No public option for healthcare, obstructed supreme Court appointment, yep totally behind him 100%.
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when Obama won we stood behind Obama
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
SURE!
Show me a SINGLE Fox news or oan clip where they are behind Obama. Doesn't even need to praise him just.. you know... Just one clip where they are not trying to punch him in the nose.
Just one.
Show me a single Republican governor or senator who actually supportes Obama...
Who me one good Obama initiative that wasn't burned to the ground because Republicans just couldn't letmovama have a single win because better let Americans suffer than let Democrats have a win. These idiots are petty, small, vengeful and egocentric and have not once given a single fuck about anyone or anything if it wasn't theirs.
Fuck these idiots
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Let's not forget the unprecedented amount of obstructionism from Republicans under Obama. They set several records for the use of the filibuster and filibustered more of Obama's nominees than literally all previous presidents' combined.
This is especially hilarious because so much of this rhetoric came from Trump himself! He basically established his political voice by playing peanut gallery through the whole Obama presidency and pushing birther nonsense.
We all know that this is a bullshit statement that Republicans trot out to try and shame people into not opposing them, that’s a given. But to use that to defend Trump, who spent all of the Obama presidency doing EXACTLY that loudly and vocally is a special level of irony.
I am an American and I can tell you first hand that:
1: Donald Trump is my president elect, regardless of how I may
2: There were certainly some conservatives who, regardless of how they felt, acknowledged Obama as their president.
3: There were absolutely many who did not accept Obama as president (not that it made a difference, because he was still president, same as Trump).
That said, I hope Trump does well for all of us and that all of the terrible predictions about what will happen were just silly and wrong.
They weren't silly and wrong last time.
He won't be Hitler 2.0, but he'll do some terrible things.
He's corrupt and will do things to enrich himself. This is what he did before. That's bad, especially because some of the things he did jeopardized lives (especially when it comes to COVID, but certainly not exclusively). However, the people handling him this time are much more dangerous. This is what worries me most about this go round.
Stood behind him with a knife maybe
Just this cool weird thing I 3D printed, don't worry about it.
Our media was more supportive of Obama than Trump, at least the second time around. Maybe it's because of Trump's rape trials, Jan 6, and everything that came out of his mouth. But don't pretend that media was as critical of Obama.
Mainstream media wasn't critical enough, no. The right wing media was just going after irrelevant bullshit like the birtherism, tan suits and mustard. The entire media failed the country, but then again, that's been true for decades.
You are not wrong
Like, especially the way the Obama administration bailed out banks, while not giving any support to home owners. Banks were allowed to fraudulently foreclose on homes and sell those homes for a profit later. It angered a lot of people and in some ways did lead to Trump's rise, and it's only like a decade later that those stories are being told and somewhat being reckoned with (and the democratic party is still deep in denial about that, Obama can not be criticised).
The way it should've been handled would've been:
- nationalise the banks that are too big to fail, fire the executives responsible and prosecute if there's criminal wrongdoing
- some temporary financial support for struggling home owners to get through the crash so they could actually stay in their homes
It would've been way cheaper than the throwing money at the failing banks.
But of course, the right wing media wasn't interested in substantial criticism, mainstream media didn't want to criticise wall street because they're increasingly owned by wall street, so the only place you'll find this is in 'fringe' independent left wing media.
"We stood behind Obama" and repeatedly came up with racist and hateful statements that you and your friends were using long before I was even born.
"Yeah I was all for Obama until he put on that tan suit"