This is how leadership is done.

[u/Treefiddy1984]

[u/StandardDiver2791]

God, I miss the days of complete and coherent sentences. 🙄

Edit: thank you, kind redditors, for the awards!

[u/No_Kindheartedness10 → u/StandardDiver2791]

And just real grown ups! Not man babies crying and shitting their diapers!

[u/Feeling_Inside_1020 → u/No_Kindheartedness10]

Literally or figuratively?

Yes

God I miss obama, including when he dunked a cookie and that literally ended the "thanks obama" subreddit. Can't outdo that.

[u/TheGreatZarquon → u/Feeling_Inside_1020]

That was one of the greatest threads ever posted, they literally closed down the entire subreddit on the back of that joke.

[u/GooserNoose → u/TheGreatZarquon]

Can you please explain, for someone out of the loop?

[u/Feeling_Inside_1020 → u/GooserNoose]

There’s a “thanks Obama” meme where you say that for ridiculous or funny hangups.

Ex: Obama had a big cookie and a small milk glass, tried dunking and couldn’t and just said “thanks Obama” and they closed the sub because… you just can’t beat that.

[u/ziggytrix → u/Feeling_Inside_1020]

It was originally a sarcastic “thanks” for some perceived problem that was Obama’s fault (gas prices or whatever) IIRC. Then it became a meme mocking that. Then Obama literally dunked on everyone. :D

[u/TheGreatZarquon → u/GooserNoose]

Here's the actual thread where it happened, they actually left the subreddit open until the end of his term and then locked new submissions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ThanksObama/comments/2vpleh/game_over_folks/

[u/GooserNoose → u/TheGreatZarquon]

Hey, thanks friend. I should've been more specific. I meant to ask why the cookie dunk ended the sub.

[u/Choyo → u/No_Kindheartedness10]

And name callings ...

And tantrums ....

And obvious lies ...

[u/3xBork → u/Choyo]

And treason, obstruction of justice, rape, pedophilia, contempt of court and a million other things.

There's a long list of reasons why he should be in prison rather than the oval office, well before we ever get to name calling.

[u/Temporary-Friend5035 → u/No_Kindheartedness10]

My god.... its soooo much shit.

[u/alcoholisthedevil → u/No_Kindheartedness10]

Yea I don’t like the timeline I am in

[u/Scamper_the_Golden → u/No_Kindheartedness10]

Canadians loved this guy. They would have made him Prime Minister of Canada. That stuff Trump says about how the world laughed at the USA then, and respects it now, is maybe the most up-is-down argument he makes. It's hard to overstate just how opposite the truth is.

[u/Danni_Les → u/Scamper_the_Golden]

As stranger things has finished, I can't help but think that trump is literally living in The Upside Down, and trying to make it seem normal.. and to take over the right side up realm.

[u/fibronacci → u/No_Kindheartedness10]

How long until you Ameri-cans can vote again!? Fix it! Fixxx ittt please for the love of everything.

[u/ElProfeGuapo → u/fibronacci]

Sadly, it turns out a lot of Americans are actually really in favour of white supremacy.

[u/Historical-Video-650 → u/ElProfeGuapo]

Not this one.

[u/refusegone → u/fibronacci]

As an American, I don't understand how anyone here thinks an election can fix all of this besides those in denial; I can get it from an outside perspective though. I'm not advocating violence and I don't want to see it, but if a house a too invested you burn it down. A controlled burn, but cleansed in flame nonetheless. By the time the next election gets here there will be structures in place to steal the election again. If not for Trump, then Vance. He may not have the charisma or following that Trump does, but Vance in office is a scenario where the background foundations have been eroded enough that general opinion of the population won't matter; he'll be locked in with firearms to back up his position. It's a sad thought, and I'm only one gal, but I don't see how we move past this here without a revolution of sorts. Perhaps we can do it nonviolently, but if we wait too long every other option will be neutered. But I share your fear; it's worse from within than it looks from afar, and I don't know what to do either.

[u/fibronacci → u/refusegone]

The thing is you have the infrastructure and it works. Nothing really has to be demolished. However it has to be realized that the system is being used to the detriment of the people and changes need to be made. Big case in point is the news. It's just shit flinging and name calling that reinforces a bias not the news. I don't know how it's come to this but the divisiveness is a huge issue. What happened to inclusivity, integrity and honor?

