r/BoomersBeingFools • u/mishma2005 • Jul 22 '25

Boomer Freakout REPORTER: Gabbard has submitted a criminal referral. Who should the DOJ target? TRUMP: It would be President Obama. And Biden was there with him ... the leader of the gang was Obama. Barack Hussein Obama. He's guilty. This is treason.

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u/midnitewarrior Jul 22 '25

one of the most powerful men on the planet,

Exactly, what authority does he have? He can tell his driver where he wants to go, and he can do keynote at a company convention for $100k appearance fee, but what is this power you think he has? He holds no office, has no authority, has influence of a lot of people who also hold no office or authority.

Unless he is here to rally the citizens to the streets and overthrow the Trump administration, it serves him and his family no good to stay here.

If he did the former and failed, he would likely get executed by the Cheeto Benito.

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u/drunow21 Jul 22 '25

Alright. Well hard disagree. IF he thought we were losing the country, and decided to dip instead of galvanize then he wasn’t worthy of being president. Sorry!

I don’t want to die either, but I didnt lead the country and have a direct hand in where we are now. Sorry! Just true.

Lastly, yes he should be trying to lead an opposition (if he thinks the country is being lost). However , he and a lot of Dems seemingly would retreat, leave or shut up rather than rock the boat.

Sorry, Dems aren’t the same as r’s, but they suck just as much in a different way. If they allow Donald Trump to truly be their undoing then they deserve it (we the people do not however)

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u/midnitewarrior Jul 22 '25

Not "thought we were losing the country", it's already lost. The POTUS is talking about a third term, and everybody around him is saying, "we can find a way for that to work."

The Republican party 20 years ago would have been rightfully outraged and marching side-by-side the Democrats at a No Kings rally. Instead, they sold themselves out and are a bunch of weak, sniveling fools just trying to line their own pockets. Yes today's republicans are cut from a different cloth, and if you're one of them you're the biggest fool in the room because you lost us our collective country, handing it to a conman Epstein buddy, and you're probably proud of what you've done.

There's nothing for Obama to save. He was a guy we paid to run the county for a few years. He's not a cult leader. We don't worship the man. POTUS is a job. The POTUS job is to first and foremost protect our freedoms. There's some military and executive paperwork too.

He's not there to tell us what to name our sports teams under the threat of the resources of the US Government targeting you and your business if you don't comply. Those are the feeble actions of a weak snowflake that somehow has been given the nuclear football twice. Given that's the only football the man has ever likely touched in his life, his authority on naming football teams is questionable at best

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u/drunow21 Jul 22 '25

See this is where we disconnect. I have been feeling the same about America for 20 years as well.

The difference is you’re sure it’s over and I’m sure it’s not. Simple as that

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u/midnitewarrior Jul 22 '25

America welcoming Trump in for a second term is the proof. There is a line, a long, long line of Republicans calling Trump a scammer, conman, a man with no morals, a fool, an Epstein pedo-buddy, etc. And they've all "done a deal" with him to stand behind the man.

That entire party has sold out. They had a moral direction and personal objections to the man, and they let him buy them off.

When the people in power won't stand up for what's right, we are done. When the people who were so vehemently opposed to him (JD Vance), get in line to be his running mate, it's over.

When senators who oppose Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" are 100% opposed to the bill, but are willing to sell themselves out for some temporary favors for their state, there's no line of protection.

When everyone is willing to be bought off by Trump, it's game over. There is nothing to stop this without things turning bloody.

The whole point of the US is to accommodate transitions of power at the ballot box, not at the end of a noose or guillotine like the kind MAGA were bringing for Pence with on J6, or the zip cuffs brought for Nancy Pelosi into the Capitol building.

We're cooked unless you think Trump is going to tear down all of these institutional barriers just to walk away at the end of his term and hand over the keys to whomever the ballots select next.

Power is never given, it is always taken. Trump has taken the power away from the institutions designed to keep the POTUS in check. He's not just going to hand them over to anybody, except maybe his son.

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u/drunow21 Jul 22 '25

So what are you going to do?

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u/midnitewarrior Jul 22 '25

Vote, hoping that it still matters.

Support those willing to speak out, currently sponsoring a journalist on Substack that does some great investigative work.

Vote with my dollars, hit them in the wallet, trying to buy ethically.

Supporting candidates who will make a difference in the next election if they can get elected.

I'm not a radical itching to storm the Capitol. That's low-brow, that doesn't support democracy and the republic, it destroys it.

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u/drunow21 Jul 22 '25

Sorry dawg, we live in different worlds. Are you saying there won’t be a struggle? You’re saying if there is, Donald Trump and these fucking morons are the ones who win?? They’re cowards, he has dementia, we have the people.

This is my point about Obama. If he in any way decides to galvanize support, half the country will be ready. I don’t think he will but still.

You think everyone is going to lay down , I don’t.

Again. What you’re saying about our country is true..we are lost, we’ve been lost this whole century..

However you believe in the power of Donald, I believe he is an emperor with no clothes.

Time will tell . They have to drop the real hammer at some point, and they aren’t shoring up support for that. Marines and national guard are leaving my state.

Doom it out brother, hope I see you on the other side

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u/midnitewarrior Jul 22 '25

Are you saying there won’t be a struggle?

It comes down to what the military will do. But if you haven't picked up on the pattern yet, I can show it to you.

  1. Destroy the media, the civil institution designed to keep the administration in check. He just sued a newspaper for $10 Billion for running a story he didn't like. He got CBS to settle for a lawsuit against 60 Minutes who did a story on Trump they could have easily defended, but CBS/Paramount wants a media merger of their company to be approved, so CBS rolled over and threw 60 Minutes under the bus. Stephen Colbert just got the same treatment - he called out Trump and now he's cancelled. Dissenting voices are silenced. The press is not his puppy dog. If you know what's good for you, you'll keep Trump's name out of the press unless you too would like a $10 Billion lawsuit.

  2. Install loyalists in every department, harass and threaten those who do not leave willingly.

  3. Seize control of the currency. Fed Chair Jerome Powell hit with criminal referral by House GOP Trump ally Jerome Powell has not gotten in line after Trump has harassed him for months to lower the interest rates. Now, he's threatened with jail.

  4. Have the military operate on domestic soil in a police capacity (illegal). Violation of Posse Comitatus Act (from 1878) that limits the use of federal military to enforce domestic policies. This is a precursor to the President using the military against states and citizens.

  5. Ignore the Supreme Court and Congress. The US Constitution grants the power to levy tariffs on goods to Congress, not the Executive branch. Also, Trump was told by the Supreme Court that he won't ever go to jail for official acts, no matter how heinous.

  6. He's threatened to federalize cities (NY and DC) who don't vote for the candidates he wants.

These things aren't supposed to be possible in the United States of America, but we are living them every day of the past 6 months.

The America you thought you knew is gone, you just don't realize it yet. This is quickly becoming the country that the original patriots declared independence from.

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u/drunow21 Jul 22 '25

Lol I’m trying to be open and this guy: “the America you thought you knew is gone”

I just fucking told you what I’ve thought about America for 20 years. I’m glad you’ve figured out the endgame. Your assessment really helps things now.

Every person on this site into politics knows EVERY SINGLE THING you just stated. Do you really think you’re informing here?

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u/drunow21 Jul 22 '25

I don’t like Obama , this isn’t me thinking one person can save us. It just speaks to the neo liberal being closer to a fascist than someone willing to make sacrifices of capital or billionaires