Nope. The text is new, but apparently the walk has been there at least a month. I don’t remember reading about that. It has portraits or photos of all the past presidents, except Biden where they have a framed photo of an auto-pen. Really.
Yeah, Biden stutters or stumbles going down some stairs, and it’s analyzed and pooh-poohed across the media universe for weeks ad nauseum. But this embarrassing-ass racist bullshit on the official White House website? Not a fucking peep.
No. If you’re looking for a close parallel, it’d be Leon Theremin’s “Thing” built into the Great Seal of the United States in the US Embassy in Moscow:
The Thing, also known as the Great Seal bug, was one of the first covert listening devices (or “bugs”) to use passive techniques to transmit an audio signal. It was concealed inside a gift given by the Soviet Union to W. Averell Harriman, the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, on August 4, 1945. Because it was passive, needing electromagnetic energy from an outside source to become energized and active, it is considered a predecessor of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology.[
It’s expecting way too much at this point but he could have expressed some normal hyoo-man concern rather than standing around looking irked that his moment was stolen
Makes me almost sympatise with the toadie.
Almost.
Serves them both right.
Completely on caracter, remember this?
So what happens is, this guy falls off right on his face, hits his head, and I thought he died. And you know what I did? I said, ‘Oh my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away.
I couldn’t, you know, he was right in front of me and I turned away. I didn’t want to touch him… he’s bleeding all over the place, I felt terrible.
You know, beautiful marble floor, didn’t look like it. It changed colour. Became very red.
I was saying, ‘Get that blood cleaned up! It’s disgusting!’ The next day, I forgot to call [the man] to say he’s OK.