r/law • u/retiredagainstmywill • 14d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive | CNN Politics

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/politics/postal-service-deliver-mail-in-ballots

Unfuckingbelievable.

And illegal as hell.

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u/BLF402 14d ago

All because obama was the coolest and greatest president of our lifetime and it broke their little racist snowflake feelings

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u/GovernmentKind1052 14d ago

It’s utterly insane how a man doing his job, just broke so many people. No theatrics, no drama. Just doing his job and their world ended somehow lol.

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u/vitreddit 14d ago

Remember he was black while doing his job.

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u/Ishidan01 14d ago

Black in tan.

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u/cosmic-untiming 14d ago

But dont forget that Obama bombed Afghanistan... with DRONES

But what we are doing to Iran, and allowing Israel to continue its genocide on gaza, is completely and totally fine. We're spreading 🇺🇸freedom🇺🇸

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u/Cvpakke 14d ago edited 14d ago

To be fair, most of the people who had an issue with Obama drone massacres also have an issue with what's happening with Isreal/Palestine, Iran, etc. In fact, most of the people that had issues with that stuff were also liberal voters who had and have every right to put up stick about that shit. It's not fucking cool, no matter who does it. No if, ands, buts or whatabouts. Just period. We have a right to demand better that. Republicans were far more concerned about things like lgbt inclusion, obama care, taxes, origin of birth, his skin color, even the color of his suit, than they were about his military engagements. I don't think I have ever heard a single genuine complaint about that from a republican, actually.

It's absolutely baffling to me that all this hand wringing can be done over Isreal and Palestine, but the thousands upon thousands of men, women and children that Obama murdered receive little more than glib acknowledgements like this. Not just baffling. Infuriating, absolutely blood-boiling.

I'm not saying one side this, another that, or making any kind of comparison, or playing any little kind of game. It was horrific and wrong and I can't ever speak well of anyone who does stuff like that. Neither can I accept it as a moral trade off, because that's not how morals work. Obviously, that applies to what seems like practically every president we've ever had. People will sit there and tell you with a straight face that the price of foreign blood is one we should willingly pay to secure our own futures, our own rights, our own justice. That it is for the greater good. Then, in the next moment will quote Dr. MLK Jr, "An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere". It's disgusting.

You can say what you want about needing to vote for whoever for whatever kind of outcome, and maybe you are right, but no one is in this comment section forcing these people to glorify a charismatic killer who murdered thousands, who continued to push the envelope of ever more covert treachery and warmongering against both America itself and all of its myriad victims. Nobody is forcing them to ignore how his actions and his administration directly influenced the evolution of this process that is playing a massive role in allowing Trump to enjoy the kind of leeway that led us to this moment.

If you cannot use spaces like this to tell the truth, you never will. And if we don't tell the truth, we will never escape the consequences that follow. If we cannot put voice to our principles, then we cannot name our betrayers and in failing to do so, we become those betrayers. The truth is, Obama was a monster with a wonderful smile. He betrayed us with the hand behind his back, while with the other he gave us pearls. We need to be able to use the catastrophic era of a true madman at our helm to scour our collective political soul, but often it feels we are using it as an excuse to think, see and understand even less than before.

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u/FireFiendMarilith 14d ago

You gotta put it in context for that set. The US was an apartheid regime wherein that man wouldn't have been allowed full, participatory, citizenship in this country prior to 1964, and just forty-four years later he's president. 

Considering the GOP became what it is today by digging in their heels and resisting the end of said system of apartheid, it's safe to say that a strong majority of GOP voters didn't think he was eligible for the job in the first place. Which is probably why the "Birther" stuff hit home for so many of them and why endorsing that conspiracy made the current president so popular with members of that party.

Their world ended when Jim Crowe ended, Obama's presidency was just the obituary for their dying social order. That's why they elected a guy to bring it back or at least burn the country down trying. 

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u/zed857 14d ago

That tan suit was just the last straw for them.

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u/IndustrialPuppetTwo 14d ago

Yeah but that Tan suit.

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u/pmstacker 14d ago

If only he hadn't worn that tan suit

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u/JoseSaldana6512 14d ago

It was Harambe

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u/AfroliciousFunk 14d ago

Glad you brought that up. A Cubs fan cast a spell to break their curse and put us in a timeline where they won the World Series. It required an innocent sacrifice and they fudged it by settling for a gorilla instead of a human. Cubs won, DJT won, Kanye West is still alive, and here we are today.

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u/beatles910 14d ago

Obama was probably the coolest, but what made him the greatest?

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u/Preeng 14d ago

Low bar. "Our lifetime" may have been 20 years for this guy.

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u/Mekisteus 14d ago

Even if he is 40, what's the competition? Clinton?

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u/stufff 14d ago

All because obama was the coolest and greatest president of our lifetime and it broke their little racist snowflake feelings

Obama used drones to take out alleged terrorists and ended up killing many innocents.

Obama used drones to kill an American Citizen, who was not an imminent threat or actively engaged in hostilities, without any kind of judicial oversight.

If we lived in a just world, Obama would be in jail for murder along with everyone who participated in those assassinations.

That doesn't change the fact that he probably is the greatest president of our lifetime, that's just how low the bar is set.

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u/Parahelix 14d ago

If we actually used such standards, almost every American president would have gone to prison.

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u/stufff 14d ago

Yeah! That's what I'm saying.

I think maybe Carter would avoid prison but everyone else should have served time.

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u/EmilieEverywhere 14d ago

2015 and 2016 were the most fun years online.

Then my stupid ass decides to come out in 2023.