Barack Obama Selectively Grapples with Authoritarianism

I voted for Obama twice. I knew he wasn't perfect when I voted, but now his gloss has almost completely dulled for me. Why? Yes, for the reasons mentioned by Jimmy Dore. But especially because Obama has now been exposed as one of the main architects of Russiagate. And not in an incidental way. Obama's involvement with that vast conspiracy and the years' long coverup was intentional and premeditated (see here and here and here). And worst of all, Obama's ruse disenfranchised half of U.S. voters.

Jimmy Dore:

Obama prosecuted more journalists using the Espionage Act than all presidents before him combined.

He arrested, jailed & tortured Chelsea Manning for revealing war crimes committed in our name.

He repealed the Smith-Mundt act which now allows the CIA/FBI to directly propagandize American citizens & infiltrate unions/ NGO’s/school boards/ & organizations of all kinds.

He deported 3 million Hispanics & built the cages Democrats protested against under Trump.

Obama took us from 2 wars to 7 wars while ramping up the drone bombings killing innocent people left & right.

He effectively repealed Habeas Corpus & gave the government the authority to jail people indefinitely without a trial.

Obama is a Myth pushed by the establishment & their bought media to make you think there was someone fighting for you while he was serving Banks, Big Pharma, the MIC & his corporate masters.

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The Underlying Cause of the Immigrant Crisis: Attempted Election Rigging

What are we to do with the many millions of people who poured over the border during the Biden Administration, while the Biden Administration denied that it was happening and then denied that it could do anything to stop the flow of unvetted people over American borders?

I know this is a complex issue at this point, but it has been more and more clear to me that this movement of migrants across our borders was orchestrated by the Biden Administration for the purpose of electing Democrats in swing states. What to do with millions of people who are illegally here now? Especially given the negative impact mass unvetted immigration has had on many parts of the US, including increased crime. It's a big mess, but it's important to understand what happened and why. Joe Rogan sums it up well when discussing the possibility that Kamala Harris might run for president in 2028:

I'll ask [Harris] controversial things, man. It's all I have to do is ask you, Why [was] the border open?" We can talk about that for three hours. Oh my gosh. What are you trying to do? Right? You could close that border. Trump closed that border in a day. Amazing. In a day. You could say I hate what's going on with ice, and I don't like it either. I don't like this thing of like taking people.

And here's the thing, well, they should have done it the right way. But if you're poor and you live in a third world country, that's not an available option. Okay? What is an available option is this one administration over four years was encouraging people to go through, not only encouraging you to go through. There's Red Cross stops along the way. They give you maps. They tell you how to do it. People are being, they're funding people getting in. They're paying for air flights. They're flying people in. They're moving people into swing states. They're getting them on Medicare. They're getting them on Social Security.

We talked about this one lady who did an interview. She was being told to try to get people on permanent disability. So she was told to ask them, "Do you have back problems?" They're like, yes, okay, great, personal disability. Now that she she said I was told to view them as a client now, And so you're trying, essentially to bribe people to Now, once you get them in to move to swing state. Then they count on the census. Once they count on the census, it adds congressional seats. So it's like you're rigging elections by bringing in immigrants, and then you're giving them money.

And all these people that live in these poor communities, they're like, "Hey, where was all this money for us? Where was all this money for the people in Chicago? In Chicago? Where was all this money the people in Baltimore?" No, no, they're doing it because they're trying to manipulate the election. It didn't work. You know, it didn't work. Like, I got into an argument someone about it. But, yeah, it didn't work, though. I go, Yeah, but they tried to do it. It didn't work.

But they did move people to swing states. They did leave the border open for four years. They did let in millions of people. They don't even know how many. They don't know how many people got through. That's crazy. Once they got them here, they did give them EBT cards. They did give them cell phones. They did. They moved them into the fucking hotel, that Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, this luxury hotel filled with migrants. They paid for their food. They did do this. They encouraged people. They did have sanctuary cities where they weren't going to arrest them. They let them come in.

Every bit of the above is easily substantiated by searching first hand accounts on X. Almost none of it can be found in corporate media outlets. Therefore, there's no way to discuss it civilly with people "across the aisle" since, factually speaking, we come from two almost non-overlapping informational ecosystems.

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The Continuing Cover-Up of Russiagate

I know more than a few people who swear that Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. They "know" this because they limit their informational ecosystem to the New York Times, Washington Post and other corporate media outlets. When the Columbia Journalism Review published its August 1 paean to the New York Times, Matt Taibbi took exception to the many well-documented lies and distortions published by the NYT on this topic and also called out the CJR. Here's an excerpt of Taibbi's well-deserved response to the CJR, titled "Open Letter to the Columbia Journalism Review, on the Atrocious New York Times: The ostensible high priests of journalism should be able to detect the difference between passable coverage and epic, historic failure":

Letter to Bill Grueskin, former Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, on his recent article in the Columbia Journalism Review

Mr. Grueskin,

Regarding your August 1 article, “Knowing: Still Only Half the Battle,” which lauds Charlie Savage of the New York Times for having “dissected and eviscerated” Director of Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s claims about corruption of intelligence in the Trump-Russia investigation:

You praised Savage’s article, “New Reports on Russian Interference Don’t Show What Trump Says They Do,” as an example of the work of an “experienced beat reporter” who can distill complex stories into a “coherent, compelling whole.” Your sub-headline stressed the importance of “showing receipts” in journalism, where “most people don’t follow stories very closely,” but “they can learn a lot when an experienced beat reporter helps them sort out what’s important and what’s chaff.”

