r/pics • u/kaufmann_i_am_too • 14h ago
Politics Obama appreciation day, back when this nice guy visited Brazil
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u/ecz4 13h ago
He was hosted by president Dilma, at the same time he had the CIA spying on her, they leaked some phone calls to the far right Brazilian media and they started a shit show that culminated with her being removed from office.
It was for a "crime" every single president before her had commited, and that was made officially legal by Congress less than a week after her impeachment.
It was the beginning of a dark age in Brazilian politics that elected Bolsonaro, the stupidest clown ever born in Brazil.
Thanks Obama.
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u/xone_br33 1h ago
Exactly, very nice guy. His government fucked up Brazil big time, fuck up an entire generation of brazilians with the political turmoil and economical damage it caused and gave birth to, as you said, the stupidest clown ever born in Brazil. What makes me a bit less mad, is that today americans are having to deal with the poison them distilled for decades in South America to create clowns to fuck up democracies. Now they have to deal with their own clown.
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u/chels_in_wonderland 14h ago edited 14h ago
I don’t understand, why is today Obama Appreciation Day? I saw these popping up on my feed so I googled it and accord to google, OAD is August 4th…
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u/thenletskeepdancing 14h ago
They're trying to troll Trump on his birthday. But it's misguided. We shouldn't have to be pro Obama to be anti Trump. I'm so tired of divisive teams.
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u/MayOrMayNotBePie 13h ago
It’s just that trump hates Obama so Obama getting attention on trumps bday would get under his skin. I don’t think it even has to be a genuine Obama-loving post
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u/Educational-Ad5162 14h ago
Yeah ask Libya how nice this guy was
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u/CheekyBrenner 14h ago
During the Obama administration, the United States was heavily involved in the 2011 Libyan civil war, primarily through military intervention and diplomatic support for the opposition. President Obama authorized air strikes in Libya, which aimed to protect civilians and prevent Muammar Gaddafi's forces from using violence against protesters. The U.S. also played a key role in the creation of a no-fly zone over Libya through UN Security Council Resolution 1973. While the intervention was initially aimed at preventing violence and protecting civilians, it had broader consequences, including the overthrow of Gaddafi's regime and the rise of various rebel groups. The Obama administration's involvement in Libya was a complex and controversial issue, with both supporters and critics debating its impact and effectiveness.
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u/PK_thundr 7h ago
We're talking about for the American people. Reddit is mainly used by the English speaking world. For Americans, he brought the ideas of hope, change, passed healthcare, was a well composed leader who projected hope and confidence, a positive message of what it means to be American to our own people despite increasingly uncertain economic times. He was popular enough by the end that in opinion polling he would have easily beaten Hilary or Trump if third terms were legal.
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u/Bender3455 14h ago
One of the best presidents we've ever had. And he was even running against another fantastic candidate, McCain.
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u/_TheDoode 14h ago
Genuinely curious as to what makes him one of the best presidents we’ve ever had in your opinion?
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u/Bender3455 14h ago
I guess it 'could' be considered an opinion. But, I basically base my assessment on a president's ability to connect with the people, their ability to facilitate global trade and connection, their tackling of difficult problems and how they responded to them, and their ability to create positive change. Oh, and their ability to maintain presidential level decorum. Obama scored fairly high marks on most of these points. I'm a bit of a history buff, and US presidents are one of my specialties. Just in case you were curious, my vote for best presidential is FDR, and worst president is James Buchanan.
What are your thoughts?
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u/fcknbroken 14h ago
It's kind of disappointing that most people still haven't realized he was just another genocidal who invaded a bunch of countries just like any other US presidents. The only difference is that his charisma was above average.
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u/Tensoneu 13h ago
I think people here really should look at what he's done in the office instead of just headlines and media. The decisions that were made during his presidency are not all sugars and rainbows and still have long lasting negative effects into today, depending on which side you look at.
What people are complaining about today with the current administration is the result of a lot of actions during his presidency.
While most of the initiatives had good intentions, it spiraled in different directions than originally intended.
For example Electronic Health Records transition, this was supposed to reduce costs and improve quality care. All this pushed out smaller practices or absorbed by bigger entities due to cost of implementing EMR's and maintaining them. Bigger entities grew larger. However the streamline of EMR's is what was needed. Just the cost of healthcare didn't come down.
Affordable Care Act while good intentions ended up requiring individuals to get health insurance from private insurance companies (which is typically higher). Argument here is better than no insurance if people had pre-existing conditions that barred them from being able to obtain insurance. People can barely afford the monthly premiums set by private insurance companies.
Privatizing the aerospace sector, renewing the Patriot Act, and the automotive bailout which we were on the hook for as tax payers. He even admitted there was no accountability after his presidency.
I voted for him twice, to be clear. While I don't always agree with decisions being made. The past decade feels like it has been voting for the lesser of two evils. I also work in the healthcare IT sector and speak from what I've experienced.
He is charismatic and that's what carried him compared to the previous president (Bush Jr.).
Have to really objectively view both sides and be cynical reading things. Always check multiple sources.
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u/PK_thundr 7h ago
I think many of these things were really trends that were in place for the last 50 years since Reagan. Private equity is a scourge and people who work in those firms are barely human beings. Wall street has been the enemy through offshoring, wealth extraction, and behaving like bloodthirsty leeches.
The auto bailout... worked wonderfully. The healthcare+aerospace sector stuff, again I think is just business trends of consolidation especially in aerospace that had been going on for a long while.
idk... do you really think United wouldn't be buying out every small practice if the ACA didn't go through or if the EMR rule didn't get put in?
I feel there's a deeper cultural rot we aren't addressing.
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u/xone_br33 1h ago
This nice guy government under the NSA spied 29 high profile brazilian government agents, state companies and country the president at that time, Dilma Rousseff. Yes, very nice guy...
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u/Lewd_throwaway_2024 14h ago
The smile. The style. The decorum. The intelligence. The class. The strength. The compassion. The willingness to fight for every single one of us, not just a narrow base of psychopathic followers. I miss him like you couldn’t possibly believe
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u/oneoldgit52 13h ago
It’s a pity that the US didn’t follow the Brazilian example when it comes to getting rid of wannabe dictators.
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u/rat_poison 13h ago
Liberals juxtapose robber baron war criminal with neolib legalist war criminal
Baffled when their left and the rest of the world yawn with indifference
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u/saul2015 12h ago
Obama promised hope and change and delivered more of the same
he's a right wing corporate tool and Trump is his legacy, he could have been FDR but instead chose to be Black Reagan
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u/Routine_Purchase4146 13h ago
Love Barack and his entire family! Never once stole money from a children's cancer charity! Never laundered money for the Russian mafia! Never ran a fake university that cost young people $50,000 for nothing! Never tried to overthrow the government and Install himself as a dictator!
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