Obama says Trump deepened US divide in rush to ‘identify enemy’ after Charlie Kirk shooting
Obama says Trump deepened US divide in rush to ‘identify enemy’ after Charlie Kirk shooting
This is the martyr they've been waiting for.
Stephen Miller especially: “It is a vast domestic terror movement,” said Miller, speaking of left-wing political organizations. “With God as my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department of Justice, Homeland Security and throughout this government to identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy these networks and make America safe again for the American people,” he added. “It will happen, and we will do it in Charlie’s name.”
The Nazis did the exact same thing, so the only surprising thing is that it took so long. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they had Kirk killed for this purpose.
That’s a little too tinhat for my tastes, but it’s pretty clear they had a well-coordinated plan of action ready to go once an incident they thought they could use came along.
That would have been my bet.
Obama's reluctance to criticize a fellow member of the Presidents club has really highlighted Obama's known flaws as a centrist Neo-Liberal leader, as well as the dangers of centrism in general.
Oh man the things I would do to have that man as president again.
The fundamental problem with Obama was that he took office in a transformative moment for the country, with an enormous public mandate to rewrite how our economy and our legal system functioned. The US Treasury owned 1/3rd of the private banking system outright.
There was an enormous demand for sweeping reforms in the health care, real estate, and education sectors. Union momentum was building for the first time in decades. DC Statehood was on the table. The SCOTUS was in play. A new era of civil rights legislation was possible. We had trillions going to a couple of stupid, pointless wars that we could claw back. The tech sector was ripe for economic growth in a period of surging unemployment in a way that would guarantee everyone more money for fewer working hours. Sky high gas prices made a Green New Deal a real possibility.
He fucking pooched it. Practically all of it. We got a few tepid financial regulations, a marginal expansion of Medicaid, billions in loan forgiveness on trillions in debt, and a pat on the head.
Now that window has fully slammed shut. A new window is open, but it's open to a future of fascist police violence, decimation of the administrative state, a permanent indentured servant class, apartheid, genocide, and a third world war. Trump isn't flinching. He's going for all of it and his party is throwing their full weight behind him.
Now that its the reactionary turn of the wheel and all the worst people are getting to make decisions, do I wish a non-fascist was in charge of the country? Yeah, okay, sure. But I also envy my conservative neighbors in that they appear to have a party that's putting all the shit they wrote down on paper into action. Project 2025 isn't just smoke blown up the assholes of the rub base. The modern GOP is here to deliver.
Maybe if Obama'd been less of a Truman and more of an FDR we wouldn't fucking be in this mess to begin with.
I'd take W again over this shitstain
Yeah but he is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, right?
Yeah it was intended
Gee thanks Obama.
Real Presidents would have called in the shooter to have a beer with them, amirite?
Well Obama likes dijon mustard so he should keep his elite ideas to himself.
Can you believe he wore a tan suit? A tan fucking suit!
But he is a war criminal and here's an essay and twenty-five RT links about how Putin is way better.
Truly the most heinous act any president has committed