Chaff.

Except — and you should know this because the Columbia Journalism Review published over 20,000 words on the subject in January 2023 — Savage and his colleagues at the Times have badly miscovered this story for nearly a decade, and continue to do so. The 2018 Pulitzer Prize the paper won on the topic along with the Washington Post will go down as the same kind of “disgrace” as its 1932 Pulitzer for Walter Duranty’s breathless coverage of Stalin’s Russia. In this case, the Times drifted so far from its traditional mission that it became an animating motive for Gabbard and other investigators in Donald Trump’s administration.

It is critically important to remember here that in 2023, Jeff Gerth excoriated the NYT for its "coverage" of Russiagate.

Jeff Gerth's article critically examined how the media, particularly The New York Times, amplified the "Russia thing" narrative, often relying on anonymous sources and incomplete context, such as the Times' reporting on a February 2017 story about Trump campaign contacts with Russian intelligence, which Comey later criticized as “almost entirely wrong.” Gerth argued that the NYT often lacked rigor, contributing to a polarized public perception and Trump’s distrust of the press, as evidenced by his “enemy of the American people” rhetoric.

The piece also critiques the media’s handling of leaks, such as Comey’s memos, and the subsequent appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, suggesting that sensationalized reporting fueled a narrative that sometimes outpaced evidence. Gerth points to specific examples, like the Times’ failure to fully retract or clarify disputed stories, and contrasts this with other outlets like The Washington Post, which included more context in their reporting. Through interviews and analysis, Gerth underscores a broader pattern of media overreach, arguing that the lack of accountability and reliance on uncorroborated sources damaged credibility.

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Barack Obama’s Treasonous Misdeeds

I voted for Obama twice. Tulsi Gabbard's accusations (substantiated by hundreds of newly declassified documents) show that the conduct of Obama's WH (including Obama himself) was despicable. This was an attack on democracy itself. I would like to see this matter vigorously investigated and prosecuted. I cross-posted this on FB, where I expect that some people on FB will avoid the facts by launching baseless ad hominem attacks on Tulsi Gabbard.

As as far as Obama's character, it was already in question. I agree completely with Joe Rogan.

Trump's actual words

https://youtu.be/JmaZR8E12bs?si=xDyDPl2OnWfndqKn

REPORTER: George Washington and Robert E. Lee are not the same.

TRUMP: Oh no, George Washington was a slave owner. Was George Washington a slave owner? So will George Washington now lose his status? Are we going to take down – excuse me. Are we going to take down, are we going to take down statues to George Washington? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do you think of Thomas Jefferson? You like him? Okay, good. Are we going to take down his statue? He was a major slave owner. Are we going to take down his statue? You know what? It’s fine, you’re changing history, you’re changing culture, and you had people – and I’m not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally – but you had many people in that group other than neo-Nazis and white nationalists, okay? And the press has treated them absolutely unfairly. Now, in the other group also, you had some fine people, but you also had troublemakers and you see them come with the black outfits and with the helmets and with the baseball bats – you had a lot of bad people in the other group too.

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Obama’s Interference with Trump’s Presidency

As a person who voted for Obama, Clinton and Biden I am horrified to learn of the deep corruption of Obama et al, including Obama's weaponization of the U.S. security state coordinated with the willing assistance of the lapdog corporate media. The DNC has no respect for the electoral process (e.g., what they did to Bernie in 2016, the dropout of moderate candidates and the continuing campaign of Elizabeth Warren to assist Biden in the 2020 primaries, the lies about Biden's fitness and most recently, the anointment of Kamala Harris without a vote). And don't forget the Hunter Biden Laptop lies by the DNC allied U.S. security state. What we are now learning about Obama's exit strategy from office--it appears to be an intentional and potentially criminal disenfranchisement of those who voted for Trump--is icing on the cake.

Matt Taibbi, author of an article that connects the dots: "In Brutal Document Release, the Russia Hoax is Finally Exposed: Official claim that Putin "aspired" to help Trump was based on four pieces of evidence, all bogus, even "ridiculous," according to long-suppressed report just released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard."

It was worse than we thought.

The January 6, 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment concluding that Russian President Vladimir Putin “developed a clear preference” for Donald Trump and “aspired to help his chances of victory” is revealed in a report released this morning by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to have been based on four pieces of evidence. One was the Steele Dossier. The surprise is that the other three were even less credible, each included over objections of the report’s CIA authors.

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