The best thing about the field shaping up right now is that the first woman won’t
― El Tomboto, Monday, 8 April 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
Amy seems pretty mellow.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 8 April 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
The tactical acumen of playing the I-told-you-so at parties.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 April 2019 18:31 (five years ago) link
as you know, Gore Vidal said they were the four sweetest words in English
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 April 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
there's certainly nothing reasuring *or* moderate about Truant Officer Harris
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 April 2019 18:34 (five years ago) link
OK!
https://hmmdaily.com/2019/05/21/rahm-emanuel-blames-obama-for-trump/
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
It’s nice Barack Obama helped finance a film that shows the depravity of union-busting. But you know what would’ve been even nicer? If he had spent political capital on passing card check when he was president!— Cole Stangler (@ColeStangler) August 26, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
Watch President @BarackObama make an excellent point about call-out culture. pic.twitter.com/P6mw9aLWTQ— ATTN: (@attn) October 30, 2019
obama is canceled
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:13 (four years ago) link
uh oh i agree with secret-muslim Indonesian sex worker and communist barry soetoro
― ت (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 15:58 (four years ago) link
Ok boomer.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 16:02 (four years ago) link
Sounds bad dude
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
guys, catastrophic climate change is just a purity test so
sorry to hear this guy is cancelled, hoping the comedy store will let him get up to do some sets in a year or so after people calm down
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
Don't worry, his loyal alt-right fanbase will make up for it.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
it's pretty amazing that obama left office for one of the most reactionary president's we've had in modern history and has decided to do nothing except hang out with richard branson and scold teens— 🚩🌹🇵🇸 Hal Draper's Desiccated Corpse (@mike_hugs) October 30, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 October 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link
wow what an incredibly insightful tweet, i can see why you felt the need to share it here. take that, obama!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 31 October 2019 17:07 (four years ago) link
that was via HOOS btw who is worth several thousand Obamas
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 October 2019 17:09 (four years ago) link
i can't imagine obama breaking with the tradition of past presidents not directly criticizing current presidents (especially not the one right after them). of course, trump will break with that tradition immediately, probably as soon as the morning after the election. and you could argue that now would be a good time for that tradition to go away, but...yeah, that's not Obama.
― It is my great honor to post on this messageboard! (Karl Malone), Thursday, 31 October 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
LOL @ "A viral 100-second video of Obama has popped up on my feeds. I assume this is all he's done since 2016."
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Thursday, 31 October 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
yeah he also got a netflix deal and bought an expensive house, and he's writing a book that will come out next year, and he's planning his centre in the south side of chicago. he also travels and golfs and stuff. oh and you can book him to speak for $400k
― ت (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 31 October 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
Serious Tubmans
― tempted by the fruit of your mother (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 31 October 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
Obama believes the lesson of his presidency is that he tried for too much radical change too quickly and it caused a backlash. That is objectively wrong but it's what he believes.— 'Weird Alex' Pareene (@pareene) November 16, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 November 2019 04:36 (four years ago) link
I mean, sure, on a couple of levels the results of the 2010 elections and everything that followed are "objectively wrong" I guess?
