The US has basically been running on the hopes that any president elected would be sane/smart enough to not abuse every stupid decision made by his predecessors. Guess what idiots? Making stupid decisions has stupid consequences, and the fondling father is speed running them before he croaks in a few months.
20 minutes goes by Oopsie almost forgot to drop another bomb on the middle east!
Repeat every 20 minutes for 8 years straight
https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#whats-wrong-with-barack-obama
In case anyone is wondering: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/president-obama-signs-indefinite-detention-bill-law
Prime example of why you should never write/sign a law that your enemies can abuse. Obviously there will always be unforeseen consequences of some laws, unexpected exploits, but if you didn’t realize Republicans could use indefinite detention against their political enemies you have no fucking business making or signing laws.
Sure, if you assume their "political enemies" are the Republicans. Rather than assume incompetence; because, you're right, this is a pretty glaring oversight that only bumbling incompetence could begin to explain away; you could make a much more fitting assessment with the "political enemy" being the working class. That is who this law is being wielded against, the only ones who were ever threatened by it, along with being completely disempowered to abuse it against the ruling class who passed it. Those are the enemies that fit your description.
i don't think they are political enemies that much
ndaa of 2012. i remember, thats what allowed for this. obummer tacked it on to military spending so there would be no way to shoot it down. funnily enough that was the beginning of my, and i assume, a lot of people’s radicalization process. seeing the democrats, “the good guys” pull this shit then try to explain it away by being like “but we’re not gonna do it lol”. it was just too blatant. sadly too many liberals did not go through that same realization and they still think this worthless pig is “the best president in history”. he may well be, i couldnt say, but its not like he had much competition on that front. they all seem to be in a “who can be the worst president” contest if anything
I'll build the camps
I'll fill them
I'll, you know... the thing
Thanks comrade, I think this will be worthy of making into a formal meme! 😂
biden: i’ll eat the pudding cups out of the cafeteria
White people won't even blame the white guy making the USA a police state.
Obama was also a white supremacist president, that's undeniable. From him calling black people thugs, to dropping a constant flow of bombs on the middle east and north africa, to the water crisis in flint, to letting citibank run the country.
https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#whats-wrong-with-barack-obama
Every single president in recent history has eroded citizen's rights and increased the power of the executive branch. They're all responsible for the mess we're in now.
"Making"
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris sent riot cops to bash people's heads in for opposing Palestinian genocide
Guantanamo Bay has been operating for decades
Police operate blacksites, run gangs and leave community organizers full of holes in burning cars.
In my lifetime, Jimmy Carter has been the only president that hasn't been a complete fuckwad. I know people see Obama with rose tinted glasses because he was sandwiched between a doofus who let an evil war criminal drag us into wars so his buddies could profit and the literal worst president of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Old man Biden did well as president but in my mind he will always be tainted by what an absolute piece of shit he was as Senator Biden.
Old man Biden did well as president but in my mind
Big fan of genocide, I take it?
Jimmy Carter has been the only president that hasn’t been a complete fuckwad
Old man Biden did well as president
USians considering people from the Global South as less than human exhibit number 32 quadrillion.
No clue why you’re being downvoted. Obama was a neoliberal who made a good faith effort, but intentions pale in the light of obvious moral ignorance. Imagine signing indefinite detention into law. Just imagine. What lunacy?
No.
Carter and Biden both committed genocide abroad and did very little to help the working class domestically.
No argument there. Every US president has had blood on their hands. I think it's in the job description.
Absolutely.
I think the farther we get from Obama the more he will become considered a bad president. Trump is worse, but that's not helping Obama's legacy.
I would say that Biden did better than I had expected in the first half of his term and then more or less coasted off of that momentum through the second half. The probable dementia can't be ignored, but even without that he should've been doing more. He mostly stabilized shit, which is what a status-quo neolib is supposed to do, and he even expanded equitability and built framework for a better tomorrow, but he was I guess too humble to brag about it? He should've been holding up graphs every week and told the people "this is an improvement, and you may not be fully feeling it yet, but you will over time. I've expedited relief to get to you faster, but that means it's on the scale of years instead of decades. The downside of bureaucracy and democracy and proper checks and balances is that solutions can take time, but that's also a benefit in that any would-be malevolent authoritarian couldn't break everything overnight. Just hold on. We've stopped the bleeding, and now the healing takes a little time."
Instead, we got bounced from our hospital bed and immediately started picking at the scabs with a rusty knife. We're fucked. Tariffs? What a fucking moron. We'll be referring to turned-out pockets as trump flags by the end of the decade.
Biden gets a lot of credit for Covid, but he did very little on that front. The vaccines were something Trump actually did well in getting them developed ASAP. He did sign some additional spending related to Covid. Inflation wasn't 100% his fault, but he did sign a lot of spending that probably shouldn't have happened, the interest rate staying low under Trump was also a big contributor.
I wasn't really thinking of covid. Biden made sure we got free test kits mailed to us when they were impossible to find, but yeah otherwise he just kept on course. Covid vaccines were maybe the one thing that I agreed with trump on. And he could've sailed to reelection if he had just let the experts talk to the people instead of sowing doubt about masks and lockdowns. If he had just sold red masks that said "trump 2020" on them, he would've won reelection while lining his pockets.
Biden's first half achievements that I was referring to were things like the infrastructure bill and the chips act. Inflation cooled, shit got fixed, manufacturing started coming back, and we started investing in a greener path forward. He should've communicated those accomplishments much better because most people don't really get a glimpse beyond what catches their attention in everyday life. Like egg prices. But there's a very good reason that egg prices rose, and it has very little to do with Biden and everything to do with bird flu, culling, and supply & demand; reduce your egg use for 6-12 months and the prices will come back down.
The same strategy will not be so effective in the incoming crisis due to tariffs, mostly because trump is such a stubborn dipshit that I'm not sure he'll ever fully walk it back. He always chickens out of the high rate shit (probably mostly as a pump and dump scheme) but he'll never admit that he was wrong about what tariffs are and what they do when deployed the way he insisted on doing them. His whole thing is pretending to be brilliant at business, but he doesn't know basic shit that most people know before even enrolling in econ 101, so that's pretty damning for the knowledge of the tens of millions of people he managed to trick into believing that he's even remotely passable at business. His multiple bankruptcies are evidence of either incompetence or maliciously fraudulent looting, and the latter is only really necessary if you're so bad at business that you have to cheat to get ahead despite the monumental inheritance left to you.
Sorry for the wall of text lol.
Those bills were part of the problem, they front loaded a ton of spending with the hope of massive returns in a decade. Now that Trump killed any chance of success it really sucks.
If Jimmy Carter was so great, why was he attacked by a swimming rabbit? Maybe they knew something we don't know.
the white guy making the USA a police state
Which one of them?
Didnt they do the same thing under bush?
One hand washes the other. Dems build a legal framework, repubs exceed it in scope and cruelty, next dems codify those excesses into law to keep intact the precedent of not prosecuting past administration's war crimes
Yeah anyone know which document this is referring to?
The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012. Specifically, sections 1021 and 1022
Politics are entertainment, the empire moves regardless of their elected scapegoat.
Oh Honey, do you really think it matters if he "has the power" to do it or not?
If he exists outside all your legal frameworks then maybe one of you libs should kill him then.