Thanks Obama | Why Obama is a monster who you should not celebrate.

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[@Lily-gr1ct]

Piers Morgan: You hate trump but what about your hero Obama Thought Slime: I'm LITERALLY a communist

[@misterbadbeard4251]

*Anarchist

[@everythingcoffee8901]

@@misterbadbeard4251 He's both, I believe. (Now that I'm thinking about it, I can't think of a time he said he was a communist, but at the very least it should be noted that 'anarchist' and 'communist' aren't mutually exclusive.)

[@hairymcnipples]

The other great one was binny shapenis calling some right wing UK media ghoul a liberal. "You have no idea how silly you sound right now"

[@misterbadbeard4251]

@@hairymcnipples Ah yes Andrew Neil, The greatest leftist he never was and never will be...

[@sandordugalin8951]

AnCom is the only form of centrism I subscribe to.

[@annamuller1666]

I always imagine Obama using his nobel peace price as a paperweight for his kill list on the desk in the oval office.

[@DonutTPOTer]

while i think you're joking, if you're not, you probably think trump was god's "gift"

[@annamuller1666]

@@DonutTPOTer There are no good guys. I don't have to pick one to approve of. Maybe I don't understand your comment, though.

[@MurrmorMeerkat]

@@DonutTPOTer did you not watch the video obama wasent the greatest either

[@Knubbelbubbelbubbel]

this scene needs to be in a movie

[@jeremiahreagan6596]

I imagine he gets together with Harry Kissinger and makes them fight like kids playing with action figures.

[@just_radical]

"Maybe their grandma is very sick and needs medicine that costs 200 billion dollars" In the American Health Care system I'd believe it.

[@jeremiahreagan6596]

That was exactly my thought as well.

[@theengine]

Wait was that a joke? I was feeling bad for them

[@YourCapyFrenBigly_3DPipes1999]

To this day the large majority of politicians on a federal and state level refuse to demand or endorse national health care, even a shitty third rate system. Buuuut most of them are bribed not to so.... Guess that's how it works in a political class based on unlimited bribery or the more commonly used term around here "campaign" or "government" "donations". And it's been going on at this level for at least 42-ish years so.... Really not sure when it's going to change. People love money, and people love big money, and our politicians REALLY love that big money and will do just about anything to get it.

[@gaiusjuliuspleaser]

Leftists: Tear down the statues of slavers and (war) criminals. Conservatives: Oh, but what about your hero Obama? Leftists: Sure, him too. Conservatives: *N-NANI!?*

[@patricktsai2303]

TIL liberals and leftists aren't the same

[@praetentious2925]

Sacha Daenens Example of many Lefists: I’m a leftist, that’s not the same as a liberal. It’s More left. Conservatives don’t get it, but you and I do cuz we are the in same tribe of leftism. Pat me on my head now. / Me: yeah! Take the Robert Walpole statues down NOOOOOOW! Other Leftists: what is it with this guy and Robert Walpole? /Other people still: wait, there aren’t statues of Obama. Premise of the joke: (none)

[@JL-dance]

Every time i tell a conservative i don’t like liberals it’s like they shut down and have no idea what to say

[@NateTheGnat]

Leftists and ISIS are the same. they both destroy statues and commit violent acts and murders, and are both considered heroes for doing so.

[@gaiusjuliuspleaser]

@@NateTheGnat Cue the footage of Saddam's statues being torn down with the aid of US troops.

[@veganarchistcommunist3051]

I wish the things right wingers said about Biden were true, for example "He's a far left, radical socialist."

[@voidify3]

Saw someone call Biden a communist and I had to take a 5 minute break to spend all of it laughing

[@FabbrizioPlays]

Right wingers should count themselves lucky. I wanted Bernie. We ALL wanted Bernie. It was the DNC that decided milquetoast mediocrity, polished and sanitized, would keep their platform playing in the big leagues.

[@Kaiexists966]

@@voidify3 I’ve seen multiple people call Biden a communist it’s…perplexing

[@Doctor_Straing_Strange]

Aw man a radical socialist would be sooooo much better than the bland shit we're getting from Biden. Biden is already a centrist, and getting your way in the presidency is hard enough, if he was a socialist we would get that, but milder, and we'd finally be like Europe, or even better

[@veganarchistcommunist3051]

@@Kaiexists966 Yeah, still waiting on this communist utopia Biden's supposed to bring about.

[@julieharmon96]

"they hurt the money. They made the money go away."

[@hexum7]

It's always showtime, here at the edge of the stage

[@guidovivan5035]

*da money

[@katherinemorelle7115]

Which is funny, considering how much they love da money. Though, they did end up with even more of da money for themselves, so it’s all’s well that ends well (for them) I guess.

[@tylerrice7145]

Neartmhor It’s fine because they got more of da money, but it took everyone else losing their money. That’s fine for those following the Vile Maxim

[@mswen1983]

Someone always profits. Certain industries thrive during recessions (guns, liquor, fast food, gold scams) and several big banks were buying up foreclosed homes to rent/sell later.

[@marysouza1882]

Obama is a perfect example of people over valuing charisma.

[@DonutTPOTer]

better than people over valuing christian values

[@r.t.5767]

@@DonutTPOTer Trump isn't even christian values, he is money values!

[@xxxxOS]

Yeah and not being able to spot authenticity. Honestly people are so naive.

[@leonardouliano4896]

You're saying that while Trump got elected because dummies enjoyed his mannerism and his star-status. I do enjoy irony.

[@aureliuss2262]

The halo effect

[@lemoncoolassociate8786]

Doesn't he also have the dubious distinction of being the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to bomb another Nobel Prize winner?

[@GOCRAZY3]

Go on

[@maximo_lopez]

When US planes bombed a hospital in Afghanistan run by Doctors Without Borders, who were recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.

[@anarchomando7707]

Hey funny thing about Nobel Prize and bombs Apparently Alexander Nobel invented dynamite He spent the rest of his life regretting it for what he has caused. Therefore he invented the Nobel Peace Prize purely to promote peace and unity

[@crappyaccount]

@@anarchomando7707 Jesus

[@NateTheGnat]

Nobel prize, shmobel prize. They hand out them things like candy nowadays...

[@BeezerGutlr]

Finally a video criticizing Obama that’s not a conservative racist grifter

[@belhariry]

Obama called Lebron and convinced him and the NBA players to resume playing after they went on strike to protest police brutality. Drone strike, yeah. General strike, noooooooooooo.

