lol right? the man deported far more people than Trump has so far.
edit: and that’s just the beginning of all the insanely fucked up shit Obama did. It’s so crazy how many people who would refuse to vote for a republican with the same track record, but when it comes to Obama it’s either they literally just don’t even know all he got up to at all (which is insane…) - or somehow as a society we mass-forgot about it all?? I find it so utterly bizarre how many people are like “man if we just had obama back all of our problems would be solved”. I actually think it’s a byproduct of social media not really being a thing, his election came a year after the release of the original iPhone. So people weren’t locked in engaging in inflammatory takes and “news” every single day.
And if you remember, leading up to the 2016 election and Cambridge Analytica, suddenly there were takes left and right ranging from “he’s not REALLY black”, “his wife is a man”, to the whole birth certificate idiocy. If we had social media pre-2008 like we do now, I think the fact that his middle name is Hussein would be enough to derail the entire thing.
What made you support her all along? Just because not-Trump or is there more to it? I’m curious because the last thing I wanted was Trump back in the WH. But at about a week into her campaign, I knew it was going to be a disaster. Her refusal to separate herself from Biden to give him some kind of “respectful send off”, and her refusal to denounce the war in Gaza, also likely forced on her by the establishment. Whether or not she actually would have, who knows. But politically, it was so clearly the right move to make. This was at a point in time where a majority of voters were against the war, and the vast majority of democrats. It would have been so easy. One phone call and the war is over. Always been that way. Now here’s Trump getting all the credit.
AND THEN she gets on stage at the DNC and starts screaming about how we need to build the most lethal fucking military in the history of mankind or some fucking crazy shit like that… GOD it was so painful to watch her make the wrong move every single step of the way.
By the time the election came around, I did vote for Kamala as I live in a swing state. But damn did I not feel good about it. It felt like compromising on my morals and values in the name of damage control instead of sending a message like “hey, you guys fucked up bad, you seemingly did not even attempt to earn my vote beyond “Orange Man Bad” and you’re going to have to make some SERIOUS changes next time around”
Instead, the election was pretty close. Knowing establishment dems, they probably see that as success in a way. Like, “okay, so we did mostly good but need to make a few more tweaks in order to get that last 1-2%!”