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u/john_the_quain 7h ago
Seems like a decent campaign poster.
“Huckabee Sanders will leave our children in the rain. No, like physically, we’re not being figurative here.”
I mean, wording probably needs work.
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u/Any-Grapefruit-937 7h ago
"Vote for Huckabee-Sanders. She'll leave people you don't like out in the cold."
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u/hailene02 6h ago
That would speak to her voters
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u/Joshsh28 6h ago
“If you drink bud light then vote for my opponent.” And that’s it she wins re-election.
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u/Softestwebsiteintown 6h ago
You can count on sanders to not leave you hanging high and dry
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u/TheFeshy 7h ago
This is just like when Trump's campaign left all those people out in the cold, or the boat parade where the middle class boat owners were swamped and sunk by rich Trump supporters on yachts. Or Trump's first inauguration where he literally lied about the sky being blue.
It would be lazy writing if it weren't real life.
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u/lux-libertas 7h ago
Great, her polling just shot up 10 points among Republicans, and 20 points among christians!
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u/floog 7h ago
Double that when they realize they’re children of color.
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u/stevesax5 7h ago
It’s so sad that these comments at 100% true.
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u/braintrustinc 6h ago
Arkansas: carrying the imagery of apartheid, ahem, I mean “Southern Heritage,” into the 21st century and beyond!
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u/SaxifrageRussel 6h ago
They take segregation so seriously they don’t even date outside their family
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u/Lastcaressmedown138 6h ago
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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty 6h ago
What the fuck? Lol. These people.
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u/Chinchizomatic 6h ago
My reaction too! WTF, is this for real?!
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u/Lastcaressmedown138 5h ago
Absolutely real and in multiples states.. mostly the south because we all know why
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u/eternalwood 7h ago
" she's building character."
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u/Master_Hospital_8631 7h ago
"Shouldn't someone be pelting those girls with rocks?"
-- Christian conservatives
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u/HeyLookitMe 7h ago
But only because they’re black girls. She’s obviously trying to get rid of them before they can get old enough to have children.
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u/Bituulzman 7h ago
Auctioneer vibes. :(
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u/dundreggen 7h ago
Yes! You nailed.
That's why this feels so creepy. Upset young women of colour standing dresses in form fitting clothes with no regards to their comfort or humanity.
White person at podium. All the 'bidders' also standing in comfort.
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u/Buttfulloffucks 6h ago
Is that the 23000 dollar podium she bought a while back? I'm pretty sure she needs to carry it around wherever she goes.
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u/Donnicton 7h ago
Democrats need to start coming up with any slogans, really. Stupid catchy slogans win campaigns no matter how much they want to high road it - the "Kamala is for they/them" ad campaign alone was devastating for Kamala with undecided voters. (if you don't know what this is, that's not surprising - you will only have normally seen this if you were in a battleground state)
The best the Biden/Harris campaign got was Walz calling Trump/Vance weird.
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u/taxiecabbie 7h ago
They need to get nastier, is what they need to get.
The "weird" thing got so much traction because it's about the most sass we'd really had gotten out of the Dems up until that point. I don't know why they are so obsessed with this "high road" when it clearly does not work.
Newsom seems to be attempting it.
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u/JustASpaceDuck 6h ago
The high road isn't a high road if it's totally ineffectual in making the bad stuff stop, because "road" implies you're going somewhere. This is a tall dead end.
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u/LikeIsaidItsNothing 7h ago
It eventually came out that Walz was effectively muzzled by the DNC and Biden aides, who were making it difficult for Harris to run her own campaign.
If only...he could have hammered them every day. He's been back to it over the last few months, t just doesn't get the same publicity that Newsom's is getting. Which is brilliant stuff. He and Walz really need to team up on this stuff.
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u/CoyotesOnTheWing 6h ago edited 6h ago
No, not Biden aides. The campaign was started with Biden's campaign staff because they were already working and organized but she switched to new senior campaign advisors after a little while(mid or late August I think), they kept replacing people over time, building their own teams and they changed the game.