[@Genderanarchy]

Jfc imagine your protest being busted by the literal *president of the United states*

[@duelversebeyond]

Obama is one of the best presidents the states I’ve ever had. But that is not praise of Obama so much as it’s a damning condemnation of the United States.

[@salj.5459]

I think the least worst American presidents are Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and maybe FDR. Edit: Changed phrasing to "least worst". Also maybe not Teddy

[@El_Donahuego]

@@salj.5459 McKinley probably would've been good if he uhhh...didn't get murdered.

[@Prodigi50]

Sal J. JFK?

[@BrunoSantos-sb6vh]

I don't get why people say they like JFK so much. What is his legacy? A failed invasion of Cuba, almost starting a nuclear war on a tantrum, starting the Vietnam war and dragging his feet to enact a Civil Rights Act. Geez, so dreamy. Thanks, but no, thanks.

[@sorb1477]

@@salj.5459 bro teddy? The one who didn't think native Americans are people?

[@JM-gm1te]

I have been waiting for this one!!!! As a black person I can not even begin to tell you just how many times white liberals trot out their support of Obama around me whenever I point out that something in their political ideology is racist. Then get mad at me, the black person saying the black president was bad, because " You're just expecting too much of him because of his skin color" and "Not all black people want what you want" causing me to astral project into another plane for a moment of peice of mind.

[@raz802]

Thank you for this comment and making me smile today. I really needed it.

[@catherinewhitaker6226]

I feel the same way. It's so frustrating

[@ryannishikawa1356]

"I would've voted for Obama for a third term if I could"

[@ryannishikawa1356]

Also, how people treated Huey Freeman in that one episode The Boondocks did on Obama

[@runningcommentary2125]

@@ryannishikawa1356 Second I saw the comment I knew the Get Out reference was inevitable.

[@filthaquarium]

"We tortured some 'folks'" is under-used.

[@cremetangerine82]

I know, it still makes my brain hurt that the best president of my lifetime is Obama (born in 1982, thanks Reagan!).

[@h.godftw6498]

To clarify “We tortured some folks” statement was him opining on the acts or the previous administration, specifically the waterboarding. Not to defend... but just saying this comment is out of context.

[@cremetangerine82]

H. GodFTW I do understand that Obama was trying to explain the gross torture techniques under the Bush II administration. It still sounds very dismissive to call those who were affected “folks” like they are small town people.

[@h.godftw6498]

cremetangerine82 true, but if one speculates one’s tone as indicative of motive or capitulation, through total subjectivity, one could also contextualize character from the fact that though he was not part of said administration, he still referred to the perpetrators as “We” as opposed to blindly assigning blame and exonerating himself. All is fair when we start to extrapolate meaning from speculation. I tend to just stick to the fact... the simple fact is the line is taken out of context, it neither condemns nor condones, it simply is what it is.

[@debrasue2793]

pair it with the demetri martin bit about 'folks' and you get some next-level satire

[@zane6817]

this is a great "why leftists dont like obama" crash course. i'll most likely be sending this to every centrist i know. thanks!

[@praetentious2925]

zane next up- “why leftists don’t like Robert Walpole”. I’m waaaaaaaiting.......

[@solomonreal1977]

the skeleton of @@praetentious2925 has been safely recovered and can be found, humorously positioned to shame itself, in the Hall of Buffoons

[@MrMonsterKen]

A lot of people who voted for him already regret it because they been duped of his empty promises!

[@joshuascholar3220]

It's sad that I always call him a centrist and Hillary center right and I've yet to find an American on the right who can accept that.

[@baronblackdragon9078]

I’m 100% convinced that if Obama was a Republican he would’ve been loved by the GOP

[@CirianAlani]

And white, don't forget white.

[@gaiusoctavius6107]

@@CirianAlani nah, conservatives love the like 6 prominent black people who subscribe to their fascist ideology

[@leviadragon99]

You could be the most right-wing fuckboi POC imaginable, you still wouldn't get the GOP presidential nomination, there's a reason Ben Carson didn't secure the position during Trump's original run despite being equally insane. To conservatism (and to liberalism to an only *slightly* less extreme extent) racialized people are good as props, useful idiots or plausible deniability, and that's about it.

[@S.D.323]

they wouldnt like that he doesnt hate the LGBTs though

[@natemiller6363]

Ill be honest the "we tortured some folks" was a nice change of pace. It's fun to hear a different president say ghoulish things for once.

[@Goliath5100]

It’s fun hearing Obama say it in a very Obama way too. “We tortured some folks” is just such a downhome, salt of the earth way of phrasing those crimes

[@vanderdendur4640]

You know Obama is based because he used gender neutral terms when referring to the victims of torture

[@Goliath5100]

Nora That’s the kind of inclusive language we’ve come to know and love from those good old Liberals

[@flash_flood_area]

His campaign slogan should have been "A Nice Change of Pace"

[@nineteenfortyeight6762]

@@flash_flood_area it was

[@justabitofamug6989]

I'm honestly so done with the political system allowing neoliberalism and wars to run rampant instead of actually helping people

[@robm6645]

Political system? It's the whole organization of society and the political system just reflects that.

[@rizalljones1083]

No don't be done thats what they want its why half the country doesn't vote don't silence your own voice

[@1005corvuscorax]

And by neoliberalism, you mean the economic idea? I hope so, because I'm fracking sick of these new "Republicans" (Trumpists) confusing Liberals with Neoliberalism, and Classic Liberalism. And (not kidding) Libertarianism.

[@TheRenegade...]

@@1005corvuscorax Who does that? That literally sounds made up

[@andrebrynkus2055]

And they're counting on that. When you give up they don't have to work as hard.

[@nbcpackrat]

Better slogan "I can't believe it's not change™"

[@no_peace]

Not-change hexagons

[@TheRenegade...]

the TM is on the wrong side of the quote marks

[@CaptainZlex]

"We killed some people and some of them were terrorists." "How did you know they were terrorists?" "I'm not gonna tell you." I don't know how anyone can defend that, but I bet someone somewhere does.

[@Goliath5100]

Oh baby you can defend ANYTHING if you just pretend it’s the people who are dying’s fault

[@jeremiahreagan6596]

Because we killed them. Why would we do that if they weren't terrorists? Duh.

[@theengine]

"They were brown". That's the defense in their hearts.

[@suburbanweekend]

Trying to re-program my brain and remind myself that Obama sucks. I mean just after 4 years of Trump my standards are really low.

[@TheSpoonman00]

I'm gonna be honest: because of the last 4 years of insanity, I completely forgot about all of these incidents. But I'm glad someone's bringing it up. No matter which political ideology you subscribe to, it's our civic duty to hold politicians accountable when things like this happen.

