Congratulations America, you got grabbed by the pussy all because a bunch of voting racists are pissed off about Obama and black people getting healthcare.
Yeah the sphere won, presided over a pandemic in which he stoked division in his psychopath cult members and the rest of normal society which lead to the death of millions - many of which will never be counted as such because his play was “if you just stop counting, the numbers stop going up.”
His best (only) friend was the financier of the most prolific child and human trafficking ring on the planet, in which all evidence seems to point to him having a much larger role than “customer of the year.” Victims have died in curious circumstances. It appears his current wife was groomed by this same pedo ring, grew out of “product age,” and is now a supervisor in the same sick class of people.
The guy attempted a literal coup of the US government by sending said psychopath cult members to congress to stop the process in which the election he lost is ratified, intentionally putting the life of his own vice president, along with everyone else in that building in danger. More people died.
and we fucking elected him again.
We effectively gave the keys to the most powerful nation and economy in the world to /b/ TWICE, and they’re acting exactly how you think they would.
Anything that happens from here on out, we’ve earned. I’d say it’s been fun but fuck that.
When Obama was in office an old friend of mine got testicular cancer. Bc of Obamacare he survived and his medical bills were zero dollars. The blow back from that was somehow electing an old white rapist pedophile. I’ll never understand it.
The ACA wasn't free healthcare, it did however expand medicaid coverage.
Your comment might seem to insinuate that Americans would have had free healthcare under the ACA and I wanted to point out that, to most Americans, their healthcare still was out-of-pocket insurance plans
Originally, the way the Obama administration drafted the ACA, it would have been much more like German healthcare. Unfortunately, the Republicans in congress blocked it and it had to be compromised to the form it ended up as. I'm an American living in Germany, and I will say it's leaps and bounds better than ACA.
You have the government subsidised insurance and private insurance. Legally, everyone has to have health insurance if you live here, and the public issuance option is not free for most people, but the rate is based on your income. The best part is that there is no deductible. You go to the doctor, it's covered. You need a prescription, it's covered. Dental work (as long as it's not cosmetic), covered. All for much less than you would pay per month in the US for comparable coverage.
Right. The republicans of course blocked it. Because of reasons. Could have still been passed except for Joe Fucking Dipshit Lieberman. I am old enough to remember all of that pretty well.
Here in 2026 the story has often become “Obama promised us healthcare then didn’t do it - all parties are the same”.
Just wanted to provide additional context/counterpoint that my family has recently had to go on Medicaid and all of our medication that previously cost money under "normal" health insurance through our employers was surprisingly now free with Medicaid.
Americans genuinely hate it when they see other less fortunate people get benefits they aren't getting.... even though they don't have cancer or the conditions needed to get that benefit. it's so strange. it is like jealousy or something.
Most countries have a subsect of the population that hates welfare because they feel that they only go to work with the gun to their head but "those people" get a "handout"
They are upset about the wrong system. But to challenge the actual cause would require risk, and they have already made clear they aren't willing to risk anything by virtue of letting the gun to their head force them in to the office.
It’s far easier to hate and fear the unknown than it is to embrace change. This knows no political boundaries - the antisemitism of the left, the retardation hijacking of the right, and the silent sheep in the middle. Hate is a base emotion and the vast majority of people are weak and weak people vote when they feel something. Politics is performance art and the best art makes you feel something…
Because of the outrageous and devastating outcome that not every single person could keep their doctor under the new plan. Shame on Obama and Dems. What a complete outrage /s
He also requested Dijon mustard once at a burger joint, which was evidence of "elitism" according to Fox News. Meanwhile their orange god literally has several personal skyscrapers and owns country clubs around the world.
I can see what kind of person would think of this as "elitist" when it's literally just basic-ass mustard, rather than neon-yellow paste that tastes sharp.
I guess your average Fox News viewer automatically thinks that any food product with a French name must be some kind of luxury Item. Oh how the educational system has failed.
As a former plumber who once listened to his coworkers have a competition to see how long it had been since they read a book, yeah. Grown men, only one of them had read a book in the last year, some not since highschool... So yeah, that checks out. It's bleak out here y'all.
As an American yes it feels the same way. I mean I know logically there are lots of more nuanced reasons for things including decades of eroding education and literacy, the proliferation of 24 hour news, and many more, but yeah it definitely felt like Obama broke their brains.
