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/VanceKelley Washington 1d ago

Bush 43 launched an illegal war against Iraq in 2003, joked about how he made up the WMD thing, got thousands of US soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed, and America re-elected him to the White House in 2004.

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u/Persistant_Compass 1d ago

Difference is he was fucking with poor brown people half a world away.

Now he is fucking with the entire country

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u/j_ryall49 1d ago

Nah, they don't care about fucking with poor brown people at home, either.

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u/VanceKelley Washington 1d ago

Yep. What most Americans care about is their personal finances.

They mostly don't care about democracy, the rule of law, human rights, etc. But if the price of eggs goes up or they get laid off then they will get outraged.

TLDR; Americans are mostly selfish aholes.

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u/CcryMeARiver Australia 22h ago

Comes with being brought up to be independent self-sufficient antisocialists in a nation ironically running the largest planned economy on the planet within their DoD.