Summary
Barack Obama sharply criticized Donald Trump’s presidency during a speech at Hamilton College, condemning attacks on the press, immigration crackdowns, and threats to civil liberties.
He called it “unimaginable” that Trump’s actions—such as barring the AP and threatening law firms—would have been tolerated under past presidents.
Obama warned that Trump’s behavior, though “goofy,” poses real danger, and he labeled Trump a “wannabe dictator.”
He also referenced former Trump aide John Kelly’s “fascist” remark and urged Americans not to mistake chaos for leadership.
Obama allowed the Republicans to viciously kick him around for eight years, yet he never stopped trying to appease them. He should have ruthlessly prosecuted the crimes of the illegitimate Bush administration, and showed the proto-Nazi Republican party that treason would not be tolerated. If he had, there never would have been the environment for MAGA to rise. But he failed us, like all those corporate, Republican-Lite Demopublicans.
Now he’s still playing the same old game, like most of them, pretending that its business as usual, and letting HitlerPig get away with being Putin’s muscle, as he actively, gleefully destroys America, right in front of our faces, ss he plays golf. Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
How long do we have to tolerate obvious TREASON before we stop it? Do we have to wait until the entire Democratic free world has collapsed, billions of people have died, and Sociopathic Oligarchs are sitting on top of the pile, smoking cigars and drinking expensive scotch, and gloating about their success, before we can finally admit what we already know right now, BEFORE the carnage - that the destruction of Democracy was their plan all along?
It’s time for some coalition of respected leaders, including military, to step up and end this madness decisively. There are a lot of potential tipping points (a war against NATO allies, leaving NATO, an alliance with Russia/ China/ N Korea, attacking Canada/Mexico, giving away Alaska and/or Taiwan, a draft, disappearing American citizens without due process, designating citizens as terrorists for exercising free speech, etc), but the one bright red line that can NEVER be crossed, is elections. If HitlerPig suspends elections for ANY reason at all, it will become time to literally execute the entire MAGA leadership. That is precisely why the Founding Fathers created the 2nd Amendment, and we should honor them by applying it as they intended.
Good, start the campaign now so that if Trump somehow crowbars in a law that allows him to run for a third term Obama can bury him
Crowbars in a law? Why not just do it? Who will stop him?
Just call him for what he is, A russia agent, Krasnov Trump.
And stop calling them Presidents, they are public servant. re-label the term to “Head Public Servant”.
So that everyone is reminded everyday who they are supposed to serve.Larry Niven’s scifi series had a species named Puppeteers where the leader was called the “Hindmost” because nobody wanted the gig. I think the leader’s job was to draw off the predators or something like that.
Nah bruh. It was imaginable. I fucking imagined it. Because it was goddamn obvious.
he labeled Trump a “wannabe dictator.”
Sure wish Democrats would quit downplaying the threat.
Exactly. I just posted this in another thread…
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He is setting tariffs on his own, a power designated solely to Congress by the Constitution.
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He is having masked police kidnap people off the streets without warrants and shipping them to an overseas gulag without trial or even charges.
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He is illegally refusing to distribute money allocated by Congress to certain states in order to punish them for not doing his bidding.
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And when the courts have ordered him to stop doing the above, he has willfully ignored those court orders with no repercussions.
Exactly what more needs to happen for this to be a dictatorship?
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I agree. It’s absolutely fucking infuriating.
“Aggressively and rapidly installing himself as a dictator” would still be understating a bit.
This is the archived version of the article, no paywall.
Barrack gave us trump when he let home owners eat shit and the bankers walk free. Even Bush was going to give home owners some reprieve, and asked Obama if he wanted to proceed and Obama told him " there is only one president at a time". When he came in to power, he bailed out the banks.
He campaigned explicitly on a platform of change and then proceeded to install a cast of deeply entrenched establishment figures to shore up the establishment at the expense of common people. Classic switcheroo.
Obama was also in a position of power to actually do something about the Russian influence on the 2016 election - and he did nothing.
Tariffs are basically tax on Americans.
Oh my god shut the fuck up about it being “unimaginable”. They published the playbook online for anyone to see in 2020. They said they would follow the playbook. They are now following the playbook. They are completing sections of the playbook as written. They will continue to complete sections of the playbook as written, until they are either done executing the playbook, or removed from power somehow. None of this is a surprise. You are not allowed to be surprised by this.
This is a straw man. Obama was not saying that nobody knew what project 2025 was planning. He’s saying that prior presidents could never have gotten away with behaving in ways that Trump behaves, and doing things that Trump does.
If any President in recent history should return for a third term, I’d vote for Obama again in a heartbeat.
I was rooting for a Jimmy Carter second term but that’ll be tough now.
Do undead presidents act as a third term loophole?
Even if he wasn’t undead, it would be SUCH an upgrade.
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You might deserve it, I’m pretty confident saying the trans kids and legal immigrants who are being disappeared off the streets probably don’t.
Not trying to tigger you, but who would you pick for a third (albeit unconstitutional) term?
Rally the troops Obama. Do something about it.
You could listen to him. He was the only decent president You had in my memory.
I disagree. He was a great candidate and a shitty president. What was his crowning achievement? ACA? That failed in the medium run, as we all knew it would. Meh.
More like a shit candidate but decent President. He absolutely should have been a one term and allowed dems to run a proper primary. Of course, then the dems would shut out actual progressive candidates, but that’s a whole other thing.
How did ACA fail?
I’m pretty sure ACA was a big deal and a big achievement.
More or less shitty than Donald?
That is not a reasonable bar by which to judge any living human being.
Would love to vote for this Obama guy if he has the chance to run again. Do it, Republicans. No balls.
That’s the funny part: if Trump and the supreme court somehow finagle a new legal loophole for the constitution, then Obama will get elected.
They’ll only somehow finagle it by saying Trump didn’t serve 2 consecutive terms which wouldn’t allow Obama.
