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Obamas call fatal shooting by fed agent a 'wake-up call (abcnews.go.com)

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"These unprecedented tactics -- which even the former top lawyer of the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration has characterized as embarrassing, lawless and cruel -- have now resulted in the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens," the Obamas said.

The Obamas accused the Trump administration of "escalating" the tension in Minneapolis by offering the public explanations of the shootings of Pretti and Renee Good "that aren't informed by any serious investigation -- and that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence."

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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (3 children)

More moderated words to fight extremism. The obama presidency, ironically, was the fulcrum on which the country continued into extremism by Obama wasting 8 years of energy and time--including 2 years of supermajority in the senate--instead of responding to the increasing threat of the tea party and normalized extremist right wing positions and policy with matching progressive policy delivered. ACA was the only significant accomplishment and it was watered down and written by insurers, which meant it didn't fix affordability so made it easy to demonize as failed.

We kept Guantanamo open, took years to get out of Afghanistan, didn't roll back the fascist surveillance state put into effect by The Patriot Act, didn't move against monopolies, didn't raise the fucking minimum wage...

Obama's moderation with the true chance to set a different course was what helps trump and extremists after that. His naivete is as much to blame as anything for current state.

[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Don't make him say "unprecedented" again.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

"concerning"

"Questionable"

"Debatable"

"Some have described"

The euphemisms for illegal, violent, deadly, thieving, criminal, murderous, bigoted, nepotistic and lying need to stop.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

It is historical if he does double down and use unprecedented again.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Plus Russia was helping him, Obama was too much of a pussy to bring it out in the public. I know the establishment democrats use russia as a shield for them sucking, and they do suck, but russia was meddling, to put the worst person in the world in charge, and obama chose not to tell anyone, let alone do anything about it, because the right wing would accuse him of doing what they were openly planning on doing with the justice department.

A sin brought to unbelievable extremes with biden letting a coup go unpunished, letting almost 3 years pass before they indicted anyone, then just the president.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

That January 6th outcome and no action taken will historically be remembered as Chamberlain attempting to sate Adolf.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He managed to pass Obamacare but I remember there were a great many privacy issues his administration perpetuated or created, and we’re seeing the effect now.

I think he was wishy washy about appointing Supreme Court Justices too?

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Obama had the chance to appoint a SC justice and the right made a huge stink about him doing it in the last few months of his presidency after Trump was set to take over. Instead of doing it and understanding the significance, he/the Dems didn't push and let Trump appoint Cavenough. Meanwhile Trump appointed all kinds of people to no resistance in the waning months of his first term. Curious that, almost like they want it both ways.

[–] baronvonj@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Please cite the legal mechanism that Obama and the Democratic Senate minority had available to them to force the confirmation of Supreme Court a nominee in 2016. Please be aware that Obama did nominate someone for that vacancy. In fact he nominated someone the Republicans themselves name-dropped as a good option. They methodically and purposefully prevented over 100 judicial nominees from receiving a vote, because they held the majority and there was no legal way to get around it.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Embarrassing seems a little understated to me.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago

I can support kids killing kids, and adults raping kids, and cops killing people, but it's a real wake up call when this particular cop kills this particular person?