I got as far as them re-litigating Joe Lieberman
Ordering the execution of a 16 year old American citizen via drone strike, carried out while the target was eating at a cafe in Jordan. The missile killed him, his cousin he was eating with, and seven more people who just happened to be there
Wait nevermind it was when he said not to put ketchup on a hot dog
That was the incident that finally took the blinders off my eyes and made me realize “oh, Obama is literally just a fucking serial killer”. It makes liberal’s fascination with serial killer true crime dramas make more sense, it reminds them of their favorite president.
The wikipedia article about it doesn’t even bother to mention that the drone strike murdered a whole cafe full of people. The lives of other are just a non-factor in westerner’s minds sometimes.
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First thing that comes to mind is he used a fuck ton of drones overseas. But in the years before his presidency, more and more drones were being used.
Second, Obama was pro-whistle blowers when he ran for POTUS. But when Edward Snowden told the world that the NSA is spying on Americans, suddenly Obama took his pro-whistle blowing stance off of his website.
Stop trying to smear this bi icon
He’s asexual but likes to dream about cute boys
He’s literally me wtf?
College Obama would say anything to get laid
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Top comment: He wore a tan suit
He ate DIJON mustard
He deported more HISPANICS then any other pres- whoops wrong tone
He re-authorized the PATRIOT AC- dang it
He bailed out banks, condemned protestors, tried to murder the BLM movement in it’s infancy, kept contributing to the permanent military state, and was CULPABLE for SYRIA becoming an OPEN AIR SLAVE MARK-darn
I just suck at this, I guess.
was CULPABLE for SYRIA becoming an OPEN AIR SLAVE MARK-darn
That was Libya. Syria is the one where the US funded ISIS and keeps stealing oil.
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2011 Invasion of Lybia and the subsequent overthrow of Gadaffi - Slavery, refugee crisis, Boko Haram
2014 Invasion of Syria - Ongoing refugee crisis, ISIS
2014 Invasion of Yemen (Saudi-led) - Humanitarian crisis, ISIS
2013 Euromaidan Coup in Ukraine - Azov, Crimean secession, Russo-Ukraine War
2015 Sanctions on Venezuela - Economic crisis, threat of warfare, hyperinflation
2009-16 Support to ETIM - Terrorist attacks throughout China, especially Xinjiang, ETIM+ISIS collaboration, development of “Uyghur genocide” narrative
2013 AFRICOM - Increased US military presence in Africa, drone strikes in Sudan, Somalia and Lybia, growth of Boko Haram and ISIS
2009 Honduras Coup
Also that time he drone striked the MSF
If it’s the Kunduz Hospital airstrike you’re thinking of it was actually worse than a drone strike (as if these can be ranked but I digress), they had an AC-130 bombarding the hospital for over an hour including for 30 minutes after MSF contacted both the American and Afghan forces
oh cool it was even worse than i remembered cool cool cool
it almost always is when it comes to Amerikkkas crimes
In terms of body count, bragging that he made us the #1 producer of natural gas and choosing to not address climate change because it, along with healthcare, would expend too much political capital.
Closely related was his pretending to be very concerned about the violence facing the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline but also allowing a national law enforcement response that I have to presume was coordinated by his FBI.
This is the focal point for my personal hatred of Obama.
He did the same thing to Occupy
Not only were the drones awful, but there was some reporting at the time about a policy of double-tapping - hitting the target, then sending a second missile after emergency crews showed up to deal with the damage.
fucking over mortgage holders in favor of recapitalizing the banks, immiserating millions and cutting black wealth in half
all those people who had the sheriff show up to evict them is top me, one of the largest examples of state enacted violence against the people in modern history and it was mostly non-white people who were the victims which is amazing to think it was the first black president who resided over this
Has to be the 2011 civil war in Libya intervention imo
colonial occupiers should actually have to be on the ground occupying so that more of them can die
This isn’t the worst thing he did but it’s the one that made me see him for what he is: drinking the water at a press conference in Flint.
“This is not a political stunt.”
“This is not a political stunt.”
If I ever get the chance to ask him a question, I’d ask him why he did this.
Yes, there are worse things he’s done, but this one is so clearly and obviously bad in a way you can’t wriggle out of with phrases like “national security” or “complicated situation”. I want him to know that this is what he’s going to be remembered for.
Drink water? It seemed like he didn’t, or maybe sipped a nanoliter.
The glass of water was from Air Force One I thought
Was it?
lt was 100% from the outside at least. The only pipes that weren’t shut off in that school were the ones to the toilets. He drank water his own people handed him and he was still unsure enough to take that tiny little dab of a sip.
And everyone there knew it, and he knew they knew it, and he did it anyway.
Ending occupy wallstreet and kicking the can down another ~20 years or so.
When the markets implode, just know there were signs
my hot take is the one good thing obama did was prove that black men can be shit presidents, too
his presidency really did put the nails in the coffin of liberal progressivism for me. before it was possible to believe that the inequality and bigotry ingrained in the American social order could be rectified with bourgeois democracy and representative identity politics. a black “community organizer” telling us out of one side of his mouth that he’d roll back the excesses of the christian nationalist that came before him and then just maintaining them while giving us nothing was too obscene to ignore.
you give him too much credit because he didnt just maintain christian nationalism in so many ways he advanced it along with white supremacy in general too
all presidents are bastards by virtue of the bourgeois class dictatorship; this is axiomatic of the US form of government. Obama merely proved through practice what was already known in theory.
Probably his 180 on banking and bankers, and policy in general tbh.
I remember Matt Christman talking about it in a vlog, how that betrayal and his general betrayal of American workers helped pave the way to the tea party reaction
It’s not the worst thing in sheer killing or war crimes, but he made
's education “reforms” WORSE and actually amplified the harm they did.As an educator, I will curse Arne Duncan’s name forever.
Could you go into more detail? This sounds interesting, but it’s not something I really know much about.
- had “No Child Left Behind” which forcibly dismantled public schools by punishing underfunded schools in impoverished areas by tying future funding to standardized testing performance.
made that worse with “Race To The Top” and a few related programs which more aggressively accelerated that process. Many private “academies” replaced those impoverished schools in a growing cancer of privatization that started under “No Child Left Behind” but actually expanded and got worse under “Race To The Top.” Also, “Common Core” while superficially nice sounding was just a normalization of the modern teacher’s obligation to spend 90% of class time humoring whatever textbook companies want to drill students with, often deliberately wanting them to fail or give up so even more schools can be privatized.Also, Arne Duncan got the job under
because, according to , Arne Duncan played a mean game of basketball. 
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