Obama schlägt Demokraten, weil er in „fetalen Positionen“ ist, während er verlangt, gegen Trump zu „härten“
https://www.latintimes.com/obama-slams-democrats-being-fetal-positions-he-calls-left-toughen-against-trump-586745
Obama schlägt Demokraten, weil er in „fetalen Positionen“ ist, während er verlangt, gegen Trump zu „härten“
https://www.latintimes.com/obama-slams-democrats-being-fetal-positions-he-calls-left-toughen-against-trump-586745
39 Kommentare
Barack! Plenty of us still like you! Go ahead and LEAD the charge!
Hey MAGA Meatballs!!
This is working so beautifully!! We get them screaming and whining about Transgender, then we get Republikan Party in there and pass more tax cuts for the billionaires. Hell, Republikans have been screwing the middle class so long, the MAGATs don’t even know they’re getting screwed again!!
The DNC is part of the reason we are where we are. Obama also appointed Homan. We have Homan *because of him.* I am honestly tired of all of this nonsense, they’re holding these fundraisers for the DNC that actively sabotages meaningful progressives.
How much longer are we supposed to „Vote blue no matter who!“ when so many of the Democrats have enabled what we’re now supposed to expect them to fix?
I’ve been saying this ever since “we go high” became a thing. If someone’s going to shoot you, all turning the other cheek does is present another target…and deliver a bit of moral superiority…
Didnt love Obama, because politicians should not be Loved.. but I really truly appreciated his time as President.
However.. Obama never showed a spine when they blocked all his justice appointments
We wish Obama had toughen up against the republicans when he was in office…let them steal 2 supreme court seats…was always negotiating against himself…
Th left to needs to toughen up? Says the guy who sold the left to Goldman Sachs’s bankers
That’s what a political party that doesn’t stand for anything will do when confronted with a challenge.
Ok sure, but where the fuck you been dude?
Some of us have been out protesting since Feb, donating and calling reps and alienating people who don’t want to know how bad this is.
It’s beyond time for you or someone respected at the national level to stand up (in public – not at some friggen private fundraiser) and:
– Stop acting like this is a normal presidency that will time out in four years and clearly tell everyone that.
– Lead protests. If you said „We need 5 million in DC on Wednesday“ it’d probably happen. Educate us about rights and resistance tactics.
– Hold regular public briefings. Establish a social media outlet for this. Leverage the international press. Publicize and archive the crimes.
– Most of all: Come up with a plan and explain it. Help us to execute it. E.g., organize strikes and boycotts if/when/where that makes sense.
What happened to „we must look forwards and not backwards“
The comments here demonstrate exactly what he’s talking about. I’m not sure if people are really this defeatist or if this is some astroturfing going on
Bud, you rolled over when it came time to fight for your supreme court.
Don’t get me wrong, you were way better of a president, but like… YOU could have used this advice.
Obama’s got no standing to say such things
„Toughen up“? about Trump?….coming from *Obama?*
Dude he let Republicans run up one side of him and down the other when he was President and it was all for the worst idea possible: „I bet if I work WITH Republicans on some things and I show them that I’m not going to simply go against all their stuff just because they’re Republicans, the exact same thing should happen the other way around, so I’m banking up my „helping you“ bucks that I’ll cash in later!“.
„toughen up“ against Republicans (Trump specifically) coming from ***Obama***, THAT is fucking rich.
The irony… I’m a moderate and by no means a progressive. But Obama just wasn’t bold enough. He spent too much time trying to fix the dysfunction through compromise with people who wouldn’t bargain in good faith.
Fuck the DNC… primary every last one of them with a democratic socialist.
Obama, now is not the time. Allowing Mitch McConnell to steal your constitutional right as president to fill the vacant USSC justice seat is the ultimate fetal position move.
Hard to fight when you are 80+ years old.
and what would be this left you’re talking about mister president? who would that be?
aoc and bernie? centric social democrats. there is no left here, and obama certainly wasn’t left either.
just because maga calls everything a hair line left of racist bigots „radical left“ doesn’t mean it’s *actually* left.
safe for a tiny fringe, this entire country is delusional when it comes to real left wing ideas.
if it weren’t we’d *at the very least* have maternity leave, rudimentary worker’s rights like federal minimum pto or an actual livable federal minimum wage without any exceptions, accessible education for all and a healthcare system not driven by profit.
and that’s only the base line. don’t come at me lecturing, barack. you gave me a lot to agree with during your tenure, but left you are not.
