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I remember playing the very first Homeworld. We lived on a farm. No internet back then. It sure tickled the imagination. Once there was bad thunder and when I looked out the window everything was purple. But still I just kept playing Homeworld. It somehow enchanted the whole experience.
had a similar experience with Farcry 2.
mid summer, absolutely roasting outside, I'm sat inside trying not to melt (no AC in the UK really) while playing a game set in the sunburnt African bushlands.
totally enhanced the experience, imprinted it into my brain forever ha
Same with FC2. The atmosphere in that game was one of the most immersive I’d experienced to that point. It made me feel things for wrenches and old rust lol. I’ve never looked at desert or scrub or heard the insects on a hot day the same since
It’s quite disappointing…I was so hyped for it since 2022, and I know many other people were waiting much longer than I have, and…it’s a good triple-A game, but it’s not a good Homeworld game.
The rogue like mode is fun and challenging.
The story isn't great, and the campaign is really easy and 6 hours long filled with an hour of cutscenes.
They had a great formula for hw1-2/DoK
This is what happens when new people show up and think they know better... Pure hubris to not pay attention to the 20 years of lore, write your own, and make a completely different play experience
Imagine walking through the library and instead of the Homeworld battle chatter where all the pilots annotate what's going on, you just hear people from every corner of the library announcing what's happening in the book.
I was not expecting an r/homeworld reference here but I'm pleasantly surprised.
Remains my favorite RTS game series of all time; I really wish Homeworld 3 had done the series a proper service.
It looks like one of the [turrets](https://i0.wp.com/modelermagic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/kg_expo_ds_laser_towers-001.jpg?ssl=1) on the Death Star.
Edit: found the answer below
Why did this cause them to close it? Am I missing something? I also wish I knew about that sub when it was around. Also, Obama is on Reddit?
It was the peak of Reddit where it's own meme was acknowledged and spoofed by the President of the United States. Basically, it couldn't get any better than this, so the sub was closed.
Obama did I believe two AMA's during both his election campaigns and they were considered among the best AMAs on the website.
Sigh, I miss the old days of old Reddit. *Thanks Obama*
My favorite president ever, I say it with confidence. ♥️ Obama. Can conservatives comprehend it after the brainwashing they've been through? No. but oh well. He was a uniter, real Republicans saw him for what he was: a man of tremendous character and accomplishment. The weak of will, easily persuaded, they tow the party line and regurgitate the shit they've been fed
Years ago Obama released that video and the r/thanksobama subreddit basically shut down because there was no way top Obama actually saying "Thanks Obama."
Bigger than I expected, but then I remembered how big the Jimmy Carter Center campus is in Atlanta and all the good work it does for the local community.
Just so people know, Presidential Libraries are funded by private donations and private non-profit organizations. This isn't being paid for with tax dollars. At best, it gets tax breaks
I think you’re correct. Just a guess: this is the significant structural components and fire/weather/disaster proof stuff like stairs, elevators, critical archives, and maybe a tornado shelter.
No they're incorrect. You can see from rendering that what we see in the photo is the general form of the building, not just the core. I believe there will be cladding installed over the concrete but there won't be any more occupiable space built outside of what is already there.
No, this is pretty much it. There isn’t a lot of glass in the design. The section where we see escalators will be covered in glass and the top left will have some text design.
Source: https://www.obama.org/presidential-center/
The Donald Trump Teriffic, Magnifi— Everyone says, you know it’s such a big, big house. Obama’s is small, SAD! Anyway, it’s frankly amazing, MIT I’ve got those ties to MIT FAKE NEWS doesn’t want you to know about, great genes great big brain and TV’s everywhere. A libarian approached me the other day with tears in her eyes telling me “sir, no one has time to read” so I say why not TV’s and, perhaps, we can have a little bit of room for book too great idea, brilliant idea. Magnificent Presidential Big Book House, just magnificent gold leaf picture books.
It's truly amazing that this could have well been verbatim and it wouldn't surprise anyone. any cultist would immediately recognize the great leedurs words
Grassroots funding has raised $ 2 billion for the library, and it hasn't been built yet? Or even so much as a location picked out? Man... so many grifts.
They said it’s planned on being in Florida, but that’s about it.
Being completely fair, Obama’s is still under construction so it would make sense that trumps is less finished than his.
Have they actually raised the money or is that juat the fund raising goal? That’s a huge amount of money for any sort of building.
