A tale of two Presidential intern pics

[FelineOverlord]

Spot the difference?

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[tblue37]

1. K&R for visibility. nt

[marble falls]

41. Also for better visibility...

[LakeArenal]

2. Are women required to cross our legs?

I had no idea.

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. Not required, but around Rump it's a good suggestion. nt

[iluvtennis]

45. LOL...correct amudo. nt

[flor-de-jasmim]

10. Back in the day (I'm 67), I was taught that

a "proper lady" should cross her legs at the ankle, not at the knees, and certainly should not sit on one leg (my favorite position).

[lark]

17. Geeze, I heard that nonstop from my mom.

A lady always sits with her ankles crossed and her knees together, I heard it so much I could puke. I told my mother, guess I'm not a lady then, and got several beatings with a belt for it as well, to "hush up my smart mouth". Mom was from TX.

[LakeArenal]

24. My mom (5ft 85 pounds) used to chase us around with a belt.

She’d do it outside. Neighbors could not have cared less.

When my brother got big enough he took it way and said never again. And it was never again. But I missed the crosses leg thing.

I was told never wear red or black underwear. No black clothes.

[lark]

29. Funny.

For us, switchings were outside and spankings were inside but yeah, neighbors did not give a shit and did the same to their kids.

We continued to be spanked until we were in our our early teens. After we ran away at 17 & 15 the hands on punishment stopped forever because they knew we wouldn't tolerate it anymore. I also think dad finally realized he had brutalized us the same way he had been brutalized by his dad and was remorseful.

[Tess49]

30. My tiny grandmother made us cut our own switches. One day, my brother who towered over her,

took the switch away from her. That was it. No more switches for the him, or the rest of us. It's odd, though. All of us were bigger than she was. Yet, until that day, we always "minded" when she sent us out for the switch.

[Skittles]

48. ooh I intervened the one time I saw that

the woman screamed it was none of my business, I said lady, children are everyone's business - spanking is one thing (I still remember the spanking I got when I was playing with matches and burned a hole in my dress) - but hitting with a belt, I think that is abuse

[LakeArenal]

49. Sure it is. But it was good parenting then.

Spare the rod, spoil the child.

[Blue_playwright]

36. It's a big thing now with young women...

... white and of color. It’s called the Cambridge Cross after Duchess Kate and there’s a Sussex version too, after Meghan.

[LakeArenal]

44. Ahhhh. Thanks.

[niyad]

51. The crossing at the ankles edict far predates the two duchesses.

[Blue_playwright]

52. Of course but

I just meant young women are embracing it (and etiquette) right now more than my generation did. It’s called the Duchess Effect. 😃

[niyad]

53. Thank you. That is most interesting. Etiquette and manners are appreciated, but so much

of "socially acceptable behaviour" has always smtruck me as sexist.

[Skittles]

47. hey!

that's my favorite seated pose too, the one leg folded - I find it helps with my foot-tapping habit

[marble falls]

42. The better to keep Republican Congressmen from squinting up your skirt.

[Skittles]

3. White are you talking about?

[Ms. Toad]

12. And male. n/t

[lame54]

13. It's very clear

[GoCubsGo]

23. And, one has a bubble of space around him,

while the other looks like he's part of the gang.

I'm actually surprised that Trump allows his female interns to wear pants. They probably wear them for their own safety. It's a lot harder to grab 'em you-know-where through trousers.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. The Trump administration is racist? THE HELL YOU SAY.

[lpbk2713]

5. The one on the right is on a rug.

And there are two flags in the background.

And there's a big jerk in the center of the pic.

[Blasphemer]

6. But, he's done SO much for Black people! nt

[FelineOverlord]

7. A tale of two Presidential intern pics

Let's be honest, how many POC would want to work for him anyway?

His tokens are Diamond & Silk and Candace Owens.

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. I need sunglasses to look at the one on the right.

[StarfishSaver]

11. Melanin?

[demmiblue]

14. "This is my class photo from 2015. This is what America looks like."

Link to tweet

[erronis]

22. What a lucky person to have been in that class. Dump's class could be from DumpU.

I don't know, but I also sense a real joy of those standing around Obama. And a painted-on grimace around dump.

[George II]

15. Give me a warning next time, I had to get my sunglasses to look at the one on the right.

[packman]

16. Not fair

I count two (2) people of the non-white type in Trump's pix - and that is quite a concession on his part

[TheBlackAdder]

18. The picture on the right is overexposed, they forgot to white balance the camera. 😂😂

[rurallib]

19. If you added religious affiliationinto the mix it would probably be

even more of a difference

[Buckeye_Democrat]

20. I saw a couple tokens on the far left.

Almost off-camera among the Trump interns, but not quite.

Edit: Tokens for Trump, not that they're not great interns.

[LiberalLovinLug]

21. come on. I see two black interns!

Shoved all the way to left as far away from Trump as possible.

edit: Beat me by a minute Buckeye!

[volstork]

25. There's a huge asshole

right in the middle of one of them.

[Cha]

26. Thank you for these two contrasting pics, FO.. RT

Link to tweet

[volstork]

27. Obama has his arms

around the shoulders of those next to him. Nobody is touching IQ45.

[sarge43]

38. Anyone who would touch him would have to go thru decontamination protocol. n/t

[LudwigPastorius]

28. hmm...

[sdfernando]

31. and the two people of color in tangeranus' pic is way, way off to the side

...almost like an afterthought

[bullwinkle428]

32. Make America White Again couldn't possibly have a better metaphor.

[Tumbulu]

33. and look at how stupid all the young women look among Trump's interns all dressed in ridiculous

cocktail dresses. Very few wearing suits. Their job is to be floozies? Disgusting and disrespectful to themselves and to us. But that's how T likes his girls. Stilettos and stupid frilly dresses.

Oh and they all have that same long hair that his women have.

Sexist and racist. They tend to go together.

[dutch777]

34. Shocking!!!!

How did all those women make Trump's intern team? I mean if are going to go blatantly all white, why not go all male too? Trump is Mister Half Way Measures any way you cut it.

[Hamlette]

35. let me count the ways. . .

[Moral Compass]

37. That's the whitest group I've ever seen...

Scarily homogeneous...

[IronLionZion]

39. I've read that Trump is losing white voters now too

So it could be over for him as more suburban and rural voters get woke enough to make a difference in the electoral college.

White voters are turning on Trump, new data shows. Why now?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/09/white-voters-are-turning-trump-new-data-shows-why-now/

[djacq]

40. One of These Things Is Not Like The Other.

[rufus dog]

43. There is a black kid at the end of the first row

And a girl from India right behind him. The girl in the red dress in the second row may be Hispanic, although I would expect them to put her with the black kid and Asian girl if she was.

[iluvtennis]

46. This is why minorities protest. No reason other than prejudice for the low number of minorities

in trump internships.

[niyad]

50. Are the women interns not allowed to wear slacks?