[@grnmjolnir]

And change the system if too much of that power can be swung about like a god damn cudgel.

[@Loalrikowki]

Speaking of holding people accountable, Obama also failed to bring charges against any member of the Bush administration for THEIR slate of monstrous criminal acts, thereby tacitly legitimizing them!

[@DNorbs7]

I agree that people should know these things about Obama, but is now the time? Is this the way to help radicalize libs, by telling them how their favorite POTUS was a terrible monster? All this does is heap more negativity on Biden, potentially to leading to more people staying home & letting a potential fascist stay in office and continue to erode democracy. Obama was very flawed, but still better than the last, say, 6 or so Presidents.

[@katherinemorelle7115]

Loalrikowki but he couldn’t hold Dubya accountable! Why, that’s his wife’s friend right there! 🙄

[@katherinemorelle7115]

Daniel Norbut sure, Obama was the best President of my lifetime. But that’s not saying much considering how low that bar is, and also the fact that my lifetime only goes back to the last couple years of the Reagan administration (I was born in 87)

[@andrewlikestrains4138]

Liberals when leftists criticize Obama: But what about Trump? Conservatives when leftists criticize Trump: But what about Obama?

[@joshuaafromagic946]

Top underrated comment

[@praetentious2925]

andrewwantsafreetibet me: what about Robert Walpole? All other people: whaaaaaaaaaat tf

[@felixpotter6420]

very true, unfortunately no side admits hypocrisy which is incredibly frustrating.

[@DracosKasurani]

Well that USA in a nutshell, keep electing bad president because they are keeping all of them in office XD

[@shadowcween7890]

That's why they call it a whataboutism. We can have more than one bad person.

[@JayeAnarkitty]

Obama is probably the best president of my lifetime, but that's not a compliment

[@edwardstrinden]

Can you think of a reason that President Trump is bad that hasn't been given to you [by] or isn't shared by global corporate talking heads? edit: clarification that the reason's source, and not its unoriginality, that is the problem.

[@urbanplanner6623]

@@edwardstrinden lmao what a stupid qualifier: nonono you can't hate him for that, other people already hate him for that, find something original libtard !!!!!

[@thingswhynot]

@Edward Strinden Yes

[@GuyInnagorillasuit]

@@edwardstrinden He's ignorant and incompetent. Even if you agree with his politics (I don't) he's just fucking bad at the job. Then there's the unprecedented corruption, his terrible statesmanship and his willingness to divide the country for his own gain.

[@sivertberg8920]

@@GuyInnagorillasuit I hate his politics and his corruption but the other points on your list i would c as wins not losses man, if we are going to have a facist in the white house (yes biden is a facist) why not an incompetent one?

[@creativerealms]

When siding with the lesser of two evils just remember the lesser is still evil. Yeah I am voting Biden as well but that's only because the alternative is that much worse.

[@Quintinohthree]

I'm glad I don't have to vote on who should be my one singular president, or my one singular senator of two, or one singular representative, and instead get to vote on which party and which of their candidates I want most to represent me proportionally. I usually have to skip past four evils before I get to anything decent and at least I then get a minimum of two seriously good options, usually four I find worthy of consideration.

[@stickyfox]

There's no checkbox on the ballot to object to both choices on moral grounds. As voters we can choose only to support one of two candidates. Altho I suppose you can count voting independent as a way of not voting.

[@bigbaz4632]

I feel this comment has not aged well. Now, while I do prefer Mister Bob the Builder when compared to Dementia from Alabama, both suck as people running a country.

[@ilexdiapason]

@@stickyfox you can spoil your ballot by marking it in a way that makes it unclear "who you voted for" - this can be done by perhaps writing "fuck" in the first checkbox and "you" in the second or something to that effect. the ballot is counted but no vote is cast

[@moretyquira]

I met someone who had a lot of family in Pakistan. One thing that they said that haunts me to this day is that there were kids who were terrified of going out when it was sunny and there were no clouds because these were the days that drones would come.

[@danielbakergill]

I was 14 when Obama got in office. If I was gonna get a non-Bush-dynasty president during my childhood, he was gonna be complete daddy whoever it was. Growing into an adult and thinking harder about Obama's mainstream drone striking has been a frustrating adventure.

[@flytrapYTP]

It's all about optics. It's hard to come to terms with the reality that even the president with the best reputation is fucking terrible.

[@emilychristian7844]

I was 5 when he was elected. How was 5-14 year old me supposed to hold a grown man politician accountable ??????

[@paulmartin591]

This will happen with Trump inevitably. No one will want to touch him in a few years.

[@monstermoo4191]

He feels like Rose Quartz if you've watched Steven Universe 😭

[@Aconitum_napellus]

You can say Obama was a neoliberal war criminal but he was damned good looking.

[@TheTroutkitty]

I love it when you're arguing against someone and they raise the point that Liberals are terrible, too, and you get to point out that they're finally getting it. The right and the centre are both terrible. I cherish those moments, because they've understood the problem, even if they can't learn from it.

[@xCorvus7x]

Can't? Isn't this the first (i. e. most important) step to get there?

[@TheTroutkitty]

@@xCorvus7x I'm not saying they can't learn from it in the future, but in the moment, no, they can't. The chances that anyone person finds out they're wrong and immediately changes their mind is a fairly slim chance to begin with due to the blowback effect, but if you're dealing with someone who is both hurt by the status quo and still staunchly defends it, they've got a lot more thinking to do.

[@xCorvus7x]

@@TheTroutkitty May be, but haven't we also brought them to the point where they find that what they think both sides are is bad? Or do you imagine that they still dislike what they think the left is for their own reasons, not ours? In the former case, I do think that they could turn around on defending the status quo over night (possibly literally after sleeping over it). And isn't it the case that many Republican _voters_ _do_ care about human rights in the end of the day?

[@TheTroutkitty]

@@xCorvus7x They're not arguing the liberals are doing it, so it's bad on both sides, they're arguing that the right and the left do the same thing, so it should be OK for both sides to do it. And that's *if* the person you're arguing against is arguing in good faith, which if they're defending what Trump is doing, you already know is off the table.

[@TheTroutkitty]

@@xCorvus7x "And isn't it the case that many Republican voters do care about human rights in the end of the day?" If this was true, they wouldn't be a part of what passes for Trump's republican party. Nixon's party would have impeached him if it came to that for being a part of a conspiracy to break into an office building. Trump is a part of a conspiracy to steal two elections, and that's beyond of all the other crimes Trump the crime doer has done. There are no republicans left who can vote for Trump and care about human rights for any other humans than the humans who look like they do.