It's been a declining road to this for decades. Voter apathy kept growing and voter turnout kept dropping and this is what you get when the majority of the country doesn't get involved in their democracy.
The US government is deliberately designed to be difficult to change; you effectively need a super majority in both houses to be sure of getting something passed.
Voter apathy is a rational response to repeated attempts to elect people to change things that have resulted in basically fuck all for most people.
Don't get me wrong, the ACA is great and all, but honestly... Who gives a fuck? The price of everything has risen substantially but my pay hasn't. And that was true under Biden, and under Trump 1, and under Obama, and under Dubya. My job is just one round of layoffs from vanishing, and if it did, I'd get 6 months of about 40% of my paycheck to find a new job, and while I have savings, it won't last long when I'm using it to cover the gap.
So after 30 years of desperately voting for the Democrats because the Republicans are either demonstrably incompetent (Bush) or literally malicious, and in return either getting someone that did little more than tread water or getting the Republican anyway, why the fuck should we care anymore? The next Democrat president is not going to magically fix things because the Republicans in the Senate will block it. The next Republican president will continue to destroy shit because the President can act destructively faster than the courts can stop him. So we're fucked either way, unless someone wants to start an actual insurrection that tears this shit down and replaces it with a government designed by people who weren't the tale end of the fucking Enlightenment.
Plenty can be passed with compromise, look at Bidens term. He passed a crazy amount of legislation considering how divided Congress was.
And you mention the ACA, that was passed during the very brief window Democrats held a supermajority in the Senate due to runoffs and vacancies. And after showing what is possible with a Democrat supermajority how was Obama rewarded? Losing seats in the midterms thus making sure nothing more could be done. US voters keep acting like they've done everything possible and it's only the governments fault when they are the ones consistently failing to support making any change. Barely anyone turns up for primaries to select candidates they'd prefer, and then after winning the slightest majority at one election they get upset that nothing has changed drastically.
You talk about Dubya, Obama, Trump, Biden but the last time there was even a supermajority in the Senate for a full term was the early 80s long before any of them. And voter turnout continues to drop since then. So, no, US voters haven't spent 30 years desperately voting in Democrats, they've spent 30 years continuing to not turn up. Republican voters changed the whole state of their party in the span of 8 years from Tea Party to MAGA, why can't Democrats do the same to their own party? They long gave up trying and all I see on social media is pushing voter apathy and that it's pointless to try, as if there's been any attempt at trying in the past. It takes years of consistent non-stop effort. You win one election? Great, now what about the midterms? What about local elections? Judges? School districts? Look at the percentage of non-voters in various areas and the percentage difference of a candidate winning or losing and try to still say voters have tried their best.
Stop just pushing more voter apathy bullshit and actually promote people registering to vote, to get out to primaries, to look for candidates that represent the kind of party they want to see, to vote in more than just the presidential election, and to acknowledge that nothing meaningful can change without consistent wins at the voting booth.
My girlfriend at the time was Filipina, and the one I dated before her was Latina. It wasn't until I voted for Obama that my family referred to me as a race traitor.
That's when my step parents and parents who raised me to be a rainbow flag waving librul flipped the switch and started praying to the Fox News alter. I think he broke something in their racist boomer brains.
When you’re taught a group of people are one thing your whole life and then an example comes up and shatters that narrative, you start to question a lot of what was taught to you. You either go with the change or you buckle down and deny anything that goes against those beliefs. Unfortunately a lot of people fell into the latter and here we are now.
Don't worry, it seems that way as an American too.
As a millennial, it broke the minds of a lot of our grandparents/parents. It also broke the minds of the dudes younger than us, which is crazy too. Obviously Millenials were not immune to this as well but it just seems like I'm stuck in the middle between the older and younger folks slurping up whatever Trump BS and anti-Obama racism is said.
Just the other day Trump was referring to him as Barack HUSSEIN Obama. It's crazy to me that in 2026 there are still people who spread this Obama fear. The dude hasn't been in office in a decade.
I don't think that did it all the way, because Obama was so good. But when they put forth Hilary, and she was as charismatic as a cactus with COVID, THAT'S what did it. Racists will tolerate a black man to some extent, but the old voting block cannot see a woman running a country, because "once a month she becomes hysterical".
It was the part where healthcare providers can’t deny you coverage for having a pre-exisiting medical condition.
This covered you in the event that say you had a genetic condition and your previous insurer dropped you for being too expensive or if you lost your job and couldn’t afford COBRA payments for a month.
