r/somethingiswrong2024 • u/SuccessWise9593 • 1d ago
News Obama and Harris publicly rebuke Trump’s second-term actions
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politics/obama-harris-rebuke-trump/index.html241
u/rch5050 23h ago
I really, really hope they planned this timing.
Like, this situation has been brewing since jan 6th. We all knew it could come to this. They had to have played out scenarios in which they come on too soon and alieanate all of maga, or come in when its obvioud trump is going to do more damage and 'save the day'.
Please let it be the save the day timing...we are on the razors edge right here if we dont get Trump shut down now I think we are if for a very very rough ride.
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u/Its_me_an_adoptee 23h ago
Hate to say it, but no one is coming to save us. This is all theater. We have to save ourselves.
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u/MisterNoisewater 22h ago
I wonder how close we are to real political violence in this country. Seems like people are getting closer to taking shit into their own hands.
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u/SuccessWise9593 6h ago
There's a reason why there hasn't been a lot of those of Latin decent and African Americans protesting like in BLM, because that would cause this administration to enact martial law ASAP. That's what he wanted to do his first term during the BLM movement/protests but he had actual people who knew what they were doing in his administration unlike 2.0 round. But yes, I agree, civil war may be on the horizon.
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u/NoAnt6694 22h ago
We don't know that nobody's coming to save us, but we need to operate under that assumption. Hopefully, the protests tomorrow prove the beginning of the end for this illegitimate administration.
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u/Jackalope3434 21h ago
Idk, if i used it on hitler, i wouldn’t be here….. so….the better option would be…. Give me a few m
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u/madcoins 22h ago edited 21h ago
100% No one should be downvoting this. We must accept that republicans AND dems = political theater while enhancing and enriching themselves and the status quo. We (organize!) are the hero we’ve been waiting for. Frank Zappa famously said, “politics are the entertainment division of the military industrial complex”. And he was spot on. Look no further than Corey bookers theater the other day: spoke for 25 hours and somehow never mentioned Palestinians, Palestinian Americans or trans folks. Small minorities who are under the most attack at the moment. I didn’t hear him mention military industrial complex nor weapons manufacturers. He did, however, bravely go out of his way to mention Israel and after some looking you’ll find he is personally closing in on 1 millions dollars in “gratuities” from AIPAC. If you want the theater to stop we’re going to need to first stop the unlimited legal bribery rotting the system from the inside out
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u/r6implant 20h ago
Sanders comes right out and says Congress needs to act like they represent the people, not AIPAC. I wonder if that was a direct shot at Schumer?
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u/Various_Weather2013 12h ago
After the 2nd American Civil war, no lenience for the confederates. They must undergo forced reconstruction.
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u/Poop__y 7h ago
You’re right. But let’s consider that Harris and Obama, as well as others, are part of us. It is going to take the entire collective to turn the tide. They are part of it.
Some voices have larger platforms than others so I really wish we wouldn’t discount those who are using their platforms.
Are they late to the game? Yes. Are we teetering on the edge? Yes.
It will be the American people who have to save ourselves. I just want us to remember that our elected officials are part of that collective, too.
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u/SuccessWise9593 6h ago
I keep going back to the EO Biden signed JAN 16, 2025. It has specific dates and agencies that would continue investigating the election interference and due dates. Biden wrote it in a manner that if trump would dismantle one agency another would pick up the investigation. The next due date is APR 16, 2025. We shall see. https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2025/01/16/executive-order-on-strengthening-and-promoting-innovation-in-the-nations-cybersecurity/
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u/Due-Candidate 21h ago
They really should just be sitting in a room together- all living presidents and vice presidents - and calling one by one every representative and asking them directly why they aren't ending all of this right now, as a group and a government.
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u/SplitEar 22h ago
Harris would have been a great president:
“Fear has a way of being contagious. When one person has fear, it has a way of spreading to those around them and spreading. And we are witnessing that, no doubt,” Harris said at the gathering of female leaders of color.
“But I say this also, my dear friends, courage is also contagious,” she added.
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u/fullpurplejacket 21h ago
I think she knows the American people are strong enough to win this battle, I thought that in her latest speech she was reminding the people of the power they wield, no matter how scared or angry they are they can overcome this darkness if they work together.
Loved it.
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u/library_wench 23h ago
About damn time. What, did they stop for beers on the way to the party or something?
