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[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t see why all of you think this was staged. The White House rather famously allows random people to walk onto the White House grounds, knock on the door to the Oval Office, and hand the President unexamined bags of things.

It’s not like “No Tax on Tips” was created because the Supreme Court ruled that bribes to Congress given after they’ve performed an official act are considered tips now.

What the fuck even is this country anymore?

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you for this comment. Are we that collectively stupid that folks watch an obviously staged, impossible situation put on by the worlds most prolific liar and we feel like we need to point out that maybe the focused, composed photo of a scripted event, might not have been spontaneous?

I need to put down these crazy pills I guess.