Obama Breaks Silence on Trump’s ‘Unimaginable’ Presidency - “Imagine if I had done any of this,” the former two-term president said.

[u/Quirkie]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-breaks-silence-on-trumps-unimaginable-presidency/

[u/innosins]

He's fucking right. They'd be blowing the damn roof off the place if anyone else was pulling this bullshit.

[u/CherryLongjump1989 → u/innosins]

And they’d be right to. The question is why are Democrats so quiet?

[u/Sao_Gage → u/CherryLongjump1989]

Maybe because this is what the country voted for? The fuck are they supposed to do? Anyone with a functioning brain knows this is a ghastly, grievous error and massive overstepping of the checks and balances on our government.

People voted with hate and spite, to check people's genitals, and because they're sick of seeing gay people on their television shows - here we are.

You can't use logic and reason as a counter to prideful, arrogant, willful stupidity and hatred. A good % of these people have some form of oppositional defiance disorder (including their politicians, like MTG) and will decry any words not coming from 'approved mouthpieces' as woke / commie / lib nonsense. That includes scientific sources, experts, doctors, economists, all manner of intelligent professionals. It's all pseudoscience, snake oil, and alternative facts from here baby, all the way down. American Exceptionalism has been revealed to be American ignorance and essentially Carl Sagan's worst nightmare made manifest.

I can imagine many democrat politicians are simply tired and weary from having to combat waves arms whatever the right turned itself into, and the unending stream of nonsense spewing from the mouths of the people who voted for them.

Edit: I realize this is quite a negative accounting of things, the one mote of optimism I have at the moment is the sheer fact that they absolutely fucking own all of this from here on out. Although they’ll try, there’s no hiding or blaming Democrats this time. It’s all on them. When their own constituents are hurting, at least some of them may finally start to wake the fuck up. Cult deprogramming is a difficult and lengthy process, but I damn well think dear leader has strayed far enough from the reservation to finally make a difference. It’s their mess, the first step is seeing some pushback from all of them, and their politicians finally going, “okay, enough winning.”

Essentially, your move 🤷‍♂️. Long shot, perhaps, but it’s a shot at least.

[u/Cosmicvapour → u/Sao_Gage]

This is a great post. You hit the nail on the head. I was talking with my Californian uncle about this last week and he literally did the "waves arms and throws up hands" move in total disbelief of the ridiculousness of the situation. This is the first time in 40 years he's talked about moving back to Canada.