r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 1d ago

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

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-breaks-silence-on-trumps-unimaginable-presidency/
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u/random_cartoonist 1d ago

The conservative threw a tantrum for a tan suit. They are just too weak to be critical of Trump.

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u/polite_alpha 1d ago

The real meta weakness of the US is this false equivalence thing - tan suit vs rape, felony, treason, and so on... yet the media is doing this 50/50 thing, focusing on impossible standards for democrats and letting everything Republicans do slide, no matter how bad.

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u/SquarebobSpongepants Canada 1d ago

I mean, in their imaginary conspiracy theory world the Dems have done all the terrible things that Trump has done so to them it really is "Well they already did it". They say this despite not actually having evidence that any of it happened other than their dubious sources.

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u/ARedditAccount09 8h ago

This is exactly why talking with my family is making zero progress. It doesn’t matter what thing he does each day that has never been seen before, unless you compare it to fascist Germany. The response is the same. “What about when pelosi/biden/soros/obama did the same thing” and when you question them when that ever happened they’ll say the media bias

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u/Claim312ButAct847 1d ago

Absolutely. It's the "yuh will what about" and the people who "don't like the Democrats either" that keep this country a perfect breeding ground for fascist oligarchy.

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u/Alternative-Chef-340 19h ago

If it wasn't for double standards republicans wouldn't have any standards.

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u/walphin45 9h ago

"You go high, we go low"

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u/tacoseatingllama 3h ago

It’s because so many people are rotten to their core and only think for their own survival. That is where this stems from. Dems are morals/ethics where repub is money/survival. Survival focused people do not care to do these highly immoral choices if it means they solidify their own position. It is damn ugly.