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    It’s good that Obama isn’t on the Epstein list.

    But a woman’s value isn’t based on how many people have seen her body.

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    Maybe your wife’s choice of career has fuck all to do with how good of a person you are. Since she’s not property and you don’t control her, yeah?

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      I think it’s more about the evangelical base and their extreme cope than necessarily about Melania, though being hypocritical to attack your out group is nothing new.

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        Yes, for me it’s the hypocrisy of the base. Imagine if Michelle or Hillary had been listed on that website Melania was on and had their pictures circulating. Imagine if those families had decorated the White House with some gaudy shit. Like Obama said, “imagine if I had done any of that”. The commenters are missing the point.

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        It’s low-hanging fruit of the simple minded who can’t make a compelling argument. Don’t make excuses for misogyny just because the rhetoric is being used in your favor.

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      Yes, but also humans stupid and must have good and bad, so if obama better, obama good.

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            Maybe that’s true, but even so that’s no excuse to glorify him. Obama was a step towards, not away from, fascism, and a decisive one at that.

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              Glorifying maybe is a strong word, but assuming war crimes as a constant of American history basically, we can appreciate the good things he did, specially in the context of bush before him and trump after him. Yes, it’s praising someone for not shitting his pants, but we are at that level unfortunately.

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                I mean, Obama did shit his pants, hard. He did do some good things, but he failed the test given to him by history same as Biden by not ending the War on Terror after the death of Bin Laden. America was going to have to reckon with the rot at the heart of its society sooner or later, but that rot was rapidly metastatizing fast through the War on Terror, and Obama had a golden opportunity to stop that but he didn’t. Compared to this one gigantic failure, all his successes (and most of his other failures) are footnotes. I view him the same as Biden: Someone who would’ve been a good or good-ish president in saner times, but who was woefully inadequate for the hour. The consequences of his failure weren’t as immediate as Biden’s so it’s harder to notice, but Obama shitting his pants is why we’re living through Trump 2 right now.

                Youre right in that war crimes are a constant in american history, but America desperately needed Obama to be the peace president he’d said he’d be.

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                  Ok, so let me appreciate him for shitting his pants less than the guys before and after him. Yes, he didn’t stop it, arguably accelerated a bit, but the other guys where pedal to the metal while punching you in the face. Obamacare was bad, but it was better than injecting bleach. Droning weddings was bad, but better than ethnic cleansing. Not prosecuting Cheney was bad, but better than selling pardons for 2M a pop. You get the idea.

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                Well I’m not American so voting for anyone would’ve been a pretty egregious case of election fraud, but why so?

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    I say this as someone who doesn’t have Obamna Derangement Syndrome: this post is painful boomer slop.

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    And youve done what to stop trump?

    Edit: Downvote me all you want. How is it trump can mobilize a whole ass nazi movement and its too much to expect dem leadership to fucking do anything about it?

    Trump was a con man and reality TV star. Obama was fucking president eight years.

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    Unlike Dump I actually would want to see Bama’s wife naked.

    Not really a strong conviction here, but she seems like she’s not all plastic yet. A mind up there, too… Always good in my list

    Also, she at least looks like someone who’s actually had an orgasm in the past 40 years or so.

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    Smashing the Like button on Occupy Democrats facebook posts is what boomers think meaningful political activism is

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    sure but that’s not the metric by which we measure goodness, considering. As in, memery aside, he should not be speaking as if he’s not a monster as well. 😂

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    Funded by the globalist bankers, bailed them out when the housing market fiasco happened, and gave a middle finger to the middle class/homeowners. Obama’s bailouts also allowed the banks to take that money and give their CEO’s, who caused the situation, huge bonuses.

    He then went on and drone-bombed a fuck-ton of individuals including a lot of innocent children and women, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, laughing at the irony. Obama was no friend to the working class, a globalist-first president. Worse than Trump? Just two snakes with the same body.

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      Not that you’re not right about the rest, but maybe don’t use “the globalists” with so little specificity?

      When you’re using THAT term vaguely, people can’t tell if you’re (rightly) blaming Obama’s kowtowing to multinational corporations and their toadies for a lot of the awful things he did and caused or employing Alex Jones’ favorite antisemitic dog whistle to blame a shadowy Jewish cabal…

      Kinda an important distinction.

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        Globalist = a crony-capitalistic group of oligarchs who are trying to control commerce, the people, and the world. This is not aimed at Jewish people, but it does include Zionist. Hope that is clear.

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          Fair enough. I’m not sure I agree with how orchestrated you think their actions are but yep, billionaires and other crony capitalists do in fact control the world and many of them are indeed Zionists without all of Jewdom having anything to do with it.

          Thanks for clarifying 🙂

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    Trump would lose his fucking mind. Remember, Obama baggin’ on him is why he ran in the first place.

    If you haven’t seen it, history in the making, and funny as hell to boot. Except for the consequences.

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      I completely believe that’s the point in time it all started to go wrong, and if Obama had simply avoided being a smug knob, we would never have had a Trump presidency.

      The jokes weren’t even that good.

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    Thing about the second point, I don’t believe he truly cares about her at a deep level (not capable) so for him it’s more of a “look at how hot my wife is” type of gloat rather than any embarrassment.