Musical stars and retired politicians from less polarised era seeming antidote to cage fights on White House lawn

The Barack Obama presidential center opened in Chicago on Thursday after more than a decade in the making amid a musical fanfare and paeans to democratic principles that evoked a previous age, all while delivering an implied rebuke to Donald Trump.

Featuring appearances by a cast of musical stars and retired politicians from a less polarised era, it was a seemingly perfect antidote to the crass spectacle of cage fights on the White House lawn.

Without naming the current White House occupant, Barack and Michelle Obama launched full-frontal attacks on Trump’s authoritarian approach, depicting them as an affront to American values.

      • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
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        Please. You armchair warriors all say the same shit like your so sanctimonious. It’s not going to accomplish anything. You live in the same world we all live in. But go on, make it seem like me, some random guy in the comments of a lemmy thread, had any agency in what the president did before I could even vote.

        I bet we could go back and forth asking each other what we consider to be war crimes and we wouldn’t agree on half of it. I get the feeling that you’re not interested in actually having a discussion about war crimes, more so you’re just interested on shitting on anybody but the current president. So fuck off with your 2 week old Smurf account.

        I’m gonna go have fun with my family now. You keep raging at the machine.

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          There’s that apathetic American spirit! You go enjoy your family time while your country actively destabilize the world and murders countless innocents!