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“These unprecedented tactics – which even the former top lawyer of the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration has characterized as embarrassing, lawless and cruel – have now resulted in the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens,” the Obamas said.
The Obamas accused the Trump administration of “escalating” the tension in Minneapolis by offering the public explanations of the shootings of Pretti and Renee Good “that aren’t informed by any serious investigation – and that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence.”
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When Obama took over, I was warning everyone that if he didn’t punish the crimes and malfeasance of the Bush Administration, the next Republican would be worse, and we ended up with Trump.
Then Biden proved he didn’t learn ANYTHING from his years as VP, and let Trump get back up AGAIN!
We cannot let our elected representatives fail us again. We must force them to act decisively, and purge MAGA from our government and society, and harshly punish the MAGA traitors for their CRIMES, which are many.
The Obamas seem far more interested in producing movies than they are saving America, so, piss off
Lmao the wake up call called in 2016 when you guys gave nuclear launch codes to a reality tv star. Now it’s a wake up fire and it’s blocking all of the emergecy exits.
The only good thing that can happen now is that something better will rises out of the ashes.
The wake up call was the patriot act.
I’m sure there was one before that too.
I just hope people are starting to realize it’s always been bullshit and it’s not something new.
Dude we’ve been awake for a while now. We’re past that. Now it’s time to arm yourself for self-defense purposes.
The alarm has been getting louder and louder for decades. You fucking traitorous liberals ignored hundreds of wake-up calls. This was only one of the latest.
We just kept funding it. We still do. We are the ones that keep giving it the ability to manifest. That’s the craziest part.
A surge of white-hot atonement will be our wake up call.
Now that we’re awake, what now?
Too late dead man
You know you fucked up when the literal poster children of the “they go low, we go high” trend of establishment democrats call you out…
The woman holding the camera closest to the murder, she has the biggest courage I’ve ever seen in my life.
You saw the others how they go blurry when the horror started.
That lady is just incredible… I hope good things happen to her for allowing us all to see what this government is all about.
We heard things, we knew and assumed things but now we know. This is proof beyond any doubt that we are all just getting murdered.
They called it a “tragedy” too.
Its not a “tragedy”, its a massive crime and a coverup.They can afford to not be a part of it. They aren’t like us or actually on the same team in the grand scheme of the human story.
One of my earliest wake up calls was when a certain president didn’t outright dismantle the Patriot Act, allowing illegal privacy invasion policies on American citizens to continue and have now made the life of ICE officers a lot easier.
I wonder who that president was…
when a certain president didn’t outright dismantle the Patriot Act
because presidents and not congress do that? cool willful ignorance of government roles & powers.
@lemmy.ml
of course
Obama could have vetoed the PATRIOT extension act, and yet he signed it in 2010, and then again 2011, and then in 2015 he signed the USA Freedom Act, which replaced mass surveillance with “targeted surveillance”. And I’m no law expert, but in my view with the current federal government “targeted” does not seem to mean very much with respect to actions by the US government toward its citizens.
Yes Obama was part of the problem too. Refusing to acknowledge the surveillance and rights to authorities as soon as they claimed terrorism were way beyond what’s healthy for a democracy. Unfortunately Obama too was very “American” in that regard.
So instead of doing something about it you’re going for whataboutism, we’ll done, whatever makes you feel better about your inaction.
I swear to God, “whataboutism” just means, “You stated a fact I don’t like.” Of course it’s relevant that the guy criticizing ICE was someone who could’ve actually done something about them and chose not to. What a load of bull.
Yeah actually you have a point here, I’ve been in this thread so long I forgot it was Obama who was being quoted on the post.
I do maintain that in the list of people responsible for what is currently happening and we should be really mad at today… Trump is way out ahead and Obama is behind about a million assholes who are actively involved in propping up the Trump presidency.
Firstly, may I remind you that you are online? If you are going to criticize someone for inaction, maybe you should stop wasting time bishing and complaining cuz someone made a comment you didn’t like on a social media feed, go outside, and take your own advice.
Secondly, pointing out hypocricy, especially as that hypocrisy relates to a person in power, and especially when said person in power is a former president of the US, is a far cry from whataboutism.
I can draw a straight line from the Patriot Act to the privacy invading tools ICE and other Federal Agencies use today, and while Obama didn’t draft nor sign into law the Patriot Act, he did fuck all to end it. Heck, he extended provisions of that horrendous act in 2012.
So nah, I’m not about to forget that there’s plenty of blame to go around when it comes to Obama. And yeah, I’m gonna shout that shit into this void. Thanks for reading.
You don’t need to worry about me I spend plenty of time outside and petitioning my government.
I’m just sad to see the top comment on this thread focusing on the guy who left office 9 years ago, rather than the one inciting murders on the streets of MN.
Fair enough, but it’s not an either or situation here. People can criticize both Trump and Obama. Just because Obama is saying the right things now doesn’t mean he’s not a hypocrite, and I’ll be damned if we all just willingly forget exactly who made some of the bad decisions that got us to where we are today.
Fuck Trump, Fuck ICE, and yeah, Fuck Obama. Not equally, but yeah, fuck’em.
EDIT: removal of pronoun
it’s a wake up call the same way your alarm is a wake up call two hours after it initially went off and you’ve been hitting snooze every five minutes
The US is the epitome of the idea that if you have an appointment 45min away at 8:45 and it’s 8:40 if you just pretend to be in a hurry you might make it on time. You will not be calling ahead to tell anyone where you are because you’re “on the way” and obviously you’re still stopping for a little coffee because you’ve had a stressful morning.
There have been sooo many wake up calls. The alarm has been blaring for a decade, and most people keep hitting snooze. The bus is long gone, and you’ve missed so many days, you’re going to be expelled. Final exams are today. Try not to show up in your underpants.
No one really cares until the victims look like them. Now that it’s 2 white people it’s the time to care
People still don’t care. Jack shit is being done about any of this.
There’s a general strike, but we gotta get the billionaires scared (or get rid of them) if we want change.
You’re right, and that’s fucking disgusting.
I’ll take it, though. It’s better than never.
I’d argue in this situation waking up yesterday would be a lot better than waking up today, but also better next week then next year. The more people get awake the bigger the critical mass needed to turn this shit around.
Please come back to the Senate, Obama
Only if he replaces Dick Durbin, he’s a downgrade from Tammy Duckworth. I’d rather a progressive than both of them.
