Happy anniversary!
On this date 9 years ago, August 28, 2014, the Republican Party went bat-dung crazy because President Barack Obama wore a tan suit. The good news is that at least we know what the GOP will get upset over with a president. It's not two impeachments, including for trying to shakedown a foreign leader and promoting a riot against the U.S. government. It's not being found liable for committing what the trial judge wrote was the equivalence of rape. It's not creating plans to stage a coup against democracy in order to overthrow the government. It's not fomenting an Insurrection where rioters broke into the U.S. Capitol, threatened the lives of the members of Congress, attacked the police and built a hangman's noose for vice president Mike Pence. It's not taking government documents, refusing to return them, hiding them from a government subpoena, leaving classified material out in the open and showing war plans to people without clearance. It's not interfering with state government to get them to commit election fraud. It's not having your charity foundation shut down for a having "shocking pattern of illegality." It's none of that and more. But it's comforting to know that despite knowing that not any of that upsets Republicans in Congress when it comes to the actions of a president, there is something that will upset Republicans, sworn to protect, preserve and defend the United States Constitution. It's a black man standing at the White House podium in a tan suit. (For the record: I did not come up with the phrase that I used for the headline above. It was too wonderful not to use, but I don't want to take credit for it. It was from some commentator I saw on a montage about the Republican derangement over the suit.)
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