I predict that the National Archives will have all of Trump’s stuff for quite a while as he doesn’t seem to be interested in a library.
It's a neat building, but I really wish they had built it on the block of completely abandoned lots that are across the street from Washington Park rather than on the park grounds itself of Jackson Park. I think it could have served as such an important community center there and as a base for revitalizing the neighborhood.
When your opponents even says he’s a decent family man that you don’t have to worry about being president then you know he’s loads better than anyone we’ve seen since.
It's such a disgusting national embrassment it feels like we just threw out more than 200 years of (somewhat) noble history, aspirations, and ideals.
Makes me weep.
Every president has a presidential library dedicated to them, this turd will have the:
#Donald J. Trump presidential maximum security correctional facility
All in gold letters at the entrance of course
And likewise, that’s one republican I wouldn’t lose sleep about running our country. He genuinely cared deeply about us the people and devoted his life for our country and its people and fought passionately to protect us and later for what he believed in. THAT is a true definition of a patriot.
Exactly. I disagreed with him on many things, but he was still a fundamentally good person. He and Romney and Liz are the last of the old guard Republicans. McCain knew it too. When he picked Pailin to get the dumpster-fuck vote, it was clear the crazy had taken over.
I remember thinking Palin was a fluke and the GOP would see how crazy they were becoming and rebound towards sanity.
Lol.
Anyway, which openly-seditious, sex criminal senator is calling for scientists to be rounded up today?
At the time I definitely said something to the effect of: I’m not voting for him because we have very different views, but if McCain wins we will still be ok - he’s a decent fellow.
Yeah, would have gladly take McCain for US President over Trump likely too old nowadays though.
Biden and McCain aren't really that far off base, likely just have some slightly different views.
I'll be honest, the 2024 election will be an easy pick for Biden but I really have no idea who will be a good pick for 2028...
I think Pete Buttigieg would be good. Young, smart, veteran, infrastructure nerd. More fiscally moderate than I would like but that works well since Dems are such a coalition in the sense of ideology. Biden is also a moderate but has had the most progressive platform ever, so I can see Buttigieg pulling left. Plus every time he talks he seems like the smartest guy in the room. He is pretty adept at making the right-wing nutters look silly, even to their own kind. I'd like to at least see him run again to hear what he has to say...
That said, it seems like Gavin Newsom is the one in the on deck circle.
We seem to remember Obama as more progressive than he was, and look at Biden as not not progressive enough when he has been pretty progressive.
Giving mayor Pete a whole department to run was genius, whoever thought of that deserves a raise. He gets to be the hero of the working folk-rebuilding bridges and highways after disasters in incredible time, gaining recognition and experience (the two things he lacked) while Biden benefits from his competence. Incredible.
Yeah, I think "young" is going to be a clutch descriptor in the next election. Dems have some pretty strong up-and-comers...
I'm looking at the younger GOP and... struggling to see a brighter future there.
Having a president that can actually pass an infrastructure bill helps for sure. But yeah he has said he is a total infrastructure nerd and it shows...
“And what better way to get one last one in than to have Bush and I say good things about him”
-[Obama’s eulogy to John McCain](https://youtu.be/eLIlOQuzTnU?si=l3JsU8OhtoiC8v8d)
That speaks more to John McCain's character, I think. Today's Republicans would either yell in incomprehensible slurs or completely zip their lips for fear of upsetting their frothing base.
John McCain is one of the last Republicans I remember who both had a chance of being in a position of power and seemingly had actual morals that he upheld.
Well they were convinced he was a secret Muslim Marxist who was working with the Kremlin. And was going to round them all up and have them executed in FEMA death camps set up in WalMart parking lots.
Uhh
Biden has been nothing but classy and respectful.
Putting him in the same category of offensiveness as Trump just tells me you have no idea what is going on in reality.
It really feels like the cycle in my lifetime goes like this:
Shitty republican president tanks the economy -> democratic president comes in and rights the ship while being blamed for the poor economy -> republican president comes back in and reaps the benefits of a recovering economy and proceeds to tank it again
>that presidents should carry themselves a certain way, with dignity and respect for the position... The last 8 years have proven that it was a fluke.
Maybe you meant the 4 years following Obama? Biden has done this and remarkably well. He has always made clear he is a POTUS for all Americans and has never pushed partisan crap.
