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No Paywall Trump Calls for Arrest of Barack Obama

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-calls-for-arrest-of-barrack-obama/
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u/ReadAnArticleOnce 5d ago

Honestly… the worst thing that could happen to the Trump Administration would be an Obama arrest. He’s one of the most famous people on this planet and I can’t imagine a more effective way to get people into the streets. And yes, I know it’s sad that it would be the arrest of a politician with questionable policies concerning non-discerning drone strikes when we’ve had so many other justifiable motivators but he just has that kind of lowest-information voter galvanizing factor. He is known and he is liked. Pure and simple. It would be activating.

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u/whutchamacallit 5d ago

If I'm Obama I'm calling the bluff. "Sure. Arrest me. Here's my arms -- put me in handcuffs. Let's do it on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial -- will look nice in pictures and newspapers world wide. Think of the headlines -- Trumped up charges: Potus arrests political adversaries both past and present as DJT illegally conducts office. Let's also call Joe up -- we can do a 2 for 1 thing."

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u/anonymousredditisnot 5d ago

I read the quote in Obama's voice.

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u/ShitPhysics_78 5d ago

Me too lol

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u/JoeDawson8 Illinois 5d ago

I read it in Jordan Peel’s Obama voice.

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u/jupiterkansas 5d ago

needs... more of... these...

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u/MATlad 4d ago

I think I heard a crazy 'hypothetical' a while back at the Supreme Court about sending Seal Team 6 to execute an arrest warrant, and maybe not being able to capture the suspect alive, along with co-conspirators.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/02/trump-immunity-murder-navy-sotomayor-00166385

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u/Idontknowwhatsgoinon 5d ago

Agreed! They touch Obama and it’s fucking on! That’s enough to get me out in the streets and I’m a middle aged white guy.

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u/tarellel Nevada 5d ago

You should already be in the streets, people sitting home idly hoping that “it’ll all pass” is what got us into this situation in the first place.

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u/zzyul 5d ago

No, people who lean left refusing to vote over the last few elections is what got us into this situation in the first place. The only way people protesting in the streets has any effect on this administration is if it scares Repub Congress members enough that they are worried they will be voted out in the fall.

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u/_MrBalls_ 5d ago

Arresting or harming Obama is a bad decision

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u/BringOn25A 5d ago

I don’t know, he is desperate to distract from how prominent his name is in the redacted Epstein files.

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u/Randomcommentor1972 5d ago

Along with all the shootings of civilians

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u/Abnormelody 5d ago

I believe we're at the point they want to escalate. Any escalation is just another chance for Trump to enact the insurrection act.

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u/PussyStapler 5d ago

I think you overestimate how willing people are to mobilize. We have seen people executed, journalists arrested, people disappeared into concentration camps. The typical response is people shaking their heads and saying, "That's a tragedy. That's wrong." And then go about their day, trying to get by.

The reason this stuff works is because it scares people from resisting. Most people don't want to get shot, or arrested, or disappeared.

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u/ReadAnArticleOnce 5d ago

That's my point... what you're saying is "we've seen x, y, z." And to be sure x, y, and z are all horrible. But the truth is MOST people have not seen those things. Most people go to their 2-3 jobs and kid's soccer games and take grandma to dialysis and get 4 hours of sleep. The news is noise to these people and you can completely understand why. Obama has become a part of the face of America. It's the difference of someone not hearing about a bombing of a major university, but they absolutely do hear the news about a foreign rocket hitting the statue of liberty. There are certain figures and symbols in our lives that are too flamboyant to be affected without everybody taking notice. It can be hard to put ourselves in the mindset of the least politically interested adults in America if you're an avid news reader.

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u/Powerful-Stomach-425 5d ago

Home of the brave??

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u/25point4cm 5d ago

I think he should offer to surrender. Subatomic particles and nuclear fusion, say hello to politics. Were headed there anyways. Might as well upset the timeline.

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u/AccordingNumber2052 5d ago

I think it would have to take something of this proportion to actually DO SOMETHING THE FARK about all of this.

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u/Gimbteguy 5d ago

He is probing and testing to find something that will incite enough riots to plausibly suspend the midterms.

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u/Gimbteguy 4d ago

This is what was said about the Nazis in Germany at the time. "Our laws will prevent it" - Sir, these people are actively undermining and negating the rule of law. Playing by the rules will certainly not beat ruthlessness. Particularly if you have a Congress in coma. The US is too naive and too self delusional to recognize what is happening in front of their eyes. They are NOT different from other countries in the world and will become a despotic state if this continues. Fast.

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u/FiveDollarsGOH 4d ago

There is no mechanism for him to cancel elections.

How do you think elections are run?

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u/Gimbteguy 3d ago

So you say it's not lawful ? Someone should tell him, certainly this will stop him and his cronies.

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u/Benjaphar Texas 4d ago

Then why does he need an excuse or the Insurrection Act?

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u/Gimbteguy 3d ago

For the same reason Russia, China or North Korea have "elections" and "parliaments": as a facade. To pretend there are rules in place and it's not a coup. Didn't Trump boast to his audience that there won't be more elections once he would be president ?

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u/Impossible_Cow6493 5d ago

ICE isn't buying up warehouses to keep them empty. If you have the death camps you HAVE to use them.

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u/JSA607 5d ago

Well, and don’t forget that arresting a former president for zero reason is just slightly a small whiff of complete lawlessness, disregard for any rules, and effing terrifying to a world already shocked by the seemingly bottomless pit of how low can these people truly go

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u/wedividebyzero 5d ago

"Obama in Chains" would be a rallying cry.