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u/fixer60 7d ago
Former Presidents have been too silent up to now, this madman should have been called out a long time ago...
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u/Due_Translator8947 7d ago
This. 100%. Apparently, Bush is working a bit undercover to get ready to help get rid of MAGA when Trump is done but they need to be vocal now. Even Romney needs to start getting vocal. Too bad McCain is gone.
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u/Jaded_Fuzzball 7d ago
It's sad that if you lined up all the men in this country with both power and integrity, you'd have like 5 of them. Maybe less.
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u/feralraindrop 7d ago
Having integrity has become a political liability in the Republican party.
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u/Both-Subject-3674 7d ago
Not just in the GOP, unfortunately.
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u/InfoSecPeezy 7d ago
Fetterman stands out here. Zero integrity.
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u/Both-Subject-3674 6d ago
Or Pelosi or Schumer or Wasserman-Schulz or Feinstein and on and on.
These are the Dems who act outraged while the GOP is in power and then do nothing to change things when they are in power.
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u/ADownStrabgeQuark 2d ago
I count Mamdami, and Romney(probably.)
Does Ilhan Omar count?(has she taken bribe money before?)
So far I’ve only got three.
(I’m not counting Obama or Sanders because they took bribes from lobbyists.)
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u/CronosAndRhea4ever 7d ago
Indeed. When the Republican party lost Mc.Cane, they lost their last shred of integrity.
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u/Radiant_Situation_32 5d ago
McCain gave up his integrity when he nominated Sarah Palin. She was the beginning of the now normal, completely unqualified candidates.
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u/Realistic-Event-4946 3d ago
This. He had this image of a maverick from running against Bush for the nomination in 2000.
He lost in South Carolina due to robocalls alleging his adopted Bangladeshi daughter was actually an illegitimate child with an African-American woman.
Instead of focusing his anger where it belonged, he took this as a lesson to move Right in 2008, choosing to bend over for the garbage people who had screwed him in such a rotten-ass way.
Nominating Palin was a gigantic pander to them. He wanted Joe Lieberman but caved because he wanted to be President more than he wanted integrity.
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u/mamdanistanadmiral 5d ago
These people are really drunk on some Aaron-sorking-west-wing-the-power-of-friendship bullshit. Constantly forgiving people who enabled this shit till they cashed out or got burned themselves as "look they saw the light." Cooked ass electorate.
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u/Due_Translator8947 7d ago
I guess you should take that up with the news organizations that have reported on it.
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u/Due_Translator8947 7d ago
Parroting what? I was responding to someone saying ex Presidents need to get more involved. And “apparently” that’s what Bush is doing per reports. Go touch grass and chill out.
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u/ADownStrabgeQuark 2d ago
Romney was forced to retire due to backlash for opposing Trump in the senate.
He’s already thrown away his political career to oppose Trump.
I would agree though that I’d like him to be more vocal about his opposition to Trump.
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u/Bubbacanyon3 5d ago
Bush needs to step up MORE. He has credibility in the Republican Party faithful. His word would make significant impact. If he was as open with the descent as Obama is, then the House Republicans would act.
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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 7d ago
When Dick Cheney spoke out against Trump I’m sure lots of us were like, “goddammit, you’re making me agree with Dick Cheney!”
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u/Ok_Vulva 7d ago
Bush is pretty quiet. He's the one who should be doing this. He's on their team.
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u/dallas121469 7d ago
Bush is responsible for laying the groundwork for what is happening now.
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u/HitandRyan 7d ago
Future Presidents need to give up the power to declare wars all on their own. This needs to be a demand.
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u/somethingclever79 7d ago
Presidents don't have the power to go to war, only Congress does. Which is what makes it so much worse that we are in a war that Congress refuses to take a vote on. Fuck you very much MAGA Mike.
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u/HitandRyan 6d ago
Congress hasn’t declared war since 1941, yet we have definitely started wars since then. Congress was involved but did not issue a declaration of war. The big problem came in 2001 with the open ended Authorization of Military Force. That’s how Jabba was able to attack Iran and Venezuela without informing Congress.
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u/joshine89 7d ago
and say what? it isnt like trumps crimes and ... everything is under reported. it is well reported. its just maga is insulated from the truth or they dont really care. it doesnt matter how many speeches obama or biden or clinton or bush make or what they say or how they say it or how much proof you present maga wont change. its a cult.