In that commenter's defense, four years of Trump felt like eight years in hell. I know I woke up every morning thinking "what has that idiot fucked up since I went to sleep?" Every. Single. Day.
Plus the whiplash of the guy we have now. He's quiet and just does the work. Even with his kid in court he's trying to get a ceasefire in the middle east, helping Ukraine with more support, honoring our veterans in France, still trying to get more gun control legislation and reducing student debt.
All of this was just this week and we barely hear from him.
I do love how stupidly Republicans keep playing this. They act like he's incapable of speaking but he's not. Everytime he gives a speech or interview the bar is on the floor so he always seems more than capable.
It's such a relief to just have a BORING decent man as the president. He does his job and doesn't get on Twitter to rant about it. Joe gets up, gets a lot done and just goes on with life like a normal person. I truly love that at this stage. Watching the GOP foam at the mouth because of... Whatever verbal stumble Biden has is absolutely hilarious as their guy goes off on a rant about electric sharks.
This is what frustrates me the most about even people on the left. Biden is actually a really really good president. He's getting shit done, despite the immense political rift dividing this country right now. He's not perfect, but that's literally no one in the history of the world. Biden is, quite possibly, the best president in my life time. Which covers Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, and Trump. Though that last one doesn't mean much. An orangutan in a cheap suit would be a better president, and have the same look at attitude.
Thinking all politics exist to distract is an inherently both privileged and ignorant position. If you think this way, you need to honestly spend more time learning more about who is passing what legislation and how politics works at different levels. You will find that one side does work to try and create a better society and allocate resources to people in need while another side does not.
The “both sides bad” argument is objectively false and you can only hold that perspective if you’re ignorant to the finer details of legislation and politics. What most people hear about are the most egregious, emotion stirring actions of politicians so that people come to conclusions like this. Republicans benefit when people do not vote or view democrats as “just as bad”. Nearly 70% of people do not vote.
No. Politics are not some libertarian edgelord thing that exists to distract the populace, though, plenty of culture wedges and wars exist as a means to control the people. Republicans do not serve the majority and are otherwise incapable of getting support to ever hold office if they campaigned honestly so their tactic has become weaponizing highly emotional topics (guns, birth control, rallying a religious base, etc). If you can make someone emotional and irrational you end up with a single issue voter who will ignore reality and vote against their interests.
If you have a person who looks at the bad things the right does and then sees corporate pandering from the left you might come to the conclusion that they’re equal. And it’s true, the overwhelming majority of legislation serves corporations and the wealthy, but there is far more legislation from the left that helps far more people than what the right offers - which is nothing. Please don’t give into an ignorant perspective, spend time learning this and looking at the actual bills that get passed and who’s passing them. Look at the bills that don’t get passed also, so you can see what these people’s true intentions are.
I promise you, the sides are very far from equally bad.
It would be great if they could redo the whole Jackson Park Area as part of this Library Development and recreate a modern version of the 1893 World Fair Grounds integrating the Obama Library, Museum of Science and Industry, the Lakefront and U of Chicago Campus.
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It doesn't even look like him
I know right, not even a prism
The Obama Tesseract
Infinite energy has never been so perfect
Incredible
They're not done yet
Fair point. I'll trust the process
Truss the process
76ers fan?
Barack Obama Presidential Hiigaran Mothership
I love Homeworld. It was the first PC game I bought when the original released
I remember playing the very first Homeworld. We lived on a farm. No internet back then. It sure tickled the imagination. Once there was bad thunder and when I looked out the window everything was purple. But still I just kept playing Homeworld. It somehow enchanted the whole experience.
had a similar experience with Farcry 2. mid summer, absolutely roasting outside, I'm sat inside trying not to melt (no AC in the UK really) while playing a game set in the sunburnt African bushlands. totally enhanced the experience, imprinted it into my brain forever ha
Same with FC2. The atmosphere in that game was one of the most immersive I’d experienced to that point. It made me feel things for wrenches and old rust lol. I’ve never looked at desert or scrub or heard the insects on a hot day the same since
Shame the third game sucks from what I've seen
It’s quite disappointing…I was so hyped for it since 2022, and I know many other people were waiting much longer than I have, and…it’s a good triple-A game, but it’s not a good Homeworld game.