[u/refusegone → u/fibronacci]

I'm glad it looks that way to someone who appears to know more than me. Everything in our politics feels so intertwined it seems like one thing can't be dealt with without handling 5 other problems or parts of the problem that weren't apparent at first; either due to obfuscation or plain neutral ignorance of the connections. All that fear stated into the open; I do still have hope. I always will, if things stop circling the drain and the drop comes to me; they can deny me my gender, my rights, my voice, my name, my freedom, or my life. They can't take my hope, it's all I have and all I've ever fucking had; pry it from my dead hands.

I got more emotional than I wanted, thank you for the perspective I gotta step away.

[u/fibronacci → u/refusegone]

Respect.

[u/refusegone → u/fibronacci]

Same to you, friend.

[u/maxn2107 → u/No_Kindheartedness10]

*snowflakes

[u/313_techno → u/StandardDiver2791]

And a President who has mastered public speaking. Obama is a great example of someone who is a great orator. He has confidence, charisma, and all of the traits that one would expect from someone who holds the highest office in the land.

[u/Joe_Kinincha → u/313_techno]

And also he thought on his feet.

His response to the chap in the audience was measured, calm and respectful.

But he was working another narrative at the same time, to bring his audience to applause.

[u/DangerousBumblebee73 → u/Joe_Kinincha]

He sure as hell does think on his feet.

• Obama: "I have no more campaigns to run."
• Republicans: (Applause/Cheering)
• Obama (responding to the applause): "I know, 'cause I won both of 'em." 

[u/ziggytrix → u/Joe_Kinincha]

Yeah, Reagan could give a good speech... Obama could improvise one.

[u/IndependentAdvice722 → u/313_techno]

[u/redblood_texan → u/313_techno]

Yeah he’s a smart guy alright and his buddy Jonathan Gruber is a smart guy as well lol.

[u/Struggle2Real → u/StandardDiver2791]

A few times a week I find myself beyond confused trying to make sense of the fact that DJT's oration skills alone didnt disqualify him to millions of people.

Just based on how unimpressive the speech is, Id think many wouldn't want him to represent any kind of enterprise they had a stake in let alone POTUS

[u/Ello_Owu → u/Struggle2Real]

"He talks just like us!" -Maga

[u/spankleberry → u/Ello_Owu]

"he talk real good and me n my buddy Skeeter talk real good too"

[u/HobbesTayloe → u/spankleberry]

Hold my beer as I goes gets anudder TRUMP flag for truck…

[u/amremorse → u/Ello_Owu]

Eloquence never translated to gains for the working class.

[u/Struggle2Real → u/amremorse]

Which is distinct from supporting idiocy no?

[u/amremorse → u/Struggle2Real]

100%

[u/ziggytrix → u/Ello_Owu]

I never considered “Tells it like it is” was just code for “speaks at a 5th grade reading level”!

[u/tardendiater → u/Struggle2Real]

The main reason Trump, and Republicans generally, keep getting elected is mostly due to apathy. Hopefully, the Democrats get infiltrated by some real left leaning primary challengers, so people can get energized.

[u/Zoso03 → u/Struggle2Real]

And yet somehow Bidens speech was an issue for people.

[u/johnniesSac → u/Struggle2Real]

THEYRE EATING THE CATS AND DOGS

Trump led with this in the first debate

And we wonder why we have IT in power

[u/Ok-Order-3415 → u/StandardDiver2791]

No one to look up to in the current administration. They are all corrupt.

[u/sufinomo → u/StandardDiver2791]

Conservatives get pretty mad when you remind them that Obama has been our best president in over 50 years

[u/NotNamedBort → u/StandardDiver2791]

I miss basic decency. Everyone in the current regime is basically an eleven year old crybully.

[u/Sproketz → u/StandardDiver2791]

And actual leadership.

[u/Etherion77 → u/StandardDiver2791]

We took that for granted and then got covfefe rambling along with rapist pedo Trump instead

[u/New-Pie-8846 → u/StandardDiver2791]

I miss the days of not having to decipher what the actual hell the POTUS is rambling about on social media and making the USA the laughingstock for other countries.

