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[–] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Mr. President, I totally agree. I wish George W Bush would come out in condemnation over what is happening, because he is the only living Republican ex-President.

Oh, you mean the guy who literally created the same DHS that's murdering people right now, when people warned that this exact overreach was bound to happen? Christ on a fucking bike.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

Whoa now, you'd need to be qualified as a constitutional lawyer (preferably one with a history of teaching constitutional law at Chicago University) to be able to understand that.

Don't you think that's a little unrealistic to demand that of Obama?

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We need a good "Christ on a bike" emote here

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Carcharodonna@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Nice!!! it does look a bit small. What if we stretched it a bit? Like wide jesus riding a wide bike. I should test that out.

EDIT:

Slightly wide Christ:

ULTRA WIDE Christ:

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

I knew this punk girl who only smoked Christ wides

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This has to stop.

Big "somebody has to do something!!" energy, Obama. You had the perfect opportunity to abolish ICE and repeal the post-9/11 acts to prevent this from happening.

You fucking taught constitutional law. You know that DHS and ICE and CBP were given carte blanche to violate the constitution. Don't tell me that you never had discussions on this, that there were never any debates, that you never read any articles or marked any papers on this.

You fucking knew, you had the most powerful mandate for implementing Iconic Obama campaign poster with the subtitle "Change" in recent politics.

You did nothing. You let this whole thing play out and you did nothing.

Now you're really seeing those chickens start to hatch and you're standing by the sidelines wringing your hands and calling for action. The absolute gall to do such a thing.

Utterly spineless, zero accountability, and issuing bullshit performative strongly-worded statements? Yep. No wonder this guy is looked upon as a hero by progressives.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was a big time lib back in 2008 so I actually drank the Kool-Aid. I believed him and I believed in him. I actually took is his fucking "Change" mantra seriously.

[–] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
  1. You're here now and you know better. They're never getting that genie back in the bottle.

  2. Obama thoroughly poisoned the well when it comes for hope of any positive change amongst progressives and it was absolutely a slow-burn radicalising period for a lot of people. This created a perfect opportunity to agitate amongst disaffected progressives and I'd argue that it's part of the backdrop of why the Dems can no longer mobilize their own fucking voterbase to prevent Trump from getting into office a second time despite knowing exactly how bad he is (!!!) There's a collapse in the Democratic party and they all know it. They sold their voterbase on a lie and burned so many people. Now they can invite people to a ceremony for the Fell For It Again awards, which doesn't get nearly as much traction, or they can run a "nothing will fundamentally change" candidate, which doesn't get nearly as much traction either.

They really stripped the copper out of the walls to sell for ~~scrap~~ votes and now, a decade later, they are wondering why nothing happens when they flick the light switch on.

When you think about it, isn't this the real change we can believe in?

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

I'm not reading all that.

Abolish ICE

[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Man what dogshit

"Immigration agents have a tough job"

"Work constructively with governor Walz and mayor frey to achieve legitimate law enforcement objectives"

Fuck off with that

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even two cents is ascribing too much value to the worthless drivel that comes out of Obama's mouth/keyboard.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

But "two cents" is my current post jam. :(

Fetterman next - I hope.

[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 17 points 2 months ago

Just a smol bean president who definitely didn’t have the opportunity to abolish ice

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

This is awesome and I'm stealing it.

That was an execution, Mr. President!

[–] Civility@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago
[–] BabyTurtles@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

How much fash can the fascists fash until the libs stop capitulating?

(This is a rhetoric question don't tell me the answer because I know what it is and I hate it)

[–] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah dawg I’ll be honest with you I’m not reading that

[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

It's good to see that there's a lot of at least left-ish pushback in the replies.

[–] upmysleeves@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

my core values ooooooooooooooh