what do you want obama to do during his last month in office?

as of today, one month to go. i'm guessing he won't do anything too crazy, but i'd love to be surprised.

declare himself president for life, send us all to FEMA camps, and unveil the New World Order

it will be an improvement over what will happen with Trump

"pardon Leonard Peltier" is the first thing that comes to mind.

hell, pardon a whole lot of people

Honestly? Sort Gitmo the fuck out pronto. He probably can't even if he wanted to, but still.. Free all people there and close shop. It's a relic disgrace.

Keep bombing seven countries, that's for sure.

Continue pardoning inmates who were slapped with incredibly long prison sentences for relatively low level drug violations, plz. This is fairly apolitical stuff, but would make all the difference to the people pardoned.

Create the Owyhee Canyonlands National Monument in SE Oregon. This is a remote and gorgeous area threatened by mining interests. The local ranchers are unhappy with the idea of more protections, but I'm pretty sure it won't kill them.

Any other new environmental protections he can put in place that won't be instantly overturned by Trump's minions.

Follow Eisenhower's example (see: "military-industrial complex" speech) and speak frankly about the systemic ills he sees in government and politics. Even if it does no good (see: "military-industrial complex" speech), it will establish his view of those problems, and lend that view his prestige as a revered figure.

prob the single best thing he could do is go ahead and appoint garland. i won't hold my breath, though.

appoint merrick garland even though it won't happen

pardon Manning

pardon Snowden

drone-bomb [redacted]

lock her up

pardon Manning

pardon Snowden

indict clapper for lying to congress while he's at this list

donuts in the parking lot

legalize it

^ reunite the choom gang on the white house lawn to burn one down for old times sake

another vote for confirming Garland

Apologize for expanding Dubya's surveillance and drone policies, enabling this next fuckshitter to go further.

I feel like he's got one last person to assassinate, but I can't quite put my finger on who.

Forgive all student loans.

appoint garland and pardon snowden, even though he won't do either

declassify the Russian hacking evidence

he really should appoint garland

legalize it

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, December 20, 2016 10:40 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ reunite the choom gang on the white house lawn to burn one down for old times sake

― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, December 20, 2016 11:14 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i like this

Follow Eisenhower's example (see: "military-industrial complex" speech) and speak frankly about the systemic ills he sees in government and politics. Even if it does no good (see: "military-industrial complex" speech), it will establish his view of those problems, and lend that view his prestige as a revered figure.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, December 20, 2016 9:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM

tell hilary voters what he really thinks of em

glue quarters to the floor of the oval office

another vote for confirming Garland

― frogbs, Tuesday, December 20, 2016 11:26 PM (yesterday)

he really should appoint garland

― flopson, Wednesday, December 21, 2016 2:11 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I suspect that anything obama does that skirts the boundaries of normal politics will just give trump an excuse to take things even further. this would be less of a concern if someone like mitt romney had won.

Second vote for drone strike, though Morbius and I almost certainly disagree on the target.

declassify the Russian hacking evidence

no comment

he is not doing anything in this thread, just so we understand "want"

light up on camera

I mean light one up

Forgive all student loans.
WTF is this shit

upper decker
The act of defecating in the upper tank of the toilet. When the next poor unsuspecting person flushes the toilet they get a bowl of beef stew. the upper decker is a weapon of terror and should only be used on people who deserve it.

the code

the dougie
the worm
the robot
the stanky leg

get das racist to reunite and book them as the headliner for Trump's inaugural ball

Send Trump to Guantanamo.

appointing Garland isn't asking much, not really a stretch imo compared to pardoning Snowden, that'll never happen

Huh

Burn down the White House

it's been done before

dab

We the People
A response to your petition on Chief Judge Merrick Garland:

Thank you for using the We the People platform to sign a petition regarding the Senate’s obstruction of President Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee, Chief Judge Merrick Garland.

As President Obama noted when he announced his nomination, Chief Judge Garland has more federal judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in American history. His 19 years on the federal bench, meticulous commitment to the law, and unimpeachable credentials prove that there is no one more qualified to immediately serve on the Supreme Court.

Many Republicans agreed too, judging him to be well-qualified in temperament, experience, and background. He is the exact kind of consensus nominee that the Senate GOP claimed they wanted the President to nominate. That’s why he was confirmed to the D.C. Circuit in 1997 in a strong bipartisan vote. And that’s why it is so deeply discouraging that Senate Republicans decided to wage a historic campaign of obstruction of his confirmation process.

Article II Section II of the U.S. Constitution is clear about the Senate’s duty to consider the President’s nomination. The Senate Republicans willfully abdicated that basic responsibility as elected representatives of the American people.

President Obama was proud to nominate Chief Judge Garland to the Supreme Court, and knows he will continue to serve our country with distinction on the D.C. Circuit.

-- The We the People Team

YOURE MISSING A LINE THAT SHOULDVE SAID "AND THAT'S WHY PRESIDENT OBAMA LISTENED TO YOU AND RECESSED-APPOINTED THIS GUY"

*sigh*

hey, everybody slept on this one

Joe Cirincione
‏@Cirincione
Oh good! @POTUS approved $350Billion nuke sub program we don't need before leaving. #ThanksObama

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-05/new-nuclear-armed-subs-win-pentagon-approval-before-obama-leaves

the military industrial complex is truly running this country, which is why I hope they find a way to murk trump

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/11/chelsea-manning-obama-commute-prison-sentence

that better not be a tease. but i'm betting it is

ditto

btw, from last week

@Snowden
Mr. President, if you grant only one act of clemency as you exit the White House, please: free Chelsea Manning. You alone can save her life.