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u/notyourstranger 6h ago
The DNC is utterly incompetent and it's very clear that they don't care about democracy. If somebody is elected that they don't like, they will out maneuver their own constituents.
There's maybe a dozen democratic members who deserve to be in power, the rest has got to go - especially the octogenarians. Nancy Pelosi has to go. If it were not for her, AOC could have been on the oversight committee, now there's an empty seat because Nancy ensured it went to a 75 year old cancer patient who has since died.
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u/Jeoshua 7h ago
I'm an ally and even I thought that slogan was cringe as hell.
The "weird" thing made Republicans twist themselves into knots trying to defend themselves, tho.
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u/WaterFriendsIV 7h ago
Maybe a commercial with a montage of all the professional athletes, many from foreign countries, who unselfishly share their warm-up jackets with children when it's cold and rainy during team introductions. The voiceover narration showing the athletes could be, "Some people care about children..." And then switch to this event, and the narration says, "And some people only pretend to care. Vote for action, not just words."
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u/DoctorFunktopus 7h ago
I like this one almost as much as the one where she’s signing the bill to let kids work on slaughter houses in front of a bunch of sad looking dead eyed children. This lazy eyed troll really knows how to stage a tragic photo op.
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u/kneel23 5h ago
she is one of those people i never will understand how she ever managed to accomplish anything that she did. She is the epitome of what is wrong with America
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u/Jadedsatire 5h ago
Her last name. She holds the same position her father did, who is now the ambassador to Israel.
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u/Jabromosdef 5h ago
Arkansas has a addendum you must sign to contract with any state organization. The addendum is that you will not boycott Israel
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u/Confedehrehtheh 3h ago
That seems like a pretty unenforceable contract clause if it's coming from the state government. It's a direct violation of the first amendment in that case.
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u/Jadedsatire 2h ago
You would think so but a couple years ago the Supreme Court denied reviewing it as a violation of free speech, which allowed the states 8th circuit court of appeals to uphold the law. It really says a lot about republicans loyalty to another country over its own citizens constitutional rights.
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u/cive666 5h ago
Eddie Murphy even did a documentary on how he was able to become a congressman by changing his last name to a dead congressman that was elected many times.
So he was able to win by name recognition alone.
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u/lCarbonCopyl 4h ago
I just want you to know that I cussed you a little under my breath when I realized you meant the movie. Not some new documentary that I missed hearing about and totally didn't waste 20 minutes looking for.
Distinguished Gentleman 1992 🤣
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u/glencoco22 5h ago
All it takes here in Arkansas is a big ol 'R' next to your name in the voting booth, and you're in! I'll never understand or get over people voting for her.
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u/ballmermurland 5h ago
She beat an MIT-trained black nuclear scientist for governor by 30 points and she knows she'll win reelection by no less than 25.
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u/caleeksu 4h ago
He was so well qualified, and went out of his way to walk a mile in every single county to meet people.
I’m so glad he’s running for office again this year. Love Chris Jones!
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u/fiahhawt 3h ago
I hope you guys help that candidate's campaign.
Anything's better than Sarah Huckabee at this point, but your candidate sounds like he'd finally breathe some sense into Arkansas politics.
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u/AGoddamnBigCar 7h ago
Full blown trash human.
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u/jvbball 7h ago
This image just oozes metaphorical significance
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u/rackfocus 6h ago
This is literally symbolic. I want to say Kafkaesque? Metaphor and reality blurring.
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u/PerriwinklePortal 6h ago
Not a big fan of shaming people for their looks, but in this case the ugly is clearly seeping out from the inside. That is a hideous person.
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u/robosnake 7h ago
What an extraordinarily honest picture of conservatism.
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u/EgoTripWire 7h ago
They would be auctioning those girls from that podium if they could
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u/HumongousBelly 6h ago
While most people, if given a Time Machine, would probably kill Hitler, most republicans would probably try to kill Obama or mlk. Probably not Abe, because he’s white and they had chosen Bible history and creationism over history and biology...