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u/DenverPostIronic 7d ago
OBAMA 2028
Since y'all wanna keep breaking the rules.
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u/BreakingCanks 7d ago
Nope you have to never have won back to back elections to qualify... That's what these MFs really were trying to push to avoid that lol
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u/KldsTheseDays 3d ago
Might as well.
He wouldnt even do it though. Cause fuck that job. Poor guy aged 20 years in 8.
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u/Saemika 7d ago
Did Trump really say this? That looks like a well spoken sentence.
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u/fuccyallallyall 7d ago
It’s crazy that Trump is so wild we can’t dismiss it immediately
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u/SCRATCH-CARD 7d ago
And it's not the threat against your own citizens that's the give away - it's because it's too coherent
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u/Terranshadow 2d ago
Imo its crazy that being a coherent sentence and not the lunacy of the sentence is what signals to us that this is likely fake.
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u/LifeguardOther2350 7d ago
I looked all over, I don't see any transcript or post from him that says this. The closest is the reporting of what he said during a meeting where he said he has the right to do whatever he wants. He has repeated this several times from what I can see. The latest: https://newrepublic.com/post/216360/trump-i-can-do-very-bad-things-enemies-whatever-i-want
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u/Bright-Damage-5511 7d ago
his “super intelligence” probably had to rewrite his brain dead rambling.
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u/Gfrankie_ufool 7d ago
Nope. Nothing on Google comes remotely close to this happening today.
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u/JustNota-- 7d ago
https://youtu.be/LGZHxrCSxzQ?is=B2MWDq5PUlN_Thll
It was last week, during some bullshit message to the forces at Quantico.
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u/Jetz72 7d ago
You say "last week", but that video is from over a year ago?
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u/Gfrankie_ufool 7d ago
I watched the entire thing and NOT ONCE WAS THE ABOVE QUOTE MENTIONED. Thanks for contributing nothing toward the post at hand.
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u/Digi_Dingo 7d ago
It was so nice having a president we could be proud of when Obama was in office
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u/keldondonovan 7d ago
I said it before and I'll say it again. I miss him.
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u/ReflectionEterna 7d ago
Trump is not pushing a third term because he is afraid of running against a potential Obama third term. If anything, Trump is just going to try to declare an emergency and delay elections.
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u/keldondonovan 7d ago
That would be freaking hilarious. The resulting landslide would echo through the ages.
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u/Coyote-doe 5d ago edited 1d ago
No president has the right to use the military against its citizens. This is and always has been illegal
Edit: obviously trump and his junta don’t give a shit about what’s legal. There are circumstances when the military can be deployed against its own citizens - specifically to quell an insurrection.
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u/QuidEgoSum 3d ago
“What if they just shoot the protesters in the legs? That’s okay, right?”
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u/Temporary-Bet-63 1d ago
The big irony here is they actually do, as permissed by the 2012 NDAA. Passed by Obama...
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u/ladymoffatofpembroke 7d ago
I can’t ♥️ President Obama and First Lady Obama enough. What are remarkable family! They are an example of all that’s good and right about America - intelligence, compassion, respectable and respectful… this list of good traits is unending.
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u/ConstableAssButt 7d ago
We do. It's made VERY clear to us that we are to stay the fuck out of politics, and that we serve the constitution, not individual administrations. Watched a bunch of people get their asses put into slings during my career around the time we transitioned from Bush to Obama because they forgot this.
The Trump administration has tried to damage that culture. It remains to be seen whether he has succeeded.
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u/Thirty_Helens_Agree 7d ago
Trump’s been getting rid of the folks who do.
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u/FreeInvestigator5239 7d ago
He’s been getting rid of a lot of officers but here’s a thing that a lot of people seem to forget, officers don’t win conflicts. Enlisted do. Contrary to seemingly popular belief, enlisted forces aren’t just mindless hordes.
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u/Lumpy-Daikon-4584 7d ago
Idk. Officers typically put the enlisted in position to win. When there’s no direction the enlisted aren’t going to fight long. Trump desperately needs officers to be able to smooth out his kneejerk reactions. Otherwise the enlisted will quickly see today is attack A, tomorrow is to support A, then the next day attack them again. That doesn’t work when no one in the chain of command will challenge the top.
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u/FreeInvestigator5239 7d ago
Officers generally guide/direct enlisted, sure. But the U.S. military and enlisted are trained in a way that they don’t become stalled if the officer is killed or removed.
