MONDAY, JULY 21, 2025
Barack Obama in chains: Even as we sat here typing, the sitting president offered this:
Trump Shares AI Clip of Obama Being Arrested After Tulsi Gabbard ‘Coup’ Claims
President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video showing former President Barack Obama being arrested by the FBI after his intelligence chief accused the Democrat of leading a “years-long coup.”
The TikTok video, posted to Truth Social, shows Obama being approached by agents and handcuffed in the Oval Office before appearing in an orange jumpsuit behind bars, all soundtracked with The Village People’s hit song and Trump favorite, “YMCA.” The manipulated footage repurposes clips from Obama and Trump’s 2016 White House meeting and twists Obama’s real quote, “no one is above the law,” into the video’s ironic punchline.
The post came just hours after a Sunday announcement on Fox Business by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who accused the Obama administration of plotting to “usurp” Trump by deliberately manipulating intelligence on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
And so on from there.
David Gilmour did the post at Mediate. This weekend, even as we Blues kept discussing the previous topic of the moment, the sitting president and his soldiers were hurrying ahead to this.
Say goodbye to the previous topic! Presumably, Gabbard is back in her leader's good graces. Also, even as the zone keeps getting flooded, this may start to signal the shape of a very ugly long fight.
"This weekend, even as we Blues kept discussing the previous topic of the moment, the sitting president and his soldiers were hurrying ahead to this."
ReplyDeleteIt isn't clear whether Somerby thinks we Blues should be keeping up with Trump's attempts to distract, but I don't see why we must be driven by Trump's agenda and not our own.
I believe the best way to take down Trump is to continue to investigate and talk about his illegal activities with Jeffrey Epstein. This is Trump's weakness, because he is guilty and because even political partisans cannot argue in favor of child sexual abuse.
So, what are we supposed to be moving on to? Obama is a big boy, there is no evidence against him, and he can protect himself. The same cannot be said of the young girls who Trump attacked throughout his adulthood.
Here's my nickel's worth. If we chase the "topic of the moment" we'll forever be a step behind. Today it's Gabbard's silly charged. Last week, it was Epstein's birthday card.
DeleteSo, I think you're right that 'we Blues" need to set our own agenda. I understand Our Host to be making a similar observation.
That Epstein birthday card is not a distraction, it IS the topic. We are tolerating a rapist in office. It needs to stop. The birthday card is Trump's confession.
DeleteI don't see Somerby urging we Blues to set our own agenda. I see him avoiding deserved criticisms of Trump in order to focus on trivialities like Gutfeld.
"and because even political partisans cannot argue in favor of child sexual abuse." I take it you don't read the comments around here. These deranged cult members are sick pieces of work.
DeleteQuaker - Good idea, but what should the agenda be? Trump's agenda took most of the items off the table: illegal immigration, government waste, men in women's sports. Gaza war. Ukraine war. Strengthening NATO. Ending reverse discrimination. Taking various benefits away from illegal immigrants.
DeleteThe Dems pretty much achieved their traditional agenda: heath and welfare benefits, ending discrimination against blacks, etc. One big thing remains for the Dem agenda: the enormous and rapidly growing national debt.
The Republican ranks are currently filled with elected leaders who have engaged in some of the worst corruption and crime we have ever seen in this country.
DeleteOne of our main agendas should be to see these Republicans brought to justice.
This is not the observation Somerby is making.
It's the WSJ that wrote about his special birthday card to Epstein; the "Blues" were not involved in this. With that said, Dems should step away from the Epstein blowup and let MAGA devour itself over this, insomuch as possible. By getting involved the Blues are just giving a convenient target for Trump to misdirect the ire of his bat-guano insane cult.
Delete@1:11 and Ilya - Your suggestions involve attacks on Trump and Reps. Whether or not the Epstein and corruption accusations are valid, they're not the kind of issue that directly affects the American people. Can you think of potential Dem issues that do directly affect the American people?
DeleteGo fuck yourself, Dickhead. The rule of law directly affects every citizen. Fuck yourself straight to hell.
DeleteYour suggestions involve attacks on Trump and Reps.
DeleteHuh? It's his own cult that's attacking him. My suggestion is that Dems stay out of this. You're a tad bit confused on this account, David.
The issues that affect American people? Sure, I can think of some:
- People being kidnapped off the streets in this country and send to a gulag without due process.
- Military being deployed on American soil.
- Masked ICE agents snatching people, including American citizens.
- Wanton grift and corruption, including unilateral imposition of tariffs.