Unfortunately, I feel that the only thing that’s going to shake us out of this is blood on television. There we will have to be someone prominent enough and willing to take a few blows for the cause. I thought this would be the case when Schumer and Co. stood outside of a federal building while Doge ran rampant through the halls. I thought it would be when a senator was arrested for daring to question an executive lackey. I thought it might have been when a sitting representative was arrested by federal officers while trying to visit a detention facility. Unfortunately nothing came of it.
The non-violent protests of the civil rights movement were not bloodless. Violence was visited upon protestors. It’s going to take great sacrifice from many, but especially those of Obamas caliber, to get traction.
Oh… okay, because I seem to remember a lot of talk of us coming together, and liberals having to moderate themselves, and how we see the glass as half empty. This freaking guy enabled so much of this bs today, because he refused to treat the opposition party as anything but respectable professionals.
Were we supposed to fight when he gave away the public option? Were we supposed to fight when he was deporting people in mass? Were we supposed to fight when he was drone bombing people abroad, and giving up prisoners to rendition?
Oh… okay… I guess in those instances, we weren’t supposed to fight for what’s right.
And what would we get if we helped the democrats…. again….? More corporate corruption and waffling about how the base wants too much.
Screw Obama. Screw the Democratic Party. I don’t owe them anything.
We’ve experienced a Russian coup, and have Putin’s puppet government running things into the ground. The usual protests aren’t going to get us out of this. We’ll need to undo the coup to have a chance.
We don’t need to toughen up we need more progressive candidates and we need entrenched mummies like Schiff and Pelosi to get out of the fucking way.
I am a huge fan of Obama, but…. This is rich coming from one of the most influential people in US politics who has remained pretty silent as our democracy is torn apart.
Obama – „grow a pair“
Mamdani- „okay I’ll do it“
Democrats – „no not like that“
He’s right.
May be a dumb question, but what the fuck can Dems do?
He is one of the biggest democratic voices to ever exist. Why isn’t HE pounding the pulpits here?
This is the guy political analysts said continued the policies of the Bush admin and took them to even more extreme levels. Drone strikes, deportations, prosecuting whistleblowers, bailing out the banks, and giving the rest of us the ACA, a Heritage designed health care plan that solved nothing.
I invite you, Obama, to toughen up. And to say these things in public forums and spaces.
He said this from behind closed doors at a private event. Not exactly walking the walk here.
But Obama, their corporate donors wouldn’t like it if they fought back.
Make some damn noise at least
This coming from the president that abandoned a Supreme Court justice to the republicans.
Come on Obama, Chuck Schumer is going to write a strongly worded letter when Trump’s approval ratings dip below 47%. What more do you want?
Mr. „let’s turn the page“ after abu ghraib and the horrors of the bush admin. Where the hell does he get off? He contributed to this situation.
The Democrats helped build and profit off the system that gave us Trump.
The only fear they have when confronting the fascist in office is how their investments will be affected.
He should shut the fuck up. He isn’t part of the left, and neither are any of his cohorts.
Obama is part of the neoliberal establishment, an alliance between Democrats and Republicans. He is a company man.
The last time it looked like the US could fundamentally change for the better was when Bernie was running, but his campaign was torpedoed because his platform and messaging threatens capital. Obama was instrumental in that.
Also, I don’t think a man who had that much of a penchant for drone bombing civilians deserves to be listened to.
Wow honestly fuck Obama
Thanks for lying and keeping us in Afghanistan another decade.
Thanks for continuing Bush economic policies during the Great Recession
Thanks for refusing to hold anyone responsible for 08
Thanks for lying and saying he was going to close Gitmo
Thanks for lying and saying they were gonna be even handed on Palestine.
Obama is just as responding as Clinton, Bush 1& 2 and Reagan for us being here
No one wants to admit half of the alt right supporters in the early 2010s were disillusioned liberals and lefties that gave up after hope and change turned out to be nothing