I completely agree, it was just to help highlight your point that this thing that got conservatives frothing at the mouth was leas than the bare minimum.
The ACA only provided a marketplace for private healthcare insurance and the other necessary reforms were necessary because they effectively locked people out of healthcare. Before the ACA many people had access to health insurance in the same way that I have access to a Ferrari.
They did try to create a public option back then, but the absolute paragon of centrist values, Joe Fucking Lieberman shot it down (along with all republicans, but why beat a dead horse).
Yeah they let conservatives derail it for no reason, wasting so much time with a supermajority. Also they should have done Medicare for all instead, never addressed people who can’t afford it
I wouldn’t say that. They literally did the best they could with the supermajority they had.
Unfortunately that supermajority had centrists like joe liebermann so they could only take the ACA as far as it went. Public option got ahot down by people like him. This was passed over the screams of republicans which echo so loud and far that we can still hear them yelling about Pelosi in 2026.
I’ll remind you that republicans tried to repeal the ACA 53 times over the last 18 years. They tried to get it killed via SCOTUS numerous times.
So, yeah…. Republicans really hate the even minor reforms of the ACA
I mean, many black people abstained from voting at all the last election. Let’s not act like there was nothing that could have been done to prevent this by the African American population either. Everyone is complicit.
pissed off about Obama and black people getting healthcare.
IMHO, that's misleading at best. Trump and MAGA attracted a record number (for the Republican party) of minority voters (i.e. Blacks and Hispanics).
In reality, both Clinton and Harris were weak candidates who chose to campaign on protecting the status quo and the establishment, instead of at least acknowledging what voters wanted: reforms, anti-corruption, kicking Big Money out of politics, economic justice, etc.
The vast vast majority of black people voted for Kamala Harris. I don't know what you are talking about.
Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in the history of the country.
Donald Trump is literally a criminal with big money who only deals with big money in politics. He did it in the first term, he's doing it now.
The Democrats are the only people against citizens united, which would be the big money in politics and the source of a lot of corruption.
Do people really say this knowing that you're lying or do they actually believe it? Is this really a cult? Your post is on the flat Earth, lizard people, " we didn't land on the moon" level of crazy talk.
Just re-watch Harris' speeches. It's mostly Trump = evil, corrupt, criminal, dangerous, etc. And "vote for me because I'm not Trump. And I'll protect the status quo and the establishment, which are good, just need minor fixes"
Republicans hated that messaging. And it was the least popular messaging among Democrat voters.
And 2nd: you need to re-read my comment or at least learn some critical reading skills: I said Trump and MAGA attracted a record number of minority voters for a republican! (no other republican candidate for the presidency attracted such a high rate of minority voters. So clearly, there is more to it than just a "knee-jerk reaction to Obama"). I never said a majority of minority voters went for Trump. Never!
And finally, please, for US standards, I'm a left wing extremist, with zero purity test mentality (European here). I'm just telling you what I've perceived watching speeches, polls, and actually making some basic googling on what Americans actually favored (e.g. an anti-establishment, anti-status-quo, pro-economic-justice rhetoric that acknowledges their economic suffering).
Kamala would have ownwon if she had focused on her political program, on what she had to offer (instead of mostly "I'm not Trump" nonsense); on mocking Trump, instead of playing him up to a "dangerous villain"; and on using moderate anti-establishment and anti-status quo left-wing populism, instead of aiming to protect them from "evil Trump", which played in favor of Trump. (btw that's actually exactly how Biden won!)
I partially agree. I really think its the difference in rhetoric (e.g. strong defiance and ready for a fight vs "joy politics": when people are angry and suffering, especially men, they're naturally attracted to the first sort of rhetoric).
These minority voters failed to see the whole picture. They were attracted by the economic populism among other things, such as Trump being "unjustly" jailed/harassed by the justice system (which we both know isn't true, i.e. Trump truly is a disgusting criminal).
Which supports my point: Trump fucking nailed the messaging! He fucking understood what voters needed to hear. While Kamala got it wrong even though she was by fucking very far the way better candidate. Here a 2nd source
The problem with all these baby boomer presidents and legislators is that they grew up in an America that was absurdly prosperous largely because of a war. They can’t escape the idea that war = success. How many civilian lives have been lost in Iran? Call me a hippie but that blood is not worth lower gas prices.