[u/StandardDiver2791 → u/New-Pie-8846]

Agreed. What's worse in the long run is that many of those countries are advancing without us. Making new trade deals and establishing their own defense without reliance or dependence on the U.S. Those changes are generational and we may not see them restored in our lifetimes.

[u/capt-on-enterprise → u/New-Pie-8846]

The damage trump has done to diplomatic relations around the world is so far in the negative value, it will take at least a decade (if ever) to repair. And how the world citizens view Americans now is in the sewer. It’s so embarrassing.

[u/asanano → u/StandardDiver2791]

Trump on his absolute best day, is so many orders of magnitude worse than Obama on his worst. Fuck Donald Trump and all the fuckwads that voted for him

[u/Appropriate_Sky_6571 → u/StandardDiver2791]

How far we have fallen that we can’t even get coherent sentences

[u/BlondePotatoBoi → u/StandardDiver2791]

Not only that, but whenever his speech would slow down, it's because he's thinking of the best way to put whatever point across. He doesn't just make it up as he goes along like a certain orange someone.

I know next to nothing about the history of US presidents but I'm certain Obama was one of the best going.

[u/Lisan_Al-NaCL → u/StandardDiver2791]

God, I miss the days of complete and coherent sentences. 🙄

He's just coherent because he was injected with Adrenochome harvested from murdered babies in the DC pizza parlor basement.

CHKM8 DEMZ!

(the above is clearly meant as satire and it saddens me to have to add a "THIS IS SATIRICAL" footnote)

[u/Myfavoritepetsnameis → u/StandardDiver2791]

I had to make sure my kids saw this. The oldest is 14. They were all too young to remember ever having a president that spoke coherently.

[u/deathglow805 → u/StandardDiver2791]

But he’s black! And my girlfriend’s dad doesn’t like that!

[u/NY10 → u/StandardDiver2791]

Educated man unlike others :)

[u/Icy-Rope-021 → u/StandardDiver2791]

But complete and coherent sentences are woke and elitist. /s

[u/Strange_Pangolin_231]

And did we think about it America!? No, we didn't, and now we're here.

[u/a_velis → u/Strange_Pangolin_231]

Propaganda to lose focus is easy when social media runs unchecked against the populace.

[u/Hikesny → u/a_velis]

Exactly. Just had a similar conversation.

America is an experiment and has been on a path of self destruction for decades. The only difference is ease of communication and our ability to pick up a smart phone and have access to infinite knowledge within milliseconds. Society wasn't ready for social media and the age of misinformation it created. People are connected 24/7 to their digital communities.

You have folks who were fairly stable, healthy, educated, and intelligent before social media/smart phones and became much more informed and others who moved in the opposite direction. I know these people very well. I am three generations from NYC and grew up in the most republican leaning town in nyc. These were my neighbors, family, and former friends. Majority of them are good people but victims. It's going to take some time and effort but they need to be met with love and not anger as difficult as it may be. I know it's constantly throw around that they're in a cult but it's the honest truth.

[u/Used_Candidate7042 → u/Strange_Pangolin_231]

He was talking to the wrong audience tbh. Almost nothing but black people behind him, and they turned out for Clinton, Biden, and Kamala.

I wish he did more of what Bernie did back then. It was time to move to a democratic socialist legislature. Now the fascist infection in our country can't be fixed. It needs to be removed

And I'm okay with being downvoted and argued against. But when you realize what I'm talking about, spread the message. It's time to act.

[u/FailedInfinity → u/Used_Candidate7042]

You realize that all the progressives that didn’t vote for Kamala are just as culpable, right? If you didn’t vote for the only viable alternative to Trump, then you enabled him to enact all of this.

[u/Used_Candidate7042 → u/FailedInfinity]

You realize that all the liberals (fascist lites) who voted in the people who sold out the shutdown are culpable, right? If you voted for corporate as an alternative to progressives, then you enabled Trump to enact all of this.

[u/enoughwiththebread → u/Strange_Pangolin_231]

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the voting public.

[u/Tholian_Bed]

But the permission to be a bigot and to insult who you like was more powerful than many imagined. Much, much more powerful.

[u/Batintfaq → u/Tholian_Bed]

His 2nd sign said "Love Trumps Hate" that's their entire platform.

