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PaperclipPerfector  3mo ago (text post)   3009 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 10, 2025

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Barack Obama and Donald Trump chatting away before Jimmy Carter's funeral is quite something to see:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=5cnfNgvKsoo

Does Barack humor him diplomatically like a crazy MAGA uncle at the Thanksgiving table? Maybe, but Obama coolness breaking into a chuckle is genuine, Donalds joke must have hit. At the same time Obama has literally the ear of the next President, Trump is listening intensely what he has to say. You know deep down Trump thinks Obama is cool.

Obama and Trump are both members of a very club of former POTUS. Smaller still is the club of those who ruled over the US when the power was as centralised in Washington, rather than dispersed among the states and when the US was the preeminent global power. Thus they could be said to have wielded the most power than anyone else throughout history of the world. I think this naturally forms an understanding and kinship which transcends party lines.

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