Noob question: Can Trump overturn this, since she's not freed by immediate effect?

NYT:

Until recently the military discharged transgender soldiers. In June, Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter changed that policy and said it would instead provide treatment for them, eventually including such surgery if doctors said it was necessary.

But President-elect Donald J. Trump mocked that change as excessively “politically correct,” raising the possibility that he will rescind it.

Even if he does, Ms. Manning will soon no longer be subject to the military’s control.

wow – out in five months

with all sincerity: THANKS, OBAMA!

Leonard Peltier next?

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/819630102787059713

O RLY

Lets see if Assange puts his money where his mouth is now :) https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/819630102787059713

my guess is assange doesn't give a fuck about manning but needed an excuse to be extradited under his new bff president trump

umm, i don't think anyone saw this happening. assange likely assumed it wouldn't

Oh I fully agree iatee. If anything he tried to hardman to look favorable. Xp

i predicted it

there was a report a few weeks ago (last week maybe?) that Obama was seriously considering it, so I saw it coming. I don't think Assange was bluffing.

gonna be fun to see "progressives" line up to complain about this

https://twitter.com/owillis/status/821468232276148225

who the fuck is oliver willis

what a weird position to have

I don't know either but he's Verified™

I have no idea who Oliver Willis is and don't really care that he thinks Manning is a traitor since I think his opinion is as meaningless as my opinion that this is a good thing for the Obama administration to have done. What I do care about is that a black dude said The Wrong Thing on Twitter and apparently has a bunch of white people making fun of his appearance for it. So basically, as far as I can tell everyone needs to check themselves and shut the fuck up.

oliver willis is a nincompoop

very pleasantly surprised by obama's commutation of her sentence. what he put manning through was cruel and unjust and this implicitly acknowledges that

that kind of pile-on reminds me why i never tweet and it's part of why the internet has ruined everything.

just don't express regret that a whistleblower isn't going to be kept in solitary confinement until she successfully attempts suicide on twitter is my trick to avoided internet pile-ons

I also don't know who oliver willis is but he does have 58k followers who are presumably pretty left-wing, so it's not like it's just 'pile on random black dude'

Oliver Willis being a nincompoop doesn't justify thinly-veiled racism thrown at him by randos on Twitter.

he's obviously wrong but it's just the typical internet OTT response which is pretty eyerolling at best.

and at worst, yes what DJP said

This pile-on was instigated by Glenn Greenwald, btw.

Him and the others at intercept does this to women and poc all the time.

not really. willis is a well-known punching bag at this point

i definitely hate-read his timeline from time to time but i stopped tweeting mean things at him when i turned 20

Really. Greenwald retweeted him twice, then the racist abuse piled up. So yeah.

and how racist were the GG tweets?

well I guess we learned why JD suddenly cares about oliver willis' opinion on this matter

I vaguely remember Willis being an Internet Somebody back during Bush's second term, but haven't paid attention to him since maybe 2006.

and how racist were the GG tweets?

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), 17. januar 2017 23:23 (twenty-eight seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They were just retweets. He didn't put on a single word, didn't in any way ask for people to do what they did.

He don't have to. And he knows what happens, it's the same thing that always happens.

retweeting peoples vile tweets is a crime

i know that in the court of public wokepinion that is evidence enough to convict greenwald of being worse than trump, but believe it or not journalists (even the "good" ones) mock/hate RT other people all the time. i didn't think disavowing the racist BS that random people spew was necessary on ilx but if it makes you happy, fred, then here you go

no kev, you misunderstand freddy b, gg specifically retweeted willis because he wanted a racist pile-on, but he is cunning enough not to be explicitly racist himself, because he is crafty

i find it quite troubling that fred, posting from a continent currently experiencing increased right-wing and anti-semitic sentiments, seems to always find a way to have unkind words for this particular gay jewish journalist. but that's none of my business

willis works for media matters, which is damning enough w/o the dumb tweets

xp

get that Fred's a punching bag, but c'mon.

These Europeans are all the same.

The sensitivity surrounding Greenwald and his #Putincept...

Which is a hashtag used by Oliver Willis. Yeah, he can be pretty tiresome. And he's definitely wrong about Chelsea Manning. People have flaws, some are way too soft on the IC, and some turn a blind eye to racist/sexist harassment from their followers. I didn't bring up what happened to Oliver Willis, I just pointed out it was instigated by Greenwald, and that he must have expected this kind of thing would be happening. Both things accurate. Calm down guys.

obviously i was being facetious with my post. i think even fred got that

Also, #EuropeisNotaCountry.

i said continent. my joke post is airtight

Obama also pardons Oscar Lopez Rivera

https://www.lawfareblog.com/obama-right-chelsea-manning

Paul Ryan and Bob Menendez both blasting the Manning commutation, so let's commend Obama for uniting them in bipartisan shitheadism.

Judith Miller
‏@JMfreespeech
Obama commutes sentence of Chelsea Manning. How many people died because of manning' leak?

@tinyrevolution
It's not that Judith Miller thinks it's BAD to publish things that get people killed. It's that she's competitive.

http://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2017/1/17/14303388/willie-mccovey-pardon-president-obama

Big surprise, because I don't really remember this ever happening in the first place.

Lol: Lol: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/314783-assange-lawyer-conditions-not-met-for-assange-manning-extradition-offer