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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Barack Obama warns the U.S. is dangerously close' to slipping into autocracy under Trump In rare public remarks, the former president said recent actions from the administration are "not consistent with American democracy."

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"If you follow regularly what is said by those who are in charge of the federal government right now, there is a weak commitment to what we understood " and not just my generation, at least since World War II " our understanding of how a liberal democracy is supposed to work," Obama said.

"What we're seeing right now ... is not consistent with American democracy," he added. "It is consistent with autocracies. It is consistent with Hungary under Orbn.

It's consistent with places that hold elections but do not otherwise observe what we think of [as] a fair system in which everybody's voice matters and people have a seat at the table, and there are checks and balances, and nobody's above the law.

We're not there yet completely, but I think that we are dangerously close to normalizing behavior like that."

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#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-18 07:44 PM | Reply

"We're not just going to be waiting for legislation," Obama announced. "I've got a pen and I've got a phone ... and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions."

#2 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-06-18 09:03 PM | Reply

Funny, I don't remember Obama sending goon squads into red states and illegally detaining American citizens. You stupid cunt.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-18 09:25 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Obama drone struck an American citizen. He acted as judge, juriy and executioner.

#4 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 09:40 PM | Reply

Obama is the Hypocrite in Chief.

#5 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 09:42 PM | Reply

Obama drone struck an American citizen. He acted as judge, juriy and executioner.

Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-18 09:40 PM | Reply

The Constitution doesn't apply on the battlefield. Just sayin

#6 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-18 09:43 PM | Reply

If that's the case Trump could just declare the US a battlefield.

#7 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-06-18 09:52 PM | Reply

#7

Wow... Visitor is finally catching on!

It's a Miracle!

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-18 09:58 PM | Reply

Quite a loophole that Obama left to his successors.

#9 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-06-18 10:23 PM | Reply

The only people talking about Obama and Biden are people who are TOTALLY UNABLE to defend WHAT TRUMP IS DOING RIGHT NOW... not what someone else presumably did some other time.

The funny part is they 'think' they are fooling people with such obvious obfuscations in lieu of argument.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-18 10:48 PM | Reply

The only people talking about Obama and Biden are people who are TOTALLY UNABLE to defend WHAT TRUMP IS DOING RIGHT NOW... not what someone else presumably did some other time.
The funny part is they 'think' they are fooling people with such obvious obfuscations in lieu of argument.

Posted by Corky at 2025-06-18 10:48 PM | Reply

You noticed that too huh?? Quite typical of you ask me.

#11 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-18 10:51 PM | Reply

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