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/innosins Kentucky 1d ago

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

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u/alextheruby 1d ago

He would’ve been a$$assinated

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u/BigBoyYuyuh 1d ago

You know…typically the only time rich people get punished is when they lose other rich people’s money. He’s losing everyone money. Lew Squeegee

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u/DimbyTime 1d ago

Rich people will still come out even better after all of this. Tanking the economy will allow them to buy up more and more land, homes, and other assets that working class folks Will no longer be able to afford

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u/meowfknmeow 1d ago

This, the 1% will have a short term loss, but a long term gain as a result of this. The general population on the other hand… not so much

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u/Majestic_Spinach7726 1d ago

unless they make things so bad they bring the French Revolution to America

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u/Rosso-q 1d ago

hurry up before we collapse

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u/Prudent_Research_251 1d ago

There's been hundreds of years worth of checks and balances/psyops to ensure we're all too keen on bread and circuses to revolt

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u/atoolred 22h ago

Not to mention that even if we did get rowdy, protection against popular uprising was planned for in the US constitution, having been drafted immediately after Shays’ Rebellion

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u/Prudent_Research_251 21h ago

Can you please elaborate on this a little?

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u/BoundinBob 1d ago

That's how the French do it, Americans seem to be happy to sit on their collective arse's and watch tv or something. The only time modern Americans did anything close to the French revolution was when Trump told them to.

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u/Ok_Effort9915 1d ago

Never gonna happen. Americans are too lazy and stupid to do anything

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u/Majestic_Spinach7726 17h ago

the french had 16 kings named Louis before, never say never

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u/Witty_Jaguar4638 1d ago

Won't happen until the opium stops flowing

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u/israfildivad 23h ago

The opium being social media, movies and TV, sports, 24 hour news, fast food, videogames, the next life (religion selling point), copium....and actual opium.

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u/Witty_Jaguar4638 1h ago

That's the implication, yeah

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u/userseven 1d ago

1% in us is like $700,000 per year. I think you mean the top 0.1%

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u/ayuntamient0 1d ago

Plus all the boomers are SUPER fucked that he crashed the market as they retire.

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u/man_gomer_lot 1d ago

People keep saying this, but a falling tide lowers all the ships

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u/MunkyPants 1d ago

But if most people drown, when the tide comes back up it won't matter than others had to temporarily go lower.

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u/n0radrenaline 1d ago

Not how low tides work but otherwise you're right

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u/britishninja99 1d ago

Good things it’s a metaphor and not an explanation on how the tides function.

Yay for being deliberately obtuse!

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u/AnabolikinSkywalker 1d ago

….. get stuck in the mud, perhaps?

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u/polacy_do_pracy 1d ago

think a little

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u/man_gomer_lot 1d ago

I've thought about it a little and remembered that yes, people will attempt to save face and pretend something doesn't hurt them as it would anyone else.

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u/Hans-Wermhatt 1d ago

That also is assuming Trump's circle of billionaires who were briefed on these plans are taking it on the nose like we are. I'm sure insider trading is less in the Trump admin than previous admins lol.

People with the means and the knowledge that a lower tide is coming might prepare for it...

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u/man_gomer_lot 1d ago

The world is a more sensible place through the lens of a conspiratorial mindset. It's not comforting to know that we aren't the rational beings we imagine that we are. Our true talent is making sense of the senseless.

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u/Hans-Wermhatt 23h ago edited 23h ago

For this to be a conspiracy, I think it has to be illegal or they have to try to hide it. Elon Musk isn’t part of the government, Donald Trump is above the law in almost all circumstances according to the Supreme Court. How is billionaires preparing for an upcoming they heard about a conspiracy? That’s just business.

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u/man_gomer_lot 22h ago

Hanlon's Razor: Don't attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity and ego causes massive stupidity.

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u/Rosso-q 1d ago

not quite

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u/man_gomer_lot 1d ago

Quite. Ego is one hell of a drug and it's more rampant than fentanyl these days

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u/AedemHonoris New Mexico 1d ago

That’s such a fucking cool metaphor I’m stealing it

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u/Short-Ticket-1196 1d ago

They have all the money already, this is about their relative wealth compared to us.

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u/Icy_Help_8380 1d ago

Doesn’t matter, they’re too greedy to see it in those terms. He’s in trouble

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u/Rosso-q 1d ago

the Gen Pop is going to the poor house and won’t have the money left to dig themselves out their retirement their money set aside for the kids and grandkids is going or gone and what does the king say oh it’s a short term loss ya for the billionaires it’s nothing 🤬🤬all that work saving making the right choices all gone with the stroke a cruel dictators pen

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u/beardeddragon0113 1d ago

Just like during Covid where the average person lost in real wages and net worth, but every billionaire increased their wealth by more than what 10,000 people make in a lifetime.

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u/Truestorydreams 23h ago

This is why the politicians are allowing it. They are expecting a favour or a doggy treat for ignoring.

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u/beepichu 10h ago

oh so NOW they care about the long term, smfh