Former President Obama says Democrats made a mistake by making goals materialistic and instrumental: "What people are starved for at the moment is the ability to tell a moral and ethical story about how we live together in this moment."

Sep 24, 2026 · 6:09 PM UTC

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This dude turned into a 🤡.
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Hey Barack @BarackObama, how many gallons of gas, months of rent, days of childcare, weeks of food, and number of student loan payments will one receive listening to moral and ethical ghost stories these days? @SabbySabs2 @briebriejoy @anthonyzenkus
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Replying to @cspan
Fucking idiot is making the case for identity politics then. That does not work.
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the illusion of fight is all any of these smug assholes will ever give you - feeding you narratives and stories of hope and shared struggle while they live extravagantly off of profits made off your pain
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I want a presidential candidate who's willing to stand up and say Obama is a piece of shit who let us all down.
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Obama was great in 2008, since then he spent the last 18 years killing that man.
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Nobody gives a fuck what you think you Uncle Tom race traitor
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Nah. What people want is to be able to afford some red meat, gasoline, & maybe a vacay more than once a decade.
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Liberalism is just media obfuscation and “storytelling” but the actual policies are targeted assassinations and embargoes on sovereign countries.
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This is very depressing. We can not support neo-liberals just because they are amazing in other ways.
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Such a waste of political capital. Total faux FDR and corporate shill.
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Centrists in the 2010s: Leftists are woke post-materialists who don't talk enough about material issues. Centrists in the 2020s: The left talk too much about about material issues.
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Pontificating about ethics after overseeing a genocide 800,000 Palestinians in Gaza? @BarackObama, no one can be as much out-of-touch as you if they try. Really you're too high on you're on narcissism. No cap.
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Replying to @cspan
Word salad. Don’t know what he’s on about here.
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He was known as The Deporter In Chief at the time
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Lmao he knows the dems have zero answers as well
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Morality and ethics by a person who remained silent on the genocide.
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@BarackObama had a congressional supermajority for his first two years. He had the political capital to pass #MedicareForAll, but chose to wait until "all he could get" was #Obamacare, which guaranteed the existence and profits of health insurance corporations. Forever.
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Replying to @cspan
moral and ethical story that entails bailing out the very entities that cause massive economic collapse. Got it.
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Must be nice, @BarackObama, to have everything you need for yourself and family, traveling around sniffing your own brain farts while you pretend to be some kind of philosophical mastermind. You don’t say shit about the most pressing, urgent crises. Only yap about stupid thoughts
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Dude. People can’t pay their bills. Off the system is going to be a capitalism monetary one you need to give people the ability to survive and thrive in that system. Or we could always force a new one.
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What a fucking putz. He bears much of the responsibility for our current predicament.
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This guy is such a joke. He bailed out the billionaires who got no jail time and let average people lose their homes. He made the conditions for this. Vainglorious hypocrite … blah blah defend your Wall Street chummies
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Was this on his “stop expecting anything from government, be thankful for what we give you” tour?
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People are starved because they are fucking hungry and can't pay their bills
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I thought it was hope and change? We got neither. Now even more ppl are starving for food and homes. Obama can go fuck himself, what a disgusting rat.
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It’s officially time to stop asking this piece of shit what he thinks. He’s a war criminal and a fascist.
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This abject sellout, is the biggest political disappointment of my lifetime.He led a middle class life before his entry into politics,pray explain to me how he has become so fabulously rich all of a sudden;Truman was broke after his presidency and had to move in with his in-laws
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Obama still trying to play nice! Democrats need fighters not passive bullshit!
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Replying to @cspan
This is a great example of being locked into your priors. His 2008 campaign was wildly successful on these terms (hope and change) and denouncing cynicism and self interest etc. But times change. 2028 is not 2008. Our national conversation has become far more populist and angry. Not without good reason between Obama, Trump, Biden and Trump again equally unable to really improve a majority of people’s daily lives, despite many, many promises.
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Replying to @cspan
Yeah…no. We want material change, not hope and change speeches.
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No we're starved of the ability to afford shit
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Fuck off @BarackObama back to Martha’s Vineyard or some shit. We need to pay bills and feed our kids mfer
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"democrats made a mistake by making (barometer of success) be about (improving) materialistic (conditions)" It is wild how much they make you read between the lines
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I’m over @BarackObama preaching this nonsense. We are here bc of the “we go high” mentality. It doesn’t work. Not being able to eat or afford anything isn’t being materialistic Barack. It’s the basics of living but rich people don’t seem to like that
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No, you fucking fraud @BarackObama . What the people want is an actual opposition party for the first time in our entire lives. We want people who don’t JUST profess their morality but actually govern with it.
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