Obama Tweets Support to Caitlyn Jenner; Hilarity Ensues [View all]

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Shortly after Caitlyn Jenner’s announcement via Vanity Fair cover that she would be officially known from here on out as Caitlyn (and not Bruce), President Obama tweeted his support, saying “It takes courage to tell your story.” That’s it. Nothing to see here. Just a small, simple act of kindness from someone in a position of power. It didn’t need to be anything else.

Oh, who are we kidding? Obama can’t sneeze in public without the crazies coming out of the woodwork to ramble about how his sternutation is a herald of the end times, the death knell of America. So it was only natural that when TMZ posted a bite-sized story about Obama’s tweet on Facebook, it almost instantly became a breeding ground for a coterie (or perhaps menagerie is a better word) of knuckle-dragging, tin-hat-wearing imbeciles spouting a radically stupid slew of insane, off-color, and irreverent comments.

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Well, hypothetical person who thinks way more about this article than most people probably do, to some extent you’re right. Trolls will be trolls. The protection of a computer screen does tend to bring out the obstinate moron in a lot of people, and you can find commenters arguing about jet fuel’s propensity for melting steel beams on Youtube videos of adorable cats.

On the other hand, man, you guys, some of these comments are stupid, and they speak to a larger issue with many Americans’ understandings of and relationships to politics. You may have wondered, if you are any type of reasonable human being, why Obama inspires so much hate and vitriol. He’s black, so of course, that’s some of it. Other than that, however, what’s he really done to hurt the people that seem to hate him so much (and only know how to express that hate through frothing, poorly-worded, badly spelled comments on the internet)? We’re almost seven years in and there’s no socialism to be found. Maybe it’s because he’s taking away everybody’s guns? Let’s do a quick Google search…nope, not that either. In fact, gun ownership has skyrocketed under Obama. Well…I mean…he has…large…ears?

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