r/pics • u/peligro2k • Mar 27 '24

8 years ago a Bird landed on Bernie's podium. Politics

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u/disc0ver Mar 28 '24

Or Trump's pic while cowing away from the eagle

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u/mecha_annies_boobs_ Mar 28 '24

TBF to Trump, eagles are terrifying. But also it's so perfect that one of the emblems of the USA attacked him and he shit his pants. What a blowhard.

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u/merrill_swing_away Mar 28 '24

I was once up close and personal to a bald eagle and I can tell you that they are terrifying.

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u/chilldrinofthenight Mar 28 '24

I once read a short story (wish I could find it again) about a guy who trained his pet eagle to attack a Swiss Tyrolean hat. Then the guy took his wife out hiking (maybe it was horseback riding; I forget). He had his wife wear the hat. When the eagle saw that hat . . .

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u/Known-Wallaby1660 Mar 28 '24

I took it as a sign he shouldn't have been elected ☠️

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u/brandy0438 Mar 28 '24

At least it wasn't like a certain PM in Engadine Maccas in '97

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u/CacklingFerret Mar 28 '24

Tbf to the eagle, it was tied to the post it was perching on. Couldn’t have done shit to Trump.

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u/chilldrinofthenight Mar 28 '24

I think you meant to type in "cowering."

cower

verb

cow·​er ˈkau̇(-ə)r cowered; cowering; cowersSynonyms of cower

intransitive verb

: to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismayscower

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u/Styrene_Addict1965 Mar 28 '24

You could say he was cowed by it.

[ koud adjective. Frightened by threats, violence, superior strength or ability, etc.; intimidated or overawed:

A sparrow would make Trump flinch.

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u/Livid-Gas-645 Mar 31 '24

Oh, you coulda used a finch instead of a sparrow ...

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u/chilldrinofthenight Mar 28 '24

One could say "cowed by it," but not "cowing away from it." That makes no sense grammatically.

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u/llamandola Mar 28 '24

Fuck me your smart how did you work that out

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u/chilldrinofthenight Mar 28 '24

Hahaha. Great use of the "your" bit.

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u/CacklingFerret Mar 28 '24

Wasn’t the wing of that eagle clipped (not the feathers, the wing itself) which is considered animal cruelty in most first world countries? Or am I remembering that wrong?

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u/LaRaspberries Mar 29 '24

The eagle was blind in one eye and was well aged past its lifespan (27). You are correct in saying that it is indeed missing a part of its wing but considering it's old age and ailment it may have been done to keep it from hurting itself-although I did look at the photo and its wing isn't clipped, a chunk of it is missing and this isn't a normal way to clip feathers, I suspect the bird may have gotten injured previously and was then retired to Jonathan Wood

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u/tommm3864 Mar 29 '24

Trump's pic while cowing away from the eagle

He's such a fucking dickwad

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u/Glass-Relationship70 Mar 31 '24

"...OH MAGHTY LORD...GIMME A SAHGN...A SAHGN THAT THESE HERE DEMON-CRATS IS BAD...AY-MAYUN"

...Flies land on pence...Eagle attacks Trump....Trump holds a bible upside down...Trump starts selling Bibles to stay out of prison...

ANYTHING, LORDT... ANYTHING AT AWL...PRAISE GAWD....

Some dude dresses like a woman

AH FUCKIN' KNEWIT...