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