[@Nerdcoresteve1]

"and that hurt the moooney. The money didn't like that so it went away." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Not wrong, but also hilarious.

[@WraithMagus]

You spelled "Thah Maahney" wrong.

[@freyabees]

I actually can make an omelette without extrajudicially killing any civilians. I find it tastes better that way, too.

[@ladymoe5395]

there used to be an app called “metadata” i had in ~2014 or so that would send me an alert every time a civilian was killed by a US drone strike. it got taken off the app store pretty quickly (obviously) but that thing used to go off like four times a day

[@hpalpha7323]

I still say "Thanks Obama" at every inconvenience

[@fionafiona1146]

"danke Merkel" works as well

[@camelopardalis84]

@@fionafiona1146 And would you say people who say that are right or wrong or something (specific) in-between?

[@fionafiona1146]

@@camelopardalis84 after 16 years in the highest office remaining (speaker of the House), having a reputation of collecting the majoritys it took to get stuff done?... Not even she had the power to do anything on her own and plenty of things remained negotiated between lobbyists or with the wording from minesterial staff unchecked trough elections, everything is fault or achieved trough the system we should all strive to understand, participate in and improve (not that it has been anything as bad as the US equivalent since 1919, the according culture requirer peace building tho).

[@camelopardalis84]

@@fionafiona1146 I maybe should have mentioned that you can write in German ... Might make things easier to understand given that some very specific words around politics can hardly or even not at all be translated. But maybe you prefer using English so others can understand as well. My question was whether you think it's right or not right to sarcastically comment on what's been going on in German politics by saying "Danke, Merkel". Also, I don't know who you mean by "speaker of the house" and why you mention that position. You don't need to explain the very basics of German politics to me but abbreviating a bit less and alluding to things a bit less and actually writing what you mean to say would help me a lot.

[@fionafiona1146]

@@camelopardalis84 Kanzler ist equivalent zum Amt des/der SprecherIn des Parlaments (Nancy Pelosi) um eventuellen anglophonen Lesern den Kontext zu geben (wie wenig Einfluss Merkel über ihre lange Amtszeit alleine hatte) Markel, so polarisierend einige sie sehen, konnte durch ein Mißtrauens Votum jederzeit ersetzt werden aber allein nicht mal ihren Terminkalender planen, muss also in ihrem context wesentlich anders gesehen werden als ein US Präsident, unabhängig davon wie gern direkte Übersetzungen verwendet werden.

[@wombatkidd]

i agree with all your points. He's still the best president in my lifetime. Says something about America.

[@franciselrojo2922]

I often say just this.

[@raven_g6667]

Same. The presidency has become this dictatorship puppeted by corporations and I believe every president for the last 40-50 years should be tried for war crimes. Still the best president I've known tho... *sigh

[@soupalex]

"best" seems unfair. "least worst"?

[@sciguystfm]

Fuck, that's depressing

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

Obama is the best Republican president in my lifetime. Followed by Clinton.

[@thecatmom2861]

Ok but is Obama orange? Checkmate commulists

[@Palbizu]

CUMmunists uwu

[@suziesamico]

Here in Brazil being called orange means you're a corrupt politician lol Is Trump orange?

[@reaganbartels9993]

Haven't heard the term 'commulists' in a hot minute

[@suziesamico]

@Cheesie Horde we don't know why the name is orange too but it was the name the police use to a certain operation to catch some politicians using ghost employers and stealing public money by various small deposits in their oranges (oranges are the people who pass the money) every month. If you search Bolsonaro + Orange you'll see lol

[@Alsyoutubeaccount]

Actually in this thumbnail he looks very orange

[@Aconitum_napellus]

Obama saying 'We tortured some folks.' genuinely disturbing.

[@cute-pat00t]

*folx

[@fritzophrenia3146]

"Operation Haymaker" is such a fucking ghoulish name for a drone strike campaign, thats like bond villain tier shit

[@kyleleehufnagel]

I’m guessing the “except this guy” was supposed to be a visual bit with Reagan’s grim visage?

[@ThoughtSlime]

Yeah. Fuck

[@kyleleehufnagel]

Thought Slime it’s good to know it still works without the picture

[@benjaminrobinson7203]

Thought Slime could've just put any president there so it kinda works

[@victordennett]

I just knew it was that sunovabitch Garfield. No one made a pizza shaped like Reagan.

[@debrasue2793]

the fact that i still knew who he was referring to without the picture honestly turns a minor editing oversight into a pretty solid jab ngl

[@beautydraugr]

No president of my lifetime isn't a monster. Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush 2: Electric Boogaloo, Obama, Cheeto... Sadly, Obama was the least of those imo.

[@zakhawker344]

I mean personally I'd say calculating who's the "least" murderous imperialist liberal/fascist out of the murderous imperialist liberal/fascists is just apologising for the thousands of people Obama personally murdered with extra steps but okay

[@NMahon]

@@zakhawker344 I mean it could have been a step towards something more progressive

[@donHooligan]

@@NMahon yeah...Obama was a *progressive* war criminal.

[@myguitardidyermom212]

that's a real fuckin low bar.

[@demoninveins]

@@donHooligan Honestly, this but unironically. You've got a choice between bigoted war criminals and opportunistically (socially) progressive war criminals, and while the choices are both bad, it's not too hard of a choice.

[@kat8559]

I hope you mention that obama extended the patriot act twice

[@TheGiantRobot]

Good point. And extended the expiring Bush tax cuts once, then the second time made most of them permanent retroactively AFTER they had expired.

[@Drega001]

You forgot the whole police violence thing where he called protestors thugs

[@jacobitewiseman3696]

Well the protestors where destroying businesses and being violent. They by definition are thugs.

[@vivianberk5298]

I have one question when people say M4A is the only true answer: What happens to Medicare for All/Single-Payer next time a Republican administration holds power? As a member of the trans community, I'm uncomfortable with the thought of my healthcare being reliant on a government system that every few years could be taken over by people who want to do me harm.

[@paulseaver8149]

it would be too unpopular to campaign against once the entire u.s population(including the republicans voting base) have universal coverage versus the for profit coverage of today. While democrats claim to be a party of health care, many off the party leaders like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are opposed to it. only the Bernie wing off the party are for it . look up the NHS in Britain and how popular it is over there

[@jeremiahreagan6596]

What Paul said. Once people get a taste of actual universal healthcare, it's there to stay. It would be another Social Security. Something conservatives would love to destroy, but absolute political suicide to openly take aim at directly.