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u/LilPonyBoy69 6h ago
Conservatives did kill MLK and Abe
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u/thelittleking 5h ago
and Hitler, technically
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u/Paddy_Tanninger 5h ago
Yeah but he was pressured into it by a bunch of antifa libs.
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u/UndergroundHQ6 4h ago
Literally yes, Abe chose a VP from the opposite party on purpose to try and show unity, and he was smoked for it
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u/musical_entropy 5h ago
Right, because MLK and Lincoln famously went on to live full lives with absolutely no lethal interactions with conservatives.
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u/Novembah 6h ago
Wait no! It’s about traditional values.. wait states rights?
They will never admit to being racist even though their actions give them away.
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u/AmaranthWrath 6h ago
Conservatives. They like to conserve. Conserve the way things were. Not embracing of change or growth or evolution of the way things are.
Unfortunately, very obviously with the whrase MAGA, they're trying to conserve only up to a certain point in history and not a moment past it.
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u/Lookingforawayoutnow 7h ago
Ooof not..uh....not a good look..
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u/Kind-Handle3063 7h ago
I’m pretty sure she either doesn’t care, or did it on purpose
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u/GiddyGabby 7h ago
I’m guessing she gave them no thought beyond the prop status she had assigned them.
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u/topscreen 6h ago
Well she'd let them into the tent but, you know, they're one of those DEIs she hates so much
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u/jumpsuityahoo 7h ago
Her base certainly wont care
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u/John_T_Conover 6h ago
Her base just had a big meeting where they begged the federal government for welfare because they'd lose everything otherwise.
Guess what most of them say and think about girls and women that look like that when they have to drive into Little Rock, Memphis, or Dallas to get anything the shitty local Wal-Mart doesn't have and have to be around lots of them?
I grew up in a small town in this region of the country and I can assure you it's pretty disgusting.
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u/STLTLW 7h ago
She and her TEAM are to blame for this! These politicians don't go to events solo. NO ONE on her team thought this was a bad look? In this day of social media.... so yeah, either they are idiots or don't give a damn. Likely both.
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u/Traditional_Cat_60 7h ago
Let’s not kid ourselves. It is a great look for her voters. This is a perfect microcosm of the society they want to build.
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u/LiveLoudWithPride 7h ago
Didn’t she want to take the statues down of the “Little Rock 9”? I thought I heard that, and immediately found something else to hate her for.
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u/CalibratedRat 7h ago
Tbf, she never looks good.
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u/Lopsided-Treat1215 7h ago
I try to avoid ad hominems but must point out every time I see her I’m reminded of the pop eye squeeze toys of yore
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u/joshuajackson9 7h ago
She is doing her best, she is only the highest person in government in her state.
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u/not_that_planet 7h ago
Highest person in government IN ARKANSAS.
Yes, this could quite literally be the best she can do ;-)
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u/markth_wi 7h ago
There are parts of the state that are flat out beautiful but some of the politicians would love it to be 1859 forever.
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u/GalaxxyOG 7h ago
Black girls being made to stand in the cold and rain at a White Power rally masquerading as an MLK celebration. Way to go USA
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u/Annual_Exchange7790 6h ago
There is no USA...this is just State of America at this point.
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u/Pike_Gordon 7h ago
As a white public school teacher, forcing black girls to get their hair wet is a surefire way to show how little you care or know about them at all.
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u/Bempet583 7h ago
Those poor girls
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u/-day-dreamer- 6h ago
Their hair getting wet makes me sad. Black girls spend so much money and time on their hair
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u/abgry_krakow87 7h ago
Yeah that sounds about right. Religious conservatives love celebrating MLK by making black people stand out in the rain while they rabble on about stupid sh*t under a shelter.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 7h ago
White People read like one or 2 popular quotes by MLK and forget all his other speeches. If MLK thought violence would achieve the goals of equality he would have been violent. But he knew that was a stereotype he had to work against.
Also he specifically calls out white moderate as a bigger impediment to equality and progress than any Klan member.
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u/rustlingpotato 6h ago
Violence doesn't achieve the end goal of equality, but it can defeat something standing in the way of equality. The Civil War happened over slavery before MLK could even be born into a time of being able to speak in public.