- Cutting Medicaid. Despite of your dissembling about the "illegals" receiving Medicaid, that's just plain false.
- Building a concentration camp.
- Doing nothing about bloodshed in Gaza or Ukraine (what happened to "peace on day one"?).
- Dismantling of government institutions, e.g. CDC that were doing important work.
Now, will everyone become immediately aware of the disasters that Trump's administration is wreaking on this country? No, it'll take some time to shake out.
"One big thing remains for the Dem agenda: the enormous and rapidly growing national debt."
DeleteIt's Republican presidents and Congress who have exploded the debt. Why isn't this on THEIR to-do list, David?
I totally agree Quaker. The Reps are blowing the debt issue. I would love to see the Dems propose a long-term plan to deal with it. Something more than just blaming the Reps. Although the Republicans do deserve plenty of blame.
DeleteEach and every time Dems propose raising taxes or letting a tax cut expire, the GOP is right there to demagogue the issue.
DeleteSpare me your concern trolling about the Dems' agenda.
I agree Quaker. The Reps deserve plenty of blame. But the proposed tax increases are not a solution. The deficit is around $2.5 trillion per year. The tax increases proposed by the Dems would reduce the deficit by only $200 to $300 billion — less than 1/8 of the deficit.
DeleteIf one examines 45 years of history and has just a tiny bit of intelligence, one would find the means to solve the debt is to elect Democrats. If you want an economy pump, and debt dump, elect Republicans. Thank God Dems have gotten in there to largely correct or stem the bleeding. And as always, fuck you fascist David.
DeleteUnder President Biden the national debt increased by $8 trillion.
DeleteIlya - that's an impressive list of problems. What's needed now is the proposed solutions.
Delete"Under President Biden the national debt increased by $8 trillion."
DeleteAnd we got something for it. Bailed out of a recession, and better infrastructure. What do we get for Trump's tax breaks? Better limos and foam parties.
Think, for once.
"The tax increases proposed by the Dems would reduce the deficit by only $200 to $300 billion — less than 1/8 of the deficit."
DeleteHold on, DIC. When Musk was cutting weathermen and scientists and peanut paste to save the lives of starving kids, you were all for it because it would reduce the defict. In fact you were "thrilled".
Now all the sudden you want big solutions or why bother? You really are MAGA.
"Ilya - that's an impressive list of problems. What's needed now is the proposed solutions."
DeleteHere's a proposed solution: Trump should stop doing those things! And his party should stop supporting him, and toadying to him at every opportunity.
And people like you should stop throwing up your hands and saying, "Gosh, how can we stop ICE from kidnapping people off the streets?" as if this was some unfathomable natural occurrence beyond any human control.
My hope is that once evidence of Trump's sexual abuse of minors is available, it will not be a prolonged fight before he is removed from office. Our country should not have such a man as its president.
ReplyDeleteKeep hope alive, but it won't do any good. They just gave the idiot a brown shirt army with passage of BBB. The worlds' oldest Democracy trashed by a bitter old racist child fucking lifelong grifter.
DeleteStephen Miller is already our de facto president, and JD Vance is at least as scary/fascistic as Trump.
DeleteHere is a description of the review operation being conducted by the DOJ to find and log mentions of Donald Trump's name in the Epstein files:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstein-cover-up-at-the-fbi?r=yzqcr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
You can tell that this meme of Obama in chains is a right wing, bigot's fantasy because powerful people do not get taken away in chains when arrested. Their attorneys make an appointment for them to surrender, no handcuffs required, no embarrassing press photos.
ReplyDeleteWho are such memes made for? People who hate. In this case, the depiction of Obama in chains is the fantasy of bigots who want to ship black people back to Africa, as they are doing symbolically with detainees. We are regularly seeing pictures of brown and black people being sent to countries where they have never lived before, in Africa (Libya, South Sudan, Eswatini). Now this meme very obviously appeals to Trump's fantasy of shipping Obama back to Kenya, undoing his presidency.
So, this is race-baiting. Somerby doesn't mention that.
Somebody is obtuse.
DeleteSomerby is obtuse.
DeleteAnd you’re redundant.
DeleteI’m not too bright.
DeleteYou may not be the brightest bulb but maybe you are the sharpest?
DeleteSomerby is notoriously squeamish when it comes to racism.
Yes, I’m a sharp bulb.
DeleteRepublicans do not like Black people.
DeleteThis goes back decades, it is nothing new, and it will continue until the Republican Party returns to its roots in Lincoln.
