r/politics The Netherlands 16h 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/EE_Tim 14h ago

Potato, potatoe

(Sorry, Dan)

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u/RanaMisteria 13h ago

Remember when a Republican politician’s career could be ended by misspelling the name of a vegetable in front of a bunch of school children?

u/RatManForgiveYou 7h ago

Remember when Republicans didn't talk about the rest of Americans as if we're the enemy? When they didn't hate Democrats so much that they'd be willing to support an enemy dictatorship? When they didn't have an entire propaganda network devoted to manipulation? When they actually seemed to care about what they claim to believe and value?

Now they never do the right thing, hypocrisy is the norm, they ignore their own beliefs when convenient (like supporting Trump and his disgusting treatment of McCain and veterans), they put their support behind things simply to "own the libs", and they have absolutely zero shame.

u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 2h ago

Barely. They started talking about liberals as the enemy right after 9/11 when people started questioning the wars.

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u/EE_Tim 13h ago

Such simpler times, when one would pick between two, differing solutions to objective problems, rather than between sane politics and speedrunning fascism.

u/GwenChaos29 6h ago

Pepperidge Farms remembers

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u/thefoxsaysredrum 10h ago

I bet Dan is super salty about that, watching this shit show.

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u/EE_Tim 10h ago

I imagine him sitting in a recliner, mouth agape as he watches the ever-changing news of Trump over a 24 hour period and occasionally muttering to himself, "it was just an 'e' not this!"

u/TheBoNix 6h ago

This a Quail reference?

u/thefoxsaysredrum 6h ago

Yup.

u/TheBoNix 6h ago

Sorry, watched the Rockies lose in 11 innings, in the freezing cold. My brain is a popsicle still.