Summary
Barack Obama sharply criticized Donald Trumpās presidency during a speech at Hamilton College, condemning attacks on the press, immigration crackdowns, and threats to civil liberties.
He called it āunimaginableā that Trumpās actionsāsuch as barring the AP and threatening law firmsāwould have been tolerated under past presidents.
Obama warned that Trumpās behavior, though āgoofy,ā poses real danger, and he labeled Trump a āwannabe dictator.ā
He also referenced former Trump aide John Kellyās āfascistā remark and urged Americans not to mistake chaos for leadership.
I had no problem imagining it for at least a year before Election Day.
Nobody fucking listened.
Donāt forget all the dipshits constantly gaslighting
Iām still getting it. My retarded family thinks Trump is going to fix shit. I keep fucking telling them heās the one breaking shit
At what stage do I say āfuck you family, you helped give me this messā
Is it after I get deported? Put onto trains and into ovens?
So many people have no fucking problem with Nazis.
I hate people. I hate how stupid they all are.
Theyāre all just so God damned dumb and my world would be better if they all just died
I stopped speaking with my parents a couple of weeks after January 20, and let them know that the ballās in their court and if they want to have a relationship, all they need to do is acknowledge that they were wrong about Trump.
It fucking sucks. But I just canāt abide that shit anymore. Without getting into details, I might not have a job this time next year (after a decade there) directly because of the actions of this Administration. And even still, they donāt seem to care.
Iāve started wondering how theyād react if I was disappeared. Theyād likely tell people that I probably did something to deserve it, before ever admitting that they support a fascist dictator.
Shitās a real bummer.
Iām sorry friend. I donāt understand how people can be so defective and have no empathy
The irony is that the values that Iām standing by here were taught to me by them. I may not have stayed in their church, but the āgood partsā definitely stuck with me. Iām empathetic, in part, because I was taught to be by them.
I imagine if they were raising me now, they probably wouldnāt have let me watch shows like Sesame Street and Mister Rogers that only helped solidify those values.
Back then we went to a multi-cultural church, and had several very good friends that were people of color. If that were happening now instead, Iām not sure how they would be able to reconcile that with their political views. Just ignore the cognitive dissonance, I guess?
Their minds have just been so broken by conservative propaganda that I donāt even recognize them.
FR itās like nobody remembered anything that happened between 2016 and 2020, or that they thought an actual dictatorship wouldnāt be so bad.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra