r/neoliberal • u/Sine_Fine_Belli NATO • 2d ago

News (US) Obama and Harris publicly rebuke Trump’s second-term actions

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politics/obama-harris-rebuke-trump/index.html
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u/Icy-Magician-8085 Mario Draghi 1d ago

Completely unrelated, but seeing Obama greyed out makes me feel old and I’m in my 20’s 😭

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u/SpiffShientz Court Jester Steve 1d ago

He's been grayed out since his second term

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u/Icy-Magician-8085 Mario Draghi 1d ago

I know it’s been happening but it’s a complete light grey now. The once or twice a year I see a picture of him in the news he just looks significantly older than my childhood and it hits me.

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u/anothercocycle 1d ago

Yeah, I think it's especially bad because youth was such a key part of his image. Even now when I think about Obama I can't help but think of him as a young politician for an instant before my brain kicks in.

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u/arbrebiere NATO 1d ago

Compared to the last three presidents he still is a young politician

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u/RaaaaaaaNoYokShinRyu YIMBY 1d ago

He's an oldman, and the others are dinos

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u/Khiva 1d ago

I mean, as has been pointed out Bill Clinton is still younger.

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u/ProudScroll NATO 1d ago

The fact that he is significantly younger than either of successors probably plays a big role in this.

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u/surgingchaos Friedrich Hayek 1d ago

It doesn't help that we have had zero Gen X presidents, and Obama is the only person from Generation Jones. Gen X has a ton of shit politically about them that sucks, but I think a big untold problem with the presidency being seen as a gerontocracy is in large part to do with the fact that two full generations have been locked out of the White House despite being in the primes of their careers.

The fact that JD Vance is the very first millennial just to be on a presidential ticket shows just how much the American political system is heavily biased towards older generations.

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u/MayorofTromaville YIMBY 1d ago

I mean, the Silent Generation just barely managed to get their first president with Biden.

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u/Harudera 1d ago

Yeah and they're the parents of Gen X, and both generations are eclipsed by size of the ones right after them, the Boomer and Millennials.

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u/DiogenesLaertys 1d ago

He was cherry picked by Generation X though. Thiel had a big hand in helping him up.