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SiliconValley_Dem

(1,656 posts) Wed Jul 15, 2020, 10:40 PM Jul 2020

BIG MISTAKE! -- I just rewatched Obama's final WH Correspondent's Dinner speech [View all]

wow. talk about a depressing time warp to when things were sane in America. It dawned on me just how incredibly tired I've become in recent years dealing with Trump shit 24/7....

pre COVID pandemic and over 125,000 Americans dead (it is surreal to even type that)

pre Putin Puppet trying to sell out EU and US interests

pre mass unemployment brought about specifically because of Trump's toxic stupidity

pre-mass incarceration of Latinx families desperate to leave their terrible circumstances only to have children and infants locked in cages and separated from their mothers

pre-Brexit and all the hell that is still yet to unleash

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BIG MISTAKE! -- I just rewatched Obama's final WH Correspondent's Dinner speech [View all] SiliconValley_Dem Jul 2020 OP

Understandable.......... MyOwnPeace Jul 2020 #1

I miss having a President so secure in themselves sdfernando Jul 2020 #3

powerful SiliconValley_Dem Jul 2020 #8

And watching the thoughtful, compassionate, FUNNY former pres... dawg day Jul 2020 #2

Something went horribly, horribly wrong in the last 8 years to give us this nightmare. Initech Jul 2020 #4

longer ago than that. the toxicity of GOP has been building since Newt in the 90s SiliconValley_Dem Jul 2020 #7

Republicans set out to destroy Obama from the beginning. Initech Jul 2020 #9

nope. it was happening when Bush was trying to reclassify fast food as manufacturing SiliconValley_Dem Jul 2020 #10

I personally think it was when conservatives escalated the culture war. Initech Jul 2020 #11

I can vouch for the fact that their cultural wars were not seen as a joke during Bush SiliconValley_Dem Jul 2020 #13

Does anyone think we would ever see a photo Of Trumpy like this one? A HERETIC I AM Jul 2020 #5

never. his toxic and psycho fragility would never allow such a scene SiliconValley_Dem Jul 2020 #6

I have an 'Obama' folder on my Tivo - moonscape Jul 2020 #12

This always helps me Lulu KC Jul 2020 #14

yessss! SiliconValley_Dem Jul 2020 #15

Yes, it was an extremely funny "routine", but I guarantee you Obama would take it back in a second, not_the_one Jul 2020 #16

actually that was not the awesome one you are referring to SiliconValley_Dem Jul 2020 #17