• @Aabbcc@lemm.ee
    hexbear
    12
    11 months ago

    Am I reading this wrong? I assume Natalie is making a joke about how people under report Obama's nasty shits

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
      hexbear
      11
      11 months ago

      I think she's joking about how people over-report his trivial shit. But it can be read as blithely ignoring the monstrous crimes Obama did commit while in office, because it echoes a lot of the liberal apologia of the administration that amounted to "The worst thing Obama ever did was wear a tan suit".

      • @OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        hexbear
        4
        11 months ago

        While I don't think she has talked about Obama's war crimes or things adjacent to it, I find it hard to believe that she would be saying that seriously especially the both sides part. Tho her response to the criticism doesn't make it better.

    • tuga [he/him]
      hexbear
      6
      11 months ago

      You're reading it wrong, she's stating you can't make a moral equivalence between Obama and, say, Trump or something because supposedly the worst things obama did were silly.