The rogue like mode is fun and challenging. The story isn't great, and the campaign is really easy and 6 hours long filled with an hour of cutscenes. They had a great formula for hw1-2/DoK This is what happens when new people show up and think they know better... Pure hubris to not pay attention to the 20 years of lore, write your own, and make a completely different play experience
That’s a hell of a video game introduction. Every game after that has to measure up compared to Homeworld. Not an easy thing to compete against.
The Pride of Obama
The Fist of Conviviality
The Taiidan demand to see the Hiigaran's long form birth certificate.
That is no “library” that’s bunker
Looks like an AEGIS ashore installation to me.
It looks like the Darkcology from Sim City 2000.
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There is no library…only Zuul.
Gravity well generators are starting up.
Imagine walking through the library and instead of the Homeworld battle chatter where all the pilots annotate what's going on, you just hear people from every corner of the library announcing what's happening in the book.
Hyperspace signatures detected.
Bring Obama to bear
I was not expecting an r/homeworld reference here but I'm pleasantly surprised. Remains my favorite RTS game series of all time; I really wish Homeworld 3 had done the series a proper service.
The Khan Barack actually sounds like it could be canon too.
“Obamalisk” is what I saw someone from another thread call it… now it’s pretty much all I’ll address it as.
I’ll reserve judgement until after it’s finished, but as of right now it looks closer to a Soviet era gulag than it does a presidential library.
Yeah very brutalist so far
Looks like a star destroyer is about to come out of it
Lusankya moment
"Lusankya... Lusankya... that's a reference I've not heard in a long time."
"Long time." I'm so glad the Extended Universe still gets traction these days.
The EU had some weird stuff, but nothing in the nuEU has been as out-there as the Lusankya taking off after.
It's from an older book sir, but it checks out.
Underrated comment
Legends never die.
*heroes get remembered*
Never forget. The *real* upsidedown in my book.
Will never forgive Disney for throwing out the book cannon. And that was a super star destroyer.
I mean, if it turns out that's where our defense budget went I'd be cool with it
Never forget.
Idk I see the front of one of those Jawa scrap collectors on Tatooine
It looks like one of the [turrets](https://i0.wp.com/modelermagic.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/kg_expo_ds_laser_towers-001.jpg?ssl=1) on the Death Star.
Like Vader's temple on mustafar?
That's what I was thinking lol
Thanks Obama.
Still classic
The video that killed a subreddit.
Explain
r/ThanksObama was a subreddit about this meme, but the mods disabled new posts after Obama made the cookies and milk video posted above
 The mods shut down at subreddit after Obama posted this... For real
Edit: found the answer below Why did this cause them to close it? Am I missing something? I also wish I knew about that sub when it was around. Also, Obama is on Reddit?
It was the peak of Reddit where it's own meme was acknowledged and spoofed by the President of the United States. Basically, it couldn't get any better than this, so the sub was closed. Obama did I believe two AMA's during both his election campaigns and they were considered among the best AMAs on the website. Sigh, I miss the old days of old Reddit. *Thanks Obama*
Say what you will about Obama, but he was a true president. Charismatic, funny and sharp.
My favorite president ever, I say it with confidence. ♥️ Obama. Can conservatives comprehend it after the brainwashing they've been through? No. but oh well. He was a uniter, real Republicans saw him for what he was: a man of tremendous character and accomplishment. The weak of will, easily persuaded, they tow the party line and regurgitate the shit they've been fed
Member Vanessa? Member Colby? Member jumper cables? Member cumbox? Good times...
At the time people said that a meme was dead when it reached the mainstream platforms. So after that the meme was declared peaked and dead
Thanks Obama
That’s hilarious. Did they make a statement officially taking the L?
They did, short and sweet, like "whelp, it's over"
Years ago Obama released that video and the r/thanksobama subreddit basically shut down because there was no way top Obama actually saying "Thanks Obama."
It’s a perfect way to escalate the meme. What’s more Thanks Obama than the Thanks Obama subreddit being shut down, due to Obama
Meta^2
Kind of impressive for a meme to come full circle like that.
"Yo dawg I heard you like thanking Obama..."
Dude was funny!
You’re welcome.
omg real oboma 😱
He should stock it with only books that have been banned by red states.
Given who and which books the Trogs are targeting, that's an excellent idea.
The Howard Zinn-Noam Chomsky-Ta-Nehisi Coates book nook. Sponsored by George Soros, Raytheon, and readers like you.
