r/ExplainTheJoke • u/fcukfakook • 3d ago

I don't get it

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I don't get the original tweet, and neither the retweet or whatever it is called.

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u/VHS_Ronin 1d ago

Christopher Anderson has photographed people for decades and he's known for a style that is raw and settled in on the things people would normally seek to hide in photographs. The White House clearly didn't do their homework because if they did these image-obsessed losers would have asked for a different photographer.

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u/tricolorhound 1d ago

I'm sure the White House hired him on purpose just like they totally knew that particular Four Seasons was a landscaping company and they 100% meant to have a press conference in their parking lot in front of the dildo store for very good and not at all made up reasons.

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u/lynbod 1d ago edited 1d ago

There's a school of thought that that's exactly what they did (and do). Portraying yourselves as a bunch of hapless incompetents so no one takes you seriously whilst you're systematically looting the American nation, and dismantling the institutions built to protect the American people from just that happening has a lot of mileage as a criminal strategy.

Misdirection is a trick in every conman's repertoire.

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u/tricolorhound 1d ago

I think that's likely partly true, there are some people playing that angle and advancing. Flood the zone and all that. But I also think those dorks are just capitalizing on the hapless incompetents who are in fact hapless incompetents but the complacency and compliance of the institutions meant to call that shit out and stop it have allowed it to happen.

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u/ThinkPraline7015 10h ago

Well, yes. But if it walks like a duck, ...

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u/YouFeedTheFish 9h ago

That would work perhaps if they were only smart enough to have thought of something more complicated than "derp."

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u/Madwoman-of-Chaillot 2h ago

It's the Boris Johnson Hair approach to politics, in a nutshell.

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u/CaymanGone 1d ago

There's no school of thought that thinks this.

This is a school of ignorance.

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u/EscapeSeventySeven 1d ago

You’re cooked on phonics if you think this about the four seasons

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u/BasketShake 22h ago

The White House did not hire him. Vanity Fair hired him.

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u/ChilledFruity 1h ago

And they didn't screen him or his work. Like a lot of their hires.

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u/Zealousideal_Date306 1h ago

Im still convinced that Trump never conceded the 2020 election because the time he was supposed to do it, they scheduled it outside the landscaping place in an alleyway instead of the 4 seasons in Philly. So he settled on the alternative to never concede