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"Over the last 40 years, sadly, I think there’s been an effort to either make folks mad at folks at the top, or to be mad at folks at the bottom, Obama said. "And I think the effort to suggest that the poor are sponges, leeches, don’t want to work, are lazy, are undeserving, got traction."
To illustrate his point, the president brought up Fox News.
"If you watch Fox News on a regular basis, it is a constant menu," Obama said. "They will find folks who make me mad. I don’t know where they find them. They’re like, ‘I don’t want to work. I just want a free Obama phone’ or whatever. And that becomes an entire narrative, right? That gets worked up. And very rarely do you hear an interview of a waitress, which is much more typical, who’s raising a couple of kids and is doing everything right but still can’t pay the bills."
Yep, and this is from when he was president. Fox News is propaganda.
Excellent pull-quote except for this part: "I think there’s been an effort to either make folks mad at folks at the top"
No, Obama. No. We don't have power to do that. FOX News isn't trying to make folks mad at people at the top. They're only trying to do that to you, Obama, because you're black. They're propping up every rich fucking piece of shit they can, otherwise!
I believe he was saying other news networks were trying to make people mad at the top. But Fox News is casting poor people as bad and lazy when they are not.
Yeah, none of them actually do that. People are angry at the top because we constantly see them getting away with shit in the media. Like Trump, for example. I'm fucking pissed at him and the entire Republican establishment, because they're criminal fascists who tried to do a fucking coup, and I'm pissed at the Democrats for fucking glad-handing and footsying around with fucking fascists instead of treating it like the serious fucking problem it is. I'm pissed at AG Garland waiting until it was clear that Trump wasn't going to give back classified documents after two years to finally file charges. Anyone else would have been in chains almost immediately, and we literally had an air force kid that happened to recently as an example. I'm pissed at Obama for not putting an AG that would go after Bushes war crimes. No, we have a lot of glad-handing and letting people off at the top and that's where that sentiment fucking comes from Obama you "we need to look forward not backward" piece of shit. His lack of will in prosecuting war crimes is part and parcel to why they're so hesitant to prosecute Trump. It's all a fucking joke.
That is why people are angry at the top, not because any fucking media told us to. FUCK! Because it's painfully obvious there's two justice systems, one for the rich and politically connected and one for everyone else!