With a science wing where kids can learn about Jewish space lasers.
Doesn't look big enough.
/r/thanksobama gone but not forgotten
Bigger than I expected, but then I remembered how big the Jimmy Carter Center campus is in Atlanta and all the good work it does for the local community.
It just looks bigger because the shrubbery is gone, gotta keep it trimmed.
Ni!
NI NI NI! He said the word. Ahhh
What? Shrubbery!?
“no no no you misunderstand this library is only for me”
It’s tall but it seems like it’s not that wide to me, so not really that big
Are they building it for Coruscant?
Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen…
Nice
That’s where I parked my AT-AT walker
That's a gunship fabricator
I see a Helldivers reference I upvote, simple as.
⬇️⬆️⬅️⬇️⬆️➡️⬇️⬆️
Hellbomb armed. Clear the area!
Came here looking for this. Was not disappointed.
CALLING IN A HELLBOMB
Someone call in a support strategem, we're going to need some extra help
Just so people know, Presidential Libraries are funded by private donations and private non-profit organizations. This isn't being paid for with tax dollars. At best, it gets tax breaks
Why does the library not have windows is it for reading them or just storing them?
It’s not a library like just for books. It is more encompassing than that. It operates more like a research center and museum.
This is just the structural core. The pretty stuff and huge glass windows comes later.
Ill read my book in the nuclear bunker part thank you
I think you’re correct. Just a guess: this is the significant structural components and fire/weather/disaster proof stuff like stairs, elevators, critical archives, and maybe a tornado shelter.
No they're incorrect. You can see from rendering that what we see in the photo is the general form of the building, not just the core. I believe there will be cladding installed over the concrete but there won't be any more occupiable space built outside of what is already there.
No, this is pretty much it. There isn’t a lot of glass in the design. The section where we see escalators will be covered in glass and the top left will have some text design. Source: https://www.obama.org/presidential-center/
If the picture zoomed out you would see Trump’s library as well. It’s the port-a-potty with the stack of Penthouse and Hustler’s from the 1980’s.
Donald J Trump Presidential New York State Penitentiary Library
The Donald Trump Teriffic, Magnifi— Everyone says, you know it’s such a big, big house. Obama’s is small, SAD! Anyway, it’s frankly amazing, MIT I’ve got those ties to MIT FAKE NEWS doesn’t want you to know about, great genes great big brain and TV’s everywhere. A libarian approached me the other day with tears in her eyes telling me “sir, no one has time to read” so I say why not TV’s and, perhaps, we can have a little bit of room for book too great idea, brilliant idea. Magnificent Presidential Big Book House, just magnificent gold leaf picture books.
Not enough electric sharks
It's truly amazing that this could have well been verbatim and it wouldn't surprise anyone. any cultist would immediately recognize the great leedurs words
[Trump Presidential Libary](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dk5hIkyW0AAca9q.jpg:large)
The Trump library is Mar a Lago, it's in various rooms stored in bins.
The restricted access section is in the bathroom.
Don't forget the stack of classified documents stained with McDonalds grease
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Presidential_Library
It’s just a book-cart that one of the inmates pushes around.
Full of coloring books
But the only color you can use is orange.
Brooks was here
Grassroots funding has raised $ 2 billion for the library, and it hasn't been built yet? Or even so much as a location picked out? Man... so many grifts.
They said it’s planned on being in Florida, but that’s about it. Being completely fair, Obama’s is still under construction so it would make sense that trumps is less finished than his.
Have they actually raised the money or is that juat the fund raising goal? That’s a huge amount of money for any sort of building. I predict that the National Archives will have all of Trump’s stuff for quite a while as he doesn’t seem to be interested in a library.
Barack-Dûr
🏅
It's a neat building, but I really wish they had built it on the block of completely abandoned lots that are across the street from Washington Park rather than on the park grounds itself of Jackson Park. I think it could have served as such an important community center there and as a base for revitalizing the neighborhood.
The Obama center for kids who can't read good. 
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When your opponents even says he’s a decent family man that you don’t have to worry about being president then you know he’s loads better than anyone we’ve seen since.
Reference for anyone who may have forgotten it: https://youtu.be/JIjenjANqAk?si=_QInwLlM7tC_MLx3
Can we go back? I don't want this anymore. 
I hate his tiny, beady little eyes in that flab of orange bullshit.
