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/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/EE_Tim 1d ago

I think there's a definite nefariousness that comes from the fact that it is a concerted effort on their part, separate from the historical proof of it in action.

People are idiots if they fall for that.

People are idiots, that's why we are where we are as a nation.

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u/GiftToTheUniverse 1d ago

There's been a vested interest working overtime to dumb us down for the past 50+ years.

People who are long dead started this offensive against us. And for what? What did they get out of it?

This system is cancer.

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u/Professor-Woo 21h ago

That is the thing. For the right, power is its own end. It is not to govern or make America better. It is to maintain their own power.