• @LauchsOP
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    221 year ago

    (Actual photo context: Iraqi journalist, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, threw his shoe in a sign of extreme disrespect at George yelling “this is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, dog.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_shoeing_incident?wprov=sfla1

    The greeting as a liberator bit is a callback to Dick Cheney’s infamous “my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”)