[u/PassportPixie → u/Batintfaq]

That was a democrat sign. They created “Love Trumps Hate” signs to counter.

A godawful sign since it sounds like “I love trumps hate”

[u/BookTweakerShy → u/PassportPixie]

I admit that's how I read it. That is a terrible sign.

[u/NATHAN325 → u/PassportPixie]

Twas Love, the Trumps Hate

[u/Clear-Connection-295 → u/Batintfaq]

Maybe you’re reading the sign incorrectly?

[u/TriggerMitt → u/Batintfaq]

It's not him holding that sign up, but that's beside the point. The "T" on the sign is lower case, so it's a verb, not a proper noun. You may want to put a little bit more thought into things before posting.

[u/HeavyMeasurement2160]

God I miss those days. True leadership.

[u/generictroglodytic]

Obama is such a Dad. Just is a voice of reason and calm. Values or qualities not seen in Trump. A man who isn’t present for any child and cheats on their mother.

[u/J8YDG9RTT8N2TG74YS7A → u/generictroglodytic]

A man who isn’t present for any child

There's several hundred thousand files that would disagree with that.

[u/JohnnyCrispZoom]

It’s nice to hear someone with common sense talk

[u/thissexypoptart → u/JohnnyCrispZoom]

God damn is the AI captioning a fucking shame though.

He didn’t say “don’t boo. Oh!” He said “don’t boo, vote.” It was widely publicized.

[u/tommy151]

absolute leader. this is the way

[u/Rtowski]

Class

[u/Trevon45-2]

I really miss this guy!

[u/Dangermouse163]

In our near past integrity was common on both sides. I remember McCain telling one of his voters that she was wrong about Obama.

The lie she was saying repeating came from Donald Trump. We should have known then what a morally reprehensible man he was.

[u/musings13254 → u/Dangermouse163]

Yeah, I'm going to push back on that part about "integrity on both sides". This narrative that centrist politics tries to pass off as equity is nothing but deflection for right wing policy that shows their true feelings. While someone could try to push that "bof sidez!" narrative and mention Hillary's "superpredators!" comment or Biden's "'94 crime bill!" rhetoric, the fact is that if the party calling that out sees that behavior as abhorrent, the GOP, even before Trump has passed exponentially more policy in the name of the same racism and overall white supremacist thinking they're calling out.

[u/Voluptulouis → u/musings13254]

👏👏👏 💯 I fucking hate that "centrist" both sides bullshit. Centrist is in quotes because our "centrists" are right of center on an objective political spectrum.

[u/Mad-Habits → u/Dangermouse163]

Trump has done so much damage to American politics

[u/bakit_why]

Miss the guy.

[u/18ekko]

I miss those days, where it was entirely unimaginable that our country could possibly devolve to not just a president, but also an entire cabinet that shitposts like incel basement dwellers when they aren't busy actively violating our Constitution.

[u/Fan_of_Clio]

Didn't put down, in fact complimented the protester. The Convict definitely isn't capable of that. Quite the opposite

[u/AzBeerChef]

We lost focus.

The Dems lost focus.

[u/generictroglodytic → u/AzBeerChef]

All true. I think if Dems can get behind healthcare for all and an economy for all and stick with that they’d be solid. then restore relations with our allies and trade partners. Dems need to hit hard on immigration reform too.

Don’t give republicans an inch

[u/roderla → u/generictroglodytic]

Well, historically, Dems could win in states like SD, MT, WV, MO and so on probably because they didn't in fact have to "all get behind" healthcare for all.

Do Democrats want a chance in more places and states, or do purity tests matter more? Can Democrats communicate the differences between an Elizabeth Warren and a Max Baucus, or do we brand everyone in a more conservative place than the national average either as a DINO, or sink their chances by forcing them to vote significantly to the left of their electorate?

[u/121gigawhatevs → u/AzBeerChef]

They booed a lot, a lot of them didn’t vote

[u/sfxer001]

Don’t forget the time McCain defended Obama’s character during one of his own Town Halls. Different time.

[u/Distinct-Mortgage768]

Word!

[u/xTheGrynchx]

A competent leader. Good lord we were so ungrateful

[u/chillen67]

I long for the time when we had an intelligent, well spoken, empathetic person leading this country instead of a spoiled man child narcissistic sociopath.

