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/mdonaberger 1d ago

I was stuck in a Wikipedia black hole earlier today reading about the Civil Rights Movement, and in true Wikipedia nerd fashion, you start in one place and end up somewhere really bizarre.

I was reading about the white terrorism groups that they euphemistically called 'Citizens' Councils', and the coward who shot and killed Medgar Evers, leaving the body on his front step for his wife and children to discover.

That bitch lived 30 years as a free man before going to prison in the 90s. It's a miracle that Obama has managed to avoid harm. Everyone should take a minute to learn about Medgar Evers. Dude's effect was outsized. He was killed for the egregious crime of just being black and yearning for freedom, something our stupid fucking country finds so precious that we put into our founding documents, literally as the first line.

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u/CcryMeARiver Australia 22h ago

Bob Dylan eulogised Evers. Bitter fruit.