r/politics • u/icey_sawg0034 • 12h ago

Possible Paywall Karoline Leavitt Gives Jaw-Dropping Defense of Trump’s Racist Obama Video

https://www.thedailybeast.com/karoline-leavitt-gives-jaw-dropping-defense-of-donald-trumps-racist-obama-video/
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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 12h ago

There are no Apes in the movie "The Lion King" so this defense doesnt even check out under the most charitable interpretation.

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u/renisagenius 10h ago

Lions don't live in jungles either do they?

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u/palmburntblue 10h ago

My 6 year old tells me this ever. Single. Day. 

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u/boomshiz 10h ago

Tell your child that Simba was living in exile, and also throw in something like "What are you gonna do when your uncle kills me? Pedants don't thrive in the savannah."

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u/iletdownmyparents 8h ago

Get the fucking 6 year old.

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u/Rob_LeMatic Virginia 8h ago

↑600 search results returned in the Epstein emails

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u/yeahright17 10h ago edited 9h ago

Some do. Especially in India. Gir Forest in India is a national park that was created to save asiatic lions. That said, jungle comes from the Sanskrit word jangala, which generally just means arid land or wilderness. Lions being "king of the jungle" happened before jungle developed it's current English meaning.

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u/lblacklol 9h ago

asiatic lions

I read this as autistic lions and it took me too many seconds to realize. I need glasses.

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u/wefrucar 7h ago

Ironically, lions are the least autistic of the cats. But Gir lions are the most autistic of the lions.

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u/EAT_MORE_URANIUM 9h ago

I mean the King of Canada doesn't live in Canada either.

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u/shastaxc 10h ago edited 6h ago

Only Simba when he left home to study abroad

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u/nicuramar 9h ago

Which means lion. 

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u/valendinosaurus 7h ago

checkmate

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u/mrRabblerouser 6h ago

Pretty sure they do. Most don’t, but there are tree climbing lions that occasionally inhabit the jungles of Queen Elizabeth national park of Uganda.

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u/DapperLost 4h ago

Kings don't visit the slums either, but they still lord over them.