and marry rich. In 170 years of known history of my dad’s side I am the first to even PURSUE a college degree, for instance.
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I want to be very clear here… I’m super super privileged as well. I’m white, I’m male, I’m straight, and goddamn if I’m not crazy talented a a few specific things that the free market seems to love. I know tons and tons of people I grew up around of every race who did not have one of those things, and have had to walk a much harder road.
Not everything has been a bed of roses for me of course, but I don’t want anyone to think that I’ve had anything but a relatively easy path. Honestly I’ve had just enough real adversity to recognize how impossible it would have been with just a bit more. Yes I worked hard (at times lol), but so does everyone.
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I wouldn’t have minded if my dad was rich, but I’m glad he wasn’t a member of the KKK.
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SCOTUS agreed to stay the three cases on Trump’s taxes until they have argument etc.
Pretty surprising they would punt that far, but also very shitty.