• WraithGear@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Uhg and groan. Listen 9/11 wasnt about solidarity between political parties. I mean the event did allow the parties to craft the Patriot act, and sell away alot of our freedoms for the lie of security… but i consider that a bad thing. It’s this attempt to find common ground with the republicans that has got me so upset at this political climate to begin with. 9/11 is in remembrance to those that died, don’t use it for anything political

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      2 months ago

      If you watch the video, he wasn’t using it for anything political. He’s doing low stakes crowd work. He’s chatting with people, gives a guy in a trump hat a signed hat while making some self deprecating jokes and good natured insults to the guy in the trump hat. Definitely makes like he’s going to steal the guys hat, and puts it on for a second for a bigger laugh.

      Optics good, bad, or neutral, it wasn’t a planned “solidarity” thing like the headline makes it sound.

      A better headline would have been “Biden borrows trump hat for laugh at lunch following 9/11 memorial event”

      • WraithGear@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Fair enough. I’m just going to find something else to think about. Been worked up after unfavorable canidate talk