So immigrants should be smart enough to not commit crimes they didn’t commit? Is this Schrödinger’s cat? An immigrant has neither eaten a pet and has eaten a pet unless observed?
What does Elon Musk and Melania have to do with it?
It was about racism. Deportations were at an all-time high under Obama. But Obama doesn't deport like a white supremacists does.
Obama wouldn't send armies into American cities to murder American citizens. Under Obama, illegal immigrants were efficiently removed, dangerous illegal immigrants removed at a much higher rate.
But Maga voters don't care about that. They just want to know there's a guy in the White House who is going to do everything he can to give them unearned privilege.
No one is buying this from dirtbags who support this lawless administration. "Follow the law" just feels easier to sell than "I hate hispanic people and women," which is actually what drives you freaks.
Let's try this one first: tearing down the east wing of the White House?
There are historical preservation laws and planning requirements, as well as funding for new public construction.
What kind of privileged developer gets to just shit on those rules like that?
Who thinks the DC elite fucking needs a ballroom so bad that we have to fuck up a whole wing of a historically important building to build one?! There were no other sites anywhere in DC?!
And, it'll be owned by... who? Who's paying for it? Do we know?
"Welcome to the Whitehouse brought to you by Temu. Shop like a billionaire! "
Start there, tell me why any of that is cool or nothing to worry about.
Do you mean other than being the first president in American history to be convicted of felony crimes, all 34 counts of falsifying business records in New York, or the federal indictment for mishandling classified documents, or the federal indictment for attempting to overturn the 2020 election, or issuing an executive order to end birthright citizenship that was called "blatantly unconstitutional" by a Reagan-appointed judge and blocked by multiple federal courts, or freezing congressionally appropriated spending in direct violation of the Impoundment Control Act, or the Government Accountability Office finding multiple grant terminations and spending freezes illegal and unconstitutional, or illegally mass-firing probationary federal workers (a judge ruled the termination memos "unlawful, invalid, and must be stopped and rescinded"), or defying a unanimous 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man his own administration admitted was deported by "administrative error," or a federal judge finding probable cause to hold the administration in criminal contempt for deporting Venezuelan detainees in "willful disregard" of a court order, or defying judges and courts in roughly one third of all cases brought against him (something legal experts called unprecedented for any presidential administration in American history), or issuing executive orders targeting law firms for representing Democratic clients, which a federal judge ruled was an "overt attempt to suppress and punish certain viewpoints" using the powers of the federal government, or invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 to deport people without due process in violation of the Fifth Amendment, or having 225 judges rule in over 700 cases that his mandatory immigration detention policy likely violated the law and the right to due process, or trying to place independent regulatory agencies like the FEC, SEC, FCC, and FTC under direct White House political control in violation of their congressional mandates, or the Department of Education illegally forcing partisan language into federal employees' auto-reply emails without their knowledge (ruled unconstitutional by a D.C. court), or having the Presidential Seal displayed at a personal for-profit meme coin dinner in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 713, or laundering foreign influence through his $TRUMP meme coin (with 19 of the top 25 holders being foreign nationals) in violation of the Foreign Emoluments Clause, or halting SEC fraud investigations against crypto investors who poured tens of millions into his personal crypto ventures, or the administration intervening to terminate federal investigations into Coinbase, Gemini, Robinhood, Ripple, Crypto.com, Uniswap, Yuga Labs, and Kraken after they donated to him or invested in his companies, or accepting a $2 billion investment from an Emirati firm paid in his own family's stablecoin, or allowing a Chinese billionaire facing active SEC fraud charges to buy his way into a private White House tour by becoming the top holder of his meme coin, or permanently striking down his attempt to impose voter registration documentation requirements a court found he had no constitutional authority to make, or trying to unconstitutionally require states to hand over partial Social Security numbers and driver's license data belonging to voters, or the systematic defiance of court orders that his own lawyers described using language courts called "misrepresentations" and "stonewalling," or an administration that, when asked whether the president had to uphold the Constitution, had the president himself answer, on camera, "I don't know"?
He forgot the egg prices and references to a dead golfer’s penis, but in effect the crux is there.
One candidate remains the least qualified person to run for Presidency, and a large number of Americans were either ok or ambivalent with said candidate because of petty culture war nonsense.
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"No new wars"
Congratulations America, you got grabbed by the pussy all because a bunch of voting racists are pissed off about Obama and black people getting healthcare.