Barack Obama at his last press briefing with reporters, 2017:
"I have enjoyed working with all of you. That does not, of course, mean that I've enjoyed every story that you have filed, but that's the point of this relationship. You're not supposed to be sycophants. You're supposed to be skeptics. You're supposed to ask me tough questions. You're not supposed to be complimentary, but you're supposed to cast a critical eye on folks who hold enormous power."
In normal times, a sitting president turning a memorial for nearly 3,000 dead Americans into an opportunity to aggrandize and lie about himself would be a national scandal, met with widespread disgust.
Sadly, we are not in normal times.
Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
A bunch of busybodies successfully halted a project in Downtown Austin that would’ve included an 8-acre park and 3.5 million square feet of new development because the buildings were “too tall.” Now it’ll be a battery plant and a massive parking lot, lol.
Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences.
The modern American right in 2025, folks.
No major Democratic leader has called Trump “Hitler.”
Not Obama.
Not Biden.
Not Kamala.
Not Jeffries.
Not Pelosi.
The only major political leader in office today who has actually done so is J.D. Vance.
There is one person in the country right now who has the power to lower the temperature on the violent and vitriolic rhetoric that is coursing through our political veins. Rather than take the opportunity to do that, like Biden did when Trump was shot at, Trump took to social media to make political attacks on the left while absolving his own side of all responsibility, all before even knowing who the shooter is.
See you guys at the next shooting, can't wait for conservatives to act as befuddled about that one as they are about this one.
Really is hard to shake the feeling that at some point in the last 5 years, a decent chunk of the population went completely and irredeemably mad. Like, properly insane.
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Ppl like this are the worst type of stupid. They dismissed every warning as dramatic and overblown in the lead up, used their enormous platforms to take the edge off and now they’re like “this isn’t what I wanted”. The dumbest and most careless voices have the largest platforms.