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/jtsa5 1d ago

If anyone else other than Trump did anything wrong it was like the world was ending. When it's Trump everyone has kid gloves on.

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u/RemarkableWave8066 1d ago

Obama wore a tan suit once and the Fox News goons had aneurysms for a solid week

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u/Raoul_Duke9 1d ago

You guys remember "terrorist fist jab"? That one was the one that pissed me off the most.

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u/gatsby712 1d ago

Remember that time Bush got us into two wars because of 9/11, but it wasn’t until Obama that the guy who caused it was killed. I member. Turns out the Republicans didn’t care about justice, they just cared about using the crisis to make some oil money for their VP and President. 

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u/old_and_boring_guy Tennessee 1d ago

The part that bothered me was that the first thing Obama did was put the war money in the budget (as opposed to special appropriations) and everyone suddenly cared what the war cost.

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u/mockg 1d ago edited 1d ago

Are you sure that is just not republicans and the right wing news being themselves. I swear the only times I hear about budget from them is if a democrat president is in charge.

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u/EE_Tim 1d ago

It's called the Two Santas Strategy and it's by design.

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u/Kind_Dream_610 1d ago

Are you sure you spelled that correctly, shouldn't it really be called the "Two Satans Strategy" because it's nothing but self-serving evil that affects not just America, but the world.

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u/EE_Tim 1d ago

Potato, potatoe

(Sorry, Dan)

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u/RanaMisteria 1d 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?

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u/RatManForgiveYou 20h 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.

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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 14h 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/bellboy905 10h ago

They started well before 9/11.

As head of GOPAC, Newt Gingrich encouraged GOP candidates to use combative language that drew a stark contrast between Republicans and Democrats as a means of attracting media attention. It was so effective that within 15 years, the red-blue divide had become the narrative framework for discussing American politics.

https://theamericanleader.org/timeline-event/language-a-key-mechanism-of-control/

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u/RanaMisteria 12h ago

I do. It feels like a lifetime ago.

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u/EE_Tim 1d ago

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

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u/GwenChaos29 18h ago

Pepperidge Farms remembers

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u/thefoxsaysredrum 23h ago

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

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u/EE_Tim 23h 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!"

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u/TheBoNix 19h ago

This a Quail reference?

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u/thefoxsaysredrum 19h ago

Yup.

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u/TheBoNix 18h ago

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

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