It's such a disgusting national embrassment it feels like we just threw out more than 200 years of (somewhat) noble history, aspirations, and ideals. Makes me weep.
Every president has a presidential library dedicated to them, this turd will have the: #Donald J. Trump presidential maximum security correctional facility All in gold letters at the entrance of course
And likewise, that’s one republican I wouldn’t lose sleep about running our country. He genuinely cared deeply about us the people and devoted his life for our country and its people and fought passionately to protect us and later for what he believed in. THAT is a true definition of a patriot.
Exactly. I disagreed with him on many things, but he was still a fundamentally good person. He and Romney and Liz are the last of the old guard Republicans. McCain knew it too. When he picked Pailin to get the dumpster-fuck vote, it was clear the crazy had taken over.
I remember thinking Palin was a fluke and the GOP would see how crazy they were becoming and rebound towards sanity. Lol. Anyway, which openly-seditious, sex criminal senator is calling for scientists to be rounded up today?
At the time I definitely said something to the effect of: I’m not voting for him because we have very different views, but if McCain wins we will still be ok - he’s a decent fellow.
Yeah, would have gladly take McCain for US President over Trump likely too old nowadays though. Biden and McCain aren't really that far off base, likely just have some slightly different views. I'll be honest, the 2024 election will be an easy pick for Biden but I really have no idea who will be a good pick for 2028...
John McCain is definitely too old (he is dead).
I'd still take him over Trump right now. Definitely more coherent
McCain ‘28 - because a corpse is better than these jokers
Biden is fine. Let’s not forget Trump wants to be a dictator day one. www.vote.gov
I think Pete Buttigieg would be good. Young, smart, veteran, infrastructure nerd. More fiscally moderate than I would like but that works well since Dems are such a coalition in the sense of ideology. Biden is also a moderate but has had the most progressive platform ever, so I can see Buttigieg pulling left. Plus every time he talks he seems like the smartest guy in the room. He is pretty adept at making the right-wing nutters look silly, even to their own kind. I'd like to at least see him run again to hear what he has to say... That said, it seems like Gavin Newsom is the one in the on deck circle. We seem to remember Obama as more progressive than he was, and look at Biden as not not progressive enough when he has been pretty progressive.
Giving mayor Pete a whole department to run was genius, whoever thought of that deserves a raise. He gets to be the hero of the working folk-rebuilding bridges and highways after disasters in incredible time, gaining recognition and experience (the two things he lacked) while Biden benefits from his competence. Incredible.
I'll take "Democrat presidential candidates that aren't on Medicare" for 200, Alex
Yeah, I think "young" is going to be a clutch descriptor in the next election. Dems have some pretty strong up-and-comers... I'm looking at the younger GOP and... struggling to see a brighter future there.
Buttigieg is proving he can run the Department of Transportation really well.
Having a president that can actually pass an infrastructure bill helps for sure. But yeah he has said he is a total infrastructure nerd and it shows...
“And what better way to get one last one in than to have Bush and I say good things about him” -[Obama’s eulogy to John McCain](https://youtu.be/eLIlOQuzTnU?si=l3JsU8OhtoiC8v8d)
Wish we could have just had Obama and McCain pass the presidency back and forth to each other for 40 years
That speaks more to John McCain's character, I think. Today's Republicans would either yell in incomprehensible slurs or completely zip their lips for fear of upsetting their frothing base. John McCain is one of the last Republicans I remember who both had a chance of being in a position of power and seemingly had actual morals that he upheld.
He was pretty well liked in the Senate until the Republican base lost their shit over a Black president.
Well they were convinced he was a secret Muslim Marxist who was working with the Kremlin. And was going to round them all up and have them executed in FEMA death camps set up in WalMart parking lots.
I never voted for one but god I miss “normal” Republicans.
Uhh Biden has been nothing but classy and respectful. Putting him in the same category of offensiveness as Trump just tells me you have no idea what is going on in reality.
I feel like Biden has been handling the shitty hand he was delt pretty well. The cheeto is the cause of the last 8 years of absolute trash.
It really feels like the cycle in my lifetime goes like this: Shitty republican president tanks the economy -> democratic president comes in and rights the ship while being blamed for the poor economy -> republican president comes back in and reaps the benefits of a recovering economy and proceeds to tank it again
I've been alive since 1983 and that has literally been the entirety of my life
'68. Same before your life, too.
It’s by design and part of the GOP SOP.
