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/Reasonable-Bus-2187 1d ago

Thanks, Obama,

for saying something

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u/glass_gravy 1d ago

Finally.

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u/TetraDax Europe 1d ago

It's infuriating. Him, Clinton, the entire democratic leadership, Biden, Harris; where the fuck are any of them. The US is in the middle of a fascist government takeover and apparently within the entire political circus of a 300 million people country, there are only two people who can muster up any sort of meaningful resistance, and one of them is a fucking octogenarian.

The third-loudest voice against a fucking coup is the bloody Daily Show host, and even he is nowhere near loud or angry or active enough.

Democracy really does die because most people just fucking don't do anything. New York can muster a protest of about 10.000 people. The largest city in the western democratic world can just about gather as many people as my German hometown of a 100k inhabitants, even though the state of things is much worse. It's a joke. If it wasn't for all the PoC, the LBTQ-folks and not to forget the entire fucking rest of the world who are affected by this even though they aren't at fault for this; I would say you all more than deserve this. Alas.

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u/-AdonaitheBestower- 20h ago

it's because they are neoliberals who don't believe in anything in particular other than platitudes and their careers. why would you speak out if you're rich and "things will just sort themselves out without the need for radical change"?