[@communismenjoyer1858]

I'm still holding onto a lot of liberal biases so ty for making this

[@tombuchborn]

You never stop learning in life. Better late than never!

[@communismenjoyer1858]

@@tombuchborn I suppose it's better that I'm learning at 18 rather then 30 too lol

[@tombuchborn]

@@communismenjoyer1858 yeah that's a pretty good age to learn about how the world works. Thought Slime is a great resource for that :). I'm sure you are gonna find your way. Best of luck.

[@jthom0027]

I would suggest watching Secular Talk and the Jimmy Dore Show as well. Any liberal bias you may have will be stomped out in short order and you'll see things for how they actually are...the 2 parties are owned by the same people and they are actively fighting against you.

[@communismenjoyer1858]

@@jthom0027 ik that the Dems are just as bad as conservatives and I have already built a fairly good leftist KZbin, Twitter, and insta leftist accounts, at least I think lol

[@SanguineIllusion]

lmao I had forgotten about "we tortured some folx :/"

[@awhahoo]

Wait whats folx

[@trashbeast]

@@awhahoo folks

[@cam4636]

@@awhahoo it was AAVE slang spelling for "folks" but it's been taken by people who think it's 'special' to make themselves look more inclusive & modern.

[@Bae_Cop2027]

I'm mostly sad that this even needs to be said.

[@snowblood74]

I'm even more said that it's actually true... Imo Obama has/had a really good image of being friendly, progressive, and relaxed. But beneath that shell he's really really bad :( The more I learn about individual US presidents the more I wonder if there was a single truly good one...

[@chocokittybo]

@@snowblood74 all presidents are bastards

[@snowblood74]

@Madalin Grama Yeah -.- As someone pointed out in another comment here, he did next to nothing for Black people's rights. But he also did nothing to make it worse for them (at least as far as I know). So I guess that's in fact "good" already...

[@snowblood74]

@Madalin Grama Yeah, I was also thinking of the whole of presidents the US had so far :) At least the ones I've learnt something so far. Like George Washington ho was so fond of having slaves that he used legal loopholes to keep his. Or that the whole independance thing came about bc they wanted to keep expanding west but _unfortunately_ the British Empire had a treaty with the natives that they wound't expand any more... Lord DAmpnut isn't an ex ception, he's in full tradition of the presidents before him :(

[@insidaero2530]

@@snowblood74 Even who I would consider our best presidents (FDR, Lincoln, Teddy) are still not all that great.

[@rjr81]

Thanks for acknowledging that Obamacare helped a lot of people. A lot of leftists focus so much on the flaws of Democrats that they end up convincing themselves that there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats. Too slow progress isn't great, but regression is worse.

[@GracefulValley]

the fact that there is a "goal" or "quota" for detaining immigrants is uh. well, that should tell you enough.

[@pearlhoff8888]

The money will remember that.

[@flytrapYTP]

The maaahney

[@greenbackjack768]

Da Monnnnnnie hated that.

[@SpoopySquid]

The Dow Jones demands a blood sacrifice

[@RoyalFusilier]

The money sees all.

[@ChardBothamYT]

obama then: "we tortured some folks" obama now: "we tortured some folx"

[@SesshyLover777]

I've tried to explain this stuff to my mom. We both voted for him and I wanted her to know about this stuff and she REFUSES to hear it or believe it. His rizz is just that strong

[@pjhaze]

Literally makes me sick. I am getting evicted 9/1 cause they decided no 2nd stimulus. I don’t get unemployment. I can live in my car that’s no longer insured yay me

[@monstermoo4191]

Learning more about Obama as an adult is like the audience becoming disillusioned about Rose Quartz in SU.

[@jeremiahreagan6596]

And it's kind of a microcosm for learning actual US History in general. Tulsa race riots, Tuskegee experiments, Pinkertons, all those democratic governments we knocked over to replace with bloody dictatorships, all the pro-Nazi industralists who thought Hitler was finally cleaning things up before America entered the war, the Nuremberg laws taking direct inspiration from Jim Crow and Segregation, etc. It's just a huge chain of "Oh no....OH NO! Really? Oh damnit, come on! But at least we...nope that was bad too."

[@ashcar6903]

I am Black and during Obama's second term I became mildly aware of the war crimes but it was kinda hard to let go. Like his presidency was a huge step, but like a huge step for an ant.

[@zen0vi]

This this THIS! Growing up black during the infliction of Obama's term was all the praise going around for the man. Couldn't go much of anywhere without seeing his face. Hell, my great aunt has a big portrait of him and Michelle on the wall next to her front door. He's hailed as this huge step for the black community and yet, not one of these people could tell you _why_ this was so. "Well he's black so... that must count for something, right? Maybe he's passing laws for black people??" when he was shoving his boot in their faces to push them further down the ladder. Trying to disconnect that illusion of a hero to black people and the man who bombs middle eastern children for shits and giggles is a trip

[@JessePesto]

can we get "crime'nt" on a shirt pls mr thoughtslim

[@woofcat9363]

I like the way you say "they hurt tha mahney"

[@zacharybutler5944]

the way you say "mooooaaaaahhh--nee' is unsettling and I love it.

[@hingetsa]

Love it! Now do Trudeau for the non-Canadians still faunning over him 👍

[@dindinfiend6801]

Never have I been so offended by something I 100% agree with.

[@joncoda365]

I liked Obama (as much as anyone could really like a US President). He did that MLK preachy talk that makes me feel good (even though I’m an atheist). He seemed somewhat competent in that I never worried that he’d cause the apocalypse through his bumbling. Sure, he was a murderous, imperialist, capitalist... but that’s what it means to be the President of an aggressively militaristic capitalist empire. I’m black, so I might be genetically predisposed to liking the only Black POTUS. I’m sorry that I can’t imagine a US President not being a warmongering corporate crony. I guess Bernie might have been different, but I never expected that he could actually be elected. So as far as Presidents go, having one that wasn’t a white supremacist was nice.

[@RoyalFusilier]

Not at all, that's a totally reasonable view on it. I mean, this video was partially made because Obama is a really likable guy. I was goddamned proud to cast my very first vote for his re-election in 2012, and supported him for all eight years of his term, as he proceeded to talk a big game. I only started to question that recently.