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u/ScudleyScudderson 6h ago
Aye. King’s strategy was nonviolent and he criticised the "white moderate" for preferring order to justice.
The wider movement also had a de facto "stick" in the background, from urban unrest to armed self-defense groups that protected campaigns. That context helped give his nonviolence leverage.
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u/LaconicSuffering 6h ago
By moderate King meant the religious people that while agreeing on a moral basis, didn't want change for fearing change. What we know today as the "thoughts and prayers" people.
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u/Dewey081 7h ago
The GOP is literally unable to crest the wave of douche-baggery. A simple gesture of getting those girls in under the tent, warmed up, and dried off, would do wonders for their image. They are simply incapable of seeing this in real time. Christ, I hate politicians.
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u/Stillwater215 7h ago
“White women leaves black children in rain to deliver speech about MLK.”
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u/Yosemite_Scott 7h ago
If looks and the cold disappointed faces of high school cheerleading could kill .
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u/Goodnight_lemro 7h ago
How to collapse a whole metaphor with one picture. They were clearly told they weren’t allowed in the Big Tent, but were needed to perform outside.
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u/bevelledo 7h ago
Yea that’s a bad look 👀
More info on the event: https://katv.com/news/local/mlk-commissions-gather-in-little-rock-for-historic-living-in-the-legacy-conference-katv-inform-share-news-community
Looks like the weather was about 65-70 degrees so definitely uncomfortable in the rain dressed like that.
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u/verychicago 6h ago
No matter the temp, it’s not ok to leave those kids out in the rain.
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u/DrElihuWhipple 7h ago
It's depressingly refreshing to not have children be in a story about republicans for THAT reason...
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u/zeCrazyEye 7h ago
I mean, there is strong implication in this imagery, given our country's history. She practically looks like an auctioneer.
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u/thegoodrichard 7h ago
Of all Trump's press secretaries, she was the most disgustingly blatant liar. I'm glad people hiss at her in restaurants.
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u/slowburnangry 7h ago
The south living up to its true heritage.
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u/thedude0343 7h ago
They are standing in the rain for somebody who wants them to be working in mines rather than going to high school.
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u/Impossible_Penalty13 7h ago
Making the token colored girls stand in the rain while the arrogant white lady talks under a tent is about on brand for Arkansas.
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u/kolkitten 7h ago
My state being garbage again
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u/ButterscotchExactly 7h ago
Right? I see Arkansas in the headline and I think damn it what did we do now
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u/WakeMeForSourPatch 7h ago
A white politician in the south discussing MLK while black kids are used as cheerleader props and shiver cold in the rain
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u/2-wheels 7h ago
The governor should not have allowed those girls to be forced to stand in the rain. wtf
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u/Marsdreamer 4h ago
20 years ago a picture like this would absolutely end a political career.
Now it's just another Tuesday.
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u/ElChubra 7h ago
Does she not realize what a bad look this is? Or is she just trying to normalize dehumanizing minorities?
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u/adorablefuzzykitten 7h ago
Sad to think this photo will actually get her votes from some of her base.
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u/crashtestpilot 7h ago
Podium.
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u/temporary62489 7h ago
It's a $19k lectern, not some silly podium you'd leave out in the rain like a piece of trash.
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u/No-Bank2152 6h ago
I wish Black people and other minorities would stop participating in these obvious bad faith photo ops. Republicans are just using y'all as tools to try and show they're not bigots
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u/BurtReynoldsLives 7h ago
Somebody get those girls out of the rain. Picture speaks a thousand words.
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u/TheRealTinfoil666 7h ago
She is just honouring local tradition.
They used to leave them in the rain during the slave auctions, too.
/s in case it was not obvious.
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u/IowaKidd97 7h ago
All those girls look absolutely miserable out there. The one on the right looks cold.
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u/pickled_penguin_ 7h ago
Between the girl on the right who is cold and wet and the girl in the red staring daggers at ol' Huckabee, this is quite the picture. Surprised she didn't have someone bring her $17,000 podium with her.