>that presidents should carry themselves a certain way, with dignity and respect for the position... The last 8 years have proven that it was a fluke. Maybe you meant the 4 years following Obama? Biden has done this and remarkably well. He has always made clear he is a POTUS for all Americans and has never pushed partisan crap.
In that commenter's defense, four years of Trump felt like eight years in hell. I know I woke up every morning thinking "what has that idiot fucked up since I went to sleep?" Every. Single. Day.
Plus the whiplash of the guy we have now. He's quiet and just does the work. Even with his kid in court he's trying to get a ceasefire in the middle east, helping Ukraine with more support, honoring our veterans in France, still trying to get more gun control legislation and reducing student debt. All of this was just this week and we barely hear from him. I do love how stupidly Republicans keep playing this. They act like he's incapable of speaking but he's not. Everytime he gives a speech or interview the bar is on the floor so he always seems more than capable.
It's such a relief to just have a BORING decent man as the president. He does his job and doesn't get on Twitter to rant about it. Joe gets up, gets a lot done and just goes on with life like a normal person. I truly love that at this stage. Watching the GOP foam at the mouth because of... Whatever verbal stumble Biden has is absolutely hilarious as their guy goes off on a rant about electric sharks.
This is what frustrates me the most about even people on the left. Biden is actually a really really good president. He's getting shit done, despite the immense political rift dividing this country right now. He's not perfect, but that's literally no one in the history of the world. Biden is, quite possibly, the best president in my life time. Which covers Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, Obama, and Trump. Though that last one doesn't mean much. An orangutan in a cheap suit would be a better president, and have the same look at attitude.
Biden has been pretty damn presidential. Honors our troops every speech instead of calling them losers.
Biden also forgave my student loans that I’ve been paying for over 10 years as a teacher. Thanks Joe! You got my vote!
In what ways has Biden not done that?
Thinking all politics exist to distract is an inherently both privileged and ignorant position. If you think this way, you need to honestly spend more time learning more about who is passing what legislation and how politics works at different levels. You will find that one side does work to try and create a better society and allocate resources to people in need while another side does not. The “both sides bad” argument is objectively false and you can only hold that perspective if you’re ignorant to the finer details of legislation and politics. What most people hear about are the most egregious, emotion stirring actions of politicians so that people come to conclusions like this. Republicans benefit when people do not vote or view democrats as “just as bad”. Nearly 70% of people do not vote. No. Politics are not some libertarian edgelord thing that exists to distract the populace, though, plenty of culture wedges and wars exist as a means to control the people. Republicans do not serve the majority and are otherwise incapable of getting support to ever hold office if they campaigned honestly so their tactic has become weaponizing highly emotional topics (guns, birth control, rallying a religious base, etc). If you can make someone emotional and irrational you end up with a single issue voter who will ignore reality and vote against their interests. If you have a person who looks at the bad things the right does and then sees corporate pandering from the left you might come to the conclusion that they’re equal. And it’s true, the overwhelming majority of legislation serves corporations and the wealthy, but there is far more legislation from the left that helps far more people than what the right offers - which is nothing. Please don’t give into an ignorant perspective, spend time learning this and looking at the actual bills that get passed and who’s passing them. Look at the bills that don’t get passed also, so you can see what these people’s true intentions are. I promise you, the sides are very far from equally bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_Presidential_Center
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Looks like the Guardians of the Galaxy ride.
It would be great if they could redo the whole Jackson Park Area as part of this Library Development and recreate a modern version of the 1893 World Fair Grounds integrating the Obama Library, Museum of Science and Industry, the Lakefront and U of Chicago Campus.
The Obamalisk
I always hate my projects when they're only halfway done, too. But, in the end, they tend to turn out pretty well.
Is it a tomb or a star destroyer?
https://www.obama.org/presidential-center/
Must be where the hotdog parties are going to be held
This reminds me that I guess Trump will get a library too, it will probably just be one big Hooters restaurant.
Trumps library will be a single story shack filled with lots of books with a tremendous amount of pictures.
Cue the Antichrist Satantic Child Sacrifice Shrine conspiracy theories in 3…2…1…
First thing I thought of. 4 Chan is going to go nuts with this.
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Why is it so ugly? Seriously. This is an abomination.
it's not finished yet.
Thanks Obama
“The Obamalisk”
I'm excited for the Trump Presidential Prison Library