[@AmyLSacks]

Bernie's foreign policy sucks eggs, too. He supported the coup in Venezuela, for instance. His state relies on military projects for income.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

I’m a mediocre white dude, so I don’t want this to come off like I’m lecturing you, but isn’t that a reeeeeeally low bar? Like, I don’t think you should really split hairs when it comes to mass murdering war criminals who bailed out the banks and caused the greatest economic disaster in this country since the Great Depression.

[@joncoda365]

The One and Only Michael McCormick yes. My bar is really really low. And I think he might have been one of a handful of POTUSes (if not the only one) to be able to get over it.

[@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick]

@@joncoda365 Why, though? Why is it that you deem to to have surpassed your standards? What does that mean for your standards? What does that mean about you?

[@bemoore4]

"...the credit might rightly go to the thousands of activists who forced his hand...." That's politics. It's rare that politicians will pass a piece of legislation without a group of activists forcing them to see that it's the right thing to do. Would Johnson have worked so hard for the Civil Rights Act or 1964 if Civil Rights Activists weren't pushing him? Nah, he would have dragged his feet like Kennedy did. People keep forgetting that they (we) are an important part of this Democracy. For some reason they think that all the work is done on Election Day ("...I voted them into office...they'll handle it from here...") and that's just foolish. The lobbyist are hard at work pushing politicians in one direction, and they'll get everything they want...without some push back from "we...the people...".

[@ari_anon2228]

exception: bernie sanders

[@AmyLSacks]

@@ari_anon2228 Bernie's whole gig was the sheepdog bit: persuading people hungry for change that the only way to get it was relying on Dems. I fell for that fairy-tale nonsense when it was Kucinich pitching it in 2004. After that I was done looking back. Funny how Sanders had so many more people and so much more funding in the palm of his hand and yet the end result was the same. I'm amazed at how many people went for it twice. "You can't have a revolution in a counter-revolutionary party." -- Dr. Jill Stein

[@obliviousotterI]

@@AmyLSacks You also can't have revolution in a party with 0.2% of the vote. What's the solution here?

[@cam4636]

@@obliviousotterI Late reply, but: A) start from the grassroots, build a party with an actual base and actual positions--local, state, federal--that can take on the entrenched parties in a presidential election because there's an actual percentage of the population who remember their name (right now, only the libertarians are working on that--every Bernie Bro who thinks they could've made it if only they ~believed~ harder fails to remember that Bernie did nothing while he was in office as a senator & did nothing to appeal to other politicians to get their support for his policies, and Bernie supporters did nothing to get undecided voters on the ground to actually give him their votes); B) take the well-known party and shift its politics more progressive from the inside like many "I'm a democrat only because the socialists don't get votes" politicians are trying, or at least claiming they're trying, to do; C) external revolution, which the left loves to jerk off to but doesn't bother to work towards--meanwhile the right attempts coups and by & large gets away with it.

[@twiexcursori]

You know, you bringing up the ACA not being a public option or Medicare For ALl in a pandemic reminds me: The US was considering diseases and pandemics and other public health threats in national security assessments since at least 2001. You might even say the lack of affordable healthcare could be considered a national security risk you'd think that you could make a lot of problems and political obstacles go away by waving 'national security' but apparently that doesn't work for healthcare and I mean I know why, but it's just funny to me

[@AuntieAliasing]

Can't believe this even needed to be said! Droneman is not a hero.

[@UNSTABLE111]

True, he is definitely no saint but if I'd have to choose between him and trump again...I'm seriously going to Obama hands down..

[@AcolytesOfHorror]

so much about this vid is great, but it seems very important to point out that at one point Matt says "turbo fucked" and I just think that's lovely

[@c.w.8200]

I just randomly stumbled over your comment here, I love your channel!

[@ryannishikawa1356]

This was an absolute banger of a video. While I knew that Obama wasn't a saint by any measure... holy shit I had no idea how fucked up it would all get wow

[@thescauldron8436]

9:04 If you're murdering terrorists who end up not being terrorists, then maybe you're the terrorist

[@johnnygraz4712]

I stopped questioning whether we live in a democracy in 1988.

[@CuriousKey]

When a leftist approaches topics like this it often makes me a little nervous, as it's what the largest amount of them fall down on. Thanks for not being one of those. The more of you I see, the more I'm impressed with the consistency and integrity of your outlook, and the quality of your research. I've seen plenty of leftists to whom research is their entire "thing" who don't do it as well as you do.

[@praetentious2925]

CuriousKey thought slime is great at presenting his ideas and doing so in a funny and entertaining way. I mean he’s GREAT at that. I just could pass on this one. But I’m spending so much time posting joke comments about Robert Walpole that it’s been worth it. Carry on comrades.

[@TheRach995]

Another reason I think Biden is so popular is that a lot of young people who are newly of voting age (myself included) grew up primarily in the tail end of bush’s presidency and all of Obama’s. We weren’t informed of all the horrible things he was doing, so those of us who were raised in liberal/center-left households are have a bit of nostalgia for the Obama era because to an uninformed kid he really did seem like a good president.

[@bigbaz4632]

Another big thing is, people hated Trump so they just said "Yeah we hate this one dude, so we'll just vote for this other dude. It'll turn out fine because this one dude isn't in office anymore." Now while I think Trump did plenty of good, he isn't a good president, but Biden isn't either to so there's no winning ig.

[@darkstarr984]

I know. I grew up in a very far right household, really, and just never saw any reason for them to hate Obama so much. I just also never saw him as great. He *was* pretty normal for America, it’s just incredibly angering how much people hated him purely for being Black.

[@darkstarr984]

@@bigbaz4632Yeah, I thought so naively things would just get stalled instead of getting worse under Biden. Instead they’re getting *far* worse because of how much it’s all just posturing about your team’s colors.

[@firstlast-cs6eg]

People in "treatment centers" are often punished with many hours of solitary.

[@bludival666]

I'd rather people stay awake and mad than asleep and complicit, just me though.

[@chokinonashes61]

The slogan should be "can't believe you fell for it".

[@briannawaldorf8485]

I agree with everyone about Obama being the best president in our life times but that’s not a compliment but a condemnation of the country

[@briannawaldorf8485]

Hey we’re not just spying on our own citizens were also spying on our ally’s citizens!

[@MoGreensGlasses]

"...but that hurt the money, so the money went away". You are my new favorite person!

[@MasterAdam100]

"If voting could ever change anything, they would make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

[@praetentious2925]

MasterAdam100 said the revolutionary who succeeded in bringing about real change. Oh wait....

[@MM-du7je]

Well that's the thing, voter suppression wouldn't happen if it wasn't important at all. It is somewhat important, therefore.