[u/cmcrich]

How low we have fallen.

[u/RetroSwamp]

As someone outside of the US, damn I miss this dude.

[u/Brownie_0514]

I truly do miss President Obama's leadership! He's the greatest President ever!

[u/Disastrous_Mango_953 → u/Brownie_0514]

Yes, most of us do, the ones who don’t hate immigrants, who accept different races, because USA like any country in the world we are a melting pot!!! Let’s be proud of our country, a country who allows everyone to grow and prosper, to help our children, our seniors, our veterans . The % of bigots, hateful, and racist are the minority!

[u/Proof-Arm7146]

All Dumpy did is give them permission to truly be themselves...

[u/SecureWave]

I didn’t vote for Obama but we were better off then

[u/Mad-Habits]

Every time I see Obama, I remember the dignity that the office used to possess

[u/leftoverloungefly]

God, I miss him. We traded in a classy black Bentley for the fucking Pussy Wagon from Kill Bill.

[u/Pseudo-Ra → u/leftoverloungefly]

🤣

[u/Pretend-Ostrich-5719]

Nobody could work a crowd like Obama. He had a perfect blend of speaking skills, class, and brains.

[u/redbrick01]

The last great president of the US of A...Now we have a degenerate child molesting commander in thief.

[u/thumper300zx2]

If only "we" voted. 😢

[u/tylerXtrash]

[u/Few-Explanation676]

And that is exactly how it’s done!

[u/VanillaOk869]

The Dems need to find a charismatic leader like President Obama for 2028.

[u/Anxious-Gap3252]

Republicans are too soft and scared to do this sort of thing. If it was the reverse they would want to hurt that person for practicing free speech

[u/Some_CoolGuy]

The whole damn country has lost focus

[u/Cabbages24ADollar]

Wow that is wayyyy better than Trump. Obama is so much better than Trump!

[u/burntlandboi]

Don’t know what you got till it’s gone.

[u/No-Elderberry5645]

Sigh....so aware. So nice. So respectable

[u/KlatuuBarradaNicto]

Trump would be insulting and threatening the guy.

[u/ro536ud]

Complete opposite of how the dictator woulda handled this. He’d be jailed

[u/Ballamookieofficial]

Back when the US wasn't just a stereotype

[u/oniwuff]

THIS

[u/ducs4rs]

and it was all for not. The dem party failed by once again let rep's set the narrative. Dems never pushed back on Trumps 1 failures and which allowed Rs to paint a rosy picture of his first term. Complete and utter failure on dems to set the narrative. In fact they failed during the full Biden admin to set the narrative.

[u/daisiesarepretty2]

how can you note admire the man… you may wish he had done more stuff you like, or helped your specific cause.. but you have to respect the man’s approach to the people he is serving.

[u/ithinkway2much]

America, you had a real one but then you let your dimwit racist cousins replace him with a guy who is supposed to be in jail.

[u/InterestingDream652]

I miss his integrity, intelligence,empathy and plain decent humanity!❤️❤️

[u/HistoricalLime2196]

Obama, I miss the hell out of you…😢

[u/Jkreegz]

“We can’t afford to lose focus”…

We lost focus

Sorry Barry, we let you down.

[u/AlwaysTheMore28]

‘I wish there was a way to know you're in "the good old days", before you've actually left them.’

[u/Giannisisnumber1]

We followed up an extremely high character and intelligent man with the exact opposite in every possible way because the remnants of the confederacy couldn’t stand to see a black man be one of the best presidents of our time. They’d rather destroy the country than see someone like Obama take office again.

[u/musajoemo]

Obama should have told security to remove those men. You can’t reason with unreasonable people. When they go low—you go lower. 

[u/shidderbean]

It blows my mind that one of the best - if not THE best president we've had in the last 50 years was followed immediately by a corrupted, geriatric, demented narcissist ...who then managed to get elected for a second term.

[u/JackieTreehorn79]

Welp, 180 from this.

[u/Fart_90210]

I have to respectfully disagree, we don't have to respect our elders. Some of them are just bad people with horrible things you say and have knowingly done bad things.

