Barack's charisma remains incredibly impressive. His ownership of stepping on stage was fantastic. The "Only person stupid enough to speak after Michelle Obama" was a great line too.
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Regarding the disaster in Ohio, no it wasn't all Trump's fault
Look, I'm all for blaming the Orange turd as much as we can, but it is also important to see that it wasn't just Trump who lead to this horrible accident.
A redditor by the name of JeffSucksBigPp (god I hate awful Reddit names) says:
It was actually Obama who allowed the specific chemical (vinyl chloride) to be included in the exceptions to this very regulation. It was defined as a hazardous material until Obama put it on the exceptions list in regards to this regulation.
The most recent three presidents are all to blame.
Obama: Allowed hazardous materials to be excepted from regulations imposed on hazardous materials.
Trump: Fully repealed train braking regulations.
Biden: Told workers to fuck off and get back to work in unsafe conditions by making their strike illegal.
No DNC or GOP politician is for the people. They’re all for corporate profits at any cost
Emphasis theirs.
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Obama's Books of the Year
I always look forward to sharing my lists of favorite books, movies, and music with all of you.
First up, here are some of the books I read and enjoyed this year. Let me know which books I should check out in 2023.
- "The Light We Carry" by Michelle Obama
- "Sea of Tranquility" by Emily St. John Mandel
- "Trust" by Hernan Diaz
- "The Revolutionary Samuel Adams" by Stacy Schiff
- "The Furrows: A Novel" by Namwali Serpell
- "South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation" by Imani Perry
- "The School for Good Mothers" by Jessamine Chan
- "Black Cake" by Charmaine Wilkerson
- "Ducks Two Years in the Oil Sands" by Kate Beaton
- "An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us" by Ed Yong
- "Liberation Day" by George Saunders
- "The Candy House" by Jennifer Egan
- "Afterlives" by Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Obama to Heckler
"We get distracted," he said. "You got one person yelling and soon everybody's yelling, you get one tweet that's stupid and suddenly everyone's obsessed with the tweet. We can't fall for that."
I find this quote from Obama, after a heckler interrupted a speech of his an excellent framing for today. It is so so easy in today's world to be distracted individually and for society. Our entire entertainment machine is designed to provide endless distractions and society isn't coping with it very well.
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