You can not get further from Lincoln than the current state of the Republican Party.
I like Black people.
DeletePam Bondi was twenty-five when she married Garret Barnes, thirty-one when she married Scott Fitzgerald, fifty-two when she became the domestic partner of John Wakefield.
ReplyDeleteIs your point that women have no privacy?
DeleteThe wives of Puyi and their ages:
DeleteWanrong, sixteen
Wenxiu, thirteen
Tan Yuling, seventeen
Li Yuqin, fifteen
Li Shuxian, thirty-eight
That’s their ages when they married him.
DeleteYou really do not have to share your royal child rape fantasies anymore.
DeleteThis is emptywheel: “I feel like when people say, ‘people need to go to jail over this” they disappear the kind of political work it would take to obtain accountability. . . .”
ReplyDeleteThis has been a persistent theme of Somerby’s, yet there are those here who mistake what he as saying as, instead, an apologia for the lawbreakers.
What are you smoking, buddy? The only persistent theme of Somerby I can see is his attacks on Dems.
DeleteThat was not his main point. He believes we should pity Donald Trump, and not even attempt to hold him accountable.
DeleteRight, and he attacks Dems who do attempt to hold Trump accountable.
DeleteNot quite. He attacks Dem media that focus on Trump's legal troubles to the exclusion of virtually all else.
DeleteHahahaha!!!! First of all, there is no "Dem media".
Delete"Trump's legal troubles"????? LOL!!! Half his personal legal team are now running the DOJ or are on their way to lifetime Federal judgeships. What the fuck are you smoking? He wipes his corrupt ass with our Constitution every fucking day and the corrupt USSC sends him attaboys. What fuck are you smoking?
I am on your side, not the deranged cult side. Today I am not smoking anything. Every now and again the dispensary sells $40 - 14g bags of shake, with THC about 17%.Pretty damn clean, no seeds and only the tiniest of sticks. But not really smokable. So I have been spending way too much time cleaning out the tiniest of sticks, and turning into pot "flour" by scraping thru a stainless mesh. The internet says to turn into pot butter, or increase potency by baking at 270 degrees F for 40 minutes. I've made brownies since I was a kid. All I do is stir the "flour" in a bunch of honey, add the egg, water, oil and chocolate brownie package and bake in 8x8 glass for 46-48 minutes. Between the fine particle size and length of baking - and residual cool down heat, I am not too worried about the THC being potenticized by heat; as evidenced by the length of this post. With a near half ounce of 17% flour I would not eat more than 4-6 grams - maybe 1/2" x 1/2" bite for a couple hours before ingesting more. We are chronic and 12g is pretty strong.
DeleteForgot to add, chronic, to minimize the stress of American Democracy being dismantled by these greasy grifter child fuckers; and their enablers.
DeleteSomerby has been clear, he thinks our society is too punitive when it comes to certain personal failings (this includes Trump's horrible crimes and corruption, you know, because Trump is merely delusional - Brother, please).
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, alternatively, Somerby is relentless in his attacks on Blue America, blaming them for Trump and most of what ails us, primarily because Dems refuse to capitulate to Republicans on issues that Somerby seems to care about, such as capitulating on race, sex, gender, immigrants, etc.
Somerby wants Dems to adopt his personal views on these subjects, and then, and only then, all will be right...hilarious!
Somerby may be surprised, but the fact is nobody cares about Trump going after Obama, and everybody still cares about Epstein and why Trump is hiding his involvement with Epstein.
ReplyDeleteAnd let me tell you, this is fucking fun, watching all the Republicans squirm and twist.
Right. At this point, no sane person and only 89% of the deranged cult would believe Daddy doesn't rape little girls. Reap what you sow, bitches.
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ReplyDeleteHey Bob, you blue idiots repeated “no one is above the law” so many times recently, that the former president from Kenya will definitely have to serve time in jail now. No way around it, I'm afraid.
"Sentence first! Verdict afterward!" --Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
DeleteA President cannot be prosecuted for anything he did while in office. According to SCOTUS.
Delete"...you blue idiots repeated “no one is above the law” so many times..."
DeleteTo which MAGA replied, "Nuh-uh! Trump's rubber and you're glue!"
For the love of God, could you just make sense once?
DeleteCareful. He's a MAGA snowflake. You just hurt his feelings.
Delete"the former president from Kenya will definitely have to serve time in jail now."
DeleteYeah,, when pigs fly or you write a coherent post.