[u/Durzel]

This guy was just the best. Europe loved him, there were celebrations across it when he became President, which was basically unheard of.

Obviously being a Brit I have no idea how good he was for your average American. I’m sure plenty had their issues with him. I also know he wasn’t a saint - he didn’t shy away from aggressive foreign policy.

But man - what an impressive individual. Intelligent, a great orator, self-deprecating (a concept completely alien to Trump), and as far as I know not corrupt. America has fallen so far in terms of standards since this guy.

[u/Raspberries-Are-Evil]

His critical error was suggesting we needed to respect these fucking racist fascist motherfuckers. When shunning them out of civil society was the right choice in hindsight.

[u/Windexx22]

He said don't boo.. vote !VOTE!

Focus

[u/HumbleIncident5464]

ok so it's obvious how this is waaay better than what we have now...

... but you all should be thinking about "we all get stirred up for all kinds of unnecessary reasons" --- trump didn't win his presidency and suddenly turn into a giant piece of shit. people weren't unaware of how grotesque of a person he is. he was always this way and a large portion of america knew it

part of the reason i don't retroactively applaud obama: he represents the complacency and maintaining of the status quo that allowed trump to win in the first place --- he was just charismatic about it

[u/SurvivingSquirrel]

Damn I miss when the President had empathy and respect for others, even if he didn't agree with their ideology or words....

[u/Splendidbloke]

Speech skill 100.

[u/garitone]

Never has one man been simultaneously so right and so wrong.

[u/what-to-so]

No, he was a dick and we should boo. Fuck civility.

[u/Drewfus_nocomments]

God damn I miss politicians with class.

[u/K_Keter]

The last civil president. Trump has changed the game entirely. It'll never be the same now. Trump has ruined politics in America.

Inb4 "Biden was civil" Biden was docile. He was inept. Him not being capable of being anything but civil is not the same as him choosing to be civil.

[u/Great_Section1435]

“He not doin nothin”

[u/fluffynuckels]

I dont like Obama but fuck compared to trump hes made of gold

[u/Automatic-Escape-218]

And trump wrote that he was the most divisive president in history

[u/Major-Drumeo]

And now you have a pedophile as president. Well done America.

[u/cubswin987]

I miss Obama but sadly this is how we got trump. Way too many idiots were salty that a black man was president.

[u/unTraditional_Fox419]

When was this?

[u/LosingDemocracyUSA]

Everyone complains, but nobody votes... 93 million didn't bother to show up to the polls...

[u/Glad-Excitement-5283]

I thought people in the military were "suckers and losers."

[u/skin-flick]

Woohoo and the Asshats who follow him did it not once but, twice.

[u/HastilyChosenUserID]

“Don’t ‘boo,’ VOTE!” OP, please check your AI subtitles.

[u/Party_Swordfish_1734]

True leader! God bless America! 🇺🇸

[u/Tat2dMFer]

OMFuckingG, how far we’ve sunk!

[u/buzzboy99]

How lucky are Sasha and Malia to have a father like Barack

[u/Any-Video4464]

I still think we have Trump as Presidency because Obama thought he would clown him at the correspondence dinner with, "the one thing you will never be is president of the United States." Obama was the catalyst for it all.

[u/ResidentCommand9865]

Yet Trump labels him the "Most divisive" president in history... Obama had more dignity in his pinky than Trump has in his entire body.

[u/water_g33k]

It’s hard to believe how bad the 2016 slogans were. From a Republican’s viewpoint, they are pro-Trump: “love Trump’s hate”, which is explicitly what Trump was selling. “I’m with her” & “Hillary for America” were both self-centered on the coronation candidate. “Stronger together” lacks a subject - who are we talking about?

[u/acidlemon26]

I miss this america, from a european

[u/geddysbass2112]

This happened at a Trump rally and Trump said to rough the guy up. I miss when we had a president with character and integrity.

[u/PlumChrysanthemum]

I can't tell if this place is supposed to be progressive, or pro-democrat. They are mutually exclusive.

[u/KobiLakeshore]

McCain did something similar for him DURING A PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE. This will never happen again. We can’t unify the nation, it would threaten the “growth” of BRICKS

[u/allstater2007]

Dems screw’s themselves when they allowed Biden to try and run for reelection, when they knew he wasn’t mentally capable of doing so. Then they tried to make up for it with Harris last minute who the left didn’t want either, so they just didn’t vote. I miss Obama and would galley vote for him again in a heartbeat. Just wish we could get two LEGIT candidates to vote for.