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u/Ok_Masterpiece5259 23h ago
Where they been for the last 3 months? I bet Obama still has keys to the White House, he could save us all and do the funniest Coup in the history of the world.
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u/SuccessWise9593 6h ago
Probably taking notes of all the things they will have to fix after doing something about all this mess.
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u/dpforest 22h ago edited 16h ago
This is not enough and everyone defending it is nuts.
Biden/Harris knew fully what Trump was planning to do and still allowed him to take office without doing anything at all to prevent him from dismantling American democracy. Biden was handed immunity on a silver platter. He could have easily stacked the court or done other things via EO that would impede Trump. “They would have just undone what Biden did!” okay…wouldn’t it still be better to at least try? “They’d just call us crazy because we called them crazy in 2020!” Okay…”they” will call us crazy no matter what. “Executive Orders are bad so Biden should not have used that to help us”…this is a defeatist view that needs to be left in the past. Biden was afraid to do anything against tradition. It’s why it took him so long to relinquish his candidacy.
What’s worse?
A) Biden/Harris putting their pride on the line and doing some novel things to stop someone from dismantling our democracy
Or
B) someone dismantles our democracy right before our eyes as our leaders tell us to not despair and to be prepared to make sacrifices
That’s where I’m at right now.
E: sorry didn’t mean to call everybody nuts. Stressful day ya know
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u/NirvanaBeaucoup 19h ago
I think if they had stopped Trump from taking office we may have seen Civil War.
I’m hoping there’s a rabbit in the hat, ready to be pulled out and they needed everyone to see just how awful this administration was going to be.
Delulu, maybe.
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u/dpforest 15h ago
I hopes for the same. I sacrificed a lot of time and money for progressive blue candidates in GA. It’s a smack in the face to see the most egregious example of anticipatory obedience I’ve ever seen.
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u/AccomplishedPlace144 21h ago
*It was Harris and Obama
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u/dpforest 21h ago
Harris and Biden were the ones in office. Obama had no power to stop this but should have started speaking up MUCH sooner than this.
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u/AccomplishedPlace144 21h ago
The CNN article that this post was referencing was about Harris and Obama.
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u/SuccessWise9593 6h ago
That's the point of all the EOs that trump is signing left and right, to create stress, harm, feel hopeless to disarm you to do nothing, to say nothing.
Look at all the litigation in the courts stopping him and telling him that he can't govern our country with EO after EO, and most of them are overtaking/overruling that Judicial Branch. Trump is getting pissed off that there's "checks and balances" for a reason, and HE is the reason why these exist in the first place.
This administration is also violating court rulings, so something will end up happening. The expedition finding mission revealed that the Maryland Immigrant that was deported after being on the not to deport list that they sent him anyways. During this court litigation we all found out that this administration is paying $6 million a year for El Salvador to house and detain 300 immigrants. If the US is paying El Salvador for this transaction, the US can tell El Salvador to bring him back. That's where it starts, one brick at a time to take the wall down in this administration.
We have to be loud, we have to be patient, we have to keep protesting, and boycotting. Remember to keep your health in balance with all this insanity going on with trump and Project 2025. You have to be a part of our COMMUNITY to help in your own way.
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u/Appropriate_train841 20h ago
Too little, too late man. I have nothing but respect for President Obama, love him and voted for him twice as well as volunteered for his campaign both times. This is tone deaf. This is like raising the tornado sirens AFTER the tornado has hit. It does no good to warn us about things that are currently happening while offering no solutions. This is why the democrats lose so damn much.
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u/outerworldLV 8h ago
Obama is still the brilliant man we know him to be. If we’re going to allow a third term to even be considered - then we should all be firing back each time with ‘Great let’s get Obama back!!’
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u/SuccessWise9593 6h ago
They already said at CPAC that Obama wouldn't qualify because he had two consecutive terms.
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u/BillM_MZ3SGT 19h ago
I'm sorry, but this is too little, too late. They honestly should've said something about this a very long time ago. I honestly don't know why they're speaking about it now. It's been too long. Downvote me all you want but I'm getting tired of politicians who are not going to do anything about this, and basically leave it up to us to fucking fix this shit.
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u/GaladrielsArmy 23h ago
FINALLY. FFS. I understand the “usual” protocols but we’re in uncharted territory, here. Clinton, GW, and Obama should be shouting this shit from the rooftops if they ever believed in democracy at all.