WTF does his VP have to do with the fact that there was a 100% Republican block against his policies

Obama had a bigger advantage in 2009 than Trump has today.

Joe Biden being a creepy racist crook with deep ties to the insurance industry is why health reform failed.

🌎 👨‍🚀 🔫 👩‍🚀

indefinitely preempt

So he’s on paid vacation. Getting an eight figure salary to do nothing ain’t so bad for a guy who got into comedy selling “Women jumping on trampolines” as his main gimmick.

Excited to see what kind of mindless AI slop they get replaced with.

Any time some group or party does something heinous in this country they are given a pass to “maintain unity”

I don’t believe Fred Hampton and the Black Panthers or David Koresh and the Branch Davidians were “given a pass”, particularly after national news declared them public enemies.

Quite a few organizations and organizers get squashed hard. It’s within the state’s capacity. Trump seems to be demonstrating the degree to which these norms can be violated.

However, at the barest minimum those who were part of the Confederacy should have been barred from holding public office of any kind or participating in anything that would influence public policy beyond maybe their right to vote

Well, they’re long dead. I’m more despondent at Biden giving the J6 instigators a free pass.

I would not hold my breath

he had to fight tooth and nail for everything he managed

That’s the line his voters are fed.

But when you’ve got a VP owned and operated by the insurance industry and Larry Summers authoring your Treasury policy, I’m more concerned with who he was fighting for.

“Fat little larva” is a very funny way to refer to your kids

Anything bad?

I hope you motherfuckers like raisins.

Most people aren’t celebrating the killing of Kirk

I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure

Okay, but what if we just repeal or ignore that rule in order to conduct a pogrom of WrongThinkers?

Basically why the grid exists to begin with. You’re not supposed to be solving these engineering problems on a household budget inside a single home.

You’d be better off simply reducing your consumption or finding alternative methods of power (nat gas or maybe wind or geothermal) during the longer winter nights.

If you really want to go crazy, you should consider investing in a bigger home with better insulation and roommates. An apartment/condo block can at least leverage economies of scale, if you’re dead set on DIY. More people benefiting from the setup dilutes the cost per person.

Every time this joke is posted, it gets funnier

Obama lead us out the Great Recession

He presided as we left the Great Recession, under a policy of Keynesianism both he and Bush Jr had embraced.

He didn’t lead shit. He did what his handlers told him to do and looked pretty on TV.

The real economic vision of the Obama administration was not meaningfully distinct from Bush in '01 or Trump in '20. Bail out the plutocrats. Let debt collectors feast on everyone else.

Trump who spent four years trashing everything

We dipped back into recession in '14 and flirted with recession in '16. Trump took a bad situation and made it worse. But Obama never actually fixed anything.

Italian Unification but it’s everything from Hadrian’s Wall to Istanbul.

The fundamental problem with Obama was that he took office in a transformative moment for the country, with an enormous public mandate to rewrite how our economy and our legal system functioned. The US Treasury owned 1/3rd of the private banking system outright.

There was an enormous demand for sweeping reforms in the health care, real estate, and education sectors. Union momentum was building for the first time in decades. DC Statehood was on the table. The SCOTUS was in play. A new era of civil rights legislation was possible. We had trillions going to a couple of stupid, pointless wars that we could claw back. The tech sector was ripe for economic growth in a period of surging unemployment in a way that would guarantee everyone more money for fewer working hours. Sky high gas prices made a Green New Deal a real possibility.

He fucking pooched it. Practically all of it. We got a few tepid financial regulations, a marginal expansion of Medicaid, billions in loan forgiveness on trillions in debt, and a pat on the head.

Now that window has fully slammed shut. A new window is open, but it’s open to a future of fascist police violence, decimation of the administrative state, a permanent indentured servant class, apartheid, genocide, and a third world war. Trump isn’t flinching. He’s going for all of it and his party is throwing their full weight behind him.

Now that its the reactionary turn of the wheel and all the worst people are getting to make decisions, do I wish a non-fascist was in charge of the country? Yeah, okay, sure. But I also envy my conservative neighbors in that they appear to have a party that’s putting all the shit they wrote down on paper into action. Project 2025 isn’t just smoke blown up the assholes of the rub base. The modern GOP is here to deliver.

Maybe if Obama’d been less of a Truman and more of an FDR we wouldn’t fucking be in this mess to begin with.

Real Presidents would have called in the shooter to have a beer with them, amirite?

Tough but fair

Back then there were the mighty Soviet Union on one side and the massive war industry of the US on the other. Together, with other allied forces, they were able to fight back the nazis.

That’s a highly abbreviated view of history.

Germany wasn’t just magically fascist one day during the 1930s. The country was heavily split between Soviet aligned KDR and Western aligned Conservatives, with Nazis playing both sides against the middle.

Americans like Ford and Prescott-Bush were very friendly with the German and Italian fascists before the war. Hoover was friendly with the Nazis straight into the first full FDR term. The Winter War heralded as a victory for capitalism in many corners of the Western world.

It wasn’t until Germany invaded Poland that mainstream public sentiment turned. Even then, you needed Pearl Harbor to galvanize the US to enter a conflict the Soviets had been fighting for half a year.

Right now, the fascists have the mightiest army.

They always did. US/UK have been fascist at least since McKinley. We were the bad guys during the Cold War. And while we won most of our battles, we ultimately suffered the same fate as our Soviet adversaries - corruption, insurrection, and capture by foreign intelligence services.

Who’s going to stop them?

The worst enemy of the Nazi state was it’s own leadership. They’d destroyed themselves from within before the first boots left German soil.

The country just took a decade to fall apart.

Unlikely. It’s one guy running multiple comms. I got similar treatment. Then I think the guy who runs piefed has me blocked as a Tankie across all of his new instances.

So I’ve doubled you up.

Not going to lose sleep over it. There’s still plenty of content to enjoy.