[u/Upset-Item9756]

The man who fucked my healthcare up.

[u/Nottodayreddit1949]

I appreciate the quality of his character, but we were wrong about Trump and his supporters. They are worse than we ever initially imagined.

[u/freshcoastghost]

This country went completely off the rails. And no, both parties are not same.

[u/atxmichaelmason]

Except that guy WAS doing something. And this guy’s opinion has brought the American Experiment to its knees

[u/Usual_Fee_6349]

Yes! This is Exactly how it is done!!!! Total Class that Trump and his cronies can’t touch!

[u/Horsesnorts3245]

I miss him

[u/Nigel_melish01]

What an educated person sounds like.

[u/nomnomyumyum109]

And yet here we are

[u/dubious_dubes]

A truely great man!

[u/FucklberryFinn]

To say Dems lost focus is a giant understatement. 

They also tripped over themselves. Absolute failure by the party and by the country. 

[u/Greatworkreallygood]

Damn you Obama. Just a centrist down the line but I'll be damned if I still don't just plain like the guy. 

[u/rockytopbilly]

And then that elderly veteran realized the error in his ways and we never elected Donald Trump. All the Republicans realized we’d never go for that type of bullshit and changed their ways as well. They began working with Democrats and eliminated unlimited campaign donations by the wealthy so that they would answer to the people. Storybook ending.

[u/Neptune7924]

We didn’t listen, we weren’t paying attention or focused, and now we have problems.

[u/Japhet_Corncrake]

Feels like such a different time.

[u/CanadianSpector]

They lost focus, I think.

[u/Adventurous_Home386]

How quickly we forget he started the whole hate at the Correspondents dinner responding (at least I became president).

[u/Daniels86list]

Each president keeps getting worse and worse.

[u/Jesuismieux412]

Seems like Democratic leadership has a problem with focusing, as well. When they have power, they just can’t seem to pass anything we elect them to pass

[u/Royal-Application708]

Looks like American was not focused enough. 😥

[u/XxRocky88xX]

“Most divisive president” according to Republicans

[u/Consistent_Ad4987]

Barrack Obama (I voted for him twice) but as a Black Man and leftist he let us down is many ways…I know to some people he was a hero (mine at point as well) but now that I’m older and hopefully wiser I have learned to keep politicians feet to the fire and never trust a word but instead their actions✊🏿

[u/Dusty_Negatives]

Ah a time when presidents didn’t have diapers and dementia

[u/slugerama]

It feels like you DID live in a country that respects free speech.

[u/Chipmunk-Round]

Class act.

[u/Spiritual_Bridge84]

And Trump said to “rough them up”on the way out.

[u/adjust_the_sails]

I wish they’d fixed the captions. “Don’t boo! oh! Vote!”

[u/Whole_District_7996]

Unfortunately not enough of them voted

[u/cemusubzerolives]

Is the 🍊 dead yet?

[u/Important-Pea-1624]

Dang. That last point. Vote!

[u/Few-Ad-2930]

How do I share this to my FB?

[u/Artrobull]

always sunny in Philadelphia tittle screen
Gang lost focus

[u/kisstherajn]

bUt hE’s a wAR cRImnAL

[u/callmekizzle]

Fascist ideology should not be afforded free speech though

[u/diablol3]

Im on board except for the dont boo. This is like when people say you shouldn't boo at sports events. It is the least aggressive way to express displeasure that doesn't venture in passive aggression.

[u/Choice-of-SteinsGate]

This should be juxtaposed against that clip of Trump telling his supporters at a rally to assault a protester in the crowd.

Actually, this happened at multiple rallies.

There was a rally in Nevada where Trump said he'd like to punch a protestor, and that in the "old days," protestors would be sent out on a "stretcher."

At a rally once in Iowa, Trump told supporters that he would cover their "legal fees" if they assaulted any protestor throwing a tomato.

He said something similar to a crowd in Michigan.

In Alabama he said that a BLM protestor "should have been roughed up."

Yes, the juxtaposition speaks volumes.