[@spongeintheshoe]

Note that they're trying to do just that.

[@0bleach0]

Oh god, searching "the tolerant left" does not yield good results

[@adamkreuz9068]

I'm probably going to have alcohol poisoning the day after the election

[@TSmith-yy3cc]

"They hurt the money and the money went awaaaay!" Sounds like a Talking Heads lyric to me for some reason.

[@marthaknox6466]

All this says to me is that Leftists need to win way more hearts and minds and allies on the grassroots level before anything is going to change. I mean, we can point out all this horrible shit liberals and conservatives alike do because they want to gain and hold on to power, but that's because that is the stuff they need to do to gain and hold to to power. People keep holding up Bernie like he's some kind of savior, and I'm not denying that Bernie has fantastic principles and the integrity to stick to them for the most part. But that's also Bernie's brand and tactic for getting into the position of power he holds. And it only worked for him because he has the "billionaires" and "Wall Street libs" and "corporate Democrats" to contrast himself to. Bernie's success in his elections is as much dependent on this system as anyone's. The distance between a truly sound democracy and economically just system and what we have in America today is so great, I don't trust anyone who claims to know the best path to get from here to there. I appreciate that in this video, you mention how much politicians like Obama are moved by popular public opinion. That, to me, is what really makes the Democratic party usually worth voting for. Yeah, they don't have principles, but they can be trusted to go where the wind blows. And then at least it's on us folks to blow in a progressive direction. Opposed to the GOP who court fascists for votes and seem to have been taken over by rich white guys who think the only purpose of government is to secure their right to hoard wealth.

[@praetentious2925]

Martha Knox Great comment. Hated to see it but the Bernie supporters didn’t even come out to vote for him in the primaries. Low voter turn out in his base. So leftists want to change the whole system but can’t vote in a primary? But they’ll self pleasure themselves about criticizing Robert Walpole, or “getting a thrill” from telling righties that they ALSO don’t like the previous president. That’s....NOT helpful. Let’s remember outright fascism is in the streets trying to crush our freedom out of us and here we are with more criticism of Robert Walpole....like frankly, I don’t give a chit about Robert effing Walpole. I don’t give a chit about how Harold Macmillan sucked. I don’t give a chit about how Calvin Coolidge sucked. Focus on NOW

[@marthaknox6466]

@@praetentious2925 I wish I understood why young people today still don't vote. I keep reading these things that say young people today care a lot about many political issues such as climate change and social justice, and yet they still don't vote. I don't get it 'cause I did vote as a young person. I've always voted. It's not like it's some big huge inconvenience. In fact, it was way easier to vote when I was in my 20's than now that I'm in my 40's with 2 young kids and 4 different part time jobs. In fact, because I had way more time when I was younger, I volunteered more, and wrote more letters to public officials and to newspapers about issues, and went to more rallies and events for political issues. Politics has always seemed important to me because it directly impact my life and everyone else's! Argh, such is life I guess. We'll be ruled by Boomers until they die. Hopefully the left-leaning young people who don't vote will still be left-leaning when they actually start participating in democracy.

[@beebo7071]

Hey thought slime can you stop making me reevaluate everything I once thought I knew it’s making my head hurt

[@LezbeOswald]

when conservatives and leftists actually agree on everything /sarcasm

[@soupalex]

i mean, i _wish_ when right-wingers brought up e.g. obama's war crimes, or the clintons' racism, it was because they actually thought those things were bad or even gave the slightest shit. but they don't, it's just petty point-scoring. pointing out the flaws of the blue guy to distract from identical flaws in the red guy, to own the libs

[@LezbeOswald]

@@soupalex for sure. they're just like "yeah our guy's bad but SO ARE THE LIBERALS so that means it's okay and normal and good"

[@LezbeOswald]

@@RoyalFusilier just goes to show that liberals are just centrists at best.

[@1chiTheKiller]

Thank you for sticking to the facts on this. I end up in arguments with conservatives and they ALWAYS think I love Obama. Nah. He did all the things you spoke of in this video, and so no, I don't like the guy. He seems like he'd be nice to hang out with and has a decent personality, but that doesn't matter if he is a war criminal. This is what real leftists think. Just bums me out that there's so many people who think he was totally fine, and another half of the country that hate him for conspiratorial reasons, and neither wants to address the REAL issues he had in the first place.

[@yoursnotmine1996]

The way you say "da mawney" makes my day

[@smeekle2000]

Bring back duh mawnee.

[@awkwardllama0509]

Its strange but youre right, the main thing saving his place in public opinion is just that he happened to fall between two other presidents who were either utterly incompetent or entirely corrupt.

[@SkyP1e]

If the only way to leave a burning building is to jump out a plate glass window on the second floor, I'm gonna jump.

[@RoyalFusilier]

I might have to steal this line next time somebody tries to vote-shame me, which should be in roughly ten seconds.

[@haphazardlark1502]

Dude, little comic relief bits in your inflection, in this case the way you say “the money” is the only way I can watch these videos and absorb the info without getting so foaming at the mouth exhaustiraged that I have to take a handful of beta blockers and lie down on the floor before my heart explodes. It hits a good balance imo. Leaning too much into outright jokes to bring the tension back to a simmer would easily risk detailing and/or fucking up the tone too much, but playing it totally straight... Slipping little bits of inflection goofs hits the nail on the head. Thank you. At this point I want to stay informed but it’s so hard to absorb even a moderate dose of the poison without it eating my brain. You get into some rough topics but always manage, for me at least, to walk the tightrope in whatever way the subject matter calls for. Pretty much the only place where I can take in this subject matter without having to dedicate a few hours to calming down afterwards. Edit: and you don’t smooth over the anger. The sarcasm and tiny goofs would just feel insulting if you hid your anger but they blend well here. Cause anger is fuckin called for. EDIT TWO: still barely made it to the end (my health is in the shitter and undertreated so increased stress and tension immediately intensify pain so it’s not just that I’m making that big a deal outta being upset by CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY) but I wrote this before finishing the video (bad look, bad habit, usually avoid it) and I’m back again with one more bit of praise for how you make this bearable: that eyeball zone transition. Swear to god I’m getting Pavlovian conditioning to that thing. Brain goes “time for dwelling on unspeakable horror is done we’re in the eyeball zone now”. Think I said this once before but I’m so glad you worked the transitions back in. As much as I loved them showing up in the middle, I think you made the right call by moving them to the end. But there’s something soothing about the script slipping into ominous eyeball talk. The eyeball zone may be a terrifying and alien realm where we are always under the inescapable gaze of lord oculon, but honestly considering our current reality the occasional vacation to it is kind of nice.