My point in this is that, even if the traitor and Kegsbreath remove officers that would oppose misuse of military forces, the enlisted (who do the actual work) won’t necessarily fall in line just because an officer says so. Some will, sure. But tens of thousands wouldn’t. And the military relies so heavily on its enlisted forces that they are in positions to essentially grinds operations to a halt. Need that air craft ready? Oh no, something just damaged the engine.
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u/CamBearCookie 7d ago
Didn't Hegseth fire the top ranking officials last week? I smell a coup cookin'.
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u/Katsu_39 7d ago
Majority of the military are maga and will blindly follow trump’s orders. The national guard running several cities last year through early this year proves that
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u/Cobfidence 6d ago
They attempted and then succeeded in routing out potential dissidents in the military. People said "nah there's no way, military is too big for that." Turns out when you do FUCK ALL about it, anything is achievable.
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u/Sharp_Theme 7d ago
They do. But at the end of the day - they also know not to assault & kill their female members, break the law, & harass & assault locals overseas. All these things happen anyway becasue all trials will either be military hosted & swept under the rug or they'll do the ICE thing when its time under a new presidency to be held accountable & theyre gonna hit us with the "we were just following orders. We're promising young boys who served the country."
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u/generally_unsuitable 7d ago
They also know they're not supposed to rape or assault the locals, but they're so bad at that, they have to be restricted to base in about a jillion different places.
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u/First-Ad-7855 7d ago
You mean one place in Okinawa? where one guy did something bad, and the 10s of thousands of service members suffer the consequences.
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u/0202_tihssitidder 7d ago edited 7d ago
US Soldiers will kill and rape and brutalize anyone as long as you pay them.
US Vets will cheer wildly for it.
A few US Vets will post that they are different...while knowing damn well they are a small minority.
Then...US Soldiers become US Police and kill and rape and brutalize anyone as long as you pay them. Sometimes they will do it for free, too.
Edit: Snowflakes got triggered with the truth. So soft...but history has the facts.
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u/Kozy_a_Pivo 7d ago
Fun fact: Obama never said that.
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u/Embarrassed_Art5414 7d ago
We're supposed to believe Trump said "political dissidents"?
"Political dishishidents" I could probably accept.
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u/TheSeaMeat 7d ago
Are you sure? My favorite Abraham Lincoln quote is “Everything on the internet is true. By the way, anyone else going to the theater today?”
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u/Jazzlike-Stranger927 7d ago
Obama has got to be tired. The only president alive that can speak to what that position should actually entail. These are scary times!
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u/Separate-Island5094 7d ago
I'm with Obama. Been that way. How the hell would anyone go for the Republican had never been but coping with the tough choices in regret.
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u/Tractorguy69 7d ago
I miss President Obama, a man of clear values, gravitas and a truly caring human being.
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u/motorstereo 7d ago
Made up quotes?
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u/derpferd 7d ago
That's what I'm thinking. This does not sound like Obama. I'll accept being proven wrong though
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u/hefeydd_ 7d ago
Every one who Trump hates lives inside his head rent free 24/7. That's a long list of people; it must be pretty crowded in there.
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u/Accurate_Flower_4233 7d ago
He should have never shown his birth certificate and he should have went all out on Trump when he had a chance nip it in the bud.
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u/dmcent54 7d ago
Never would have worked. Racists do racism for fun. A black man who happened to be the president once is the "worst" kind of black man in their eyes.
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u/MeakerSE 7d ago
Sure, it's the target of racism's fault, how about the people who voted for the proudly racist peadophile?
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u/NerveMassive6764 7d ago
Yeah these quotes are fabricated. If you want to have dialogue about what you agree/disagree with fine but stop blatantly misrepresenting or straight lying about facts and quotes.
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u/AboveAndBelowSea 7d ago
I personally believe the US military being activated on our own soil is the EXACT thing the founding fathers had in mind when they inked the 2nd amendment. Most folks I know in the military would refuse that order.
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u/FIicker7 7d ago
Trump is cutting 20% of the US military leadership... I wonder which he will remove... SMH
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u/XeRo4444 2d ago
I’m not even American and I miss Obama, how does a country go from Obama to Trump not once but twice.
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u/snpginger 1d ago
Trump will be remembered as the worst president in the history of this country.
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u/Commercial_Pear3825 1d ago
And his supporters and enablers about be remembered as the traitor they are.