I get Pareene's point (hint: it was tribalism / racism / jade helm shit) but once again Twitter is a stupid venue to try and express anything remotely complex
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 16 November 2019 04:51 (four years ago) link
if running for the presidency as a black man in America and winning the election an be construed as trying for too much radical change too quickly, then he's right. the backlash began about six weeks before he took the oath of office.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 16 November 2019 06:13 (four years ago) link
AP's tweet thread apparently based on a big NYT profile I haven't read yet
as u were
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 16 November 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
that is, go away and stfu
Obama wades into the 2020 race, warning of the dangers of listening to “certain left-leaning twitter feeds” or “the activist wing of our party.”“Even as we push the envelope and we are bold in our vision we also have to be rooted in reality," he said. https://t.co/OioCWy4pbv— Lisa Lerer (@llerer) November 16, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 November 2019 04:48 (four years ago) link
We must be bold, dynamic, and even radical in appearance
― anvil, Sunday, 17 November 2019 07:47 (four years ago) link
I think some folks are overreacting to a pretty anodyne Obama analysis on the basis of a somewhat misleading tweet summary https://t.co/6otBAxUutr pic.twitter.com/SYuvJ1B8aa— *Palpatine voice* UNLIMITED DADPUNS🍝 (@AdamSerwer) November 16, 2019
― jesus is zing (symsymsym), Sunday, 17 November 2019 07:59 (four years ago) link
yep people simply don’t read before jumping to conclusions
― 💠 (crüt), Sunday, 17 November 2019 14:01 (four years ago) link
are we talking the quotes, the NYT story, or the lickass NYMag treatment?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 November 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
"‘Hey, that’s great Obama did what he did,"
OK boomer
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 17 November 2019 14:21 (four years ago) link
Given the timidity of the democratic Congress he worked with for two years, followed by the relentless hostility of the Republican Congress he was saddled with for six years, I'd say Obama was not the only locus of the problem, morbs.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 17 November 2019 20:42 (four years ago) link
They had a supermajority and barely passed ACA.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 17 November 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
warning of the dangers of listening to “certain left-leaning twitter feeds”
Obama hate-reading Dennis Perrin
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 18 November 2019 14:08 (four years ago) link
He only reads the executive summary prepared by his aides.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 18 November 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
Nobody reads Dennis Perrin
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Monday, 18 November 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
if only that were true
― actor Robert de Niro disguised as an Uzbek homeopath (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 18 November 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link
Obama has aids?
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 18 November 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, November 18, 2019
and Obama?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 November 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
um, the joke was that tweets would require summarizing because tweet are already very short (chuckles mirthlessly)
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 19 November 2019 04:18 (four years ago) link
interesting thoughts by david maraniss, biographer of both obama and bill clinton:
I’ve analyzed Barack Obama. He grew up, came out of nowhere, and out of dysfunction. He spent about nine years of his young adult life, from age 17 to 27, really trying to figure himself out. Who he was politically, racially, philosophically and emotionally.I think Obama did a pretty good job of figuring out how to become an integrated personality. That journey helped to propel him to the White House. But it also got Obama in trouble politically because he sort of reasoned, “Well, if I can figure out all the contradictions the world threw at me, why can't everybody else?” That led to his famous 2004 speech about blue America and red America and a mentality that did not allow Obama to see the full dimensions of the power that was being used against him and his idealistic notion of humanity. This lack of understanding was going to lead to trouble in different ways — even though Obama has a very honorable way of looking at the world.Who is Barack Obama in his own narrative?I believe that President Obama thought of himself in a heroic context. He came to think of himself that way when he started getting into politics. It was a type of savior mentality. I have talked to several people who know Obama and they told me they have seen him come close to saying such a thing a few times in unguarded moments.
I think Obama did a pretty good job of figuring out how to become an integrated personality. That journey helped to propel him to the White House. But it also got Obama in trouble politically because he sort of reasoned, “Well, if I can figure out all the contradictions the world threw at me, why can't everybody else?” That led to his famous 2004 speech about blue America and red America and a mentality that did not allow Obama to see the full dimensions of the power that was being used against him and his idealistic notion of humanity. This lack of understanding was going to lead to trouble in different ways — even though Obama has a very honorable way of looking at the world.
Who is Barack Obama in his own narrative?
I believe that President Obama thought of himself in a heroic context. He came to think of himself that way when he started getting into politics. It was a type of savior mentality. I have talked to several people who know Obama and they told me they have seen him come close to saying such a thing a few times in unguarded moments.
https://www.salon.com/2020/01/03/biographer-and-journalist-david-maraniss-on-trump-obama-and-history-turned-upside-down/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 4 January 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
hard to believe assassination by drone could be used to start a war
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 4 January 2020 00:58 (four years ago) link
murdered Iranians
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/13/iran-lifesaving-drugs-international-sanctions
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
Wrong thread
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
The Obama/Biden Administration is the most corrupt Administration in the history of our Country!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:12 (four years ago) link
Very timely, sir!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
you mean Obiden/Bama, sir
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 9 March 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
could have vetted his personnel better
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 1 May 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
People are saying that he didn't produce enough Coronavirus vaccines when he had the chance.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 May 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
Coronavirus losses would be way lower if his death panels had done their job
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 11 May 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link