[@praetentious2925]

Haphazard Lark you have yourself a great day and I hope you can find peace and calm. I sympathize,

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

Remember when he joked about drone-striking the Jonas Brothers (iirc)? And this is the most eloquent president we've had this century.

[@praetentious2925]

nessesaryschoolthing ah yes, that was a tasteless and offensive joke. Good thing there isn’t anything worse happen since then we could focus our energies on...

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

@@praetentious2925 Blame Thought Slime for the conversation topic, not me.

[@megasame5912]

Not even Bernie or Hawkins are against a dash of interventionism, but at least they'd have given you healthcare.

[@Yoursoulismine814]

The bank bailouts were a loan, they were paid back. The problem isn't that he bailed out the banks, it's that he didn't prosecute or fire anyone in leadership who knowingly committed fraud. Instead, they all got massive bonuses from the shot of liquidity raising the stock price.

[@supervideomaker9136]

Obama has been the best president of my life time but the bar is so low that this isn’t really a compliment. Especially since I don’t even like Obama.

[@orangesandsalt2161]

“That hurt the money”. 😭 This is my level of understanding

[@Phizzy]

Thanks Obama. Thobama.

[@theuncannydag]

Oh shit, Phizzy, it's yourself!

[@ChrisO9ification]

2020 is the year I became a leftist.

[@gg2fan]

Me too comrade, we're like a snowball rolling downhill, more and more people are seeing the light.

[@ChildrensRightsFirst947]

It was about 8 years ago for me. With ADHD and other neurological problems I got super behind on my bills and for the first time realized the system aggressively pulls people down once they reach a certain financial level.

[@user-jn4sw3iw4h]

"enemy combatant, unless there is conclusive exculpatory evidence they are not" pretty sure "are not at war with" should be enough as that evidence

[@halfeatenburrito6195]

The stock art you used for "nobody handed a politician a big bag of money..." looks exactly like Bibi Netanyahu lmao

[@teteteteta2548]

Given what’s happening with him in Israel, it’s probably him

[@madcountofdumont7742]

The thought of the number of people who were radicalized to the far right from the Occupy Wall St movement because of the lack of any accountability from a government meant to represent the people keeps me up at night. *inhale*

[@squiddler7731]

Maybe it's just cause I literally wasn't alive long enough to see a better president than Obama, but I feel like it's probably too much to expect any president to be entirely good. As just one person they can only do so much, and the system they're put in charge of has as much control over them as they do as it's "leader". In that light, I feel like if a president can do just a tiny bit to send the country in an upwards trajectory compared to their predecessor, that can be seen as a win in spite of the uh... war crimes

[@LoserBroProductions]

Thank you

[@squiddler7731]

@@andreasvidal500 Honestly I fucking hate that "the economy" is even used as a measure of success to begin with. "Yay, the 1% of rich powerful people and companies have even more billions of dollars! Let's celebrate giving them even more power just because they happen to based in the US _even though most of them don't even pay taxes"_

[@AmyLSacks]

If the U.S. can't survive without perpetrating war crimes, it doesn't deserve to survive. Also, shouldn't you always expect more from the people whose salaries you pay?

[@songbirdsinging1878]

US Presidents have FAR LESS power than we seem to believe. Congress and the Supreme Court easily halt anything they would like to do or what they campaigned on. As far as anything domestic, there isn't much they really control. We haven't done a good job teaching children how our govt. works. Fringe left and fringe right are unreasonable and un-realistic. As far as foreign affairs go, The president does have more pull. basically they represent us to the world. We live in a world where hard choices have to be made regarding foreign challenges. most of the time it's the lesser of 2 evils unfortunately. No matter what decisions are made, someone is going to come up with conspiracies to bitch about. Obama followed a whole bunch of war criminals and came into office with a brutal recession. republicans blocked everything he advocated for. Biden came in to office following a wrecking ball who destroyed everything and everyone in his path and is still causing upheaval. Let's put the blame where it belongs. the US public. the ignorance and complacency and laziness has hurt a lot of people and allowed Trump to profit from his lies and manipulation. He doesn't care about vulnerable people in our society or the world. He doesn't care about his followers and he doesn't even care about his family.

[@zdl5665]

Imagine being one of those “folks” and being casually referred to as fucking “folks”

[@themightyfig2]

Oh boy did this age well with a poll showing that people voted Obama as the best president of the US ever

[@JeanneNey99]

Thought Slime Friday, hell yes

[@twiexcursori]

I'll be honest, Obama was like the first time I remember getting excited about politics. My thoughts on him have soured over time, as you might have guessed from me watching this channel, but like. For what it's worth, the guy knew how to get people fired up, and the ACA was Not Nothing. (And even that was nearly torpedoed by conservative Democrats, DESPITE ALREADY BEING ROMNEY'S HEALTHCARE PLAN) Even by late his second term, I think, I was starting to realize 'drones bad, hey why is guantanamo bay STILL open' but He was better, I think, than what came before, but it's hard to be worse than Bush

[@AmyLSacks]

Well, I was enthused about Clinton I in 1992, but that was mostly because our wonderful free press lied about him, and because I was sure "anything is better than Bush I." lol. Clinton rescinded the anti-abortion Global Gag Order in the first week of his Presidency and that was the first and only time I felt proud of my vote. I never voted for him again, and now I bitterly regret the Clintons and their DLC getting a death grip on the party which no can or will break, now or ever.

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

Obama's campaign was one of hope and change so it galvanized a lot of people especially younger people to vote. Then that grassroots base was told to piss off as once elected Obama was like *_"Lolz it was just a prank bro"_* towards anyone who truly cared about more than optics or really needed change as if their life depended on it....like my family. So yeah thanks Obama.

[@MrMonsterKen]

i'm very glad you're still using your brain for once, but Obama is a charlatan and a sorry excuse of a president, we all been lied to and that led to scars of America that we will have a hard time healing from.

[@Noodle.in.oodles]

I think it’s hilarious that you said “except maybe this guy” and then showed a picture of nobody 😂 Just stumbled upon your channel the other day when I was looking for anarcho-content and I’m so happy I did! The eyeball segment has led me to some other great content creators too! Keep it up stink Matt!

[@Edmonddantes123]

In hindsight, his complete and immediate abandoning of codifying Roe, after campaigning for it as a “day one” priority and getting the supermajority to do it, might be the most underrated of Obama heel turns

[@charliedawson6318]

From now on I will only refer to financial crises as _"da mõney going away"_