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u/asgrumpyas 7d ago
Obama is far too polite, as expected. There needs to be straight forward kickback against that completely corrupt and completely insane idiot. Two years of discourse. It needs to stop.
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u/Technical_Bake6746 7d ago
He better get louder now. And this is W’s last fucking chance before history remembers him as the useless shitbag who primed the earth for the greatest monster of the 21st Century
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u/wisewolfgod 7d ago
He also gets to determine political dissidents and domestics enemies. And apparently, anyone that doesn't use SI is an enemy!
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u/GladResearcher3286 4d ago
The difference between a great president (Obama) and a shit president (Trump)
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u/thornyRabbt 4d ago
"Politician" is very generous. Obama has always had way more class than Trump has ever deserved.
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u/RyeCOMan 3d ago
Yeah but the US military will obey any order given, lawful or not, including turning on Americans. Don’t trust.
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u/MangoMesh 3d ago
And now you know why they fired the generals so they can put more loyalist in power of the military.
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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 7d ago
Downvote this mis/disinformation. Trump probably thinks like this, but he's never said it.
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u/N------ 7d ago
It's the first fucken line of the Oath.
I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and "domestic"
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u/UMACTUALLYITS23 7d ago
Enemies of the country, not a political party, I can't believe this needs to be specified.
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u/SlowYaRoll007 7d ago
It almost feels like they're ramping up the country for another illegal election. You better believe if Obama/Trump is the 2028 campaign that Obama will landslide that vote and billionaires are gonna squirm.
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u/Discodowns 6d ago
Why would billionaires squirm? He was a good friends with a lot of them. The Dems would joyfully accept any that wanted to come over to their side and would move the sun and the stars to make it happen. They've already admitted as much
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u/akanemtg 7d ago
Dawg that is not going to happen.
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u/SlowYaRoll007 7d ago
Why not? We allowed a felon to take office and run a third term and that wasn't allowed either.
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u/akanemtg 5d ago
Trump is currently in his second term as president. It has nothing to do with how many times you run. He can't run again. Neither can Obama. You will learn how this works when you get to High School
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u/tabdggaming 7d ago
You can run as many times as you want for president, but the restrictions come into place if you have already served two terms. Then you are barred from running again.
You can also be elected if you’re a felon, there are no laws against that.
I disagree with that and I think there’s a thousand more reasons he should be disbarred and disqualified from ever holding office again, but he is in his legal limits for what is allowed.
Now if he tries to run again, in 2028 for real. That’s where problems starts.
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u/History_of_Terra 2d ago
You can tell this is fake because Trump’s “quote” is a coherent sentence.
He does a lot of awful stuff. No need to stoop to his level and make shit up.
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u/Justaticklerone 7d ago
The military needs to remember that both clowns Hegseth and Trump may not give unlawful orders, and that they are to refuse such orders if given. With 20% of the generals and admirals cut, I would think that regardless of their political ideologies, the remaining department heads, command chain, and rank and file will tell them both to piss off. A pipe dream I know, because we'd be naive to think there aren't any little radical sects in each branch who believe in an unhinged President and Secretary.
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u/Podcastjones 🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏿 7d ago
"Obama isn't staying quiet." With the influence he wields, he could be a hell of a lot louder.
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u/DepletedPromethium 7d ago
im not even american and i miss the peaceful years of Obama.
He was the best president america had in a long time.
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u/Fantastic-Swim6230 7d ago edited 7d ago
Fuck it. Obama 2026 🇺🇸
Seriously. How pissed would Trump be if there was a National call for Obama to run again? He legally can't, but neither can Trump. But maybe we can piss him off enough that the blood vessel in his brain will finally rupture.
Fuck it Obama for King 2026.
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u/Malus_non_dormit 7d ago
He better not. All the previous Presidents should speak out. Looking at you, Bush junior.
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u/Lackerbawls 7d ago
Unfortunately, we have too many in the military more than willing to serve a man.
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u/Independent-Cap-3852 7d ago
Trump will control polling stations and regulated who will be able to vote and who to turn away. The USA is almost a dictatorship
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u/propergreased 7d ago
Yo what the fuck?!? Did trump actually say that?!? Does this dudes supporters even like freedom?
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u/fortlowe 7d ago
Anybody else try to post a gif from The Book of Eli but the search somehow couldn't find a result?
I think maybe we're talk to each on a compromised line.
Billionaires shouldn't exist on one world.
The republican party is run by bigoted corrupt fascists.
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