• @ieatpwns
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      341 month ago

      The people don’t matter as much as the message of the meme. But for future reference that’s Kamala Harris the democratic nominee for United States president and her husband Doug Emhoff.

      • @[email protected]
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        I was pretty sure that was Kamala but the dude threw me and I was trying to figure out if he was the prospective VP.

        • @Viking_Hippie
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          Nah, Governor Walz is the one who is 4 months older than her, looks 20 years older and is about 5 years cooler 😁

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            I know, right? The more I read about him the more I like. I’ve worked with a looot of disabled veterans who get treated like trash once they get out so it’s nice to see someone put their money where their mouth is.

            A lot of people, esp right-wingers, will say shit like they want to support veterans instead of all these moochers on public assistance and drug addicts and I often struggle to convince them that that venn diagram is damn near a fucking circle.

            • @FordBeeblebrox
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              Can confirm, family business. From the minute you walk into MEPS till the VA you are just a serial number piece of meat. Anyone who fights for better vet treatment gets a solid 👍 in my book. Some of those “drug addict moochers” had more medals than cloth on the uniform when it came time to clean out the closet but who cares about that after they come home right

            • @Viking_Hippie
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              Nope, only 60 lol. I was surprised as hell too!

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              One of my nurse mentors years ago used to say “city miles hit harder than highway miles” and both military service AND the chronic physical and behavioral conditions it often results in definitely count as “city miles” for the purposes of this analogy! On a similar note my sister with several developmental and metabolic disorders is almost 40 but looks 55+. She went salt-n-pepper gray just a little after the age of 25.

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        41 month ago

        Not pictured: Doug’s brother Jack

        (I know it’s painfully unoriginal, but I do what I want in this absurd world and I cannot be stopped)

    • @Passerby6497
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      271 month ago

      Wouldn’t it be the FGOTUS? He’d be the first gentleman, not the first lady.

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          201 month ago

          Fuh-goat-us

          Simple pronunciation, we better get to practicing so we’re used to it.

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            I feel like that would only make sense if there was a vowel between the two that was a u or similar vowel, so it would really be more “fig-otus.” That said, I’m with @[email protected] in thinking it should definitely be a voiceless pharyngeal fricative. Wikipedia offers the h in horrible as an example, and in french (our instance’s other primary language), the r in faire.

        • @MJKee9
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          11 month ago

          Chug a glass of milk before trying to pronounce it…helps a ton!

    • @Emerald
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      91 month ago

      Am I the only one who finds the OTUS acronyms kinda funky? I prefer to just say US President or Supreme Court or First Lady.

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      11 month ago

      I’ve never questioned who was In a meme I was content thinking they were randos as usual

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        honestly I mostly sent it to him because normally he’s the one who doesn’t know, but the fact that he knew and I didn’t just spun my head right round (I needed that though, I’ve had the month off and my thought patterns were getting a little too rigid). Also though I forgot he’s still warming his toes on the dumpster fire that’s left of twitter.