I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?
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The old gentlemen agreement was don't say anything about the current president actions but to be silenced is an agreement that this one is doing perfectly fine with our nation.
Four years from now, it is too late to say anything.
Where the hell is his voice denouncing this insanity? Where is the backbone of the Democratic Party? It looks like they don’t even have one to share amongst them, except for the few shining stars like Jasmine Crockett and they are far too few.
The articles I was reading dated before the election which was careless of me, but I find as I grow older I do things like that more and more. I do beg your pardon and I thank you for the correction
It was quite generous of you to write such a response. Thank you.
The GOP would've lost WW2.
https://bsky.app/profile/briantylercohen.bsky.social/post/3likmgrgwec2l
https://trilliondollardreadful.com/2025/02/19/trump-blames-victim-for-invasion/
Gampy was all about a
New World Order. It’s not a conspiracy theory.
This was planned & Trump was hired for his reality show acting character along w his lack of human decency & multi national org. crime ties.
They swore an oath on the Bible to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.”
They took their oath the Bible. They asked God to be their witness. That commitment before God is still in the effect. (See below.)
I pity you
However this post is about ex-president speaking up. That's mostly an empirical question: can Obama speaking up convince enough trumptards?
I'm not interested in seeing that happen
It is the approach you're espousing. But you deny that it's your approach.
Where’s Romney? The Generals? And yeah, W? Lincoln, Regan, either Bush couldn’t get elected now that Orange has turned the ‘party’ into a cult
Now we are all screwed with a Musk and Trump Presidency. Thanks.
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Thank you.
Thank you.
Our leaders never had the courage our founding fathers had.
The courage they had to form a new republic, and the courage necessary to preserve it.
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And no Democratic president has ever escaped having his children pilloried and threatened.
Biden/Harris now when we need them.
Where were WE when we need them? Where were WE when they needed us to support THEM? So they'd BE in a position to protect the nation??
Kinda looks like either WE failed THEM, or something else is afoot.
In any case, neither currently holds office or has any power at all.
I believe you're way OVERestimating any "power of their voices." Who NEW is going to listen to them? Repugs? MAGAts? People who couldn't even be bothered to VOTE in Nov?
Where is the fight in them?
Because every single person that I know right now is completely freaking out about how close we are getting to 1930s Germany
And all we get is Hakeem-Jeffries calling Trump, Captain Chaos
Cause you ain’t getting it
Maybe it’s time we pulled this energy from ourselves. Just sayin.
Now, in 2025, he is the same person minus war-mongering.
He also cheated Al Gore and USA hasn't improved Election safeguards since then.
I have been very disappointed with the nature of people in the spotlight.
So now, when it's desperately needed…
Historically (like pre-WWll Germany) a whole lot of people believed that either being quiet or making a show of "going along" kept a lot of these wealthy/political people safe until the Nazis got around to them
Cowards all
One can only hope.
As for Bush, you know that he doesn't care, and he's not surprised. People think he's a joke anyway.
Biden? Biden knows that no one would listen to him, or they'd twist his words to Trump's favor.
That's convince the trumptards
Stand up! Say something!
FLOOD THE ZONE WITH OUTRAGE!
Yes , ordinary people are on their own.
That’s why they’re not saying anything.
Obama did great during the election.
Bush was, shamefully, silent!
CIA? DOJ? NO. They are in place to protect DJT ONLY!!
Laura Bush has a picture book called 'Peekaboo Morning' on her summer children's reading list. It's about a black kid, and you can check it out in the LBGTQIA section of the library.
That's at least 3 things Trump wants to kill. W, get to it.
https://ccc.overdrive.com/library/lgbtqia/media/5665405
They can afford their own security, but they couldn't get the info 'privately'.
Hell those briefings probably written by trump people. I would not believe the briefings they give them
Even so, they know what a president can & cannot do
they need to speak up daily
Maybe a combined daily newsletter from them
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%27s_Daily_Brief
Profiles in courage, indeed.
“Well Homer, I won your respect. And all I had to do was save your life! Now if every gay man could just do the same, you'd be set."
-John Waters, "Homer's Phobia," "The Simpsons"
Not I told you so…but directly to Trump. Call him out as the fraud he is.
Let’s put our energy into doing something helpful like boycotting & calling congress battling misinformation.
Thanks a lot.
But politicians that have been softened by years of their life being just about lobbying won't.
I do know that won't stop King Donny the Lawless from issuing the order, and his minions in the USSS from carrying it out, but the law anyway prohibits that. Families? Open season.
We are where we are because too many Dem/Indie voters CHOSE to vote 3rd party, trump, or not vote at all to ‘show’ Dems, leaving Dems with zero power & now they whine for Dems to save them.
Sorry, THEY can now take the lead in pressuring Repugs to stand up to the Nazis here.
Call GOP fascists and tell them to wake up to the FASCISM
Many so-called conservatives have been working to destroy democracy for 50 years (see pinned post)
Hopefully, a few more lovers of democracy and the rule of law
WILL WAKE UP AND STOP THE FASCISM!
The GQP of 1996-2016 is every bit as guilty of doing this to us as the modern GQP.
Nobody cares what Biden has to say at this point. He is just as complicit!!!
https://myferretsatepepethefrog.blogspot.com/2025/02/murder-publicans-left-behind-is-lie-v.html
Profiles in courage, indeed.
“Well Homer, I won your respect. And all I had to do was save your life! Now if every gay man could just do the same, you'd be set."
-John Waters, "Homer's Phobia," "The Simpsons"
You don't preach against fascism then when it happens, go radio silent. If you do, you never really cared.