Obama Says Killing Of Alex Pretti Should Be ‘Wake-Up Call’ To All Americans

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  1. Active_Arm3866 on

    Maybe they should be on the streets protesting too. These strongly worded letters do jack shit.

  2. Obama was 100 times the president Trump is, and 1000 times the person. If Trump says he’ll run for a third term, can we reelect Obama?

  3. Wake up call? The majority of Americans are already aware of whats going on on both sides.

    He needs to address it to fucking representatives and judges that are causing these murders to happen. Warning the wrong fucking group.

  4. Grand_Fruit_9039 on

    “wake up call”? sadly, I think most Americans don’t really care. they will gasp for a short moment then go on with their day never to think of it again. that’s one thing trump always have one his side: the American short attention span. they only get upset when prices get too high, like with biden; however, Now it seems like americans are getting apathetic towards that as well. kind of funny how we went from screaming about biden to “meh” at anything trump does.

  5. twirlingmypubes on

    If the United States saw what the United States was doing in the United States, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States

  6. every past president and vice president needs to speak up including George Bush and Mike Pence

  7. “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” _B.F.

  8. Obama empowered ICE as president, and appointed Tom Homan to his current job. He even gave Homan the Presidential Rank Award for being good at deporting people. The award came with a cash incentive.

  9. campfire_eventide on

    I didn’t vote for Obama specifically because he voted for the Patriot Act.

    I absolutely voted for Harris/Walz in 2024 before anyone calls me a purist who led to this. But back then, I definitely exercised a protest vote.

    The Patriot Act is *the* legislation that allowed citizens to be declared “enemy combatants” and stripped of due process.

  10. It won’t be, because nothing ever is. Not until food is scarce and a larger portion of Americans are out of jobs. There is still too much to lose if the current order/status quo is upset. Then will Americans wake up.

  11. basketballsteven on

    It should be a wake up call from Republican voters because, to a person, democratic voters have been fully awake for at least a year.

  12. He needs to stop talking to “all Americans” because guess what? American people are aware. Yank the democratic congress people and senators to attention. They keep funding ice and bending the knee to trump’s agenda.

  13. This is your reminder that Obama ordered the execution of an American citizen, and it was very deeply controversial. So…what’s the difference? It happened after lengthy deliberation with a fuckton of lawyers, military analysts, and a bunch of other legal details. And it was still controversial as fuck. What has gone down in Minneapolis is not that.

  14. Prestigious_Pen_4756 on

    So frustrating the overwhelming response from the old guard democrats has been “Lets wake up… and go to the polls!!!” and the headlines from that are “Democrats SLAM ICE for incident where bullets exited officer’s gun and lead to injury to man who was armed!”. Its all just theater

  15. TheMoorNextDoor on

    Obama can only do but so much at this point but he’s speaking up fairly consistently and the only president we have that is willing to..

    He’s telling us what to do without directly telling us what to do. I’d imagine if he said any more it would be breaking some oath, and we could imagine the retaliation he’s attempting to avoid as well.

  16. forevercurmudgeon on

    At this point, if you haven’t already seen the injustice and terrorism with this administration, there is nothing going to change your view.

  17. There have been a million wake up calls so far and the only people doing anything are the people of minnasota. (Minnasota government is talking big but not actually doing anything). If Obama or any dem leaders truly cared they would be leading the revolution, but they’re not. All they’re doing is talking.

  18. CrackerJackKittyCat on

    First Trump election was a wake up call. His two impeachments were wake up calls. Jan 6 was a wake up call. Trump’s criminal convictions were a wake up call. Trump running again with Musk’s and Thiel’s backing was a wake up call. Trump’s reelection was a wake up call. Blanket pardoning of Jan 6 insurrectionists was a wake up call. Militarization of ICE was a wake up call. And so it goes.

    ICE’s murdering of peaceful citizens is not a wake up call. It is just the latest expected outcome of America’s continued inability to effectively do anything when wake up calls are loud and clear.

  19. Master_Megalomaniac on

    I wonder if he is regretting his focus on ”bipartisanship” during his administration?

  20. Imaginary_Chair_6958 on

    Can someone come up with a Larry David “Pretti, Good” meme? Not to mock them, but to highlight these cases of murder. I can’t think of a way to do it that doesn’t come across as making light of their deaths or seeming to endorse ICE. But it’s like we’re being presented with a protest opportunity with those names. “Dead on the curb: Pretti, Good.” I don’t know, something along those lines. “Pretti, Good Americans, left dead on the curb.”

  21. Exciting-Composer157 on

    Does America have a collective “Rock Bottom”?

    How sharp do the rocks have to be?

  22. Fickle-Molasses-903 on

    This is exactly what the majority of white voters wanted. It’s naive to think it was merely about egg prices. Trump was clear about what was going to happen; he emphasized it repeatedly during his campaign and on social media. Did people really believe he would suddenly find empathy in his last term? If people actually cared and paid attention back on November 5th, 2024, as they do in January 2026, we probably wouldn’t be in this mess.

    This is what America voted for. Many chose not to vote, many wouldn’t vote for a woman, and many wouldn’t vote for a non-white person.

    Obama said it best: *”Elections have consequences.”*

  23. ifiwereonlylesshandy on

    The wake up call for the US was Jan.6 2020. It failed miserably and here we are. Well, actually here you are.

  24. I wish he would stand up and lead the rebellion. The people are ready. We just lack leadership and direction. Obama or AOC would be perfect.

  25. requiredelements on

    Things I’m doing:
    – stopping all unnecessary consumption. Only buying food and essential clothes like socks. But foreign not American.
    – prob skipping my taxes. I’ll pay the interest fee later if there is a later
    – buying a gun

    And really trying to internalize that being free is worth dying for.

  26. TheGOPisTheDeepState on

    The Republican Party has abandoned Americans, our allies, and are in the business of protecting their pedophiles, murderers, and billionaire. Traitors ALL of them.

  27. This has reached the point where I would fully expect all living ex-presidents to hold a joint news conference and call this shit out.

  28. It’s the Democratic Party that needs to wake up everyone else is paying attention except the ones that never ever will

  29. Obama, I love you, but a strongly-worded email isn’t really going to cut the dijon at this point.

  30. How wild would it be if Trump tries to run again and manages to change the laws and then winds up losing in a landslide to a resurgent Obama? I can just imagine conservative heads exploding like ticks in a fire lol