Among the five living men who have served as president, Barack Obama has the most favorable image and Joe Biden the least favorable.

  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    …a lady screeching that her package from Temu was being held for a $42 tariff payment but Trump told her tariffs wouldn’t affect Americans…

    there’s a meme out there with nancy reagan explaining that republican’s dgaf about problems until it impacts them and i’m learning that it’s true for all americans, republican or not.

    obama’s followers will continue to like him because his ghoulish policies w immigration, didn’t impact them, but it impacted people like me and, you’re right, that, that direct hurt has made me not like him.

    on the flip side, if trumps policies end up somehow miraculously working like it did for milei or bukele; then trump will likewise become as popular as obama.

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      19 hours ago

      republican’s dgaf about problems until it impacts them

      The way that removed opposed stem cell research until Ronny needed it?

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      24 hours ago

      I mean, if I was asked to pick my least hated president from among 2 rapists (minimum), limp dick Biden, fucking George Bush, and Obama, I’m picking Obama. If you’d have asked me like 2 months ago, it’s Carter hands down, but alas

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      Can you please explain Obama’s “ghoulish immigration policies” ? Not American here with little knowledge of lots of things.

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        22 hours ago

        tldr: obama deported more immigrants than any president in history and it’s given him the nickname “deporter in chief”

        and the most ghoulish are his policies that diminished protections for asylum seekers and focused on deporting child migrants. i found this article that touches on both: https://www.latintimes.com/deporter-chief-obama-ordered-7000-immigrant-children-be-deported-without-court-375127

        in my case: his anti-gay marriage stance combined with his immigration policy led to the forced dissolution of my marriage and deportation of my husband since he came into this country as a migrant child (as i would have been also if my parents had waited another year before coming into this country).

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          Oh my thanks for this. I knew zero about it. So sorry to hear about your marriage. That’s just unthinkable to me. It’s strange to think that a change in government, a change in policy can wreck so many lives. Bloody hell I had thought he was pretty good too until this moment. I got the gist off Reddit that he was very disliked, but I never knew why.
          I hope you have found lots of peace and happiness in life.

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            4 hours ago

            i’m surprised to hear that he’s disliked on reddit; i left reddit because of it’s political center-right disposition and that includes love for obama.

            are there particular subreddits where he’s disliked?