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Obamas call fatal shooting by fed agent a 'wake-up call (abcnews.go.com)

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"These unprecedented tactics -- which even the former top lawyer of the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration has characterized as embarrassing, lawless and cruel -- have now resulted in the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens," the Obamas said.

The Obamas accused the Trump administration of "escalating" the tension in Minneapolis by offering the public explanations of the shootings of Pretti and Renee Good "that aren't informed by any serious investigation -- and that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence."

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 2 days ago

When Obama took over, I was warning everyone that if he didn't punish the crimes and malfeasance of the Bush Administration, the next Republican would be worse, and we ended up with Trump.

Then Biden proved he didn't learn ANYTHING from his years as VP, and let Trump get back up AGAIN!

We cannot let our elected representatives fail us again. We must force them to act decisively, and purge MAGA from our government and society, and harshly punish the MAGA traitors for their CRIMES, which are many.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The alarm has been getting louder and louder for decades. You fucking traitorous liberals ignored hundreds of wake-up calls. This was only one of the latest.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 5 points 2 days ago

We just kept funding it. We still do. We are the ones that keep giving it the ability to manifest. That's the craziest part.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Lmao the wake up call called in 2016 when you guys gave nuclear launch codes to a reality tv star. Now it's a wake up fire and it's blocking all of the emergecy exits.

The only good thing that can happen now is that something better will rises out of the ashes.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The wake up call was the patriot act.

I'm sure there was one before that too.

I just hope people are starting to realize it's always been bullshit and it's not something new.

[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 84 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

There have been sooo many wake up calls. The alarm has been blaring for a decade, and most people keep hitting snooze. The bus is long gone, and you’ve missed so many days, you’re going to be expelled. Final exams are today. Try not to show up in your underpants.

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

I'd argue in this situation waking up yesterday would be a lot better than waking up today, but also better next week then next year. The more people get awake the bigger the critical mass needed to turn this shit around.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 51 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it's a wake up call the same way your alarm is a wake up call two hours after it initially went off and you've been hitting snooze every five minutes

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The US is the epitome of the idea that if you have an appointment 45min away at 8:45 and it’s 8:40 if you just pretend to be in a hurry you might make it on time. You will not be calling ahead to tell anyone where you are because you’re “on the way” and obviously you’re still stopping for a little coffee because you’ve had a stressful morning.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The Obamas seem far more interested in producing movies than they are saving America, so, piss off

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 12 points 2 days ago

The woman holding the camera closest to the murder, she has the biggest courage I've ever seen in my life.

You saw the others how they go blurry when the horror started.

That lady is just incredible.. I hope good things happen to her for allowing us all to see what this government is all about.

We heard things, we knew and assumed things but now we know. This is proof beyond any doubt that we are all just getting murdered.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 2 days ago

Dude we've been awake for a while now. We're past that. Now it's time to arm yourself for self-defense purposes.

[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Start shooting ice agents

[–] Insekticus@aussie.zone 35 points 3 days ago

One of ours. All of theirs.

There's a lot fewer ICE agents than there are American workers. They're just starting with the dayworkers, cleaners, and nurses because its more palatable for the white right-wing. Next, they'll come for other groups of dark Americans.

This always was and always will be a class war. No war but the class war.

[–] AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Too late dead man

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They called it a "tragedy" too.
Its not a "tragedy", its a massive crime and a coverup.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They can afford to not be a part of it. They aren't like us or actually on the same team in the grand scheme of the human story.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

You know you fucked up when the literal poster children of the "they go low, we go high" trend of establishment democrats call you out...

[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

asshole’s been asleep

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You can't sit for too long, you need to get up and move every once and awhile. Nothing's worth than pins and needles.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago

Phone's been ringing off the hook since 2016

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Wake-up call for who?
The people who already knew and voted against Trump? Or the people who voted for him, and also knew he is a fascist sociopath? Or the people who don't care?

There is no way this should be a wake-up call for anybody. This was to be expected. We knew already before his inauguration that he would destroy democracy and put USA at the very least to the brink of civil war doing it.

How is this in any way surprising?
Even the infamously slow moving EU reacted in less than a month to Trump, and began to work on independence from USA.
The world has clearly reacted, but has neither right or power to remove Trump.
The ones that have power to remove Trump are the Americans, and for some reason they don't.

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What would you have us do?

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I've been warning about this since before Trump won the election.
But to be honest IDK what to do at this point, except occupy white house and congress.
It seems more and more like either give Trump his way, or prepare for civil war. 😬
I hope your fellow Americans have better ideas. The time to act was before Trump had everything stacked on his side. But maybe he doesn't have that quite yet. And some of the services will side with the people if they act now.
But apparently all the services are now ready to do Trumps bidding. And if true, that means that USA is already a dictatorship.

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 3 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Yeah. Agreed. The time to act was when we had the option to vote against tyranny. But too many people felt it necessary to protest shit happening in a country they couldn’t have pointed to on a map months before, and the rest of the clowns felt that “good” was the mortal enemy of perfect. So much so that it seems they’re willing to repeat their mistakes in 2028.

Still, everyone wasn’t to believe there’s a way out of this- and no one wants to hear the truth. And yet- the truth is what drives everyone to do nothing about it.

I guess it’s better to just whine about everything while doing nothing as opposed to calling it out.

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[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I’m sorry Americans but there were many wake up calls before this, Renee Good should have been a fucking wake up call! You need to go to your state capitals or to DC and demand the removal of Donald the Cunt.

[–] Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Just for a frame of reference for my European friends, the Whitehouse is a 42 hour drive through 11 states for me right now. Each one of those 11 states is politically unique. Organizing this country is not nearly as simple as everyone else on the planet seems to think. Furthermore, preventing us from organizing is one third of the planets billionaires, who's interests lie definitively in our being fragmented, over worked, and exploitable.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You have senators and congressmen, you have mayors and district politicians, you have state capitals.

You go the the first in the chain, their homes and offices with enough people they cannot say no, and you take them with you to the next in the chain with more people.

It’s like you don’t realise what is happening, that you are about to become prisoners at the whims of a string of dictators. To me that would be worth a 42 hour drive and some car camping, but at the very least a ring around and a visit to my district politicians with some friends.

[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

That looks SO good in writing.

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[–] Rhoeri@piefed.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, everyone seems to think it’s the 1800’s still.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (5 children)

What would be the difference? Much easier travel to your state representative? Easier to find them? Easier to set up a chat group and organise your friends and family?

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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What America needs is the ability to do presidential recalls and no confidence votes like the Europeans.

[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

With fascism on the rise we all need to be a little more ‘French’ with our public officials. Those MFers still had the Guillotine until 1981

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

A surge of white-hot atonement will be our wake up call.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Now that we're awake, what now?

[–] choui4@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Obama used drones to murder innocent people. He helped throw the boomerang. Fuck him

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

But they were brown people.

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[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Deporter in Chief can fuck off, acting like he wasn't normalizing ICE under his administration

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

C'mon, it's not like his administration killed a US citizen or anything /s

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago

After all the "wake up calls" one would assume the metaphorical person's deaf or just plain dead already.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Please come back to the Senate, Obama

[–] Lasherz12@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Only if he replaces Dick Durbin, he's a downgrade from Tammy Duckworth. I'd rather a progressive than both of them.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Philando Castile should have been the wake up call.

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