Waddle Dee
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I wish I could read Trump's mind and listen in on how depressed he is deep down. You know the manchild's depressed because he knows deep down that he'll never be on Obama's level and will be remembered as an idiot.
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European diplomats on Trump: 'Being anti Obama is basically his only position'
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Snarky(HEART)
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The white man's fear of black men stealing white woman has a long painful history.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Freeza Under The Shower
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I doubt he had to make much effort on getting people to shit on Trump. If there was an 'EU approval rating of the US president' it would going into negatives right now. Hell, even the UK, most reliable European ally of the post-war era, isn't having his shit anymore. That's saying something.
foxuzamaki
Doesn't read OPs, especially not his own
I'm so fucking embarrassed
Monocle
Member
Great job electing this dangerous idiot, pissclowns.
The sentence "I'm a Trump supporter" makes me respect a person about as much as if they were to tell me "I found a great way to drink apple juice out of my asshole."
The sentence "I'm a Trump supporter" makes me respect a person about as much as if they were to tell me "I found a great way to drink apple juice out of my asshole."
It's because they're racist as fuck and so low-info and brainwashed that they resent a great leader when they have one. And even after he's gone, apparently.
Sunster
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and closing Guantanamo. which promised he'd do.
The thought of a brown man as an equal, let alone leader of the free world, short circuited their brains.
That's also why they elected the world's biggest idiot as a follow-up.
You're assuming a level of self-awareness that I'm not sure exists.
JonnyDBrit
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I think the fact that Obama was basically a (somewhat deliberate, carefully curated) walking rebuttal of every racist conception one might have particularly enhanced that feeling. They didn't get a Dave Chappelle skit, or a man where they might get to go 'Well of course he'd screw that up, he's black', and use that for further dismissal of black americans and their rightful place in politics. Obama just did not fit any of the negative stereotypes laid out for him, and consequently the only place many of his detractors could go with their racially charged hatred of him was pure irrationality and disconnect (I wouldn't say most of them either understood or even disliked some of his more questionable aspects).
YourMaster
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I think there's more. I think it's also because he represented 'change', 'hope' and 'progress', even more so than his democratic predecessors and him being a different color reinforced that message. Obama was very consistent in his messaging there, always on point.
There's a reason 'conservatives' are called the way they are, it's because they don't want change.
While he didn't manage to close it, he did clear it out decently:
https://www.google.be/amp/s/amp.cnn...bama-final-guantanamo-bay-transfer/index.html
Pity he never shut that black mark.
Lightning_Roller
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Me and you both. I'll make sure they'll know their stupid mistake every moment of their miserable, little lives.
Lightning_Roller
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Double post.
Donald just retweeted a poll from a pro-Trump account (poll taken 6 days ago on Obama's birthday):
https://twitter.com/ProgressPolls/status/893558108064239616
https://twitter.com/ProgressPolls/status/893558108064239616
Lightning_Roller
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Donald just retweeted a poll from a pro-Trump account (poll taken 6 days ago on Obama's birthday):
https://twitter.com/ProgressPolls/status/893558108064239616
Pathetic man continues to be pathetic.
paperboywriter
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This is a good point too.
I think birtherism showed how specifically upsetting Obama was. It was a conspiracy theory based around Obama not being a legitimate president. It was a way to say that a black president never actually happened; it was a fake American who stole the position through illegitimate means. His win doesn't really count because he was never really in the contest.
It's not even about being opposed to his policies or him being in office. They wanted to completely wipe Obama out of presidential canon.
OG Shaka Zulu
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"Did Obama order the catfish or the steak when he was here?"
What a clown.
What a clown.
I vehemently disagree with the title and that can make Trump worse than anyone on the Republican side. I think it's dangerous to think otherwise. There were ~19 other Republican candidates and they were the anti Obama candidates.
"Allowing" illegal immigration for example was not the most prominent thing to come from the Obama administration but Trump unleased his own monster and made an issue Republicans were barely talking about into the single greatest issue on both sides during the 2016 campaign. Trump has plenty of anti-Obama stances but labeling him just that seems incredibly stupid to me.
"Allowing" illegal immigration for example was not the most prominent thing to come from the Obama administration but Trump unleased his own monster and made an issue Republicans were barely talking about into the single greatest issue on both sides during the 2016 campaign. Trump has plenty of anti-Obama stances but labeling him just that seems incredibly stupid to me.
The title is a quote uttered by a European official, so they're talking about US foreign policy, not domestic issues.
Trump withdrew the US from the Paris climate deal even though it doesn't put the US at a disadvantage, he withdrew the US from TPP even though it's now actually hurting rural America, he wants to rip up the Iran deal even though it's working, he wants a different Afghanistan strategy because it too closely resembles Obama's even though no one has been able to come up with a better plan ...
They lost their minds long before that.
He hates that Obama was popular and loved and he's not. Period.
They made closing Guantanamo illegal as soon as he entered office for that very reason.
mckmas8808
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OminoMichelin
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Oh he is still definitely a dick, but he has 10 times the political acumen, compared to trump. Congratulations USA, you out-berlusconied us.
Edit: don't talk about him in the past tense. He's trying to get back into politics with the elections closing in.
This. The answer is actually very simple. Some people just refuse to accept it though. It has to be something else that he did or they didn't like, etc. No. It is simply because he is a black man in the US that managed to be elected President of the United States not once but twice. It broke the mask, minds, etc of many people in this country to the point they'd rather have an ignorant, erratic, narcissist, racist, sexist buffoon in the White House I guess as payback, revenge, etc!?
Stances on the issues don't matter at all to these people. So many of these people actually benefit greatly from the ACA/Obamacare, etc but when Trump said he'd take it away they cheered. We've had threads here about articles about how some of these people convinced themselves Trump didn't really mean he'd take away their healthcare while he was 100% saying he would and was trying to. They couldn't bring themselves to acknowledged Obama did something good for them on that front and they were still willing to vote for Trump again. That's the racism at play here. That's the level of stupidity on display and what Trump is making them feel good about.
Like said it isn't just limited to Trump and people that voted for him. Republicans had this on full display when Obama got elected. They were determined to make sure the first Black President had no legacy and that was the plan from day one. Who the fuck does that and holds meetings to plan that!? This is why it drives me up the wall whenever I see a Dem say "my friend" etc. I know it's just a old formality but I wish it would stop.