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Posted on 06/18/2025 3:57:13 PM PDT by ransomnote
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Speaking to the Connecticut Forum in Hartford, the former president called for institutions, law firms, universities, members of both parties and even Justice Department figures to make “uncomfortable” sacrifices to defend a democracy he argued is increasingly under fire in President Donald Trump’s second term. He suggested, without ever using Trump’s name, that the US was “dangerously close” to a more autocratic government.
“What’s happening is that we now have a situation in which all of us are going to be tested in some way, and we are going to have to then decide what our commitments are,” Obama said, according to a transcript of his remarks provided by his office.
“It will be uncomfortable for a time, but that’s how you know it’s a commitment – because you do it when it’s hard, not just when it’s easy, not just when it’s trendy, not just when it’s cool.”
Obama specifically cited how law firms that don’t cow to Trump will have to accept reduced billings — “which means you cannot remodel that kitchen in your house in the Hamptons this summer” — and businesses that resist the administration’s bullying may have to deal with retribution like politically oriented investigations or mergers being held up.
He even twice pointed to people who work in Trump’s Justice Department, painting them as a bulwark in upholding the Constitution in the face of the president’s threats.
It was a significant call for a broad-scale resistance from the most popular and significant Democratic figure of the 21st century. And it comes at an important time, as the grassroots have risen up in protest like they haven’t since the start of Trump’s first term, but as the party still faces a remarkable leadership vacuum.
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Obama prefers Autopens over autocrats.
Video and audio recordings were not permitted. Seems like Obama is calling for revolution and doesn’t want to be criticized or prosecuted for it.
Resistance is not where its at Osama….
This horse’s ass still trying to rabble rouse his minions. He didn’t F America enough when he was in office....
He has embraced evil to his core, his language is lies and his art is deception.
Was Obama speaking Farsi and addressing his subjects in Iran?
>> [Hussein Obeyme] suggested, without ever using Trump’s name, that the US was “dangerously close” to a more autocratic government.
Now that there is some million-candlepower projection! Awesome, Barry.
This from the bastards who told us what cars we have to drive and stoves we are “allowed” to use.
B*tch GOT his. Just shut up and enjoy your ill gotten gains, ya Poser.
Your current relevance escapes me, though I DO still consider you an Enemy of the United States of America, so we need to keep tabs on you. Thanks for speaking up. *SPIT*
Said the quiet part out loud.
As if they haven't been doing that already.
Democrats think America is a democracy, which is why they have the right to run everything in perpetuity.
Anything that inconveniences them in the pursuit of their rightful role is “dictatorship.”
Not to mention toilets, faucets and showerheads.
He is telling his peeps they need to be ‘down for the struggle’. Gee, where have I heard that before?
Valerie Jarrett is Obama’s handler.
What democracy?
Arrest Obama for sedition.
Obama. Too cowardly to allow cameras and recorders. Too lazy-ass comfortable to actually get off one of his properties to do something in the open. Content to lie in the weeds and strike from hiding. trouble is, he’s naught but a toothless rattlesnake anymore. But still a rattlesnake.
Even so. He will be ignored by even his own team. Ignored. Talk about justice.
By autocratic, these globalists and neocons mean that the US government would exercise sovereignty over its dominion and its people for the good of the people as set forth in the US Constitution and not surrender sovereignty to unelected bureaucrats, domestic and international who make war on Americans for cooking a meal on a gas stove or raise cattle on a ranch to provide beef to hungry Americans.
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