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As it seems relevant to what's happening right now, here's the full description of this comic in Museum of Degenerates:
Alt text runs out of room but: The Inaugural Address January 20, 2021 I shared this comic less than an hour before President Biden began his speech, in the afterglow of a presidential campaign centered around the go-to line, “These are the United States of America!” After his election victory, Biden had spoken at length about healing our national wounds by working with a party that had made exterminationist ethnic hatred its defining characteristic, and he showed reluctance to pursue accountability and justice for the previous administration’s crimes (see also page 181). Two days after the leader of the Republican Party incited his base to ransack Congress, smear feces on its floors, and hunt for Democrats to murder, Biden declared, “We need a Republican party.” Really? The man standing next to Biden is the January 6 Capitol rioter seen in viral photos wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt. In a ritual that had become ghastly slapstick comedy, after the usual propagandists swept in to insist “Camp Auschwitz” didn’t mean what it said, it was revealed that the insurrectionist was wearing a Nazi SS t-shirt underneath it. Adding further bathos, his attorney remarked, in a sentiment shared by much of the right, “He’s very mad that people are calling him a white supremacist, because he doesn’t see himself that way at all.” In the Inaugural Address itself, although Biden denounced white supremacists, he favored a gener- alized “love and healing,” urging Americans to “open our souls” and to “stand in the other person’s shoes,” and declared, “We can join forces, stop the shouting, and lower the temperature. For without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury.” The theme of “Unity” suffused the infomercial-style celebrations, with Tim McGraw and Tyler Hubbard performing their newly released “Undivided” (“I think it’s time to come together, you and I can make a change ... Look around and love somebody, we’ve been hateful long enough”).
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